I can't remember how I *used* to use the tags, but I think I've always tended to use (2005) for things that are solely Nu Who and (1963) for things that are solely old. A joke or two doesn't count, though. For me the difficult one is what to tag Doctor/Master, because sometimes the (2005) stuff relies on/gets into (1963) stuff even if it's set in the Nu Who days and doesn't feature the older regenerations. Some of my Twelve/Missy uses both tags because they felt like the stories that were based on them being old old old old friends who have known each other forever.
A thing that really bugs me about AO3 tagging is when a character (or ship) gets tagged and then they're barely mentioned in the story. Like it's Ten/Rose but there's one line about Martha so she's tagged as a character and NO.
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I can't remember how I *used* to use the tags, but I think I've always tended to use (2005) for things that are solely Nu Who and (1963) for things that are solely old. A joke or two doesn't count, though. For me the difficult one is what to tag Doctor/Master, because sometimes the (2005) stuff relies on/gets into (1963) stuff even if it's set in the Nu Who days and doesn't feature the older regenerations. Some of my Twelve/Missy uses both tags because they felt like the stories that were based on them being old old old old friends who have known each other forever.
A thing that really bugs me about AO3 tagging is when a character (or ship) gets tagged and then they're barely mentioned in the story. Like it's Ten/Rose but there's one line about Martha so she's tagged as a character and NO.