NEWFLASH: 2016 will be the Year of the Sneezing Panda!

[wossname]

According to Rob Wilkins, so it must be true...

Lovely celebratory art by hump_day:

Comments

Credit and Copyright.. Stealing from Discworld Monthly AGAIN !

[(Anonymous)]

Actually that artwork is a mashup of mine and hump-day's... You took it from Discworld Monthly where it was published in this format by me .... I have the original on my PC ... Try crediting things properly as I am getting sick of you stealing items from Discworld Monthly without giving the proper credit in any form or even asking permission in the first place...

Re: Credit and Copyright.. Stealing from Discworld Monthly AGAIN !

[wossname]

!!!???!!! I send out links as they are sent to me by various people. Credit is given when I can track down the original. As I would never join Facebook I had no idea this came from DWM if indeed it even did, and I can't give 'you' credit as you are an anonymous commenter. Wossname has been around since the early 1990s - started as a postal newsletter from what were then a fairly small cadre of Pratchett fans. I am astonished and saddened that any Pratchett fan who made tribute art to Pratchett would be offended by Wossname attempting to show it to other Pratchett fans, but it would seem that the world contains some fans who are less willing to share. I also find myself wondering when sharing links to Discworld-related items with fans became 'stealing'. The world is a colder place for it in my opinion.

Happy Year of the Sneezing Panda to you, random anonymous stranger.

Re: Credit and Copyright.. Stealing from Discworld Monthly AGAIN !

[wossname]

Hang on, hang on... I just looked at the date of the original post above.

It's 31st August 2015.

31st August.

Now move forward to the start of the NOVEMBER 2015 Wossname (_http://wossname.dreamwidth.org/26887.html_) and you will find:

In last month's issue, item 9 ("Fanac") was devoted to a string of Discworld-centric limericks sent in by one of our Newshounds. As no source was given apart from "found this on Facebook", I did a number of searches (as I normally do) but found nothing to indicate where the limericks thread came from; but as it was obviously fan-made and definitely fun, I decided to include it in the issue. Then, not long after the month's issue went out, I received an email from Jason Anthony of Discworld Monthly newsletter, explaining that the limericks came from a thread on the Discworld Monthly Facebook group, which is a private group. Jason and I have since discussed this and all's sorted. But as offence was taken, Wossname hereby apologises to the Discworld Monthly Facebook group for the uncredited sharing of a thread posted in that group.

The very purpose of Wossname, since its beginning back in the 1990s, has been to make fans aware of both direct news of the life and work of Terry Pratchett and various international activities of Pratchett fans, including links to fan art and reposting of forum threads and assorted fan poetry and essays; and that will continue to be our policy and raison d'etre. But to anyone – staff or civilian – who wants to send in any fan-based items from less than public sources in future, do let us know the origins...

In order to be 'stealing from Discworld Monthly AGAIN!', I'd have to have been in possession of a TARDIS. Or a Delorean. I'm quite certain I've never had either of those :-)

Sneezing panda

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Wossname,

Long time lurker, first time commenter. You've got the year wrong in the title -- it should be 2016, not 2017.

Regarding sharing of fan art, personally I'm not sure why anyone in their right mind would want credit for such an poorly drawn image (it looks like a giant misshapen panda being sneezed out of a tiny panda, like Bilbo and Tom the troll from "An Unexpected Journey" only in reverse), but Anonymous does have a point. It's hardly "sharing links" to fan art if you don't actually provide a link back to the original, or at least your source. Just giving their nickname ("hump_day") is not sufficient, unless they are as well-known as Banksy (and this artist is no Banksy).

Anon (not to be confused with Anonymous)

Re: Sneezing panda

[wossname]

Hello 'Anon'! Thank you for pointing the subject line mistake out. I'll correct that now.

As Editor of Wossname, I don't think it's my place to judge the quality of fan art. If you are a long-time follower you'll have noticed that I do have my preferences in official Discworld artists - I despise Josh Kirby's covers even though Kirby was a fantastic artist in his non-Discworld work; I adore all of Paul Kidby's and Marc Simonetti's Discworld covers and illustrations; I have mixed feelings about Stephen Player's Discworld work, and so on - but when it comes to fan art I always assume it comes from the heart and judgemental put-downs seem a bit contrary to the spirit of a fanzine :-)

If I'd had a link I would have shared it! I send a lot of time searching the internet for items of interest for every issue, but I also depend on the Wossname Newshounds volunteers for content. In this case the image above was sent to me as a jpeg so I shared it here whilst referencing the credit that was already in the image.

I started out years ago as a Wossname Newshound myself, got pressured into temporary editorship when Editor-and-founder Joe Schaumburger first took ill, and eventually took up the Editor's baton when no-one else came forward to take over after Joe died. Putting out Wossname every month has cost me rather a lot in health and happiness, but I did it out of respect for Joe and out of love for the works of Sir Pterry, and now I continue to do it for the memory of The Author, to help his name to stay forever in the Overhead.

You say you're a 'long time lurker' but you took the trouble to comment here with a correction. That is just the sort of assistance we need! If perchance you'd like to become a Newshound, write to Wossname. The address is at the bottom of every issue...

Happy Year of the Sneezing Panda to you!