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 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Dabomb87 14:57, 18 August 2012.

Nebula Award for Best Short Story

 * Nominator(s):  Pres N  21:38, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Another month, another list—Following novels, novellas, novelettes, and all those Hugo Awards, here is the Nebula Award for Best Short Story—shorter works and fewer links. As always, comments made in prior reviews have been replicated here. Thanks for reviewing! -- Pres N  21:38, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Support nice work. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:51, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Support--Kürbis (✔) 10:05, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Why are archived links posted for the Refs when the original still works? Afro  ( Talk ) 10:00, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps to avoid dead links. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 20:34, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems like you're trying to prevent a problem which doesn't exist yet. Afro  ( Talk ) 02:29, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Yes, preventing the problem before it happens is better than preventing it after it happens and the links are dead. 2) What's the problem with providing archive links in case the websites go down? -- Pres N  05:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't mean this as an interrogation, but are you expecting The Guardian or Locus magazine's to website to go down? I'll throw in my Support since it meets the criteria, I'm just interested in the answer.  Afro  ( Talk ) 10:06, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Not really, but it's a habit now- I do it with all my FAs/FLs, and the refs here are copied from the Nebula Best Novel article. I archive them all with a python script, so it doesn't take more than a minute to do, so why not. -- Pres N  17:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it's an excellent idea, and wish I'd done it on some of my lists from 2007.... !! The Rambling Man (talk) 15:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * For the websites that are expected to be stable in the future, the cite templates have a deadlink= option that you can use. By typing in deadlink=no in the citation, the original link will show up at the front of a reference, and the archived link will be there at the back, ready to be moved up if the original goes dead. I've seen this utilized at FAC in the past, and think it's a solid idea. Not something I'd withhold a promotion over, but useful nonetheless. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 21:07, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * And I see that's how this page already uses archived links. That's why it's always helpful to read something before making comments. :-) Giants2008  ( Talk ) 21:08, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Support NapHit (talk) 16:04, 16 August 2012 (UTC)


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