Editorial Guidelines (Wormwood)

As Wormwood is an open collaborative timeline, users are free to help create new additions to the canon or expand existing pages, as well as generally give new ideas to the timeline. However, it is expected that a number of editorial guidelines are followed as to maintain a certain level of article quality as well as the continuity of the canon.

Canon
In Wormwood, canonical articles are nations, technologies, people, or any other proposals that have been accepted as full canon and accepted part of the timeline. Despite being an open timeline, pages are not immediately graduated to the canon on their immediate creation, but must first go through the proposal process to determine whether it; In order to have a proposal be considered for graduation to the canon, a post must be made in the proposals section of the Wormwood talk page in order for contributors and moderators to review it. Once sufficient edits or additions have been made to the proposed page(s) without any objections, they are free to graduate to the canon.
 * 1) Does not deviate from the series of canonical events set out in the timeline;
 * 2) Has excellent, or generally above-standard layout, writing, use of supplements, and;
 * 3) Is plausible within the Wormwood universe.

Category system
In Wormwood, there are several classifications that will apply to pages in the timeline that will affect its categorisation. Any of the following categories must be applied to the pages that fit into them in the following manner; 'category type (Wormwood)'.

Proposals
When a new page is created, it should be kept in mind that it is a proposal and as such must use the Proposals (Wormwood) category with the   template being placed at the top of the page. It should be noted that placing a link to the timeline on the proposals section of the Wormwood talk page will help ensure that it recieves a far awareness from other contributors that will speed up the review process.

Tagging the page as a proposal indicates that the entire group has not yet had a chance to discuss, debate, and possibly recommend changes to it. If you feel your article is ready to be recognized as canon, then say so on talk page. If nobody raises any objections to your page, you can remove the Proposal tag after a certain amount of time. After this your article will officially be considered "graduated" and a part of the Wormwood canon.

Important note: the fact that a page or idea has been accepted/graduated does NOT mean that it is "finished". All of Wormwood's pages are undergoing constant updates and expansion. The graduation process simply means that what has been written, the essential or fundamental elements of the idea, are part of the timeline's canon.