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Nominations are going to be open soon, so start thinking about the ultra-rare fandoms, characters, and ships you love, and keep an eye on this comm!

Tagset | Evidence Post | Rejected Noms

Nominations are closing soon, on July 18th at 11:55 PM UTC. Countdown | What time is that for me?

We have a few more queries about pending nominations:

German Mythology

• The Loreley | Die Lorelei & None - the AO3 tag for the character is Die Loreley | The Lorelei and while the German spelling seems to be different between different versions, the English spelling seems to be consistently "Lorelei". Please clarify.

Star Wars - All Media Types

• Darth Vader/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren - the canonical "Kylo Ren/Anakin Skywalker" tag has 14 fics complete and in English. Please clarify why this should be considered distinct.

Vampire: The Masquerade

• All the nominated ships for this are between characters from "L.A. by Night" which seems to be a specific V:tM game streamed on Twitch - would it be better as a specific fandom in the tag set?

The following nominations were rejected for the reason provided. If you feel we rejected your nomination in error, feel free to comment below; if we have made a mistake, the tag can be reinstated.

If you are nominating a fandom, character or relationship that may appear ineligible, but it has not been rejected by us yet, please see the Evidence Post.

( Rejected Nominations )

Rejected Fandoms

Fandoms not eligible in and of themselves where the only tags nominated were also ineligible

• Oz (TV)


• The Princess Diaries - All Media Types

Nominations are now open here! Each person can nominate up to 20 fandoms, with up to 20 relationships/characters each.

Nominations will close July 18th at 11:55 PM UTC. Countdown | What time is that for me?

( Qualifications )

 The following nominations were rejected for the reason provided. If you feel we rejected your nomination in error, feel free to comment below.

A final clarifications post will follow shortly.  Thank you to everyone who has helped throughout the nominations period by responding to queries, adjusting their nominations, etc.

( Rejected Nominations )

As of 1900 UTC, all tags have either been dealt with or are awaiting a response to issues raised in this post or the previous one.  (In some cases we are waiting to deal with fandoms until one or two tags for them are fixed, to avoid having too many tags waiting in the "Already Approved" section.)  If you have tags that have not gone through, for fandoms that are not listed here, please let us know as something may have gone wrong.

There are a little over two days left until nominations close. Countdown | What time is that for me?

Many thanks to everyone who has provided extra information to help us resolve previous queries.  If you have further nominations to add which may not be clearly eligible, please do use the evidence post to explain the circumstances.


Alpennia Series - Heather Rose Jones

• Barbara of Sauveze/Margerit Sovitre - is "Barbara of Sauveze" the same character as "Barbara Lumbiert"?

Collar x Malice

• Hoshino Kazuya - should this be "Hoshino Kazuki"?

DCU (Comics)

• Thomas Blake/Floyd Lawton - this relationship is tagged in 15 works that are complete and in English.  In one of these it is clearly a background pairing, and one seems to be deliberately intended to be applicable to multiple ships, but overall it appears to be over, counting fics in which it is the only ship or apparently of equal importance to other ships.

The Goblin Emperor

• Csethiro CeredinCsoru Drazharan - presumably the missing symbol in this tag is a typo, but is this supposed to be a / ship or an & ship?
• Deret Beshelar/Original Lion Girl - in the rules for this round, we are not allowing nominations for original characters.  If there is a distinct "mentioned or implied" lion girl that this nomination could apply to, please let us know.

Law & Order: SVU

• Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr./Peter Stone - this relationship is tagged in 16 complete works in English.  It appears to be a background pairing in 2 of them, but this still leaves 14.

Relatos salvajes | Wild Tales (2014)

• Everyone & Gabriel Pasternak - this tag is somewhat too broad

Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson

• This fandom's online footprint is very small, which on the one hand means it's definitely the sort of fandom that FGE is for, but on the other makes it difficult for us to verify character names etc., beyond the main character who is mentioned by name in some reviews.  Please could the nominator check spellings etc. extremely carefully and then let us know when they've done so.

