Talk:List of mocking awards

Neutrality disputed

The terms "ironic", "humorous", "negative" or otherwise may be highly subjective, i.e., based on personal opinion and therefore lacking in neutrality. Ironic to whom? Humorous to whom? Who has deemed them as such? Do we have citations to support these opinions, claims, or assertions? Can we verify the opinion? It's just one person's thoughts that the awards meet the definition of irony, humor, or negativity. Lacking outside confirmation and verification, this list is inappropriate for an encyclopedia due to lack of neutrality. Best regards, Cindy(talk) 11:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

@Cindy: Please suggest different wording. All list entries are in the Category:Ironic and humorous awards, so at first the main authors of those articles should be asked if you think they are the wrong cat.

@Fram: Could you provide the link to the guideline that list entries of existing articles have to be referenced. --Trofobi (talk) 01:20, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Removal of Diagram Prize

@Clarityfiend: I'm unclear why you have removed Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year with the edit summary "-humorous". Are you making a some kind of distinction here? If so, I don't get what it is. SpinningSpark 17:16, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

This is a list of derogatory awards, not humorous ones (worst, not oddest). Clarityfiend (talk) 00:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

I would count it as mocking. At least some of the titles were not intended to be humorous. For instance, I'm pretty sure that Metal Journal was being completely serious when they published "Unsolved Problems of Modern Theory of Lengthwise Rolling". It may be that some of the titles are intended to be odd to promote the work, but the article says of the judging criteria "Titles that are deliberately created to be funny are normally rejected." So the intention of the award is to mock those that have inadvertently created a strange title. SpinningSpark 07:26, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

How come there is no mention in this article of the Rusty Razor Award?

I found out about this page because of the Rusty Razor Award — but see no mention of it _on_ this page. 98.111.186.215 (talk) 02:16, 24 September 2023 (UTC)