Talk:List of prizes, medals, and awards

[edit] Rationalization

This page probably needs some rationalisation, or soon someone will add Bronze swimming medal.

unless this actually links to an article listing all or most of the decorated ... It would be nice to have that for at least one or two of the "British and Commonwealth". Otherwise it might be preferable to detail the system elsewhere.

Note: The "British and Commonwealth" are now at British and Commonwealth orders and decorations Docu 09:12 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

Just added Balzan Prize, reference link at [1], prize winners at [2] I added because I saw some articles had dead links to Balzan, and I added a link from Michel Mayor. And agree about rationalisation, page is quite big, Nobel Peace is duplicated, maybe split into International awards (Nobel, etc) and the rest? Or split off entertainment/sports?-Wikibob | Talk 00:54, 2004 Apr 3 (UTC)

I wasn't sure whether to add the National Medal of Technology (awarded by the United States of America) to the Technology section or the section for the individual country. --WhiteDragon 02:36, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I added the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, though I have not yet created the article. I intend to in the near future - likely in the next day or two, as soon as I can find the time, hopefully today.

What do people think about gradually moving the prizes from this list to the Category scheme?

Wikipedia:Categorization advises not to convert certain lists to Categories:

Comprehensive lists, e.g. "List of all municipalities of Quuxen", annotated lists, and selective lists, e.g. "List of Quuxens that were Bazzed", should not be replaced with categories.

but I'm not sure if this list qualifies, it is partly but sparsely annotated. -Wikibob | Talk 14:11, 2004 Jun 21 (UTC)

I wouldn't move anything to Categories until the categories are all sorted out. Right now there's a still mess with the heirarchies and conventions of lists, they have not yet settled to the point that they can replace any of the lists that have been carefully constructed here over time. You could start building a parallel category that would in effect mirror this list, but I wouldn't delete any content from the list. --Woggly 15:08, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

As it isn't alphabetical, it's a bit hard to make into a category. I agree with Woogly that it may be preferable to build categories for some of the lists expanding Category:Lists rather than to replace the page. -- User:Docu

Does anyone feel this page is far too big? Shouldn't it be split up into like different categories: sports prizes, music etc on different pages? Mandel 09:28, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)

no, not yet. Jay 10:40, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bram Stoker Award

Someone should add the Bram Stoker Award. I don't where does it belongs. The NeveR SLeePiNG 17:50, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page is too big!

The question was raised in 2004, but now in 2007 the page is greater than 50K. Can't we split into a List of lists of awards, by various subjects? It would also be much easier to read them and find particular awards. Such a long list is hard to navigate, as well as to read. Even the table of contents is 5-screens-worth long on my screen! --lquilter 01:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music Awards

i don't understand why Music exists in two categories: Humanities, and Entertainment. Shouldn't they be merged? --emerson7 | Talk 17:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Becuase they are quite different types of award. Although there is an overlap between Music as an art form and academic subject as opposeto as part of the entertainment industry, in terms of awards they mainly fall in to one or other camp. Billlion

[edit] Economics

This page needs a separate Economics section - classification of prizes under General Science and Maths are unnecessary!

Also - perhaps this needs to be initially divided under the same basic categorisation as is set by the Nobel prizes Just a thought —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.248.129.115 (talk) 22:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)