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Contributor's Guidelines
I've never had anyone ask to be published on this Web site, but if any of you want to appear on the site:
- My home page ("Entropy Acres - the Random Ramblings of Vance Frickey") is just for me, a personal forum in
which I express myself.
I do, however, have a site which started as a page on the home page, "Vance's Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Links," which others have asked to link to, and which has had better than 10,000 hits. I would consider outside
contributions to that site. My rules?
- I try to deal only in fact on my informational pages. I try not to link to sites which are full of BS (intentionally
or otherwise) because the only reason I started this site was to offer the public an alternative to all the hype and stupid
things which the press says about special weapons because they simply don't know any better. So be as factual and accurate
in your facts as you can.
- I am the editor of this Web site. It's OK for me to editorialize on my pages - but not for you. Deal with
it or start your own site.
- I don't knowingly link to sites that are mainly for selling things to people unless the informational value of the
site is so high that it's worth the risk of being associated with a commercial site.
- I reserve the right to make these and other judgments about what goes on my Web site and not to be fair
or consistent about it, and to change my mind at any time without notice.
- Please don't waste your time and mine by submitting articles or Web pages of a political nature. See what I said
about editorializing above.
If you can deal with these simple rules and any others I might come up with in the future while shaving, then
by all means drop me a line at vfrickey@technologist.com. I'd be happy to look at anything you'd care to submit.
I'm looking for new information on chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological weapons and warfare. If you think
I might be interested (I tape NOVA and Frontline episodes on special weapons like most other people tape Law and Order) then
send it to me.
HTML and text files are fine, pictures should be in .JPG (preferably, because of its compact file
size) or .GIF (I won't even consider bulkier formats such as .BMP or .TIF).
I can't pay you anything for your work. Rationally, your only incentive for putting stuff on my Web site is
the number of hits I get and the number of biological and chemical defense people who visit my site.
Accordingly, if you think that your work is valuable enough that another publication would pay you for it, I'd urge you
to try to get published for pay before sending stuff to me, to avoid compromising your copyright status (many countries figure
that anything on the Web is automatically in the public domain - in other words, "free").
All I ask is that you grant me a nonexclusive copyright to publish your work on my site - to make sure that I don't have
to sell a kidney to pay you royalties.
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