Modpost: Tagging standards

[laurenthemself]

One of the other things I'm trying to do is make the tags consistent. We've never had rules about tagging, so some people do and some people don't and some people tag one way and some people tag another and the oldest posts aren't tagged because they were made prior to the existence of tags. So from now on, here's what'd be good for people to do for tags:

Author names: author: username OR preferred pen name
Artist names: artist: username OR preferred pen name
Art styles: art: icons OR banners OR wallpaper (or other art style we don't have a tag for yet)
Pairing: pairing: rimmer/lister or whosoever it might be. I recognise and bow to the inevitability that we will have both pairing: rimmer/lister and pairing: lister/rimmer as options. You get that. I just want to make it a bit more consistent than those two AND 'lister/rimmer' AND 'l/r' and whatever else.
Rating: rating: nc-17
For crossovers, add fandom: whatever the fandom name is

There are a lot of other things that need to be fiddled with tag-wise, but if we could bear those basic guidelines in mind and I'll work on putting together a full list of tags; at the moment there are a bunch of tags that need playing with to be useful, and a bunch of posts that need tagging, so it's going to take a while. I don't want to be all whipcracky, I just want to make the most of the tag system.

Edit: Following the suggestion from debris_k below, I am turning off new tag adding. If you need to add a new tag to your entry (e.g. an author tag if you don't have one already, a character tag for a character who's not listed, and so on), please tag your post with tag request and put the tags you're requesting at the bottom of your post, and I will create the tags for you.

Comments

sorry for the repeated editing, I keep noticing mistakes in my wording >.<

[debris_k.livejournal.com]

As a long-time tagger in an unrelated comm (and general busybody in a few others) might I suggest you turn off members' ability to create new tags? That way only existing (and used - only mods can see unused tags) tags would be available for folks to add and it would cut down drastically on tags appearing twice over in different forms and spellings, etc, etc. Learned this the hard way I did, back when I first set out to tag a comm. Has been working like a charm since, though.

A simple 'misc.' or 'new tag [of this and that type] needed!' would be the only thing you'd need to add to preserve the system of folks being able to get new tags when needed. Mods could check up on them from time to time and do what needs to be done, and everyone would be perfectly content. :-)

[laurenthemself]

I really, really like this idea. And possibly should've thought of it myself considering it's how tagging works at capeandcowl, where I play, so I'm aware of the functionality.

Thanks heaps for bringing it to my attention. I'm going to do this.

[debris_k.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of help! :-) I'd offer help with the tagging itself, but on edgy dial-up it's both costly and nerve-wrecking to spend any prolonged time online.

[laurenthemself]

Oh, that's absolutely fair enough, and it's a massive help just to have that suggestion; I don't expect anyone to offer to help tag! (Although I suppose if anyone wants to, they can always put their hand up; there are an awful lot of entries now I'm looking at them...)

[queen-fiend.livejournal.com]

I'll have some spare time coming up so I can probably do some. It will give me a excuse to re-read awesome fics. :D

[laurenthemself]

That'd be really great if you could, and just let me know if you need a particular author tag or anything like that.

[queen-fiend.livejournal.com]

Ok! Oh, I guess I could use an author tag. :)

[laurenthemself]

I've added author: queen_fiend if that's cool, let me know if you want it altered to a pen name or anything.

[queen-fiend.livejournal.com]

That's fine. Thank you! :)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Do you maybe want us to go back and find our fics that are untagged and put suggested tag info at the top? (Yeah, I know, easier said than done for some of us - I only have three so far, not tens like some people.)

[laurenthemself]

That'd be great! And yes, it could be worse, you could be tsukinobun, who joined last year and has approximately eighty billion fics up from what I can see going through the archives.

[dauphkantus.livejournal.com]

pff, at least she updated regularly.

I'd edit hers myself or offer so or whatever, but hopefully by now you already have done, realizing that they're mainly all together time-wise.

[dauphkantus.livejournal.com]

oh, i was being sarcastic but grinning btw- I realized that might come off as harsh otherwise.

[laurenthemself]

I haven't yet but I will be when I go back through again; trying to determine categories for the awards is taking a while, but it will be worth it in the end (or so I'm telling myself).

[dauphkantus.livejournal.com]

Make sure you take Rimmerine satisfaction in OCD organization and labeling once you do finish.

;D

[laurenthemself]

I have a spreadsheet. :-D

[dauphkantus.livejournal.com]

xDDFASKLASDFAJDSVIOSNSAODIN

DO YOU ALSO HAVE A TIMETABLE?! COVERED IN LOVELY COPPERPLATE HANDWRITING AND ARTISTICALLY DELICATE SHADING?!?

Tagging is fun

[pheonix-iz-me.livejournal.com]

Hi, I had started a mass tagging mission for this comm, I did ask, you seemed ok with it.
It was a couple of years ago and life did get in the way, but if you'd like me to help again, Or just chat about what I've already done, then I'm available.

Phe

[laurenthemself]

Phe, you're awesome. If you're cool to keep tagging and let me know if you run across authors who need a tag, or episodes we don't have a tag for yet that get mentioned, and so on, that'd be fantastic.

[pheonix-iz-me.livejournal.com]

NP, Can I assume, at this point, that none of the tags I've already added have been removed?

[laurenthemself]

I haven't removed any tags so far except for a handful that were unused (not author tags, just some random stuff).

[pheonix-iz-me.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'll start having a poke Tomorrow, I can't even remember where I got to.

[laurenthemself]

I think you'd done a fair bit of early stuff because when I went in to look from the start a lot of the entries were tagged, but I'm not sure where you left off either.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Happy to go back and re-tag... but could I get an author tag please? :)

[laurenthemself]

You now have the tag author: daasgrrl. Thanks!

[queen-fiend.livejournal.com]

I was just going through the recent posts and adding some author tags, but I noticed there are several new authors posting that don't have tags yet. Could anything be done about this? :) I also noticed in the tags list that there is a tag called "ew icky het" or something. I'm not sure this tag is all that necessary...

[laurenthemself]

Hee, the 'ew icky het' was actually my tag on one entry :D I'll change it to something less silly.

I can make new author tags, I'll go over the last few months and see who needs a tag.

[queen-fiend.livejournal.com]

Awesome! :D Heh, the tag just puzzled me, is all. I didn't think it had been used very many times. :P

[(Anonymous)]

Would it be possible to have tags for: alyeen1; captainemerald; cestlavieminako; communicator; sunny_bexster; and tarnneth, please?

[laurenthemself]

Got 'em all!

I apologise for being so pants at tags, truly.