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Policy on Writing and Editing Player stories

I would like to introduce some policy on writing and editing Player stories. Should the player stories submitted be left as-is or edited? Anything inappropriate or that contradicts existing policy should be removed immediately of course. But a lot of the stories have misspellings, bad grammar, etc. I think we need some guidelines on how much we (the editors) are allowed to edit, yet still resemble the personal style of the writer, which is the whole point of having these sections.

Points to consider:

• How long should a story be?
  • We don't want them to write a novel. I suggest one paragraph, 3 to 5 sentences.
• Should links to other premade Sims be included if mentioned
  • I don't really care, but it would mean a lot of editing
• Spelling & Grammar
  • I think this should be corrected
• User tags, signatures, etc.
  • I think these should be kept
• Personal opinions
  • I think these should be kept

Any other suggestions?

-- A morris 00:22, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I think that's a great idea. Before I had an idea that the player stories be put on the talk pages but it would require a lot of work. However with the user tags and signatures I believe that they should put ~~~~ after their player story whether they are a anonymous user or not. If a player links to other pre made sims that should be okay to. On the idea that if it was on a talk page we wouldn't have the problem of bad spelling and grammar on the actual informational part of the page. --Makiah (talk) 16:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I think moving the player stories to the talk page is a good idea. A morris 19:40, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

I've started moving some stories to their talk page. I moved a really long story from Consort Capp's page. I left the others with a note to see the talk page for more. -- A morris 14:31, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I had another idea. That of placing the player stories on a subpage of the character's page, ex. Bella Goth/Player stories. That way the stories are on their own page and can even be placed in a "Player stories" category. The {{Sim}} can be edited to automatically link to the subpage as well. -- a_morris 02:21, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Over the next couple of days I'm going to be updating the {{Sim}} to incorporate the idea stated in an earlier message as well as some other things. Because of this many of the Sims pages will require some editing but will hopefully make the template easier to use. -- a_morris 14:10, 27 October 2008 (UTC)