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United Arab Emirates - missing award articles

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United Arab Emirates#Missing award articles. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:49, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nobel split

Activity is low in the split of Nobel Prize controversies discussion. ReyHahn (talk) 12:29, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting comment at Template talk:Infobox award

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Good article reassessment for Nobel Prize

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Notability of award ceremonies

Recently, I nominated 45th Young Artist Awards for deletion; the discussion closed as no consensus (AfD discussion). I felt it was obvious there was no significant coverage of that year's awards, but other participants in the discussion argued the list should be kept as a valid split from the Young Artist Award page and pointed to the existence of similar pages for essentially every other year. A similar nomination for the 31st–38th ceremonies several years ago also ended as no consensus, while the 39th ceremony was deleted. I am starting this discussion in the hopes that the wider community might be able to come to some consensus on this question:

How should the notability of award ceremonies be assessed? Should such articles be assessed alongside the main award article as split lists, or should they be assessed on their own merits only?

Personally, I am very concerned by the notion that simply proving an award is notable merits an uncapped number of splits from that article to cover every single ceremony for that award. I understand that if there are only a few ceremonies, those winners/nominees might be mentioned at the main award article and that may grow unsustainable with time, but I would argue that if those few ceremonies aren't getting significant coverage, it would be undue to include the winners/nominees at the main article. But obviously there is disagreement there, hence the discussion. RunningTiger123 (talk) 21:48, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Notified WikiProject Film and WikiProject Television. Also pinging participants in the most recent AfD: @~2025-42255-38, Maile66, Vestrian24Bio, Atlantic306, Indagate, Idontwantaaccount, Maxcreator, Voorts, and Pppery. RunningTiger123 (talk) 21:55, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I am very concerned by the notion that simply proving an award is notable merits an uncapped number of splits from that article to cover every single ceremony for that award Why? It's a valid list of a bunch of things that are likely notable and serves both informational and navigational purposes. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:58, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. And not just any series gets nominated or wins an award. It certainly is a valid list of media items that are often notable and it serves informational and navigational purposes as you put it, especially since award ceremonies were cited on many pages. Otherwise, I feel that the page for the "39th ceremony" was incorrectly concluded as delete because there were two votes keep and two votes to delete, so it should have been... no consensus.Historyday01 (talk) 22:08, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Let's try an example from elsewhere. The Dunedin Blue Jays are a Single-A team in Minor League Baseball; undeniably a notable team, but not covered in any particular depth. Should we be allowed to create articles for 2025 Dunedin Blue Jays season, 2024 Dunedin Blue Jays season, 2023 Dunedin Blue Jays season, etc.? That seems goofy, even if articles about those seasons could have some informational or navigational purpose. If an award ceremony is notable, there will be sources about it to prove its notability; we don't need to assume its notability. RunningTiger123 (talk) 22:07, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The individual award process (that starts with the nominations and ends with the ceremonies) should be shown notable, or otherwise there should not be split out as articles. Those Young Artist Awards seem definitely to fail this notability test given that two of the three sources are primary/press releases and one only covers one aspect. That's not to say broadly that the whole of the Young Awards are not notable, just not individual events. Masem (t) 23:09, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not so sure those references are the totality of coverage, there may well be extra sources that expert editors such as @Cunard: find when other editors don't, imv Atlantic306 (talk) 23:02, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure how to word this here. But when it comes to awards that Wikipedia allows, let's compare to the Academy Awards. If it makes it through the background process, then I think it's notable. To me, if a nomination is sidelined because of other circumstances, than in and of self should not negate the award. — Maile (talk) 00:59, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say that if an Award Giver is notable and the Award itself is notable then we need to have lists of who won what. The option is one article or split, where split makes much more sense. I very much doubt that an award can be notable while the yearly wins aren't. Then what makes it notable? If the argument is that it was notable in the past and has ceased being notable, then I guess we need to view it with time perspective, say something like if after 5 years no one covers this award then it isn't notable anymore (and its article should also state that). Gonnym (talk) 07:34, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the case here is a bit wonky; typically film/TV awards are notable because their annual ceremonies are getting covered. However, I think it's possible when the emphasis is more on the awarding organization. Perhaps the solution is to move Young Artist Awards to Young Artist Foundation and relegate the awards to a subsection of that article only? RunningTiger123 (talk) 04:06, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Recently we removed multiple splits of the Nobel prize, because we had yearly articles per category that were just empty (even if we kept yearly articles for literature and peace). We still have yearly mentions of the Nobel Prize like 2023 Nobel Prizes barely cover anything. Users just want to be first to add the winner and leave.--ReyHahn (talk) 10:16, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The award ceremony should meet WP:GNG if we want a separate wiki article on it, this is a very basic foundation of Wikipedia editing and I don't see why award ceremonies should be one of the few exceptions.

Its not like finding sources on an awards ceremony is tricky, because the Hollywood trades publish articles on every mildly notable Hollywood awards show. Here are two articles I just found on the 2025 Golden Reel Sound Editors award show.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/mpse-sound-editors-golden-reel-awards-2025-winners-1236315019/

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mpse-golden-reel-awards-patton-051500061.html?guccounter=1

I have never heard of this award before and I doubt most other people have either, but it still easily passes WP:GNG and so has its own Wiki article.

If an award ceremony cannot pass the very low bar of having a two independent sources even announce the winners or nominees then it is not notable and shouldn't be a Wikipedia article. Idontwantaaccount (talk) 23:50, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Separate articles for each edition should only be created if the editions on their own have in-depth significant coverage to pass WP:GNG and having a parent article alone is no basis for the notability of child articles. Vestrian24Bio 02:37, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I don't feel like this conversation led towards any kind of conclusion... any thoughts on what a next step would be? RunningTiger123 (talk) 18:03, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]