Kaleidoscope Disputes

[dark_administrator]

Hello doers of darkness -- We've finished processing all nominations! Thank you again, everyone, for nominating!

With the exception of the following fandoms:

• Attack The Block: Joe Cornish
  
• Beasts of the Southern Wild: Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar
  
• Bel Dame Apocrypha: Kameron Hurley
  
• Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes & Paco Tejas): Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Cully Hamner
  
• Day Break: Paul Zbyszewski
  
• Dantarian no Shoka (ダンタリアンの書架) (Mystic Archives of Dantalian)
  
• Ōkiku Furikabutte (おおきく振りかぶって) (Big Windup!)
  
• Island of the Blue Dolphins: Scott O'Dell
  
• Lions of Al-Rassan: Guy Gavriel Kay
  
• Luther (TV): Neil Cross
  
• Prince of Egypt (1998): Brenda Chapman, Nicholas Meyer, Philip LaZebnik, Simon Wells, Steve Hickner
  
• Relic Hunter (TV 1999): Gil Grant
  
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Michael Piller, Rick Berman
  
• Sunshine (2007): Danny Boyle
  
• The Spiritwalker Trilogy: Kate Elliott
  
• Tortilla Flats: John Steinbeck
  
• Women of the Otherworld: Kelley Armstrong
  
• Zorro: Johnston McCulley

And the following characters:

FAKE

• Berkeley Rose
  
• Carol "Cal" Baker
  
• Dee Laytner
  
• Diana Spacey
  
• Drake Parker
  
• Jemmy J. "J.J" Adams
  
• Rai Spencer

Pet Shop of Horrors

• Chris Orcot
  
• Jill
  
• Leon Orcot

Trapped in the Closet by R. Kelly

• Bridget

which have been considered ineligible for Kaleidoscope because they don't appear to qualify for our challenge, all nominations have been initially approved. We have 177 fandoms & about 965 characters, and the list of fandoms and characters can be reviewed at our Kaleidoscope 2012 Nominations tags set (and our Kaleidoscope 2012 Nominations spreadsheet for reference).

Our post on source eligibility might provide some insights on why some fandoms and characters have been deemed as ineligible. However, If you believe any of above fandoms and characters have been rejected in error, or if a fandom or character that you've nominated does not appear in the above ineligible list or the Kaleidoscope 2012 Nominations list, please let us know!

Furthermore, if you believe a fandom or character in the Kaleidoscope 2012 Nominations list does not qualify for Kaleidoscope based on our criteria for eligibility, please open a dispute at Kaleidoscope Disputes. We depend on your help and fannish knowledge to finalize the nominations list. Below is a tutorial on how to open a dispute.

We also welcome corrections and help on verifying how names and titles are transcribed and transliterated from the original source language. In particular, we continue to ask for your help in finding and verifying the names in the original source language and/or their romanized version for these characters and people:

• Arctic Expeditions RPF [Inuktitut]: Anauakaq Henson, Egigingwah, Minik, Ooqueah, Ootah, Seegloo
  
• Dòu Máah Dáan | Peking Opera Blues (1986) [Hànzì]: Commander Liu, Tung Man
  
• Монголын түүх | Mongolian History RPF [Mongolian Cyrillic]: Khutulun, Alaqai Beki, Checheyigen, Fatima, Sochigel, Sorqaqtani Beki, Töregene Qatun, Yeke Qabartu
  
• Sentinal - Ningeuuga Oshuitoq [Inuktitut]: Figure in anorak
  
• Seirei no Moribito | 精霊の守り人| Moribito: Guardian of the Sacred Spirit [Kana/kanji]: Yuka Yonsa

How to Open a Dispute

1. Open and review Kaleidoscope 2012 Nominations.
   
2. If you believe a fandom does not qualify for Kaleidoscope because:
   
   • The source does not contain chromatic characters or people;
     
   • The source was not produced by chromatic creators;
     
   • The fandom has more than 1,500 English-language stories on a major multifandom archive;
     
   • The fandom has more than 15,000 artworks, 100 podfics and 350 vids (in any languages) on a major multifandom archive;
     
   • The fandom has a dedicated fandom-specific challenge that has run annually for more than two years in a row;
     
   • The fandom has a dedicated fandom-specific archive or community that has more than 1,500 fanworks
   
   Please open a dispute at Kaleidoscope Disputes.


1. Open Kaleidoscope Disputes and under Fandom, enter the fandom name in the free-text field, e.g. Ōkiku Furikabutte:
   
   
   
   Enter the name of fandom under dispute in the free-text field next to 'Fandom'.


2. Scroll down to Reason(s) for Dispute and enter the reason why you believe the fandom does not qualify for Kaleidoscope, e.g. Ōkiku Furikabutte has a dedicated fandom-specific challenge that has run for two years in a row, http://archiveofourown.org/collections/OofuriExchange2010, http://archiveofourown.org/collections/OofuriExchange2011:
   
   
   
   Enter the reason why the fandom does not qualify for Kaleidoscope in the free-text field next to 'Reason(s) for Dispute'.
   
