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The list was promoted by Crisco 1492 04:29, 24 July 2015 [1].

World Fantasy Special Award—Professional

Nominator(s): Pres N 20:34, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Whelp, the last nomination didn't get enough responses, so lets try this again with a bit more proactive asking on my part. Here is the 7th World Fantasy Award list, and #33 overall in our perpetual FLC series. I don't like this award. Not that it isn't fine in concept- a catchall award for professionals not covered by the written or artist categories (your editors, publishers, etc.). No, my issue starts with the name (An mdash? Really?) and ends with the utter lack of consistency in the stated reasons- a given person may be nominated one year as "for editing Magazine X", and the next as "for Magazine X". Ugh. Not to mention that a few times companies were nominated instead of individuals- that's just nonsense. I've faithfully transcribed what was awarded, though, so here it all is. As always, this list should look very familiar, since it keeps the standard award list formatting of my other FLs, and comments from prior FLCs have been brought forward here. Thanks all for reviewing! --Pres N 20:34, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support – your reasoning is pretty unconvincing, but this was a solid list first time around, and it remains thus. Top work! Harrias ^talk 21:20, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

After reading your negative remarks towards the award, I wonder what makes you work on it (so hard, of course). -- FrankBoy _CHITCHAT 00:34, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I just think the formatting of the award is problematic. I'm not going to just not write one out of ten World Fantasy lists because I don't like the way they format the nominations. --Pres N 01:21, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support There isn't anything that requires a fix, with the exception of one which needs to be explained: Why both "Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the individual's name have won the award" and the key indicator (exactly below that) are there? Both of them explain the very same thing. -- FrankBoy _CHITCHAT 22:25, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Seattle (talk) 20:41, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

and sometimes since have been given only as for "contributions to the genre". this reads a bit awkwardly; can you reword?

for his work at Donald M. Grant, Publisher out of eight nominations, can you move this to the start of the sentence?

and Gordon Van Gelder out of six nominations is there something missing here?

Slash in "Winner/Nominee" should be avoided per MOS:SLASH; "Winner/Nominee" should be "Winner(s) and nominee(s)", or "Winners and nominees"

Avoid slash in reasons such as "writing/reviewing" per MOS:SLASH

hyphens in the "reason" section would be better with ndashes. Seattle (talk) 08:24, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Seattle:: All done. --Pres N 18:22, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Winner or Nominee" should be "Winner(s) and nominee(s)", or "Winners and nominees"

Still a slash in "Pan MacMillan UK/Tor UK". Seattle (talk) 19:16, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Seattle: Slash fixed; the "Winner or Nominee" should not have "(s)" because there is only ever one winner or nominee per row- just like how it's "Year", not "Year(s)", because there's only one year per row. "Reason(s)" is plural because some rows have multiple reasons for the same nominee- though if they all did, then it would be "Reasons" instead. --Pres N 19:52, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Seattle: You capped your comments; are you willing to support? --Pres N 22:20, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to see another set of eyes review the list before I revisit. Seattle (talk) 07:21, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support: A nicely done and well-sourced list. What I suggest is that you add a link to the World Fantasy Special Award—Professional in the articles of all winners of the prize. Regards, --Gligan (talk) 19:08, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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