All characters must receive a recommendation to a Moderator or Administrator before they may be approved. Quality Assurance may provide a recommendation, but they may not give a final approval. After approval, QA is allowed to move the character to the appropriate "Accepted Characters" subforum.
Recommendations are to be sent through PM to all (other) Moderators and Administrators after a post in the new profile topic informing the user of the recommendation.
For the sake of keeping options for approval available, Administrators will not be providing recommendations.