Nominations Clarification 2

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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!

Special reminder: Please check that your nominations are properly capitalized. For google form nominators, please double check going forward. For AO3 nominators, please literally go check your nominations page right now. Some of your tags (if they've been approved into a tagset or used on the archive with incorrect capitalization before) will automatically revert to the incorrect capitalization, but if they're new tags we would like the capitalization to be correct.

Queries

Google Forms nominations

• Charmin "Bears" Commercials: Red bears & Blue bears (Charmin) — Are these original bears, or unnamed canon bears? We would like to approve as either "Original Red Bear(s) & Original Blue Bear(s) (Charmin)" or "Creator's Choice of Red Bear(s) & Creator's Choice of Blue Bear(s) (Charmin)"
• Charmin "Bears" Commercials: WB: History of bears (Charmin) — This is definitely broad enough but we wondered if it might be a little ambiguous...the commercials are, as far as I remember, just about various bears thinking their new toilet paper is super great compared to the other stuff. Are you interested specifically in how bears came to have a modern society with toilets and plush toilet paper, or would you be satisfied with a fanwork exploring the way bears have historically lived in the past (eg, shitting in the woods, stealing honey through the ages presumably) with no reference to the toilet paper that most of the canon revolves around?
• Humans Are Space Orcs (Meme) : all tags — We would like to accept your nominations as "Original Human(s)" and "Original Alien(s)" rather than just "Humans" and "Aliens" to make it clear to anyone who hasn't run into Humans Are Space Orcs before that there's no canon characters to catch up on. We would also like to remind you that you can be more descriptive if you want (eg, we would accept "Original Male Human Space Marine & Original Alien") and to say that we would love to see a promo post for this canon, if you have the time!
• Vampire Academy Series - Richelle Mead: WB: Feeders (Vampire Academy Series) — Like "Guardian Council", this seems like it probably refers to a group of people. Are you looking for worldbuilding about feeders as individuals (eg, how they became feeders) or are you looking for more general worldbuilding about the group as a whole (eg, how feeders are percieved/treated by non-feeders)?
• Vampire Academy Series - Richelle Mead: WB: Guardian Council (Vampire Academy Series) — This seems like it could also be an ambiguous group. Are you interested in the personal backstories of the characters on the Guardian Council, or more interested in the group's history/function in society/something else?

Ao3 tagset nominations

• A Circlet of Oak Leaves - Rosemary Sutcliff: Ships involving Young Dacian Medic and Young Sensitive Auxiliary Cavalryman — We googled around a little but can't tell if these are canonical but unnamed characters or if they're original characters. If they're OCs we'd like that reflected in the tag somehow, if not we'll accept as-is!
• Crossover Fandom: Creator’s Choice of Character(s) or Ship(s) (Beyond Evil) & CCoCoS (Law School) & CCoCoS (Stranger) — We appreciate this attempt at our preferred phrasing, but gosh it's hard to read. How about "Any Character(s) (Beyond Evil) & Any Character(s) (Law School) & Any Character(s) (Stranger)"? Assuming you want to primarily request this, you can just opt into also recieving any ships in your optional details.
• Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff: WB: Emperor Constans' historically accurate sexy barbarian bodyguards (Frontier Wolf) — We love this nomination but feel it would be best as an ambiguous group Solo: tag unless there's some specific facet of the sexy but historically accurate bodyguards you feel you need a WB tag for, in which case we would like the tag to be rephrased to focus on that thing. If we don't hear from you we will accept as "Solo: Emperor Constans' historically accurate sexy barbarian bodyguards (Frontier Wolf)"
• Miraculous Ladybug: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir (Miraculous Ladybug) — It's our understanding that the only canonical alternate universe version of Adrien Agreste is the one that got akumatized into Chat Blanc in season 3 episode 22. Did you mean to nominate "Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Adrien Agreste | Chat Blanc"? This is the only Adrien self-cest ship we will accept.
• Only Ever Yours - Louise O'Neill: all tags — Thank you for disambiguating! You haven't capitalized any of the character names or given them last names. Unless there's some reason related to the canon that the names need to be all lower case, please properly capitalize all of your submissions and please add last names if the characters have them. (We know they might not, but without reading the book ourselves we can't be totally sure.)
• Original Work: Male Warlord & His Bastard Half-Brother/Female Rival Warlord He Gifted Him To As A Concubine (OW) — We have two issues to clear up with this nomination. The first is that we're unsure if you mean both male characters should be shipped romantically/sexually with the female character, and the second is that because of pronoun ambiguity we're not sure which of the brothers gave the female character as a gift. Generally speaking, mixed nominations (ones with both / and &) have the romantic ships first and then the platonic ships. Usually this is where I would suggest one or several tag rephrasing but without knowing what you want I'm really not sure, so please let us know!
• 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game): Morax/Zhongli (Genshin Impact) — AO3 thinks that this ship is the same as Zhongli/Zhongli (Genshin Impact). Are Zhonjli and Morax the same character?
• 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù: Jiang Cheng & Wen Ning & Jin Ling/Lan Sizhui & Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian (MDZS) — Do you mean for JC, WN, and JL to all be shipped with Lan Sizhui, or only Jin Ling? Generally speaking, mixed nominations (ones with both / and &) have the romantic ships first and then the platonic ships, so if you don't want three people all shipped with Jin Ling, Jiang Cheng and Wen Ning should be moved to the end of the ship. (If you do want all of them shipped with Lan Sizhui but not with each other then...I dunno! We'll have to ponder it together.)

You have 48 hours to respond/edit your nominations.

Rejected Tags

Google Forms nominations

• N/A

Ao3 nominations

• Crossover Fandom: HanJoonhwi&SeoJiho&JinHyungwoo&YangJonghoon(Law School) & HanYeojin&HwangSimok&SeoDongjae(Stranger) — We can't accept this tag because it lacks spaces, but since you disambiguated we will give you 24 hours before we reject so you have a chance to use the slot for something else.
• Fruits Basket: all tags — We didn't hear from you so we've rejected your tags. However, the google form nominator got back to us and 2/3 tags are now in the tagset under the 2019 anime. We will add your third tag, "WB: Post-curse-breaking (Fruits Basket)", under the 2019 anime for you as well if you would like.