Nominations queries post #3

[worldbuildingmod]

The tag set is on course to be the largest we've ever had.

Adjustments to tags

I have had to adjust the phrasing of a handful of worldbuilding tags that turned out to have been nominated as characters, not relationships, because AO3 won't allow the exact same tag in more than one category. Hopefully none of them have inadvertently changed the original intent - please do let me know if you think you spot a problem.

Also, in The Goblin Emperor, Any was nominated as a character tag (which AO3 wanted to syn to "Other(s)"!) - I have folded this into the existing "Any or No Characters (The Goblin Emperor)" tag, but if there is actually a character called "Any" in this canon please do let me know.

Remaining queries

I have a relatively small number of queries, either remaining unanswered from previous posts, or related to tags submitted within the last two days. Since this is the last queries post, I will outline what I intend to do in each case if I do not receive a response within 24 hours, at which point I will proceed to general tag set clean up.

• Doctor Who & Related Fandoms and Star Trek (all media types) - I queried about the scope of these on the last post. Unless I hear back from the nominator that they want a more specific fandom name, I will approve these, with the caveat that I will interpret them in the broadest possible sense. (I will also tweak the Alcubierre drive tag that has been bothering me for what I admit are idiosyncratic reasons.)
  
• Harry Potter (Books Only) - WB: dragons understand parseltongue - is there canon evidence for this? as phrased, it seems a little AU-ish. If I don't hear anything on this, I will tweak to phrase it as a question "Can dragons understand parseltongue?"
  
• Something Dark and Holy Series - Emily A. Duncan - Onumitsa - I still can't find any evidence for a character with this name. If I don't hear back, I will assume it's just a very obscure one and approve it, but ideally I would like some reassurance that it's not a misspelling.
  
• Star Wars Sequel Trilogy - WB: Arkanis Academy - This doesn't seem to appear or be mentioned in the three sequel films. Unless someone provides evidence that it is, I'll reject it from this fandom and move it to "Star Wars - New EU"
  
• The Silmarillion - WB: Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth - as far as I can tell this is the title of "the fourth book of Morgoth's Ring"; I'm not really clear how it should be construed as a worldbuilding tag; from what I can tell it is full of ideas relating to Elves and Men but in quite a broad-ranging way. If I don't hear back, I will make my best guess at what the intent is and rephrase, but I would strongly prefer to hear from the nominator (or, failing that, other Tolkien fans).
  

Comments

[elwinfortuna]

I nominated WB: Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth. It's a discussion/conversation/debate between Finrod, an elf, and Andreth, a mortal woman, about the different fates of Elves and Men. So I guess what I intend with this nomination is for people to incorporate thoughts on fate or death as it relates differently to Elves compared with Men, in the perspective of this discussion, or alternatively, to write fictional meta-commentary on it from later Ages.

[possibilityleft]

There are some tags for The Mandalorian that seem to have been duplicated into Star Wars AMT, I think unintentionally since they are disambiguated for Mandalorian.

The Armorer (The Mandalorian TV)
Din Djarin (The Mandalorian TV)
Grogu (The Mandalorian TV)

Excited for sign-ups!

[worldbuildingmod]

Yeah, that's AO3 doing it's migration thing again. Thanks! I'll add them to the clean up list.

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks for explaining; if you're confident that the tag would be understood in that sort of way by anyone signing up for Silmarillion then I'm happy to let it through.

(And thanks for getting back to me promptly; I'll be honest - this was the one that was worrying me the most.)

[narya_flame]

Silm fan confirming that I would understand that tag in exactly the way Elwin outlines!

[independence1776]

Another Silm fan confirming that's how I'd interpret it.

[(Anonymous)]

I nominated dragons understanding parseltongue and yeah it's probably better as a question. it's a popular fic trope with nothing in canon to suggest it, but if it's part of the world it opens so many interesting doors

[worldbuildingmod]

That's really helpful; thanks! (I'm putting it through now.)

[worldbuildingmod]

That's really helpful; thanks! (I'm putting it through now.)

[worldbuildingmod]

I'll rephrase it and put it through. Thanks!

[lamiacalls]

Hello! I just noticed that all of my Folk of the Air and Night in the Lonesome October nominations were rejected. I couldn't find any posts with queries about them that I missed.

What did I do wrong, so I can avoid messing up next time?

[liyana]

I'm the nominator for the Something Dark & Holy Series, here to confirm that Onumitsa is a very obscure character (one of 20 gods in a pantheon, only referenced a couple of times in the books) and that that is the correct spelling. Let me know if you'd like me to grab a source quote!

[worldbuildingmod]

OK, thanks, I'll put that through.

[worldbuildingmod]

The only fandoms I rejected outright were the ones that reached the close of noms without the minimum set of tags ("Any or No Characters", "Original Character(s)" and at least one worldbuilding tag) nominated - there were a large number of these, so I didn't list them individually, but I did mention the general issue in every query post, and on a couple of other occasions too.

[morbane]

Not the nominator, but there is no character called "Any" in The Goblin Emperor.

[worldbuildingmod]

I didn't think there was, but I just wanted to check!

[reconditarmonia]

Hi, I nominated "Bellweather Ancestor" under Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) and I'm specifically referring to the original Bellweather ancestor, who is not named in the show. Others could be interesting too but I mean the founder of the lineage. Thanks!

[galadriel1010]

I was the Doctor Who & Related Fandoms nominator, happy with it being as wide as it'll go and hope to find cool new stuff.

[lamiacalls]

Ohhh no yup, looks like I fixed my other entries, but forgot for those two for some reason. My bad. Thanks for letting me know, that’s a shame!

[worldbuildingmod]

OK, I'll put that through when I get the chance (AO3 has started throwing errors again so I'm not going to do any further work for a while).

[worldbuildingmod]

Happy to put it back but is there any more specific way to identify that character?

(I won't be able to adjust anything right now, though - AO3 is having instabilities again ...)

[reconditarmonia]

Original Bellweather Ancestor or Bellweather Founder, maybe? "Bellweather Ancestor Who Was a Slave" is a little reductive, but is also descriptive.

[galadriel1010]

Thank you!
(I have the world's best timing.)

[worldbuildingmod]

I've removed the erroneous Any tag and replaced it with "Bellweather Founder"; should be in there now.

[reconditarmonia]

Thanks!