2021 Evidence Post/Tagset Fixing

[mod63]

Post here if:

• You wish to provide evidence that a swap you have nominated or plan to nominate is not an equally prominent or more prominent canon character, per Eligibility§1.
• You wish to specify that a character is trans because you have nominated or plan to nominate them "swapped to" their canonical gender, per Eligibility§2. (This is not required, but if you are concerned that the mod would not know that the character is trans from a quick search, it may be helpful.)
• You feel that it may be necessary to justify the eligibility of your nomination for any other reason.
• You spot an issue in the tagset, such as a typo, an umbrella fandom and a specific fandom both being used, a tag wandering into the wrong fandom, or a crossover located in a fandom other than Crossover Fandom.
• Any other issue has appeared

A mod will also make a post if any questions or concerns arise during nominations. Thank you!

Comments

[liryian]

hi! so, I've nominated the fandom "Rigel Black Series - murkybluematter (fic)" to the tagset. This is a Harry Potter fic in which our main character is a cis girl named "Harriett "Harry" Potter". She also goes by Rigel Black.

I have made one nomination which includes "M!Harriett Potter | Rigel Black" and intend to add more; such a request could not reasonably be interpreted as a request for the canonical character Harry Potter, as the world and plot are very different. Additionally, while the two characters share a name, their upbringing, outlook, and priorities are very different.

Basically the story, world, and character are so drastically different that it would be completely unreasonable to request "F!Harry Potter" and expect to get a character who even remotely resembled "Harriet Potter | Rigel Black"; therefore I feel it should be appropriate to treat the two characters as distinct entities and "M!Harriet Potter | Rigel Black" as admissible in this exchange.

[mod63]

Thank you for the explanation - this seems fair.

[shahrizais]

Hello mod!

I plan on nominating a character from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. He's shown up across multiple King books and goes by at least four names I can think of off the top of my head, plus several titles. In the Dark Tower, he is initially referred to as The Man in Black before picking up a few other names along the way.

I planned on nominating him as F!The Man in Black because I think that would be clearest (it is also the broadest way to refer to him). Does that work or would you (or other DT fans) like a different format?

[mod63]

Mod is not familiar with the canon. Feel free to nominate him as The Man in Black, Randall Flagg, or whatever you feel makes the most sense/would best convey to people interested in requesting or offering this character what they're getting themselves into.

[sirvalkyrie]

Hi mods, my nomination of Drusilla (BtVS TV)/F!Peter Maximoff (ATM)/Wanda Maximoff (MCU) seems to have lost the TV designation for Drusilla when it was changed to Drusilla (BtVS)/F!Peter Maximoff (Alt Timeline X-Men Movieverse)/Wanda Maximoff (MCU). While it is more likely that a writer would do TV canon and not the reboot comic, I wanted to make sure it was clear I wanted TV Drusilla.

[mod63]

Sure, if you're worried we can adjust that.