Nominations Clarification 4

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Links: Nominations Form | Tagset | Relationship Field Nominations Guidelines | New Mediums Nomination Post

Nomination clarifications are queries and updates about tags we find confusing. The goal of nominations is to create a tagset of unambiguous, easy to understand tags that will be useful to participants and solidly within the scope of the exchange. Tags are separated by query vs rejection notice, form vs AO3 nomination, and then by fandom. You can respond anonymously to this post or logged in. If you are not the nominator but have relevant fandom knowledge about something, please speak up! If you have questions about nominations not covered in this post, please ask!

Nominations for relationship slot tags are over, but medium nominations continue! If you forgot to nominate some relationships you really need, please comment on this or any DW post with your nominations in this format:

Fandom,Relationship Slot Tag,Relationship Slot Tag

If you need more than one fandom, hit enter once to start a new line and repeat the format. For example:

Naruto,Uchiha Sasuke/Pakkun (Naruto),Solo: Pakkun (Naruto)
Fallout 4,Solo: Nick Valentine (Fallout 4)

We will not format these for you because we're busy checking already-submitted tags for errors and preparing for sign ups. We will respond to DW comments with any corrections or clarifications necessary.

Speaking of tagset cleanup! We'll be starting that soon and many of you have already started helping, but if you see any incorrect or confusing tags, please let us know by commenting!

Queries

Google Forms nominations

• Check Please! (Webcomic): Eric "Bitty" Bittle & Chris "Chowder" Chow & (Check Please!) — This tag seems to be missing a character on the end. Did you mean to add Zack?
• Check Please! (Webcomic): Solo: Eric "Bitty" Bittle & Chris "Chowder" Chow & Jack Zimmermann (Check Please!) — Solo: tags are for single characters. Which of these three characters did you want?
• Check Please! (Webcomic): Solo: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Chris "Chowder" Chow/Jack Zimmermann (Check Please!) — Solo: tags are for single characters. Which of these three characters did you want?
• DBSK | Tohoshinki | TVfXQ | TVXQ: all tags — "Jung Yunho (DBSK)/Kim Jaejoong (TVXQ)" seems to be a crossover tag, but the fandom also seems to indicate that DBSK and TVXQ are the same fandom, and basically we're wondering what's going on here and what fandom disambiguation we should use.
• Boogie Boys (Web Series): JC Backfire & Lex | MrTLexify & Liam Winter & Milo | MrRoflWaffles (Boogie Boys) — We notice that this fandom shares character overlap with nominations in Video Blogging RPF, and we couldn't turn up very many google results except for YouTube videos that are, presumably, what this canon is referencing. The only fics under this fandom on AO3 are hidden mystery works and it's an uncategorized fandom, so we have no guidance from AO3 there. What makes this set of vlogging content separate from the content that makes up the "canon" of the Video Blogging RPF fandom? Also, is it "JC Backfire" or "JCbackfire"?
• Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling: WB: Hogwarts as sentient (HP - JKR) — It's been a really long time since I reread this canon. Is Hogwarts as sentient something that has in-text support, or is this fanon? (If it's fanon, we could accept this as "WB: Hogwarts" and you could prompt for sentient Hogwarts!)
• The Masquerade Series - Seth Dickinson: WB: Cancrioth (Masquerade Series) — The Cancrioth seems to be a secret society based on our googling. Are you looking specifically for worldbuilding about what the secret society does, in which case we would like to slightly rephrase the tag, or are you looking for worldbuilding about who the members of the secret society are, in which case a Solo: Cancrioth tag would be more appropraite?
• The Masquerade Series - Seth Dickinson: WB: The Cryptarchy (Masquerade Series) — We couldn't immediately figure out what The Cryptarchy is while googling (it was a very fast google, there are so many tags) but it sounds like it might be a group of people. If you're looking for worldbuilding about people, their backgrounds/motivations, etc, then a Solo: tag would be more appropriate. If you're looking more for something about how this group of people interacts with/is viewed by society, then a slight tag rephrasing might be needed. If this isn't a group of people, we're sorry to have bothered you.
• The Masquerade Series - Seth Dickinson: WB: Falcrest (Masquerade Series) — Is this the Imperial Republic of Falcrest, or a different Falcrest?

Ao3 tagset nominations

• The Avengers (Marvel Movies): Steve Rogers/Steve Rogers (MCU) — We've approved this as "Steve Rogers/2012!Steve Rogers (Avengers)". If there is a different canonical alternate version of Steve Rogers that we've forgotten existed and that you would prefer, please let us know and we'll add the tag into the set for you.
• Welcome to Night Vale: WB: The Smiling God (Welcome to Night Vale) — We've accepted a relationship tag that included the Smiling God as a character, so we were wondering if this nomination would be better as a Solo: request or if it should be rephrased slightly to focus on the religion based around the Smiling God rather than on the god himself.

