Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5643552-20150122202407/@comment-25052433-20150122205109

Dinks makes a great point. Since the idea of the Showcase is not to turn into Writer's Workshop 2.0, we need to be very very clear on what belongs in the Showcase.

Since the idea is to promote existing content that has already passed through our QS, we should perhaps come up with pre-existing conditions that must be met before an article will be accepted.

Ideas that pop in my head:

-Users can only post their own work. This will prevent the Showcase from becoming a popularity poll.

-All work posted in the Showcase must contain the author's signature in the "written by" format. After all, if you really want to promote your work, you should want to sign it so people know who the credit (and the postive feedback) belong to.

-I would also say we enforce a time period on how long a story must have remained on the main site before it can be put in the Showcase. I know there is a time stamp on when work is created on the user's contributions page. This is why we enforce the signature rule, so staff can spot check work to ensure it meets whatever the time period rule would be. I suggest at least 30 days, as that ensures it has been looked at by at least a few staff members and senior members for QS standards.

-Since the idea here is to promote, I agree that a separate message from the author accompany the story, as Dinks suggested. This gives them the chance to not just sell the story, but also introduce themselves further as a writer and a member.