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World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement[edit]

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Nominator(s): PresN 19:43, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey all, we're closing in on finishing up the World Fantasy Awards with this 9th World Fantasy Award list, #35 overall in our perpetual FLC series of sci-fi/fantasy award lists. This award list is pretty self-explanatory: a "lifetime" achievement award category; notable quirks are that the recipients don't have to be dead/retired (or even close to done with their career), that the winner is announced when the nominees of the other categories are, and that since 2000 it's been traditional to give out two awards per year, generally to an author and a non-author. The WFAs give no reasons for the winners but a list of names is boring, so I've added fantasy works the winner had done prior to winning, a la FLs Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. The formatting on this list is functionally identical to the other sci-fi/fantasy award lists, and especially so to the other WFA lists, and comments from prior FLCs have been incorporated here. Thanks all for reviewing! --PresN 19:43, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Frankie talk
Comments from FrB.TG
  • "The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors[6] and" – you have used comma throughout the article before "and". This should be no different.
  • Could you decrease the width of entries in year? Pretty much unnecessary.
  • I would use {{Abbr}} for Ref.
  • I don't think the date format seen in references is acceptable in Wikipedia. Could you use the "18 January 2015" or "January 18, 2015" formats?
I know but don't you think it is a little bit outdated? Have not seen it in recent time. -- Frankie talk 09:49, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@FrB.TG: It's certainly a little unusual, but I've used it now for 13 FAs and 49 FLs, and it is a valid date format in references. Though amusingly, I saw it being used on another FLC in the queue just yesterday, though they also had it in the list body. --PresN 15:09, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Guardian News and Media" - same issue as your next point. --PresN 03:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ref 2 – "Corporate designations such as "Ltd", "Inc" or "GmbH" are not usually included. Omit where the publisher's name is substantially the same as the name of the work." I don't see a need for Star Publications as it is pretty much same as The Star.
  • Dropped. --PresN 03:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Can't it simply be World Fantasy Awards in source 5?
  • World Fantasy Awards is the name of the awards; the name of the actual organization is the World Fantasy Awards Administration. --PresN 03:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ref 6 – I would probably remove Tor Books and link it to Tor.com.

-- Frankie talk 17:30, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@FrB.TG: Addressed all your points, replied inline. --PresN 03:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support – well done and happy new year. -- Frankie talk 15:31, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Dudley

  • " Individuals are also eligible for the Special Award—Professional and Special Award—Non-professional categories for their work in a given year not tied to a specific achievement." Several issues: 1. This seems out of place. The para is on the life award, here you go away from it and then come back in the next sentence. 2 Why mention these particular awards? Are individuals not eligible for other awards? If so, you should say so. 3. The word "categories" seems superfluous. 4. What does "a given year" mean? The previous year?
  • "before voting on the overall winner." "winners"?
  • "but at the 2015 ceremony it was announced that the award would not be made in future years". Presumably the statuette not the award - they were not ending the award altogether?
  • These points are minor. A first rate list. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:13, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just cut the sentence
  • Specified that its the winner of each category
  • Clarified that its the statuette that's being dropped, not the category
  • Thanks for reviewing Dudley Miles, I believe I've addressed all of your concerns. --PresN 20:24, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 16:37, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Sounds odd and a little pathetic, but rather than pipelink to "art" I would pipelink to "fantasy art" in the opening sentence. I know it repeats "fantasy" but it's important to distinguish it from simply "art".
  • "The World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement is given each year to individuals for their lifetime achievements in fields related to fantasy." I'm reminded of Basil Fawlty suggesting that Sybil should use "stating the bleeding obvious" as her specialist subject on Mastermind. Can we do anything more creative than this?
  • "retired from their career" any need for "from their career"?
  • "in view of his racism" while not a BLP, it's worth clarifying exactly what this means with copious citations.
  • "18 years have..." per MOS, avoid starting sentences with numerals.
  • " typically two, though 5 " MOSNUM, "2, though 5" or "two, though five"...
  • The See also is already linked, first sentence of the lead, so not needed there.

