User blog comment:SpaceWeather/The New Annual Wiki Awards!/@comment-3530543-20131218141050/@comment-1874924-20131218152428


 * Because I don't want to end up nominated in a bunch of categories due to lack of other nominations

Especially since there probably won't be an award given in categories that don't have at least 2 nominations. There's no limit to how many nominations a category can have, but a category with more than 5 will probably be pared back to 5 via preliminary vote. That's what happened last time, if memory serves.

Other notes:


 * 1) "The Cockroach's Tale" has two chapters, so you'll have to pick one.
 * 2) It's hard to say whether Sprink wanted "Blonde Date" deleted as well. You can make good arguments either way, and I haven't been able to get confirmation from him, so I decided to leave it unless/until I hear contrary instructions.
 * 3) I was considering nominating TDI:FYE's cast, and making nominations for that story in other categories as well, but I wanted a little more certainty about its future.
 * 4) Failure to nominate "Violet Hill" doesn't surprise me. It's a sentimental favorite, but it's simply not as well written as some of the others--a shortcoming that the author himself has long acknowledged. ("Back to Good", which you also nominated, is a more mature work by the same author.) The author is also long gone, and "out of sight, out of mind" is a strong force in the nominating process.