Our motto is "a marketplace of ideas". As such, we welcome a variety of articles on any subject under the sun, especially those with relevance to the Nigerian and African condition.

However, there must be methods even in this marketplace and as such; we recommend that would-be writers observe the following guidelines on articles:

 

1. Articles must meet the normal grammatical standard of written English, including the use of correct punctuation and spelling. Articles that fall way short of the standard, but which in the opinion of the NVS Editorial team still deserve to be published for reasons other than grammar or presentation shall be edited by one or more of the NVS Editors to meet the acceptable standard.

2. They should strive to be accurate where names, places and dates of events are mentioned.

3. They should be broken up into easily readable paragraphs marked with clear space in between. Please review our formatting rules and guidelines here

4. Do not post content which you've copied from someone else and don't own the copyright. They should be original. However, relevant quotations from other sources may be included, as long as they are clearly marked as such. Plagiarized materials are not welcome and where unknowingly published, the author takes full responsibility for this and could be open to legal action for loss of reputation from the NVS. Content that is not acceptable includes news stories (except where the story is high impact and has just broken or is an exclusive) and newspaper editorials.

5. They should as much as possible refrain from personal insults and gratuitously inciting ethnic or group hatred.

6. They should be roughly at least 750 words long.

7. Where the article that is being posted is a rejoinder to another article, it should contain links or specific references to the original article to enable readers to refer to this original article.

8. Formatting: 

• Please adhere to the default fonts of the site. 
•  Please keep the introtext to no more than one paragraph of no more than 30 words.
•  Break articles up into readable paragraphs
• Use Title Case For The Titles Of Your Articles .

9. Please review our 'Submitting Articles' guide. In particular, please note that you will need to:

 

1. Register: If you are an author who has written an article that you wish to submit to NVS, you first need to register (if you haven't done so already). To register, please go here:  http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/board/register.php

 

2. Email us for Upgrade: After registering, please let us know that you wish to be an author by emailing us at articles@nigeriavillagesquare.com. In your mail, please include the username that you registered with. This is so that we can upgrade your status to that of an Author. Also, attach your first article to this email.

If you do not get a response within a few days, you may also try posting your request on this thread:

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/how-to-submit-articles-to-the-nvs.html

Please note that we now require all new authors to use their real names when submitting articles.

 

Observance of these guidelines will greatly increase the writer's chance of being published. The Nigerian Village Square however is under no obligation to publish any work submitted.

The Nigerian Village Square also reserves the right to edit submitted articles so that they do not violate the guidelines above. Authors who wish for their articles to be withdrawn as a result of such edition may contact us. 

Thank you, and welcome to NVS.

Robot  Villager

# 1 ...Read the full article. Posted by Robot| 17.02.2008 05:19