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Awards completed and checked from start to 2006. All blue links should now be pointing to the correct people. Red links were checked and some redirects or spelling changes turned them into blue links to the right articles. Remaining red links (as of this date) probably need articles. In case they are turned blue by others creating articles about random American football players (say), I'm going to list the red links below. Not all permutations of redirects involving first and middle initials have been created. This is something that should be done. Also, the list should be double-checked with the Royal Society's list, as a few of them in this article are in the wrong order, and some silent correction of spelling or expanding of names has taken place.
Carcharoth01:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Red links
If these turn blue, please check they are linking to the right articles. Dates in brackets are the dates the links turned blue.
Further progress' - 36 of about 71 had been created or found by October 2008, after about 20 months. Of the pre-1956 era (when only two medals were awarded each year), only 6 redlinks remain (of 273 entries), compared to 29 redlinks (of 132) for the post-1955 era.
Carcharoth (
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02:01, 14 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Just to point out: I'm currently working (in my
Sandbox, since many of my experimental changes would've been disruptive to the article) on getting it up to Featured List standard. How is it nobody has noticed that the lead para is one massive copyright violation?
Ironholds (
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09:51, 5 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Apologies for missing that (as I've said elsewhere - at the FLC nomination). Thanks for clearing that up and for adding the rationales and turning the remaining redlinks blue (though 23 one-liners remain to be expanded). There are other points I raised at the FLC that should be raised here after the nomination closes, and I'll try and do that over the next few days.
Carcharoth (
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09:54, 20 December 2008 (UTC)reply
My calculations indicate that from 1826 to 2008 inclusive (183 years), the awards as a whole (i.e. each set of awards for a year, whether one, two or three awards, counting once) have been awarded 181 times (i.e. there were two years when the awards were not made - 1831 and 1832). The total number of medals awarded (i.e. including people who have received more than one Royal Medal) between 1826 and 2008 is 405. There are also 39 cases where people with the same surname received a Royal Medal. Once I've tracked those down (some are different people with the same surname) I'll list them here or on the talk page. That will also give a figure for the number of people awarded the Royal Medal. If this is all too trivial, please feel free to leave it out or relegate to a footnote. I think the number of years (i.e. age of the award) and the number of medals awarded, and the people who have won it more than once, are notable. The copyvio text you removed (it was from the Royal Society website) mentioned that several Nobel Prize winners have recieved the award. Whether you want to mention that or not, I don't know.
Carcharoth (
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09:55, 20 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Faraday -
Michael Faraday (1835) and
Michael Faraday (1846) - SAME PERSON? - Same person, per
ODNB at
[1] "the society showed its esteem for his work by awarding him its Copley medal twice (1832, 1838), its royal medal twice (1835, 1846), and its Rumford medal (1846), as well as naming him Bakerian lecturer on five occasions (1829, 1832, 1849, 1851, 1857)"
DuncanHill (
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03:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Above list to be updated shortly. Please note that it is a working document and not intended for the main list. The only things that might be needed for the main list are cases where the same person won the award more than once, and where father and son (or mother and daughter) won the award. Unrelated people mustn't be mentioned, as this would be pure trivia.
Carcharoth (
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09:57, 20 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Six times when someone won the award again. One person did so three times (John Herschel). Hence, from 1826 to 2008, there have been 405 medals awarded to 399 people.
Carcharoth (
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12:25, 20 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Royal Society website architecture
Noting here that the Royal Society seem to have changed their website architecture (again). This means that the links and sources in the
current version of the list no longer work, simply dumping those who click on them on the Royal Society's main page. The link needed is
http://royalsociety.org/awards/royal-medal/ and the list of awards and citations is now a scrollable inset something at the bottom of that webpage.
Carcharoth (
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15:10, 6 August 2011 (UTC)reply