Thread:Pyrostar/@comment-796766-20130206024101

Hello there, youngblood! Fresh meat, newblood, novice, new guy, all that stuff. I couldn't help but notice that you took the liberty of making a page, and I don't recall seeing a pitch made. SO! That means you must be VERY new, as in, coming in JUST now, especially judging by your edit count and join date. Which means you don't know me.

I'm Nra 'Vadumee, also called the Doctor, also called Doc, also called Scourge of the New Author... alright, that last one there is almost, well, COMPLETELY fiction, not the point, because it's accurate. I'm an admin, major author, co-founder, creator of the great Karnasaur race and all about them, and above all else, I am the Resident Expert on Science and Technology. What does this mean? It means I'm the guy who you go to for ALL things about science. Do I know all? No. Stars, no. But I do know the Rule of Cool and I do have a lot of experience, so respect my decisions. And you will not WANT to respect them. But you will, I hope.

Also on the list of big names, Krayfish, though he's retiring soon, regardless, know his name and his rank, because he's everything I am sans those last two, because he's creator of the Dhragolon and Resident Expert on Culture and Development, a title which, at this moment, I believe will come down to me when he leaves. Until then, he'll help you with characters and civilizations.

Then my close personal friend and probably oldest professional associate still in practice, SupcommMonoree, admin, co-founder, major author, creator of the Eteno, and Resident Expert on Warfare and Weaponry. He'll tear you limb from limb on all matters regarding explosions, firearms, and anything remotely relating to that. Though note military technology is a shared domain between he and I.

NEXT!

Policy and Procedure, oh my favorite part! Not really, that's after this, ANYWAY!

First and foremost, there's the pitch system which you blatantly disregarded despite a message on the main page about it. Basically, to keep the wiki clean of one-day-stand authors who get bored and leave us with crap, we enforce a pitch system. You must deliver a pitch for an idea, no matter what it is, and aquire the permission of two admins to implement it. You will recieve great criticism. I will likely make you feel very insecure. That's natural.

Next is the apprenticeship system, which is big. You're a 'prospective author', you've shown interest in writing here. Once we get a sense of your work, you'll be assigned a mentor, who will oversee your pitches and provide detailed reviews of your work to back the admins. Once your mentor deems you ready, you get your author's license and can write without a pitch for EVERYTHING. Maybe we'll upgrade you to a major author, which means you can write the major arcs with the big boys (including me). Above MAs are admins, and above admins are the beureaucrats, me, Kray, and Suppy.

Finally, we're an original site. References, shoutouts, and expies are OK, but no blatant ripoffs. Use your imagination, though it seems from a single glance that you're good. Though I might changemy mind on that ruling later on.

STANDARDS! OH, I LOVE THIS PART!

FIRST AND FOREMOST!

Professionalism. BIG thing here, MASSIVE, center of our bloody existence. Everything we do is done to be professional. Do we expect bloody Agatha Christie or William Shakespear? No. Do we expect you to act like Stephen King or Agatha Christie? Yes. You're going to take some nasty criticism. It's all a part of the job. It's telling you what you did wrong, and how you can improve. Remember that, and don't snap when we criticize. Take it in the spirit it's given.

ALSO!

Quality. Second most important thing. Goes along well with professionalism. Basically, make your articles decent for your skill level. We'll help if there's an issue, but if we say you neeed work, you're going to need work. Grammar, spelling, this all is expected and taken for granted. By the looks of your bastard page, this shouldn't be an issue.

FINALLY!

Our policy on explicit content is lax enough. Swearing, good; sexual implicits, good; explicits, not so much, get an admin for a yay or nay on that; gore, depends: Ask an admin for an opinion and a yay or nay.

AND SO IN CONCLUSION:

Get your pitch in, tell us, in great detail, your plans for this site. What are you making, what goes along with that, what message are you sending, what are you trying to achieve, et cetera. Our goal has always been established as 'To produce high quality narrative literature within an original science fiction universe of our creation, and to instruct interested parties in how to do the same'.

Looking forward to working with you, and as we say here on Omniverse,

Happy editing! 