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The list was promoted by Giants2008 18:24, 26 March 2011 [1].

Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer[edit]

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Nominator(s): PresN 00:50, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

13th of 14 lists! I promise, you're almost done with me. The written works, magazines, editors, movies, and artists are done, so we now come to the Best Fan Writer award. This list is almost completely identical to the Fan Artist list- it even started the same year. I've incorporated suggestions and changes from previous nominations into this list, as usual. Thanks for reviewing! --PresN 00:50, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Unfortunately I don't think it is; for professional editor I could find professional works that they edited the prior year and note them down, but for "fan" writer... sometimes I can see that they published/edited a fanzine, so it's probably for the writing they did for that... unless is isn't, as they just edited and didn't write anything. Sometimes its for stories published in fanzines that they weren't paid for. Sometimes it's for people who sent in lengthy reviews to the "letters to the editor" section of several big fanzines every month- no luck finding any proof of that, much less that that was the writing that they were awarded for. Nowadays it can be for a blog that they run, which is easier to prove, but... why did Panshin win the first one? I can guess that he declined the nomination the following year because he got his first novel published, but what was he up to that was unpaid the year prior? Almost by definition it is impossible to find, since the award was by fans to fans, not to pros, and they didn't write down why. I couldn't fill out the whole column even with guesses, much less reliable sourced writings, so I had to leave it out. --PresN 21:01, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, pending other users' reviews. I gave the page a few read throughs, and I could find nothing to gripe about, except for my comment above. It is understandable that in this case it would be infeasible to find reliable sources for each fan writer. Nice list, seems up to par with the others. Jujutacular talk 03:56, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, a simple, well-sourced, interesting list. Glimmer721 talk 01:15, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 20:41, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Ref could be Ref(s) as you have multiple refs in some cases.
  • "During the 47 nomination years" at this point you should indicate it includes Retros, unless we're living in 2014...
  • "who received enough nominations " don't like "enough", perhaps "sufficient"? Or "the required"?
  • You have "Steven H Silver" (no period) but "Don C. Thompson" (with period). Is there a reason for the inconsistency here?

The Rambling Man (talk) 20:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done all; I named the authors as wherever their page was located; I didn't write them myself- Steven H Silver doesn't seem to use the period when credited, as can be seen at some article of his that's used a reference in his page. --PresN 20:38, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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