From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Hugo nominees
Date: Mon,  5 Apr 2010 19:39:59 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>> I'm in the process of updating all the relevant Wikipedia pages.
>> (There sure are a lot of them!)

> Luckily, as far as I know, there no real plans to expand the number
> of categories.

It does seem as if there are more every year.  But it's not just
one page per category that needs updating, it's also one page per
*nominee*, the page for the con, and a few others.  I'm still not
finished yet.  A few of them, someone else beat me to them.  And I'm
not ambitious enough to create a page for a nominee if he/she/it
doesn't already have one, if only because I don't care to argue with
those who promptly remove any new page, saying that the subject can't
be notable enough to have a page or he/she/it would already have one.

> Oddly enough, there were a surprising number of ties this year.

That's usually a sign of few nominators.  Small numbers are more
likely to collide than large numbers.

I think this is the first time there have have been two nominees
with the exact same name.  (Different categories, though.)