Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24101790-20150507225140/@comment-2240864-20150508043536

EmpyrealInvective wrote:

ClericofMadness wrote: Just a note, the Contest category should probably be applied only to official contests, such as the one this site personally organizes.

I don't know if anyone has been offering prizes for winning unofficial contests, but I feel uneasy about the idea. I don't want anyone to feel cheated or whatever by people, and if you do that (and I cannot imagine why you would; it's a writing contest that, unless you're stealing peoples' content, you get nothing from pulling the rug from under people) you will be dealt with swiftly and severely.

Outside of the above, I wholly agree with this. I would even go so far as to say that even with asking admin for permission, all admin/b-crats should be included in the loop for them. Perhaps a forum proposal where we all can see it over a talk page message that might go unnoticed.

(EDIT: Also consider adding this somewhere on the official rules page for more permanency. <3<) Sent you a link to the proposal discussion area and when I mentioned prizes, I was more thinking of bragging rights, features on blogs, etc. and not necessarily monetary ones, unless it was like IGBTG's contest where a trusted member on the wiki was assigning awards (steam games), good to clarify that to avoid issues in the future.

Where is that link? .-.