grumble, grumble
Sep. 4th, 2013 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitDear authors of fic for Sherlock, the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movies, and the Granada series,
Please, please stop tagging your fic at AO3 with "Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle" if it's not really bookverse. If there were no false crosstagging, bookverse might just have qualified for Yuletide this year.
Extremely sincerely,
Disgruntled ofTumbridge Wells Recently-Renewed Bookverse Love
ETA: Actually, on looking again at the numbers for eligibility, it wasn't even close. Still, I wonder how many of the 1600 supposedly bookverse fics on AO3 are actually bookverse.
And, honestly, I think there are a few fandoms that ought to become permanent members of Yuletide, as it were, because they have a long history of being largely Yuletide fandoms. Holmes bookverse is one of them; I note that Discworld, which has almost 900 fics on AO3, seems to have been quietly let continue as Yuletide fandom--I've heard nothing about it being ineligible--on this principle. Also, as AO3 gets more popular, it's worth asking if the 250 fic limit there is too low. I dunno. I wish there could be some kind of algorithm that consistently takes into account things like how long a fandom has been around. 1600 Holmes fics looks less huge when you consider that the fandom is over 125 years old; conversely, Welcome to Night Vale is just over a year old and has almost 1000 fics, so even though that's less in absolute numbers than Holmes, I certainly don't think it should be in Yuletide. It would get very complicated, I suppose, and piss even more people off than the current system does. And I realize the mods are allowed to run Yuletide however they like; hence my posting this here on my own journal, purely as a thought, rather than contacting the mods about it.
Please, please stop tagging your fic at AO3 with "Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle" if it's not really bookverse. If there were no false crosstagging, bookverse might just have qualified for Yuletide this year.
Extremely sincerely,
Disgruntled of
ETA: Actually, on looking again at the numbers for eligibility, it wasn't even close. Still, I wonder how many of the 1600 supposedly bookverse fics on AO3 are actually bookverse.
And, honestly, I think there are a few fandoms that ought to become permanent members of Yuletide, as it were, because they have a long history of being largely Yuletide fandoms. Holmes bookverse is one of them; I note that Discworld, which has almost 900 fics on AO3, seems to have been quietly let continue as Yuletide fandom--I've heard nothing about it being ineligible--on this principle. Also, as AO3 gets more popular, it's worth asking if the 250 fic limit there is too low. I dunno. I wish there could be some kind of algorithm that consistently takes into account things like how long a fandom has been around. 1600 Holmes fics looks less huge when you consider that the fandom is over 125 years old; conversely, Welcome to Night Vale is just over a year old and has almost 1000 fics, so even though that's less in absolute numbers than Holmes, I certainly don't think it should be in Yuletide. It would get very complicated, I suppose, and piss even more people off than the current system does. And I realize the mods are allowed to run Yuletide however they like; hence my posting this here on my own journal, purely as a thought, rather than contacting the mods about it.
