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Table

Probably would be an improvement to change the list to a table so it can be sortable by name or by date. — MrDolomite • Talk 16:44, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Another improvement would be to list the awarding president. — MrDolomite • Talk 16:46, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed on both points, I may work on this later. Iamchado (talk)

Resolved

– Table is and has been sortable for some time. CmdrDan (talk) 20:46, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't do it. I don't know when it was done.

I don't know how to quickly discover when it was completed, but I would love to hear from experienced Wikiblame user how to do so.

I suspect this is also possible with the Xtools blame function, but the documentation is so lacking in content and detail I find it useless.

CmdrDan (talk) 20:46, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As for sorting by President

Resolved

– Yesterday I added the "Awarded by" column. CmdrDan (talk) 20:46, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox scrapped

I scrapped the sandbox. This is probably not being done by me or anyone eles, due to the tedious aspect of it. I don't have the time nor inclination to work on this at present. I didn't realize how slow creating a table would be on the Wikipedia system. But I certainly might try again when I do. Iamchado (talk) 04:04, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

– I completed this using regex.Offnfopt^(talk) 10:20, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2011 recipients

To be added to the article - http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/19/presidential-citizens-medal-recipients-2011 — MrDolomite • Talk 16:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Graphic?

Would anyone be willing and able to make a vector version of this. Looking, for example, at the main image of the Purple Heart page, it is clear that a cleaner image would improve the article. Unfortunately, I do not have the requisite skills. Thanks!--Eva ^bd 21:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Citation text

I added a column "Citation" to quote the text of the citation when the award was made.

I am using citation in a way that appears unusual here, as it seems to be missing from the disambiguation page

Seems closest to: Unit citation

definition from wordnik.com

noun An official commendation for meritorious action, especially in military service.

wordnik.com

definition from dictionary.cambridge.org

official praise for a person in the armed forces for brave actions:

dictionary.cambridge.org

merriam-webster.com

3: mention: such as
  a: a formal statement of the achievements of a person receiving an academic honor
  b: specific reference in a military dispatch to meritorious performance of duty a citation for bravery

merriam-webster.com

Obituary excerpts are not Citation text

While excerpts from obituaries are a great starting point, however, this text is not the citation text.

If the recipient does not have an article--if the name is a red link--use this as an opportunity to start an article.

A few minutes ago I changed all of the names that were not wikilinks to wikitext. If the following are not displaying as red links it means there was an existing article or redirect:

--CmdrDan (talk) 21:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That Raymond Weeks article links to a linguistics professor born in 1863, and not the same Raymond Weeks who served during WWII and was honored by Reagan (https://i0.wp.com/lifeleadersinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Readan-Weeks.jpg). Did you check the names you linked to be sure that the individual was the same, rather than two different individuals with the same name. Mang (talk) 02:28, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Namangwari: Good catch.

Argh! No, I did not check the links. My Bad.

But I'm working on that now. Checking the links I created, as mentioned above.

I have fixed the Raymond Weeks link--haven't created the article, but have created the disambiguation page and adding to the talk page.

-- CmdrDan (talk) 00:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata: Related data to add or update

Is there a tool to simplify ensuring Wikidata has been updated with appropriate data?

What data should we add to Wikidata?

I have manually updated Hank Aaron 's award received section with the following:

point in time
conferred by
announcement date
award rationale

As you can see I copied the citation text to the award rationale.

What other statements/fields constitute a Complete Record?

Should we also add corresponding statements to the appropriate President?

--CmdrDan (talk) 21:46, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Date precision; Irregular nature of award

In my limited experience, this award is not strictly an annual event--though I suppose there is little in the White House that is strictly anything as POTUS has wide latitude--therefore, the dates in this article really need to be Year, Month, and Day.

--CmdrDan (talk) 21:58, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting source for upload

I wanted a better description and official explanation for the medal's design. So, I contacted the US Army Institute of Heraldry (who designed the medal). In reply, they sent me today a fact sheet (looking at the design of the fact sheet it might be a scan from the 70s...). Really nice. Here's the catch: it is a .png and as I only work on IP and do not log-in (out of principle), I can't upload it. Can anyone help out? --2A02:778:777F:5470:0:0:0:1497 (talk) 22:25, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Send me a message please.

Not sure if I can include email addresses here, but here goes:

cmdrdan_yhoo@yahoo.com

--CmdrDan (talk) 18:39, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]