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GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary[edit]

GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): PanagiotisZois (talk) 22:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because... I can >:(. Just kidding. I'm nominating because I have been working on it on and off for some time now, and I believe it is on par with the other articles. Documentaries are often ignored when it comes to media, but they can be very helpful in informing oneself, especially for people who may not have time to read books. A cross-medium category that includes both film and television documentaries, the only one from this list I've actually seen is The Celluloid Closet, which I'd definitely recommend to anyone interested in the history of Hollywood and portrayal of LGBT characters and themes. --PanagiotisZois (talk) 22:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

  • "1996 marks the only...." - to avoid starting a sentence with a number, which probably isn't 100% a no-no but (IMO) doesn't look great, how about changing this to something "The award has been shared on [N] occasions; it was given to two documentaries in [year] and [year] and three in 1996, when [X], [Y] and [Z] were all recognized"
  • "within two years after completion" => "within two years on completion"
  • "The Real World winning for its third season The Real World: San Francisco in 1995, while True Life won for the episode "I'm Gay and I'm Getting Married" in 2005" => "The Real World won for its third season The Real World: San Francisco in 1995, while True Life won for the episode "I'm Gay and I'm Getting Married" in 2005" (not grammatically correct as it stands. If you don't want to repeat "won", maybe replace one with "was recognized")
  • Wow, being British it feels really unnatural repeatedly typing "recognized" :-D
  • Honestly, it's of the spelling differences in English where I actually prefer the American version over the British one. :P

Comments by RunningTiger123[edit]

  • The contrast between the green backgrounds and blue links is insufficient for accessibility purposes in Vector 2022 per this website (using #3366CC for the text and #9F9 for the background) – see MOS:COLOR. It was fine in Vector 2010, but the new link colors don't work.
    • The navboxes at the bottom have similar issues, and I suspect the other FLs you've worked on in this field have the same issue now.
  • @RunningTiger123: I'm not that experienced with this colour thing. Should I change the green colour to something like #EEDD82 or #FAEB86? The former colour is used in the Oscar, Emmy, and Annie Award articles, including their nav boxes. Other awards like the Hugos or Gaylactic Spectrum Awards use that blue colour. Which one do you recommend I use for here? --PanagiotisZois (talk) 22:43, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I realized after I started that the new link colors are causing the same issue elsewhere (see discussion), so for now, I would just leave it alone until a wider solution can be reached. RunningTiger123 (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Done.
  • It might be useful to insert rows for 1991 and 1993 to make it clearer when no awards were presented.

— RunningTiger123 (talk) 18:40, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the only remaining change is the 1991 and 1993 rows, which isn't critical, so I'll support. RunningTiger123 (talk) 15:27, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Pseud 14[edit]

  • @Pseud 14: That is something I thought off, but the problem is that the award has always included both film and television documentaries. If I link just documentary, it takes me to "documentary film". Granted, most awards here are probably film (televised or otherwise), but some documentaries are outright TV series with various episodes. --PanagiotisZois (talk) 22:12, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • That’s a fair point. We can def just leave it at that then. Pseud 14 (talk) 22:24, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The award has been shared on three occasions -- Just so "The award" isn't repetitive, maybe you can use, It has been jointly awarded on three occasions;
  • Altered it.
  • As of 2023, the award has been given to 36 documentaries. -- Perhaps "Since its inception, the award has been given" would be a much better replacement, as you have another statement in the last sentence referring to the current year in 2023.
  • That's true. Changed it.
  • Is there a reason why only Out of Work is red-linked from the table?
  • Not really. Removed the red-link.

That's all I have on prose. A very solid and well-written work. Not much else to quibble. Pseud 14 (talk) 18:13, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Changes look good to me. Happy to support for promotion. Pseud 14 (talk) 22:24, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source review passed; promoting. --PresN 13:23, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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