Archives - Intro and Info

[hpbutterfly]

Greetings fellow writers! As tarnationawaits has already so kindly announced, I now have the pleasure of managing the community archives. First, a few notes:

- Archives will be managed using both tags and memories. Tags are useful because they save consistency, since you can choose your tags from the drop-down menu. So once we get this rolling, members will be able to choose most tags from the drop-down menu. It's also quick and easy when you want to find other posts by a certain author, for an old challenge, or with a particular pairing FAST.

- Since it has already been established, posts will be archived by author in the community memories as well.

- If you DO NOT want your posts archived, please specify such in the NOTES section of your header.

How you can help
If you would like your work archived,

1. PLEASE CHECK THE EXISTING TAGS LIST FOR YOUR TAG BEFORE CREATING A NEW ONE. Duplicates or incorrectly formatted tags will be deleted. This is just to make searching easier and to keep things uniform.
   
2. Please include your LJ username, the challenge, drabble character(s), drabble pairing(s), and rating (if any) as tags.
   
3. Hold down the CTRL key to choose more than one tag from the menu of existing tags.
   
4. Please format the author tag exactly as follows:
   author: [your LJ username].
   There is one space between the colon and your username.
   
5. All challenges will be added to the list as soon as possible. However, if you are really fast and must create a new challenge tag, please format exactly as follows:
   challenge: [name of challenge].
   There is one space between the colon and the name of the challenge. Please include the exact name of the challenge (i.e. Challenge #129 should be tagged as "The Elements" and not just "Elements") unless it contains commas. Commas cause problems, so please just leave them out.
   
6. List characters' first and last names, with a comma separating each character (e.g. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger). List pairings with slashes, separating each pairing with a comma (e.g. Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione; Draco, Ginny; Snape, Dumbledore, Harry). In the interest of consistency, please use first and last names when at all possible. Also, please double-check the tags list before hand-typing this information. The name of a group of characters (Trio, Founders, Maurauders) is acceptable as well. Please note that a group name MAY be preceded by "The" in the tags list (e.g. The Weasleys, The Longbottoms) while others are not (e.g. Trio, Weasley Twins).
   
7. Please format the rating tag as follows:
   rating: [G, PG, PG-13, PG-16, R, NC-17].
   You guessed it--one space between the colon and the rating, please.
   

Edited 3 Jan 06

My understanding of community tags is that members are only able to tag their entries when they create a new post or edit their own existing posts. If, for some reason, LJ won't let you add a tag, just let me know and I'll be right on it.

I'm going to start going through and tagging old posts asap, so if you don't want yours to be archived, let me know.

I guess that's it...Did I miss anything? I'm looking forward to helping dust off the ol' archive and show off our collective creativity. Cheers!

Edited to Add:
Okay, so I did miss something. *oops* Permission settings have been changed, so now all members should be able to add their own tags.