Nominations queries #2

[worldbuildingmod]

I was going to try to give it 24 hours between queries posts, but there's enough I want to ask about to be worth doing another one earlier than that.

Queries in approved fandoms

• Doctor Who - I have approved this but am now doubting myself and want to check I am on the same page as the nominator about the scope; I would take the use of this broad tag as applying to everything ever put out as official Doctor Who in any medium, not just TV. If that isn't what's intended, please speak up and I will adjust it.
  
• Exalted - I have approved this but, as above, want to check about the scope. As it is now, I would see this as giving the creator a choice of using either edition, or blending elements from both. If this isn't what the nominator intended, please say what it should be moved to.
  
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - I have approved this fandom under the canonical tag, but sadly some of the nominated tags have been swallowed by AO3 between one stage of the approvals process and the next. I am hoping they will eventually reappear, but in case they don't, it would be very helpful if the nominator could provide a link to their nominations page. This would be in the form http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/2208/nominations/vwxyz where vwxyz is a string of numbers. Thank you. (This can be completely anonymous - there is no identifying information shown, and only tag set maintainers can access the link.)
  

Queries in not-yet-approved fandoms

• Rivers of London - WB: Genius Locai - is this a typo for "Genius Loci", or is the plural intended, in which case I think it should be "Genii Locorum".
  
• Star Wars - Movies Only - WB: Jedi Agri Corps - I'm struggling to find any evidence that this is referenced anywhere within the movies. If it isn't, it isn't necessarily something it's reasonable to extrapolate from the information provided within the nominated fandom. Please either provide evidence of at least a mention of it, change the nomination to something else, or re-nominate in a broader fandom tag.
  
• Call the Midwife - since this series is based on an autobiography, I think it has the same problems of "worldbuilding" being discussion of the real world that are behind RPF not being eligible. I am willing to be convinced by a good argument, but at the moment I don't see that this is really within the scope of the exchange.
  

Harry Potter

Based on the nominations people have submitted at this stage, I would like to propose the following split:

• Harry Potter - Books 1-7 - this would be just the books, with epilogue-compliance left for optional details
  
• Harry Potter - Cursed Child - this would be the play, and by implication the books (including the epilogue) as well, since it is a sequel to them
  
• Harry Potter - Wizarding World - this would be the most expansive tag, covering everything ever put out about the Potter universe in whatever format
  
• Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore) - this would be the same as the above, but excluding any information that can only be found on the Pottermore website
  

I will wait 24 hours and then start approving Harry Potter tags according to this scheme; this will give people time to move their current nominations if they need to. There does not seem to be a great appetite for a Movies Only tag here as far as I can see, but people can create one if they want.

General

• In some fandoms, some or all of the worldbuilding tags seem to me to be more about character traits or relationship dynamics, rather than worldbuilding in and of itself. I am not convinced that things like "Found Family", "Alcoholism", etc. in modern-day settings without significant fantastical elements are really within the scope of the exchange. I am willing to be convinced on a case-by-case basis, but will not be approving these without the nominator providing some reasoning for why they would lead to requests that would be sufficiently distinctive from the sort of thing that could be requested in the many character- and/or relationship-focused exchanges out there. Without such evidence, these fandoms may have to be rejected. Leverage in particular is currently in danger of falling victim to this.
  
• Quite a few fandoms have not yet been approved because they do not have the two "default" Character tags of "Any or No Characters (Fandom)" and "Original Character(s) (Fandom)" nominated. Last year, as the nominations process went on, I did start adding these behind the scenes as extra tags to avoid having to reject fandoms with other valid tags nominated. Sadly, I am not really in a position to do the same this time round, as the AO3 interface is running much more slowly, and so what was previously the work of moments would become very time-consuming if I was doing it for large numbers of fandoms. Please adjust your nominations to include these two characters (if you have used all of your slots, you will have to sacrifice some of your currently chosen characters, sorry).
  
• Please note the changes to formatting of tags compared to last year: "No Characters" is now "Any or No Characters", and "Worldbuilding:" is now "WB:". Where these are the only issues, I am fixing them as I go, but if your nominations use the old formats and I haven't got to them yet, it would be extremely helpful if you could change them yourselves.
  
• Please disambiguate all nominated tags, even if it means not using the suggested AO3 canonical on the nominations page.
  

Comments

[wnnb_darklord]

For Star Trek: TNG

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/2208/nominations/74913

[worldbuildingmod]

Very helpful, thank you!

I've added them manually; they're definitely in the tag set (though still unassociated at the moment). I think your nominations screen may well continue to show them as ?!, and I may end up having to reject the ones that did make it half-way through the process at some later point.

[worldbuildingmod]

Hi again,

Your tags will appear rejected now (they finally reappeared but only after I had done them the other way, and I needed to get them off the approvals screen in case anyone else nominates more TNG tags) but I promise they are all still in the tag set!

Sorry for any confusion.

[wnnb_darklord]

As long as they're there, I'm happy :D Thanks for getting them in!

[raininshadows]

I'm the Exalted nominator. There's three editions, although the third doesn't have much material out that touches on what I nominated - I was hoping for, as you described, something that allows the author to work from whichever edition they want to.

[worldbuildingmod]

Ah, I'm out of date. Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Rivers of London - WB: Genius Locai - is this a typo for "Genius Loci", or is the plural intended, in which case I think it should be "Genii Locorum".

A typo for Genius Loci that it AO3 says I've fixed - http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/2208/nominations/74943

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks! I can see it on my end now; might be a little while before it pops up for me again though. (I get a random selection, and the screen on which I have it is one where I've already approved more than it can probably handle.)