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Hello. I see that you made some edits to the article on Academy Awards. Specifically, you inserted some "category labels" to the list of the Current Awards. I was just curious if those were actual, "official" titles that you got from somewhere ... or were they just categories that you created on your own to simplify the presentation of the list? Please let me know. Thanks. Please reply at My Talk Page ... so that I will be sure to see your reply. Thank you. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 22:53, 10 February 2008 (UTC))

A couple of weeks ago, User:209.163.146.95 rearranged the list of Oscar awards so that it provided "much more categorical understanding of the awards".[1] However, this user only added vertical spacing, and did not include any headers to indicate how exactly he was categorizing it. As a result, it appeared arbitrary to the average user who may not be familiar with the awards or film production in general. So therefore, I tried to assume what this user was thinking. So, yes, it is not an official categorization by the Academy. Feel free to change it. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:09, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I do remember when that original changed occurred a few weeks ago. Which, I thought, was for the better. That user did add some vertical spacing ... but he also broke the Awards List out in some categorical manner (implicitly, at least ... as you alluded to). I was only checking to see where you got your categories from, since I was unsure. To the average reader, it now looks like those many (25 to 30) Awards are indeed "officially" categorized into the 7 or 8 categories that you listed. In my opinion. I will give it some thought, as my time allows. One quick thought, though ... I myself would definitely "break out" the Writing Awards. Those are among the more prestigious of all the Oscars ... and are currently seemingly clumped into a generic "Film Production" category. Thanks for the reply. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC))

Thank you for being bold in adding the BAFTA award to the In the news template. However, in the future, please do not unilaterally add an entry without posting it on the Candidate forum first so a consensus can be reached first. Cheers. Madcoverboy (talk) 07:33, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• In regards to this we have WP:ITN/C for a reason. Feel free to look at it. Charles Stewart (talk) 08:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

  I apologise. On the other hand, like I have said elsewhere, ITN is a highly-visible template in which any admin can edit at anytime and add something via WP:IAR and WP:AGF without ever looking at WP:ITN/C, Template talk:In the news, or Talk:Main page. This does in fact happen from time to time. In most cases, it is only reverted when someone complains on WP:ITN/C, Template talk:In the news etc. like in this case.[2] [3] In hindsight, it should not have gone on ITN anyway because at the time, and it currently still is, just a one paragraph lead section and a huge list with little or no references and citations – not, as this user put it, a well-cited encyclopedia article recently in the news. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 03:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)