   Please provide verifiable evidence for issues concerning rarity, including links to Anime Music Videos .Org, AsianFanfics, audiofic, deviantArt, FanFiction.Net, pixiv, YouTube searches as applicable.


3. Click Submit when the form is completed.


3. If you believe a character or person within a fandom does not qualify for Kaleidoscope because the character or person does not identify or is coded as chromatic, please open a dispute at Kaleidoscope Disputes.
   
   1. Open Kaleidoscope Disputes and under Fandom, enter the fandom name in which the character or person belongs in the free-text field, e.g. Effluent Engine - N.K. Jemisin:
      
      
      
      Enter the fandom name in which the character or person belongs in the free-text field next to 'Fandom'.
   
   
   2. Scroll down to Character or Person and enter the character or person name in the free-text field, e.g. Raymond Forstall:
      
      
      
      Enter the name of the character or person under dispute in the free-text field next to 'Character or Person'.
   
   
   3. Scroll down to Reason(s) for Dispute and enter the reason why you believe the character or person does not qualify for Kaleidoscope, e.g. Raymond Forstall is coded by the author as white, http://nkjemisin.com/2010/01/a-story-for-haiti-the-effluent-engine/:
      
      
      
      
      Enter the reason why the character or person does not qualify for Kaleidoscope in the free-text field next to 'Reason(s) for Dispute'.
   
   
   4. Click Submit when the form is completed.

Kaleidoscope's disputes period will end on August 31. Thank you for your participation so far!

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Comments

[oyceter]

Don't know if it's relevant, but while the writing system for Peking Opera Blues is Chinese hanzi, the pronunciation should be based on Cantonese.

[wistfuljane]

Yes, for Peking Opera Blues, we tried our best to base the pronunciation on Cantonese. :)

[ambyr]

I didn't nominate it and have no strong opinion, but I'll note that Brazilian artist Rafael Albuquerque illustrated issues 11-39 of the 2006-2009 run of Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes & Paco Tejas). Brazilian artist Ig Guara illustrated the Blue Beetle launched in 2011.

Neither of them were involved in developing the initial character concept, unlike the three creators you mention above (Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Cully Hamner [the illustrator for issues 1-10]), but I wasn't sure how tightly you were defining "creator" when it came to comics.

[wistfuljane]

Thank you, ambyr, for the clarification and information! In general, we only considered the person(s) credited as the creator(s) or credited with creating the concept whether that be TV Shows, Comics, Video Games, etc. rather than the team of artists, producers, writers, etc. that contributes to the running of a series or franchise as the main creators under eligibility consideration.

However, after discussions, we as a mod team agreed to consider people who are (co-)credited for a franchise, series and/or character reboot as eligible creators for our challenge as seems to be the case for Blue Beetle in 2011? Blue Beetle version 2011 will then qualify for Kaleidoscope under this policy.

[torachan]

Seirei no Moribito | 精霊の守り人| Moribito: Guardian of the Sacred Spirit [Kana/kanji]: Yuka Yonsa

Wow, super minor character. Googling in English got me mainly someone's fanfic, but I did see a summary of one of the actual books saying this is a character's aunt. However, googling in Japanese got me not a single mention of the character, so I can only guess at the canonical name.

All the other characters in the series have names in katakana, since it's a fantasy world, so I believe her name should also be in katakana. As for the family name, it doesn't look like there is anything but assumption to base that on (she's related to two people with the family name of Yonsa, so her name would Yonsa as well), but in the absence of anything else to go on, it's not a bad assumption.

It should be written ユカ・ヨンサ.

[wistfuljane]

Thank you, torachan!

[sherlockian]

Re: FAKE
I'm pretty sure Dee Laytner is canonically Latino and it's definitely canonical Rai Spencer is Chinese.

[troisroyaumes]

Thanks for the information; we'll add them back to the tag set. (Apologies for the mistake in rejecting them in the first place!)

ETA: Incidentally, can you confirm whether it's ライ·スペンサー or レイ·スペンサー for Rai Spencer?

[sherlockian]

No problem! :D

It's spelled ライ.

Pumzi!

[(Anonymous)]

I just found out about the Kaleidoscope challenge today and look forward to reading the results :)

Also, I saw you list Pumzi as an eligible source. The trailer I saw on YouTube was awesome and where did you find a copy of the full film?!

I tried to find out where to buy it, had no luck, and thought that only the people who saw it during Sundance (or know director Wanuri Kahiu and can ask *her*) can watch it now. :/

Where's it available now? :D

Re: Pumzi!

[wistfuljane]

Hi -- Thanks to a comment from carmarthen, I learned that Pumzi is available in a DVD anthology called Africa First. I don't know if you have access to Amazon or Netflix, but the DVD is available there.

Re: Pumzi!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the tip - and now I can recommend that my local libraries buy it too! :D Earlier I asked a librarian where to get this and we both got stuck, so now I want to share the info. :)