Star Wars Fanon:User of the Month

 User of the Month is an award given to those users who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment and helpfulness to the Star Wars Fanon wiki. A good candidate should be helpful in the community by participating in article writing, community events, and good and featured article voting. They should also demonstrate a helpfulness that goes above and beyond what would normally be expected for a user, and they should try to help guide new users into becoming active community members. Users of the Month are meant to be the best examples of what our wiki has to offer.

Nomination process:

There is a simple process that all candidates go through in order to be selected as a User of the Month. That process is as follows:


 * 1) Any user may nominate any user other than themselves. They may also nominate as many users as they want, though they may only vote for one per month.
 * 2) However, users may not be chosen as a User of the Month if they have previously won the award in the last six (6) months. Even so, strive to nominate people who have not won before.
 * 3) Users will either support or oppose the candidates. Users must provide a reason for voting against a candidate. Users must meet the requirements of the voting policy to vote.
 * 4) At the end of each month, the candidate with the most votes will be that month's winner. All candidates will be removed from the nominations page and archived.
 * 5) Users who are not successfully chosen as User of the Month that month may be re-nominated at any time.

How to nominate:

When you nominate a user, please use the following nomination form in order to maintain a sense of organization on the nominations track:


 * ===Candidate's name===
 * ====Support (#)====
 * ====Neutral====
 * ====Oppose====
 * ====Comments====

Candidates will remain on the nominations track until the end of the month, unless the nominee removes him or herself before then. The candidate with the most votes will be the User of the Month. All nominees from that month will be added to the archive.

Support (2)

 * 1) Fiolli is one of those less-visible, unsung heroes on Star Wars Fanon—though he’s far too modest to want me to say that. He doesn’t have a major presence or heavy amount of activity on Star Wars Fanon like other Users of the Month have, but in this case I cite quality, not quantity. A well known and respected user on the Wook, Fiolli first became active on SWF in early 2009. He’s written a number of articles on SWF, and he’s published an entire novel here as well&mdash;no small feat on a wiki whose users typically only write fanon articles. I first noticed his commitment to the wiki in August 2009, when he wrote this. It was a very well written opinion about the current state of the wiki at the time and how community wasn’t really pushed, but rather article policies were the main push on the wiki (at the time, the prevailing opinion was that community activity = commitment to upholding the Manual of Style). I was pretty shocked at how he seemed concerned about the possibility of being banned over posting his opinion, and that really got me thinking. If someone like Fiolli could think that, what about new users on the wiki whose first Wikia experience may be Star Wars Fanon? I could only imagine what they would be thinking. That prompted a change in mindset for me, and it led to a number of wiki reforms I proposed&mdash;among them the establishment of FanonProject for more community article writing, re-designing all of the forums to make them more user-friendly, a redesign of the Welcome template, the abolishing of the categorization policy, and many others. Most importantly, it allowed me to help strike a more user-friendly tone when I talk to users, and I think that’s helped, especially since I think I used to scare people off with the way I came across. Since then, Fiolli has participated in a number of community discussions and has been a good source of help on the wiki. Like I said, the quantity of his edits may not be as high as most UOTM nominees, but the quality rivals them all, at least to me since Fiolli was the catalyst for a number of things I’ve done on the wiki in the past year. That user friendly tone also helped me become a Wikia Helper. I think it’s time that Fiolli gets the recognition he deserves. - Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 06:05, August 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Here here! -- D.W. (talk)(Glorior) 07:07, August 17, 2010 (UTC)