Featured Bio Contest

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Featured Bio Contest
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This Month's Winner

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Rahman
USS Veritas
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The Featured Bio Contest is an opportunity to recognize our existing members as well as to inspire prospective members to examine our group and join in on the fun. Furthermore, the contest endeavors to encourage current members to explore the SB118 Wiki and learn more about their fellow members and the adventures others have been having across the fleet.

Overview

Each month, the Featured Bio Contest Team reviews nominated character biographical wiki articles and selects those that meet the contest's minimum selection criteria to be showcased as Featured Nominees.

At the end of the month, one winning article will be selected from these Featured Nominees to become the Featured Bio of StarBase 118 on both the SB118 Wiki main page and through the Newsies, Reporter, and Publicity Teams. In addition, both Featured Nominees and Featured Bio winners are granted use of special badges that they can then add to their bios.

Featured Articles and Badges

The Featured Bio Contest recognizes three types of featured articles. All featured articles must meet the minimum selection criteria of the contest.

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  • Featured Bio Contest Team Member (Sapphire)
A biographical article for a character whose writer is a member of the Featured Bio Contest Team.

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  • Featured Nominee (Silver)
A biographical article that has been nominated to the Featured Bio Contest and meets the minimum selection criteria.

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  • Featured Bio of StarBase 118 (Gold)
A Featured Nominee that has been selected by the Featured Bio Contest Team to become the Featured Bio of SB118 for one month.

Featured Articles may display special badges designating their status. There are two sets available: the wide edition (seen above and suitable for display as a header or footer for a character's sidebar) and the standard award size edition (seen below and suitable for display in an awards rack alongside other awards and service ribbons).

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Display of the badges is at the discretion of the individual author, although examples of badge placement are available in the Featured Bio Contest Tutorials.

Rules and Minimum Selection Criteria

How to Nominate an Article

See someone's bio on the wiki that you think deserves to be featured on the main page and through our publicity and news teams? Then simply reply to the current month's nominations thread with a link to the article in the Featured Bio Contest forum! If it's your own article, we'll get in touch with you via private messaging. If you're nominating someone else, let us know their forum handle so that we can send them a private message to see if they approve of the nomination.

Before you nominate an article, please ensure that it meets (to the best of your own judgement), the minimum selection criteria for the contest. In particular, make sure that your nominated article meets the following rules:

  1. Nominated articles must be of a player character played by a current and active member.
  2. Nominated articles must be either a primary or secondary player character. PNPCs are ineligible.
  3. All information in the article must be curent as of the submission date.

List of Featured Articles

Badge Type Recipient Ship/Station Month Year
WINNER.jpg Featured Bio Velana USS Mercury October 2012
WINNER.jpg Featured Bio Kali Nicholotti StarBase 118 Ops September 2012
WINNER.jpg Featured Bio Della Vetri USS Avandar August 2012
NOMINEE.jpg Featured Nominee James USS Discovery-C August 2012
NOMINEE.jpg Featured Nominee Kali Nicholotti StarBase 118 Ops August 2012
NOMINEE.jpg Featured Nominee Telice Shagan USS Discovery-C August 2012
NOMINEE.jpg Featured Nominee Kaedyn Zehn StarBase 118 Ops August 2012
TEAM.jpg Team Member Ian West USS Mercury October 2012
TEAM.jpg Team Member Sky Blake Embassy of Duronis II July 2012
TEAM.jpg Team Member Luran Sorani USS Avandar July 2012
TEAM.jpg Team Member Roshanara Rahman USS Mercury July 2012

Joining the Featured Bio Contest Team

Team members are authorized to display the Featured Bio Contest Team Member (Sapphire) badge on their characters' pages. A standard award size version is also available.

Interested in becoming a member of the Featured Bio Contest Team? We'd love to have you! Send a private message on the forums to the team facilitator. The current team facilitator is Rich aka Lt. Cmdr. Rahman.

Please note, if you wish to join the team you must meet the following requirements:

  1. You must be an active member of SB118 in good standing.
  2. Your primary character's own biographical article on the wiki must meet the minimum selection criteria of the contest.
  3. You must be willing to take an active role in not only judging other articles to be featured but also helping other members with constructive feedback on how to improve their articles.
  4. You should be reasonably proficient with using and editing the wiki such that you could assist other members who have questions about it.
  5. You must be willing to forego your own character's article from being chosen as a featured article. It will instead be listed as a Featured Bio Contest Team Member (Sapphire) article.


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