Thread:DatAsymptote/@comment-24342705-20140224015323/@comment-24342705-20140225083005

Since you do have a stance on which stories are acceptable and which are not, it might be helpful for future OC creators to have a list they can reference before they decide whether they want to add an OC to your wikia (perhaps "all Western publications with any magical or imaginative content published prior to 1910" ? or "any Western publication dating back at least one century from today" ?). It's unfair to imply any story is "fair game" in your OC creation guidelines, and then go back and say "well THIS story doesn't count because I say so".

I suggest you spend some time reading the works of Joseph Campbell, van Brunvand, Bruno Bettelheim, and folklorists such as Kate Briggs, in order to familiarize yourself with the concept of 'archetypes' and how those function within storytelling. If you haven't read Kipling and the original Grimms then you should do so. A good skimming of the Aarne-Uther-Thompson folklore motif index would be educational too. Then perhaps you'll understand what a fine and arbitrary mess it makes to split hairs over which stories are acceptable bases.

Frankly I find it a bit ridiculous that you'd attempt to limit anyone's OCs. It does no harm to you or the fandom at large to allow someone to create whatever OC they please. But this is your wikia, and I suppose if you want to be exclusive, that's your choice. As they say, you'd catch more flies with honey.