new621:post deletions (locked)
Unlike typical art galleries, e621 intentionally curates posts to ensure that users are able to browse high-quality furry artwork while using an internally-consistent system of tags. This wiki page covers the various deletion reasons used by curators.
Certain deletion reasons may be illustrated with grandfathered content. Some other examples are not grandfathered content, and are instead justified by their relationship to another post (such as having a nonhuman alt, being part of a comic, etc.)
In all cases, the thumbnails used in this listing are provided solely for illustrative purposes, and their existence does not necessarily guarantee that similar posts will be approved under current policies.
Table of Contents
Redundancy
Deletions of these types cover posts that are similar or functionally identical to one another.
Inferior version/duplicate
Posts deleted under this reason are removed for being duplicated or extracted from an older, better, or larger post.
Small snippets of larger posts, as well as frames or snippets from larger animations, will also be deleted under this reason.
Audio is not taken into consideration when deleting inferior posts; audio edits must be of comparable quality to the original material.
Previously deleted
Posts deleted under this reason are removed for their relationship to a previously deleted post.
In general, this implies that even superior versions of the same post are not allowed.
Excessive base image set
Posts deleted under this reason are part of an overly large collection of similar posts.
This most frequently occurs with your-character-here templates with too many iterations, but may also occur from 3D renders with too many alternate angles.
Colored base
post #134500
Posts deleted under this reason are third-party edits of a fursona template, or similar materials intentionally released by an artist.
Similar to the above, template images tend to result in several mostly-similar posts.
Minimum Quality Standards
Deletions of these types cover various artistic or technical shortcomings.
Artistic
post #65188 post #209268 post #308976
Posts deleted under this reason fail to display sufficient artistic proficiency, including issues related to:
- human/animal anatomy, construction of figures/forms
- linework quality
- animation quality
Resolution
post #147 post #60889 post #252025
Posts deleted under this reason are at a small resolution that makes them unsuitable for modern displays.
In the cases of binary and pixel art, a submission can be upscaled using nearest neighbor scaling at a multiple of 100%; resizing at other multiples, or using modes such as bilinear scaling, will introduce destructive changes that reduce image quality.
Outside of binary and pixel art, upscaling is not recommended: small images ("thumbnails") should be sourced and replaced with the artist's public version.
Compression
post #184106
Posts deleted under this reason include artifacts that significantly reduce image quality.
JPGs typically include visual noise, and GIFs typically include a significantly reduced color palette.
Trivial or low quality edit
post #17823 post #261350 post #626747
Posts deleted under this reason are third-party edits that are poor in quality or simple in execution (i.e. "anybody could do this".)
The quality standards are slightly different for translation edits: some simple text edits are permitted when they otherwise wouldn't, and a proficient/skilled edit may be deleted for using a low-quality translation.
Low quality edits include:
- downscales, artificial upscales
- artifacting, observable differences in quality.
- mixing and matching alternate versions of the same post (e.g. using a male and female version of the art to create an andromorph/gynomorph version.)
Bad digitization of traditional media
post #55905 post #71554 post #75730
Posts deleted under this reason are poor scans or captures of traditional art.
Issues may include:
- poor focus
- poor lighting
- unnecessary external details
Irrelevant to Site
Deletions of these types cover themes that are irrelevant to e621.
AI Assisted/Generated
Posts deleted under this reason lack contributions by a human artist.
AI-generated media is only allowed when accompanied by significant manual art, such as a human reinterpretation of an AI's output.
Human only
Posts deleted under this reason lack visual elements with furry or nonhuman relevancy.
Some characters such as Princess Bubblegum and the Equestria girls are understood to be nonhuman in their source material, but must be depicted with significant nonhuman deviations (horse features, a body that behaves like slime, etc.) to be considered relevant.
Photo
post #2450283
Posts deleted under this reason are photographs that are not traditional two-dimensional furry artwork.
Photos of one's pet, one's fursuit, sculptures, etc. are not suitable for archival.
Screencap
Posts deleted under this reason are captures from a video game or user interface.
Some exceptions exist for creators promoting their own games and software.
Young human-like character in an explicit situation
Posts deleted under this reason depict human characters with youthful characteristics depicted in an explicit light.
Zero pictured
post #3276 post #12475 post #4991583
Posts deleted under this reason do not contain a single character, furry or otherwise.
Some exceptions are allowed when they exist in relation to a sequence or comic.
Other/Uncategorized
Deletions of these types include reasons such as takedowns.
Advertisement
Posts deleted under this reason are advertisements without artistic or entertainment value that justifies long-term archival, such as your-character-here advertisements, adoptables, and censored paysite previews.
Avoid Posting / Conditional DNP
Posts deleted under these reasons are excluded from archival due to using a certain artist's materials, or depicting certain characters and properties.
Certain Avoid Posting orders will include conditions such as "Only the artist may post", and verified artists may naturally circumvent their own Avoid Posting orders.
Paysite/commercial content
Posts deleted under this reason are not available from free first-party sources, and not released with the artist's permission.
Traced artwork
Posts deleted under this reason are traced from another known image.
Takedown
Posts deleted under this reason were deleted following a request by an artist, character owner, commissioner, or publisher.
Underage artist
Posts deleted under this reason are by an artist who was underaged at the time of creation. As they cannot legally access the site to file takedowns, these posts are deleted preemptively.