Rejected Tags

Google Forms nominations

• Six - Marlow/Moss: Anne of Cleves&Anne Boleyn&Catherine of Aragon&Katherine Howard&Catherine Parr&Jane Seymour (Six - Marlow/Moss) — We can't accept this tag because it lacks spaces.
• Creator's Choice of Fandom: Solo: Any Character (Creator's Choice) — Sorry, nominator, we've decided that we can't accept "Creator's Choice of Fandom" for reasons outlined here
• Creator's Choice of Fandom: Any Character/Any Character(s) (Creator's Choice) — Sorry, nominator, we've decided that we can't accept "Creator's Choice of Fandom" for reasons outlined here
• Kamen Rider Build: Banjou Ryuuga&Himuro Gentoku&Isurugi Misora&Kiryuu Sento&Sawatari Kazumi&Takigawa Sawa (KR Build) — We can't accept this tag because it lacks spaces.
• ヲタクに恋は難しい | Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii | Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Anime): Kabakura Tarou&Koyanagi Hanako&Momose Narumi&Nifuji Hirotaka&Nifuji Naoya&Sakuragi Kou (Wotaku) — We can't accept this tag because it lacks spaces.
• 宇宙戦隊キュウレンジャー | Uchu Sentai Kyuranger: Balance&Champ&Garu&Hammie&Kotaro&Lucky&Naga&Raptor 283&Shou Ronpo&Spada&Stinger&Tsurugi (Uchu Sentai Kyuranger) — We can't accept this tag because it lacks spaces.

Ao3 tagset nominations

• Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game): WB: Any (Dungeons & Dragons) — We'll be adding "WB: Any" to all fandoms at once after nominations close, so won't be accepting nominations for it before that.

Comments

[primeideal]

Some duplicates:

Anatoly Sergievsky & Frederick Trumper (Chess)
Frederick Trumper & Anatoly Sergievsky (Chess)

Anatoly Sergievsky/Frederick Trumper (Chess)
Frederick Trumper/Anatoly Sergievsky (Chess)

Bodhi Rook/K-2SO (SWRO)
K-2SO/Bodhi Rook (SWRO)

Cassian Andor/Bodhi Rook/K-2SO (SWRO)
Cassian Andor/K-2SO/Bodhi Rook (SWRO)


Doesn't really make sense as a / ship:
Alexander Hamilton/Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton - Miranda) I think this was a problem last year too.

More dupes:
Combeferre & Courfeyrac & Enjolras (Les Mis - Hugo)
Combeferre & Courfeyrac & Enjolras (Les Misérables)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! Those should all be fixed now

[(Anonymous)]

Check please person here! I think I was copy/pasting to get the names right and managed to mess up on other things; apologies for that! >.<

I think between the three of them I meant:

Solo: Chris "Chowder" Chow (Check Please!)
Group: Eric "Bitty" Bittle & Chris "Chowder" Chow & Jack Zimmermann (Check Please!)
Group: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Chris "Chowder" Chow/Jack Zimmermann (Check Please!)

[(Anonymous)]

(or rather, without the "group" for the second and third one. Apologies again. ...I promise my works will have far better proofreading. ToT)

[flowersforgraves]

Not the nominator, but re: the Masquerade noms -- there's only one Falcrest. The Cryptarchy is the shadow cabal that runs Falcresti affairs. It's a group, but it's also an institution in the same way you'd say "the New York City Police Department." And the Cancrioth are a cultural group -- maybe "Cancrioth customs" or similar could work forthe nominator? Hopefully that context is at least somewhat helpful.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you for the context! These all sound broad enough and pretty clear, so we'll just accept them as-is. \o/

[(Anonymous)]

One late-breaking nomination add because new content just ambushed me with it:

陰陽師 | Onmyoji (Video Games),Menreiki/Void Menreiki (Onmyoji Video Games)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

"late-breaking" is a great turn of phrase to describe it, haha. These will go in soon, thanks for formatting 'em!

[estelraca]

I am not the nominator, but having nominated long groups, I am certain there are no spaces in the Kamen Rider Build, Wotakoi, and Kyuranger tags because the spaces make it too long to fit the AO3 character limit.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

We understand that AO3 has a 100 character limit on all tags, but unfortunately it's something we can't change. Tags without spaces are hard to read and cannot be accepted.

