Create or improve English language Wikipedia pages for SF/Fantasy authors or literary works that are connected to Utah. A "connection" to Utah for an author could be growing up in Utah, attending college in Utah, writing books set in Utah, etc. If you have a question about whether or not someone is Utah-related please ask Rachel Helps on her talk page before starting work/research.
Pages must be created or added to during the duration of the contest, which is March 14th, 2017--April 14th, 2017. Good Article reviews, for substantially improved pages, should be nominated before the deadline. We'll look at the version of the page from the deadline; you can keep improving pages after the contest; we will score the version submitted but do the GA review on the page as it stands.
Pages and improvements must adhere to Wikipedia guidelines. New pages especially should adhere to Wikipedia's notability policy; authors or works should have significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent from the subject. This means that the subject of your page should be mentioned in the news or have earned an award. Sometimes a young author will be famous for one book, like with Brittany Olsen's Dendō. In that case it's better to make a page for the book, because there will be more news articles you can cite about the book. Give preference to news sources and print materials (use Google books to search); after you've exhausted those, other sources are okay.
be edited with a registered Wikipedia account, so we can track your edits
have a connection to SF/Fantasy and Utah
pass Wikipedia's notability criteria. That means if the page gets deleted we can't judge it, so get to know the notability criteria and write a good draft in your sandbox before moving it to the mainspace.
have in-line citations to reliable sources.
be your own work and not violate copyright law. This copyvio detector can show if online sources are too-closely paraphrased.
new pages must be at least 1500 characters (not words) in prose (excludes wiki markup, templates, lists, tables, and references)
improved pages must be expanded at least 2x. That means if an article was originally 1000 prose characters, it would have to be expanded to 2000 prose characters.
After a page passes eligibility criteria, it can be scored on the quality of the page. A page will either be scored on the new page criteria or the improved page criteria.
Scoring for new pages
New page passes eligibility criteria
3 points
Style is encyclopedic with neutral POV and no original research
5 points
Appropriate categories
2 points
Scoring for additions to existing pages
Expansion is 2x and passes eligibility criteria
3 points
Style of addition is encyclopedic with neutral POV and no original research
5 points
Appropriate categories
2 points
After a contestant contributes a new or an improved page, if the contestant nominates the page for Good Article status, it will be judged on those criteria additionally.
Scoring for articles that are nominated for Good Article (in addition to "contribution" points)
Passes GA review
15 points
GA Review put on hold
less than 15 points, at the discretion of the reviewer
GA Review failed
0 points
Judges may deny points if they suspect a contestant is abusing the points system.
In the case of collaborations of two participating contestants, we will award each user half the points for the contribution. Both participants should indicate that their submission is a collaboration.
New Wikipedia editors may find these rules overwhelming. BYU's Harold B. Lee Library is offering a training in conjunction with this contest to help contestants get to know Wikipedia's policies and user interface:
March 21st, 2017 from 7-9pm in 2234 of the Harold B. Lee Library
If you can't make it to the training, Wikiedu offers training modules online about basic Wikipedia policies.
