Talk:AO3 Tagging Policy Debate (2011-2013)

The conversation about this page started at Talk:AO3 Tag Wrangling. If someone has a better page name, feel free to move it. I also copy/pasted the AO3 Tag Wrangling intro paragraph over, so that probably needs some work.--æþel 04:31, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

scope?

Page name is very generic (looks I did it), but covers some very specific historical debates that are no longer relevant. I'm not sure which direction this page should go in - people are still criticizing AO3 tagging policy, but the discussions don't really fit into the current page structure. The way this page is structured right now is very ahistorical. Should it be updated to cover all debates (plural) past and present? If so I think it needs a complete overhaul. It needs a rename either way: AO3 Tagging Policy Debates or AO3 Tagging Policy Debates, 2011-2012. (I stuck some more recent topics on the AO3 Tagging System page, but that could quickly expand and we'll be back to needing a separate page for it.)--aethel (talk) 19:40, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

I created a separate page for No Fandom Freeforms. Other more recent complaints include: pinyin diacritics, piping for non-English canons, dismantling of tag trees[1][2][3], case where a DCEU subfandom tag was incorrectly synned to the parent[4], loss of "All Media Types" metatags.--aethel (talk) 15:38, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Rename to disambiguate with the September 2024 Metatag/All Media Types Controversy?

This is new since the discussion above, and I'm making a page for it now under the title AO3 Fandom Metatag Removal Controversy. We definitely at least need a hatnote. Or perhaps this page could be reorganized as a catch-all/summary across the past 14 years, with all specific controversies broken off into their own pages?? -- Quaelegit (talk) 01:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

I just realized the irony of proposing to turn this page into a catchall, when I'm documenting AO3 Tag Wrangler's war on cathall tags (and the users who oppose it). -- Quaelegit (talk) 01:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

I disambiguated it; I've looked at this page several times to figure out how it could be rewritten/expanded, and I think it would be easier not to. Here's the disambiguation page: AO3 Tagging Policy Debate. I think it might be easier to develop and organize the Criticism/Discussion section on the AO3_Tagging_System page, breaking out individual topics to their own page as needed.--aethel (talk) 22:38, 14 September 2024 (UTC)