Talk:GLAAD Media Award

Issues with the page

Issues with the page:

• It's ugly. How about that table!
• Links for dates are not very useful.

--Larrybob 01:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome to edit to improve page. ZueJay (talk) 06:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

• The South Park article section Gay Rights claims the South park episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" receiving an award, but that isn't listed here and if true should be included.--Phillipbeynon 06:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Partial merger

Original proposal to merge this page into GLAAD was not completed. However, Vanguard Awards seemed appropriate to merge into this article. ZueJay (talk) 06:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Proposed merger of Barbara Gittings Award into this article. A stub into a stub makes a less stubby article ;) These topics are appropriately related with this the dominant article. ZueJay (talk) 06:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Multiple mergers proposed for reasons stated immediately above. ZueJay (talk) 06:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Merge complete. Majority of redirects complete. Note that the San Francisco International Film Festival appears to have a Golden Gate Award so there might be directs here from that - will have to investigate further. ZueJay (talk) 02:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Think I fixed 'em all - sorry to those whose pages got a little weird for a minute while I was working on that... ZueJay (talk) 02:46, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Comix winners

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK 13th awards Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse Comics) Green Lantern (DC Comics) (win) Strangers in Paradise (Abstract Studio) Top 10 (America's Best Comics/WildStorm) User (Vertigo/DC Comics)

12th (2000) - The Authority (DC/Wildstorm) - Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority (DC/Wildstorm - and unfair, to be including the Authority twice in the same list) - Pedro & Me (Henry Holt) by Judd Winick (Win) - Promethea, by Alan Moore et al (America's Best Comics/Wildstorm) - Top Ten, by Alan Moore et al (America's Best/Wildstorm)

11th (1999) - The Authority (DC Comics/WildStorm) - The Girl Who Would Be Death (DC Comics/Vertigo) - Strangers in Paradise (Abstract Studio) - Supergirl (DC Comics) (win) - Top 10 (America's Best Comics)

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK10th The Books of Magic (DC Comics/Vertigo) Starman (DC Comics) Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Paramount/Marvel Comics) Supergirl (DC Comics) (win) Young Heroes in Love (DC Comics)

OUTSTANDING COMIC 9th: The Invisibles The Flash Superboy and the Ravers For Better or For Worse (win)

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK 8th: DEATH: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (win) LOVE & ROCKETS #50 PRIME #9 & 10 THE SPECTRE

1997 OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK 8th Vertigo title Death: The Time of Your Life (win)

1996 OUTSTANDING COMIC STRIP 7th MAGGIE SAWYER, SPECIAL CRIMES UnIT/Metropolis: S.C.U. (win)

1995 Outstanding Print Media 6th "Doonesbury: Same-Sex Unions" by Garry Trudeau

1992 GLAAD awards THE FLASH(one off?)

References

Expanded article

I've expanded the article to include information about the history of the award, detail about the nomination process, voting, categories, etc, as well as the statuette itself. I've left the information about the "Special Awards" presented at the ceremony, but I've removed the various "lists of winners" which I believe belong on their respective Annual Awards pages, and not on the main article describing the purpose/history of the award itself. I've also removed the "notes" section in the "Ceremony" wikitable. Most of the notable information that was there I've added to the body of the article, and the rest of the notes (such as when an individual category began, or was not presented, etc) I believe belong on the pages for that year's award. I have nothing against the winners, but I believe numerous "lists of winners" on the "mother" page of an award simply clutter the article and make the page unnecessarily long. I'm posting this here to provide a more detailed explanation of my edits for any editors who may be watching the page, so I'll leave this here for the next week or two, but I like to clean up my rambling "Edit Summaries" on talk pages to keep things tidy, so if there aren't any follow-up posts replying here with any questions, comments or concerns, then I'll be deleting this section in a couple of weeks. --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 12:37, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Requested Move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: move to GLAAD Media Award. Favonian (talk) 21:03, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

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GLAAD Media Awards → GLAAD Media Award – I believe this page should be moved to "GLAAD Media Award" (singular), in keeping with all other major awards articles here on Wikipedia: Academy Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, Young Artist Award, etc. "Academy Awards", "Emmy Awards", "GLAAD Awards", etc, are traditionally the names used when referring to the CEREMONIES (or when referring to a PLURAL number of awards). I realize there are a number of sections in the article describing the "special" awards presented annually at the GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies - the Golden Gate Award, the Vanguard Award, etc, but the vast majority of awards presented at the ceremony are simply referred to as a "GLAAD Media Award" and I intend to expand the information on the history, categories, the new statuette, etc, so I believe the title of an article detailing the different aspects of the purpose and history of the award itself should be singular. --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 16:10, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

• Support for consistency and disambiguity. Quigley (talk) 20:30, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support. The titles of the major award articles, including Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, and Academy Award have historically been singular, per WP:SINGULAR. Such awards are not always in a plural form in English. It is grammatically incorrect to say "I have an Academy Awards" or "I won a GLAAD Media Awards". Furthermore, as the nominator has alluded to, these pages are general articles about each of those specific awards, including history and the process of awarding them – not just a group or class of annual ceremonies. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:34, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
• Comment - Just a follow up note to add that I've also recently noticed that most of the alternate Language pages for the award have followed suit and also been titled "GLAAD Media Awards". I've found that most of the time these alternate language pages (at least ones using the latin alphabet) simply copy/translate the English-language page (this page as it appeared last week before I began expanding it, being a good example), so I would also propose that the alternate language pages currently titled "GLAAD Media Awards" also be renamed "GLAAD Media Award" at the same time, if/when this page is moved. This is the first time I've proposed the move of an important page (I usually just move a page myself when the need for a change is obvious), so I don't know if the various alternate language pages can all be moved at the same time when this proposal is reviewed, or if I'd need to propose each separate page be moved individually, but I just thought I'd mention it here as a note to the admins who review it. --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 07:50, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Golden Globe Award which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 21:14, 1 February 2014 (UTC)