Talk:Writers Guild of America Awards

Structure

The structure here seems to be that you have one overall heading for this award ceremony and then a page listing each year's winners. I'm thinkin the daytime serial winners should be moved to the years in which they won.

That will make this article pretty short but maybe we can add some history of the event or other details.

Any objections? DirectRevelation 15:18, 2 November 2007 (UTC)DirectRevelation

History

If founded in 1949, this was probably called the "Screenwriters Guild of America Award" I'm researching further. DirectRevelation 23:47, 8 November 2007 (UTC)DirectRevelation

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award

There is a Writers Guild in Great Britain too and an award. Salman Rushdie won the price in the Eighties. We in Europe think of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain in the same way as of the Writers Guild in the USA and it seems to us as important as the latter one. Is this English Wikipedia a thing done by Americans for Americans? Well, this is my impression. You know, this ambiguity thing, it is not there where it belongs. I do not want to be misinterpreted, I do not think the Americans are not as important as British people ... ;) --13Peewit (talk) 08:41, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Does anyone have a photo of the award they can put in the Creative Commons?

The WGA Award that is given to the winners is a very striking piece of sculpture. Here is what it looks like: http://press.wgaw.org/photos/Awards/WGA%20Awards%20Logos/WGA%20Statuette%20Photo.jpg

We have a photo in Wikipedia of what the Academy Award statuette looks like on the Academy Award page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award

Does anyone have a photo of a Writer's Guild Award or know where we can get one that they can put into the Creative Commons so it can go on the WGA Awards page?

I've already looked for one on Flickr and there isn't one in the Creative Commons. Maybe somebody knows a writer who has won a WGA award that will let us take a picture and put on Wikimedia.

Best Regards, Hugh Pickens 96.18.48.118 (talk) 17:25, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

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WGA Awards topic coordination

I'm getting started with this. There is a few things I need to do first though which is post it to all the relevant talk pages. I'll be using AWB for that, so it will be done semi-automatically. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 18:02, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

If there is no objection, I will place {{WGA Awards topic coordination}} on the following pages: Special:Diff/902566915. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 18:11, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

@RAHJY: What say you? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 18:20, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

What is this all about?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:14, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: I'm trying to standardize our coverage of the WGA Awards. There are a few problems I could use help tackling. The to do list is up now, but I don't know where I should start tbh. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:42, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

MJL where is the list?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:06, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: {{WGA Awards topic coordination}} / Talk:Writers Guild of America Award/to do –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:48, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

MJLI see no WGA Topics there and just a link back to here.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:17, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: You don't see the To do list? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 05:17, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

MJL, I missed the show/hide box.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 24 July 2019

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Writers Guild of America Award → Writers Guild of America Awards – Just like the page for the Academy Awards, I think it's time to rename this page to its plural form. It's not a page about the award (singular), but about the award ceremony (ie. the awards- plural).. Cheers! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 21:10, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

It's worth pointing out that recently the Golden Globe Awards was moved for similar reasons. Looks like consensus has started to change since 2014. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 21:16, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

• Support per WP:COMMONNAME. I think many of the articles that primarily focus on the awards ceremonies should be moved to a plural title as that is almost always how they are referred to in the sources. Rreagan007 (talk) 02:48, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
• Support I think there's some merit to the argument that this is an article about the award ceremony, and the WP:COMMONNAME for that is the plural form. But also, even if you believe the article is about the awards themselves, the article should still be pluralized per the WP:NCPLURAL exception for articles on "groups or classes of specific things". i.e. for the same reason we have an article at Great Lakes rather than Great Lake. There is a fixed set of WGA awards (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Comedy Series, etc.). Colin M (talk) 18:55, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

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RFC: The Layout & Colors of the WGA Awards

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What should the standard color and layout for pages about the WGA Awards be? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:08, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Background

As shown here, articles are using an inconsistent layout. The state of sourcing is abysmal, but that is going to have to be handled on a case-by-case basis. I plan on running all the articles through WP:AWB upon the conclusion of this RFC in order to do basic fixes, but I would like to fix the formatting issues at the same time. I am proposing this RFC because this will effect 72+ pages which have remained mostly stable for a few years.

Questions

• Question 1. What color should we use to represent the WGA Awards?

1.   This golden color
2.   This blue-gray color
3.   This bronze color

Note: Unless there is objection, the infobox/div, templates, and tables of all pages will be matched this one color.

• Question 2. (a) Should pages use a floating div or an infobox? (b) What information should either of these options include?

Remember this is not a vote, and this will probably only get halfway decent results if we engage in a true discussion since there are so many options for how this can go down. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:08, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

• Bronze Infobox. My personal opinion is we use the bronze color because that seems to match what the award ceremony organizes are using themselves. The gold is confusingly generic, and the blue makes links hard to see.
  The infobox should probably display minimal information and should primarily serve as a navigational tool (since navboxes don't appear on mobile). Regardless of the choice we make, the winners should be excluded besides maybe best screenplay (even then I'm against that). The only information that really belongs there are: (1) the organizers, (2) the date of the event, (3) the site/location, (4) the ceremony before it, (5) the ceremony after it, and (6+) the event number with a link to the main awards page. {{Infobox film awards}} has a lot of parameters that I would highly discourage taking advantage of.
  I'll be honest and say that I am not unconvinced that the floating div wouldn't serve that purpose. The contrarian in me really likes it for being unique, but the pragmatist in me understands that it isn't machine readable and comes with too many accessibility problems. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:08, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

I have never felt so alone while on en.wiki... –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 02:52, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

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