Talk:MacArthur Fellows Program

message: How much money do the winners get? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.22.37.227 (talk) 22:44, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old comments

message: Did the period of the award change in 2001, such that we need to list succeeding fellows using a different format? I'm not sure what it adds to give an end-date, or list the months. --Dhartung | Talk 20:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I reformatted such that the year of selection is the section heading. It seems esoteric to list the start and end months. The average person probably doesn't have any interest in whether they are currently receiving the stipend, just that they were listed in the first place. Additionally it was ugly and confusing. Finally, I reversed the years to chronological instead of reverse-chronological since this isn't IMDB and that's a form of recentism. --Dhartung | Talk 07:43, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listings 

message: Can someone make "genius grant" link to think page?  I don't know how, but I think the fellowship is better known by that name to some people, and I see no reason not to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geinsei (talk • contribs) 20:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old comment 

message: Dr. Willian Cronan, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, & Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is apparently a MacArthur fellow but his name is not listed anywhere. I do not know how to find out the actual date of his fellowship, but perhaps somebody could check this.
Mtrifiro 14:18, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr. William Cronan 

message: Just out of curiousity, is it wrong of me to wish this article had some discussion about award winners? Like, for example, have there been any controversial choices? Or criticism or unique praise for the Award in general? Maybe that isn't the proper place for it, but just a thought  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.237.226.100 (talk) 23:43, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: As section of popular cuyltural references to MacArthur fellowships was removed without explanation.I have restored it. Such sections are permtted. If it can be reworked into a more narrative form, so much the better, but there is no basis for removing them. DGG (talk) 06:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: cultural references

message: There's not much meat behind this  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.255.118.242 (talk) 16:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, seems like a lot of money coming from nowhere. Who funds it, and who pulls the strings? Some of that must be in the public realm.Fuzbaby (talk) 03:57, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of funding? 

message: I don't have time to add the whole list right now, but someone should! --Coolcaesar (talk) 05:08, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  2009 fellows have been revealed by the MacArthur Foundation 

message: The disambiguation has been added since "MacArthur Award" redirects here, and that often refers to the Robert H. MacArthur Award--MATThematical (talk) 00:06, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: Should I make a list by area of expertise? It would take manual labour on my part, which I'm willing to go through, but I'd prefer to know that my contribution would be appreciated.
:::—67.180.86.254 (talk) 17:18, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  List by Area of Expertise? 

message: I noticed that there is a cross-reference to this article from Guggenheim_Fellowship#See_also; but I do not know what the "connection" is, -- (other than, of course, the fact the each award is a big honor, and comes with a sizable sum of money.)  Should there be an explanation? ("if any") of what the "connection" is?  ...and if so, then where?  (Here? or there?) --Mike Schwartz (talk) 21:47, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[cross-reference]] from [[Guggenheim_Fellowship#See_also]] 

message: In view of the nick-name, it must be embarrassing to get the award. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.16.169.54 (talk) 09:47, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obvious 

message: Under the 2014 award winners, "Brian Bunting" is listed, but does this person exist? There is no mention of him on the Foundation's website.--Geracudd (talk) 00:03, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Brian Bunting

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion 

message: The grant rewards "geniuses" before they accomplish anything notable. This is counterproductive with the healthy process of young prodigies working hard to achieve recognition, respect and wealth and instead gives them a life changing sum just for existing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.96.74 (talk) 19:04, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism of the grant 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :MacArthur Fellows Program's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "HF":
From List of Puerto Ricans: Nicolas Kanellos, "Hispanic Firsts", Visible Ink Press; ; p. 40
From Hispanic and Latino Americans: "Hispanics Firsts"; by: Nicolas Kanellos; pp. 210–211; Publisher: Visible Ink Press; 
From Northwestern University: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:54, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:MacArthur Fellows Program]] 

message: How to donate to your programs or students or you? 47.185.14.133 (talk) 16:58, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Donate 

message: On the list of recipients, why does the subsection begin with the list of colleges they are alumni of (not necessarily institutions that they are even currently affiliated with)? Since many Macarthur fellows did not attend these institutions and some did not attend or complete college at all, it seems like a strange addition to the article. I suspect its inclusion is an attempt at prestige-gathering by the institutions themselves, and its relevance is questionable at best. 73.170.220.50 (talk) 18:23, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Institutions