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Most common created OC
Hello,

I created the articule "Most common created OCs" not because i want to support some fanworks, but because I wanted to share some observations about OCS in Hetalia. You see, I often read a fanfiction to Hetalia and see some fanarts, so I could observe some regularities. So maybe you could think deeper about not deleting it?

I'm guessing this could somehow be part of the 'Rumors and Mis.' page, but I don't think creating a whole new category is worth it. It might have been mentioned somewhere in Fanon section already.

Do you think you could add this info over there, instead? --Tiamatwizard 17:15, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

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I think it should be somewhere in fanon, but "Rumors and Mis." doeasn't seems the best place for it. Maybe fanfiction?

Well, that would work if we still had a fanfiction section. But the thing is, that idea turned out to go bad in the end as there were complaints about it (and anything falling under "Fanon" in a remote sense), as well as it dawning on some of us that if we were going to keep the section, there would have to be some sort of criteria involved and it would've been too much of a headache. I don't think they could necessarily go under the rumor guide either. It'd probably only be really necessary if someone was being an annoying spammer like with their Australia OC info or the jerkwads that kept spamming rumors about the Philippines on here and elsewhere in Hetalia fandom, to the point where if people can't tell the difference between canon and fanon, then yeah, it'd go here.

Sorry if I might seem irritable, a bunch of things aren't going too good for me. You're welcome to offer any other suggestions if you want though, maybe something could be worked out. I just don't think we should have to go through the whole debate on fanfiction referencing again. I also wonder what would happen if any of those characters suddenly became full-canon too, what would become of that section? I saw a Hetalia fanon OCs wiki but that place is a ghastly mess and full of OCs that well...it sometimes makes me wonder about this fandom (and lately I've been wondering a lot about it!) Ceras SanMarina 18:46, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

^I tend to agree with this train of thought. It seems out of place in general, though, and there isn't a sure-fire way to decide which character is popular and which is not, or which gender is usually assigned. Many characters will eventually get a characterization; the other UK brothers have been mentioned a bit. I've seen the OC Hetalia Wiki, and it really is messy and unfair. Not to mention people get extremely attached to some characters...I mean, I know what it's like to be attached to a character (OCs were when I was younger, though; now I have characters for my original works), but some have issues admitting the OC is no longer possible, even if it was possible from the start that the country would be made. And there are Mary Sues and Gary Stus. Many of them. Overall, there just seems to be too many shaky issues. What would the criteria be for adding a character? How does this benefit people looking for information? (I honestly don't see it as too beneficial; it gives insight on specific trends, but is overly broad and speculative). Most OCs only share one or two traits in common; how would this be a viable list? Watermint 20:40, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

OK, so maybe I will abandon this idea.