Talk:List of literary awards/Archive 1

Proposed Merge
It has been suggested that the section Literature from the article List of prizes, medals, and awards be merged into this article or section. (copied from article template)
 * Support - It is the largest section. Prizes, medals, and awards could seem to be nearly infinite, especially if military awards are counted.  I see the bigger list becoming more and more a link to lists by subject.  I also like the idea of grouping, but not breaking apart by country.  I found a site detailing around 50 Japanese Literary Awards  - many more than are on this current list.  I'd rather see lists by topic rather than topic of country x.  Finding List of prizes, medals, and awards in Singapore gave me a shudder.  --EarthPerson 04:43, 23 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Meh. Duplication is never a bad thing, especially in the 'pedia.  I guess I support the merge in practice, but not in theory.  -steventity 07:12, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Quiddity 01:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Duplication is actually a very bad thing, as it makes content-forking inevitable, and leads to unnecessary bulking of articles. A merge would be excellent, per Summary style. --Quiddity 17:25, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge away per EarthPerson. Her Pegship  (tis herself) 21:29, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Other lists
I'm going to merge the American list here too. There are only 2 items that differ between them, and as stated above, duplication is bad because it leads to content-forking. The alternative would be the opposite: Using just a main link here and all the content at the subpage, per WP:SUMMARY style.

The British and Australian subpages are more complex, so I'll leave them be. --Quiddity 01:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

French prizes
Shouldn't the prix de l'academie francaise, or prix goncourt be "international awards of limited scope". They accept French-language titles, irrespective of origin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.104.17.63 (talk) 18:50, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Current awards only?
Is this list only for awards that are still being given out, or does it include defunct literary awards? Thanks. Aristophanes68 (talk) 07:36, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

RfC: Should these four external links be included?
Should these four (or some portion) be included in the External Links section?


 * 1) Complete listings of main literary award winners for all years
 * 2) Author Ranking by Literary Awards: ranked lists of authors that received prominent literary award honors
 * 3) Graphical Author and Novel Ranking by Literary Awards: graphical ranking of authors and novels that received prominent literary award honors (tabs across the top)
 * 4) "The Art of Prize-Fighting", by Tom Chatfield in Prospect Magazine, January 2009. Essay on the history and merit of modern literary prizes.

Please !vote Support or Oppose for all some or none. -- Green  C  23:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Survey

 * Support all. The links are relevant to the article, there is no other good place on Wikipedia for them. While they may not be up to 2014 date few literary award resources are, these are still of value even for historical purposes. -- Green  C  23:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose for Booksalley, litawards and prospectmag. Not really sure about Tableau link anymore because it's actually working. When I originally visited and removed it, it was only showing errors, so I am on the fence now on this. I don't see how most of these meet WP:EL, either. For Booksalley, this is a list of awards that hasn't been updated in ~7 years and seems to be better covered by the award pages linked to on this article. Litawards also seems to no longer be maintained and doesn't seem to be of much use. Prospectmag is just a five-year-old article that may have something to do with Awards, but not with the concept of Lists of awards. I'm not sure why any of these links need to be present, as they do not actually contribute to the understanding of the article's topic: A List. This isn't an article about a specific award or awards in general, it's a List of wikilinks to other articles that talk about awards at that location. Perhaps some of these links would be suitable for some of those pages, but I don't see how they are here. Stesmo (talk) 03:54, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose for litawards and prospectmag; uncertain for Booksalley and Tableau. Litawards is self-admittedly "heavily weighted in contemporary American Literature" and "not meant to be statistically or theoretically sound". Prospectmag is just an article about awards, with no clear relevance to this list. (In response to User:Green Cardamom's reasoning that there is nowhere else on Wikipedia to put these links, I note that Litawards and Prospectmag are both included in the External links section of Literary award, although they might not really be suitable there either.) —Granger (talk · contribs) 01:09, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

List is too broad
This list has always had a problem there is no criteria for inclusion other than "no red links". That means, every article in Category:Literary awards which is thousands are open for inclusion. Thus it simply mirrors the category tree, but doesn't do as good a job since an award there can be in multiple categories (by country, by genre (multiple), by year, etc) while here it is usually only listed in one sub-section. This list is an incomplete and random snapshot of literary awards on Wikipedia and I don't know how that could be improved. -- Green  C  15:43, 28 January 2016 (UTC)