One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

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Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

It could also be a wrangling cockup where "Mr. Summers" is synned to the marvel character.

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

C CYRT RT

Oh, yeah, looking at the tag for Corsair "Mr Summers" (version with no dot) is indeed synned to it, so that's probably what's done it.

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

That isn’t a wrangling cockup, though. The poster should probably tag it “Mr Summers (The Lottery)”.

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

Synning "Mr Summers" to a specific character is in fact a cockup

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

It's a policy decision considered more beneficial than never canonizing a short character name ever.

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

*or synning

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

DC

Well, it's an existing wrangling cockup in that the generic, no-disambiguation "Mr Summers" tag which could refer any possible Mr Summers in any fandom surely shouldn't actually be synned to the one specific Marvel character Christopher Summers. (I don't know if there are any actual guidelines for what to do with overly generic character name tags, but I would have thought even leaving them eternally unwrangled would at least be better than tossing all generic Mr Summerses into the tag for whichever character with that surname happens to be most popular or gets spotted by a tag wrangler first.)

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

it's one of those things where the guidelines have changed over the years, so the actual state of the archive is a mess.

It used to be you'd canonize the short version and then make a subtag for all the different fandoms' long versions, and you'll still see a lot of those around for tags from older fandoms.

They relatively recently switched to "you can syn the short version to the long version as long as most of the uses are for the same character" because they thought the metatag trees were messy but they are allergic to leaving character tags unwrangled. This was frankly a terrible decision that makes it really hard to navigate a lot of small fandoms and also means busy new fandoms often don't even notice their major character was synned to another fandom years ago until the other fandom's tag is mostly the wrong fandom, but wrangling has been heavily emphasizing large old fandoms getting to gobble everything up lately (see also: the Sherlock debacle earlier this year.)

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I mean, do we know Buffy's dad's name?

(Probably we do, but I'm not googling)

Re: Fandoms of interest

[(Anonymous)]

It's Hank. I'm a little embarrassed that I know this with zero thought.