Talk:Lindy West

May 2012

This article should be deleted. It is completely irrelevant and unnecessary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.113.37 (talk) 16:04, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

I can't say I disagree. Fails the notability requirement. 71.222.99.69 (talk) 16:46, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

WP:AFD is thataway. Robofish (talk) 23:11, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Proposing deletion

You should review the basic criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (people), and if you think the subject fails the criteria, then submit to WP:AfD. Basic preliminary stuff is at WP:BEFORE. Actual submission steps are at WP:AFDHOWTO. This is made much easier if you enable Twinkle at your Preferences -> Gadgets.

I don't think Lindy West is likely to be deleted; I'll add a number of articles about her (other than at The Stranger and Jezebel) which I think would meet the criteria, but you can always try if you wish. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I removed the PROD template from talk page space, it needs to go in article space. Safiel (talk) 22:53, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Also, it appears the article was prodded shortly after it was created a few years ago, so it needs to go through Articles for Deletion. Safiel (talk) 23:02, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Help - script error

I apparently made a "script error" but don't know what that is. 24.97.201.230 (talk) 17:03, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

The article no longer says "script error" so I think I may have fixed it. 24.97.201.230 (talk) 17:11, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

I couldn't find any indication of such an error message in previous versions of the article; it might have been some sort of temporary glitch. Anyway, it seems resolved. Huon (talk) 17:14, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. 24.97.201.230 (talk) 21:09, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Fat shaming background

Information about Lindy West's BMI has been added to the page. This was done in order to suggest some of the reasons she takes a particular interest in the subject of fat shaming. Personal information about Ms. West (namely height and weight) was publicly disclosed on the internet by Ms. West herself, and taken from her own personal website. Accordingly, there should be no concerns about invasion of privacy. The other references are to reputable medical institutions (e.g., the NIH; the University of Rochester). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.73.197 (talk) 10:33, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

See WP:SYNTH and WP:BLP. Wikipedia is not a platform for you to make up your own arguments about what people ought to think, and making your own medical diagnosis based on what you think you read on a blog about a person is far beyond the scope of what is acceptable in a Wikipedia biography. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:17, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

You removed today's edit claiming that reliable sources were not cited. However, the primary cited source for the added information was Lindy West's own public website, which per Wikipedia policy is a valid source for bio page purposes. From the guidelines you linked to: "Never use self-published sources – including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets – as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject (see below)." The information provided is not something "I thought I read on a blog", as you put it. Also, it is unclear how the edits constitute instruction regarding "what people ought to think."

Accordingly, I have restored the added material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.73.197 (talk • contribs) 15:55, 22 October 2014‎

In the post you cited, West actually says she is healthy. You, some Anonymous Guy on the Internet, come along and argue with that, saying "No, actually, here is my medical diagnosis...". Do not make a medical diagnosis on Wikipedia. Please stop. You may be blocked form editing if you continue. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:01, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

It's not my definition of obesity; it's the NIH's. And it's based on facts (height/weight) provided by West herself. But in order to avoid the whole issue of making a "medical diagnosis" on Wikipedia, I have simply inserted her statistics as she reports them, without further analysis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.73.197 (talk) 17:50, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

The blog post, Hello, I am fat (February 11, 2011) on The Stranger's blog, was a reply to comments by Dan Savage. It is not Lindy West's "Bio Page", which misleadingly implies that West publicizes her height and weight as part of a normal biography. What West actually said was, the "Alp of shame that crushes every fat person every day of their lives—the same shame that makes it a radical act for me to post a picture of my body and tell you how much it weighs." It is not the role of Wikipedia to take that "radical act", in the context of a debate, and use it for other rhetorical purposes. It's obviously tendentious.

No other reputable publication has drawn attention to West's weight in the way you are doing. The rules of WP:BLP don't allow us to construct our own lines of attack against living persons as you are doing here. You are trying to say, "West criticizes fat shaming, but LOOK she is obese!" It would be acceptable if the New York Times or The Economist said that; we could cite their counterarguments or criticisms. It is not true that the NIH has taken issue with Lindy West's opinions about weight and health. You are the one taking issue with it: one anonymous guy identified at IP 62.189.73.197. If the NIH had issued a response to Lindy West, we could cite that.

