Award table standards
editSuperiority
editFully positive that tables are superior to lists in ev conceivable way compared to simply listing out the awards
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| Clarity | visual | |
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| Optimization | Footprint | |
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Organization
edit- default col for a single book are year, award, category, result
- remove presenter of awards, etc. because it is not immediately relevant to the importance of the nominations or awards that the author / book have
- use the award year used by the organization; the actual date of the ceremony isn't that important
- one-to-one traceability with established years and result for each award with the page of each relevant award
- avoid putting refs into any of these individual cols; they should be separate
- default col for an author page are year, work, award, category, result
- same rules
- some overlap occurs between works in the years that the awards are given. navigate this as reasonably as possible, maintain clarity
- limit the number of colors in the result col
- for works that win an award, use {{won}}; the cell will become green
- for works that are shortlisted or finalist, use {{sho}} and {{sho|Finalist}}, in some cases {{Cfinalist}} should be fine too; the cell will become yellow, with cfinalist lighter than sho
- for works that are longlisted (as with competitive high-profile awards – Women's Prize for Fiction, Booker Prize, etc.) or nominated (as in Goodreads Choice Awards and Locus Award) use {{nom|Longlisted}} and {{nom|Nominated—3rd place}} (e.g.), resp.; the cell will turn red
- avoid using {{longlisted}}, as having additional colors like purple to represent something that is best represented with red is pointless
- keep a ref col at the right. can use {{abbr}} to make it say Ref.
Table example
editThe following is an example from Burial Rites, a novel by Hannah Kent, which I've modifies to reflect my views on how award tables should be formatted and why they're superior to lists.
Example list
edit- 2011 inaugural winner Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award
- 2013 shortlisted 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature
- 2013 shortlisted Guardian First Book Award
- 2013 winner 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature — The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
- 2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Fiction
- 2014 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — People's Choice Award
- 2014 winner Indie Awards — Debut Fiction[1]
- 2014 shortlisted Stella Prize
- 2014 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 2014 shortlisted Women's Prize for Fiction (UK) — Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
- 2014 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2014 winner Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award — Australian Booksellers Association[2]
- 2014 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Booktopia People's Choice Award
- 2014 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel[3]
- 2014 winner Davitt Award — Best Debut Crime Novel[3]
- 2014 winner Davitt Award — Readers' Choice Award[3]
- 2014 shortlisted National Book Awards (UK) — International Author of the Year
- 2014 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
- 2015 shortlisted International Dublin Literary Award
Converted table
edit| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2011 | Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award | — | Won | |
| 2013 | Guardian First Book Award | — | Shortlisted | |
| Nib Literary Award | — | Shortlisted | ||
| The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize | Won | |||
| 2014 | ALS Gold Medal | — | Shortlisted | |
| Australian Book Industry Awards | Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year | Won | ||
| Booktopia People's Choice Award | Won | |||
| National Book Awards (UK) | International Author of the Year | Shortlisted | ||
| Davitt Award | Adult Crime Novel | Shortlisted | [4] | |
| Debut Crime Novel | Won | [4] | ||
| Readers' Choice Award | Won | [4] | ||
| Indie Book Awards (AUS) | Debut Fiction | Won | [5] | |
| Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award | — | Won | [6] | |
| Stella Prize | — | Shortlisted | ||
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | Shortlisted | ||
| People's Choice Award | Won | |||
| Voss Literary Prize | — | Shortlisted | ||
| Women's Prize for Fiction | — | Shortlisted | ||
| 2015 | International Dublin Literary Award | — | Shortlisted |
Discussion
editThere are several things to note about how this is optimized:
- year, awd, cat, res are all systematized
- strong alignment by using a matrix; this helps to separate awd, category, and res
- by default the awards are organized by year and then by award name. this can be done with a list, but it easier to ensure with a tabl
- awards described as the same year can be grouped by combining cells in the year col; this helps visually and decreases amount of bytes needed
- award is separated by name and then category; can create links to both
- explicitly have a category col so as to always specify/promp a category when relevant
- the awards that have categories or don't is made obvious, with awards with no category or further distinguishing feature marked with "—" in the col
- awards that are different categories of the same prize can be grouped by combining cells in the award col
- can use tab templates like {{won}}, etc. to give visual cues of which awd is won, shortlist, finalist, longlist, etc.
- it's very obvious which awards were won and which were just shortlisted. you can count the amount of wins viually by see the number that are green.
- quicker determination of what % is win, shortlist/finalist, longlist
- quicker determination of which individual awards are win
- quicker determination of which year most awards were nominated / won
- refs are provided at the end in a systematized matrix col
- anyone can order by award name, result, or back to year by marking sortability.
Contributions
editI am likely to edit and improve speculative fiction and add missing information about fantasy- and sci-fi related awards to those pages, as well as upgrading individual authors' biographies, bibli, and other sections.
Award pages
edit- British Fantasy Award
- Kitschies
- Bram Stoker Award
- Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
- Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel
- Templates:
- World Fantasy Awards
- Aurealis Award
- Aurora Awards
- Locus Award for Best Novelette
- The George Pal Memorial Award
- Philip K. Dick Award
- Otherwise Award / List of Otherwise Award winners
- Dragon Awards
- Eugie Award
Sci-fi Authors, editor
edit* award needs ref
Sci-fi novels
edit| Author | Novel | Year | Inf Box | Awards | Rec | Starred reviews | ||
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| Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | 2004 | ||||||
| The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories | 2006 | ✓ (InBox) | ||||||
| Piranesi * | 2020 | ✓ (A) | ||||||
| N. K. Jemisin | The City We Became | 2020 | ||||||
| Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Mexican Gothic | 2020 | ✓ (A) | |||||
* tables (award) can still use some work
Primarily crime & thriller authors
edit| Author | Inf Box | Awards | Bibl Novel | Bibl Short | |
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| ✓ (A) | ✓ (N) | ✓ (S) | |||
| ✓ (A) | ✓ (N) | started | |||
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| Megan Abbott | ✓ (A) | ||||
| Steph Cha | ✓ (A) | ✓ (N) | |||
| S. A. Cosby | ✓ (N) | ||||
| Lyndsay Faye | ✓ (N) | ||||
| Katie Kitamura | ✓ (N) | ||||
| Kwei Quartey | ✓ (N) | ||||
| Courtney Summers | ✓ (A) | ||||
Magazines, editorials
editTemplate
edit| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
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style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="yes table-yes2 notheme"|Won
style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-no2"|Shortlisted
style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="no table-no2 notheme"|Longlisted
style="background: #FFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="partial table-partial"|Pending
Awards
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edit| Code | Result | Code | Result | |
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| {{sort}} | The Animals in That Country | |||
| {{sortname}} | Laura Jean McKay | |||
| {{flag}} |  AUS
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| Publisher | Scribe Australia | |||
| Cite→Book | [7] | |||
| {{citebook}} | —— (2020). The Animals in That Country. Scribe Australia. p. 288. ISBN 978-1925849530. | |||
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Inline messages
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References
edit- ^ ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2014"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
- ^ "The Nielsen BookData Booksellers' Choice Award - Australian Booksellers Association". www.booksellers.org.au. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ a b c ""Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing"". The NewDaily. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ a b c ""Whodunnit? The women killing it in crime writing"". The NewDaily. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ ""Indie Book Awards - Winners 2014"". Australian Independent Booksellers. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
- ^ "The Nielsen BookData Booksellers' Choice Award - Australian Booksellers Association". www.booksellers.org.au. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ McKay, Laura Jean (2020). The Animals in That Country. Scribe. ISBN 978-1925849530. OCLC 1145308588.