Talk:World Fantasy Award

message: The controversy section is wildly biased. To assert that Lovecraft only showed racism in "some of his earlier works" is factually inaccurate.  As is saying it was a "minor aspect of his personality." Further, to add quotations to the word controversy in the second paragraph here: "Lovecraft and Weird Fiction scholar S. T. Joshi has addressed this 'controversy' " seems to be an effort to discredit and marginalize the critique of him being the face of the award. Once more Wikipeadia is proving to be a vehicle for apologist of white supremacy and fraught with revisionist history.Pearl2525 (talk) 19:32, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lovecraft 

message: This article says nothing about the four Special Awards, only names them and links our four WP:LISTs. In this respect it is a WP:STUB. 
The four list prefaces say almost nothing and do not clearly distinguish them. Here they are in full! --except that there is a second  "Professional" paragraph about comics (see above). 
* World Fantasy Convention Award: This special World Fantasy Award is given for peerless contributions to the fantasy genre, and presented (though not every year) at the annual World Fantasy Convention. Past winners have included authors, artists, and publishers.
* World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement: This World Fantasy Award is presented to individuals for their outstanding service to the fantasy field, and decided by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy Convention.
* World Fantasy Special Award: Professional: This World Fantasy Award is presented to individuals for their outstanding professional work in the fantasy field, and voted by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy Convention.
* World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional: This World Fantasy Award is presented to individuals for outstanding non-professional work in the fantasy field, and voted by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy Convention.
This article needs to cover the Special Awards generally and provide enough information to distinguish them from each other. Each list prefaces should cover its featured award in context of the entire WFA program --as well as local details such as the comics controversy.
--P64 (talk) 15:36, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Special Awards

message: has been today repeatedly trying to insert a paragraph of Vox Day's opinions on the Lovecraft issue. Vox Day is nether an expert on Lovecraft (unlike Joshi) nor a spokesman for the awards, nor was his opinion repeated in a major newspaper; he is just a writer with a blog, among many many other writers and fans who have blogged their opinions on both sides of this issue. As such, my position is that we should not bother to give his opinion any special prominence on this issue. (It doesn't help that Day is better known as a white supremacist than as an author, but that's secondary.) On the other hand, if someone feels that our page should become a quote farm for all published authors who have said something on the subject on their personal blogs, I'd be interested in seeing the justification for that. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:41, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed paragraph re Lovecraft 

message: 201.252.204.192: you keep copying the paragraph in "Controversies" up to the lead, citations and all. Why? The lead is meant to be a summary of the rest of the article, so it wouldn't be appropriate to have the paragraph duplicated there, not to mention that a 25-year-old minor incident would be way over represented in the lead by a whole paragraph. The whole rest of the controversy section gets a single sentence, for example. --PresN 17:46, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sandman in lead 

message: According to a press release out today, the board had chosen a new award design sculpted by Vincent Villafranca: a tree silhouetted against a golden moon. As a relative wiki newbie, I'm not sure if it's appropriate yet to change the main image. Also, I assume there will be articles written about the new design by tomorrow. User:Benji2012 (talk) 4-13-17
:Oh, thanks for mentioning it! Will update the page tonight or tomorrow. --PresN 19:15, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Took a bit longer, but done. --PresN 20:37, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Award Design Announced