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Overview
Hey, everyone! TurquoiseEmber here with your second official newsletter! This is technically a day early, but I won't be able to post it tomorrow, so here it is :)

As Stardust told us last time, there will be one of these ideally on the first day of every month, and the newsletter duty will rotate between admins, and then powerusers. Next up on duty is Starwings2Night, so make sure to give her your suggestions for Pages of the Month! In this newsletter, we're introducing many things, so make sure to keep reading...

Announcements
We have many important announcements here, so listen up!

First of all, we now have rating badges. Make sure to input these in your stories so we know who they're suitable for.

Credit to Enderfiretheanimusdragon for making these for us :D

Apart from that, we have another announcement--the admins and I have decided to start deleting pages. This is because we are getting cluttered with literature that we could go without. Before you start worrying, however, we won't delete just any page. We will only delete the ones that meet all of these criteria: To be a candidate for deletion, a story must meet all of these criteria. The admins will be creating a category called "Candidates for Deletion" where these will be placed.
 * No activity for more than two months (including comments).
 * Less than 5 comments.
 * Smaller than 5000 gigabytes.

To choose which candidates for deletion to actually delete, we will host a poll every newsletter, so that you, the community, can vote. This poll will help us decide which three pages to delete. So, ideally, we'll be deleting three pages per month. (Spring cleaning...even though it's August.)

These will start next month, so if you see any pages that meet these criteria, tell Starwings2Night, as she is the one posting the next newsletter). She will select about seven or eight (or how many ever pages she finds), and will narrow them down to three while voting.
 * We will notify you if your page is about to be deleted, and you will have the opportunity to move them into a blog post. This way, your page might be gone, but your literature still remains.

The criteria for deletions will be added to the Rules soon.

And after that, we are introducing a new rule. New categories can be made by powerusers only. You may make your own content categories (such as "Content:TurquoiseEmber"), but only a poweruser may make other categories. If you have any requests for categories, talk to an admin or poweruser, and we'll see what we can do! '

This new rule will also be added into the Rules soon.

To wrap up our many announcements, we now have an official Discord server! The join link is here: [//discord.gg/hS54Cvb https://discord.gg/hS54Cvb]

Events
Firefly Writings has a writing contest going on, make sure to check that out! Writing Contest: The Reboot

Random Page Stories
Again, as Stardust articulated last month, each admin hosting the newsletter will click the random page button thrice and will link the results here!
 * If the page meets the byte requirement but really has nothing but allegiances or things like that, don't add it.
 * If the page is something like "A Guide to ___", find the story it is based upon and see if it meets the 3,000 bytes requirement. If so, it is eligible.
 * We must try not to feature the same story or author twice in one newsletter.

Anyways, the random page stories for this week are:

Cantaloupe: A witty, joke poem by Zirconia567, this poem sheds light on how the earth is "NOT A CANTALOOD, it is a planet."

The Book, The Quill, and The Silver Ink Bottle : A Harry Potter fanfiction by Firefly Writings, this story highlights on our favorite HP element - the mystery and magic of horcruxes.

Gifts: A poem by Enderfiretheanimusdragon, this poem really hit hard for me as it's quite relatable. They've done a scintillating job of conveying what it really is to be "gifted", and how we're expected to live up to it.

Pages of the Month
To remind you all of the guidelines to select these: Now, on to it! Nominated by Firefly Writings Nominated by Zirconia567 Nominated by Firefly Writings
 * Anybody can find a page they like that falls under one of these categories. They will leave a message for the admin/poweruser who will be posting the next newsletter, preferably on their wall.
 * The admin/poweruser will go through these stories, find the one they believe is best, and nominate the three pages in the next newsletter.
 * The authors of these stories are allowed to display the badges they are given on their user pages.
 * Best Fanfiction: Fire and Ice ~A Vulpix and Ninetails Fanfiction by Xxravenshadexx
 * Best Poem: Why I Want To Be A Writer by Firefly Writings
 * Best Original Story: Dirty Paws by 3Electric3

Miscellaneous
We hit 500 pages and 100 active users this month! That's amazing, and I'm extremely proud of this wiki. Keep editing, guys!

That's it to wrap it up for this newsletter. Starwings2Night will be posting the next one, so make sure to give her your Pages of the Month suggestions.

Happy writing! 