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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.

The list was promoted by The Rambling Man 18:06, 12 December 2010 [1].

Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor[edit]

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Nominator(s): PresN 18:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Despite saying that I was done for a while, I'm back with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor. As always, comments from previous FLCs have been incorporated into this list. This one is a bit different from the others, though, in that not only is it given for a person, not their work, but also in that the work that they did isn't even mentioned. That is to say that Ben Bova won the inaugural year (1973, to coincide with the removal of the "Best Professional Magazine" category) but what it was that he was editing wasn't listed. Since I found that a bit boring and uninformative, I've added in a (non-comprehensive) list of what the editors worked on in that year, and then cited it, which balloons the ref count to 108. Thanks for reviewing! --PresN 18:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment:
    • Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. delete Worldcon, because it links there
    • Starting with the 2007 awards, the Professional Editor award was split into two categories: Best Editor (Long Form) and Best Editor (Short Form). The Long Form award is for "The editor of at least four (4) novel-length works primarily devoted to science fiction and / or fantasy published in the previous calendar year" in the official Hugo Award rules (in paragraph Long Form) the "(4)" should be deleted
    • The Best Editor Short Form award, also started in 2007, is defined as being for "the editor of at least four (4) anthologies, collections or magazine issues primarily devoted to science fiction and/or fantasy, at least one of which was published in the previous calendar year. the same here

-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 09:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Can't delete "Worldcon"; the term is used afterward in the text as shorthand. Removed the two "(4)"s, though those were direct quotes. --PresN 19:01, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 21:20, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • En-dash in infobox for year range.
  • Done, I always forget those.
  • Any reason why infobox has Short Form and Long Form capitalised while the rest of the lead doesn't?
  • Not one that stood up to scrutiny when I thought about it, now all capitalized.
  • " The two editors which have won three..." agh. Perhaps "The two editors tow have won three..."?
  • Fixed.
  • "received the greatest number of total nominations" why not just "received the most nominations"?
  • Fixed.
  • Ref -> Ref(s) and please, if possible, put them in numerical order.
  • Ow, reordering them was a non-trivial matter. Fixed.
  • Note 1 should be Note A and needs reference.
  • The reference is in the text/table directly after the note; not sure how to nest references or change the numbering scheme. I'll look into it.
  • Alright, the nested ref is done (I have a ref in a ref in a reflist!) but I still don't know how to make a ref group use letters instead of numbers. --PresN 21:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Rambling Man (talk) 19:08, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Replied in-line. --PresN 21:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Excellent work as usual. I made a couple minor fixes, but the list is up to snuff. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:35, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • There should be a section summarizing multiple winners (or those that won more than twice). Nergaal (talk) 02:48, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • ? There is, the fourth paragraph in the lead. --PresN 06:52, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • I meant a small table like the last one in List of 2008 Summer Olympics medal winners. Nergaal (talk) 20:40, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • Hmm. Well, I disagree- in this list, unlike in that Olympic one, you can just click the sort by button next to editor and it will bunch up each editor's awards/nominations, making it easy to see who has won multiple. Combined with that paragraph that summarizes the multiple winners/nominees, you get all of the information that you couldn't get in the Olympic list without that table. --PresN 20:54, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per above-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 08:13, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I examined it with a fine-toothed comb, but was unable to find any issues. Good work once again. Regards, Jujutacular talk 02:25, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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