Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:42:48 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Hugo nominees
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>
>>>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 4/5/2010 7:39 PM >>>
>"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.

Coming soon: "Best Filk By A Left Handed Blued-Eyed Fan Played On A Bag =
Pipe".

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.

864 ballots were cast this year (see: http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/index.ph=
p?page=66), previous highest of Torcon 3 (2003) which had 805, then =
Anticipation (2009) with 799, Constellation's 660 (1983) and Conadian's =
649 (1994).  I'll let others root through Hugo history to see what the =
number of ties were with those Worldcons.

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

Without looking through the Hugo history, I suspect you're correct - it =
certainly struck me as "oh my!"

mjw