Talk:Canadian Comedy Awards
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editIs this limited to English comedy or does it include French comedy? --moyogo 12:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Accuracy
editThis page and IMDB's page do not match with the official page for the 2002 film awards. I think this is a mistake, but if so where did these wrong winners come from?--Supernumerary 16:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Lists and updating
editLots of lists of winners in this article. Could be trimmed or split into separate list article(s).
The formatting is inconsistent in places (winners in italics vs capitals).
The different levels don't look good on mobile (numbered vs not, not enough whitespace).
Many redlinks in the lists.
Lists and prose are missing for later years.
I'm not confident on the rules or how-to, otherwise I'd make the changes myself! Zelik the Weak (talk) 13:06, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Curious about eligibility
editAre only Canadians eligible, even in non-Canadian productions and shared credits? Eugene Levy won best writing for Best in Show in 2001 and A Mighty Wind in 2004. He co-wrote both with British-American Christopher Guest. I'm guessing Guest was ineligible but it seems odd to list only Levy, implying he wrote both by himself. I wonder if there's another way to list this, or add a note, as someone may see this, click on the film, and see that each film was co-written by Guest and Levy. freshacconci (✉) 15:50, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Freshacconci: The awards have a mandate "To recognize, celebrate and promote Canadian achievements in comedy at home and abroad." What this generally means is that nominees for a CCA must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants, have been born in Canada or have produced the majority of their work in Canada. Additionally, the eligibility period is determined by when a work was released in Canada.
- That's an interesting point. Levy can still win for best writing as a co-writer. We're just reporting who gets the award, but maybe we could make a note of that somewhere with the eligibility rules. – Reidgreg (talk) 23:32, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
Lists of most wins
editI've removed the lists of 'most wins' from the article. It hasn't been updated in 10 years and it's not an easy thing to track. For example, it's difficult to source who was in a comedy troupe in the particular year that an award was won. I would applaud anyone who is willing to do the work, though maybe it should be limited to the top ten winners in any particular field. I've preserved the lists (which were completely unsourced) below. – Reidgreg (talk) 22:01, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
Lists of most wins
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Most successful showseditThe TV shows which have had the most success at the Canadian Comedy Awards are:
Most successful groupseditThe groups/troupes with the most Canadian Comedy Award wins are:
Most successful individualseditPeople with the most wins (eight)edit
People with three wins or moreeditMany others have also won several awards. The following people have won at least three awards: Seven winsedit
Six winsedit
Five winsedit
Four winsedit
Three winsedit
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Regarding bolding of The Beaver in lead
edit@JHunterJ: Hi! You recently changed The Beaver → the Beaver on first mention in the lead. I'm not a fan of excessive bold and I appreciate your good-faith edit. However, in this case, I feel that bold is justified. "The Beaver" is an alternate title to refer to the awards collectively and to the trophy. DAB pages link here from The Beaver (disambiguation) and Beaver Award. Emboldening of such terms is recommended by MOS:BOLDSYN and MOS:BOLDREDIRECT. As for the capitalization of the, MOS:THECAPS recommends to follow common usage, and I was trying to follow sources, e.g.: The Toronto Star, The Charlatan. What do you think? – Reidgreg (talk) 13:34, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- I did verify that nothing with "Beaver" in the title redirected to the awards. I've no issue with restoring the bolding to "Beaver", but I don't see any reason to capitalize "The" since the sources are inconsistent: Now, Yahoo!. Cheers! -- JHunterJ (talk) 14:01, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- @JHunterJ: I guess that's fair since Academy Awards has the Oscars. (In fact, now that I look, it's lower-case in the body.) Thanks! I'll try and keep that consistent moving forward with related articles. – Reidgreg (talk) 14:49, 27 June 2019 (UTC)