Talk:Academy of Achievement#An attempt to resolve outstanding issues with this article

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Hello, I am associated with the Academy of Achievement.

The Academy would like to request the following edits to their page.

HISTORY > 1st paragraph:

1) Insert this reference after the first sentence.

{{cite web |title=Our History |url= https://achievement.org/our-history/}} after the first sentence in this paragraph.

2) Insert this at the end of the paragraph:

His 1953 LIFE cover photograph of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier sailing at Hyannis Port “helped shape the mystique of Camelot”{{cite web|last=Arbuckle |first=Alex Q. |date= March 4, 2016|title= June 1953: JFK and Jackie at Hyannis Port|publisher= Mashable |url= https://mashable.com/2016/03/04/jfk-jackie-hyannis-port/}} and was later selected by TIME as the 100 most influential images of all time.{{cite web|title= The Most Influential Images of All Time|publisher= Time |url= http://100photos.time.com/photos/hy-peskin-kennedy-camelot#photograph}} Reynolds established the Academy to both empower and educate young people by bringing them together with leaders, the level of achievers he met on his many photographic assignments.

EXAMPLE with changes:

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Hello, I have some additional suggestions for updates to this article. I am an employee of the Academy of Achievement, so I am proposing edits here as per Wikipedia’s rules.

:{{ping|Heartmusic678}} You reviewed and approved the last two request edit proposals for the American Academy of Achievement article, and thus are acquainted with the types of updates I’ve recently asked for: Request Edits March 2023. Would you mind taking a look at the new request? I greatly appreciate it. Desiderata45 (talk) 15:25, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

1.

I have seven additional people to add to the table of past award recipients. Each person already has a Wikipedia article. I was able to find reliable secondary press coverage to verify each recipient received the reward. I used primary sources as a second citation only when the first citation didn’t give the specific year of the award.

The list below is in alphabetical order, but each new entry needs to be integrated into alphabetical order in the existing table. I’d be glad to help do that work on the Wikipedia page if these suggestions are approved.

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|Larry Ellison

|Business

|1997

|{{cite news |last1=Marbella |first1=Jean |title=A blend of talent and teens |url=|work=Baltimore Sun |date=23 May 1997}}

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|Phil Knight

|Business

|1989

|{{cite news |last1=Nix |first1=Shann |title=Looking Up to The Stars / Where 50 top celebs dazzle 400 students |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=26 June 1989 |page=B3}}

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|John Lewis

|Public Service

|2004

|{{cite news |title=John Lewis, civil rights activist who went on to serve in Congress for 34 years – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/07/20/john-lewis-civil-rights-activist-went-serve-congress-34-years/ |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=Telegraph |date=20 July 2020}}{{cite web |title=The achievers: public service |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.public-service |website=achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |access-date=3 March 2023}}

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|Barack Obama

|Public Service

|2007

|{{cite news |last1=Conlon |first1=Scarlett |title=In Pictures: Valentino's special night |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/valentino-garavani-the-american-academy-of-achievement-golden-plate-award |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=Vogue UK |date=20 October 2017}}{{cite web |title=The achievers: public service |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/ |website=achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |access-date=3 March 2023}}

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|Walter Payton

|Sports

|1988

|{{cite news |last1=Frahm |first1=Robert |title=Invitation to inspiration |work=Hartford Courant |date=1 July 1988}}

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|Bill Russell

|Sports

|2008

|{{cite news |last1=Weiss |first1=Jared |title=Bill Russell, who became the ultimate champion with Celtics, dies at 88 |url=https://theathletic.com/3464945/2022/07/31/bill-russell-death-celtics/ |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=The Altantic |date=31 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=The achievers: sports |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/bill-russell/ |website=achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |access-date=3 March 2023}}

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|Carl Sagan

|Science & Exploration

|1975

|{{cite news |title=Academy of achievement...and honor roll of success |work=Evansville Press |publisher=Courier Press |date=26 June 1975}}

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Since some of the cited articles above are from old newspapers and are not available for free online, here are relevant excerpts:

Baltimore Sun, May 23, 1997, p. 7e:

This year's honorees are a typically far-reaching bunch: Cal Ripken Jr., Barbara Bush, Gloria Estefan, Ron Howard, Cokie Roberts, Joyce Carol Oates. Joining them are Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer, Oracle Corp. founder Lawrence J. Ellison, Motorola CEO Christopher B. Galvin, and circus star Gunther Gebel-Williams.

