User:King Of Yuri/sandbox

Hello and welcome to my contest page. I would like to thank you for taking your time and stopping by to see what this event is all about.

So What Is This Event Anyways?
This is a contest for all users here on GuildWiki in which the main objective is to design a New User Page or complete an old one. I encourage anyone to join this event, even if you have little knowledge of User Page design or editing skill.

So What's The Point?
I am sure that many of you already have User Pages here on GuildWiki, but many users have substandard pages that need a lot of work. The following is a list of overall objectives that this contest hopes to succeed in.


 * 1. To bolster community activity with friendly competition.
 * 2. To encourage newer and less experienced users to explore concepts of User Page creation.
 * 3. To stimulate users with unfinished pages to complete and refine their pages for a more well rounded GuildWiki.
 * 4. To help spread ideas about User Page design and to provide good examples for others to draw from.
 * 5. To reduce the amount of unregistered users by promoting registration and User Page creation.
 * 6. And finally to have some fun with some good natured rivalry between users here on GuildWiki.

How Will The Contest Work?
The underlying foundation of the contest will be as follows


 * 1. The user will register themselves on the registration page so others can see who all is competing.
 * 2. The user will then have an allotted time period in which to construct a new or finish an existing User Page.
 * 3. After the end of the creation/completion time, the user will link his/her User Page on the initial registration page.
 * 4. A team of judges will then examine all the entries and winners will then be chosen.

Are There Any Rules?
As with most things here on GuildWiki, there will be rules.

These are the rules for the competition. I would strongly encourage you to read through them so you do not break any and incur disqualification from the event. Please note that the rules my be subject to change based on unforseen events. In the unlikely event that this were to happen, users will be notified via this and the registration page. All rules will be followed including the normal GuildWiki rules or your entry will be subject to disqualification. Please be sure to check this page every so often for updates to rules as they arise.

The Competition Rules Are As Follows

 * 1. Registration
 * 1a. In order to compete in the event the user must must sign the registration page.
 * 1b. The user will initial on the registration page to indicate he/she has read the rules.
 * 1c. The user will not register after the event is complete but before judging.
 * 2. Designing
 * 2a. While an objective of this event is to share ideas, blatant theft of another users page will result in disqualification.
 * 2b. Your User Page contains nothing that would violate any GuildWiki policy.
 * 2c. Any edits on other user pages entries without permission from that user will result in disqualification.
 * 2d. You will not make major* edits your page during the judging period.
 * 3. The User Page
 * 3a. Each User Page entry must have an "About Me" section. ( This reason is for tie-breaker issues and for a standard baseline )
 * 3a-2. Note: The following is a suggestion and not a rule. Your sections may include but are not limited to the following
 * "About Me"'''
 * "User Boxes"'''
 * "Guild Wars Characters"
 * "Projects"
 * "Media Content"
 * "Builds"
 * "Useful Pages"
 * "Trivia"
 * "Notes"
 * 4. Judging
 * 4a. You will link your finished page on the registration page in order to be judged.
 * 4a-1. For convenience we ask that all participants use a similar ending page tag. Please see example below.
 * 4a-1a.  Example: User:John Smith/UPC. UPC = User Page Contest. ( This reason is to leave original User Pages intact and to cut down on revamp issues )
 * 4b. You will not claim falsely that you have won the event if you have not won.
 * 4c. you will respect the opinion of the judges after they have chosen the winning entries.
 * 4d. You will be fair minded to those who have won and not flame.

Time
At this current time the contest has not started. We still need 2-3 more judges and need to clear up some final questions before we begin. Feel free to still sign up though. As per the original ideas behind to project, we estimate that the contest will last between 2-3 weeks. A starting date will be announced with the next week (April 22 today), as well as an ending date. As mentioned before, please sign up in advanced so we can start to pull together some numbers.

What We Want To See From You
So you might be wondering what we want to see from you in the contest. Well... We want to see a lot of things. We want to see your best design. We want to see new and innovative ways of building pages here on wiki. We want to see your personal styles and feel the simpleness or complexity of your work. Wow us with never before seen ways of implementing wiki codes to benefit the end-user. Let your creative side take control on this one. Let your personality permeate your page. Maybe your humor is your strong spot, then play on that strength as you create. Make a page that is useful and informative about you or your interests. Bring us good information so that other can learn from it. Your page does not have to go by the form follows function rule, so really put some effort into this one.

Final Thoughts
We are hoping to have a large turnout for this contest. Please pass the word along to anyone you think might be interested. Please feel free to sign the sign-up sheet below and fill out the quick poll in the prize section. If you have any further comments or questions please leave them at my user talk page.

(P.S) If you see any spelling or grammatical errors please feel free to fix them. ky™  03:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)  Sign Up

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 Prizes / Tags --- Poll

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Prizes
These are some rough prize tags people can put on their user-pages if they want. I might decide to just make user boxes instead, depending on what people want.

As for the prizes listed in these boxes... Well lets just say that nothing is set in stone yet. I would like to get some feedback about what kind of prizes people might like for this event. Please feel free to vote in the poll to help us decide what will be appropriate. It was my original intent to have real cash for prizes but I dont know if that would be allowed here on GuildWiki, and real money is always a hassle in my opinion.

Thoughts about prizes are as follows.

Real Cash
 * 1st place = 40$
 * 2nd place = 20$
 * 3rd place = 10-15$

In game cash
 * 1st place = 200
 * 2nd place = 100
 * 3rd place = 50

Please take a second to answer this poll. Would you rather have real cash or in-game plat prizes? Real cash (visa giftcard) In-game platinum


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