I nominate <perfidious> and <visayanbraindoctor> for BEST USERNAME.

I nominate <FSR> and <zanzibar> for MOST HELPFUL.

I nominate <TheFocus> and <john barleycorn> for FUNNIEST POSTER.

I nominate <Annie K.> and <WinKing> for MOST CONSTRUCTIVE.

I nominate <MarkFinan> and <parisattack> for BEST PROFILE.

I nominate <AylerKupp> and <RandomVisitor> for BEST ANALYSIS.

I nominate <Tabanus> and <Phony Benoni> for MOST INFORMED.

<1. BEST AVATAR <>>

<Candidates>: User: Party Animal, User: trulssk

<Nominees>: User: capafan, User: jnpope, User: perfidious, User: Sneaky, User: Sokrates, User: technical draw, User: whiteshark, User: YouRang

<2. BEST USERNAME <>>

<Candidates>: Party Animal, thegoodanarchist

<Nominees>: elvuelodelcondor, hms123, Mating Net, perfidious, SetNoEscapeOn, Sneaky, visayanbraindoctor

<3. MOST HELPFUL <>>

<Candidates>: Annie K., FSR, harrylime, Penguincw, WinKing

<Nominees>: MissScarlett, Phony Benoni, Sally Simpson, Stonehenge, zanzibar

<4. BEST POST <>>

<Candidates>:

<Nominees>:

latvalatvian - A Giri vs Svidler, 2015 (kibitz #2)

TheFocus - D M Martinez vs Steinitz, 1883 (kibitz #1)

TheTamale - Igor Ivanov vs L Witt, 1981 (kibitz #6)

<5. FUNNIEST POSTER <>>

<Candidates>: Abdel Irada, Phony Benoni, technical draw, TheFocus, WannaBe

<Nominees>: 310metaltrader, john barleycorn, latvalatvian, ljfyffe, MarkFinan, thegoodanarchist

<6. MOST CONSTRUCTIVE <>>

<Candidates>: Annie K., Golden Executive, WinKing

<Nominees>: AylerKupp, Mudphudder, Penguincw, SwitchingQuylthulg, YouRang, Zhbugnoimt

<7. BEST PROFILE <>>

<Candidates>: User: Karposian, User: MarkFinan, User: parisattack, User: visayanbraindoctor

<Candidates>:

<Nominees>: AylerKupp, cro777, kwid, RandomVisitor

<9. BEST GAME COLLECTION <>>

<Candidates>:

<Nominees>: Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2015 by <Phony Benoni>

<10. MOST INFORMED <>>

<Candidates>: cro777, SwitchingQuylthulg, Tabanus

<Nominees>: MissScarlett, Phony Benoni, Retireborn, TheFocus

<11. BEST HISTORIAN <>>

<Candidates>: MissScarlett, Tabanus, thomastonk

<Nominees>: ljfyffe, Sally Simpson, zanzibar

<12. BEST (WORST) PUN OF THE YEAR <>>

<Candidates>:

<Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down this Tal!> (Kiril D Georgiev vs Shaked, 1999)

<Nominees>:

<Brace Yourself, Winter is Coming> (Botvinnik vs W Winter, 1936)

<I Can't Believe It's Not Baadur> (Ivanchuk vs Jobava, 2015)

<One Flew Over the Steinitz Nest> (Henry Edward Bird)

<The Immortal Draw> (Philipp Meitner)

<Three Times a Lady> (V Gunina vs S Sevian, 2015)

<UnBb3vable!> (Gull (Computer))

<Wyvill, Wyvill Rock You> (Anderssen vs Wyvill, 1851)

<13. PLAYER OF THE YEAR <>>

<Candidates>: Magnus Carlsen, Veselin Topalov

<Nominees>: Pavel Eljanov, Boris Gelfand, Anish Giri, David Howell

<14. GAME OF THE YEAR <>>

<Candidates>:

D Khismatullin vs Eljanov, 2015

<Nominees>:

Carlsen vs Aronian, 2015

Jonny vs Komodo, 2015

W So vs P Maghsoodloo, 2015

Game Collection: Chajes v Janowski Match

Game Collection: JonathanJ's favorite games 4

15.<WORST FANIRMOD>

<Stefania Raimondi Pronunciation - Pronounciationof www.pronounciationof.com/b/how-to-pronounce.../s-
tefania-raimondi

STEFANIRMOD (letter E meaning in this name); Sensual and enthusiastic you love to have freedom. Falling in love comes easy to you and kinda happens often.>

(Why is <CG> mangling this link?

www. pronounciationof.com/b/how-to-pronounce.../stefa- nia-raimondi>

The problem is that 1) the link is long enough to trigger CG's line break algorithm and 2) CG expects links to start with "http://" (or "https://"), rather than with "www".

CG automatically breaks very long "words" into multiple parts because they could otherwise be wider than the screen, which would result in all sorts of ugliness. Normal links, starting with "http://", do not trigger line breaks; special code applies to such links, and since they are shortened for display purposes (e.g. http://www.pronounciationof.com/b/h...) extra line breaks are not needed.

<Switch> I would just like a simple escape to turn off all <CG> EZ processing - so I can be assured my link can be inserted and work.

