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List of awards and nominations received by J. K. Rowling[edit]

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Nominator(s): Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 21:18, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rowling has won many different awards for Harry Potter and other work; I hope it makes for an interesting list. This was created a couple of weeks ago, spawning from revamps to the Rowling article during its FAR. Folks felt it may be ready for FLC, so here it is. This was collaborative; thanks to SandyGeorgia. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 21:18, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • I am not an FLC regular, but having spent the better part of the last three weeks in a deep dive on sourcing at J. K. Rowling, I am confident this list is comprehensive. I am flattered that O-D considers it a collaboration, but it is all Olivaw-Daneel's work; I have kept a watchful eye, added a few citations, and did a wee bit of nitpicking, not rising to the level of significant or even barely significant contributor, but with my usual inflated edit count because of how I edit. To my understanding, this list well meets WP:WIAFL, the prose and sourcing are at featured standard, and I anticipate supporting once FLC regulars have had a look. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Support after several fine reviews got out the remaining nitpicks. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:08, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • I think the HP book titles should be written in full in the lead, rather than having "Harry Potter and the" removed
  • "Rowling also won the University College Dublin's" => "Rowling also won University College Dublin's" (it's not referred to as the UCD)
  • In the speculative fiction section, I would write "Andre Norton Award" in full, as she didn't literally win Andre Norton :-)
  • Her 2010 award in the pop culture section was given by the National Magazine Company, so you may as well say that rather than the nebulous "leading magazines"
  • That's all I got - great work! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:08, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@ChrisTheDude, I think I've addressed everything. Thanks for the review. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 10:17, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pamzeis[edit]

Will try not to screw this up

  • "Some scholars feel" — only one scholar is cited...
    • The source is summarizing other scholars' opinions (not just her own). Regardless I've added one more cite.
  • "literature in 2000, and three"/"in 2012, and for her services to literature" — IDK about this, but I feel like the shouldn't be a comma (I'm probably wrong but I just thought I'd note it in case I'm right)
  • "social, moral, and" — is there a reason for the comma? The rest of the article doesn't seem to use the serial comma
    • All serial commas removed.
  • "where she spoke at the 2008 commencement ceremony" — I'm unsure whether she spoke at all the universities' ceremonies or only Harvard's. Can this be clarified?
  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard, etc. should sort by Tales, not The
  • Per MOS:CONFORMTITLE, titles of works like Harry Potter should be italicised in citations
  • Per MOS:SMALLCAPS, the citation capitalisation is inconsistent. Some are written in title-case while the others in sentence-case.
    • All done.

Hope this helps :) Pamzeis (talk) 06:57, 26 January 2022 (UTC) Also, I've made a few tweaks. Feel free to revert anything you disagree with. Also, also, I'd appreciate any comments here. Pamzeis (talk) 06:59, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Pamzeis: Thanks, I think I've addressed all comments. And sure I'll take a look. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 10:16, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Support by Gerald Waldo Luis[edit]

A very wise human being indeed. I've archived some of the references, use this next time you wanna auto-archive. This article looks pretty neat, just a few suggestions.

Resolved comments from GeraldWL 01:17, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
* The alt text of both photos is repetitive when placed beside the caption. Common practice is to just make the alt text "Refer to caption".
    • Done.
  • Year brackets after mentions of a book would be great. For example "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)".
    • Added year of award win.
  • "Some scholars feel that its reception exposed a literary prejudice against children's books: for instance, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was nominated for the Whitbread Book of the Year, but the award body gave it the children's prize instead (worth half the cash amount)." I would rather have this placed as the last sentence of the paragraph.
    • Rephrased to shift scholarly opinion to the end of the sentence. Whitbread is the most prominent of the lit awards here (see added context about a Nobel laureate), so I think its current location makes sense. Open to better phrasing.
  • "It received speculative fiction awards"-- considering "including general literature prizes, honours in children's literature and speculative fiction awards" is not that far away, this bit sounds repetitive.
    • Changed to be more specific.
  • "she gave her fans"-- suggest changing "her fans" to "the Harry Potter fandom", as the HP fandom doesn't necessarily idolize Rowling the human.
    • Done.
  • At General literature: at the last four rows, suggest merging the Chamber of Secrets and Prizoner of Azkaban rows.
  • Same case with "Troubled Blood"
  • And "the Cursed Child"
  • And "UK"
  • And maybe "honourary degree"
    • I agree there's some repetition, but my understanding is that rowspans internal to a table (where rows continue on either side) are usually discouraged. (Looking at past FLCs, rowspans in general seem to be discouraged, for accessibility.) Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 22:28, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      • I see, thanks for clarifying. I read other FLs to see if this is okay and this turns out to be pretty common practice. Personally though I prefer merging.
  • For footnote c, suggest changing "es" to "es"
    Not entirely clear what you are requesting, but I changed it to "Spanish". SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:21, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Added the {{Abbr}} template, which is what I think was being suggested. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 22:28, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Yep, that was my suggestion. Sorry Sandy, should've nowiki-ed it.
  • At Academic, Royal Society of Edinburg row: "Fellowship"-- link Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • I support this FLC after all my comments got resolved. Good job! GeraldWL 01:17, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I offered some comments a bit back on this and I suggested that it be nominated because I feel that it fufills the criteria. It passes my source review, but the coords might want someone else to do one as well. --Guerillero Parlez Moi 10:29, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by MWright96[edit]

  • "Two years later, she was recognized as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" - should the word in bold end in "sed"?
  • " Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE)." - the word "the" is missing at the beginning of both of these academic establishments

That is all I have for this list MWright96 (talk) 13:30, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MWright96 Switched to "-ised" and added "the". Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 17:38, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Source review passed; promoting. --PresN 15:23, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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