San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 1989:

Saturday night, the proceedings ended with a huge banquet, at which each celebrity honoree received a ""Golden Plate Award" for being ""representatives of the many who excel in the great walks of life." Swathed in sequins, diamonds and self-assurance, the celebs beamed down on the assembled collection of scrubbed and polished students. Ralph Lauren wore jeans and cowboy boots beneath his tuxedo jacket. Philip Knight, CEO of Nike, strode jauntily across the stage in brand new white sneakers.

Hartford Courant, July 1, 1988, p. B4:

You can hardly blame these Connecticut teenagers for sounding like name-droppers. Let them tell you about their weekend with actors Michael Douglass or Ed Asner, physicist William Teller, writers E.L. Doctorow or Tom Clancy, editor Ben Bradley or athletes Walter Payton and Julius Erving… “When I walked right by Ed Asner without stopping, that’s when I knew it was becoming a little routine,” said Jonathon Baron, 18 of Storrs, one of six Connecticut students who attended a high-powered gathering that brought together some of America’s biggest names… The American Academy of Achievements Salute to Excellence conference in Nashville, Tenn., this month allowed 450 of the nation’s brightest young people to rub elbows with about 40 top athletes.

Evansville Press, June 26, 1975, p. 15:

Fifty-eight prominent and successful businessmen, scientists, entertainers and athletes will be in Evansville this weekend to be honored at the 14th annual Banquet of the Golden Plate…The presentation of awards will be made at a dinner Saturday at the Executive Inn...The purpose of the three-day program is to enable about 160 student national and state contest winners to meet and to get tips from the adults to be honored on how to be a success in their chosen fields…The award winners are: … Carl Sagan Space Scientist…

2.

Please add to the History section’s subsection, “Achievement summit,” the following three sentences as the new eighth paragraph. These discuss the 2022 awards ceremony and describe important events that took place at the summit, as well as some of the attendees.

In September 2022, the 54th awards ceremony and Golden Plate dinner was held in Washington, DC.{{cite news|last=Michel|first=Nkurunziza|title=Kagame honoured in US for 'exemplary response' to Covid-19|work=The New Times (Kigali)|date=14 December 2022|url=https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/3611/news/health/kagame-honoured-in-us-for-exemplary-response-to-covid-19|access-date= 23 March 2023}}{{cite news|last=Swartz|first=Dan|title=Dan About Town: The Best of Bashes, Balls, and Benefits This Past September|work=Washingtonian|date=22 November 2022|url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/11/22/dans-party-photographs-september-2022/|access-date= 24 March 2023}} At the ceremony, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres were recognized for their role in establishing a deal allowing grain exports to ship out of Ukraine sea ports following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite news|last=Lynch|first=Suzanne|title=POLITICO U.N. Playbook: In the queen’s shadow — The Russia factor — Side summit buffet|work=Politico|date=19 September 2022|url=https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/unga-playbook/politico-u-n-playbook-in-the-queens-shadow-the-russia-factor-side-summit-buffet/|access-date= 29 March 2023}} Other attendees of the event included Allyson Felix, Jimmy Page, and Mitch McConnell.{{cite news|last=Swartz|first=Dan|title=Dan About Town: The Best of Bashes, Balls, and Benefits This Past September|work=Washingtonian|date=22 November 2022|url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/11/22/dans-party-photographs-september-2022/|access-date= 24 March 2023}}

3.

