Exchange Information, Guidelines, Rules, etc. - Round 4

[worldbuildingmod]

There are no major changes here since last round; the most significant one is that I now feel confident removing the Reveals Bug section because it seems to be fixed.

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Nominations post - Round 4

[worldbuildingmod]

Nominations are now open here. Full nominations information is available in this section of this round's rules post; this post is intended to summarise the most important points, particularly where there are differences from what is typical in most other exchanges.

You can nominate up to five fandoms, with seven character slots and five "worldbuilding" slots (using the AO3 relationship fields) for each.

Fandom names used should make it clear what the scope of the source material intended is. This may mean using AO3 non-canonicals. It is OK in this exchange for nominated fandoms to overlap in whole or in part (e.g. "Star Wars - Movies Only", "Star Wars - Legends", "Star Wars - New EU" would have some elements in common and others not). Crossovers are OK if and only if the crossover happened in canon; in this case, nominate under both fandoms, divided by a / (e.g. "How To Get Away With Murder/Scandal").

Please do:

• disambiguate all tags with the name of the fandom (please ignore the instructions on the nomination page itself to choose AO3 canonicals - these only occasionally have the disambiguations; unfortunately, this is standard AO3 text that I can't override)
  
• nominate the two "default" character tags used in the exchange -- "Original Character(s) (name of fandom)" and "Any or No Characters (name of fandom)" -- in each fandom you nominate
  
• preface all worldbuilding tags with "WB: "
  
• double check that your character tags are in character fields and your worldbuilding tags are in relationship fields (on the approval interface, I have no way to see which tags were nominated as which)
  
• be patient while waiting for your tags to be approved*

Please don't:

• nominate actual relationships (e.g. A/B, C&D) in the Relationship fields
  
• nominate RPF, or worldbuilding tags for close-to-real-world canons that would similarly constitute solely RL research with no use of creativity to answer the questions
  
• nominate AU ideas, unless the AU in question appears within the canon
  
• nominate fandoms without at least one worldbuilding tag

This post doubles as an evidence post and a brainstorming post. Feel free to comment here to provide extra information you think may help me deal with your nominations, or to discuss with other fans how best to organise your shared fandoms.

I will post clarifications posts regularly during the tag set sorting period; please keep an eye on the comm to see if any of your tags appear with issues or queries.

*Please note that I will be changing how I approach the tag set behind the scenes (in particular, I am trying to build the spreadsheet as I go), which means that it is likely there will be a slightly longer wait for your tags to be approved compared to previous years.

Nominations will close at 1655 UTC on Wednesday 15th January (countdown).

Nomination issues

[worldbuildingmod]

This isn't a full clarifications/queries post, but I've made a first pass through the tag set and approved close to 30 fandoms. There are rather more than that waiting to be approved, but almost all of them have nominations that ideally need some modification (certainly a sufficient number that they crowd out any remaining ones that are formatted properly; apologies if yours are in there waiting and none of the list below applies to them -- please also bear in mind that there may be other nominators for your fandom who have not followed the guidelines).

• Please make sure all tags are disambiguated with the name of the fandom or an abbreviation for it in parentheses afterwards. (Please ignore the instruction on the screen to choose a canonical if it exists; this is standard AO3 boilerplate that I cannot change or remove.)
  
• Please make sure all nomination slates include both of the two "default" tags within the "Character" fields: "Any or No Characters (Fandom)" and "Original Character(s) (Fandom)" -- for some fandoms currently awaiting approval, I'm afraid this will mean you have to choose one or more characters to lose (or find a helpful friend/sock who will add the required noms for you)
  
• Please nominate worldbuilding tags (prefixed by "WB: ") in the "Relationship" field, NOT actual relationships between two characters. There are five fandoms in the tag set (one nominator's entire slate?) in which there are no worldbuilding tags, but actual A/B type ships instead. Fandoms without any worldbuilding tags at the close of nominations will be rejected.
  

Thanks for your help; I'm conscious that some of these probably seem like very picky things to most people but manually adjusting the tag set is significantly more time consuming than simply approving correctly formatted noms.