Tag set clean up

[worldbuildingmod]

EDIT: Please see this post for clarification requests. Tags with unclear validity may be deleted before sign ups open.

The tag set is now closed, with 272 fandoms, 1877 characters (1333 excluding the defaults) and 1573 worldbuilding tags.

I have gone with my best guess on the few remaining clarifications, and I believe I have dealt with any clean up issues that people have pointed out as we went along. (If I have missed something you have already told me about, please point it out again here.)

We now move into the clean up phase proper. For fandoms you nominated/are interested in offering or requesting/know, it would be really helpful if you could check for:

• Spelling errors etc.
  
• Redundant tags - e.g. this character is the same as that character under another name; these two worldbuilding tags are synonymous
  
• Validity - i.e. is there at least something in canon for this to be extrapolated from? (I have been checking that tags in fandoms I don't know personally seem sensible, mostly on wikia.com, but a few things may have slipped past me)
  
• Undisambiguated tags - i.e. ones that are missing "(Fandom)" after them. This isn't essential but it'd be nice for everything to be consistent.
  
• Missing tags - in the sense that you know you nominated it but now can't find it, or an equivalent I have merged it with. I hope there aren't any, but there were several occasions where the archive gave me an error message after approving tags and while I think they all made it through, I can't be 100% sure. If you do have this situation, providing a link to your nominations page would be very helpful.
  

Do feel free to let me know if you happen to spot any wandering tags, but please don't go to extra effort to search for them specifically, as I will be looking for them alongside creating the spreadsheet version of the tag set.

Speaking of wandering tags, I intend to deal with these by adding a "#" between the tag and the disambiguation; the extra character can be safely ignored on the participant end, it's just to make the tags stay put in the fandoms they're supposed to be in.

I will be accepting corrections and queries for the next 48 hours or so, after which I will be moving to finalise the tag set and get ready to open sign ups.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For Hunger Games (All Media Types) - "Cecilia (Hunger Games AMT)" should be "Cecelia (Hunger Games AMT)". I nominated without checking which spelling variant was used in Catching Fire and didn't realize my mistake until after it had gone through.

[worldbuildingmod]

Fixed now, thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

Mis-spelling: "First Order Propoganda" in Star Wars ST

Redundant character: "Russel Van Pelt" and "Van Pelt" in Jumanji

[worldbuildingmod]

Fixed the Propaganda one, good spot.

I let both Van Pelts through as my reading of Villains Wiki suggested to me that Van Pelt is from Jumanji (1995), and Russel Van Pelt is a slightly different version from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). But I haven't seen either film. Would it help to add to their disambiguation? Or are all the other tags 2017-version-only?

[espresso_addict]

It's very minor, but in Star Trek: Voyager & Star Trek: The Original Series there's a typo, 'Any of No Characters (Star Trek:...)'. Thanks for your work on this!

[morbane]

Same typo in Andromeda (TV).

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks! I *think* these are the only three with that particular issue, though they have sorted themselves up the alphabetical list along with "Any and No Character" and "Any or No Character(s)" so there's actually several more fixes it's revealed.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks! Fixed now.

[(Anonymous)]

For The Chronicles of the Kencyrath, the character Marcan "Marc" Long-Shanks should be Marcarn, with an R in there.

Thanks!

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks! That one's my fault, I think; I was adding or amending a disambiguation and must have made a typo.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I didn't notice this before, but it's still wrong: it's Marcarn, not Marcran.

[worldbuildingmod]

Argh. There's clearly some sort of blip somewhere between my eyeballs and my fingers with this particular name.

I think we'll have to live with it now that sign ups are open - although the risk that someone might be about to press Submit on a sign up using it when I'm fiddling with the tag set is minimal, it isn't zero. I don't think there's any other character the tag could be confused with, so we should be able to muddle through.

