Western art is crap.

this.

Part of the problem is that some bad western-style non-japanese artists migrated to pixiv, thinking it's just another deviantart or something. This resulted in tags being uploaded with bad art by those mediocre western artists. I believe that even if the source material is japanese, but the artist is not and has a western-style art, then it shouldn't be allowed.

If people want to see bad western art, they should just go to other imageboards.

Western-like art is crap, no problem there.
What I don't really understand is why the "pure made-in-japan stuff only"
I sometime try to translate things, so I've found things like this
gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3366750
From re:zero kara(...) so japanese characters, but text is most likely in chinese (and too small for me too translate)
Sometimes also korean stuff (hangul is easy to recognize) or thai (curves everywhere)
But if someone were to edit them with a japanese translation, you probably wouldn't be able to know they weren't from japan.

As far as I'm concerned, I wouldn't mind non-jap stuff, as long as it looks like japanese stuff


BTW... what about japanese artists redrawing western characters ?
Like marvel.com/comics/series/993/new_mangaverse_2006 marvel characters, american writer, japanese artist. allowed or banned ?

So... I deleted that first one for being manga/doujin (and poorly compressed).

The deciding factor here is usually quality. For a Japanese artist the art would pretty much have to be craptastic or eye-gougingly bad before we delete it for being poor. It might also be deleted for having excessive jpeg compression or other file defects. We allow oekaki art from the 90s so the standard here isn't very high.

We tend to hold non-Japanese artist's to a higher standard. It's usually not a problem if the art depicts a Japanese copyright as this is on-topic. We may also give exception to the occasional western or original work done in a Japanese style as the style alone keeps it from being wholly off-topic. It is rare that we keep a western-style pic by a western artist unless it is truly some masterpiece that catches the mods' fancy. (Or it wasn't deleted because we missed it and was never flagged.)

Western characters by Japanese artists are fine. No different than original characters really. As long as the quality is passable then it will be allowed.

Ok thanks the explanation.

Also, about the picture, it was on the artist's pixiv, and the quality was the same
The doujin might have been of better quality, but I didn't find it (or I would probably have been able to crap-translate everything)

And yet some idiot mods are allowing WHentai, (insertAnime name) Pixx, and those BBC-themed "Western" porn disguised as "Hentai.
And no translated posts here? Why not create a Circle Anco Booru?

(Idiot mod in question)

The non-Japanese artists rule has been relaxed since September of 2011, 10 months after that post was made.

Allowing WHentai here is still on the fence. Paysite content like those from -pixxx (belonging to Hentai Key) were never allowed here.

Circle Anco is Japanese and is allowed here. Poor edits that add fake translations/dialog where there was nothing to translate are not allowed.