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[worldbuildingmod]

Original Works

I'm still holding off on making a final decision about this for another day or so, but it seems that most people are in favour of subdividing into different fandom tags that give more specificity about genre.

It was (very sensibly) suggested that it might help nominators to know what subdivisions there were. I am very much in favour of nominators choosing for themselves rather than me dictating anything, but it obviously doesn't make sense to have a situation where people have to use multiple fandom slots for the exact same ideas under marginally different names.

So far in the tag set I have seen the following used, as further clarification within the disambiguations in the main Original Works fandom and/or as separate fandoms:

(in alphabetical order)
Alpha/Beta/Omega
Fantasy
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
High Fantasy
Low Fantasy
Omegaverse
Post-Apocalyptic
Superheroes
Supernatural
Urban Fantasy

This is definitely not an exhaustive list, just what's currently been put forward by nominators, and if people do want to preserve fine distinctions then that's absolutely fine. The most obvious example of things that could come together are "Alpha/Beta/Omega" and "Omegaverse", unless I'm missing something?

Silmarillion

I have now approved this! Nominators, please take a look to make sure it's come through OK and I didn't mess anything up, whether calling a character by the wrong name or just misspelling Silmarillion in a disambiguation. (I took screen shots of everything before I hit submit, so I should be able to reconstruct anything that did go awry.)

Comments

[bunn]

Silmarillion tags look OK to me, though it seems to have slipped into Movies as well as Books, and although I can only applaud such an epic idea, sadly it is only a book.

LOTR tags, you have a typo on Gandalf | Mirthrandir - should be Mithrandir. He has SO MANY other names though, that although it's possible the nominator intended it to suggest 'Gandalf in an Elvish context' I don't think that would be clear unless it was in the optional details too. I would just call him Gandalf.

'Adventures of Tom Bombadil' is currently in Uncategorised: I nominated that, and it's a book.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks, I'll add "Mithrandir" to the corrections list for after the tag set's closed. (I had to stare at that for about a minute before I could see the difference!)

On the other hand, the issues about where fandoms appear in the tag set categories (Silm appearing in Movies as well as Books, Tom Bombadil being Uncategorzied) are to do with AO3 tag wrangling, over which I have no power whatsoever.

[bunn]

Oh, it's a tag wrangling thing? Thanks for the info, I guess that does make sense now I think about it! :-D