Talk:1986 Whitbread Awards

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.costabookawards.co.uk/awards/previous_winners_archive.aspx

[Dozens of messages deleted -P64 2013-09-03]

--JeffGBot (talk) 06:43, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

• It seems that JeffGBot can list dead links, but not fix them. Update: I have fixed the external link (replaced: http://www.costabookawards.co.uk/awards/previous_winners_archive.aspx → http://www.costabookawards.com/downloads/PastWinners.pdf). Snowman (talk) 17:12, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Andrew Taylor, The Coal House

It seems to me the writer is not Andrew Taylor (author) whose biography we have linked.

• [1] "The hardbound issue of the author's first book, winner of the 1986 Whitbread Children's Book Award." --Ian McKelvie Bookseller
• [2] The Coal House (Coalhouse, Cascades series) (Collins Educational, 1989) --Amazon

Our linked Andrew Taylor does not list the award[3] (as everyone would; this seems decisive to me) or this title[4] or mention "Cascade(s)" on the latter page. --P64 (talk) 20:11, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

For 1951 alone there are Andrew Taylors at VIAF, one evidently in error for 1952.[5] None of the four the right one.

US Library of Congress cites 'BL AL' for a 1944 birthdate.

{{Authority control|VIAF=93654230|LCCN=nb/2009/018353}}

Does anyone know whether 'BL' is British Library?

Ah, that auto-generated WorldCat link is encouraging. --P64 (talk) 20:23, 3 September 2013 (UTC)