Only this last post on Yuletide noms....

[estirose]

It went pretty well, actually. My Final Fantasy II nom got approved first (which is not hard, because if there's more than about 40 pieces of fic floating about for the game, I'd be surprised). Forever Knight went second, and it took a while, but Gokaiger got approved, too.

There was one person who checked neither the "planning to nominate" post or the "confirmed nominations" post, so they unfortunately duplicated most of my nominees for Forever Knight. For Gokaiger, the person checking the noms was clearly checking Wikipedia/TvTropes rather than how people were tagging on AO3 itself, because Gai's name was put in western, First-Last instead of the correct Last-First order (that is, they filed him as Gai Ikari instead of Ikari Gai). This is understandable, because he's the only main character whose name goes in that order (everybody else's uses western). Admittedly, his wanted poster has his name in Western order, but that may be the Zangyack Empire getting confused as well. I don't know if there's going to be a correction post, but I might mention that.

(There are worse things. Izumi Shingo and Ankh from Kamen Rider OOO have a merged character tag on the archive, even though they're two different characters, and nobody's gone to fix it. I might drop a note at some point when we're not doing Yuletide.)


Not nomination related, but I'm trying to figure out how to tell the people who basically pulled an old archive for one of my fandoms into AO3 that "Family Relationship" in the relationship entry... well, it doesn't mean what they think it means (they think "family", the meaning is more or less "incest", which doesn't fit the fics in question). This is going to be fun.

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[bridgetmkennitt]

There are worse things. Izumi Shingo and Ankh from Kamen Rider OOO have a merged character tag on the archive, even though they're two different characters, and nobody's gone to fix it.

Hi! I'm a tag wrangler and went to look at Kamen Rider OOO. None of the Kamen Riders actually have wranglers assigned to them, but I'll go ahead and assign myself to OOO and try to unmerge those. :)

[estirose]

Thanks! Obviously, it wasn't urgent, just eyebrow-raising in our fandom, and I kept forgetting to ask, and nobody else bothered, apparently.

(Obviously, I need to start recruiting tokusatsu fen into actually tag wrangling for our fandoms on AO3. I would, but I'm currently learning to code in Ruby on Rails.)

[bridgetmkennitt]

I assigned myself the fandom and it looks like there are three different tags: Ankh (not canonical and no synonym), Izumi Shingo (also no canonical and no synonym), and the one I think you saw Izumi "Ankh" Shingo (canonical). Ankh has 30 fics tagged to it, Izumi Shingo has 9 fics tagged to it, and Izumi "Ankh" Shingo has 2 fics tagged to it from two different authors. I can't be sure, but it looks like they tagged it on their own without it being merged. I'll double check tomorrow in the tag wrangler chat to see what are my options (there's no one in there now for me to ask), but I'll go ahead and make Ankh and Izumi Shingo canonicals right now along with other tags that haven't been tidied up.

(That's awesome! I've always wanted to learn coding, but it's not in the time budget this year)

[estirose]

Thanks! I forgot that "merged" means a specific thing when it comes to tag wrangling. A quick look at the fics in question (tagged Izumi "Ankh" Shingo) look like the tag was for Ankh, not Shingo. (Poor Shingo spends nearly the entire series having his body possessed by Ankh, which might be how the original tag came about.)

Coding is awesome! I haven't gotten confident enough to actually tackle archive coding yet, but I'm looking forward to it!