For the longest time we've given free name changes to FAQ authors.
I'm now going to extend this to three other types of contributors:
- NeoWiki contributors who have submitted a significant amount of text or images to the NeoWikis.
- Members who have a significant amount of fanart in their profiles (15+).
- Members who have an exceptional member gallery (1000 images or more relevant to games, movies, or books, with proper tagging, attaching to games, albums, etc)
Here are the Qualifications, LIMITATIONS, and Caveats!
- You may only make such a request once per 3 year period. It sounds like a long time but I don't want to be flooded with requests, sorry :(.
- Particularly prolific contributors may use a free name change for THEMSELVES up to once per year: these are people who are actively contributing for 2+ years and still actively contributing at the time of the name change request and have 3 or more 100k wikis or one wiki with 500k edits
- Wiki contributors must contribute to a game related wiki. We have over 100 of them so its actually quite easy. If none of the existing NeoWikis suits your fancy, check out WikiGuides, where you can start a Wiki on ANY game you like.
- Your NeoWiki contributions should contain a consistently high amount of actual actual text being written. In fact you should have at least 75,000 bytes in one single wiki, or 50,000 bytes in two or more wikis, and must still be actively and consistently contributing to the wikis for the past 3 months before even contacting me.
- For the purpose of Wiki Edits you can edit game profiles and Wiki Description Edits on the site itself, such as making Character pages (eg this page.
- Fan artists must have at least 15+ fanart in their profile and must still be consistently submitting fanart (at least 2 in the past 6 months). To learn more about submitting fanart check out the fanart homepage and the Art Central forum
- Member galleries must be filled with decent sized images, not tiny images.
If you don't know what qualifies as a name change, please visit this
thread on name change requests.
To make a request of this type, please PM me with the following subject:
"Free Name Change: Fan artist"or
"Free Name Change: Wiki Contributor."Hopefully this new policy will allow very active members who have contributed alot or have made great use of our features to be able to change their names instead of starting new accounts.
PS. For members who contribute and have lots of NeoPoints, I hope to implement something for you too this year.
neoseeker related name change
Redemption blogged
question: is it possible to pass the privilege onto someone else? a gifting perhaps
i guess that explains why my request was ignored
when you do announce the same feature for contributors, then pls. note of my earlier request - thanks!
Anyways, this is a great idea. I probably won't be using this in the future, but I might use it soon enough.
I was just waiting for your reply and figuring out where I can fit wikis into my schedule again, Thanks for the answer. :3
This is a really good idea Redemption ^^. I'm sure a ton of people will love this opportunity
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Oh, and there is a good chance you will see me in your inbox sometime.
Not that I'm one of them of course, this name'll never get away from me.
Great idea Redemption. Hopefully we'll see more people working on the wikis.
Cheers again Red.
Awesome news, look forward to it.
Too bad that despite my large contribution to the Wikis - I haven't really been all that active in them lately and as such I no longer would qualify. D;
All well, might as well wait until (1. A new wiki I know vasts amounts on is created or (2. You eventually change the guidelines.
Some 1 just took advantage of the free fan artist name change and is now known as RebeccaScene. She's the first to do so that I'm aware of