Talk:Right Livelihood Award

message: The section on "History" (oldid=749166108) starts with: "Jakob von Uexküll, the philatelist,...", which would be someone who collects stamps. I would believe it should be "philanthropist" instead (like mentioned in the article introduction), but I leave it to others to get this right.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.216.226.93 (talk) 14:39, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Philatelist is correct. He sold his stamp collection. --Dr Oldekop (talk) 20:23, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philatelist or Philanthropist 

message: 2 citations do not serve to establish wide usage. GTests show
* 121K hits on "Right Livelihood Award" -"Alternative Nobel Prize"
* 20K hits on "Alternative Nobel Prize" -"Right Livelihood Award"
* 30K hits on "Alternative Nobel Prize" "Right Livelihood Award"
Which is to say, 
* 70% don't use the Nobel ref
* 60% of those who use the Nobel ref omit the predominant name, and account for 18% of articles mentioning either or both.
I think it is an objective fact that what we have here is most people who consider "Alternative Nobel Prize" applicable are among the 2 out of 11 who prefer to avoid the overwhelmingly accepted name. 
IMO that objective fact strongly suggests an effort to create confusion and increase the award's apparent significance, via deception about how significant it is generally considered. Can such a thing work? Well, "Fortunately Dr. José Antonio Abreu has just got the Nobel prize for his notable achievement" (a false assertion in an essay, by an international professional musician from the Abreu program, on a substantial-looking site for a theatrical film) seems to be a case of such confusion and exaggeration. 
And (tho I've known some very principled people to send their children to Steiner schools), the core emphasis on producing natural-science-like certainty about a "spiritual world" heightens my sense of the "Alternative Nobel Prize" term being part of a willingness to lie "for the greater glory of" some god-talk.--Jerzy•t 05:54, 29 & 03:57, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Jerzy's suggestion for the minor change to "Sometimes called" better reflects usage, and should be implemented. Now, what please is the back-story with "anthroposophy" and "Steiner"? There's a conversation above on the issue but nothing in the article explaining it. Is it significant? --Old Moonraker 07:39, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  By implementing my own suggestion, i pretty much finished a very long suite of edits on this and José Antonio Abreu and El Sistema, about 5 minutes before you finished your comment. Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy both have articles, which i haven't read beyond the phrases i cribbed in my first sentence of my last graph (above) in my 05:54 edit. I don't know what the basis is for asserting that ANP is connected to them, and i hope i didn't imply more than my working assumption that those who asserted the connection have something that looks like evidence. --Jerzy•t 03:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Old Moonraker 07:07, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no institutional connection whatsoever between the Right Livelihood Award and the anthroposophical movement; however, as stated above, in one particular year several anthroposophical organizations and individuals received the award on the basis of their public service work.  Hgilbert 17:16, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Widely known as" ==> "Sometimes called" 

message: Snowden is one of the most widely known Right Livelihood laureates, as well as one of the most recent. I don't understand why User:Bobrayner removed him from the list in the lead. The edit summary ("meh") doesn't explain it very clearly. I've restored him. Bishonen | talk 15:25, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Edward Snowden in the lead

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message: SOS Méditerranée is one of the 2023 laureates - at the moment I've added the European flag as the organisation is described as being European on its own Wikipedia page - but wondering if this is best practice, or if I should replace the Europe flag with the flags of France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where its headquarters are located? Marluliaq (talk) 19:49, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of flags 

message: I took the liberty of adding clarity - several sentences repeated the NP connection - OR not - I left this as an NPOV article but repeating the same thing in a different way - seemed to add no apparent value - the point was made in the first statement about the subject. BeingObjective (talk) 05:40, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belaboring the issue.