In the Academy of Achievement#Notable recipients of the Golden Plate Award list, please move the entry for Ray Dalio to its proper alphabetical position. It should go after Francis Crick and before Joan Didion. Whoever added the entry mistakenly put it at the bottom of the list. Also, they only provided primary sources. I found a reliable secondary source that supports all of the entry’s facts. The source is called “Lifestyle UG”, which has a thorough statement about its editorial standards and integrity (see [https://lifestyleug.com/code-of-ethics/| Code of ethics], [https://lifestyleug.com/editorial-policy/| Editorial policy], and [https://lifestyleug.com/fact-checking-policy/| fact-checking policy]). I replaced two of the three primary sources with the secondary source.

I’ve rewritten the proposed wikitext below for your convenience:

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|Ray Dalio

|Business

|2012

|{{cite news |last1=Simmons |first1=William R. |title=Ray Dalio: The Founder Of The World’s Biggest Hedge Fund Firm |url=https://lifestyleug.com/who-is-ray-dalio/ |access-date=3 May 2023 |work=Lifestyle UG |date=3 February 2023}}{{cite web|title= Ray Dalio Biography and Interview. Photo: Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, receives the Golden Plate Award of the Academy of Achievement from Awards Council member David Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle Group.|publisher= American Academy of Achievement|url= https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-dalio/|access-date= 2020-10-02|archive-date= 2020-09-17|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200917235200/https://achievement.org/achiever/ray-dalio/|url-status= live}}

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Thanks for considering this proposal. Desiderata45 (talk) 18:07, 31 March 2023 (UTC) Desiderata45 (talk) 18:07, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

:I am withdrawing these. I am not the user who posted the previous request. I am also an employee at AA and worked off their incomplete draft. I want to review more closely before requesting any changes.Desiderata45 (talk) 19:37, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

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Hello, I have seven additional people to add to the table of past award recipients. Each person already has a Wikipedia article. I was able to find reliable secondary press coverage to verify each recipient received the reward. I used primary sources as a second citation only when the first citation didn’t give the specific year of the award.

The list below is in alphabetical order, but each new entry needs to be integrated into alphabetical order in the existing table. (The entry for Ray Dalio at the bottom of the table also needs to be moved up into alphabetical order.) As I noted above in previous posts, I am an employee of the American Academy of Achievement, so I am proposing edits here as per Wikipedia’s rules.

Hi {{ping|Heartmusic678}}, You reviewed and approved the last two edit requests for the American Academy of Achievement article, so you know this article well. Would you mind taking a look, and if they are okay, implementing them? I greatly appreciate it!

Larry Ellison

Business

1997

{{cite news |last1=Marbella |first1=Jean |title=A blend of talent and teens |url=|work=Baltimore Sun |date=23 May 1997}}

Phil Knight

Business

1989

{{cite news |last1=Nix |first1=Shann |title=Looking Up to The Stars / Where 50 top celebs dazzle 400 students |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=26 June 1989 |page=B3}}

John Lewis

Public Service

2004

{{cite news |title=John Lewis, civil rights activist who went on to serve in Congress for 34 years – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/07/20/john-lewis-civil-rights-activist-went-serve-congress-34-years/ |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=Telegraph |date=20 July 2020}}{{cite web |title=The achievers: public service |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.public-service |website=achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |access-date=3 March 2023}}

Barack Obama

Public Service

2007

{{cite news |last1=Conlon |first1=Scarlett |title=In Pictures: Valentino's special night |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/valentino-garavani-the-american-academy-of-achievement-golden-plate-award |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=Vogue UK |date=20 October 2017}}{{cite web |title=The achievers: public service |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/ |website=achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |access-date=3 March 2023}}

Walter Payton

Sports

1988

{{cite news |last1=Frahm |first1=Robert |title=Invitation to inspiration |work=Hartford Courant |date=1 July 1988}}

