Four Leaf Fics:How to archive

If you are not the author of a work, but want to archive it on this site, bear in mind the following.

Overall
Most of what's said on "How to Submit" applies here. Ideally, you should ask permission from the author first, but they may not always be available and the risk of fics being deleted or lost without their knowledge can justify the choice to go ahead and add it anyway. We're not judging anyone here, so it's a matter between you and your conscience. But please be considerate of others- don't make any changes to the original work or try to claim that it's your own.

Linking
If you want to be polite about it, you may create a page that links to a fic instead of just dumping the whole thing. That link is likely to be to a google docs file or an AO3 link. This is because the author may not wish their work to be hosted here, or may still be actively updating their fic at that location.

The exception to this rule is fic dumped directly into a thread. Due to the transient nature of this, linking to it is impossible and hence it can be recreated here directly.

Tagging
Tagging is handled via mediawiki categories. A few types of tag are mandatory. If you fail to add these, someone will have to experience the misfortune of figuring out what they should be.

Rating Tags are Mandatory

Each fic has one of three possible ratings. When in doubt pick the higher rating.

Category:Safe - This content is tame enough that it would be suitable for just about anyone. Consider this the PG-13 rating. Violence may be present but only to a limited extent. Hard drug use shouldn't be present. Explicit content is right out.

Category:Questionable - This content is less tame. Consider this the Mature rating. Violence may be more prevalent. Hard drug use is permitted. Low level explicit content, such as sexual references, brief vaguely described sexual encounters and sexual attraction are OK.

Category:Explicit - This content is either outright pornographic, or contains extreme violence.

Other Tags that may be Mandatory

If a fic could be tagged with the following tags, they MUST be tagged with the following tags. This allows users to use the multi-category search as a blacklist for this content.


 * Category:Rape
 * Category:Bestiality
 * Category:Snuff
 * Category:Scat

More comprehensive tagging
While the above mandatory tags are the only things you are required to have, you should probably do better. The best way to connect readers with archived fics is accurate tagging. The author is likely to do a better tagging job than anyone else, but in the absense of that an archiver can assign the tags. Consider the following.


 * Author Name
 * Genre
 * Fetishes (if explicit)
 * A length tag
 * A board/thread tag
 * Website the link directs to
 * If not an original work, the names of the characters
 * If not an original work, the name of the media it is based upon

Full information on this can be seen here.

Works with multiple chapters, prequels or sequels
In the case of submitting a work with multiple chapters, sequels or prequels, you have two options. The first choice is to submit all the chapters on the same page. In this case, the tags must reflect the entire work. The second choice, and likely to be better in the case of works with sequels or prequels, is to submit each on a separate page and link them to each other. It is best to split a work into multiple chapters if the original author posted each chapter in separate locations, such as separate pastebins. If a work has varying rating tags over it's length, you need to specify the rating of each chapter alongside the link to it. You should follow the below formatting, and place this list onto every page for the work.


 * Part 1: chapter1 (Explicit)


 * Part 2: chapter2 (Questionable)


 * Part 3: chapter3 (Explicit)


 * Part 4: chapter4 (Questionable)