Talk:Edna Staebler Award

Token or prize
About the Award (official)
 * quote: The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is awarded annually and valued at $10,000.

That is poorly said if the award is simply a C$10,000 cash prize. It may be a token such as a diamond- or corundum-studded cup with assessed value $10,000.

For now the infobox award specifies "Reward $10,000" but we say nothing in prose.

--P64 (talk) 21:56, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Referencing
Just a reminder that the purpose of referencing is not only to offer technical verification of facts, but also to demonstrate that the topic passes WP:GNG by virtue of being a topic that third-party sources cover and analyze as significant independently of the award's own publicity efforts. Which means the article cannot be sourced to Wilfrid Laurier University's own self-published primary source press releases about the award, and must be to media reportage that treats the award as news and/or books that analyze the award's historical and cultural significance. The overwhelming majority of the sourcing here (27 out of 38 footnotes) is primary, however — so the sourcing needs to be significantly improved, because the award's eligibility to even have an article at all is contingent upon the amount of attention it does or doesn't get from third party media of record, and not on its own self-published primary source verification that it exists. Bearcat (talk) 16:51, 21 February 2024 (UTC)