Talk:Lists of awards

Rationalization
This page probably needs some rationalisation, or soon someone will add Bronze swimming medal.


 * unless this actually links to an article listing all or most of the decorated ... It would be nice to have that for at least one or two of the "British and Commonwealth". Otherwise it might be preferable to detail the system elsewhere.

Note: The "British and Commonwealth" are now at British and Commonwealth orders and decorations Docu 09:12 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

Just added Balzan Prize, reference link at, prize winners at I added because I saw some articles had dead links to Balzan, and I added a link from Michel Mayor. And agree about rationalisation, page is quite big, Nobel Peace is duplicated, maybe split into International awards (Nobel, etc) and the rest? Or split off entertainment/sports?-Wikibob | Talk 00:54, 2004 Apr 3 (UTC)

I wasn't sure whether to add the National Medal of Technology (awarded by the  United States of America) to the Technology section or the section for the individual country. --WhiteDragon 02:36, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I added the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, though I have not yet created the article. I intend to in the near future - likely in the next day or two, as soon as I can find the time, hopefully today.

What do people think about gradually moving the prizes from this list to the Category scheme?

Categorization advises not to convert certain lists to Categories:

Comprehensive lists, e.g. "List of all municipalities of Quuxen", annotated lists, and selective lists, e.g. "List of Quuxens that were Bazzed", should not be replaced with categories.

but I'm not sure if this list qualifies, it is partly but sparsely annotated. -Wikibob | Talk 14:11, 2004 Jun 21 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't move anything to Categories until the categories are all sorted out. Right now there's a still mess with the heirarchies and conventions of lists, they have not yet settled to the point that they can replace any of the lists that have been carefully constructed here over time. You could start building a parallel category that would in effect mirror this list, but I wouldn't delete any content from the list. --Woggly 15:08, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * As it isn't alphabetical, it's a bit hard to make into a category. I agree with Woogly that it may be  preferable to build categories for some of the lists expanding Category:Lists rather than to replace the page. -- User:Docu

I noticed that the "Searle Scholarship Program" is not listed under Science and Tech awards. Can someone please add it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vtraja (talk • contribs) 11:52, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Does anyone think that such awards lists as Fortune 500, Deloitte Fast 500 and Technology 500 are worth mentioning on the page? If yes, can anyone add them? I think they could fit the "Science and technology (general and miscellaneous)" section. Marie flwr (talk) 09:20, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

What is the difference between the "Arts" category in section 1 and the "Arts" subcategory under "Humanities"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lbravo (talk • contribs) 02:13, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Page is too big!
Does anyone feel this page is far too big? Shouldn't it be split up into like different categories: sports prizes, music etc on different pages? Mandel 09:28, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * no, not yet. Jay 10:40, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * yes, I do. I believe countries could be grouped into continents.  That would make the Table of Contents shorter. Wout Perquin - April 28, 2012  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.132.117.239 (talk) 11:27, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

The question was raised in 2004, but now in 2007 the page is greater than 50K. Can't we split into a List of lists of awards, by various subjects? It would also be much easier to read them and find particular awards. Such a long list is hard to navigate, as well as to read. Even the table of contents is 5-screens-worth long on my screen! --lquilter 01:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I couldn't agree more; it would be better served to split the page up into smaller lists of awards, such as a List of scientific awards. That's just my two cents, though. Hsh8 (talk) 20:59, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Oppose - from a practicality standpoint, a list like this is beneficial as a "master list" for review of the subject and a source for items to justify WP:Notability for future articles. I'm in favor of sub-lists for major areas, some have this now. But breaking this list up will just make the subject matter harder to find. My 2 cents... --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 05:55, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Pending Article Split
I will split off the Science and Technology awards into a separate article entitled Science and Technology Awards at the end of January 2018 unless there is a howl of protest or an administrative veto. The existed section heading will remain in this article with a link to the new article. This of course is standard procedure when an article grows too big. (Plucas58 (talk) 18:59, 11 December 2017 (UTC))
 * The scope of this entire article is too vast and it borders on absurd. It needs to be List of lists of awards and the awards appropriately listed by category, ie, military, literary, athletic, by country, etc. They should not all be crammed onto one page. —МандичкаYO 😜 07:38, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Music Awards
i don't understand why Music exists in two categories: Humanities, and Entertainment. Shouldn't they be merged? --emerson7 | Talk 17:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Becuase they are quite different types of award. Although there is an overlap between Music as an art form and academic subject as opposeto as part of the entertainment industry, in terms of awards they mainly fall in to one or other camp. Billlion

Economics
This page needs a separate Economics section - classification of prizes under General Science and Maths are unnecessary!

Also - perhaps this needs to be initially divided under the same basic categorisation as is set by the Nobel prizes Just a thought —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.248.129.115 (talk) 22:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

What is the criteria for organising the "Honours, military and patriotic medals" section by "Commonwealth" then "Europen Union" and then "Other Nations"? I imagine the Organization of American States (which could be listed ahead of the Commonwealth, as it is arguably the older organization - 1948 vs. 1949) and the African Union feel a little left out. Is there a logical reason NOT to list the nations of the world in alphabetical order? Does anybody mind if I do that? --Blake the bookbinder (talk) 12:44, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

International Congress of Distinguished Awards
I removed the external links section, as the only potentially pertinent link(s) was to: The International Congress of Distinguished Awards (ICDA) Official website (and the provisional 2006 list)

The only mention I could find of this organization (in a brief googling) was in this book, and their main index page hasn't been updated since 2003.

