Talk:List of Israel Prize recipients

Expanding the list of recipients
I have recently been working towards expanding the details of the site to include ultimately the names of all recipients. Currently, the list is now complete from 1952 to 1968 and from 1994 to 2009, and I am gradually adding additional years, going back. Many of the recipients, although warranting it, do not have an article of their own on English Wikipedia, although almost all do on Hebrew Wikipedia, and I welcome contibutors to expand the number of English Wikipedia language articles for recipients of the Israel Prize.Davshul (talk) 19:47, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

The list is now complete. Davshul (talk) 19:49, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Spelling of names
Tzahy, I note that on 23 May 2009, you corrected the names of six recipients of the Israel Prize (in the lists according to year). As to the name changes made by you, I agree with your spelling of five of the names. As to the sixth, I have reverted the spelling (from Michel Confino) to Michael Confino, which I believe is the correct spelling in English, as a general Internet search will reveal, and is the name under which his books are published. I have also amended the other five names in the alphabetical list of names, in accordance with your spelling.Davshul (talk) 19:47, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

In completing the the list of recipients for 1986, I was unable to trace the correct spelling in English of three recipients - Yishiahu Avrech, Yona Sayid and Eldin Khatoukai. Any assistence would be appreciated.Davshul (talk)

Automatic parser for table format
I have made this tool for converting the current format to the sortable format:

Please note that piped links and apostrophes don't work well with it (it was fairly hastily created), but it can speed up the process a lot anyway. —Ynhockey (Talk) 18:38, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * This is an absolutely excellent tool. I tested it on 1960. I have two suggestions and I do not know whether these will be complicated to put into effect. First, that the Year column appears on the extreme left hand side; and secondly, that an additional Comments column be added on the right hand side. This would have a similar function to the Comments column on the Hebrew language version of the List and would include comments such as "awarded posthumously" and references to other awards of the Prize to the same recipient, etc. 15:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the warm words. It's not a problem to implement these small changes, although I am not sure that a comments column is necessary, as most entries do not need additional comments. —Ynhockey (Talk) 03:46, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Whilst I agree that the vast majority of the recipients will not warrant an entry in a Comments column, I believe that it will be helpful in those few instances that do. Both the Hebrew and Russian lists have such a column. The alternatives to having such a column are: to omit what might be helpful and material information; or to clutter the enties in one or more of the other columns (see entry for Gdalia Alon, for example); or to add the information in a footnote (which is not particularly user-friendly, when having to scroll down to the foot of a long list, and will muddle such comments with the references). One other little comment on formatting. Could you shade the background of the Year column in the same colour as the column headings (as per the Russian version), which I consider assists the user and is asthetical attractive. Davshul (talk) 07:46, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Ynhockey, many thanks for effecting the suggested textual changes to the template. Davshul (talk) 14:21, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I have now completed the convertion of the complete list to a sortable table format, and the template prepared by Ynhockey was indespencible. Many thanks. Davshul (talk) 20:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Alphabetical list
On November 19, 2009, the alphabetical list of recipients, which consisted of over half of the contents of this article, was deleted by User:Gilabrand. This was done without any warning or discussion and with the curt reason “no justification for double listing”. If Gilabrand considers that the there is no justification for alphabetical list and that it should be removed, then the correct course of action to follow was to open a discussion on the topic, rather than deleting over 37,000 bytes of work that I and a number of other users had spent many weeks in compiling and perfecting. As to the justification for the list, on numerous occasions, I have needed to refer to the alphabetical list in order to trace a particular recipient, and I presume that other users have also found the alphabetical list particularly helpful. The list does not exist anywhere else on the Internet. Furthermore, there is no single category that includes all Israel Prize recipients (the category:“Israel Prize recipients” is a parent category), and even if there was, such category would only include those recipients for whom there is a Wikipedia article, whereas the list comprises every recipient of the prize. Accordingly, I have reinstated the list. If Gilabrand still considers the alphabetical list should be removed, this is the place to discuss the issue, and not to take unilateral action.

It so happens that, in the meantime, User:Ynhockey has created a template (see previous caption), presumably in response to Gilabrand’s action, to convert the main list into a sortable format, and has applied such format to the 1950’s recipients. If and when the template is applied to the complete list, I believe that there may well be a justification for removing the alphabetical list. However, there are still 50 years of Israel Prize recipients to be converted to the new format. Davshul (talk) 17:11, 29 November 2009 (UTC)


 * The single sortable list has now been completed covering the full period since the inauguration of the Prize. Accordingly, I have today removed the alphabetical list. Davshul (talk) 21:57, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Citation to Official Site re Israel Prize awards
In the case of all articles on Israel Prize recipients, I have included a reference citing the page on the Israel Prize official site giving details of the award (including, for more recent recipients, the recipient’s CV and judges’ rationale which also appears on the official site from 2000). However, I am concerned that should the official site be reorganized, all these citation could be lost. Accordingly, I decided to try providing a reference that cites both the Official Site and an archived version using WebCite. However, this creates quite a long reference and I would appreciate advice at arriving at a suitable template for these references. Thanks. Davshul (talk) 15:27, 17 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Adapted from the "archivedate" template on cite web, the following would appear to be appropriate citation to cover the archiving, through WebCite, of the page on the Israel Prize official site giving details of the award:


 * For example, see Joseph Klausner. Davshul (talk) 09:10, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * For example, see Joseph Klausner. Davshul (talk) 09:10, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

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