Category talk:Awards by year of disestablishment

"Disestablished"

 * posted also as Category talk:Awards by year of establishment


 * 1) Do this set of categories and its companion cats genuinely date institutional history? --presumably the years/dates some formal process is first approved and finally disbanded?
 * 2) Or do they cover the earliest and latest officially award dates? The earliest award year is likely to be later than the year approved, but it might be earlier.
 * 3) Another alternative is the years an award was first and last conferred --including announcement that there is no winner for this cycle, if applicable.

In prose description, not categorization, I (would try to) use dis/establish/ment in the first sense. For example, the Kate Greenaway Medal was established in 1955 [institution], but no book published in 1955 [official award date] was deemed suitable in 1956, so it was inaugurated in 1957 by its first award to the best children's book illustration of 1956 [official award date]. If I learned more about "no 1955 Medal", I might say that the award was inaugurated in 1956 by the announcement that no 1955 work was considered suitable.

This isn't a good illustration of the three alternatives. It's purpose is to illustrate the distinction between prose account and categorization. --P64 (talk) 16:47, 30 June 2012 (UTC)