Talk:Foot in Mouth Award

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"Although the Foot in Mouth award was not introduced until 1993, the Vice President of the United States, Dan Quayle received a special mention during the 1991 awards for his tent metaphor: "

WHAT 1991 awards? I thought there weren't any? If you mean mention was made during the 1993 awards, say that. The information from this article doesn't specify it, but that's the closest guess I can make.

This part of the article is pretty baffling, and not very plain or clear.

Now I've pointed out the problem, someone do the research. The Campaign for English or whatever must surely have the manpower.

92.40.254.144 (talk) 18:52, 15 April 2013 (UTC)


 * As the article states, "The Plain English Campaign was set up in 1979... The group made their first awards the next year..." So there were awards since 1980, but the Foot in Mouth Award itself was only introduced as part of those awards in 1993.  Harrias  talk 19:09, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

This article is very
This article is very interesting. Speling12345 (talk) 7:46, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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Rationales and unclear attribution
The rationales in the winner section must be harmonized. At the moment, some, like that of the 2016 award, seem to be copied verbatim from the reference cited. Others are written in Wikipedia's voice, but contain unencyclopedic statements such as most of the 2018 rationale and the words "baffling jargon" for 1994. This, together with the lack of italics or any other indication of whose voice is conveyed, renders the origin of the words unclear and is wholly inappropriate for a featured list. This situation must be rectified as soon as possible if we wish to retain FL status here. Kranix (talk &#124; contribs) 19:48, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

On the 2017 award
Rees-Mogg's award description should be rewritten, I don't mean to take his or anyone's side but it's pretty explicitly biased against him

I tried to add the Unbalanced template to his part but wasn't able since it wasn't an entire section/page (I'm sure there's some way of going about doing it that I am too new to understand) Hors.d&#39;oeuvre (talk) 18:33, 30 July 2022 (UTC)