Talk:Odd Ball

Okay, the whole GoBots policy discussion confused me in general, so I stay out of it, but can someone explain why this character shouldn't have an article? I mean, it says he's a Mini-Con from the Aurex Cluster. That makes him a Transformer, doesn't it? --KilMichaelMcC (talk) 12:01, 20 May 2016 (EDT)

The policy is no GoBots original characters who only appear in Facebook fiction, regardless of how often they interact with Transformers. --Giggidy (talk) 12:03, 20 May 2016 (EDT)

I don't understand, if he's been made into an Aurex Mini-Con, he doesn't interact with Transformers, he is a Transformer. How can there be a policy that excludes what is now an actual TF? --KilMichaelMcC (talk) 12:08, 20 May 2016 (EDT)

I didn't say I agreed with it. Just that's what the senior editors seem to insist upon. --Giggidy (talk) 12:10, 20 May 2016 (EDT)

Pretty sure the ones that are explicitly established as Transformers (even if WE know they come from GoBot toys) are allowed to stay.--Charles RB (talk) 18:24, 20 May 2016 (GMT)

Kil, if it helps, the policy is largely directed against Renegade Rhetoric, the fiction, not against individual Renegades, the characters. Renegade Rhetoric is treated as non-Transformers fiction when it focuses on the GoBots as the primary characters. So not including Oddball's appearance in RR is like not including Optimus Prime's appearance on Family Guy -- of course he's a Transformer, but it's not Transformers fiction he's appearing in. Also, once the Renegade List goes live, Oddball's existence will be documented on the Wiki. --Xaaron (talk) 13:29, 20 May 2016 (EDT)

....documented in a list of non-Transformers? When this version of the character is a Transformer? And I can't possibly see how Family Guy can be equated to the product of an official licensee? Man, this is why I stay out of GoBots policy discussion, because I'm pretty sure I understand it even less now. --KilMichaelMcC (talk) 13:35, 20 May 2016 (EDT)