Category talk:Congressional Gold Medal recipients

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When there is a group award

My feeling is that this category should only include individuals that were personally awarded a gold medal. In the case of collective awards, that is when only one medal is struck, only the article that is about the group should have the category.

Examples when multiple gold medals were issued to members of a group (ok to use the category for the individual people):

Walter Reed and others
Men who made first transatlantic flight
Members of The Byrd Antarctic Expedition
U.S. Athletes of the 1980 Summer Games
Original 29 Navajo code talkers
Apollo 11 astronauts

Examples when one medal was struck for a group (not ok to use this category for the individual people)

Women Airforce Service Pilots
Tuskegee Airmen
Nisei Soldiers of WWII
Montford Point Marines
People who died on 9/11 (three medals to be struck for the three locations, NY, PA, and the Pentagon)

This is only my own personal feeling, I don't know of any formal rule or custom here on wikipedia regarding this. And of course I am only talking about the category, not what is written about the people in their respective articles--Nyctc7 (talk) 01:24, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rosie the Riveter left out of recipients

H.R.1773 - Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019116th Congress (2019-2020) 164.95.116.80 (talk) 17:23, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]