Wentworth Miller

Welcome to the Submission Guidelines for Wentworth Miller.

I have been receiving a lot of submissions for Wentworth Miller recently and unfortunately many of them have still been lacking in the basics!
Too many of the submissions have had bad spelling and grammar mistakes.
Some have even lacked basic structure and formatting.
Below you will find a list of basic submission guidelines to follow when submitting - take these in and you shouldn't have any problems - but, if after informing you of what to improve and you still don't - I will reject.

Trivia

Trivia should be obscure but interesting.
Keep in mind that not all readers may be fans of the person, and submitting 30 Trivia items is often as bad as submitting none.
Trivia should typically be about the person you’re submitting for.
Unless it has a direct bearing on the person’s life, what their mother, grandfather, dentist, etc., did is not acceptable.

Whenever possible, all related material should be combined into a single submission.
This refers primarily to brief one-line items.
This includes but is not limited to: movies and roles, sporting statistics and awards, physical description, family members, discographies, and favorites.

Quotes

Quotes should be interesting and give the readers insight about the person’s life, values, beliefs, etc.
As with Trivia, submitting 30 Quotes is often as bad as submitting none.

Quotes can be cut-n-pasted for the purposes of accuracy, and as copyright law does not cover public statements.

Q&A-type interviews belonging to web sites, magazines, etc., in part or in whole, are not acceptable.
Wholesale cut-n-paste from another site's copyrighted database is also not acceptable.

Quotes should ideally be formatted to tv.com standards.
The name is bolded using HTML start and end tags, the colon is not. At least one space follows the colon.
The quotation itself is not in quotation marks.
Contextual material is italicized and separated from the bulk of text using brackets or parentheses.
However, if another format is already in use on the page, use that.

Quotes should be the person’s own words about their own life or someone who influenced their life.
Quotes from their TV shows and/or movies are typically not acceptable (see below).
Reviewer comments about the person are not acceptable.

Quotes from a person’s books, scripts, stand-up routines, stage performances, etc., are not acceptable except for one or two well-known quotes or catch phrases.
Provide context for the quote. An actor talking about “he,” “she,” “my show,” etc., means nothing to most readers.
Below is an example of Unacceptable & Acceptable quote formations.

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Unacceptable: Wentworth Miller: He is my idol and inspiration.
Acceptable: Wentworth Miller (about George Washington): He is my idol and inspiration.
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Cut n Paste material

As per Terms of Use, all material submitted unless otherwise noted must be the contributor’s own content, and stated in their own words.
If the bulk of at least one sentence can be found on another site using a search engine, the submission will be rejected.

Provide a specific source for all material. If there is a URL, provide the complete URL (rather than just "wikipedia"). Stick to facts about the person’s life, not yours or anyone else’s opinions.

Don’t use exclamation marks on Trivia and Biography entries.

Alternately, if you’re citing a source for a commonly held opinion, provide that source.
Below is an example of Unacceptable and Acceptable trivia items.
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Unacceptable: Wentworth Miller is the richest actor in the world.
Acceptable: As of 2007, Wentworth Miller is the richest actor in the world, as stated in Forbes: Richest Actor List (2007).
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 Please don't "chance it" by submitting things (that you know) break the rules, either.

All of the above information has been adapted from the official tv.com person submission guidelines which can be found in the "Ask the editors" board.

I have a fairly moderate tolerance level to dealing with submissions - if it contains errors, I will correct. If it contains too many, I won't.

You know what to do now so I hope I don't have any more problems!

Thanks,
KraigA.