Tag set clean up

[worldbuildingmod]

I have now dealt with all remaining queries to the best of my ability and run a variety of checks, so I am optimistic that the tag set is now in something very close to its final form. However, extra eyes on these things are always helpful and so I would be grateful if, in the day between this post and sign ups opening, any participants who are willing to spare the time could check through to see if their own nominations have made it through unscathed*, or indeed whether there are any issues in other fandoms they're familiar with.

*Note that just looking at your nominations page is not a 100% guarantee -- a tag will still appear "approved" with the green tick, even if I ended up having to delete it on the back end to fix a problem. I only ever do this with the intention of immediately re-adding it in the fixed form, but it is always possible that this final stage went wrong in some cases. Please do check the tag set itself.

Things that are helpful for me to know about

• Tags which are appearing in the wrong fandoms (when they also appear in the correct fandom, this is often referred to as "wandering" or "migrating") - I have already checked through for these twice (the fix for these is to slightly change the tag, which is why some characters have had their disambiguations changed from how they were nominated), but some may remain
  
• Tags which are misspelt (I do try to double check as I approve but it's impossible to catch everything and on some occasions I even introduce typos when fixing some other issue)
  
• Tags which are effectively the same as each other (e.g. if a character goes by two names and both are nominated) - my guiding principle here is to always try to improve the quality of matching. If there is a distinction between two versions of something (even if it's a subtle one) I will probably leave them separate to help people match more specifically. But if the two tags are effectively synonymous I will merge them so that participants can't "miss" each other because one offered Version A and the other requested Version B of the exact same thing that they would both have been happy to match on.
  
• Tags which make no sense, e.g. if there is nothing within canon that fits the description of a worldbuilding tag (again, I try to check as I approve but obviously I don't know every fandom so some things may sneak through)
  
• Special request for Tolkien fans - it turns out that the canonical "The Book of Lost Tales - J. R. R. Tolkien" tag is a direct synonym for the canonical "The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien" tag on the AO3 backend. As a result, all the tags nominated for both fandoms were appearing under Silm in the tag set while the Book of Lost Tales tag appeared empty. To fix this, I have created a new "Book of Lost Tales - Tolkien" fandom (i.e. without the "J. R. R."); however, since this is not a canonical tag it appears in the "Uncategorized Fandoms" section of the tag set. I would be very grateful if the nominators, or anyone else Tolkien-knowledgeable, could give particular attention to whether I have successfully separated the tags back out again.
  

Things that I don't need to know about at this stage

• Inconsistent capitalisation, etc. - once a tag has been entered anywhere on AO3 everyone is stuck with the capitalisation scheme of the person who first used it (e.g. if "joe bloggs" has ever been used, you can type "Joe Bloggs" as many times as you want, AO3 will keep turning it into the lapslock version).
  
• Inconsistent disambiguations - I have done my best to unite different nominators' different versions under one umbrella but I'm certain I have missed some and as long as the tags aren't migrating it won't affect sign ups. (In fact, most inconsistent disambiguations arise as the result of fixing migrating tags.)
  
• Fandoms in the wrong categories - canonical fandom tags are all assigned to one or more categories by the tag wranglers and so this is completely outside the control of tag set maintainers. Non-canonical fandom tags all end up in "Uncategorized Fandoms" - do note that for worldbuildingex, more fandoms end up in this section of the tag set than in most other exchanges, because of the use of fandom names to specify the scope of material for worldbuilding to be extrapolated from.
  

Currently everything is on course for sign ups to open on time at 0755 UTC on Friday 14th January.

Comments

[morbane]

Jupiter Ascending currently appears as two fandoms: one with the year (2015), one with no year. Suggest deleting the Jupiter Ascending fandom with no year and reassociating the following character tags:

Any or No Characters (Jupiter Ascending), Original Character(s) (Jupiter Ascending)

to Jupiter Ascending (2015).

[worldbuildingmod]

Ooh, good spot - no idea how that happened. Will fix now.

ETA: ah, actually, I do know what happened there, I messed up a Batch Load and so created an extra fandom.

[elwinfortuna]

As a Tolkien fan, looks like everything has been separated back out correctly -- thanks!

[worldbuildingmod]

Good to hear; thanks for checking!

[narya_flame]

Saved me a job, I was just going to look :D

Mod, thank you very much for your hard work sorting all these out <3

[worldbuildingmod]

Mostly in the interests of helping myself keep track, I'm going to record things here that I've spotted and dealt with at this stage:

• Fixed "Oiginal Character(s)" to "Original Character(s)" for "The Flash (TV 2014)"
  
• removed extra "Any or No Characters" tag for Hitchhiker's that was missing a parenthesis

[lielac]

The tag set contains both the fandoms "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" and "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Age of Calamity". The latter also includes the time travel fix-it AU Hyrule Warriors game, which contains most of the same characters and is set in the same version of Hyrule as BotW but not the same timeline because see again "time travel fix-it".

As one of the people who nominated in "BotW and AoC", I wouldn't mind horribly if they were merged due to being too similar. Terrako is the only character who only shows up in Age of Calamity, and I love the egg robot very much but the nominations are otherwise plausibly entirely about Breath of the Wild.

My nominations page, if relevant: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/9319/nominations/229270

[worldbuildingmod]

Thanks for getting in touch. I did think about adding these two to one of the earlier queries posts, but after a bit of digging around I came to the conclusion that there was an advantage in terms of being able to match on the two distinct versions. I'm definitely not planning to do anything as drastic as merging fandoms at this stage!

[(Anonymous)]

Under "Original Work - Fantasy" this one is misspelled:


Fantsy Zoologist (Original Work - Fantasy)

[worldbuildingmod]

Fixed now, though it very nearly ended up as "Original Wrok" in the disambiguation in the process ...

[fiona15351]

Misspelled “This is How You Lose the Time War” as “This is How You Lose the Timewar” for the Original Character(s) tag, it’s currently showing up as Unassociated because of this, sorry about that! (Actually double checked and my spelling for those tags is extremely inconsistent between Time War versus Timewar. Sorry about that)

[worldbuildingmod]

I think at this stage I can live with this level of slight mistake in the disambiguations. I feel as though I'm as likely to introduce some other error along the way as to fix it completely cleanly.

However, I just wanted to ask what you mean by "showing up as Unassociated" as there are no tags left in there on my display (which on the front end should be the same for everyone, mod or not).

[fiona15351]

When I last looked, it was showing up under Unassociated as opposed to Books > This is How You Lose the Time War. Looks like that's fixed now! Ao3's workings are mysterious to me, so not sure what that changed. Thanks for looking into it! :)