Thread:Nixerix/@comment-30269588-20191129111722/@comment-4694083-20191130160859

This is where it gets confusing, yes. If you follow the link you provided for the official page (Friends of Mineral Town)......

From there, you can then you click on 'official website' it takes you to this site: Harvest Moon Series. If you click on the characters to learn more about them, they take you to images of the FoMT characters using the style of artwork we have now for the characters on FoMT. And yes, clicking on this link that you provided (Harvest Moon DS/Cute) is supposed to be the official DS page according to the main directory. It too showcases the same images used in FoMT, as you've pointed out. The DS: Cute version also showcases the same artwork (DS Cute). If you click on the official link for More Friends of Mineral Town, (More Friends of Mineral Town)... it too showcases the FoMT images for both bachelors and bachelorettes that we are currently using for those pages.

While the following images are shown on the website, I really can't find any other reference to them anywhere else and even the official site seems to contradict itself when you click on further links to investigate:

Honestly, it's very hard to say. You see the same inconsistances in Fogu's site. Even though the site may not be "official," I think that Cherubae has worked/does work for Natsume (as she does have exclusive access to games early for the site, etc) and does a TON of social media work for them. Don't quote me on this. But anyways...... She uses the same sprites for the Back to Nature, Harvest Moon 64 and FoMT bachelorettes. Is this an official image? Is it a matter of personal preference? The DS images on her website for marriage candidates are what we have here for the FoMT characters.

I can't find many other sources for more comparison. A lot of websites for Harvest Moon information are fan made, including this one. Natsume's official website doesn't seem to have any information about games that are older, and only seem to list their newer games. Marvelous doesn't seem to have an official website at all. XSeed would only list Story of Seasons titles. Wikipedia is useless. I even cracked open my game cases for DS/DS Cute and tried to look to see if any predominant images/style jumps out, but they're mostly screenshots.. and the few character photos are all inconsistent as well.

If we want to call a vote on what would be correct, or if we should change it, I'm all ears to suggestions and can rename most files. I don't mind re-naming once we settle on what we want, but it's a lot of work to do many images.... so we need to pick something and stick with it if we do decide to do that. But really, we should just do whatever we think would be easiest to follow/is most logical for the wikia.

I don't think that anybody here is wrong. It can be hard to find anything official and concrete when the Harvest Moon universe is largely fan-made and duplicated photos are everywhere, including Giant Bomb, tvtrops, tumblr (etc), often with conflicting information.

My vote would be to leave the images on the pages that they are, but I can re-name them so they better reflect that. But my word isn't law just because I'm admin.. so feel free to add more to this thread. ^_^