Talk:Nestlé Smarties Book Prize

Dates awarded
Today I was trying to settle a debate with some colleagues about how books get big (is it organic word of mouth vs tastemakers). The smarties book award was interesting/relevant as its awarded by children. I wanted to correlate the awards the Harry Potter books got relatively to when they were reviewed by the big newspapers. It was hard to do that because the wikipedia entry didn't provide the actual dates. I found this website suggesting that the award was awarded in December based on books released up to October. Would this be valuable to include?

http://www.dawcl.com/awards.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.119.80.71 (talk) 20:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

One of the most prestigious
What do people think in retrospect about its prestige? and the importance of its article?

Report: Current ratings for WP:Children's literature. This is part of my longer posting to Talk: Carnegie Medal in Literature. I have posted this much also to the Guardian and Blue Peter talk pages. Those two do not have real articles, only stubs. --P64 (talk) 20:19, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Top - Carnegie Medal in Literature
 * High - Blue Peter Book Award (!?)
 * Mid - Kate Greenaway Medal, Tir na n-Og Award, Guardian Award, Smarties Prize

Author and illustrator
Was there any prize but prestige?

In which age categories, if any, were the author and illustrator equally rewarded or recognised? --P64 (talk) 14:49, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Official website, dead links
Reading one book article or author biography today, I noticed that the Booktrust website has been redesigned so that countless(?) links may need update. We provide one dead link to Booktrust in this article.

A single address now returns both "Nestlé Children’s Book Prize 2007", a top page for the 2007 prizes, and "About the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize" which incorporates a complete list of winners. 

One other annual top page is available, 2006. --P64 (talk) 21:52, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

I added that link to the corresponding reference in the article (now [ref name=end]). It refers to the children's book website for more information about the prize and I located archive versions of the children's book website. The first one: Unfortunately, that 15 Jan archived version (the earliest) does not evidently provide more information about the Nestle Prize. Nor do the next two versions, 31 Jan and 11 Mar (available by "forward arrow" at upper right). --P64 (talk) 20:39, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Archives
 * Booktrust main website: Nestle Children's Book Prize (archived 2008-02-28)
 * Booktrust children's book website, Home (archived 2008-01-15)


 * The former is no longer available at Internet Archive (nor any booktrust.org.uk pages, if i understand correctly). The latter remains available so I added that link to [ref name=end]. --P64 (talk) 00:23, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Winners database
Awards & Winners (awardsandwinners.com) With reference to our list, this database evidently identifies all Gold winners, all Special winners, and Silver or Bronze runners-up (as "Nominations") except 1996 and 2007. It does not identify Overall winners, pre-1996, or illustrators, or publishers.
 * Yearwise list of Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Winners - See more at: http://awardsandwinners.com/category/nestl%C3%A9-smarties-book-prize/2006/#sthash.WKLcAkO1.dpuf

--P64 (talk) 00:53, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Rewrite
Today I rewrote and expanded the first of two paragraphs --now the first three of four paragraphs. Numerous COMMENTS (hidden in the code) indicate how I would do a better job with more information; some may be useful to another editor with access to contemporary data. (Such as a typical About the award, History of the award, or complete list of Previous silver/bronze runners up.)

See the preceding note on Archives. --P64 (talk) 20:39, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080228202402/http://www.booktrust.org.uk/show/feature/Prizes%20and%20awards/Nestle-Childrens-Book-Prize to http://www.booktrust.org.uk/show/feature/Prizes%20and%20awards/Nestle-Childrens-Book-Prize

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