Yes, that's the support ticket that started this - a staffer started to take care of it, noticed that the fandom was a bit of a mess, and appealed to the historical RPF wranglers to handle things. Since I'm a co-wrangler on the hist RPF metatag (that is, bare "Historical RPF") and on 15th-19th centuries, and I knew I could use you as a resource :-) I volunteered.
Basically I want to know if you guys find the French | Italian piping useful (it was put in place by the wrangler in 2010) or if things would be recognizable just using French; if the characters are intended to be their historical counterparts (I'm feeling the answer is yes, I think?); if it's reasonable to share tags with the Schiller version. And anything else you'd like to complain about, though as cahn says, I only have a certain amount of autonomy here in that there are guidelines that I need to follow. (In particular, we are now making canonicals for historical characters in their native languages, piped with their English or otherwise more-recognizable names, which is why the bit about Élisabeth de Valois, who in French Wikipedia is called Élisabeth de France.)
(The 'native language' bit is why I'm thinking that if I do disassemble the pipes - and I'd like to hear from the fandom if you want this or not - I'd use French rather than Italian, since that's the original libretto version. But since it's more commonly performed in Italian, that might not be what you want?)
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Basically I want to know if you guys find the French | Italian piping useful (it was put in place by the wrangler in 2010) or if things would be recognizable just using French; if the characters are intended to be their historical counterparts (I'm feeling the answer is yes, I think?); if it's reasonable to share tags with the Schiller version. And anything else you'd like to complain about, though as
(The 'native language' bit is why I'm thinking that if I do disassemble the pipes - and I'd like to hear from the fandom if you want this or not - I'd use French rather than Italian, since that's the original libretto version. But since it's more commonly performed in Italian, that might not be what you want?)