The Rambling Man (talk) 21:57, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Done
  • Changed to "for their overall career in fields related to fantasy" (I kind of wanted to use "oeuvre", but that doesn't really include publishing/editing work)
  • Done
  • This is exactly why I didn't want to talk about the not-officially-stated reason why the statuette got dropped in the category lists, and instead leave it up to the whole section at World Fantasy Award, but I let the reviewers sweet-talk me into it a list or two ago. Dropped that sentence; the only way to really do it justice would give it way too weight in the lead.
  • Unscrambled the sentence
  • Done
  • Done
@The Rambling Man: Responded to all points. Thanks for reviewing! --PresN 01:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Very informative and complete list, well sourced. I am concerned with MOS:ACCESS on the table (Specifically having row headers which allow screen readers to understand which year is tied with what), however; I don't have the ability to test it at this time... ~ Matthewrbowker Drop me a note 02:14, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Note/Hint/etc. - I have my own FLC Candidate Mexican National Lightweight Championship and I figured giving is the best way of getting feedback.

Comments

Lead
  • "These have included authors, editors, and publishers." - I don't think everyone on the list falls in those categories. Ex. Frank Franzetta - who is an artist. The list makes it sound definitive.
  • "and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner of each category." - Who votes on the winners? I read it first as the panel of five judges, but earlier in that same paragraph it states "winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention." I think it would help to clarify which it is.
Table
  • So with this being a mix of authors and "others" would it make sense to actually have something to indicate if each recipient is an author, editor, publisher etc as part of the list?
Sources

That's all the issues I have seen, overall it's in great shape.  MPJ-US  02:44, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Added "for example"
  • Works for me
  • Adjusted the first sentence to say that the attendees/judges pick the nominees; the judges are the ones who vote for the winner from the nominees.
  • Definitely clearer now.
  • Unfortunately it would be a mess; there's an awful lot of winners who were well-known for their editing but also wrote a book or two, or who edited a bunch of stuff and then founded a publishing house. It's impossible to say what they were most known for at the time of winning the award, and really hard to narrow it down even from a modern perspective. The whole column would be OR, and I'm stretching the line by including the "works they were known for" column, which does imply that somewhat.
  • I see the challenge that presents, I agree it's better to not do that in this case.
  • Yes, it's a project by Locus, the biggest sci-fi/fantasy magazine/trade journal there is. It used to be hosted on their website, but now it's on its own.
  • Excellent, thank you.
@MPJ-DK: Responded below; I'll try to get to your FLC when I get a chance. --PresN 02:19, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@PresN: All good additions, I am going to say Support at this point in time. really great work.  MPJ-US  03:09, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Source review: Formatting is as per MoS, the references are reliable, no dead links and spot checks reveals no evidence of plagiarism or close copying.
  • There have been problems found in other reviews by this IP: review struck for the moment. - SchroCat (talk) 08:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Source review

Right, the referencing is pretty perfect, so I'm going to make some really nitpicky points.

  • Most newspapers sources just have the work (#1, #2, #7), but the Chicago Tribune reference (#3) also lists a publisher. Is there any particular reason for the difference?
  • For ref #4 the retrieved date should probably be updated to match the archived date. (I don't see a problem if the retrieval date is newer than the archived date though.)
  • Ref #19 has "pp. 448–449." while #20 has "pp. 994–5." – be consistent.
  • Spotchecks reveal no copyvio or close paraphrasing, and in each case the source provides the information cited in the article. My very picky points aside, all looks good. Harrias talk 10:21, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Removed Tribune publisher
  • Done
  • Fixed (994-995)
  • @Harrias: Done, thank you! --PresN 14:04, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support on sources – To be honest, given how picky my points were, I was happy enough to support anyway, but all the better now! Harrias talk 14:35, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just a couple of minor additional source points:

  • The two books will need locations for publishers
  • FN2 probably needs a location – there are too many papers called The Star for easy identification

Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 15:58, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@SchroCat: Both done, though I personally feel that book publisher locations are entirely superfluous, given the modern global/online economy. That a publisher is headquartered in New York City does not prevent a curious reader in Scotland from getting their eyes on the text, or vice versa. --PresN 16:15, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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