Board Thread:News and Announcements (Staff use only)/@comment-11723493-20140325190348

Featured Fiction
===As March is coming to an end we are looking for new stories to feature on the mainpage! Now you may be asking yourself, what must I do to get a story featured? It's quite simple actually, all you have to do is make sure the work fits these requirements:===
 * 1) &hellip;Be finished. Simple enough.
 * 2) &hellip;Be of sufficient length as to merit featured work status. A general qualifier is 5,000 words for a novel and 500 words for a short story, at a minimum. If other categories of work are nominated, it will be at the discretion of the Administrators as to an appropriate length.
 * 3) &hellip;Be of sufficient quality to merit featured work status and display on the Main Page. That said, the Admins have various powers related to judgment calls on nominations as described above. They are not required to read the entire work, but that is recommended, nor are they required to read every nomination word-for-word for minor grammar and spelling errors. That is the responsibility of the author and/or any betareaders to handle.
 * 4) &hellip;Be nominated with an excerpt of good taste, interesting, between 150 and 300 words, and completely free of spelling and grammar errors. All of these considerations lie with the sole purview of the Administrators in charge of featured works.
 * 5) &hellip;Receive at least 7 votes in all, of which at least two must be votes from the Admins in order to become a featured work. This is to encourage community participation, without dragging out nominations forever. 2 out of 3 of the Administration can also remove a nomination if they believe it is of particularly low quality.
 * 6) &hellip;A cover is preferred but not absolutely mandatory. Better to have no cover than a bad cover.
 * 7) &hellip;All featured work nominations that contain more than one page (i.e. subpages or multiple chapters), must have some easy-to-use but not obtrusive means of navigating to the main article and next and previous chapters at the very least&mdash;additional linking is helpful but not required. This navigation can be via templates such as infobox coding, or otherwise, but must be implemented.

Great! Now that the article I want to be featured can be featured, how do I nominate it? To nominate it, simply follow these steps:

 * 1) Create a new entry and post an excerpt of the work to be featured to the forum. If the work is not yours, you may nominate it, but the author may ask for a nomination to be removed at any time.
 * 2) Others will object to the nomination if they disagree that the work is good enough; they will then supply reasons for doing so, and ways to improve the excerpt/work (grammar errors, style, organization, plot, etc.).
 * 3) Supporters adjust the excerpt/work until the objectors (with reasonable objections) are satisfied.
 * 4) Also, if, at least a week after the article's nomination, that article has 7 votes, at least two of which are from staff, and no objections (or the objections have been stricken or overridden), it will be added to the docket, and will be officially known as a "featured work."
 * 5) You may not vote for your own featured work nomination. This rule does not apply to the Administrators. Furthermore, you may not strike the objections of others.

Forums
After an executive decision, the admins here at WF have decided to create more forum boards, some of you may have noticed, but we now have a board for fanon discussion.

Wikia Spotlights
After all infoboxes and templates are put into place, we will officially put in our nomination for the wiki spotlight.

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