Talk:Unofficial conventions

"Early years" were Hasbro-endorsed, according to the Hartmans. The brand (and fandom) just wasn't so big then as for Hasbro to really put the "stamp" on it, but after BC96... Hasbro/Kenner took a much keener interest in how BC was run and how everything was being presented. --M Sipher 22:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah. I'm okay with linking to the conventions' web pages (if they have them) if anyone wants more info beyond "when/where", but really, I don't think this wiki should delve much deeper into detail. I could see putting notes on ONLY FULLY AND OFFICIALLY LICENSED merchandise that was available under them when relevant, like incentive-covers of normal-release DW/IDW comics (or that one Cyclonus bust), but knockoff toys and unlicensed t-shirts/posters with Hsabro IP? No. --M Sipher 22:14, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

==TFcon==Used the structure from the Botcon wiki page, sorry if I am "stealing" anything from anyone, just never really good as starting up these wikis. - ProtomanXRED

This should probably be renamed and appropriately expanded as "Unofficial Conventions," if it's going to exist here at all. --Thylacine 2000 13:00, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

And yet- it has official merchandise that is exclusive to it. Which is not uite the same thing as, say, Dairycon. -Derik 14:05, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Which does not actually make the convention official at all. At MOST there should be an "unofficial conventions" page that just contains a one-paragraph brief per convention with an external link... and frankly, I'm not convinced we should even have that. --M Sipher 23:47, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I always figured that, until Transformerscon becomes official itself (???? well, it would be nice). The information on Transformerscon would fit nicely in the article on Canada. God save the Queen. --Zodberg 14:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I'd say the "unofficial" ship sailed when we detailed Iacon One, unless I'm mistaken.--Rosicrucian 15:08, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, you could just edit each and every one of those non-BotCon, non-OTFCC convention articles to make it clear they are not officially endorsed by Hasbro. At the moment, this article makes it sound a hell of alot like it's the official, Hasbro-endorsed Canadian TF convention when, last I heard, it wasn't, regardless of who turns up from Hasbro or what exclusives are being sold.

I'm concerned because if I didn't know any better, reading this article would make me believe it's an official convention. --FFN 16:15, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually the reason I even began this article was because I was looking under the wiki entry for Conventions and at the bottom of unofficial conventions was TransformersCon, so I assume it's sorta implyed from the get-go. --ProtomanXRED

Well, it would be helpful to fans 'not in the know' or other people if this was pointed out in the article itself. An implication of such assumes that 'everybody' already knows, which isn't really that helpful in an information resource such as this. --FFN 08:29, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes yes, it will be added ProtomanXRED

Well, if we're moving Transformerscon to "Unofficial Transformers conventions", then every other Botcon prior to 2002 should be move there as well since they were not official. --Detour 22:00, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

They were, actually. --M Sipher 23:34, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Sipher is right. --ItsWalky 01:09, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Whatever. Iacon One and Botcon 2004 still have pages and they're not official. I don't see why as soon as Proto makes a nice, thorough, totally NON-stub page for TFcon you guys are suddenly against this. --Detour 01:32, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

If I'm not mistaken, we've been wanting to move Iacon One to Unofficial conventions for some time now. The only reason we're discussing this here, now, is because this page happens to be being created here, now. --ItsWalky 01:48, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Alrighty people, so how do I go about moving this, I am a little green to the process. -- ProtomanXRED

Click the tab marked 'Move', then type in the new article name where indicated. --FFN 19:06, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Updated the page and name, a lot of interesting developments will be happening in the next couple of weeks..... oh yes. -- ProtomanXRED

Official/Unofficial

So excactly what is classified as Official and what isn't?--86.87.28.191 17:36, 7 November 2009 (EST)