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(Partially) fixing the tag system

I'll have to look into it I guess. Or if they have time, @SwiftRosenthal can maybe give a history lesson/explainer (or point me towards an authorative source).
Slut Life is an unrelated CYOA from several years before Waifu Catalog was ever imagined as a thing.

Rule 34 economy is the umbrella concept of a waifu picker CYOA.

Waifu Catalog is a specific CYOA from the initial wave of waifu pickers that steadily grew into its own thing.

Company Fucks Everyone is Cherico and Lee's homebrew lore that's... basically the WC's unwanted equivalent of Independent!Gray!MC and betrayal fics. Let it be under the umbrella of Rule 34 Economy but not the umbrella of Waifu Catalog.
 
Slut Life is an unrelated CYOA from several years before Waifu Catalog was ever imagined as a thing.

Rule 34 economy is the umbrella concept of a waifu picker CYOA.

Waifu Catalog is a specific CYOA from the initial wave of waifu pickers that steadily grew into its own thing.

Company Fucks Everyone is Cherico and Lee's homebrew lore that's... basically the WC's unwanted equivalent of Independent!Gray!MC and betrayal fics. Let it be under the umbrella of Rule 34 Economy but not the umbrella of Waifu Catalog.
Is 'r34 catalog' and 'r34 economy' the same umbrella concept, or is the former a specific iteration?
 
Is 'r34 catalog' and 'r34 economy' the same umbrella concept, or is the former a specific iteration?
Probably just linguistic corruption. Actually looking at the tag, most of its entries are also tagged with the specific CYOA used, and it's not always WC. I would merge it into "r34 economy".
 
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Probably just linguistic corruption. Actually looking at the tag, most of its entries are also tagged with the specific CYOA used, and it's not always WC. I would merge it into "r34 economy".
Looking at the specific threads, 'r34 catalog' all do seem to use some variety of a 'r34 economy' CYOA, so it does seem to be the same thing. Will keep them in the same merge group, as they are.
 
Waifu Catalog is a specific CYOA from the initial wave of waifu pickers that steadily grew into its own thing.
One last question: what are 'waifu catalog dlc's', and more specifically, are they substantially separate additions, or is it like a home brew of the base (and so can be linked to the 'modified waifu catalog' group).
 
Will reorganise those groups. Also have some more genre tags to add, so will organise them too.
Did. These are some things I'll be adding to the batch:
[coffin of andy and leyley] the coffin of andy and leyley

[shonen - shounen] shōnen

{shonen bullshit - shonen like - shonen nonsense - shonen quest - shounen as fuck - shounen fighting and training} shōnen

<shonen jump>

{seinen character dynamics} sienen

[mahou shojou - mahou shoujo] mahō shōjo

[shoujo] shōjo

{dramatic - light drama - story has drama. thread needs to not. - with a pinch of drama and depression} drama

<cracky drama>

{crush drama - relationship drama} romantic drama

{galaxy wide family drama} family drama

<humor over drama>

[k-drama] korean drama

<legal drama>

{politics and uplift and drama} political drama

<samurai drama>

{total drama island} total drama

<homoromantic protagonist>

{sports anime bullshit} sports!

[sentai] super sentai
And these are modifications to tags/groups already present in the batch:
[romantic] romance

{romantic subplot} romance

{investigation} mystery

{crime-solving} detective

<the company>

{book 1 finished} complete

{buffy} buffy the vampire slayer

{nikke} goddess of victory: nikke

{why is there shonen in my gritty dark fantasy?} despair and hope

<wholesome girlfriend>

[timeline shennagins] timeline shenanigans

{borked timelines} timeline shenanigans

[alternate universe - canon divergence - canon divergences - eventual canon divergence - canon derail - slow canon derail - derail this train} canon divergence

[non canon - non-canon - non-canon compliant] not canon

{not canon - alternative timeline - canon already sunk - canon crashed a while ago - canon found shot outside - canon is a suggestion - canon is a guideline - canon is merely a figment of your imagination - canon is what i say it is - canon lore tweaks - canon rewrite - canon? can you eat it? - canon? what's a canon - canon? what's canon? - canons will changed as needed - definitely not canon compliant probably - fanon as canon - headcanons abound - im not following the canon - inconvenient canon facts will be ignored - lots of headcanons - non-canon likely - not exactly canon - nothing is canonical btw - perversion of canon - some headcanon interpretations - what is canon? - what the fuck is a canon? - what's a canon? - what's canon?} au
I'll be editing all the above into the batch sometime tomorrow, assuming there's no objections to any of it.
 
{politics and uplift and drama} political drama
The key word there is "uplift". While splitting that to two tags and assigning the 4 threads with that tag both "uplift" (or uplift drama) and political drama is possible, you shouldn't remove the uplift tag from those threads. That is something people will be searching for/excluding. I think this should go in a group with the other uplift tags, or possibly merge a bunch of them to "uplift", although several (such as this) do seem to give additional information beyond it being an uplift story.

{why is there shonen in my gritty dark fantasy?} despair and hope
That seems to lose the information the tag provides, i.e that the story has Shonen elements, but then there's only one thread from 2018 tagged with it so whatever...
 
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One last question: what are 'waifu catalog dlc's', and more specifically, are they substantially separate additions, or is it like a home brew of the base (and so can be linked to the 'modified waifu catalog' group).
*checks* The DLC's are add-on docs to the main CYOA body. Given the nature of such CYOAs, it can be either of those or neither of them.
...Not that it particularly matters in this case, given there are only two threads with the <wc dlc's> tag (the first one used a legacy aspect (the Tao patron, struck out of the main doc while Chibi-Reaper was writing the story), the second included new/expansion DLCs as standard but left off the legacy DLC's).
 

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