Talk:James Laughlin Award

List of Awardees
I think there is little virtue to listing the titles of the winning volumes and the judges in this table. Where Wikipedia articles are available, the title of the winning volume should be listed there. I can't think of any particular reason for Wikipedia to archive the names of the judges; presumably these will be available at the Academy's website for interested readers. The virtue of eliminating these items is that it would make the table of awardees more usable. Easchiff (talk) 08:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't think the listing of judges is harmful, but I also don't think it's necessary, and, as usual, I will defer to editorial consensus. --Abd (talk) 17:09, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I compiled the list into a list of judges, placed at the bottom, reverted by an editor with the comment, (Undid revision 289742417 by Abd (talk) List of particular year's judges important to connection with winner. Talk before removal please.). As well as the above comment, this was being discussed at WikiProject Poetry, and my edit was intended to mollify objections about copyvio, but I have no personal objection to either version, as noted above. Now my snit: hmmpph! Perhaps you should explain a revert in Talk! Please do realize that until I edited the page, it was a redirect, all the content was invisible to ordinary mortals. (Well, to readers who don't know to notice and follow a redirect back to the original page.) Now, back to our regular programming. --Abd (talk) 14:44, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I've added the awardees from 1954-1975 in the condensed format (no volume title, no judges). I'm not sure there's too much value in adding the titles & judges, but I won't object if someone chooses to do it. Cheers, Easchiff (talk) 01:32, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Lamont Poetry Selection: publication as part of the selection?
A previous editor, Abd perhaps, added a hidden note asking whether books of poetry were published by the Academy as part of the Lamont Poetry Selection process. I don't think this is the case; I believe I read somewhere that the Academy accepted nominations of volumes under contract to publishers, but not actually in print. On the other hand, the Walt Whitman Prize specifically includes publication of the first volume by Louisiana State University Press; it supplanted the original Lamont's role as a first-volume prize in 1975, when the Lamont switched to being a 2nd volume selection. Easchiff (talk) 01:32, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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