Nomination Clarifications #1

[koraki]

Hi everyone, thank you for all your nominations so far! As the nominations period continues, there are a few announcements and clarification requests for participants.

Announcements

• All "Creator's Choice of Fandom" nominations are currently being auto-rejected by the tagset on AO3. For now, please either comment on this post with your Creator's Choice of Fandom nominations, or email your Creator's Choice of Fandom nominations to multifandomdoodle@gmail.com. 
  • Do not nominate your Creator's Choice of Fandom tags to the tagset with a different fandom name like "Creator's Choice of Fandom: Original Tag Didn't Work For Some Reason". This generates more confusion and more tags that need to be cleaned up, removed and/or reassociated. 
• Please remember to use the Group: format for & and / nominations (ex. "Group: Character X/Character Y & Character Z"). 
• Please check your fandom(s) for duplicate or misspelled tags and comment here if you notice any duplicates or misspellings, so they can be corrected before signups open.

Clarifications 

Dirty Jobs RPF

• Group: Mike Rowe doing a future dirty job
• Group: Mike Rowe doing a historic dirty job

These tags seem to involve only one character and the tags also seem to include specific prompts, which is not within the scope of this exchange. Remember that you can always put specific prompts in your optional details or letter during signups! Please clarify what you are trying to nominate or edit your nominated tags so the tags can be approved. 


As a general clarification, please remember that the nominations stage is the time when character/ship/object/setting tags can be added to the tagset. The tagset is not the place to put prompts. Tags such as "group: Elmo climbing into Oscar's trashcan & Oscar trying to push him out" or "group: Bert & Bert's Pigeons trying to lift him off the ground to fly with them" will be rejected or edited (e.g. "Group: Elmo & Oscar", "Group: Bert & Bert's Pigeons"). Please just nominate your desired character(s) or ship(s) -- you will have the chance to add as many prompts for them as you want in your Optional Details during the requests stage!

• If you are interested in a round of Multifandom Doodle that includes prompt freeforms, please provide this feedback in the feedback post at the end of the round.

Please comment below or email multifandomdoodle@gmail.com with any questions, concerns, etc... 

Comments

[isis]

Duplicate under Dragon Age (Video Games): Female Lavellan and Female Lavellan (Dragon Age)

Duplicate under Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke: Vinculus, Vinculus (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

Duplicate under The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien: Treebeard, Treebeard | Fangorn

The noms for "Rosemary Sutcliff Dolphin Ring Series" are a mash-up of noms for a variety of her books that are a loose series, in that they are set many decades apart and mostly don't share characters. I expect someone wanted to nom multiple books but didn't have enough nom slots; if you reject these, if the person nominating wants to get in touch with me, I'd be happy to nominate at least two of these books as I have plenty of room. Otherwise I'm reluctant to nom the things I'd actually want in these books as it will be confusing.

And, I have a question: someone nominated Sleep No More without characters. In practice, what does this mean for requests and offers? Like, I can imagine being willing to draw something based on my experience when I attended the show, but a specific request might be beyond me.

[koraki]

Hi! Thanks for pointing out the duplicates, I am cleaning them up now.

Re: Rosemary Sutcliff/Dolphin Ring, I don't know these books (other than having read a couple of them many years ago as a kid), so I wouldn't be comfortable rejecting them or splitting them out myself. However, if you or someone else familiar with the series has time to go through and let me know which specific tags in the tagset belong with which individual books, I would be happy to remove them from the "Dolphin Ring" fandom tag and re-associate them with the appropriate books.

Someone nominated Sleep No More without characters. In practice, what does this mean for requests and offers?

I'm not familiar with the fandom but if it remains without character tags and someone offers/requests the fandom, the offer/request would need to refer to the entire fandom as a whole. It would essentially be the artist's choice what to draw related to the fandom. The requester could include whatever they wanted in their optional details but that information would be considered ODAO (Optional Details Are Optional) and wouldn't be enforced by the mods.

Because of this I wouldn't recommend nominating/requesting/offering fandoms with no character tags except in the case of very unique fandoms, but it's not against the rules.