Nominations information

[worldbuildingmod]

The tag set is now open for nominations (slightly ahead of schedule).

You have 5 fandom slots and for each fandom, 7 character slots and 5 "relationship" slots, used for worldbuilding elements.

Please read the following information carefully before you begin nominating; I would be very grateful if everyone can format their nominations in line with these guidelines, to minimise the amount of clean up I need to do later. I am hoping not to encounter the issues reported by other exchanges recently with the approval and editing interface, but I would rather make things as straightforward as possible on the back-end in case there are problems.

Please ignore the instruction on the nominations page to choose the canonical tag if available. This is hard-coded in the AO3 interface and I cannot change it, but in most cases canonical tags will not be the correct ones for our purposes. (They are more likely to wander than others, for one thing.)

Fandoms

• Almost all fandoms are eligible, as are Original Works. There are no notability requirements.
  
• RPF is not eligible -- see here.
  
• Crossovers between different canons are not eligible, unless the crossover took place within canon. In these cases, a separate fandom nomination should be made of the crossed over canons. It may be helpful to contact the mod with evidence of the existence of the crossover if it is not easily google-able.
  
• Please nominate fandoms in a way that makes clear the scope of the canon material that is fair game for the creator to draw on. It is fine if this means that fandoms overlap with one another, and if fandoms end up in "Uncategorized Fandoms" because we're using non-AO3-canonical names.
  
• Please check already approved tags to see if someone has already nominated the fandom you want with a slightly different naming format.
  

Characters

• Please include "Any or No Characters" and "Original Character(s)" as character tags for any fandom you nominate, unless they are already in the tag set. (Being able to include these is the reason for the two extra character slots compared with the other categories.)
  
• "Any or No Characters" replaces last year's "No Characters" and is used in sign ups to express willingness to receive/create works where worldbuilding is the primary focus. (If you choose this tag in your offer, you will be able to DNW the appearance of certain characters in your sign up.)
  
• Canon characters, characters implied to exist by canon but not directly depicted, and specific original characters in the setting are all OK.
  
• Please disambiguate all nominated tags (including "Any or No Characters" and "Original Character(s)" with the name of the fandom in brackets afterwards, e.g. "Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)". You may use abbreviations in the disambiguation, so long as they are clear. If you are nominating in an already-approved fandom, please try to use the same disambiguation as the already-approved tags.
  

Worldbuilding elements

• Worldbuilding elements are nominated in the "Relationship" field, with the prefix "WB: " (this is a change from last year's "Worldbuilding: "), e.g. "WB: Goblin rebellions (Harry Potter - all media)".
  
• Please do not nominate actual relationships in the format A/B or A&B. The name "Relationship" is hard-coded in AO3, but we are using that field for worldbuilding elements.
  
• Worldbuilding elements should be things that it would be reasonable for a creator to extrapolate about from existing information in canon. Note that most types of AU are not covered by this, so please do not nominate ideas for mundane, magical realism, etc. AUs as worldbuilding tags. (auexchange is probably what you're looking for for this sort of thing.) Canon-divergent AUs that exist within canon (e.g. Star Trek's mirrorverse) are fair game. It is also fine to request canon-divergent AUs in your optional details.
  
• Please disambiguate all nominated tags with the name of the fandom in brackets afterwards, as for characters.
  

Browsing last year's tag set may or may not make some of these points clearer.

Please note that fandoms that are nominated with significant problems (e.g. actual relationships nominated instead of worldbuilding tags) may have to be rejected so that other approvals can proceed. I will give at least 48 hours' notice before doing this so that nominators have a chance to adjust their nominations.

Any questions, do ask, either by commenting here or emailing worldbuildingmod@gmx.com