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).
 * In the interests of making sure that this page can accommodate multiple conversations, I'm going to split the present topic into a new section (see immediately below). -  LiR speak ~ read 05:06, May 8, 2012 (UTC)

Awards Design
Parthenon or userbox is optional. They can showcase it as a somewhat "pride" or recognition if they want. And only the winner can use it. Maybe it sounded a little arrogant, though. And I shouldn't have put the codes in this wiki... they might steal it if they know how.  Nikel  Talk  08:13, May 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * I doubt that anyone would bother to steal an award that they didn't earn. -  LiR speak ~ read 12:25, May 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * One cannot be too cautious.  Nikel  Talk  17:59, May 8, 2012 (UTC)

How will judging work?
I'm curious how we're going to have the judges discuss and vote on their favorites, and how we'll keep that private from the general public. One idea is to do it on the IRC but at least one potential judge has expressed concerns with having it take place on the IRC. Can anyone think of some way to hold a private vote/discussion without utilizing IRC? --  LiR speak ~ read 05:06, May 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * We could enable chat for the purposes of judging, or use Special:EmailUser. Other than that, I've got nothing.
 * The problem with chat is that it can't be locked to allow only certain users. If a special IRC channel were set up for judging, then the judges could be let in and the channel could be locked to everyone else. Chat can't do that. --  LiR speak ~ read 05:11, May 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Temporarily ban everyone who tries to enter, perhaps?
 * We could discuss it in a test wiki, like GG or Wogan's. If direct chat is a must, you can enable it temporarily in your test wiki. I'm not sure if your test wiki is known by public.  Nikel  Talk  08:07, May 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'd think your wiki would work fine, given that I did not know of such thing before this post. Anyways, I'd think someone needs to force something, given that the Plumbbob thing is dying. We need a bump. MILK FOR THE UNYUUFEX, FLAT CHEST FOR THE CUTENESS THRONE, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL PROBES  (user talk:Mathetesalexandrou) 17:50, May 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * It's probably better to make a new wiki for this and not tell anyone but the judges the sitename. Both mine and WH's test wikis are too popular amongst IRC users. 18:16, May 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * We should try to solve the problem soon, this has been more than 2 weeks and no progree has been made from the point. A New wiki can be found out, right? Are we going to cryptically name the wiki? MILK FOR THE UNYUUFEX, FLAT CHEST FOR THE CUTENESS THRONE, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL PROBES  (user talk:Mathetesalexandrou) 18:53, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * It's nice of you to poke this around, but I'm afraid that this idea is going to dry out soon (but I don't believe it's dead. It's just dormant). Things are being queued recently, making this discussion a bit... forgotten.


 * Perhaps we still can talk about this whenever possible again. Maybe in a locked channel in IRC?  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote for Featured  Media!  18:38, June 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Except that we wouldn't have this conversation if it weren't for my preference to not use IRC given my tendency to miss things. I believe the whole thing spawned because some like me didn't want to use IRC so we were looking for alternate ways? MILK FOR THE UNYUUFEX, FLAT CHEST FOR THE CUTENESS THRONE, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL PROBES  (user talk:Mathetesalexandrou) 18:55, June 17, 2012 (UTC)

Frankly, I myself easily miss things in IRC as well, so I had no idea what got into me suggesting that. Probably because I thought others don't have the same fate as mine. Creating a new wiki seems like... too much. :s  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote for Featured Media!  19:06, June 17, 2012 (UTC)