Nominations queries #3

[worldbuildingmod]

As of 2030 UTC on Sat 6th Jan, I have approved everything that I am currently able to; some recently-approved tags remain to be associated and I will do that shortly.

There are already over 100 fandoms in the tag set (last year, the final count was 233). A huge thank you to everyone who has been following the nominations guidelines carefully; this really does streamline the work required on my end a great deal, and I am genuinely very grateful for the help.

Already approved tags

Tags moving between categories

It is extremely helpful when nominators double check that their character tags are in the "Character" fields and their worldbuilding tags are in the "Relationship" fields before submitting the nomination form, as I have no way at all of seeing on the approval interface which category individual tags have been nominated in. I have just found a very small number of worldbuilding tags that the tag set thinks are "characters". My understanding is that once a tag has been created, even non-canonically, an identical tag can never exist in another category anywhere on AO3, so I have had to make some minor adjustments in moving these into the right category. Hopefully they don't change the meaning, but if there is a problem with any of them please let me know.

• "WB: A Magician's Apprenticeship (Bartimaeus)" has become "WB: Magical Apprenticeship (Bartimaeus)"
  
• "WB: History of the Czech Empire (Bartimaeus)" has become "WB: Czech Empire History (Bartimaeus)"
  
• "WB: Holistic identities (Dirk Gently TV 2016)" has become "WB: Holistic identity (Dirk Gently TV 2016)"
  
• "WB: Geography and Maps (SSSS)" has become "WB: Geography & Maps (SSSS)"
  
• "WB: The Dreamworld (SSSS)" has become "WB: Dreamworld (SSSS)"
  

Scope of approved fandoms

• Dragon Age (Video Games) and Dragon Age: Inquisition - I am assuming that the first of these implicitly includes the second, but the second is there as a separate fandom for those who want things based only on that game
  
• His Dark Materials - EDITED: by the wishes of all nominators so far, this is just the three books Northern Lights (aka The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. (I had previously been assuming that this was a broad tag including all works in the same unimultiverse. If others do want to nominate such a tag, I would suggest "His Dark Materials & Related Fandoms" or something similar.)
  
• MCU - I will be taking this to include all the various TV shows (Netflix and AoS)
  
• Star Wars Legends - All Media Types - this is very broad - the entirety of the old EU; I would advise people offering this fandom to be sure they have looked at the requests their offered tags might match to
  

If these interpretations are not what the nominators intended, please say so!

Still awaiting approval

The lists below explain why the small number of currently outstanding nominations have not yet been approved.

Incomplete nominations

The following fandoms do not have the two default character tags of "Any or No Characters (Fandom)" and "Original Character(s) (Fandom)" nominated. Once these tags are added, they will be approved:

• Stargate SG-1
• Stargate Atlantis
• Stargate Universe

(Anyone with spare slots can add the needed tags if they want to see these fandoms in the tag set, it doesn't have to be the original nominator. This list was significantly longer when I started preparing this post, but several fandoms have been rescued from it by further nominations being made by people who did include the default tags.)

Unclear worldbuilding relevance

It is not clear to me that the tags nominated for the following fandoms are really within the scope of this exchange. After 48 hours have passed from the time of this post, these fandoms will be in danger of being rejected unless more clearly relevant tags are added, or convincing arguments presented for the inclusion of the current ones.

• Call the Midwife - currently nominated tags: 1950's, 1960's, Families of Choice, Roommates, Secret Relationships - my issue here is that this is too close to discussion of the real world to really count
  
• Leverage - currently nominated tags: Alcoholism, Aliases, Dark Past, Polyamory, Team as Family - these seem like character/relationship prompts more than worldbuilding ones
  

Additionally, there are a handful of other fandoms (iZombie and two Power Rangers fandoms) with a mixture of tags that are clearly worldbuilding and others which are more character/relationship focused. I have approved the characters and the unambiguous worldbuilding tags and left the others undecided for now. These tags will also be in danger of being rejected after 48 hours have passed, unless convincing arguments are provided for their inclusion. Alternatively, the nominator(s) can swap them for other worldbuilding tags if they wish.

Waiting to hear from nominator

• Star Wars - Movies Only - I am still not clear that "Jedi Agri Corps" is a reasonable worldbuilding tag to extrapolate from the specified canon. If I don't hear anything in the next 48 hours, I will approve the other tags and reject this particular one.
  

Mod availability

I am travelling tomorrow, so will be only spottily online at best, but I'll be back in action on Monday.