Nominations Queries, Part I

[longficmod]

Nominations are pouring in! We will make a decision on the MCU-related TV shows soon--please leave any final comments here if you have a preference.

In the meantime, please remember to check the formatting guidelines at that same post before you nominate. Let us know if anything looks incorrect in the tagset. If you need us to change something with the tags you nominated, please include a link to your personal nominations page.

We have some questions we're hoping you can help us resolve. Again, if these are your nominations, please include a link to your noms page:

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Group: Zuko/Ozao (ATLA) - Should this be Ozai?

Supernatural (TV 2005), Group: Sam Winchester & Creator's Choice of Villain - Are you specifically looking for a canonical villain? If so, may we add "Canonical" to the tag?

Crossover Fandom, Group: Nebula (MCU)/Nebula (MCU) - Is this a MCU nomination or a crossover between MCU Nebula and another version?

Naruto, Fandom should be "Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (Fanfic DFE)" but AO3 changed it - Please comment with a link to your nominations page. There are a lot of other nominations for Naruto, and we don't know which are yours and are supposed to be for DoS.

The Walking Dead & Related Fandoms, Group: Felix Carlucci/Will Campbell, Group: Rick Grimes/Daryl Dixon - We also have nominations for The Walking Dead (TV). Should these be combined? If not, can we separate this nomination into World Beyond and Walking Dead?

16th Century CE RPF, Historical RPF - The characters nominated in these two fandoms have no overlap, but we'd like to avoid having both century-specific and general historical RPF fandoms in the tagset, and the general historical one spans a few centuries. Are there any objections to combining these? We're looking at a pretty small number of tags (7 total).

Star Trek - Various Authors, Group: Alexander Rozhenko/Giancarlo Wu, Group: Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak - We already have Pawns and Symbols in the tagset. What's the best way to handle that as well as these novel-related nominations?

Transformers - All Media Types - Please nominate a specific media type.

Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Group: Aloy & Beta, Group: Aloy & Kotallo, Zo (Horizon: Zero Dawn) - Should these be nominated under Zero Dawn or Forbidden West?

Comments

[withthekeyisking]

Hello! Mine is the Supernatural one. I did mean a canonical villain, and absolutely good with adding the word to the tag! Here is the link to my noms page: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/10615/nominations/237046

Just in case it's easier to have all info in one place, I'm also the person who emailed about adjusting the Ben Reilly Marvel Comics tags! :)

[longficmod]

Thanks--those should all be taken care of! Let us know if anything looks wrong. :)

[withthekeyisking]

They look great, thanks so much!

I thought I’d point out—when I went to check the “Marvel (Comics)” section, I saw there are a couple “MCU” tagged characters in it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not the horizon nominator, but there isn't a Horizon Forbidden West fandom tag really - on AO3 it's syn'd to the Horizon: Zero Dawn fandom tag. Most people are using both on ao3 for HFW content, but it's the same franchise, with a huge overlap of characters, and the studio who produces the games hasn't put out an umbrella series name yet for us to use :/ I think they should go under Horizon: Zero Dawn since it would make no sense to seperate the two.

[longficmod]

Ah, thank you for clarifying! They're all approved now.

[(Anonymous)]

For something that looks incorrect in the tagset: Under the "Teen Titans (Animated Series)" fandom tag, there's a character tag that says "Dick Grayson (DC comics)". That should be in the DC Comics fandom tag instead. (However, that tag does already exist in the DC Comics fandom tag.)

Also I'm sure this is something you'll do after the nominations period is over, but I wanted to point it out in case it's helpful (and I'm sorry if it's just pushy!): In the DC Comics fandom tag there are two relationship tags listed that are the same pairing just flipped around:
"Group: Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson (DC Comics)" and "Group: Slade Wilson/Dick Grayson (DC Comics)"

[longficmod]

Thanks, should be fixed! And not pushy at all--we appreciate the heads-up.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the Avatar: TLA nominator, and I apologize for the typo! Yes I did indeed mean Ozai, my bad.

Here is my personal nominations page: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/10615/nominations/237313

[longficmod]

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, one of the Historical RPF nominator’s here - I have no issue with them all being combined, as you said there will probably only be a few pairings/tags so no problem on my end!

[(Anonymous)]

Assuming there are just the two of us, I am the other RPF nominator and I second this! :)

[longficmod]

Thank you both. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I just happened to notice something in the tagset. The Penny Dreadful (TV) fandom is listed in the tagset as "Group: Penny Dreadful (TV)", currently under Uncategorized Fandoms.