Bill Russell

Sports

2008

{{cite news |last1=Weiss |first1=Jared |title=Bill Russell, who became the ultimate champion with Celtics, dies at 88 |url=https://theathletic.com/3464945/2022/07/31/bill-russell-death-celtics/ |access-date=3 March 2023 |work=The Altantic |date=31 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=The achievers: sports |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/bill-russell/ |website=achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |access-date=3 March 2023}}

Carl Sagan

Science & Exploration

1975

{{cite news |title=Academy of achievement...and honor roll of success |work=Evansville Press |publisher=Courier Press |date=26 June 1975}}

Since some of the cited articles above are from old newspapers and are not available for free online, here are relevant excerpts:

Baltimore Sun, May 23, 1997, p. 7e:

This year's honorees are a typically far-reaching bunch: Cal Ripken Jr., Barbara Bush, Gloria Estefan, Ron Howard, Cokie Roberts, Joyce Carol Oates. Joining them are Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer, Oracle Corp. founder Lawrence J. Ellison, Motorola CEO Christopher B. Galvin, and circus star Gunther Gebel-Williams.

San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 1989:

Saturday night, the proceedings ended with a huge banquet, at which each celebrity honoree received a ""Golden Plate Award" for being ""representatives of the many who excel in the great walks of life." Swathed in sequins, diamonds and self-assurance, the celebs beamed down on the assembled collection of scrubbed and polished students. Ralph Lauren wore jeans and cowboy boots beneath his tuxedo jacket. Philip Knight, CEO of Nike, strode jauntily across the stage in brand new white sneakers.

Hartford Courant, July 1, 1988, p. B4:

You can hardly blame these Connecticut teenagers for sounding like name-droppers. Let them tell you about their weekend with actors Michael Douglass or Ed Asner, physicist William Teller, writers E.L. Doctorow or Tom Clancy, editor Ben Bradley or athletes Walter Payton and Julius Erving… “When I walked right by Ed Asner without stopping, that’s when I knew it was becoming a little routine,” said Jonathon Baron, 18 of Storrs, one of six Connecticut students who attended a high-powered gathering that brought together some of America’s biggest names… The American Academy of Achievements Salute to Excellence conference in Nashville, Tenn., this month allowed 450 of the nation’s brightest young people to rub elbows with about 40 top athletes.

Evansville Press, June 26, 1975, p. 15:

Fifty-eight prominent and successful businessmen, scientists, entertainers and athletes will be in Evansville this weekend to be honored at the 14th annual Banquet of the Golden Plate…The presentation of awards will be made at a dinner Saturday at the Executive Inn...The purpose of the three-day program is to enable about 160 student national and state contest winners to meet and to get tips from the adults to be honored on how to be a success in their chosen fields…The award winners are: … Carl Sagan Space Scientist…

Thanks for considering this proposal. Jarc12030 (talk) 14:35, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

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Hello, I have some updates to suggest for this article as well as additional names to add to the Academy of Achievement#Notable recipients of the Golden Plate Award table. As I noted in my last proposal I am an employee of the American Academy of Achievement, so I am proposing edits here as per Wikipedia’s rules.

1.

I have five additional people I’d like to see added to the table of award recipients. Each person already has a Wikipedia article. I was able to find reliable secondary press coverage to verify each recipient received the reward as well as the year they did.

The list below is in alphabetical order, but each new entry needs to be integrated into alphabetical order in the existing table.

