Nominations Clarifications 2

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Thanks for all the great nominations so far, and thank you to everyone who has clarified their tags in response to these queries!

Apologies for getting this out so late. Some of these tags may already have been updated. If you’re answering here after nominations close, or if you’d rather we update your tags, please link your nominations page.

Updates and PSAs

Small rule update/clarification

We've added a small clarification to the nominations rules. We've had a few fandoms come in without any WB: tags, and fandoms without WB tags at nominations close will be removed from the tagset. WB: tags are required for matching, so you won't be able to complete a sign up without at least one in each fandom.

If you nominate relationships in the relationships slot, we just outright reject those by the way, so please don't do that.

Please don't nominate the "Any/No Characters" or "Original Character(s)" tags

We know many of you have nominated for the past rounds of WB Ex, and since we copied the old mod's rules and guidelines almost exactly we'd like to highlight one specific change we've made which is that no one should nominate Any/No Characters (Fandom) or Original Characters (Fandom) tags because we've figured out how to automate adding those to each fandom after nominations close. If you nominate either of these tags, you'll lose the slot when we reject the tag to prevent duplicates in the tagset.

(Note: you can still nominate more more specific OC tags if you'd like, such as Original Starfleet Captain)

Please add fandom name after your WB: tags and after franchise characters

Adding a fandom name after your tag is known as "disambiguating" (you make the tag less ambiguous!) and we would like to ask everyone to please disambiguate their WB tags, especially the shorter and more general ones. Tags that are the exact same can't be in two different fandoms, so the only way for multiple fandoms to have tags like WB: Religion or WB: Marriage Traditions and so on is if each WB tag is slightly different...and of course the best way to do do that is to stick the fandom name on the end like WB: Religion (Sesame Street) or WB: Marriage Traditions (Dwarf Fortress).

If you go to the landing page for a character (https://archiveofourown.org/tags/[Character]) and the Parent tags box contains more than one fandom, even if they’re related, please disambiguate that character. This is to keep e.g. Luke Skywalker from showing up in all the fandoms he appears in rather than just the one he’s nominated in.

If you have questions about any of this, let us know! And as a carrot to dangle, fandoms nominated with everything disambiguated get approved first (because they’re easier!)

Please continue to email or comment with tagset errors and duplicates you find!

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nominations are closed

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...and we're working on getting the last things approved and figured out. There may be another query post coming! Thank you all for these magnificent worldbuilding ideas!