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The list was not promoted by PresN 01:22, 24 May 2015 (UTC) [1].[reply]

World Fantasy Special Award—Professional[edit]

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Nominator(s): PresN 18:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Whelp, the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist FLC closed, so time to move down the line to 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! --PresN 18:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Harrias
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  • "published in English" Perhaps clarify this further by stating "published in the English language". Possibly redundant, but I think it would make it a little clearer.
  • I disagree; the only other meaning of "English" is a nationality, and I can't see how you can publish something in a nationality- in the country it would be "in England".
  • "Ellen Datlow has received the most nominations at ten" I think "with" would work better than "at" here, but it might be an ENGVAR thing.
  • Eh, done. It's mainly to avoid repeating "with" for the reasons, but I've twisted the sentence to avoid it.
  • The last paragraph in general is a little laborious to read through, but I don't really have any magical suggestion that would improve it.
  • I think the problem is that the list of 5 double-winners is super-long because of the reasons they won; I've just gone ahead and chopped it into three sentences so it doesn't slog so much.
  • In the table, I'm not over keen on the "Reason" being listed as a publishing house (Doubleday for example), as that doesn't really seem a reason, so much as an attribution. However, I appreciate that is all the source provides, so there isn't much that can be done about it.
  • I personally think it's stupid, and any suggestions for a better word than "reason" that encompases both actual reasons and "whatever the heck they worked at that year" are appreciated
  • Referencing all looks great, assume that being "back room" professionals, there are no images around we could use?
  • I don't like putting in images for the sake of having images- it's just decoration then. I'd be fine with one for Grant, since he's won the most, but there isn't one.

All in all, a very good list (though what else could we expect!) Is there any chance you could take a look at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of women's international cricket hat-tricks/archive1, though I appreciate that the subject matter is not your norm!! Harrias talk 11:22, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Harrias: Finally got to this! Addressed your points in-line. Will get to your list shortly. --PresN 02:52, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if this violates a rule, but as an FLC delegate (which I wasn't when I nominated this) I'm going to have to close this due to lack of activity. No inspirational message for myself, though. --PresN 01:21, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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