Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Dwarf Stars Award/archive1


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Dwarf Stars Award

 * Nominator(s):  Pres N  18:51, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Back again, and again switching from video game lists to increasingly-obscure sci-fi/fantasy award lists. This time around we have a list where the wiki source text is longer than all of the winners combined: the Dwarf Stars award. The super-short-form counterpart to the Rhysling Award (aka the biggest sff poetry award, an admittedly small field), Dwarf Star winners are poems 10 lines or less. Hopefully, this nomination will be short as well! As always, the list format is taken directly from my previous sff award FLs, and reflects comments from those previous FLCs. Thanks for reviewing! -- Pres N  18:51, 22 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Support: Short and sweet. Very well done :) – Underneath-it-All (talk) 15:23, 30 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Comments from Crisco 1492
 * Obscure is right. Any secondary sources with critical commentary? Otherwise this may not be notable.
 * Anything worth noting about the poems themselves?
 * "the leaf whisperer" - Deliberate?
 * "Knowledge Of" - Caps in original?
 * "Troll Under Bridge" - Caps in original? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:52, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * All capitalization matches that of the poems. I'll look for more secondary sources, right now I just have that Locus tracks the award. -- Pres N  20:22, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Alright, I'll wait. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:29, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * What's happening with those independent sources? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:05, 27 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Tentative Support, if no editor finds an issue. DragonZero  ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 04:03, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Comments The Rambling Man (talk) 16:17, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't it be "ten lines or fewer"?
 * In the Publisher or publication column, I can't see any publishers?
 * Is there any third-party source that could be used to clearly demonstrate the notability of this award?

Alright, I did TRM's fixes above, but I've been unable to find any good secondary sources. I've found conferences that mention that authors they have speaking there have won it, I've found author's webpages that mention when they win it, but beyond verifiability that the award exists, I'm not finding anything that clearly states anything about the award that's not a primary source. I guess I've been approaching the line on how obscure I could get with these award lists, and I may have crossed it here. I'm going to withdraw this nomination for now- I'm convinced that there are sources out there, but I don't have the time/energy to do a more intensive search for them right now. Sorry all. -- Pres N  18:50, 28 May 2013 (UTC)


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