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Submission guidelines

A community-led website such as The Modern Antiquarian requires a certain amount of responsibility from its contributors. These guidelines are given as an indication of what will be deemed acceptable contributions.

Primary Concerns

The Modern Antiquarian focuses on megalithic sites and the ancient (i.e. prehistoric) landscape. This means we are not interested in Roman sites, Dark Ages sites, churches etc. unless they have clear prehistoric provenances (and you are prepared to tell us about them).

Post Responsibly

Wherever possible, back up your assertions and supply references for your quotations.

Avoid chatty exchanges in your posts (you can use the per-site discussion forums for this purpose).

If your post becomes redundant (for example, if someone posts a similar image of a site that is undeniably better than one you have posted) please consider removing yours. Likewise, if information comes to light that shows up errors in your posts, please edit them accordingly.

The Modern Antiquarian editors will periodically trawl through the site looking for errors and will edit or remove posts when necessary. This pruning takes place to ensure that the site remains lean and manageable, so please do not be offended if a post belonging to you is removed.

Please keep weblog entries on-topic, and factual (i.e. no fictional or satirical submissions). Similiarly, while some linking to external websites is appropriate, please do not use the The Modern Antiquarian to excessively advertise your own website or promote commercial activities.

Above all, think in terms of signal and noise. Avoid posting if, when it comes down to it, you have nothing new to add.

Submission types

• News

  Keep news items newsworthy and on-topic. Whenever possible link to stories in the press clearly indicating where the link leads to. Individual experiences at a site are usually not news, but should be posted as Fieldnotes.

  If your news item concerns a particular site, locate that site and add your news item there. If, however the news item concerns the whole of the UK, Ireland and/or beyond, add it under General News.

• Images

  Avoid posting images that are largely similar to existing images, unless they are objectively better quality.

  Do not post images if you do not have explicit permission from the copyright-holder to do so.

  Inappropriate/irrelevant images (e.g. little or no megalithic content) will be removed.

• Fieldnotes

  Whilst you are invited to use the fieldnotes facility to record your own personal experience of a site, please try and balance accounts of your personal exerience (vibes, weather etc.) with information and observations that may be useful to subsequent visitors.

• Folklore

  Recount tales to the best of your abilities and provide references for your quotations wherever possible

• Miscellaneous

  Post under this category if your information doesn't easily fit into the other areas.

• Links

  First find the most appropriate level at which to post your link. e.g. If your link concerns only a specific site or region, add the link to that site or region's page.

  Duplicate links or links to commercial sites with no redeeming relevance will be removed.

• Blog

  Users often return from fieldtrips and upload a shower of posts and images. TMA's blog allows users to add a narrative to their posts, collating them into one cohesive document. A good use of this would be to document a megalithic holiday or day trip, showing to other users what is achievable within a certain time period or to write an essay concerning aspects of several sites, linking to the evidence.

  The blog can also be used to document non-site specific megalithic findings, thoughts, theories etc.

Disclaimers

While the editors of this site will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every post. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to this site express the views and opinions of the author and not the editors or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable. You also accept that consequently some posts may be unsuitable for minors.

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