Just noting here. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:39, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Bullmoosebell's changes.
Bullmoosebell has erased the dots from the United States section twice so far. I'm not sure why he intends to deprive solely the United States section of its dots, especially when all the other sections have dots as well. I suggested in this edit of mine to either remove the dots from all the other sections, for uniformity purposes, or to leave the section as it is, but unfortunately he decided to revert it without offering any explanation. I'd like to ask him, therefore, to explain the rationale behind his removal of dots from only one section and not from all the others, as right now it is a matter of great mystery to me. --190.19.99.5 (talk) 23:21, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * 190.19.99.5, It appears you're taking this way to personal, your defensive posture reflects a lack of understanding of Wikipedia's Manual of Style and Policies & Guidelines (Good Faith Edits, Edit Wars, et cetera). Just know, the dots you're referring to are called punctuation marks, periods specifically. Periods are used to terminate a sentence. Considering this is a bulleted list and not a complete sentence, each entry is not to be formatted with sentence case or punctuation, per Manual of Style. Further clarification is stated in MOS/Lists, under the list styles subsection, "As a matter of style, list items should start with a capital letter. They should not have a punctuation mark such as a period, a comma or a semi-colon at the end, except if a list item is one or more full sentences, in which case there is a period at the end."
 * As with all articles on Wikipedia, a journey of a thousand miles starts with one small step. Fixing one section at a time is not a problem, it's just a work in progress (notice that not all entries have terminal punctuation). If you wish, you can assist with the necessary edits! Cheers, Bullmoosebell (talk) 04:01, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't conjecture that I'm taking this personally (which I am not), or question my understanding of Wikipedia's MoS or policies, since doing so is far from civil and besides you don't even know for how long I have been editing Wikipedia. I don't think lecturing me on WP:BULLETLIST was necessary either, as I was not discussing the removal of dots itself but their removal from only one section. To be quite honest, all you had to tell me was that it is a work in progress, without jumping into assumptions. This is condescending, too. --190.19.99.5 (talk) 14:17, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you should read up on Wikipedia's Good Faith Edits before questioning productive edits. It would have saved a lot of hassle if you would have just professed an understanding of such productive edits by displaying your understanding of Wikipedia's Manual of Style in lists and list styles. However, you chose to be disruptive with my edits, which speaks to a lack of understanding of Wikipedia's Manual of Style and Policies & Guidelines. Thus, I educated you on what & why such edits could & would take place. So simmer down, it's just Wikipedia. Problem solved, problem staying solved.
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Missing Awards / Prices
Someone should add the Bram Stoker Award. I don't where does it belongs. The NeveR SLeePiNG 17:50, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

What about http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._A.H._Heinekenprijs — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.132.117.239 (talk) 11:21, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

The advertising awards is missing one of the biggest: The One Show. The three major industry awards for advertising creative and design are: The D&AD Award (London). The One Show (New York). And the Cannes Advertising Awards. The Clios is also huge for TV advertising.. But the big three in the industry are D&AD, One Show and Cannes. Proaktivity (talk) 10:25, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Ten Times the Nobel Prize
strangely something goes in the name of 'Sivashanmugam awards 2020'. Unbelievably, ten times the nobel prize. yammo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5qyG_pDu8s — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.62.60.138 (talk) 19:54, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Which of those awards make a person notable?
See Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(people). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:52, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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List of prizes, medals and awards → List of awards – Per name of its main category, Category:Lists of awards. No reason to arbitrarly list only a few of the including things, when there are more, such as orders, etc. Chicbyaccident (talk) 17:20, 3 November 2017 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 10:53, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
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Split and rename to Lists of awards
As has been discussed here, this article is insanely big. This makes it very difficult for readers to navigate (even scrolling through the table of contents is a chore). We need to do what other huge lists have done, and turn this into a list of lists. e.g. Lists of video games, Lists of magazines, Lists of rivers, etc. This has already been done for Science and technology (hat tip to User:Plucas58 for that; he is a hero). Now we just need to split the other major sections into separate list articles. Colin M (talk) 02:51, 11 July 2019 (UTC)


 * I have transferred sports sections to new article List of sport awards to reduce size of this article.Plucas58 (talk) 21:02, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Nuking of "Military and patriotic honors and medals" section
I just removed all 62,566 bytes of the "Military and patriotic honors and medals" section, and turned it into a pointer to List of military decorations, as part of the larger goal of eventually turning this into a list of lists of awards, rather than a list of awards. I've tried to make sure that the content at List of military decorations was at parity with the section before deleting it. Three removed chunks of content which are not reflected at List of military decorations: 1) many red links 2) extensive listing of non-governmental (or quasi-governmental) awards in the "India" subsection. Many of these would not be appropriate to include in Orders, decorations, and medals of India. 3) The "United Nations" subsection. re 1), I don't think uncited redlinks without context are of much value to the reader. 2) and 3) weren't really appropriate to include in a section called "Military and patriotic honors and medals" in the first place. However, it's possible they could be salvaged and used for separate articles such as List of prizes, medals, and awards in India (analogous to existing articles like List of prizes, medals, and awards in Sri Lanka, List of prizes, medals, and awards in Singapore), and List of awards presented by the United Nations Colin M (talk) 20:10, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Maintenance
I have taken a shot at splitting this list into sub-lists, then expanding the sub-lists using the category structure. The master list, large as it was, had only a small sample of awards in each area. There is still more to do to complete the sub-lists, which should roughly match the category structure, and to clean up some of the categorization, e.g. award winners categorized as awards. But there is a maintenance problem. In my view, every article in an award sub-category should be in a list of awards that owns that sub-category, and vice-versa. An award could be in more than one award sub-category, and a list could own more than one sub-category. Is there any mechanized way to audit this? Aymatth2 (talk) 17:50, 28 December 2019 (UTC)