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Nominations queries so far
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worldbuildingmodIt's very gratifying to see so many nominations in already (the current total of already approved fandoms + those still to deal with is over half of the typical number in previous rounds' tag sets, so it seems that many of you have been very organised this time around and had your nominations ready in advance, and/or we're heading for a much larger tag set overall).
Unfortunately, AO3 is responding relatively slowly and has started throwing errors if I approve more than one or two fandoms at a time; I'm going to experiment a bit over the next few days to see if it behaves better at different times of day (when server load is lower), but it may well be that tag approvals progress slowly this round. As a result, the queries below are probably an incomplete list, as there may well be fandoms I simply haven't seen yet that I also need to be asking about.
Fandom scope queries
More minor issues
Huge thanks to those of you who've adjusted your nominations since the last post. As I work through the tag set, I will fix some things myself but I won't be approving any fandoms that don't have both of "Any or No Characters" and "Original Character(s)" nominated for that fandom in addition to any canon characters you want. Fandoms I've seen so far that this applies to are:
Many of these (and other) fandoms also have patchy/inconsistent disambiguation; if you can make sure every tag -- both character and worldbuilding -- contains something to indicate which fandom it comes from, it does make my life enormously easier and would be greatly appreciated.
Attention: She-Ra nominator
Hi! I think I might have approved one version of your tags at the same time as you were yourself editing your noms, which has made slightly strange things happen on the approval interface. I don't think there's a capital-P Problem, but I'm a little bit loath to tamper further in case the strangeness intensifies; if you'd be willing to email worldbuildingmod@gmx.com with a screenshot of the current state of your noms page from your point of view (and let me know which versions you'd prefer where they're different), I'd be very grateful. Thank you!
Unfortunately, AO3 is responding relatively slowly and has started throwing errors if I approve more than one or two fandoms at a time; I'm going to experiment a bit over the next few days to see if it behaves better at different times of day (when server load is lower), but it may well be that tag approvals progress slowly this round. As a result, the queries below are probably an incomplete list, as there may well be fandoms I simply haven't seen yet that I also need to be asking about.
Fandom scope queries
- Original Work
There are (unsurprisingly) many nominations for this already. One enterprising nominator has submitted "Original Work - Alpha/Beta/Omega" as a separate fandom tag, and this has led me to wonder whether people would prefer to do something similar for other "types" of OW. (In the main OW noms already, I've seen things like "Low Fantasy", High Fantasy", "Urban Fantasy", "Fantasy/Sci-Fi" and "Post-Apocalyptic" as extra disambiguations; these could easily become separate fandoms.)
It seems to me that the main advantage of this would be making the tag set more readable (and possibly allowing slightly more fine-grained matching), and the main disadvantages that people would have to use up more slots for it (both in nominating and offering/requesting), and that the OW "fandoms" would end up in Uncategorized. I'm going to leave all these noms for now to allow time for discussion; please do chime in with your thoughts, if you have them. - Harry Potter
"Harry Potter - JK Rowling" has been nominated; further to this discussion, I am as a matter of general principle open to arguments that participants do all have a common understanding of the scope of this tag, but to be honest it's going to take a lot of persuading. A more specific tag delimiting exactly what is/isn't included might be helpful. (In previous rounds, we've had things like "Harry Potter - Books 1-7", "Harry Potter - Wizarding World (including Pottermore)", etc.) - Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
I've approved this, but I just want to double check that the nominator is happy that it includes all of the spin off material, the straight to video movies, Crusade, etc. - Star Trek
There are many specific Star Trek noms, but also one for the umbrella "Star Trek" fandom -- I'm happy to approve this as an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink fandom (i.e. treating is as encompassing every Prime series, AOS, all the novels, etc.), but wanted to check that is the intent.
More minor issues
Huge thanks to those of you who've adjusted your nominations since the last post. As I work through the tag set, I will fix some things myself but I won't be approving any fandoms that don't have both of "Any or No Characters" and "Original Character(s)" nominated for that fandom in addition to any canon characters you want. Fandoms I've seen so far that this applies to are:
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Silicon Valley (TV)
- several different iterations of Star Trek
- Veep (TV)
Many of these (and other) fandoms also have patchy/inconsistent disambiguation; if you can make sure every tag -- both character and worldbuilding -- contains something to indicate which fandom it comes from, it does make my life enormously easier and would be greatly appreciated.
Attention: She-Ra nominator
Hi! I think I might have approved one version of your tags at the same time as you were yourself editing your noms, which has made slightly strange things happen on the approval interface. I don't think there's a capital-P Problem, but I'm a little bit loath to tamper further in case the strangeness intensifies; if you'd be willing to email worldbuildingmod@gmx.com with a screenshot of the current state of your noms page from your point of view (and let me know which versions you'd prefer where they're different), I'd be very grateful. Thank you!