Points for participant discussion
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worldbuildingexThere are two fandoms that I am deliberately holding off on for now because I would ideally like the nominators to be able to discuss amongst themselves and come to a consensus, or at the very least I'd like to hear some different viewpoints to check if I've missed something obvious that should sway a decision one way or the other.
Original Work
As per the previous post, I am considering going along with the idea that some nominators have already used of splitting OW into multiple different subfandoms. No one has yet objected to this, and to be honest I am increasingly attracted to it. If anyone would really dislike it if I asked for OW noms to be split up, please speak up in the next 48 hours or that is probably the direction I will go in.
The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien
I am approving Tolkien fandoms as and when I get the chance (although it has to be said that LotR with its 43 tags made AO3 throw an error, even though I deliberately avoided approving anything else at the same time ...).
However, the five (so far) Silmarillion nominators all seem to be doing things differently, and my knowledge of it is too patchy to be certain about how to handle things. In particular:
Original Work
As per the previous post, I am considering going along with the idea that some nominators have already used of splitting OW into multiple different subfandoms. No one has yet objected to this, and to be honest I am increasingly attracted to it. If anyone would really dislike it if I asked for OW noms to be split up, please speak up in the next 48 hours or that is probably the direction I will go in.
The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien
I am approving Tolkien fandoms as and when I get the chance (although it has to be said that LotR with its 43 tags made AO3 throw an error, even though I deliberately avoided approving anything else at the same time ...).
However, the five (so far) Silmarillion nominators all seem to be doing things differently, and my knowledge of it is too patchy to be certain about how to handle things. In particular:
- Piped tags or not? Some of the nominations are AO3 canonicals, which are always piped; some nominations are piped non-canonical tags (eg with disambiguations); and others still are not piped at all. I'm aware there are strong feelings about this out there; is anyone particularly attached to using the piped names and would object if I simply stripped them back to the first one listed?
- Relationship noms - at least one nominator seems to be nominating relationships within the character slots (e.g. there are noms for "Elrond & Elros & Maedhros & Maglor" and "Fingon/Maedhros"); I'm afraid this is not, in general, allowed for worldbuildingex. While there are occasional noms in some fandoms for groups that are always considered together in the context of their source canon, these seem from what I can tell to be relationships between distinct characters. Please let me know if there are reasons to consider them as valid noms.