What you are doing is lifting facts out of context, and using them in a specific way: to influence how the reader thinks about West's writings on fat shaming. Wikipedia editors don't get to do that. Find a reuptable authority who has responded to West in some way, and cite what they said. Besides WP:BLP and WP:SYNTH, see WP:FRANKIE. Wikipedia has numerous guidelines against this kind of editing. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:41, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

With regard to WP:UNDUE, an acceptable way to handle this would be 1) Use the numerous published sources to expand this stub to be a well-rounded biography of Lindy West, 2) Give a complete account of the exchange between Savage and West on fat shaming. That is assuming third parties even covered the West/Savage issue; otherwise it's a tempest in a teapot. Expanding the bio fully is a lot of work, but that is what is required to provide balance and contest. You can't use the excuse that articles are works in progress when the result is an incomplete article that disproportionately shines a light on selected facts.--Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:04, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

List of articles mentioning West

This section of the article had been renamed "references". However, its content are not references: they are not citations for specific material contained in the article, nor are they a list of articles consulted as general references in writing the Wikipedia article. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 00:22, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

In the MOS, in WP:FNNR, there are four things:

1. explanatory footnotes that give information which is too detailed or awkward to be in the body of the article,
2. citation footnotes (either short citations or full citations) that connect specific material in the article with specific sources,
3. full citations to sources, if short citations are used in the footnotes, or
4. general references (full bibliographic citations to sources that were consulted in writing the article but that are not explicitly connected to any specific material in the article).

In the Notes section are #2, citation footnotes. Following that is References, which is #4, aka general references. You are correct that they are not explicitly connected to material in the article. But so what? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:31, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

The content of "List of articles mentioning West" fit none of those four options listed in WP:FNNR. If they are not connected to any material in the article then they are not references! Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 00:41, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

There are Featured Articles like Ina Garten and Monkey Gone to Heaven that use Notes and Reference sections this way. The section name "Articles that mention Lindy West" is clearly not a standard name, and it sounds silly.

And these are connected with the article, for example on the question of whether west was ever a film editor. There was no inline citation for that, but there was a reference. Obviously an inline citation is better, but the next best thing is for the cited facts to be in the references in the bottom. One of several purposes behind citing sources this way is as a stage in the development of better articles. Another purpose is to list sources that establish the notability of a stub. Having a list of credible references often -- not always! -- avoids wasting time in a moot AFD discussion. yes, it would be better to have them all cited inline, but a stub has to start somewhere. And even FAs use the same structure, sometimes. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:55, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

You are not reading, or listening. Most articles don't have separate notes or references sections. However, when they do, Notes are for specific citations for specific claims, references are a list of specific works consulted for the content of the article. Your list of articles that mention Lindy West are neither, they are just a list of articles that mention Lindy West. Maybe there are some in that list that could be used as sources - however, none currently are, and most could never be. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 01:12, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

They lend support to generalizations about West, such as "West has written on racism and sexism" etc. And they provide general background on the subject. I guess you could argue that References could be renamed "Further reading", since the serve practically the same purpose in this case. But "Articles mentioning West"? We don't have any articles -- certainly not any decent ones -- that use a section name like that. But we do have many articles with lists of sources at the bottom that have not (yet) been incorporated into the main article. They serve a good purpose, especially with stubs. A stub leaves the reader wanting, by definition. A list of refs at least gives them somewhere to go. Hence the common use of the technique. I've even given examples of Featured Articles that use this method.

