Tagset Enquiries #2

[chocolateboxmod]

 Some more issues:

• The Vampire Diaries - L.J. Smith: Was this what you intended to nominate? There are some characters in this nomination that belong only in the TV series and some relationships are different between TV series and books.
• Star Wars: Before I merge all the relationships from the movies into a "Star Wars series (Movies)" tag, are there any relationships that belong to the EU?
• Stargate SG1 & Stargate Atlantis: Before I merge these into one overarching fandom, do you have a preference as to what I name the tag (as Stargate Universe would be rather confusing!)
• Tales of Symphonia: Emil Castagnier, Ratatosk and Richter Abend only appear in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. DId you want a more general tag of Tales of Symphonia series?
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Which one? Maki Illustrious Makinami is a Rebuild character and the series are quite different. Do you want NG or Rebuild of Evangelion?
• Superman - AMT: Do you want All Media Types for Superman?
• Dragon Age: I am about to merge these categories into Dragon Age - All Media Types unless I hear otherwise.
• Les Misérables: I genuinely have no clue how to handle this. So far the book and AMT has been nominated. What would you like me to do?
• Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms: There does not seem to be any character combinations nominated here. Is that an error with the mod console or did you not nominate any character combos?
• Leo Fitz/Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie: This has been nominated in MCU. Did you mean to nominate it in Agents of SHIELD?

I will be sorting out the MCU + related TV shows nominations over the next few hours, so while I'm in the mod console, what other things need fixing?

Comments

[chocolateboxmod]

Is there a name you would use for the Sailor Moon franchise as a whole?

Thank you for picking up the Javert/Aubrey crossover, and that's been migrated across!

[plaid_slytherin]

For the record, I didn't nominate Sailor Moon anything, I'm just a big fan and potential offerer.

I think this is a case where AMT would be difficult because each different continuity is a different thing that stands on its own from beginning to end, often with radically different characters and situations. The 90s anime and the recent anime Sailor Moon Crystal (the only bit that has its own title - everything else is officially just Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon) both adapt the manga, but the 90s anime made enough additions that a lot of characterization is radically different (the addition of Ail and An for one thing, who don't exist in any other continuity but a lot, lot more that would definitely matter to shippers). The live-action show (known by fans as PGSM, because this was the first time the new official English title of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon was used) makes extreme departures in characterization and plot, and I wouldn't expect anyone who hadn't seen it to be able to write for it, or even want to. It's different from your typical adaptation situation where everything is basically the same.

So, as to what I would do, based on the tagset as it stands, I would make a new category for the 90s anime and put Ail/An in it (because they can't go anywhere else). Because of the disambiguation of PGSM that exists on all the other ships (plus the nature of those ships) I can guess the nominator of the other ships meant PGSM, but you may want to ask? Rei & Makoto, for example, screams PGSM to me because they have a special relationship in that; Jadeite & Nephrite probably does too because they never interacted in the 90s anime. The others strike me as more ambiguous but are probably PGSM if the nominator wrote that and not you.

AO3 has always been really weird about Sailor Moon. I hope this novel helped some.