Category talk:National Book Award for Young People's Literature winning works

Winning authors, winning books
Just now I moved one author from this category to Category: National Book Award winners which contains biographies of winning authors in all award categories.

Should this category be renamed Category:National Book Award winning books - Young People's Literature? Should it include winners in "Children's" categories 1960s to 1980s? I think it may honorably do so under the "Y.P.L." category name. --P64 (talk) 22:41, 9 January 2012 (UTC)


 * interjection 2012-02-15 Recent discussion of our NBA-YPL article and list of finalists supports uniform treatment for the previous awards to "Children's Books" and current awards to "Young People's Literature". We now cover Children's in the Young People's article/list and I plan to include Children's in this Young People's category as soon as its rename is resolved. (continued below)


 * While adding articles on the award winning books, I have uncapitalized Winners in the category name. --P64 (talk) 02:13, 26 January 2012 (UTC)


 * All our articles on winning books (that is, 9 of 16 winners in the current Young People's Literature category) now cover their NBAwards, with in-line reference to the NBF webpages for the specific awards (from 2005) or the award years (to 2004), and membership in this Category.
 * [anticipated in a couple hours: double-check whether i missed some author or some book while working back to 1996 in both categories today] --P64 (talk) 20:04, 26 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Current discussion of proposed rename/move to Category talk:National Book Award for Young People's Literature winning works. The proposal incidentally supports "... winning books" as well as "winning works". --P64 (talk) 19:44, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Yesterday this category was renamed/moved from "[NBA] winners - Young People's Literature" to "[NBA] for Young People's Literature winning works"; that is, per the original proposal. Categories for discussion/Log/2012 February 11. --P64 (talk) 23:54, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Report on coverage

 * This report has been updated twice in one long day 2012-02-21/22.

Following the rename of categories for NBAward "winning works", during three days I have checked our coverage of all the award-winning books in "Children's" and "Young People's" categories. As I write, both blue links in the lists of winners (primarily National Book Award for Young People's Literature) and membership in this category accurately represent wikipedia coverage of the winning books. We have articles, including several stubs, on those and only those winning books that are in the category.
 * Summary
 * 44 Children's and Young People's NBA-winning books whose articles evidently belong in this category, namely one annually 1969:1979 and 1996:2001 (27) plus two, three, five, and seven winning books 1980:1983 (17)
 * 21 Children's/YPL winning works without wikipedia articles (manual count of blue links in our other list of winners and finalists and our other list of winners, which now agree on this point)
 * 23 winning books with articles here
 * 9 of 16 "Young People's Literature" 1996 to date
 * 9 of 17 "Children's Books" 1980 to 1983 (2,3,5, and 7 books in four years)
 * 5 of 11 "Children's Books/Literature" 1969 to 1979 (one award annually)
 * 23 articles in this category (automatically reported on the Category page)

Furthermore, each of the 23 articles at least mentions that its book won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature (or "... for Children's Books") and provides a specific reference to the annual list of winners and finalists at NBF. (Example )

--P64 (talk) 22:10, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Today I have tried to clarify the preface, which explains that YPL includes preceding "Children's" awards and counts 42 awards, 44 winners, through 2011 November.
 * At the same time I have removed this notice of complete category coverage.
 * As of 2012-02-22, this category contains every wikipedia article (23) about one of the Children's/YPL award-winning books (44, because two of 42 awards were split).
 * That information remains current, afaik. --P64 (talk) 19:47, 9 April 2012 (UTC)