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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.

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Danuta Gleed Literary Award

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Nominator(s): Kürbis (✔) 19:03, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A short article about a short story prize. Regards. Kürbis (✔) 19:03, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hooray, literary award lists! I'm a fan, for some unknowable reason. Anyway!
  • "The annually prize was founded"
  • Fixed
  • The first two paragraphs are two sentences each- why?
  • Reorganized
  • "His wife's work, One for the Chosen, [...] is still flowing into the award funds." - what? How is a book flowing into the funds?
  • Reworded
  • "The prize money for the winner was increased from..." It's technically fine but feels abrupt- why not say that it's 10k for the winning work, and was 5k prior to 2004? Or that it was 5k when the work was created, but was increased to 10k in 2004? Describing the change prior to either of the two states feels strange.
  • I reworded
  • "The year's shortlist is certain in May..." certain? You mean chosen/decided? And chosen by who- the writer's union?
  • Done
  • "...and publishers, for example [blah] in 2011" - "...publisher, for example, [blah] were judges in 2011". It needs to be an independent clause, it feels all weird like it is, and needs a comma after 'example'.
  • Done
  • Fun, a one-sentence paragraph at the end!
  • Merged with first para
  • Maybe before you describe the differences between this award and some other award, you should describe what the other prize is? As in, "there is another Candadian short story award, the x award, which is given by so-and-so for best short story debut".
  • Done
  • Also, define what you mean by publisher-independent.
  • It is independent to any publisher, ie indie works
  • Do you have any information on why this award matters? Like, sources saying it is an important award, or barring that sources just talking about the award- I mean, I would assume an award by the Canadian Writer's Union is pretty legit, but I shouldn't have to assume, you should tell me how prestigious it is.
  • There are not much information, I am afraid.
  • My eyes! Why is the list header bright red?
  • Blame the Canadian flag >:)!
  • Only two of the years have references? I'd expect them all to, and those refs to be in a seperate "ref." column
  • I added an external links section with all the winners and nominees.
  • That's a whole lot of whitespace- consider making the list wider, maybe centering it in the page.
  • Do we have any information on the other nominees for each year? Seems like we do, at the writersunion site. They also mention the publisher of each work- why is that not here?
  • Basically, while I'm obviously biased, I would expect the list table to look more like Hugo Award for Best Short Story or Nebula Award for Best Short Story - showing the other nominees (especially as it looks like the Writer's Union notes the runners-up) and the publishers/publications.
  • Done
  • You don't have a publisher listed for the globe-and-mail cite.
  • Consider archiving your online references so your citations aren't wiped out if the specific pages you're referencing are removed/changed.
  • Why do you call out the "other nominees" with green and dagger symbols, but leave the runners-up with nothing? Shouldn't it be the other way around, since the runners-up did better than the other nominees? (Runner up means second place, after the winner). Also, publishers/ publications should be linked, if they have an article, and you still have some of the publishers italicized- Bloomsbury USA isn't a book, its a company, and neither is Little, Brown, and Co., or most of the things you have italicized. --PresN 15:01, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, different people tell me different things, but ok I will do this. Regarding your first question: because I feel that the second place is the golden medium. This system may be compared with a podium. But I may change it anytime. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 15:37, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 09:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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The Rambling Man (talk) 09:53, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • You need an independent native English speaker to look at all the prose. E.g. "The year's shortlist is chosen in May " May is in the past, e.g. "with neither runner-ups " that's "runners-up", e.g. "until the late January." should be "before the end of January" or something similar. It's just not good enough. You also seem to have ignored a few of the comments above... The Rambling Man (talk) 11:24, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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