Recently I've been applying page tags to the characters (currently from A through C at the moment), but I thought before I continued that we could go over the tags to decide what would be worth keeping or adding to the list of tags.
- animorph, pedomorph, transgender : Pretty straightforward. My only concern is "transgender"… should it be changed to "gendermorph"?
- 'taur : I'm not familiar enough with taur form to know when to apply it. For someone whose default form is taur? Someone who has knows how to taur shift? Someone who is regularly seen in taur form?
- alteration, curse, curses : The other three legacy tags. I had a thought about applying these to story summaries: see below.
- amigadragon, arace, cerulean, charles-matthias, christian-okane, coal-train, hallan-mirayas, hawl-enroygall, kristy-davis, phil-geusz, pontos, raven-blackmane, ryx, w-o-l-f-0013 : The idea behind these tags was to assign who is the current owner of a character, i.e. who to contact for permission to use them.
- deceased : For characters who are, in the active timeline (708 CR), no longer living. I thought about extending this for characters who were alive but had been requested not to be used, but I couldn't think of a tag. "forbidden" perhaps?
The rest of the tags are basic info that would be relevant if an author needs a specific type of character:
- ecclesia, lothanasi, yehudim : Some religions.
- automaton, daedra, dragon, god : Some non-human races.
- elvquelin, euper, glen-avery : Locations for characters generally residing in one place.
- archer, automicant, baker, healer, high-priest, long-scout, marigund-mage, questioner, scout, spy, teacher : Some occupations.
- magyar : I only know that Magyars are rough analogues to Romani, so they're none of the above. I guess ethnicity?
Alright, so discussion time:
- What other tags would people like to have for characters?
- So far I only have tags for characters. Locations would be easy to add tags to (buildings get city tags, cities get continent tags). What about organizations? Magic? Events? What sort of tags would we want?
- Are these tags even useful for people? Just because they're there doesn't mean we need them.
- Okay, finally… I've been considering adding tags to the summaries, like "curse" for stories that explain or explore new aspects of the curse, or "alteration" for stories that specifically someone undergoing a permanent change. (MK did start off as a transformation-based story universe, after all). Maybe other tags for stories that describe and explore certain organizations or locations. Any thoughts?