Quincy Jones

Music

1984

{{cite news |title=A look back on Quincy Jones' most iconic moments in the 80s |url=https://virginradio.co.uk/music/99476/quincy-jones-most-iconic-moments-in-the-80s |access-date=12 November 2024 |work=Virgin Radio UK |date=14 March 2022}}

Henry Kissinger

Public Service

2002

{{cite news |last1=Warren |first1=Ellen |title=A meeting of the minds |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune/173828374/ |access-date=1 June 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=14 June 2004}}

Jimmy Page

Music

2024

{{cite news |last1=Lewry |first1=Fraser |title=Jimmy Page honoured by British Embassy in Washington - watch video of speech |url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/jimmy-page-british-embassy-washington |access-date=12 November 2024 |date=25 September 2024}}

Itzhak Perlman

Music

2005

{{cite news |last1=Zabo |first1=Marta |title=Itzhak Perlman: 12 Facts About The Famous Violinist |url=https://www.grunge.com/1115214/itzhak-perlman-12-facts-about-the-famous-violinist/ |access-date=12 November 2024 |work=Grunge |date=23 November 2022}}

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Public Service

2024

{{cite news |last1=Denisova |first1=Kateryna |title=Next few months will be 'decisive,' Zelensky says during speech in US, urges allies to act faster |url=https://kyivindependent.com/next-few-months-to-be-decisive-in-war-zelensky-says/ |access-date=12 November 2024 |work=Kyiv Independent |date=23 September 2024}}

2.

Please add the following new paragraph, which provides information covered in international press sources about the 2024 summit (including a speech given by Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy at the event and the Russian Foreign Ministry’s reaction to it), to the end of the “Achievement summit” subsection of the History section:

At the 2024 summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received a Golden Plate award and gave an address to Academy members about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urged Ukraine’s Western allies to speed up their military aid to his country, which he said faced a critical phase in its efforts to defend itself against Russia. Other awardees honored at the summit included Kenyan track and field athletes Faith Kipyegon and Beatrice Chebet, who both won gold medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Both received their Golden Plate awards from Kenyan President William Ruto.{{cite news |last1=Rutto |first1=Stephen |title=Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet awarded Golden Plates by American institution |url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/athletics/article/2001503249/faith-kipyegon-beatrice-chebet-awarded-golden-plates-by-american-institution |access-date=12 November 2024 |work=The Standard (Kenya) |date=23 September 2024}}

Thanks very much for considering this request. Jarc12030 (talk) 18:06, 2 December 2024 (UTC) Jarc12030 (talk) 18:06, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

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:* Quincy Jones: done

:* Kissinger: your source only says he attended the event, but not that he won. Neither is the award mentioned on his WP page. Not done.

:* Jimmy Page: done

:* Perlman: done

:* Zelenskyy done

:text: done

:Hi Jarc12030, please feel free to change the edit request back to "answered=no" if you find a better source for Kissinger. Lova Falk (talk) 14:49, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

::Hi Jarc12030, also in your new source, I don't see the name of Henry Kissinger. However, the picture is cut - the last line of the first text is "Paul Nurse, Nobel laureate in" and it is obvious that there is text underneath. However, I cannot see it, and therefore I still cannot add Kissinger. Lova Falk (talk) 15:20, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

:::Hi Lova Falk - thanks for taking a look and explaining the issue. I’ve reclipped the original article and built the relevant text into the ref itself. What do you think of this?

:::Henry Kissinger

:::Public Service

:::2002

:::{{cite news |last1=Warren |first1=Ellen |title=A meeting of the minds |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune/174175114/ |access-date=9 June 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=14 June 2004 |quote="Sir Paul, a charming Brit, who is also a knight, was inducted into the academy in Dublin in 2002 along with Daley, Henry Kissinger, and Chuck Barry."}} Jarc12030 (talk) 20:05, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

::::@Encoded This edit request was not declined. I added four out of five persons because they were properly sourced. Now I will also add Henry Kissinger, because Jarc12030 having COI does not deny that sources confirm that Kissinger was awarded.

::::PS COI does not mean that the edit requests should be declined automatically, it means that the editor doing them should take extra care when checking the sources.

::::Jarc12030, do you know which category? Lova Falk (talk) 06:46, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

:::::Hi User:Lova Falk - the category is Public Service. Thanks again for your help. Jarc12030 (talk) 17:52, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

:::::: Jarc12030, you're welcome! Lova Falk (talk) 17:59, 12 June 2025 (UTC)