Nominations Clarifications #4

[worldbuildingmod]

I found a gap in my schedule sufficient to whittle things down to displaying all the remaining fandoms on a single page, at which point I have stopped and looked for potential problems:

Rivers of London

• I have approved a disambiguated version of "Varvara Sidornovna Tamonina", who has also been nominated with a canonical tag. Please do not be alarmed that the canonical has been rejected.
  
• I have approved "Worldbuilding: genii locorum"; another nominator has also submitted "Worldbuilding: Genius Loci". I have gone with the plural as more general, but have held off rejecting the other tag for the moment, just in case there is a subtle distinction I am missing. Please let me know if there is.

Eagle of the Ninth

• "Worldbuilding: Anthonius" and "Worldbuilding: Paulinus" have been nominated - this isn't a fandom I know at all, but from what I can tell from Google, it seems these are historical figures who existed before the time of the main narrative? I'm just wondering if they might be better off being nominated as characters, and worldbuilding tags being used for some more specific idea related to them/their time period/their activities. If I have this completely the wrong way round, let me know.

Harry Potter

• I am leaving all Harry Potter nominations alone for the moment to give nominators time to decide how broad a Harry Potter category they want their nominations to fall under; see here. Please do not use the canonical "Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling" fandom in this instance.

MCU

• "Worldbuilding: Friendships" has been nominated. Since platonic relationships between characters are often a feature of fanworks anyway, I am a little wary of this tag; could the nominator provide a little more information about why creating works about characters' friendships should be considered worldbuilding, specifically? (I am willing to be convinced, it's just not obvious from the tag by itself.)

Fandoms with no worldbuilding tags, and actual relationship tags instead

If you have nominated any of the fandoms below, please delete the relationship tags and replace with one or more "Worldbuilding: A worldbuilding element (Name of Fandom)" style tags. This exchange will not be matching on relationships (either & or /). Apologies for any confusion; this arises because we are appropriating the AO3 "Relationship" field to handle fandom-specific worldbuilding matching. (It is not possible to rename the field to something else, unfortunately.) For further explanation, please see here and here, or ask for help.

• Bravely Default (Video Game) & Related Fandoms
  
• Haikyuu!!
  
• 魔法少女育成計画 | Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku | Magical Girl Raising Project
  

Please note that fandoms for which no worldbuilding tags have been nominated when nominations close will not be approved.

Update on "RPF": For the record, no has yet tried to convince me that the exchange should include "real world worldbuilding", although for a while "Original Non-Trivial Zeroes of the Riemann Zeta Function" was nominated as a character. As far as I can tell, these can be expressed as complex numbers in the form a+bi, where a may or may not be a half. At the most generous interpretation this isn't a lot of words, so unless a lot of them were found, or they were turned into art in some way (I'm sure there are beautiful visualisations out there), they would be significantly under the minimum requirements for the exchange. It seems as though the fandom has been withdrawn by the nominator, but if it appears again I'm afraid that I will be rejecting it unless some convincing arguments are put forward for its inclusion.

ETA: Just for the record, there are a few fandoms which have been nominated while I've been working on the tag set, but don't (yet) have any worldbuilding tags: Dinosaur Train, Labyrinth, and PAW Patrol.

Comments

[wildfireblossom]

For 魔法少女育成計画 | Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku | Magical Girl Raising Project, I'm confused when you say there are relationship tags. I have "Worldbuilding: A worldbuilding element (Name of Fandom)" in place for those fields. Can you explain what needs to be fixed here?

[worldbuildingmod]

On my approvals screen, after some character tags, I have the following:

Hatoda Ako | Hardgore Alice/Himekawa Koyuki | Snow White
Hitokouji Kanoe | Pfle/Totoyama Mamori | Shadow Gale
Ono Nene | Clantail/Tatehara Chika | Pechika
Tanahashi Himari | @NyanNyan/Totoyama Mamori | Shadow Gale

and no "Worldbuilding: [...]" tags at all.

Perhaps they're someone else's nominations? Or nominations are getting crossed over between tag sets? I'm not sure. (The character tags I can see don't include "No Characters" or "Original Character(s)" either, but I'm happy to add those in if necessary. But it does make me wonder if these noms have wandered in from some other exchange's tag set that's playing by more usual rules.)

[worldbuildingmod]

... I've just found a bunch of valid-looking nominations under the canonical fandom tag (with "(Anime)" at the end); are those yours?

[wildfireblossom]

Yes, those are mine! I'm sorry to bother you with that. I posted my nominations shortly before this post went up and thought you were really quick to see them. I wanted to double check something strange didn't happen with them, like as you mentioned tagsets possibly crossing.

But yes, the nomination you listed are someone else's.

[worldbuildingmod]

Yours are in now.

Hopefully the other nominator will turn up at some point. I hope they're not worried about why their nominations aren't showing up in some other tag set.

[tielan]

"Worldbuilding: Friendships" has been nominated

Changed it to something else.

[worldbuildingmod]

For what it's worth, I'm still seeing it as-was. Would you mind double checking that your change did actually go through?

(Looking at the characters you nominated, it looks like your specific interest is in exploring how friendships form/are maintained between female characters who don't necessarily interact much/at all in canon? That definitely seems fair game to me. My worry with a general "Friendships" tag is that if later on someone nominates all the members of the Avengers, it would open the door to basically any and all team fic, which would be drifting a little too far from the exchange's focus for my liking.)