Talk:Council of Fashion Designers of America

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Promotional tone
The tag is right - this reads like an ad. I'm working to remove some of the more gratuitous & excessive language. JohnInDC (talk) 12:17, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Undifferentiated run-on list of non-notable prior winners
An editor added a list of one or two score of past nominees and winners of one of the awards bestowed by the subject organization. I removed the list with the edit summary of, "just a list of names". The editor has restored the list, noting that it was sourced, and wondered why it should not be included. I was going to remove it, but instead have revised it as set forth below. Here are the reasons for removing it, and now revising it. First the unedited comprehensive tally is merely a lengthy, undifferentiated, poorly formatted list of names. Nothing more - just names (inexplicably repeated in most cases). Lists are a disfavored form presentation - prose is better, and this long list can't be converted to prose. Second, most of the names are of non-notable persons, and their inclusion is trivial. Third, Wikipedia is not a glossary, a compendium of stray information or a mirror site - this information may be publicly available and sourced, but that doesn't mean that including it adds to the article in any meaningful way. A reader who really wants to know the nominees and winners were of this prize can go to the CFDA website and read it for themselves - the list does not need to be mirrored here, and indeed repeating it is mere clutter.

A suitable list is, "Notable prior winners and nominees". That list is appropriately short (I count maybe 5-6 people), easy to format as a bulleted list, and - by reason of the fact that it names notable winners, is defensible as worthy of inclusion. I've made this edit (actually being a bit expansive and including names associated with what I take to be notable firms) and ask that it remain as such, for the reasons I've laid out above, at least until a different consensus emerges. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 18:23, 10 January 2019 (UTC)