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[pumpkinkingmod]

I'm bored. Nominations are open now. They will close at the normal time.

Nominations are open!

You can nominate eight fandoms and eight characters from each. Nominations will be open until Tuesday September 8, 23:59 Zulu time.

All traditional fandoms are eligible. RPF has a few special rules that you can read about in the faq. Fanworks as fandoms will be determined on a case by case basis.

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Comments

[elleth]

I'm sorry if this is being pushy, especially if you're busy at the moment - but would it be possible to approve the Tolkien-based tag sets? I know several people have been wondering about them and would like to coordinate nominations. Thank you. :)

[independence1776]

I'm guessing part of the reason may be that the Tolkien tags are a giant mess: I nommed Elrond under "Lord of the Rings -- JRR Tolkien;" someone else nommed him under all media types and a third person nommed him under the Silm. (I peeked at FFA for once in my life and saw that. I'm blaming morbid curiosity for going there.) I nommed Maglor and saw a nonnie also did; I still don't know how that was possible. And those are just the examples I know about.

I might have a solution for the bookverse side for exchange tag wrangling, but I don't know if the mod's interested in hearing about it now or later.

[elleth]

Good point! I figured those would be dealt with during cleanups, but if there are conflicting and/or confusing nominations, making things public would also help toward fixing it.

(Your morbid curiosity made me laugh. That's pretty much the main reason I do read there as well.)

[independence1776]

Yeah, it would. My tag "fix" is really simple, though I don't know if it's actually a workable idea: multi-Age characters such as Elrond go under "JRR Tolkien-- Works" and single-Age characters go with their respective books. Movieverse could be marked with "Jackson movies" but I'm not sure if that would mean people would need to redo their nominations if they wanted those specific characters in the movieverse rather than bookverse. I'm also not sure what to do with the All Media Types noms; the only thing I can think of is to duplicate them in both book and movie 'verses but I don't know if that's possible.

(I only peeked there because of Rare Pairs; I saw there was a Tolkien thread, couldn't help but click, and read with glee that a large part of it was concerned with Trick or Treat. Followed immediately by confusion about the multitude of repeated noms. I normally avoid anon memes due to the rampant negativity; I really don't need to add "would anon approve of this?" to my mental litany of fandom fears.)

[elleth]

I like that idea, and hope mod considers it. :) All Media Types I guess is just that - it's usually listed in the book as well as the movie section of tag sets, so there's no need to replicate it, the system does that automatically.

(Avoiding anon memes is not a bad idea, but it helps keeping in mind that people are much freer with ranting/venting there than in namespace so taking it with a huge grain of salt is a good idea.)

[independence1776]

I'm glad to hear that it makes sense outside of my head! Ooh, yes, I did forget about AMT being listed both places. Thanks for the reminder.

(Good point. :) I just try to make a habit of avoiding too much negativity, so I'll keep avoiding them in the future. No point in worrying over something I can easily avoid.)

[pumpkinkingmod]

I'll be doing an official update soon, but as for Tolkein, I am not going to approve that until the very end. It is so messy with so many different versions nominated that I want all nominations in before I decide on doing anything.

[pumpkinkingmod]

Tolkien will be one of the last ones I accept. I have nominations for the Silmarilion, Hobbit book, Lord of the Rings books, Hobbit movies, Lord of the Ring movies, Tolkien-Works, one of the video games and All Media Types. It is just such a mess that I will be doing them all at the end of nominations. There are so many characters that if I am to split or merge things I only want to have to do it once.

[elleth]

Right, that does sound quite messy. It's quite easy to determine some things (the Silmarillion and Hobbit book are mostly self-contained, and if the video game is Lord of the Rings Online then that's likely game-only characters as well since there aren't any significant differences when it comes to book characters there so it wouldn't make much sense to nominate them in that category), but book vs. movie often comes with strong opinions, so it's best to try and find a compromise. I'm a little disappointed that it won't be possible to see the Tolkien nominations, but guess that's just how it is. :/

At any rate, I'll be happy to help if that becomes necessary.