The Sims Wiki:News team

The News Team is a group of The Sims Wiki editors that have agreed to volunteer their time and writing talents to write our weekly news blogs and other news features.

How to volunteer
Although there is no strict requirement for joining the News Team, we do expect that News Team members are:
 * able to write and communicate fluently in English,
 * able to commit to writing complete news blogs,
 * willing to volunteer to write news blogs, and
 * to follow through with completing those writing tasks.

If you feel you meet these criteria, please sign your name on the Volunteer Sign-up list below. We will review your application, including reviews of your wiki contributions, and inform you of our decision.

Standards for the News Team
Generally, we publish our weekly news blog on Thursdays (based on UTC, not local time/date). Special blogs about new game features, other Sims, or Wiki news can be written on days other than Thursday, but please don't write news blogs for minor occurrences.

There is no absolute standard on the appearance of the weekly blogs. However, as these blogs have been released, a unified visual appearance and layout has materialized. For examples of the theme, see this, this, and this. The following are generally repeated standards for each news blog.
 * Each blog is titled with 'User blog:/The Sims Wiki News - date Month year'. The date is listed as a number, and is given an ordinal suffix (e.g. 11th, 21st, 22nd), and the month and year are both given fully.
 * The blogs usually use a green border and white background, and a green rounded header at the top of the page.
 * The blogs generally use the same section headers, including a section on 'Sims News' and 'The Sims Wiki News'. Other sections can be included as the situation warrants.
 * The blogs are signed by the users that post them.
 * The Follow us template is added to the end of the blog.
 * The blogs are included in Category:Blog posts/Wiki News. Even if the blog covers other realms of news, only place it in the wiki news category.

Current members of the News Team
Presently, these users are considered News Team members.