Talk:Flower/@comment-53539-20140419174727/@comment-53539-20140420112714

@Xey; To cut a very long story short, since this discussion happened a few years ago... Vocaloids are only Vocaloids because the software backs them up right? Otherwise, all these mascots/avatars/personas are just examples of random candy colour anime characters (most of them anyway). Thats the short answer anyway.

Firstly, a wikia, like many fan-driven sites, is a form of "free" promotion for each topic the wikia is established for. By focusing on things like the V3 Megpoid software, we help promote individual packages. Focusing on the mascot can lead to confusion, as to what Vocaloid is. Either way, the benefits of focusing on the software versus the mascot is.

Other then this, we just focus on whatever Vocaloids main focus is at the moment. You can put everything on the front page so you have to make choices on to what are the directions of the wikia. The decision to focus on software came waaaay back before I was even a beaucrat. Until the pages split, the impact wasn't so noticable, but over time this seems to be the most effective way of setting things up as we can focus things more in any direction we want to at any point in time. So if the focus of the wikia ever changes, things are going to be easier to handle. :-D