Fully positive that tables are superior to lists in ev conceivable way compared to simply listing out the awards

Criterium		Table	List	Pros	Cons
Accuracy				can include correct year, award, category for both
Organization	by year, award			can be done in both	still complicated trying to deal with multiple titles receiving awards in the same years
	combining			combine like year, work, award – grouped by combining cells
	multiwork multiyear
Sortability	by award			allows users to quickly arrange the table by award name easy to tell which awards they get nominated for most often lists are limited in these ways
	by result			allows users to quickly arrange the table by which awards were wins, shortlisted, or longlisted lists make it difficult to see how many awards are wins or nominations, and is difficult to count
Clarity	visual			can see clearly which year an award was given,
	award eyeing			allows users to quickly gauge which work got the most notoriety from award-presenting societies, companies, etc. allows users to quickly gauge how great works did in terms of getting nominated vs actually winning the awards
	categories			explicitly have a category col so as to make it clear when an award received is in a specific category or not easy navigability to both the main award page as well as to the category page through wikilink insertion in separate cells
Optimization	Footprint			combine identical cells in work and award to minimize text	including categ links and categ text can increase footprint
	Shed "for" and "—" for col			no longer need to say X award for Z. Z category is partit out to its own col
Refs				can be done in both

1. default col for a single book are year, award, category, result
   1. remove presenter of awards, etc. because it is not immediately relevant to the importance of the nominations or awards that the author / book have
   2. use the award year used by the organization; the actual date of the ceremony isn't that important
   3. one-to-one traceability with established years and result for each award with the page of each relevant award
   4. avoid putting refs into any of these individual cols; they should be separate
2. default col for an author page are year, work, award, category, result
   1. same rules
   2. some overlap occurs between works in the years that the awards are given. navigate this as reasonably as possible, maintain clarity
3. limit the number of colors in the result col
   1. for works that win an award, use {{won}}; the cell will become green
   2. for works that are shortlisted or finalist, use {{sho}} and {{sho|Finalist}}, in some cases {{Cfinalist}} should be fine too; the cell will become yellow, with cfinalist lighter than sho
   3. for works that are longlisted (as with competitive high-profile awards – Women's Prize for Fiction, Booker Prize, etc.) or nominated (as in Goodreads Choice Awards and Locus Award) use {{nom|Longlisted}} and {{nom|Nominated—3rd place}} (e.g.), resp.; the cell will turn red
   4. avoid using {{longlisted}}, as having additional colors like purple to represent something that is best represented with red is pointless
4. keep a ref col at the right. can use {{abbr}} to make it say Ref.

The following is an example from Burial Rites, a novel by Hannah Kent, which I've modifies to reflect my views on how award tables should be formatted and why they're superior to lists.

• 2011 inaugural winner Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award
• 2013 shortlisted 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature
• 2013 shortlisted Guardian First Book Award
• 2013 winner 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature — The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
• 2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Fiction
• 2014 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — People's Choice Award
• 2014 winner Indie Awards — Debut Fiction^[1]
• 2014 shortlisted Stella Prize
• 2014 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
• 2014 shortlisted Women's Prize for Fiction (UK) — Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
• 2014 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
• 2014 winner Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award — Australian Booksellers Association^[2]
• 2014 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Booktopia People's Choice Award
• 2014 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel^[3]
• 2014 winner Davitt Award — Best Debut Crime Novel^[3]
• 2014 winner Davitt Award — Readers' Choice Award^[3]
• 2014 shortlisted National Book Awards (UK) — International Author of the Year
• 2014 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
• 2015 shortlisted International Dublin Literary Award

There are several things to note about how this is optimized:

• year, awd, cat, res are all systematized
• strong alignment by using a matrix; this helps to separate awd, category, and res
• by default the awards are organized by year and then by award name. this can be done with a list, but it easier to ensure with a tabl
• awards described as the same year can be grouped by combining cells in the year col; this helps visually and decreases amount of bytes needed
• award is separated by name and then category; can create links to both
• explicitly have a category col so as to always specify/promp a category when relevant
• the awards that have categories or don't is made obvious, with awards with no category or further distinguishing feature marked with "—" in the col
• awards that are different categories of the same prize can be grouped by combining cells in the award col
• can use tab templates like {{won}}, etc. to give visual cues of which awd is won, shortlist, finalist, longlist, etc.
• it's very obvious which awards were won and which were just shortlisted. you can count the amount of wins viually by see the number that are green.
  • quicker determination of what % is win, shortlist/finalist, longlist
  • quicker determination of which individual awards are win
  • quicker determination of which year most awards were nominated / won
• refs are provided at the end in a systematized matrix col
• anyone can order by award name, result, or back to year by marking sortability.

I am likely to edit and improve speculative fiction and add missing information about fantasy- and sci-fi related awards to those pages, as well as upgrading individual authors' biographies, bibli, and other sections.

• British Fantasy Award
• Kitschies
• Bram Stoker Award
  • Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
    • Template:Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
    • Template:Bram Stoker Award Best Novel
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel
  • Templates:
    • Template:Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay
• World Fantasy Awards
  • World Fantasy Award—Novel
    • Template:World Fantasy Award Best Novel
  • World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction
    • Template:World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction
• Aurealis Award
• Aurora Awards
  • Aurora Award for Best Novel
  • Aurora Award for Best YA Novel
  • Aurora Award for Best Graphic Novel
  • Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction
  • Aurora Award for Best Poem/Song
  • Aurora Award for Best Related Work
  • Aurora Award for Best Artist
  • Aurora Award for Best Visual Presentation
• Locus Award for Best Novelette
• The George Pal Memorial Award
• Philip K. Dick Award
  • Template:Philip K. Dick Award
• Otherwise Award / List of Otherwise Award winners
• Dragon Awards
• Eugie Award

* award needs ref

* tables (award) can still use some work

• Following:
  • Bill Cameron (mystery author)
  • Peter Crowther
  • Paul J. McAuley

• PodCastle
• Interzone

style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="yes table-yes2 notheme"|Won

style="background: #FE9; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-no2"|Shortlisted

style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="no table-no2 notheme"|Longlisted

style="background: #FFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="partial table-partial"|Pending

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Code	Result		Code	Result
{{sort}}	The Animals in That Country
{{sortname}}	Laura Jean McKay
{{flag}}	AUS
Publisher	Scribe Australia
Cite→Book	[7]
{{citebook}}	—— (2020). The Animals in That Country. Scribe Australia. p. 288. ISBN 978-1925849530.
	ph.

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