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PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT ARTICLES OR ADS DIRECTLY BY E MAIL! Also, do not submit an article or ad simply by replying to an issue of the Baja Western Onion you received. We get over 100 E mails a day associated with our business and other intersts. We simply don't have the time it would take to reformat all of the articles that are sent to us each week, and most likely your article sent by E mail will be overlooked and/or forgotten. Instead, please use the Article Submission Form found on this web site. The submission form automatically formats your article and groups it with our other submissions, thereby saving us a lot of work and helping to ensure your article won't be overlooked.

Here is a Step-by-Step explanation of how to submit an Ad or Article:

1. Open your browser and Click Here to go to http://www.bajawesternonion.com/submitarticle.asp
   
2. Enter a title for your article or Ad in the "Title" box. Please limit it to no more than 100 characters.
   
3. Enter your question, article or ad in the "Please Enter Your Article or Ad" box. If you like, you can simply copy and paste your text from Word, Notepad, or an E mail. Please keep it short, preferably less than 200 words.
   
4. Enter the name, phone number, E mail address, location, and a web site that you want to have associated with the article (strictly optional, this information will automatically be added to the end of your submission if you want.)
   
5. Enter any comments you would like to send us, again strictly optional. Comments will not be included with your article. If you want an image to appear with your article, please include a link to the hosted image and we'll see what we can do to include it. Please see our FAQ on Can I Submit an Image, Graphic or Picture With My Article or Ad? for more information.
   
6. Enter the Security Code you see in the image near the bottom. If you cannot read the Security Code, click the "Load New Code" link until you get a code you can read.
   
7. Press the "Submit My Article or Ad" button.
   

TIP: If you get an error message that the security code you entered was incorrect, use your browser's "Back" button to return to the Submission Form and click the Load New Code link to get a new image. If you still have problems submitting this form, it may be because you have "cookies" disabled in your browser. Here is information on How To Enable Cookies in Your Browser.

Your submission will be reviewed for possible inclusion in the next issue. NOTE: Please be sure to include your phone and/or e mail so people know how to contact you. NOTE: To ensure inclusion, you must submit your articles or ads through the web site. Articles or ads sent directly to the Publisher or Editor by E mail will most likely be overlooked and not included.

No. This is a free service.

By Submitting an article or ad to the Baja Western Onion, you agree to abide by all our Editorial Policies:

1. Types of Articles - The format of the Baja Western Onion is not suited for posting long articles, "blogging," poetry, jokes, essays, editorial "opinion" pieces, stories, or other creative writing submissions. There are already many other venues on the internet and in our area better suited for this type of content.
2. Length of Articles - Out of consideration for our other readers and posters, please keep your articles short and to the point. Do not "shotgun" by including multiple topics in one article. Articles concerning only one topic are best. Any excessive, questionable, objectionable or inappropriate content may be edited or rejected.
3. Commercial Articles - Do not attempt to submit commercial or promotional ads that are disguised to appear as non commercial submissions. Do not include links to sites in "non-commercial" submissions that are not relevant to the topic of the submission. They will be removed.
4. Type of Content - The Baja Western Onion is not a public forum for political debate, or for posting personal disputes, opinions, "Hate Speech", "Witch Hunts," remarks that disrespect ethnicity, religion, race or gender, or articles that are intended simply to criticize, attack, challenge, intimidate, harrass or provoke others.
5. Submitter's Identity - Please do not submit articles as "Anonymous." Submitters will need to provide a good reason why their identity should be withheld. All articles submitted need to have valid contact information in case we need to follow up.
6. Criminal Accusations - In our goal to maintain fairness and neutrality for all, the Onion will not reprint any article that accuses anyone by name of committing any crime. The Publishers, Editors and readers of the Onion cannot be expected to sit as judge or jury to assess the guilt or innocence of any individual. If a crime has been committed, then the perpetrator's name should be reported to the police, not to the Onion.
7. Other Accusations - Please do not submit articles that accuse anyone by name of committing any wrongdoing, malfeasance or deception, or that contain anything that might be determined to damage or besmirch by name an individual's personal or professional character or reputation.
8. Names and Addresses - Please do not include the name(s), e mail addresses, phone numbers, or other contact information for any third party without their permission.
9. Responses and Retractions - If there is an issue with a factual misrepresentation of something that appeared in the Baja Western Onion, or if you have a dispute with someone, then we would expect the individuals involved to work it out among themselves and not attempt to thrash it out by way of posting articles or disputes in the Onion. The Publishers and Editors of the Baja Western Onion may, entirely at our option, choose to print a response to something that appeared in the Onion but we will not permit an ongoing dispute between individuals or groups to be published. We may also, entirely at our option, choose to print a retraction to any article that appears in the Baja Western Onion.
10. Copyrighted Materials - DO NOT submit copyrighted materials or images, reprints of copyrighted articles, or materials for which you do not have full ownership, without the explicit permission of the copyright owners. All Ads and Articles you submit become the property of the Baja Western Onion, and you grant unconditional rights for the Baja Western Onion to reprint or reuse the content thereof in any way it sees fit.
11. Free Speech - Finally, you do not have the "Right" to post anything you want in the Baja Western Onion, any more than you have the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater or spray graffiti on someone's home or business. The Baja Western Onion is a private concern, paid for entirely by its owners, and provided through volunteer efforts. Thus, we retain ALL rights to decide what goes into the Onion, whether you think it is fair or not, or whether you think of it as censorship. Readers who do not understand this point of ownership are invited to go to the considerable time and effort it takes to build their own web site and send their own newsletter however they see fit.

