Talk:Lou Antonelli

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[edit] Campbell Award

Although an unregistered user keeps adding a note that Antonelli was a "runner up" for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2006 and 2007, he was not a nominee in either of those years.

In 2007, the nominees were Scott Lynch, Sarah Monette, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, and Lawrence M. Schoen, with Novik winning.

In 2006, the nominees were K. J. Bishop, Sarah Monette, Chris Roberson, John Scalzi, Steph Swainston, with Scalzi winning.

So, while Antonelli may have received nominations, he did not receive enough to make the ballot. If there were official runners up for the award, they would consist of the four people on the ballot who did not win. Shsilver 21:55, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Here is a link to the official Hugo nominating report. Note the terminology use for the Campbell Report:

http://www.thehugoawards.org/content/pdf/2007%20Nominations.pdf

The terminology used by the organization is Winner, Nominees, and Runners-Up.

Of course, this begs the whole question of people authoring their own entries. Not to put too fine a point on it, I think Wikipedia is bullshit and an enormous timewaster. You're not important enough for me to lie for, if that's an issue. I only put an entry on it as help for other people. If you want to delete my entry, go ahead,. In fact, I'd prefer it, given the claptrap citations now cluttering it.

Lou Antonelli —Preceding unsigned comment added by Louantonelli (talk • contribs) 04:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I have tried to find references and edited this article in keeping with WP:BLP. I think it should be more agreeable to the author this way as well, since I do not think the cleanup templates are needed anymore and thus removed them. ssepp^(talk) 23:34, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks taking the time to do the edit. Insofar as Wikpedia wouldn't agree to delete the entry - which would have been the easiest way to take care of the problem, and was what I wanted - if you are all happy with the entry, fine with me.

I will never create an entry again. Like I said, the only reason I created my entry in the first place was as an aid if anyone was trying to look me up. 02:38, 10 October 2007 (UTC)Lou Antonelli

I'll probably regret this, but I added a few things to my entry to more accurately reflect my writing exploits. Of course, I put citations for everything - there are a LOT of biographical entries that are MUCH longer than mine that don't have as many citations. As far as the objectivty issue, I'm sure someone will slap me down if they have a problem with it. As I stated earlier, the only reason I vaguely care about the entry is as a reference for other people. Louantonelli 19:05, 21 October 2007 (UTC)Lou Antonelli