Even without the magical resonances (which I don't expect AO3 to pay attention to, because I can agree that's... out there), the tag wranglers have to deal with spoiler issues of "what about characters whose names/identities aren't revealed until Season 4? Do we syn those tags to the Season 1 character names so it becomes obvious that's the same person?"
(They're also still pretty blurry about superhero tags; "Robin (DCU)" has four names as subtags and needs at least one more.)
There's debates about last names that are established outside of canon, like through author interviews, and how to deal with fanon names and original first or last names for characters that don't have one in that fandom.
My current thoughts are something like "everyone should put twenty tags on every fic, or as close to that as they can manage without hideous spoilers, so the wranglers have enough substance to work with that they can start coming up with better methods." Which doesn't fix the naming problems at all, but I'm hoping that wrangling lots and lots of other tags will inspire new ways of dealing with *all* the tweaky tag problems.
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(They're also still pretty blurry about superhero tags; "Robin (DCU)" has four names as subtags and needs at least one more.)
There's debates about last names that are established outside of canon, like through author interviews, and how to deal with fanon names and original first or last names for characters that don't have one in that fandom.
My current thoughts are something like "everyone should put twenty tags on every fic, or as close to that as they can manage without hideous spoilers, so the wranglers have enough substance to work with that they can start coming up with better methods." Which doesn't fix the naming problems at all, but I'm hoping that wrangling lots and lots of other tags will inspire new ways of dealing with *all* the tweaky tag problems.