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Do this set of categories and its companion cats Category:Awards by year of establishment genuinely date institutional history? --presumably the years/dates some formal process is first approved and finally disbanded?
Or do they cover the earliest and latest officially award dates? The earliest award year is likely to be later than the year approved, but it might be earlier.
Another alternative is the years an award was first and last conferred --including announcement that there is no winner for this cycle, if applicable.
In prose description, not categorization, I (would try to) use dis/establish/ment in the first sense. For example, the Kate Greenaway Medal was established in 1955 [institution], but no book published in 1955 [official award date] was deemed suitable in 1956, so it was inaugurated in 1957 by its first award to the best children's book illustration of 1956 [official award date]. If I learned more about "no 1955 Medal", I might say that the award was inaugurated in 1956 by the announcement that no 1955 work was considered suitable.
This isn't a good illustration of the three alternatives. It's purpose is to illustrate the distinction between prose account and categorization. --P64 (talk) 16:47, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
