Noms Queries Post 2

[morbane]

Thanks for the help so far!

We're around 49.5 hours into tagmodding, and have processed 2933 nominations.

There are currently 2026 fandom nominations remaining, and 1599 fandoms and 7048 characters approved!

Please help us with the following issues:

• Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh has been nominated with the characters Allison Reilly, Ariane

Comments

[minutia_r]

I'm the one who nominated Downbelow Station. It was my understanding that Alliance-Union as such would be ineligible under the current rules, as it includes several sub-series that have no characters, settings, or time periods in common. I'd be happy to have Damon Konstantin and Elene Quen included in Alliance-Union if it was included, though.

(The Alliance-Union universe is a bit complicated as far as which books are included in which sub-series, though. In some cases, it's clear-cut, in others, less so. It could probably argued that all the nominated characters could be included under the Company Wars umbrella.)

[jenn_calaelen]

Thank you for the information. We'll consider it with anything we hear from the other nominators in making our decision.

[cordialcount]

I nominated Ari I, Grant, Joshua, and Signy under Alliance-Union.

I don't mind a split, but as minutia_r said, it's not clear how one should partition the canon. Also, while this universe functions somewhat like Discworld wrt continuity*, it is a much smaller fandom, and in a past year when I attempted to nominate by subseries, the names I tried don't seem to have been easily recognizable (at least by the decline-blip that year in requests and offers).

If you do choose to split, the nominated characters appear in the following books:
Cyteen/Regenesis: Ariane Emory I, Grant ALX-972
Downbelow Station: Signy Mallory, Damon Konstantin, Elene Quen, Joshua Talley
The other Company Wars books: Allison Reilly, Bet Yeager, Capella, Meg Kady; also Signy Mallory, Joshua Talley

* It even has "subseries" that the fandom treats as separate entities-- e.g. the fandoms traditionally nominated as The Chronicles of Morgaine and Chanur Series technically come from the same universe, but everyone knows they're not in the intended canon for an

[jenn_calaelen]

Thank you for clarifying. We'll use this info when deciding what to do.

[ext_2750940]

I know the question has been decided, but as the other nominator I feel I ought to agree with what cordialcount said for the record.

(I could also start a discussion about partition, but that doesn't really belong here. Also I think in past years 40,000 in Gehenna has also appeared as a separate entity.)

[morbane]

Thanks for adding your reasoning too.

[morbane]

OK - thank you. At present we've decided to fold Downbelow Station into Alliance-Union, including the characters you nominated. Please let us know if you see a problem with that.

(While we appreciate you taking heed of the general guidelines and deliberately splitting it off, this has a lot of leeway based on a) overall size of fandom; b) fans' preference; and c) what has been approved before.)

[minutia_r]

That's absolutely fine with me. Thank you!