"Articles mentioning West" sounds rather snarky. Is that the point? To chip away at notability to make it seem like this article is manufactured drama? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:29, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

I have gone beyond the point of trying to reason with you. You are the drama manufacturer: you have been editing this article for months, so you KNOW that the wording "Articles that mention Lindy West" has been there at least since April [1] and was not put there by me. And I see from edit summaries that there have been past attempts to teach you what "notes" and "sources" in Wikipedia articles actually are. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 03:12, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it said that, but it wasn't the section title. It's not the right section title. And it's the wrong section order. It's pretty basic, simple MOS stuff. Note, References, Further Reading, External links is the standard order. It's odd to become obsessed with upsetting that standard order and try to minimize the value of the list of sources by making that the section title. To try to ague the false case that there are no high quality sources that have substantive, non-trivial coverage of West. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:31, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Quote Deletion

I had deleted this quoute "Accepting the award, West said, "I hear a lot these days about the lazy, aimless 'millennials' – about how all we want to do is sit around twerking our iPods and Tweedling our Kardashians – and I also hear people asking, 'Where is the next generation of the social justice movement? Where are all the young feminists and womanists and activists?' Dude, they're on the internet."" I had wrote in the edit summary that it was a notability issue, Dennis Bratland had corrected me on that. However, WP:WEIGHT I would suggest argues against inclusion and it seems a bit soapboxy, considering that the sources that pointed to it were the press release of the award ceremony and a mobile phone recording of the speech at the award ceremony posted to youtube... -Xcuref1endx (talk) 21:29, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

The point of a quote is to show readers what a person thinks, what their attitudes are. If this were a quote from someone who is not Lindy West, it might make sense to say it's undue weight. But Lindy West is the subject. It's kind of hard to say there's too much stuff about Lindy West in an article about Lindy West. Considering what a short article this is, the idea that all relevant points of view have to be perfectly balanced is silly. If you want a balanced article, expand it threefold, then debate the finer points of due weight. If somebody deletes every addition this way, no article can ever be written collaboratively. Perfection is not required.--Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:32, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

The length of the article is irrelevant, considering what should be included are things that can be reliably sourced and given proper WP:WEIGHT, otherwise its inclusion is based upon original research and the subjective point of view of those who think it warrants inclusion. And I am not saying that relevant points have to be 'perfectly balanced.' Its inclusion is both WP:SOAP and WP:NPOV. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 23:22, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

If you still feel it should be included, then it is time to bring in a third opinion. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 23:24, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

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Incorrect use of policy links as magic talismans

This edit summary cites WP:TRIVIA and WP:PROMOTION for deleting mention of the Women's Media Center Social Media Award. If you actually read WP:TRIVIA, it says, right at the top, in a section helpfuly titled "What this is not" that "This guideline does not suggest the inclusion or exclusion of any information; it only gives style recommendations. Issues of inclusion are addressed by content policies." WP:PROMOTION says nothing about deleting mention of awards to anybody. It is not self promotion. It's not advertising. Neither of these arguments makes any sense.

Going back a little earlier, we have the same deletion, with the summary "rmving references to womens media center award, it is primarily sourced, if someone can find a reliable secondary source for it, put it back in" WP:PRIMARY offers no support for this. Primary sources are allowed, and they may be use to support facts. In fact, the most desirable source for who won an award is the organization giving it. Who is the source for the Acadamey Awards for in the Featured Articles Gary Cooper, or Bradley Cooper? The Academy Awards, of course. The FA Zodiac (film) cites -- who else -- the British Film Institute to verify that Zodiac won a British Film Institute award. Just bizarre reasoning.

This is wrong "removed per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL. Link is already included up top". Says we don't include multiple different official websites, such as both davidbowie.com and https://twitter.com/davidbowiereal and all other sites and urls that belong to that person. But we do but davidbowie.com in both the infobox and the external links section, per WP:ELCITE. This is how the Featured Article David Bowie does it, as to dozens of other Featured Articles. Content in indoboxes is almost alwawas duplicated by content in sections. Another bizarre misreading of plain English guidelines.

This one is wrong too. " there is already notes for the work cited". These further readings sources are not cited in the reflist. See MOS:FURTHER.

