Talk:1st Writers Guild of America Awards

Latest comment: 1 month ago by Abigbagel in topic Links in lead

Move discussion in progress edit

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Writers Guild of America Awards 2019 which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 20:19, 23 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Links in lead edit

@DMacks: You reverted a change I made after a discussion at the Teahouse. The MOS:BOLDLEAD guideline is unusually specific: "Links should not be placed in the boldface reiteration of the title in the first sentence of a lead". An accompanying note states "Linking part of the bolded text is also discouraged because it changes the visual effect of bolding; some readers may miss the visual cue which is the purpose of using bold face in the first place."

I take your point, though, that removing the link entirely has deprived readers of the opportunity to read more; time was at a premium when I boldly made the changes after the discussion at TH. Rather than edit the articles again to add more information, can we agree on a form of words for all these articles which comply with MOS:BOLDLEAD whilst retaining the extra information for readers, based on the example at MOS:BOLDLEAD? Perhaps

The 1st Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1948. Winners were announced in 1949.[1] The awards are for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories, and are given by the Writers Guild of America.

Bazza 7 (talk) 12:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Defintely an improvement. I think even better would be:

The 1st Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1948. Winners were announced in 1949.[2] The Writers Guild of America Awards are for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories, and are given by the Writers Guild of America.

Unpiping the link to the parent article makes it clearer that that is the parent article and so the link is self-documented as these specific awards. DMacks (talk) 16:06, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
@DMacks Can I edit the article so that it states your example? If so, can I edit the following awards (2nd, 3rd, 4th…) with the same format? Abigbagel (talk) 08:06, 26 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
  1. ^ "Wga awards". www.wga.org. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Wga awards". www.wga.org. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2022.