Anthro wranglers asked to be able to put fandoms under both RPF and Other, because we are dealing with cases where we're forcing an artificial split on existing fandoms. (Example: "Yuletide - Fandom" is currently synned to "Fandom - Fandom" because it can't be synned to either "Yuletide RPF" or "Yuletide (Anthropomorfic)", and these are two separate fandoms in two separate categories.)
Real life people and real life objects should be able to be placed in the same fandom without us having to do bizarre wrangling contortions to deal with them. That's all we're asking.
ETA: In addition, almost all the Anthro objects are real life objects, software programs, robots, etc. Since Cat Change expressed a preference for a minimum of items in the "Other" bin, we felt "Real Life" was the best fit available.
As for the AO3 Tags fics from last Yuletide, "AO3 Tags" is currently a subfandom of "Fandom - Fandom", meaning it's not part of the Anthro family at all, because not all the works anthopomorphize the tags. And it has 9 works, woohoo!
For anthro that's RL objects, that makes some sense. For anthro that's meta-concepts, like the Delicious/Pinboard/Fandom fic, or Time/Space, or various other concepts, it doesn't make sense to put them under RPF. (It occurs to me that I have no idea if they're current wrangled under Anthro or Fandom.)
I would not mind if some (or all, for that matter) anthro wound up under RPF and other, but putting it all in RPF seems counter-intuitive.
I think we were looking at having it under both? But I'm not 100% sure, because it's been several months. (I think we talked about this in the chat, didn't we?) It's... a spectrum. Trust me that Anthro wranglers regularly tear out our hair, all while chuckling helplessly.
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