[longficmod]

Whoops, thank you! Those should be fixed.

[sandrine]

Can we please keep the Star Trek novels separate? There are hundreds of them and they are not all the same continuity, lots of them contradict each other. They definitely aren't all the same canon.

And (at least for the Pawns and Symbols nomination - I can't speak for the others because I don't know what novel(s) they might be from) those characters are the protagonists in that one novel and only appear in that one novel.

[delphi]

Re: Star Trek - Various Authors

Sorry about that! I didn't see that another novel had its own entry and went with the broader canon tag figuring it was akin to "Marvel (Comics)" in being a 'shared universe but not always 100% consistent across entries' kind of fandom. I see the logic of having it under title and author, however, for folks who want to know exactly where the characters show up.

My nominations are both for untitled subseries of Trek novels rather than single novels, so it's tricky to put one title and author down. If it's possible to split my nomination into two fandoms, maybe something like this would work:

A Time for War, A Time for Peace and Prequels - Keith DeCandido
Group: Alexander Rozhenko/Giancarlo Wu

A Stitch in Time and Sequels - Andrew Robinson and Una McCormack
Group: Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak

Alternatively, to flag that they're Trek novels, maybe something like:

ST:TNG Beta Canon - Keith DeCandido
Group: Alexander Rozhenko/Giancarlo Wu

ST:DS9 Beta Canon - Andrew Robinson and Una McCormack
Group: Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak

(Beta Canon being the Star Trek term for the stories in officially licensed books and comics.)

If they can't be split because it would put me over my limit for fandoms, I'd be okay dropping the first one and just going with the Robinson and McCormack novels and Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak.

[sheliak]

I've also seen "Star Trek Novel Verse" for the semi-recent Star Trek books that share a broad continuity with each other; that term definitely includes the A Time For... series as well as the DS9 Relaunch books (A Stitch and Time &c).

(Pawns and Symbols is much older and definitely not in that continuity; it should definitely remain separate from the other Trek book noms.)

[longficmod]

Thank you! We'll go ahead and approve the Keith DeCandido/Robinson/McCormack nominations as "Star Trek Novel Verse", if that works for everyone. Please let us know if you'd like anything changed!

[sheliak]

Hi, one of the DoS nominators here!

I originally nominated as
Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (Fanfic DFE)

The interface told me that one of my noms (Group: Nara Shikako & Uchiha Shisui (DoS)) was already in the tagset under another fandom:
Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (DFE)

So I changed the fandom to match that (I assumed that'd make things easier on the mod end—perhaps incorrect!) and switched the character slot to something else.

On my nom page the fandom is still showing up as Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (DFE), not synned to Naruto. I suspect that what you saw was me changing the name, not AO3 doing so!

ETA: I checked, and "Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (Fanfic DFE)" isn't getting changed to Naruto either.

My noms:
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/10615/nominations/237364

[longficmod]

Hi! This is a separate issue--the nominations on your page should be approved under the correct fandoms (including "Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen (DFE)"), but please let us know if they don't look right.

[tarlanx]

The Walking Dead & Related Fandoms, Group: Felix Carlucci/Will Campbell, Group: Rick Grimes/Daryl Dixon - We also have nominations for The Walking Dead (TV). Should these be combined? If not, can we separate this nomination into World Beyond and Walking Dead?

I'm the one who nominated Felix/Will and Rick/Daryl but I have no idea which would be the best solution. I guess it might depend if any characters other than Felix/Will are nominated from World Beyond. It's all part of the same universe.

[longficmod]

Thank you! Are they specific to World Beyond? We're still waiting to hear from the WD TV nominator.

[tarlanx]

Felix/Will are specific to World Beyond

[longficmod]

Sounds good--the other nominator (or at least one of them) prefers to keep things in Walking Dead TV. Does it make sense to move Rick/Daryl to Walking Dead TV and approve Felix/Will under World Beyond?

[tarlanx]

Yes to both! It never occurred to me that 'and related fandoms' might bundle in the comics, which I have never read either, and which vary from the TV series :)

[(Anonymous)]

Group: Nebula (MCU)/Nebula (MCU) - Is this a MCU nomination or a crossover between MCU Nebula and another version?

I'm not the nominator, but there are two different versions of Nebula in the MCU - the original one who works with the Avengers and a time-displaced version who appears in Endgame and works for Thanos. Maybe this is what the nominator meant?

[longficmod]

Quite possibly--thanks for the clarification! We're partly confused because they're nominated under "Crossover Fandom" rather than MCU, so it's a little hard to be sure what they meant.