Nominations Tutorial

[jenn_calaelen]

How to Nominate!

1. 
   Decide on what to nominate! (The best/hardest step of all.) By nominating fandoms you ensure they will be available to offer and request in Yuletide this year. You can nominate up to 3 fandoms with a maximum of 4 characters each.
   
   

Comments

[millari]

What about anthologies? Are they eligible? Also, what if I want to nominate one author's story in particular in the anthology?

[hhertzof]

Anthologies are tricky, however short stories (or series of short stories) are eligible (Title - Author, same as books).

[morbane]

Your fandom tag looks fine!

And Michelle Obama (Slam Poem), same with other characters, would be helpful - mostly to make sure they don't then show up in another fandom, like 21st Century USA Politics or similar.

I'm not precisely sure how it's a fanwork, sorry, could you help me out there?

[morbane]

Okay! I may be wrong, but I would think slam poetry would have more in common with spoken-word music pieces, or possibly in this case historical musicals, than with fanworks as a general category.

A link to the poem, especially in text, couldn't hurt, though.

[ersatzkapitaen]

Is there a way to narrow TV shows that significantly changed over the years they ran down to a specific part of them?

I really want to nominate "Hallo Spencer", which was a German kiddie show, at first played exclusively with puppet-characters (think Muppets, only not monsters) living in a village. Later the show was moved to a city-setting and finally even filled with cartoon-ish things. What I want are the episodes in the village. So my question:
Would "Hallo Spencer (Village episodes)" work as a fandom tag?
Or how would I best go about it? Additional characters were introduced over the later years, but the old ones still showed up as well, so they're no help to differentiate it.

[morbane]

Normally, we don't allow people to split up TV series in this way - especially if they evolve gradually. You can nominate a section of the TV series (the village episodes), but please make a post to the Evidence Post showing how they are clearly different series before and after the point you mention. Your suggested tag is OK, but something showing a period of time might also work.

Hope that helps.

[roseeverafter]

I don't suppose it's allowed to nominate a fandom twice so you can get more characters? :P I really want to nominate The Lunar Chronicles, but choosing only four of the main eight characters is so hard!

[jenn_calaelen]

No - the tagset interface doesn't allow that, sorry.

[roseeverafter]

It's okay, I assumed that was the case and I was (mostly) joking anyways. I did manage to choose four characters out of the main eight.

[jenn_calaelen]

Good. :)

[morbane]

It doesn't mess things up, but you also probably don't need to.

Book - Author; definitely don't need to
TV series with a distinctive name - probably not
TV series with a single-word or generic name - check wrangling guidelines, and add something like (TV 2015) or (US TV) or (UK TV 2004) to it.
Etc.
Does that help?