Talk:Franklin Institute Awards

Initial creation and link maintenance
Other thoughts: tidying on layout still needed, possible a table is better. Any table would need to list "section" of award (e.g. Physics, Engineering, etc). And also the year, as several years have multiple awards. Need more background to the award, including who it is named after and why (Benjamin Franklin), how much money (if any) is awarded with the prize, when the award was founded, when and why it ended, and any more details out there. Also need to add the 2009 laureates. Carcharoth (talk) 03:55, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Article created with 80 entries (up to 2008)
 * Medal is still extant (see Franklin Institute)
 * Layout tidied up and initial set of redlinks checked
 * Six (6) redlinks turned blue by creating redirects
 * Seventeen (17) redlinks remain, with 63 blue links
 * All blue links clicked to check correct person has been linked (will list errors below)

Errors with blue links
Wrong links:
 * Roger Bacon is the wrong one (dates are wrong)

Successful disambiguation:
 * Raymond Davis disambiguated to Raymond Davis, Jr.
 * John McCarthy disambiguated to John McCarthy (computer scientist)

Figures above (17 redlinks remain, with 63 blue links) adjusted accordingly:
 * 17 redlinks
 * 62 correct blue links
 * 1 incorrect blue link
 * 0 failed disambiguation links

Next step is to turn the incorrect links red, and/or create articles and disambiguate as needed. Carcharoth (talk) 17:11, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Sources for articles
The single blue-link-that-should-be-a-redlink has now been dabbed to a redlink based on the above, Carcharoth (talk) 17:38, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The Roger Bacon mentioned here is the material scientist Roger Bacon (1927-2007):, , ,.

Updated link numbers
All 18 redlinks listed below to aid tracking. Carcharoth (talk) 17:38, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 18 redlinks (including disambiguated one)
 * 62 blue links (all verified as correct)

Redlinks list
List of redlinks to fill in and track when articles created. List consists of 18 redlinks as of 18:13, 2 August 2009 (UTC), Carcharoth (talk)
 * 1998 - Emmanuel Desurvire (Engineering)
 * 1999 - Richard W. Shorthill (Computer and Cognitive Science)
 * 1999 - Akira Tonomura (Physics)
 * 1999 - Victor Vali (Computer and Cognitive Science)
 * 2000 - Gordon Danby (Mechanical Engineering)
 * 2000 - Eville Gorham (Earth Science)
 * 2000 - James R. Powell (Mechanical Engineering)
 * 2001 - Rob Van der Voo (Earth Science)
 * 2002 - Alexandra Navrotsky (Earth Science)
 * 2003 - Robin M. Hochstrasser (Chemistry)
 * 2003 - Norman A. Phillips (Earth Science)
 * 2003 - Charles H. Thornton (Engineering)
 * 2004 - Roger Bacon (Mechanical Engineering)
 * 2004 - Robert B. Meyer (Physics)
 * 2004 - Robert E. Newnham (Electrical Engineering)
 * 2006 - M. Gordon Wolman (Earth Science)
 * 2007 - Merton C. Flemings (Materials Science)
 * 2007 - Nancy S. Wexler (Life Science)

Copy violation
Most of this article is a direct copy of the Franklin Institute page http://www.fi.edu/franklinawards/about.html, even down to the misspelling of "Mechinical" [sic]. It must be rewritten. Binksternet (talk) 08:19, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Requested move 7 June 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Move to Franklin Institute Awards as unopposed after 2 weeks and a relisting. In this case of a name change, additional recent citations help, but I think it's safe to move this after this RM. (non-admin closure) — Andy W.  ( talk  · ctb) 15:36, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) → The Franklin Institute Awards – The Franklin Institute Awards changed its awards program name. Based on its official awards website, the name of this awards program is The Franklin Insititute Awards, including both Bower Award and Benjamin Franklin Medal. Information on this page includes both Bower Award and Benjamin Franklin Medal. Please refer the description on the official website, https://www.fi.edu/franklin-institute-awards. Nicole Kun Lin (talk) 18:55, 7 June 2016 (UTC) --Relisting. &mdash; Music1201  talk  04:21, 14 June 2016 (UTC)


 * No "The" You are correct that the current article covers both the Franklin Medal as well as the Bower Award and the FI refers to this grouping as "The Franklin Insititute Awards". I'd be open to splitting this category into two. I'm also open to renaming the article without "the". RevelationDirect (talk) 02:40, 11 June 2016 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.