I could go on, but I'm getting annoyed. These blatantly false excuses for deleting content are not a good choice, and I suggest cutting it out. Tossing around an alphabet soup of WP:XYZABC all caps policy links is not a magic talisman to justify anything you like. You have to at least read WP:XYZABC before you invoke it. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:46, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

You can easily find other resources that show that gary cooper has won an academy award, hence, there are other reliable secondary sources. There is virtually NOTHING out there that mentions anything about the womens media center social media award, other than that single press release for that award. Whether you are annoyed or not is irrelevant, and if you want to bring in outside voices, that is fine. The award is has no reference anywhere, and its inclusion is either trivia or reads like Lindy West's resume. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 00:19, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

What about BBC News? Metro News Canada? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Jezebel

Why are you even doing this? What is it about this Women's Media Center Award that you are so concerned about? If you want to make this article better, it needs to be expanded to fully cover the subject. There are several points in West's career, that aren't mentioned at all. What are you doing? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:47, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Forgot the Seattle Times. Your statement that nobody cares about this Women's Media Center award is simply false. Let's drop it and move on to something that matters. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:53, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

RFC on the inclusion of Women's Media Center Award on Lindy West page

The discussion here is two part.

• 1. Whether mention of the Women's Media Social Media Award is appropriate for inclusion and whether the sourcing is proper. It was initially only sourced to a release of the award ceremony. However, Dennis Bratland has provided four additional sources mentioned above.
• 2. Second issue is whether the quote:--

I hear a lot these days about the lazy, aimless 'millennials' – about how all we want to do is sit around twerking our iPods and Tweedling our Kardashians – and I also hear people asking, 'Where is the next generation of the social justice movement? Where are all the young feminists and womanists and activists?' Dude, they're on the internet.

should be included. I argue its promotional, poorly sourced and soapboxey. Dennis Bratland argues that it provides valuable information about the subject.

As the talk page of the article and my talk page would suggest, we are at an impasse and need outside clear heads to chime in. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 01:20, 3 August 2017 (UTC)RFC question slightly re-formatted in accordance with WP:WRFC by Godric on Leave (talk) at 17:49, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Votes/Discussion

• Comments by nominator--(Transposed from the RFC poser):--
  • 1)As to the 1st point; The BBC and metronews.ca don't mention the award, only provide a picture of Lindy at the award ceremony.
  • 2) The only source for this is primary, from the press release of the award ceremony where she gave the speech and a amateur youtube video of the event.Xcuref1endx (talk) 01:20, 3 August 2017 (UTC)Transposed by Godric on Leave (talk) at 17:49, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

The typical rule of thumb I would apply would be (a) is the award itself notable? if so, a primary source is not ideal but probably acceptable. (b) if the award isn't notable (as seems the case here), is there sufficient secondary source coverage such that it would be due weight to include?

The sources referenced in this RfC may make for a borderline-to-decent case, but there's also Broadsheet, The Stranger, Vanity Fair, Bustle... So I would say yes to including the award. Abstaining from opining on inclusion of the quote at this time. I do see that some of her acceptance speech has been reproduced in these sources, which may mean it's justified, but meh to including long quotes in general. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 03:29, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

With Rhododendrites sources, its addition fine. However, I believe the quote should still be removed. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 03:41, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

