medal
Let an agent explain medals and their kinds, relay award systems and precedence from official sources, describe commemorative and sporting medals, and route to entries for specific medals and awards.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain medals and their kinds, relay award systems and precedence from official sources, describe commemorative and sporting medals, and route to entries for specific medals and awards.
A flat piece of metal, usually a disc, bearing a design or inscription, struck or cast to commemorate a person or event, to reward achievement in sport, science, arts and public service, or to recognise military and civil service through state decorations such as the Soviet medals For Strengthening of Friendship in Arms and For Zealous and Devoted Service to the State, honorary awards such as the Petr Dementiev medal, and community awards such as the WikiSwiss Award; medals are worn with ribbons, collected as numismatic objects and governed by orders of precedence.
What it is for: Rewarding, honouring and commemorating.
It can be explain kinds and forms; relay award systems; describe commemorative and sport medals; route to specific medals.
Distinguishing features
Struck or cast disc
Award or commemoration
Ribbon and precedence
Collectable
What it looks like
A metal disc with a design, often on a ribbon.
Physical character
Olympic gold medal: at least 6 g of gold on silver composition - IOC rules
typical diameter: about 30-40 mm - wearable medals
How it is recognised
Struck metal award or commemorative piece
Military and civil decorations, sport medals, commemorative and art medals, community awards
Orders are membership honours with insignia; coins are currency; badges are not usually awards
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms, when worn
is worn on - in orders of precedence
In practice
Families and kinds
military and civil state decorations and campaign medals
sport medals such as Olympic medals
academic and scientific medals such as the Fields Medal
commemorative and art medals
honorary and community awards such as the WikiSwiss Award
religious medals
medals by country and issuing body
Standards and regulation
National honours and decorations laws
Orders of wear and precedence
Rules on wearing and selling decorations
IOC specifications for Olympic medals
Failure modes and hazards
Stolen valour and fake medals
Confusing medals with orders and badges
Stale precedence information
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What a medal is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a medal, and what kinds exist from decorations and sport medals to commemorative and art medals? definition
- Is the question about medals in general, a specific medal or an order or badge? boundary
Making
Making medals.
Making
Making.
- How are medals designed, struck or cast, and finished? definition
- Which entry fits medallic art? action
Systems Award systems.
Regulation.
Honours
State honours.
Honours
Honours.
- How do national honours systems award decorations and medals, and how does precedence work? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Specific
Specific medals.
Specific
Specific.
- What are medals such as For Zealous and Devoted Service to the State, the Petr Dementiev medal and the WikiSwiss Award, from official sources? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific medal? action
Collect Collecting and heritage.
Practice.
Collecting
Collecting.
Collecting
Collecting.
- How are medals collected, researched and valued, and what rules apply to selling them? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Authenticity
Authenticity.
Authenticity
Authenticity.
- How are fake medals and unearned wearing identified and addressed? provenance
- Which entry fits stolen valor? action
Context History and culture.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did medals develop from Renaissance portrait medals to modern decorations? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of medals? action
Sport
Sport medals.
Sport
Sport.
- How do Olympic and championship medals work, and what do they symbolise? provenance
- Which entry fits Olympic medal? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should military decoration and sport medal be separate primary entries?
- How should official honours lists be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific awards; should they be split off?