The Sims Wiki talk:The Plumbbobs

Getting started
Alright, I've decided to be bold and I've created this page (finally). The whole discussion about the awards themselves ground to a halt amidst discussions of what the awards would be called, so I decided to, again, act boldly and determine a good compromise name from among those given. In that process, I took some suggestions for multiple awards (like winners and runners-up), and created three 'tiers' of awards for any particular category; 1st place gets Platinum, 2nd gets Gold, and 3rd gets Emerald.

The categories haven't been determined yet, which is why nominations for awards can't be taken yet. Long long ago, BobNewbie created a list of possible award categories, which were:


 * Best Horror Fanon
 * Best Comedy Fanon
 * Best Romance Fanon
 * Best Action Fanon
 * Best Drama Fanon
 * Best Fanon Sim
 * Best Fanon Family
 * Best Fanon Setting
 * Best Fanon Chapter/Episode
 * Best Evolving Fanon Story
 * Most Comedic Writer
 * Most Creative Writer
 * Most Creative Photographer

Now, we've got to decide which categories we want to keep, which ones we don't, and whether new categories should be created.

This is all a big undertaking, so getting multiple people on-board with putting this on would be great! --  LostInRiverview talk · blog 07:50, May 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * First, props to you for someone actually doing this thing. And as for the categories, I think we could really narrow it down, into just best Fanon Sim, best Fanon family, and best Fanon article, as well as best Author. I also just got the idea of maybe honourable mentions, which are fanons that were considered but did not make the top 3. Also, I'm doing a bit of photoshopping atm trying to make award images.
 * I think the list above is a bit too long, but what you've given is IMO too narrowed-down. I think maybe what we could do would be:


 * Best Comedy
 * Best Drama
 * Best Article/Best Chapter
 * Best Sim
 * Best Family
 * Best Author


 * As for honorable mentions... I was thinking that each category would be open to nominations and that the judges would ultimately pick the top 3. So by extension everything that was nominated for the category that wasn't selected would be an 'honorable mention'. I hadn't thought of doing anything to specifically recognize those, but it seems like a good idea, maybe if the judges said something like 'we really liked these three (whatever), but this one here was good as well.' --  LostInRiverview talk · blog 08:01, May 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and made some mock up templates to be used for the awards.
 * I have collections of icons from Ambitions to Showtime, maybe we could use it instead, Wogan. I'm wondering what kind of the award will be. Is it a parthenon or a special userbox, or something else?  Nikel  Talk  08:24, May 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * Likely going to be a parthenon template for the fanon page, although it might be nice to give a special userbox to the recipients of awards.
 * If the images you'll use for the awards are like those, I'll pass. I have a few ideas about userbox awards... I'll try to design one later and see what'll be like.  Nikel  Talk  08:30, May 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * It turns out making a colorful userbox is not as easy as painting your MS Word. I ended up with this userbox, which the codes I stole "borrowed" from GG's old signature and some tweaks. :p  Nikel  Talk  14:06, May 7, 2012 (UTC)
 * I like it. Might be a bit of a contrast to other userboxes though, but then again users don't need to have the thing on their page (I got rid of my Featured Editor template for similar reasons).