Rules and Regulations for
The Wooden Rocket Awards 2004.

These rules form part of the annual constitution of the WRA and are considered binding to any member, applicant or voter in the awards. These rules and regulation are open to amendment at any point and without notice by the Ruling Committee of the WRA. Such changes shall be flagged on this page.

1. Sites submitted must have they majority of their content written in the English language for all categories bar the Best Foreign Language site category (where English is not allowed) and the Best Artist site category.
   
2. Any individual who meets the qualification to vote as laid down in these rules is eligible to vote once only, and in that vote, nominate only one site for each category.
   
3. The Ruling Committee of the WRA have the sole right to disqualify any site it deems appropriate from participating in the awards. Its decision in this matter is final.
   
4. The Ruling Committee of the WRA have the sole right to disqualify any vote it deems appropriate from being registered towards the awards vote count. Its decision in this matter is final.
   
5. No site with pornographic, race hate, religious hate or other unsuitable content will be allowed to enter the awards.
   
6. No site with a history of spamming or other antisocial conduct likely to bring the awards into disrepute will be allowed to enter.
   
7. Votes made for sites in categories which they are not appropriate for will be disregarded. No re-vote will be allowed for any individual incorrectly submitting sites to the wrong category.
   
8. Any site where the majority of its votes are made in a fraudulent manner will be instantly disqualified from entering the awards in any current or future year. The WRA committee reserve the right to flag the behavior of fraudulent sites on this site and its related publications.
   
9. As a sponsoring party for the awards, SFcrowsnest.com is not eligible to be voted for or enter any of the categories of the Wooden Rocket awards.
   
10. No site owned by any Committee Member of the WRA or staff member of SFcrowsnest.com or their relatives will be considered eligible for entry into the Wooden Rocket awards.
    
11. Existing award categories can be removed by a majority decision by the WRA Committee at its annual meeting.
    
12. New categories for the awards can be created by a majority decision of the WRA Committee at its annual meeting.
    
13. Sites hosted on free web hosting packages which propagate hostile pop-ups which cannot be closed down (alias circle jerks) are not eligible for entry into the awards.
    
14. The awards are made on a first-past-the-post system. The award winner for each category will be the site with the most votes from eligible users when the vote is closed on July 5th 2004. Sites which make it into the second and third positions for most voted for sites in each category shall be considered Wooden Rocket Award Runners-up.
    
15. Category winners will be permitted to use the Wooden Rocket Award Winner 2004 badge for the appropriate category on their site. Category nominees will be permitted to use the Wooden Rocket Award Nominee 2004 badge for the appropriate category on their site. License of the Wooden Rockets Award's intellectual property is granted and limited only to this purpose.
    
16. Sites which own their own domain name will be judged by the content on their top level home page. E.g. if the URL http://www.fictional-sf-site.com/directory/links/web.htm is nominated, it is the URL http://www.fictional-sf-site.com/ which will be evaluated for the category. This rule is waived if the site has over 1000 pages of meaningful content (as verified by SFcrowsnest's search engine web crawler), in which case sections of the same site will be considered for different categories.
    
17. It is considered within the scope of these rules that sites can highlight the existence of the awards to their users and encourage them to vote - but sites shall in no way be permitted to encourage their users towards fraudulent activity such as multiple voting.
    
18. These awards shall be governed by English law in the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom.

Award Categories

Best Online Magazine
Any online SFF magazine which doesn't have a print version.

Best Print-to-Web Magazine
Any online SFF magazine which has a print version.

Best Author Site
Any web presence of an author published in printed novel form.

Best Artist Site
Any web presence of an individual illustrator or painter whose main focus is SFF.

Best Gallery Site
Any web presence of a gallery showcasing more than one artist's work.

Best Print Publisher Site
Any web presence supporting a SFF print publisher.

Best E-book Publisher Site
Any web presence supporting an e-book publisher.

Best E-book Site
Any web presence of an SFF author published only in e-book form.

Best Official Movie Site
Any studio-created site with a focus on a single SFF movie.

Best Fan Movie Site
Any fan-created site with a focus on a single SFF movie.

Best Official TV Site
Any studio-created site with a focus on a single SFF TV series.

Best Fan TV Site
Any fan-created site with a focus on a single SFF TV series.

Best Online SFF store
Any store selling SFF books, videos and merchandise.

Best Fan Site Home Page
Any SFF site created and maintained by an individual, focusing on their life and fandom activities.

Best Directory Site
Directories or search engines with a worthy SFF section.

Best Convention/Society Site
Sites that support an annual SFF event or a regional SFF society.

Best Foreign Language Site
Any SFF site not presented in the English language.