[lirin_lirilla]

Some typos I spotted while looking through the tagset:
-Caleb Altemoc (Cradt Sequence) [Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone]
-Any and No Characters (Discworld) [Discworld - Terry Pratchett]
-WB: Divine Objects (Divine Objects) [The Divine Cities Series - Robert Jackson Bennett; although I'm not familiar with this fandom I assume the disambig should be "Divine Cities" to match the others]
-WB: Handicrafts [missing ASOIAF disambig]

Also, this may be too messy to mess with at this point, but the "Any or No" and "Original" character tags for "Harry Potter - Wizarding World" and "Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore)" have their disambigs switched.

And two notes on Candy Land. "Mr. Mint | Duke of Swirl (Candy Land)" was nominated as one character, but apparently the character Duke of Swirl is a replacement in later versions of the game of the character Mr. Mint? (I'm going off of Wikipedia here as I've only played the old Duke-less version.) Considering that the rest of the characters in the fandom are nominated as single versions (e.g. Queen Frostine & Princess Lolly's royal status has changed from version to version but that's not touched on in the tags) it seems odd to me to combine what seems to be two separate characters here.
Also, I don't remember anything in Candy Land about Incoming Portals from other dimensions? That may just be my faulty memory, but I found a copy of "The Legend of the Lost Candy Castle" online and there's no mention of portals either there or on the gameboard so I'm not sure where else they would be unless they're only in very recent versions of the game.

[worldbuildingmod]

Oh, wow, thanks for being so thorough!

I'm hoping the HP ones are just a question of fixing the associations, if they're switched rather than duplicated. We'll see.

I think it's safest if I split the two characters in Candy Land. (It may be that the nominator was running out of slots?) I'm going to ask for clarification on the portals, though; as best I can tell from googling, this might be a stealthy reference to a Minecraft mod?

[morbane]

For Discworld - Terry Pratchett, the current tag is:
Any and No Characters (Discworld)

and it should be:
Any or No Characters (Discworld)


Marvel (Comics) does not have Original Character(s) (Marvel Comics)

[morbane]

Something slightly odd has happened with Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore) and Harry Potter - Wizarding World - the Original Character(s) and Any or No Characters tags have the opposite disambiguations to what should match their fandom.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks for all these! :) I'm hoping I can just switch the associations on the HP ones, but we'll see ...

[(Anonymous)]

This me being an idiot but in Harry Potter Wizarding World - No Pottermore, I nominated WB: Wizarding Non-UK Wizarding Education (Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore)). The first Wizarding is redundant and it should be WB: Non-UK Wizarding Education (Harry Potter - Wizarding World (No Pottermore))

In Harry Potter (Books 1-7), Orion Black (Harry Potter - Books 1-7) doesn't appear in the books and I think he is named on Pottermore not in the books. WB: Political Workings of the Wizengamot (Harry Potter - Books 1-7) is the request about the politics of the British Wizarding government or the judiciary because fanon often conflates the Wizengamot with the government but the books are clear it's the judiciary?

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks for these. I'll fix up the tag with the extra word.

I'm going to add Orion Black to the clarifications post but in essence I think you're right. I'll mention the Wizengamot thing there as well, but there's no guarantee all participants who might be attracted by the tag are going to see any particular discussion on the comm so that would be the sort of situation where I'd advise keeping an eye on the requests as well.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you

[(Anonymous)]

For Star Wars-Movies Only, there's a typo in this tag: "WB: Differents Ways of Knowing the Force (Star Wars-Movies Only)"

For Black Mirror, "WB: Backstory of Metalhead Universe (Black Mirror - Blackmetal)", the episode name is Metalhead, as stated in the tag, not Blackmetal.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks, I'll fix these up in a moment. (That last one's an extra bit of disambiguation I added, so I don't know what happened there, my fingers must have been going faster than my brain.)

[espresso_addict]

Sorry for repeat comment but in Middle Earth - J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Denlending Invasion of Rohan 2758 Third Age (Middle Earth - Tolkien)' should be Dunlending. Cheers!

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks, I'll fix this when I get the chance. (Just trying to make sure I respond on dw between 504s ...)

[(Anonymous)]

A spelling error: WB: Xingese alkahestry/retanjutsu (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga) should be WB: Xingese alkahestry/rentanjutsu (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga).

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks!