View source for Halo Fanon:Fanon of the Month

==Rules==
===Requirements===
#To nominate or vote, a user must have at least 100 mainspace edits (changes to page articles only) and be <u>active</u> 2 weeks prior to participating.
#Nominated articles do not have to be completed, but should be over 7000 bytes.
#Nominees may not have issues such as grammar, NCF, unrealism, etc. If a nominated article receives any one of these tags, it will be removed from the nomination pool until the issues are resolved.
#Roleplays are not valid for nomination.
#Short stories must be nominated as individual stories, not as a collection.
#Images are not required but gives the nominated article a better chance; adding creative designs such as coloured or patterned tables also stand out more than simply text-and-infobox articles.

===Nomination===
#You may nominate as many articles as you want by other authors; however "cross-nominating" (a user excessively nominating someone who is in turn excessively nominating them) will result in both users' immediate disqualification from the event.
#Self-nominations are allowed, but a self-vote is not allowed for self-nominated articles.
#Nominated articles may be removed by the administration if they do not meet the above requirements, article authors may request their article removed from nomination at any time during month of consideration.

===Voting===
#You may vote for <u>one</u> article per month.
#You may <u>not</u> vote for yourself.
#You may change your vote whenever you want, however try to have discretion and avoid constantly changing your vote.
#Sign your vote <u>without</u> the talk bubble signature (use <nowiki>~~~</nowiki>).
#Giving reasons for your vote is recommended, although not required.
#For the love of all things decent, don't forget to update the number of votes. No matter how often it's been stressed in the past, most users continue to demonstrate either their lacking ability to read, or their apparent TL;DR syndrome that leads to much grief on the part of people fixing the number of votes.
#November voting will elect a winner for December, and then the Heroic Article of the Year Award (3rd place) will receive a honorary Fanon of the Month award for January. Voting will resume in January after New Year's for February nominations.
#If a tie occurs, the administration will perform a private tie-breaker vote.

===Other===
#To avoid winning by default, a nominated article requires at least 3 supporting votes to be featured as a Fanon of the Month article. Otherwise the previous month's winner may continue to be featured.
#Voting for articles ends on the last day of the month it was nominated; it will then be given an FM icon and will be featured on the Main Page the next day.
#Articles already with Good Article status can still be nominated for Fanon of the Month, but only if it has received additional improvements in a short timespan before its nomination.
#Administrative votes hold <u>equal weight</u> to that of the rest of the community's.
#During the month of December - the FOTM project will take a break for the ''[[Halo_Fanon:Annual_Halo_Fanon_Wikia_Awards|Halo Fanon Annual Awards]]''.
#Every article that has been featured as Fanon of the Month will be given a corresponding era icon at the top right corner of the page. This can be revoked 1 week after a given administrative notice if the article degrades in quality in the future, or if the author is permanently banned from Halo Fanon.

===Winning===
#Articles that win Fanon of the Month will receive an Era icon in the top right of their article (use <nowiki>{{Era|FM}}</nowiki>, appearing as: [[File:Fanon of the Month.png|28px]]) and join the ''[[:Category:Fanon_of_the_Month|Fanon of the Month]]'' category.
#[[User:Distant Tide|Distant Tide]] will make FOTM victory cards in the style of the Halo Twitter account's "Fiction Friday" card templates from 2024 onward. '''Examples''':
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DT-FOTM - Jan2024 Daniel Contreras.png|FOTM January 2024 - '''[[Daniel Contreras]]''' by {{Name|Delta Pistol}}, (Default feature due to Heroic Article of 2023)
DT-FOTM Feb2024 - Bangalore.png|FOTM February 2024 - '''[[Bangalore]]''' by {{Name|Spartan-D042}}
DT-FOTM Mar2024 - Jace-G282.png|FOTM March 2024 - '''[[Jace-G282]]''' by {{Name|CaptainRicko}}
DT-FOTM Apr2024 - Camp Currahee.png|FOTM April 2024 - '''[[Camp Currahee]]''' by {{Name|Ahalosniper}}
</gallery>
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