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Barnes & Noble Discover Awards Question

1gilroy
Modifié : Juin 9, 2022, 10:16 am

Hey all.

I'm working through a list of awards, trying to get things to consolidate properly (with dates inside parentheses and proper sorting on the award page) and I've stumbled across a question:

https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Barnes%20and%20Noble%20Discover%20Great%2...
https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Barnes+%2526+Noble+Discover+Award
https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Barnes+%2526+Noble+Discover+Selection
https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Barnes+and+Noble+Discover+Great+New+Write...
https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Barnes+and+Noble+Discover+Great+New+Write...
https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Barnes+%2526+Noble+Discover+Great+New+Wri...

Are all these the same award, just entered different ways?
And do we want it using the ampersand ( & ) or do we want to spell out 'and'?

2bergs47
Juin 9, 2022, 10:27 am

Oh dear there is a whole discussion on this. See bug reporting

3gilroy
Juin 9, 2022, 10:44 am

>2 bergs47: Regarding what? The pipe and how it's formatted? Already dealt with that part, it isn't relevant to this.
If you mean the special character in the award name, again, these all exist, so it isn't relevant and open correctly.

Please provide specific bugs you want me to look at.

4aspirit
Juin 9, 2022, 11:18 am

In general, "and" is better than "&" in a title. While Barnes & Noble usually identifies itself with the ampersand, it does also at times write out the word for the conjuction.

Example: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/

I vote for changing the ampersand to "and".

5gilroy
Juin 13, 2022, 7:36 am

I can agree with putting them all with and instead of the symbol. And I converted over the one that was obviously the same.

But are all the other links the same award?

6aspirit
Modifié : Juin 14, 2022, 9:34 pm

>5 gilroy: Appear to be, yes.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/h/discover-great-new-writers-selection-process

Note that the link to previous selections redirects to a more general page. I'm going off of how the Discover Great Writers is about 30 years old.