Nominations Queries Post 2

[worldbuildingmod]

Tag set | REVISED countdown to close of noms

Again, I haven't managed to clear through all tags but I have a sufficiently large number of queries to make this worthwhile. As previously, there may be tags I have not yet seen which I should also be querying - please continue to watch the comm, but if you think that your tags may be affected by an issue raised here, even if they aren't listed, do feel free to ask.

Change to closing time for nominations

An event which I have to attend, and that I had scheduled around, has been brought forward to this Wednesday, with the effect that I now won't be online to close noms at 1655 UTC. As a result, I've put back the time I'm going to do this to 2055 UTC on Wednesday, so you have an extra four hours to nominate - please note that times for other phases of the exchange are not affected, and will continue to be 1655 UTC.

Fandom scope

I have approved both of the following but just want to check that my understanding of the scope matches that of the nominators:

• Doctor Who & Related Fandoms - this is potentially very broad in scope given the number of spin-offs in various media (and spin-offs of spin-offs) which there have been over the years.
  
• Men in Black Movies - the nominated tags for this all seem to relate to the Will Smith films, but I would take the tag to include Men in Black: International as well.
  

No need to comment if you don't want changes, but the tags can be moved to more specific fandom tags if you would prefer - let me know.

I have not approved "Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling", and (barring a sudden outbreak of consensus in HP fandom about the status of later works) am unlikely to do so as I do think different people have different perceptions of the scope of the tag. Please could the nominator let me know what the intended scope is, so that we can find an appropriate tag to use? (For what it's worth, the nominated tags are Original Black Family Character(s), Original Lovegood Character(s), Original Patil Character(s), Original Potter Family Character(s), WB: Grindelwald's War, WB: Spells Research and Development, WB: Wizarding Family Histories, WB: Wizarding Higher Education.)

I have begun approving Original Work nominations. Following the discussion in previous posts, I will not be approving the umbrella "Original Work" tag; please adjust your nominations to put them into specific genres (eg so far we have "Original Work - Omegaverse", "Original Work - Urban Fantasy", etc.). Any tags that remain in "Original Work" at the end of noms will be assigned to a subfandom at my discretion.

I am also still holding off on "Original Work - Low Fantasy" as, following some further research, I have become convinced that the term has quite distinct meanings in different fannish subcultures, and therefore there is quite a high risk of a mismatch between requests and offers.

Group/"Any [X]" nominations

Beyond the "default" tags, nominations should be for specific canon characters, or types of original characters. Very rarely a group that is always a group in canon may be allowed where appropriate in context (e.g. where a hive mind occupies multiple bodies). In general, though, groups or ships involving differentiated characters (e.g. "The Avengers", "Steve Rogers/Tony Stark") and "Any [type of character that could be canon or original]" nominations are not accepted; however, I can definitely see how confusion may have arisen here, so apologies for that. (I do not intend to make any changes for this round, but I have already made a note for when I ask for feedback at the end of the exchange about whether people would like to use the Character field more expansively in future; it seems that some participants may well want to do so.)

The following tags will not be approved, please amend them:

• Animal Crossing - Villager Character of Your Choice (Animal Crossing)
  
• The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Mirkwood Elves, Thorin's Company (I could just possibly be persuaded on "Mirkwood Elves"?)
  
• Infinity Train - Any Reflection(s)
  
• Star Wars - New EU - I amended Naboo Handmaiden(s) to Original Naboo Handmaiden(s); if you want canon handmaidens such as Cordé and Sabé please nominate them separately
  

Specifc queries

• Hidden Legacy Series - Ilona Andrews - the worldbuilding tags for this fandom are all disambiguated "(Hive Mind)" - I assume this is just a typo and I can amend it to "(Hidden Legacy)"?
  
• Killjoys (TV) - The Greenspace (Killjoys (TV)) - is this a character or worldbuilding tag? If the latter please add "WB: " at the beginning.
  

Fandoms which need tags adding

The following seem to be missing one or both of "Any or No Characters" and "Original Character(s)":

• Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff
  
• Mass Effect Trilogy
  
• Silicon Valley (TV)
  
• Star Wars: Sequel Trilogy
  
• Stargate: Atlantis, SG-1, and Universe
  
• Veep (TV)
  
• The Worst Witch (TV 2017)
  

(NB I am also concerned that the worldbuilding tags for Veep and Silicon Valley seem to be AU prompts rather than elements of canon worldbuilding. Please clarify.)

The Sixth World - Rebecca Roanhorse has the default character tags, but no worldbuilding tags - please add at least one.

Comments

Re: i understand nothing

[(Anonymous)]

Original anon here! Thank both of you!

Turns out what my fundamental issue was was that I was failing entirely to grok the distinction between signups and nominations (because the only exchanges I've managed to figure out how to join before were smaller and only had one phase) and thought nominations were the same as requests, and thus was trying to apply all the rules and guidelines for the exchange as a whole to the nominations form, and of course failing to figure out how to make that work and getting entirely mixed messages about what I was meant to be doing with the tags.

So: nominations are for *adding to* the tagset, and signups involve *selecting from* it? Okay. Okay, I think I see. I now understand some things.

Re: i understand nothing

[worldbuildingmod]

So: nominations are for *adding to* the tagset, and signups involve *selecting from* it?

Exactly right!