[(Anonymous)]

Here are some slightly hinky tags I noticed:

Under the Eyeshield 21 anime/manga, dupes:
Hiruma Youichi & Kongo Unsui (ES21)
Hiruma Youichi & Kongo Unsui (Eyeshield 21)

The Zone Blanche TV show has split into two sections, sitting right next to each other (ah, AO3):
Zone Blanche | Black Spot (TV)
Zone Blanche | Black Spot

For the Mad Max movies, dupes:
Furiosa/Toast the Knowing (Mad Max Movies)
Furiosa/Toast the Knowing (Mad Max)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! They're fixed now

[muccamukk]

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (1872) is showing up under Marvel 616, which I expect is an AO3 syn issue.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Could you refresh to double check? I can't see that on my end but I changed that tag earlier so the page might be cached.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the nominator, but Kim Jaejoong used to be in DBSK/TVXQ/Tohoshinki but left the group with two other members to form the group JYJ. He's now a solo artist and actor. Jung Yunho is still in TVXQ.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

As long as Kim Jaejoong was at one time a member of the group, it seems fine that he's nominated under this fandom — not that different from requesting a character who's been written out of a show or something.

It sounds like DBSK, Tohoshinki, TVfXQ, and TVXQ are maybe just different names for the same group, but in that case we're not sure why Jung Yunho is disambiguated with DBSK and Kim Jaejoong with TVXQ. Is that distinction important in some way that would make it confusing if we changed the tag to ""Jung Yunho/Kim Jaejoong (DBSK|TVXQ)"?

(Obviously we would like to hear from the nominator if they arrive to this post soon, but we think this seems like a clarification that needs help from someone who understands the fandom, rather than specific clarification about what the nominator meant, so thank you for commenting!)

[schmokschmok.livejournal.com]

heyyo, nominator of "Welcome to Night Vale: WB: The Smiling God (Welcome to Night Vale)" here, I was really tired during nominating and forgot to add like half the tag. It should be "WB: The Smiling God - Religion and Lore (Welcome to Night Vale)"
(There is the "Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God", which is a religious institution of the Smiling God, but I don't want to limit the tag to only one institution, if that makes sense.)

Sorry for the inconvenience, when I woke up and realised my mistake, nominations were already closed ^^°

best wishes!

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

No problem! I've accepted it as "WB: The Smiling God - Religion and Lore (Welcome to Night Vale)" :)

[withinadream]

Are you willing to accept fandoms not already in the tagset as extra relationship noms? If so:

Jungle Cruise (Movie 2021), Solo: Frank Wolff (Jungle Cruise 2021), Lope de Aguirre/Frank Wolff (Jungle Cruise 2021), MacGregor Houghton/Frank Wolff (Jungle Cruise 2021), Lily Houghton/MacGregor Houghton/Frank Wolff (Jungle Cruise 2021), Solo: Lily Houghton (Jungle Cruise 2021), Solo: MacGregor Houghton (Jungle Cruise 2021)

If not I understand!

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

It's no problem adding ships for a new fandom actually isn't any more or less work than adding for an existing fandom :) these will go into the tagset shortly, thank you for the formatting!

[swingandswirl]

HP nominator here! You're right, I don't think Hogwarts being sentient is canon, my bad - WB: Hogwarts works great, thank you!

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thanks!

Re: Boogie Boys

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you very much for the thorough explanation! You definitely don't have to worry about doing anything with your works or the tags on them for our sake, though — looking the fandom up on AO3 is just a way for us to try and skip having to ask dumb questions, like if we'd looked it up and there were 6,000 fics for it that weren't subtagged to any RPF meta tags, we'd be able to answer our own question. But your explanation was clear and it sounds like definitely a separate fandom, so we'll approve!

We also don't require an explanation in your sign up, although talking about your fandoms in your optional details is certainly encouraged. You might also enjoy making a fandom promo post for it!

[(Anonymous)]

Steve Rogers/2012!Steve Rogers (Avengers) sounds fine to me 👍 /the nominator

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Hooray! \o/

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, it looks like two of the Star Wars: The Bad Batch tags were accidentally combined into one: Eleni Syndulla & Hera Syndulla (SW:TBB)Omega & Hera Syndulla (SW:TBB)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! That should be fixed now

[rubick]

Some dup tags:

Captain America (Movies)
James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson (CA Movies)
James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson (Captain America)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
Skye | Daisy Johnson/Daniel Sousa (Agents of SHIELD)
Skye | Daisy Johnson/Daniel Sousa (AoS TV)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! Those should be fixed now

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! Is it possible for someone to add "Doctor Who (2005), Bill Potts/The Doctor | Ruth Clayton" to the tagset? If not, that's totally fine, thanks!

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Added!

[mixtapestar]

Duplicates:

SK8 the Infinity (Anime):
Nanjo Kojiro | Joe & Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom & Shindo Ainosuke | Adam (SK8 t I)
Nanjo Kojiro | Joe & Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom & Shindo Ainosuke | Adam (SK8)

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling:
Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley (HP - JKR)
Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley (HP)
James Potter/Lily Evans Potter (HP - JKR)
James Potter/Lily Evans Potter (HP)
Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley (HP - JKR)
Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley (HP)
Sirius Black/Remus Lupin (HP - JKR)
Sirius Black/Remus Lupin (HP)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! Those should be fixed now

[shamebucket]

Could you add this in for me, please?

