Talk:Darwin Medal

Sectioning
The statement "nominees must come from the Commonwealth of Nations, with the requirement that they be either a citizen of a nation within the Commonwealth or have lived in such a nation for at least three years before the nomination" is inconsistent with the 1992 award to Motoo Kimura. 131.217.6.6 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:12, 19 August 2011 (UTC).

Haeckel
Why someone added "[sic]" in the motivation? are we giving the real motivation or our opinions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.153.136.101 (talk) 18:42, 11 March 2012 (UTC)


 * On the Royal Society document it says: "For his long-continued and and [sic] highly important work..." (emphasis by me). I think they are referring to their original reasoning, which probably has the word and duplicated. We in Wikipedia can leave out the "and [sic]" part, leaving only one and there. Just a while ago I forgot to fix it but will do it now.--Micraboy (talk) 08:05, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Add wikilinks to the recipient table?
Hi, in my opinion it would be beneficial if there were some wikilinks in the List of recipients table, column Rationale. I mean such as botany, comparative anatomy, Termitidae, zoology, heredity, bionomics etc. Not to overdo, just to be able to connect to the main area of some of the works. Much like there would be in any article's normal body text. Opinions?--Micraboy (talk) 11:45, 18 May 2016 (UTC)


 * As there were no significant objections I added some wikilinks, and then fixed some of them and added a couple wikilinks more. What an exciting life I lead!--Micraboy (talk) 10:59, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

False claim of commonwealth restriction
Previously I removed this paragraph, and someone added it back on the grounds that an *archived* 2016 version of the award web site says that nominations have a residency requirement in the commonwealth. I removed it again and someone put it back.

Obviously this award has a commonwealth bias, but it also includes Americans and various Europeans. Kimura came from Japan and then worked in America. Mayr came from Germany and then worked in the US. Wright and Morgan spent their entire careers in the US. De Vries and Delage obviously were not citizens of the commonwealth.

So, the previous version of this page was propagating an erroneous statement. If you believe it is important to include this erroneous statement, please state your reasons here. Dabs (talk) 19:49, 15 September 2019 (UTC)