War and Peace - Tolstoy

• Fyodor Obolensky/Pyotr Rostove - is "Fyodor Obolensky" in the book?  Googling for the name brings up virtually no results at all, which given the number of War and Peace resources online is surprising.  (Also, should "Rostove" be "Rostov"?)

Under the cut are a number of issues still outstanding from the previous clarifications post.  Please note that some of these tags are at risk of being rejected if we do not receive valid evidence for their inclusion.

( Outstanding issues from post #1 )

Nominations open here!

Are you nominating a fandom, character or relationship that may appear ineligible? Please use this post to submit evidence that it qualifies under our rules. It would be a good idea to post here if your fandom, character or relationship has more than 10 works (complete, in English) but:

• They have been written by five authors or fewer
• They contain crossovers
• Your nominated character/relationship is not the main character/relationship in some of those works.

Evidence that will not be considered for eligibility is word count or archive-locking of tagged fics.

For more information on what fandoms, characters and relationships are eligible, please see the rules post.

A suggested template for your post:
<strong>Fandom:</strong> <br /><strong>Character/Relationship:</strong> <br /><strong>Evidence of Eligibility:</strong> <br />


If something you've nominated has already been rejected, please leave a comment on the Rejected Nominations Post [tba].

Thank you all for nominating so many great tags! Everyone, please make sure that your nominations look correct, and let us know immediately if something doesn't look right.


Below are all of our tag migration questions. Please help us with these wandering tags and tell us which fandom(s) they were originally nominated under. If you spot any other wandering tags, please bring them to our attention.

( Doctor Who )
( Marvel )


If we don't hear one way or the other before sign-ups open, we'll use our best judgment to place these relationships.

The following are all now fixed, thank you:
( ASoIaF / Game of Thrones )
( BanG Dream! )
( X/1999 and/or Tokyo Babylon )
( Fate/stay night and Related Fandoms )
( Vampire Diaries )
( Fruits Basket )

Nominations close at 11:55 PM UTC on July 31st, a little over a day from the time of this post (Countdown). This is intended to be the last clarifications post before nominations close; any tags mentioned here for which clarification or further evidence is not provided will be rejected at the close of nominations.

(A link to the evidence post, should you need to use it.)

Reminders:

1. If nominating characters on their own, nominate in the form "Character & None". Tags in the form "Character & Any" won't be accepted.
2. Nominations including original characters will not be accepted.

Additionally, relationships containing both / and & will be rejected this round.
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( Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016); Mass Effect Trilogy; Voltron: Legendary Defender; Kings (TV 2009) )

(A link to the evidence post, should you need to use it.)

Reminders:

1. If nominating characters on their own, nominate in the form "Character & None". Tags in the form "Character & Any" won't be permitted.
2. Nominations including original characters will not be accepted.

Kings (TV 2009)

• Michelle Benjamin/David Shepherd - This has 34 complete, English works. Multiple pairings are tagged in many of these, and some are crossovers, so it has not been rejected immediately. If you nominated this ship, please provide evidence for why there are ten or fewer valid works.

Fire Emblem

• Flavia/My Unit | Reflet | Robin, Izana/My Unit | Kamui | Corrin, My Unit | Kamui | Corrin/Nyx, My Unit | Kamui | Corrin/Rinkah, My Unit | Kamui | Corrin/Yuugiri | Reina. - These tags have migrated. We are unsure whether they were originally nominated under Fates or Awakening.

Multiple fandoms

• The nominations listed here which are formatted as "Character & Any" have not yet been adjusted by the nominator. Unfortunately, due to the way the AO3 approval interface works, the presence of these tags is making it difficult for us to process new nominations. If these tags remain in the same format 24 hours from the time of this post, we will adjust them all to the "Character & None" style.
  • In addition to those listed previously, three more relationships formatted "Character & Any" have been nominated under "Lamento -BEYOND THE VOID-". They are Firi (Lamento) & Any, Froud (Lamento) & Any, and Kagari (Lamento) & Any. They too will be adjusted if not changed within 24 hours.

Nominations clarifications remaining from previous posts are below (under the cut).

( Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016); Mass Effect Trilogy; Voltron: Legendary Defender  )