Baka-Tsuki:New Project Startup Guidelines

• About

• Project List

• Rules and Guidelines

• New Member Guide

• Wikicode

• Contact Us

This page is a DRAFT.

Please use caution. There many be inaccurate or incomplete material.

These Project Startup Guidelines apply to all new Baka-Tsuki projects, including alternative language projects and alternative media projects.

All Translation Projects

Project Proposal and Petitioning

• All new requests must have a discussion thread opened in the Future Project Suggestions forum, with the name of the novel (series) in the title.
• In the request thread, you must have a poll open, asking the public:

"Do you wish to see this Novel (series) Translated?"

Give the public these options:

• "I might try translating this"
• "Yes"
• "Not Really (Please give a reason)"
• "No (Please give a reason)"

• The Novel (Series) must be unlicensed for any official English publisher. You must clearly show that this is true, failure to do so could mean that a lot of effort would be put into it only for it to be pulled away. A very sad and unfortunate situation, that we really don't want to happen. So please please please check.

If possible have a Baka-Tsuki Staff Member verify it.

Creation of Project

• The discussion thread for the project must already exist in the Future Project Suggestions forum
• You must have the raw and also state the language it is in, so you are able to pass it on to a translator. You are required to find that translator yourself.
• You must contact a Wiki Supervisor by Email and P.M (optional) with a link to the Forum post of the requested Series.
• When you do receive confirmation, you must POST the name of the Supervisor who approved you, to ensure all Baka-Tsuki Staff Members are aware of it. Supervisors should:
  1. Send a copy of your Email approval with the original request to the Big Boss (thelastguardian) to inform him of the new project.
• After that, proceed with the following actions:
  1. A new Project Page should be created. Refer to Project Page Format Guidelines.
  2. Add the Template, Warning ATP to the top of the Project Page.

Note that there's a time limit as per Warning ATP.

Approval to Full Project

Requirements

• At least one or more chapters of a volume must be fully translated.(This is something pending to be changed.)
• You MUST have a willing Translator who must register on this forum, and verify in a written post that they will take up the project. That verified Baka-Tsuki translator will only have to post a confirmation that they are willing to take up the series.
• A Project Supervisor must be named. By default, if there is only one Project Translator, he/she is assumed to be the Project Supervisor.

Protocol

• After you have fulfilled the above points, you must contact a Wiki Supervisor by Email and P.M (optional) with a link to the Project Page of the requested Series.
• Supervisors should:
  1. Send an email to the Big Boss (thelastguardian) to inform him of the new full project.
  2. Contact a member of the Custodial Staff (ie: Onizuka-gto), and they will protect the page as well as remove the ATP tag.

Teaser Projects

A process parallel to the general process above. Teaser projects are aimed providing excerpts to garner interest.

• Things required:
  1. A simple project page. (eg. Just the synopsis and the link to the excerpt is sufficient.)
  2. An translated portion of the novel.

Original Light Novel Projects

See Original Light Novels

References

1. All Projects Startup Guidelines
2. Guidelines for Project Petition ~Essential Read~
3. Novel Teaser initiative