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I have read that Dr. Michael Sofia was also nominated for the Nobel Prize for discovering the first Hepatitis C treatment that puts this disease in remission for 90+% of patients, even those w/Cirrhosis. Solvaldi is named for this doctor that had a breakthrough treatment for millions of people.Crlhrms (talk) 01:23, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Crlhrms, based of this, I suspect you're talking about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - not the prize for peace. For better or worse, the Peace Prize is the only one that currently has an article about it on a year-by-year basis. The other nobel prize categories only have english wikipedia articles for the prize as a whole, and the biographies of each winner over the years. There's no 2016 Nobel prize for medicine (yet), which would be the most appropriate place to add that kind of info. Witty lama 22:34, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How to phrase the relationship of this announcement to the referendum

Martindo and Bencherlite - you might have an opinions on this matter as people who've edited the relevant sentences of this article already.
I tried a couple of different ways of phrasing the fact that the referendum happened on a few days before the award, and that the award was given in that context. Some words like "despite" or "because of" come across as Original Research and were removed. I subsequently added that the referendum was "directly acknowledged by the committee chair during the announcement" - based off this quote from the cited NYTimes article: "In announcing the award, Kaci Kullmann Five, the chairwoman of the committee, commended Mr. Santos for starting the process, even as she acknowledged that the people of Colombia had rejected the outcome."[1]. I thought would be a sufficient source to cite that the link was "directly acknowledged" however it was removed.

I feel that it's important that we say in some way, while still remaining NPOV, that the timing of the announcement of the award and the referendum are significant/related and that the award committee didn't make this award in ignorance of that referendum result. Can we come up with a best way of phrasing it? Witty lama 22:34, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That NYT quote sounds sufficient to me. Why not replace the direct quote with that? Martindo (talk) 07:34, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]