Talk:List of Golden Plate awardees

A few corrections

{{Request edit}}

Recently, it has been pointed out to me that this article contains some errors (I admit, they are my own): one misplaced name, and a few omissions compared to the official page this list is derived from. Here are the requested changes:

• Move Stephen David Bechtel, Sr. (1976) from the Science heading to the Business heading, placed chronologically between Sanders and MacArthur
• Add Leontyne Price (1986) to Arts, between Papp and Rauschenberg
• Add Frederick W. Smith (1998) to Business, following Hinckley and the semi-colon
• Add Chuck Berry (2002) to Arts, before Dylan

As I make this request on behalf of the Academy of Achievement, and I am mindful of Jimbo's wish that paid advocates do not edit article space, I'd like to request that someone implement these changes for me. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 21:10, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

I've done all of them except for Smith. Did you mean add him to Public Service following Hinckley, because that's where Hinckley is, not Business. Silverseren^C 21:59, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Shoot, I did mean Business—Smith is the founder/CEO of FedEx. I think I'd gotten distracted by my notice of the stray semi-colon after Hinckley under Public Service. Would you mind pulling that as well? Another typo. WWB Too (talk) 22:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Okay, added it and removed the semi-colon. That everything? Silverseren^C 23:37, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

That looks like it. Thanks again! Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 11:20, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Sources needed / back-links needed

For awards articles, each year the award is announced should include a source for that year (using a reliable secondary source, not the award website or PR). This is not a trivial point, a major value of awards articles is to read sources from a particular year.

The article has no back links to the winners. Every winner should have a mention in their article that they won the award, along with a wikilink back to this article (and a source! see above).

The procedure when creating awards articles:

1. List who won the award that year.
2. Add a source for that year's award.
3. Create a back-link in the winners article, copying the same source from above.

Anything less is incomplete! I see it was a "paid article", I hope the paying client understands how much better this article can (and should) be. See for example William Hill Sports Book of the Year though that one has problems too see also List of Women's Prize for Fiction winners for examples of the direction to head. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 16:13, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Restoring Page?

This page redirects to the Academy of Achievement, and in keeping with the latest revision there (in which TechnoTalk restored content deleted by user/admin JzG/Guy), I think it should be restored to its original. Understanding the Golden Plate awardees helps a reader evaluate the Academy of Achievement -- much in the way that the Rhodes Scholar page is supplemented by the List of Rhodes Scholars page. Qalandariyya (talk) 00:16, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

The Rhodes scholarship is vastly more important than this, see WP:OTHERSTUFF. Virtually everything here is unsourced or sourced only from the Academy itself. Guy (Help!) 08:15, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

That was one example -- perhaps Kennedy Center Honors is more on point? As for your link to WP:OTHERSTUFF -- see the third one down "Keep - You say this article is promotional, but there are other articles just as promotional as this one." You're right about the sources, though. I see that TechnoTalk is looking for proper sources and perhaps we can fix this up accordingly. Qalandariyya (talk) 14:32, 21 July 2015 (UTC)