GAMES Hall of Fame awards

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    1. pak21 Freebase Experts
      Feb 2, 2009
      pak21 says:

      Hiya.

      I note you've created the GAMES Hall of Fame and populated it. However, I think you've made the same mistake I did when filling in awards and used "award winner" (which is intended for "a person or organizations") rather than "honored for" (which is intended for "a book or performance").

      Unless anyone things I'm doing things the wrong way, I'll probably move the winners over to "honored for" in the next few days. (I'm going to wait for the data to appear on sandbox to test my script :-) )

      Cheers!

      2. sblom Top Contributor
        Feb 2, 2009
        sblom says:

        You're defnitely correct. And I consider this indicitave of a schema bug. I'd be much happier if the schema refected "direct honorees" and "indirect honorees". The Games 100 definitely honors the games primarily, and from asking a couple of game designers not the desigers themselves. Seems like "direct" and "indirect" are more generally applicable across all award types than the "honoree" and "honored_for" that look like they're straight out of the academy awards to me.

      3. jeff Metaweb Staff
        Feb 3, 2009
        jeff says:

        @sblom: You're right that the phrase "honored for" really makes sense only if there's also someone/s being honored, so the property should be renamed. (It wasn't straight out of the Academy Awards, although certainly I did take them into consideration, although the Academy Award for Best Picture is obviously prey to this problem, too.)  But I don't think "direct honoree" and "indirect honoree" are the right solution, either -- the word "honoree" implies a person to me, for one thing. And "indirect honoree" sounds to me like it should be for someone/thing affiliated with the award-winner or winning work, but not directly refered to in the award, like a book or game's publisher, or a movie's studio.

        What if we changed "honored for" to "winning work"?  That might help suggest that it's for created things.

      4. sblom Top Contributor
        Feb 3, 2009
        sblom says:

        @jeff: "winning work" probably would have headed off my mistaken understanding of the usage.

      5. jeff Metaweb Staff
        Feb 3, 2009
        jeff says:

        Excellent! I've changed the property name on both the Award Honor and Award Nomination types. And thanks for your feedback on this!

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