What we're doing here is nominations and everyone is open to nominate whoever he feels like provided the user passes the criteria of the OP. From what I understand what we're looking to award here is newbie award meaning the person must not be some professional or have perfectly written english before you consider them as perfect nominees. This is a forum and provided you can communicate to a certain level of understanding that's fine. Besides you're a newbie, you can improve over time.

At the end, It all boils down to who wins and not who got nominated, there isn't some dictatorship system here that we must agree to a certain school of thought. The pool is open for newbies from all area of the forum, from the technical aspects to the average discussion creators. We all have individual that have caught our attention this year and seen how impressively they have grown on the forum.

To make this interesting more nominations should come in not minding where the newbie is coming from, provided they meet the criteria of the OP then the best man wins.