Talk:Children's Book Award (UK)

Children's Book Award
Should Children's Book Award really redirect here instead of to a disambiguation or list page of the dozens of children's book awards? Purplemouse (talk) 16:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think so. The redirect isn't "children's book award" but "Children's Book Award", i.e. a title. Now, there are many children's book awards that go by the name [Location] Children's Book Award or [Sponsor] Children's Book Award, but very few are or have been referred to as what is essentially The Children's Book Award. At the moment, the Red House Children's Book Award is the only one of these with an article.


 * In the future, when articles for other awards known simply as the Children's Book Award exist, it would make sense to have a disambiguation page (probably with a link in it to List of children's literary awards or Category:Children's literary awards or something) but at the moment all that dab page would consist of would be a link to this article... So right now it makes sense to me for it be a redirect and cut out the middle man.


 * -- KittyRainbow (talk) 19:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * PS: Of course, I would not make the same case for children's book award (were it to exist).


 * Four years later.
 * According to our National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year that award has been:
 * "sponsored by Red House" (no date given)
 * "called the British Children's Book Award" (1996 to 2009)
 * Before 1996 there were "British Illustrated Children's Book of the Year and British Children's Author of the Year categories."
 * --P64 (talk) 20:36, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Process and latest rendition
During major expansion these two hours I have used section headings identical to those (I have introduced) elsewhere —except the first, "Process and latest rendition". That does not appeal to me for the first named section of any article but it does fit the content, which combines what we handle separately in many articles on more important awards —eg, Conditions, Eligibility, Process, Rules, etc; typically no more than two of these per article. (Current rendition or Latest rendition is my coinage, as far as I know, and may appear only after my major revision.)

Here I have stated the fact that the three shortlists comprise those ten books that garner the most nominations (RHCBA, Pick of the Year). That source explicitly features a "top 50" that for 2012 comprises 17, 17, and 16 books from the three categories. That distribution is so uniform as possible, which for me casts doubt that the shortlists of size 4, 3, and 3 for 2012 simply comprise the top ten. I suspect that the categories attract different numbers of participants; that both the top ten and top 50 are uniform in number by category according to policy rather than accident. If anyone learns the truth pro or con, please speak up. --in the article with Reference or Note if possible.

--P64 (talk) 01:13, 24 September 2012 (UTC)