User:Joseph A. Spadaro/Sandbox/Page49

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Article created by me[edit]

Death of Abigail Taylor - March 24, 2008
List of females executed in the United States - October 1, 2010
List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees - May 6, 2007
List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees - August 2, 2008
List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees - April 29, 2007
Luis Monge - June 7, 2009
Tarek Saleh - March 31, 2009
William LeBaron - February 24, 2008

Reference Desks[edit]

To Do - Is it possible to sort these types of tables? (1) the Superlatives at the bottom of Oldest/Youngest Academy Awards? (see below)
To Do - Is it possible to sort these types of tables? (2) a table such as List of Scandinavian winners of Academy Awards?

Sorting a table[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk#Sorting a table

I would like to know if it is possible to do what I am trying to do in the chart given below as an example. Is it possible to make this into a sortable table, so that each column can be sorted? In other words, I would like the table to be able to be sorted by the person's name as well as by their age. The problem seems to stem from using the "multi-column" (colspan) command, which somehow screws up the sorting features. I recognize that I can "undo" the multi-column spanning ... and create a Table with seven columns (superlative, name, age, name, age, name, age) ... but that would not make a particularly aesthetic or effective chart (i.e., it would be hard to read and understand). Does anyone know of a way to fix this issue, so that it can sort the way I would like? Or is there any "back door method" that can achieve this? Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 16:09, 17 October 2010 (UTC))

Superlative	Overall		Actor		Actress
Oldest Nominee	Gloria Stuart	Age 87	Hal Holbrook	Age 82	Gloria Stuart	Age 87
Oldest Winner	Jessica Tandy	Age 80	George Burns	Age 80	Jessica Tandy	Age 80
Youngest Winner	Tatum O'Neal	Age 10	Timothy Hutton	Age 20	Tatum O'Neal	Age 10
Youngest Nominee	Justin Henry	Age 8	Justin Henry	Age 8	Tatum O'Neal	Age 10

My Projects[edit]

Back Burner[edit]

Luis Monge
Dynamite (magazine)
cancel / delay / post ponements of Academy Awards - 3 times ... add to article ... list of ceremonies ... plus the 3 ceremony pages ... the show must go on (3 times delay) ... and milestones ... http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/history.html
Add the Article Format Counter Pilot to some articles ... Category:Article Feedback Pilot
At the following article, streaming media, there is a method to do "NOTES". Also, see List of Heisman Trophy winners.
How to do "Notes" ... see It's A Wonderful Life ... Air France Flight 447
How to do "White Charts" ... see 2010 in film (Notable Deaths section)
User Boxes ... see User:Bbb23
User Boxes ... and Group Belongings ... see User:TheLastAmigo
Hermione Baddeley was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Simone Signoret's best friend, music teacher Elspeth, in Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1959). With under three minutes of screen time, hers is the shortest role to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Ordinary People (1980) ... Robert Redford and Timothy Hutton both won Academy Awards for their respective debuts: Redford as a director and Hutton as an actor. (Cross-check with AMPAS database and AMPAS library reference desk.)
James "Chip" Smith ... killed Ansonia Police Chief (see "Office Down Page) ... was executed 1882 ... missing from CT Executions article
ADD a "succession box" ... for ALL Academy Awards (BA, BSA, and all other categories) ... See La Strada#External links
Create a new article, for Academy Awards, similar to: List of Grammy Award categories ... to show the historical changes in the names / additions / deletions of various Award categories ... plus, include my list of "Number of Awards" per year (per User:Joseph A. Spadaro/Sandbox/Page53)
Create a similar article ... for Academy Awards ... BA / BSA / BD / BP / Etc. ... similar to List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
For each Academy Award ceremony (article) ... ADD ... "Notable awards" ... "Notable nominations" ... "Records Set / Broken" ... etc.
For each Academy Award ceremony (article) ... ADD ... Summary of Films / Awards ... Table: Film/Number of Awards/Number of Noms ... Table: Name of Each Film with Each Award ... Table: Name of Each Film with Each Nom ... Summary ... STATS ...
For each Academy Award ceremony (article) ... ADD ... Stats ... Number of Awards / Winners / Nominations / Nominees / Films / Etc.
Create an article ... song ... Andy Williams ... "The Village of St. Bernadette"
Add to "List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees" ... the OTHER categories, per oscars . org official web site

Reference Desks[edit]

December 11, 2010 - Computing - Leading zero displayed in Excel
December 11, 2010 - Language - Plural of "zero"
December 13, 2010 - Language - Double period at end of sentence

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NEW - Entertainment - Academy Awards records ... who has won/nominated across the most award categories? all time? one year? one film?
NEW - Entertainment - Is there a Wiki article on win - place - show in horse betting?