Jan. 8th, 2018

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Eligibility: Following thinking about Call the Midwife, I have decided that fandoms which are only-very-slightly-fictionalised versions of real world events don't really qualify, as any reasonable worldbuilding tags would actually be calls for research about the real world, which would be outside the scope of the exchange on the same reasoning as the ineligibility of RPF. I will update the Rules post later on today to reflect this. (Another example of a fandom which would be affected would be The Crown.)

Disambiguation: I'm now getting back to approving nominations, but I'm currently seeing quite a large number of fandoms on the approvals screen where some or all of the tags lack disambiguations. Please add disambiguations to all character tags (even canonical ones, despite what the instructions on the nomination screen itself say) and worldbuilding tags. I can add them manually as I approve, but it's considerably more time-consuming, so I will generally be prioritising fandoms that do have them. (In particular, I can do a quick pass to approve a few fandoms that only need boxes ticking on my phone at various points throughout the day, whereas opportunities to get on the computer and do more complicated things come less often.)

Missing tags: There are also quite a few fandoms nominated recently which I will not be approving until they have both of the "default" character tags: "Any or No Characters (Fandom)" and "Original Character(s) (Fandom)". There are currently more fandoms than I can see in one go on the approvals screen, so the following list may be incomplete, but in addition to the three Stargate fandoms from last post, fandoms missing one or both tags include Dinotopia - James Gurney, Mortal Engines Series - Philip Reeve, Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Voyager.
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Nominations close a week today, at 2355 UTC, so there's still plenty of time. (Countdown timer.)

Individual tags in approved fandoms

  • WB: Time Lord University (Doctor Who) - I can't recall any Time Lord characters ever using the word "university" to refer to a phase in their education, except possibly when explaining things by analogy to human characters. I intend to change this to "Time Lord Higher Education" unless the nominator strongly objects.
  • WB: Efforts of Having a Secret Identity (Power Rangers Dino Charge) - is this meant to be "Effects"? Or am I missing something?
  • I have rejected WB: Jedi Agri Corps from Star Wars - Movies Only, as per this post.

Incomplete nominations

The following fandoms are missing either or both of the two "default" character tags that need to be nominated for every fandom, "Any or No Characters (Fandom)" and "Original Character(s) (Fandom)":

  • City of Hunger (Video Game)
  • Mortal Engines Series - Philip Reeve
  • Star Trek: The Original Series
  • Star Trek: Voyager
  • Stargate Atlantis
  • Stargate SG-1
  • Stargate Universe

Skipping over these to deal with other fandoms is currently manageable, but if the number of fandoms on this list increases substantially, it may become difficult to find fandoms which I can approve (when there are large numbers of unapproved fandoms, AO3 shows me a random selection of 30 at a time), and so I may have to start rejecting them. I am very reluctant to do this, as all the other tags nominated for them look fine. If I do end up having to reject these, I will do so in the order that they were first raised as having missing noms on the comm. (The three Stargate fandoms would therefore be the first to go.)

If you want to see these fandoms in the tag set, please ensure that the missing nominations are added; you do not have to be the original nominator to do this.

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