{"id":2554,"date":"2008-07-04T20:34:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animefanlistings.org\/updates\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2008-07-04T20:34:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:34:13","slug":"characters-group-rule-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/2008\/07\/2554\/","title":{"rendered":"Characters: Group Rule Revision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a general category announcement to inform all future applicants of a revision to the Characters Group Rule. This is not a change, persay, more of a stricter definition for the rule itself &#8211; it is strongly encouraged for everyone who is potentially interested in applying for a character group to take note of these new guidelines to avoid confusion\/potential rejection of applications.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li class=\"fluff\"><strong>Character Groups<\/strong> will only be considered if they fit the following criteria. Any application that does not follow the below guidelines will be immediately disregarded.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fluff\">Series: Characters Of, Series: Female Characters of, Bishounen Characters, Chibi Characters or any other application of this nature will <strong>NOT<\/strong> be accepted. Do not send them in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fluff\">Character groups will only be considered if the group cannot be broken down into single characters or if they are part of a defined unit that is <strong>officially<\/strong> recognized, has voluntary membership, and whose members remain relatively consistent.\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fluff\"><strong>Example:<\/strong> Sports Teams or Music groups (i.e. S-Oke Orchestra from <em>Nodame Cantabile<\/em> or Higa Chuugaku Tennis Club from <em>Tennis no Oujisama (Prince of Tennis)<\/em>) would be acceptable.<\/li>\n<li class=\"fluff\"><strong>Example:<\/strong> Defined units officially recognized (i.e. Order of the Black Knights from <em>Code Geass<\/em> or Bad Luck from <em>Gravitation<\/em>) would be acceptable.<\/li>\n<li class=\"fluff\"><strong>Example:<\/strong> Unofficial, varied membership (i.e. Team Kakashi\/Yamato &amp; Team Hebi\/Hawk of <em>Naruto<\/em> or Night Class of <em>Vampire Knight<\/em>) would <strong>NOT<\/strong> be acceptable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fluff\">Family groups and types of characters (vampires, shinigami, etc.) will <strong>NOT<\/strong> be accepted and should not be applied for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li class=\"fluff\">If a group is specifically named, it can be considered for approval, but will be evaluated\/discussed before a final decision is reached by the category staffer.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These updates are effective immediately and the rules for applying to both Characters categories have been updated accordingly. Should you have any further questions, please feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animefanlistings.org\/contactus.php\" target=\"_blank\">contact<\/a> me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a general category announcement to inform all future applicants of a revision to the Characters Group Rule. This is not a change, persay, more of a stricter definition for the rule itself &#8211; it is strongly encouraged for everyone who is potentially interested in applying for a character group to take note of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characters-0-m","category-characters-n-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animefanlistings.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}