Violators of our editorial policies may be warned, or banned from our subscriber list altogether and their future submissions rejected.

All submissions will reviewed, and the decision to include or edit any submission is solely at the discretion of the Owner, Publisher, Editor and Staff of The Baja Western Onion. Our opinion of what is acceptable is final, and is not open to argument or petition.

We cannot automatically repeat ads for you. If you want an ad to appear more than once, you will need to resubmit it by way of the Article Submission Form or if you wish to Pay for advertising. Also, out of consideration for all our readers, we ask that you do not submit commercial ads more than once every 10 days. We wmay make exceptions to this if we feel the information submitted is time sensitive or useful to our readers. Our decision is final.

Multiple submissions regarding the same subject or community event may be rejected or consolidated into one submission, entirely at the option of the Editor and Publisher of the Baja Western Onion.

If you have an image hosted on another web server, you can submit a link to that hosted image in the Comments section of the Article Submission Form. We may include it if time allows. If you need us to upload and host an image for you, we can do so for a donation of $20. All images must be no larger than 300 by 300 pixels, and under 50 KB. file size. Links to larger images will be rejected. If you don't know how to edit image sizes, we can do this for you and include it in exchange for your donation of $20 for hosting the image on our servers. If you prefer to do it yourself, there are many resources and tools on the web that will help you to learn how to do so. Here is one site where you can do this for free: http://www.reducephoto.com/step1.asp.

Yes, but please note that you are responsible for paying and state or federal taxes that may be due on any items you sell.

Yes, but please note: Normally, the Baja Western Onion is primarily intended for non-commercial information and ads. Otherwise, each issue could fill up with the same commercial ads and become unreadable. Paid ad placement is available. Please visit our Advertising Page for more information on advertising opportunities. All commercial ads are subject to approval by the Editor and Publisher of The Baja Western Onion. Also, inclusion in the Community Calendar is strictly optional, and at the discretion of the Editor and Publisher of the Baja Western Onion.

Yes! We like to think of the Baja Western Onion as a community service not unlike public radio or TV. In the same way, the Onion depends on community involvement and support for its success. You can help cover a portion of the costs to provide this community service. Each month, we incur real, out-of-pocket expenses for the operation of the Baja Western Onion. In addition to the several hours of work we put in to edit and publish each issue, we also have to pay for:

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Please remember that the Baja Western Onion is a volunteer effort, and that we work very hard each week to bring the Baja Western Onion to you. We try to be fair and neutral to all, and to simply pass along useful information to our readers. But we are human and we make mistakes. Situations sometimes arise that we had not anticipated, and we sometimes have to update our policies to reflect that. Please feel free to send your comments to The Baja Western Onion .

• If there is a clear violation of a stated policy, please inform The Baja Western Onion .
• If you have an issue with someone who posted something you don't like, please take it up privately with that individual.
• If it's something for sale that was misrepresented by the seller, please take it up privately with that individual.
• If it's something that is factually incorrect, you may offer a polite clarification by way of your own article, as long as it doesn't violate any of our guidelines regarding submission content.

The staff of the Baja Western Onion cannot verify the truth or accuracy of any article or ad posted in the Onion, whether it's an alleged incident, someone's opinion about a service or business, or something advertised for sale or trade. "Caveat Emptor" applies here as well as anywhere. It is up to each reader to verify for themselves if something they read in the Baja Western Onion is true or not, and to act accordingly.

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