Talk:Ditmar Award

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What's up with the Greg Egan incident? The 'explanation' is confusing and doesn't explain why Egan would have wanted to refuse the award in the first place, and the chain of events is unclear. Pimlottc 20:34, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do we need to have two pages to deal with the Ditmar Awards? It gets confusing as to which page we link to from individual author pages.

I'd prefer to see one page. If it's too big then it's just a matter of the correct layout.

Also weren't these awards called the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Awards" in the first instance?

Perry Middlemiss 04:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's plenty of precedent for breaking articles up like this. The results are of subsidiary interest, and would make the main article far less readable. And yes, the award was originally called that—actually "Australian Science Fiction Achievement ('Ditmar') Awards" was the Real Official title afaik—but the name was changed some time last millennium. — JEREMY 05:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have the opinion that two pages would work in this instance also. An example of where it works is the Archibald Prize and List of Archibald Prize winners. In this page there is a need for the history of the award and its various iterations. For the list of winners, wouldn't it be more logical to see the award categories grouped and then the winners for each year listed? The formatting is a bit overwhelming in the results page, and it is difficult to see "like" writing - i.e. Best Australian Fiction. Stellar 13:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I support the motion for a single page. Ghostwords (talk) 17:47, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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What happened to the article history?! False vacuum (talk) 18:30, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The 1st external link, http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Ditmar.html gives a 404 error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.20.2.198 (talk) 04:53, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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