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Nominations Auto-Rejecting
Feb. 16th, 2026 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phoenixdown_modWe have had some reports of nominations under certain fandoms being auto-rejected by ao3. This seems to be due to past tag wrangling efforts from our first round, so unfortunately isn't something we can change at this point. The fandom reported is Final Fantasy VII Remake & Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024).
If you are trying to nominate a new relationship not already in the tagset and are receiving a response from ao3 which says "This nomination has been rejected (but another version may have been approved instead)", then please reply to this post and we will add the nominations for you manually.
As a note, please ensure that you are also disambiguating all nominations with the fandom in brackets at the end of the tag like this:
If you are trying to nominate a new relationship not already in the tagset and are receiving a response from ao3 which says "This nomination has been rejected (but another version may have been approved instead)", then please reply to this post and we will add the nominations for you manually.
As a note, please ensure that you are also disambiguating all nominations with the fandom in brackets at the end of the tag like this:
- Cid Highwind/Vincent Valentine (FFVII Compilation)If you have nominated without these disambiguations and it is showing as rejected, please check that the tag hasn't been approved with the disambiguation added before reporting it here.
- Cloud Strife/Aerith Gainsborough (FFVII Remake)
- Cid nan Garlond/Nero tol Scaeva (FFXIV)