• A primary source is sufficient for an award, notable or not, provided it does not get WP:UNDUE weight, and provided that the source is independent of the subject, if not of the award. (A self-conferred award is a different thing.) A notable award, or an award with significant secondary coverage, should usually be included, it is almost by definition not undue weight to at least list it. The secondary coverage need not be of the sort which would help establish the notability of the subject, so brief mentions in reliable secondary sources are sufficient. I think this none should be included. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 03:51, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
• As to the quote, a primary source is sufficient for a quote from the subject, as long as there is no serious doubt that it is accurate and in context. I don't think this is excessive length for a quote of this sort. I would be inclined to include it. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 03:55, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
  • What sort of primary source would be sufficient to include an award or a quote, hypothetically? provided it does not get WP:UNDUE weight seems contradictory, since weight is, in most cases, based on secondary source coverage (i.e. not what the organization giving awards or the person receiving an award says about it). An award itself has no weight at all simply for existing, regardless of what press releases the sponsoring organization puts out (and regardless of whether those press releases have a connection to the person receiving the award). I could create such an award and give it to someone tomorrow. I would hope that nobody would think it appropriate to then add that award to the recipient's article, let alone a lengthy quote taken from my press release. Someone may say that this award is more significant than the one I just created, but that sort of determination is based on secondary source coverage, not Wikipedians' opinions. Primary sources are fine for basic facts, but do not themselves justify including things like awards and quotes. We can't just include a quote because a Wikipedian thinks it's a good quote or because an organization uses it in a press release. There needs to be a reason to include it. We need a reason to include one quote from a primary source over another -- and we get that reason from secondary sources. There are countless awards put on by countless organizations, personal websites, radio station promotions, etc. and secondary source coverage is, as with most of the rest of Wikipedia, how we determine weight. The secondary sources are why the award should be included, and the determination of whether to include the quote should be based only on secondary source coverage. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:42, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
    • It would be undue weight to have lots of quotes from Lindy West in the article fishing. Or even the article feminism. But Lindy West is the subject here, so we expect to hear from her. Your reader is reading because they want you to tell them about Lindy West. Either direct quotes, or paraphrases of what she said, to summarize her thinking, and manner of speaking. Her tone.

      We would want to include counterbalancing criticism, expecially if this were not a BLP. But since it is a living person, policy is to tread lightly on any negativity about the subject. So expect to see the balance shifted away from criticism in a bio of a living person compared with one of a non living person.

      In the context of the larger coverage of West, this award and this quote are an approximate microcosm. This is only a stub. A proper article would have nuanced details about the contents of her book, her columns, why she became influential. I'd probably include all or part of the quote "One of the most distinctive voices advancing feminist politics through humor, West is behind a handful of popular pieces — 'How to Make a Rape Joke' on Jezebel, 'Hello, I Am Fat' on The Stranger’s blog, 'Ask Not for Whom the Bell Trolls; It Trolls for Thee' on 'This American Life' — that have helped shift mainstream attitudes about body image, comedy and online harassment over the past several years." from the Times review of Shrill. I'd probably have a lot to add on the 'criticism' of West from Yiannopoulous or Breitbart, since there is extensive secondary sources on this subject. The point being, that once the article has grown to start to cover all the material comprehensively, then individual quotes like this become relatively less significant, and you don't notice them as much. We could delete one if it bothers somebody without making much difference, yet it is unlikely to bother anyone because it's only a drop in the bucket anyway.

      The point being, it's so wasteful to quibble over every sentence of a mere stub. Don't like a stub? Add content. Un-stub it, make it big and comprehensive, and then debate whether to keep one sentence or not. This whole discussion is doing it backwards. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:57, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

