Jump to content

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Andre Norton Award/archive1

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Giants2008 17:12, 9 October 2012 [1].

Andre Norton Award

[edit]

Andre Norton Award (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Toolbox
Nominator(s): PresN 20:41, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking around this morning to see which sf award list to do next, and when I looked up I had rewritten this one. I now present the Andre Norton award- hooked onto the Nebula Awards and run by the same organization, it's essentially the Nebula Award for the best young adult novel of the year. As such, the list looks eerily similar to Nebula Award for Best Novel, an FL that I passed through here a few months ago, and should reflect comments raised in that and similar FLCs. Thanks for reviewing! --PresN 20:41, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from ajmint (talk•edits) 20:34, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments some prose stuff, otherwise looking good:
  • Perhaps change "a yearly award" → "an annual award" as a bit of variety for the word "year" later in the sentence?
  • Done.
  • "word length"; I assume this should be "word count" or "work length"
  • Done.
  • "nominating and voting" → "nomination and voting"?
  • Done.
  • "as the awards are separate_ works may be..." I would put a comma there, I had to wrap my head around that bit
  • Done.
  • "determines if the nominated works are _____ for young adults"; I would insert either "suitable", "appropriate" or "intended", depending on what exactly this means
  • Done, used "written", since appropriate has moral overtones and they're just looking for writing style.
  • "which allowed the possibility for works to be nominated"; Highlighted bit isn't really necessary
  • Done.
  • "Scott Westerfield has the most nominations at four, though he has yet to win, followed by Holly..." I would replace these commas with dashes as it is a bit confusing to use them for both interjection and a list
  • Done.

ajmint (talk•edits) 23:11, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from TBrandley (talk) 23:42, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Add some image which is need per WP:FL?
  • Not required, actually, but found one- non-free, unfortunately.
  • Link science fiction in first mention
  • Done, had it in the second sentence, now the first.
  • "announced" originally?
  • Made it "publicly announced".
  • I don't think the asterisk is clear enough. Perhaps a dagger?
  • It's been clear enough for the past 21 FLs. If you have regular vision, the blue is enough, if you don't, any symbol comes out the same from a screen-reader.
  • Tables don't met MOS:ACCESS, add scope cols and rows, as well as "table captions", to ensure it does.
  • Ummm.... it has row and col scopes. Check the table code. I've manually un-tinted the row headers, since it doesn't make much sense in this context.
  • Align references in table to center
  • Ooh, you were the one who wanted it that way in the last FLC, too. AKA the only person ever. Just so you know, this is a massive pain in the ass- you have to do it cell by cell. Done.
  • Don't use mixed date formats in references, ref 2 uses different than other refs
  • It is perfectly fine to format "October 2011" as such instead of "2011-10", which is not a standard format.
  • As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between
  • Did you use a bot to generate some of this? Because all of the cites are next to a punctuation mark, except for the ones in the table.
  • "Nebula Awards Homepage" → "Official website"
  • Done.
  • Categories should be sorted in alphabetical order
  • Done.

TBrandley 00:42, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 07:46, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • The opening sentence is a humdinger, with around 56 words in it?!
  • Is the award open internationally?
  • Why isn't The Freedom Maze linked in the infobox?

The Rambling Man (talk) 08:16, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • "in the previous year" - In the preceding year, perhaps?
No other comments from me... prose looks solid. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:28, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/Andre_Norton_Award/archive1&oldid=1138478967"