さらざんまい | Sarazanmai (Anime),Jinnai Enta/Otter (Sarazanmai),Kuji Tooi/Otter (Sarazanmai),Yasaka Kazuki/Otter (Sarazanmai),Akutsu Mabu/Otter (Sarazanmai),Niiboshi Reo/Otter (Sarazanmai),Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo/Otter (Sarazanmai);Yasaka Kazuki/Jinnai Enta (Sarazanmai),Kuji Tooi/Yasaka Kazuki (Sarazanmai),Jinnai Enta/Kuji Tooi (Sarazanmai)

I also noticed both worldbuilding tags in Sarazanmai have (Sarazanmai) duplicated at the end, specifically:
WB: Kappa Kingdom (Sarazanmai) (Sarazanmai)
WB: Otter Empire (Sarazanmai) (Sarazanmai)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Added and fixed!

[(Anonymous)]

There's a medium tag I'm wondering about: Medium Opt In: Art - Adaption Concept Art

Should that be "Adaptation"?

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Fixed, thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! Some cleanup notes for the Dragon Age (Video Games) section:

Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus (DA Games)
The Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus (DA Games)

I see overall Bull has some pairings nominated as “Iron Bull” and some as “The Iron Bull”, if that’s of concern, but I think this is the only duplicate.

Loghain Mac Tir/Marric Theirin (DA Games)
Rowan Guerrin/Loghain Mac Tir/Marric Theirin (DA Games)

Spelling: “Marric” Theirin should be Maric Theirin, both tags.

Mariana Aurum/Rendorn Guerrin/Connor (DA Games)

Spelling: “Mariana” Aurum should be Marina Aurum.

(Dragon Age )

Purely cosmetic, but some of the tags have this hanging space in the disambiguation.

Gordon Blackwall/Female Inquisitor (DA Games)

I’m not 100% confident what ship is intended by this, as there’s some canonical identity shenanigans which confuse the issue. “Gordon Blackwall” would (IME) be an unusual way of referring to the character who also goes by Thom Rainier (he’s usually just ”Blackwall”), but pairing the original Gordon Blackwall with the Inquisitor would also make for an unusual request - so I don’t know what to assume. It should become obvious at the requests stage, if it is requested, so maybe it’s not a problem. What do mods think?

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! I've fixed the misspellings and removed the duplicate. Since it's not clear if they meant original Blackwall or Thom Rainier, I split the tag into "Blackwall/Female Inquisitor (DA Games)" and "Original Gordon Blackwall/Female Inquisitor (DA Games)"

[(Anonymous)]

There's two Justice League cartoons fandom tags, with two different sets of nominated ships that should be folded into one fandom tag:

Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons)
Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoon)

I'd suggest to delete the (unwrangled) 'JL & JLU (Cartoon)' tag and move the ships under the (wrangled and showing under cartoons category) 'JL & JLU (Cartoons) version.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Thank you! Those should be fixed

[(Anonymous)]

H-hi, if it's not too late to nominate, I'd be ever so much obliged if you could add the following to the tagset:

原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game),Bennett & Eula (Genshin Impact),Diluc & Eula & Jean (Genshin Impact),Solo: Eula (Genshin Impact)

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Added!

[lamiacalls]

Hey! I have a fandom I forgot to nominate, if that's okay.

Sin Eater - Megan Campisi,Solo: May Owens (Sin Eater),May Owens & Original Sin Eater (Sin Eater),May Owens & Ruth (Sin Eater),May Owens/Original Female Character (Sin Eater)

If it is too late/a whole new fandom isn't okay, that's fine too! Thanks!

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Added!

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I was wondering if some of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure tags are supposed to have the name of the series twice. I'm talking specifically about:

Giorno Giovanna/Higashikata Josuke (JoJo: Diamond is Unbreakable) (JJBA)
Higashikata Josuke (JoJo: Diamond is Unbreakable)/Kira Yoshikage (JJBA)
Higashikata Josuke (JoJo: Diamond is Unbreakable)/Kishibe Rohan (JJBA)
Higashikata Josuke (JoJo: Diamond is Unbreakable)/Nijimura Okuyasu (JJBA)

It feels a bit redundant, so I was wondering if this is intentional.

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Are there multiple Higashikata Josukes? If not, I'll change those up to not have the double disambiguation (usually if someone nominates it like that we assume it's to differentiate between characters with the same name within that fandom, but sometimes people will do that if it's the canonical for the character in which case it isn't needed in the tagset)

[ashling]

Could you please add to the pre-existing fandom Never Have I Ever (TV):

Solo: Aneesa Qureshi

*blobhugpls emoji*

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

Added!