Nominations Clarifications #5

[worldbuildingmod]

The tag set currently contains 110 fandoms, 749 characters and 608 worldbuilding tags! As of this post, I have dealt with everything that I don't need further input on.

Fandoms with no worldbuilding tags

Unless worldbuilding tags are added before the end of nominations, these will not be approved:

• Dinosaur Train
  
• Labyrinth (1986)
  
• PAW Patrol (also, I think it should be "Mayor Goodway", not "Mayor Goodwin"?)
  

Magical Girl Raising Project

The nominations for this are now valid, thank you, but I have since approved a set of nominations under Magical Girl Raising Project (Anime). Can the still-unapproved nominations also go in with those tags, or are they for the manga?

Worldbuilding tags awaiting approval in approved fandoms

I am still hoping for some clarification on the "Anthonius" and "Paulinus" worldbuilding tags for Eagle of the Ninth, and I will not be approving "Friendships" for MCU as it is somewhat too broad. (The nominator mentioned having changed it but I'm afraid if you did, the change did not make it through to my end; if you tell me what you want it changed to, I can do it.)

Harry Potter

• I rejected "(Book Series)" in favour of "(book series)" because the all-lowercase version was where all the tags were nominated.
  
• I have added "Original" to some nominated character tags, mostly related to food; in the unlikely event that these characters do exist canonically and I've just forgotten about them, please tell me and I will fix it.
  
• Under the Wizarding World tag, I rejected "Politics and Diplomacy" because another nominator had put in "Politics" and "International Diplomacy" as separate tags, which seems to me to be better for fine-grained matching.
  

Rivers of London

No one suggested that "Genius Loci" ought to be distinct from "genii locorum", and repeatedly seeing "Genius Loci" and "Ben Aaronovitch" in close proximity at the top of the list of tags to review was making me want to go and dig out my Benny Summerfield stuff, which would have been counterproductive in helping me get through the tag set, so "Genius Loci" has been rejected.

Final Fantasy IV

For consistency, I changed two character tags (Maenads and The Creator) which had been disambiguated with "(Final Fantasy IV: The After Years)" to just "(Final Fantasy IV)". It seems from Google that they are from the sequel game but for our purposes they definitely count as part of the same fandom (in that they exist in the same fictional universe and thus are affected by the same worldbuilding). If there are compelling reasons I haven't understood to change this back, let me know.

A general note on video game characters

Since I know this came up in May the 4th recently about Exile, I am intensely relaxed about multiple versions of video game player characters existing in the tag set, even if they aren't symmetrical. For example, having all of "Shepard", "Male Shepard", "Paragon Female Shepard", "Paragon Male Shepard", "Renegade Male Shepard" and "Renegade Female Shepard who Spared the Rachni Queen" in Mass Effect would not bother me at all. I will approve anything that looks plausible; it is up to you how many character slots you want to use to get the versions you want.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I nominated Final Fantasy IV and that's fine. I just used the canonical tags, but either works.

[worldbuildingmod]

Cool. Thanks for the prompt reply.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the person who nominated Worldbuilding: Genius Loci under Rivers of London, because it's slightly less pretentious Latin than the other version, but I'm totally fine with it being more pretentious! ;)

[worldbuildingmod]

Heh. With a parent who taught Classics for decades, my pretentiousness-o-meter is probably miscalibrated ...

[(Anonymous)]

Question: is it alright to nominate worldbuilding tags for events that did not actually happen in canon? As an example - can I nominate 'Worldbuilding: exposure of magic to the world' in Harry Potter even though it didn't actually happen?

[worldbuildingmod]

That would be fine; I guess you can specify in your ODs whether you want it as a canon-divergent AU or set in the future.* In general, things set outside the canon time frame in either direction are fine; I recently approved a bunch of "Post-Third-Age [X] Societies" tags for Middle Earth, for example.

*Or maybe it keeps happening, over and over, and we all keep having to be obliviated?

[(Anonymous)]

"Or maybe it keeps happening, over and over, and we all keep having to be obliviated" - Now that's a terrifying thought.

Thank you!

[rubylily]

I didn't nominate it, so I don't know what the unapproved tags are, but the Magical Girl Raising Project having just (Anime) at the end of the canonical fandom tag is just a weird quirk of how AO3 handles Japanese fandoms - it should really be "Novels & Anime" if they want to be so specific. The series began as novels, and the anime is a faithful adaptation of the first, and there's already a novel-only character in the tag.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks, that's very helpful! I will just combine them all together then.

(Just out of curiosity, am I somehow Doing It Wrong by saying "manga" instead of "novel"?)

[(Anonymous)]

Magical Girl Raising Project doesn't have a manga, it's an illustrated novel made into an anime. Sort of like Winnie the Pooh.

[rubylily]

It does have a manga adaptation, but it's not available in English at all, whether officially or through fan translations, and from what I've heard it's a pretty compressed adaptation, so most people aren't familiar with that version.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks (and to anon above as well). My skimreading of Wikipedia was clearly a bit too skimmy...

[wildfireblossom]

Just to clarify from my side.

All the characters I nominated for Magical Girl Raising Project (Anime) are in the anime version except Yoshioka | Pythie Fredrica. As mentioned, the canonical (Anime) tag usually stays as an umbrella for most characters in said franchise for Japanese fandoms and I didn't think of separating anime and novels. I knew an (Anime) tag existed and used it to disambiguate. I should have mentioned most of the characters that weren't mine from the other nomination were novel exclusives just to make that clear before...

There is a manga version, but the light novels are the meat of the franchise and the main source material.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks. If the adaptation is faithful enough that there is effectively just one set of source material from the point of view of people in the fandom, then I'm in favour of using the AO3 canonical even if it's slightly oddly formatted, for ease of finding things in the tag set if nothing else.

[(Anonymous)]

Person who nominated "Politics and Diplomacy" under Wizarding World: should I resubmit a Politics-only tag? The politics tag is in the book series-only fandom. I'm guessing for matching purposes those don't overlap?

[worldbuildingmod]

Sorry about that. Something's gone wrong there; there definitely were three tags (Politics, Politics and Diplomacy, International Diplomacy) under Wizarding World (all separate from the Politics tag for the books) when I did it, but obviously the Politics one has wandered off somewhere.

Please don't worry about renominating; I'll try and find it and if I can't, I'll add it back in manually. But that's the sort of thing I can only easily do on the computer so it won't be for a little while.