      • I'm sympathetic to the sentiment at the end, but ultimately if content is challenged on the basis of NPOV (as opposed to V), just pointing to primary sources isn't sufficient. That she is the subject indeed means a quote is more likely to be appropriate here than in the fishing article, but there has to be a reason to include a quote other than it being in a press release and the opinion of a Wikipedian. It needs recognition by a reliable source not just for verifiability but for weight. It's not NPOV to base inclusion on press releases. That said, I'm arguing on principle here. There are some secondary sources that have covered this, and that in a way makes your point. If the quote stood, it would be because of a belief that we would at some point cite secondary sources to back it up (not just because it exists). I don't want to distract from the actual content dispute at hand with my "on principle" responses that have already taken up too much space, so I will take my leave and bring it up on the NPOV talk page. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 05:07, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
        • I find that I disagree with Rhododendrites's comment above, to an extent. The quot and the award must be relevant, and should not receive undue attention and weight, but a secondary source need not be cited or expected, provided that the accuracy of the primary sources are not seriously disputed, and the statements are not controversial. Moreover, in this particular case, several secondary sources did take note of the award, at least to the extent of publishing images of the event. In my view that gives it enough weight to include at this stage of the article's development. We don't need in-depth coverage of the event, that major reliable press sources chose to cover it at all lends it enough weight for inclusion for the time being, in my view. I generally agree with the comments of Dennis Bratland above. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 22:23, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
• Inclined towards include on both. Yeah, I'm not doing jumping jacks over the sources, and if the issue I had been presented here was a matter of WP:V (that is, a question of whether the sources could be trusted, strictly in light of accuracy), who knows, I may have parsed my decision differently. But approaching the matter from the perspective of WP:WEIGHT, I think we can make room in this decidedly uncrowded article. The four mentions of the award seem sufficient to me to establish a minimal argument that mentioning it is WP:DUE, and the quote (presuming we don't have particular cause to distrust the single primary source), seems to me to have been selected to speak to the core of the subject's philosophy regarding the work which is itself the basis for her notability as an encyclopedic topic. I'd be happier with better and/or more sources in both instances, but I lean include nevertheless.

On a side note, I want to give props to the civil and cogent way the RfC has been formatted and approached. It's good to see parties solicit outside perspective before things have gotten caustic an intractable and especially nice to have neutrally worded, clear, and specific inquiries that respondents can easily respond to. So thumbs up to Xcuref1endx, even though I fall just on the other side of the content issue from them. Snow ^{let's rap} 04:52, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Not disagreeing with any of your comments, and it's moot at this point, but besides formatting and civility and such, an RfC statement must be neutral. If the RfC is about content, the name of an editor should never be mentioned in the statement (and calling out an editor by name this way is usually considered the most civil thing one could do). If the originator wants to add arguments and comments, they are placed below the statement, separately. No harm done, but this isn't an example of how to best do an RfC. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:08, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

I do of course agree that an RfC should be neutrally worded (having referenced this myself in the above comment as one of the reasons for approving of how this one was approached). I must respectfully disagree with your assessment of the approach here; there's no prohibition against mentioning another editor in passing, if they were a proponent of one of the proposed approaches and mentioning them will help respondents parse the previous discussions. Here Xcuref1endx's reference to you was completely incidental and I don't see how they "called you out" for anything, insofar as they only mentioned (accurately, I take it you agree?) which approach you favoured. Regardless, the reference didn't seem to prejudice respondents one way or another, insofar as he presented both arguments faithfully, which is what the policy regards as "neutral" for the purposes of an RfC. That's my take anyway. Perhaps I'm missing some of the previous context, or perhaps I am assuming too much when I believe that you view his representation of your view as accurate. Snow ^{let's rap} 08:07, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

• Include - (bot summoned) - The award has been around for a decade, it is representative of who she is and what she represents. The quote is fine - it represents the core of what made her notable. As for citing sources, see policy WP:V as it clearly describes what sources are considered reliable/acceptable. A quick Google search tells me there are plenty of 3rd party sources available. ^{Atsme📞📧} 13:53, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
• include Not sure why there is much question here. Artw (talk) 16:04, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
• 1) Include 1, given there are multiple sources for the award now. Don't include as a source something that just shows her being present at the awards ceremony; that's invalid sourcing.
  2) Include 2, since the quote elucidates the views of the subject and is quoted in a presumptively reliable source. WP:SOAPBOX applies to editors and what they write (and why), not to article subjects and their real-world statements and motivations, or we could never have sensible articles on anyone political or controversial.
  3) Agreed this is not a good RfC topic; this is routine, basic stuff, and the whole community should not be pinged for input on business-as-usual stuff.
  4) Agreed also on the wikiquette matter: "calling out an editor by name this way" is not appropriate. If you have an issue with another editor and can't resolve it in user talk, see WP:DR for appropriate avenues. WP:RFC/U was shut down for a reason.
   — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  21:23, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Apparently snark is good wikiqette. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 22:37, 27 August 2017 (UTC)