That's an issue that has arisen numerous times (usually involving punctuation marks in a url).

That said, I don't understand why, if a <http://> link trigger should be handled any differently than a <www.> trigger.

I'm far less concerned with the text displayed for the link, so long as the actual link points where I want - I don't care so much if the display text is shortened.

Let's try with http:

http://www.pronounciationof.com/b/h...

and now without:

www.pronounciationof.com/b/how-to-pronounce-name-
s/stefania-raimondi

and now with the cut-and-paste of link, as I originally did from the google page (which was a mistake)

www.pronounciationof.com/b/how-to-pronounce.../s-
tefania-raimondi

I now realize this link is wrong. So it was mangled by google not <CG>. But, the above shows <CG> not treating it like a link. But if I include all the cut-and-paste text, as I originally did:

<Stefania Raimondi Pronunciation - Pronounciationof www.pronounciationof.com/b/how-to-pronounce.../s-
tefania-raimondi
STEFANIRMOD (letter E meaning in this name); Sensual and enthusiastic you love to have freedom. Falling in love comes easy to you and kinda happens often. >

It shows up as a link. But <CG> does indeed mangle the already mangled link when I think it shouldn't.

Let me hand edit the url to include the http:// prefix:

<Stefania Raimondi Pronunciation - Pronounciationof http://www.pronounciationof.com/b/h... STEFANIRMOD (letter E meaning in this name); Sensual and enthusiastic you love to have freedom. Falling in love comes easy to you and kinda happens often. >

And now it does utilize the correct mangled link.

Again, this amount of convenience posting is difficult to understand, and may even be counterproductive.

I need a consistent, straight-forward procedure to include any valid url in a link.

I nominate <cro777> for Best Analysis.

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<zanzibar: Do you really want me writing a treatise for each of these special cases?>

Not here, no; very much off-topic. On any other page... still no. The current system works as long as you know the ropes; any URL starting with "http://" can be turned into a functional link with a bit of percent-encoding.

Note: I use Nominee to mark members nominated by only one person so far; they need another nomination to become a Candidate, later eligible for voting.

<1. BEST AVATAR <>>

<Candidates>: User: Party Animal, User: trulssk

<Nominees>: User: capafan, User: jnpope, User: perfidious, User: Sneaky, User: Sokrates, User: technical draw, User: whiteshark, User: YouRang

<2. BEST USERNAME <>>

<Candidates>: Party Animal, SetNoEscapeOn, thegoodanarchist

<Nominees>: elvuelodelcondor, hms123, Mating Net, perfidious, Sneaky, visayanbraindoctor

<3. MOST HELPFUL <>>

<Candidates>: Annie K., FSR, harrylime, Penguincw, WinKing

<Nominees>: MissScarlett, Phony Benoni, Sally Simpson, Stonehenge, zanzibar

<4. BEST POST <>>

<Candidates>: -

<Nominees>:

latvalatvian - A Giri vs Svidler, 2015 (kibitz #2)

Stevie King - Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #167564)

TheFocus - D M Martinez vs Steinitz, 1883 (kibitz #1)

TheTamale - Igor Ivanov vs L Witt, 1981 (kibitz #6)

<5. FUNNIEST POSTER <>>

<Candidates>: Abdel Irada, Phony Benoni, technical draw, TheFocus, WannaBe

<Nominees>: 310metaltrader, john barleycorn, latvalatvian, ljfyffe, MarkFinan, thegoodanarchist

<6. MOST CONSTRUCTIVE <>>

<Candidates>: Annie K., Golden Executive, WinKing

<Nominees>: AylerKupp, Mudphudder, Penguincw, SwitchingQuylthulg, YouRang, Zhbugnoimt

<7. BEST PROFILE <>>

<Candidates>: User: Karposian, User: MarkFinan, User: parisattack, User: visayanbraindoctor

<Nominees>: User: AJ of Alaska, User: AylerKupp, User: Golden Executive, User: WinKing, User: zanzibar

<8. BEST ANALYSIS <>>

<Candidates>: cro777

<Candidates>: -

<Nominees>:

Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2015 by <Phony Benoni>

Game Collection: Chajes v Janowski Match by <Chessical>

Game Collection: JonathanJ's favorite games 4 by <JonathanJ>

Game Collection: Games that Tickle my Teats by <DrawMachine>

<10. MOST INFORMED <>>

<Candidates>: cro777, SwitchingQuylthulg, Tabanus

<Nominees>: Big Pawn, MissScarlett, Phony Benoni, Retireborn, TheFocus

<11. BEST HISTORIAN <>>

<Candidates>: ljfyffe, MissScarlett, Tabanus, thomastonk

<Nominees>: Sally Simpson, zanzibar

<12. BEST (WORST) PUN OF THE YEAR <>>

<Candidates>:

<Mr. Georgiev, Wear Down this Tal!> (Kiril D Georgiev vs Shaked, 1999)

<Nominees>:

<Brace Yourself, Winter is Coming> (Botvinnik vs W Winter, 1936)

<I Can't Believe It's Not Baadur> (Ivanchuk vs Jobava, 2015)

<One Flew Over the Steinitz Nest> (Steinitz vs Bird, 1895)

<The Immortal Draw> (Hamppe vs Meitner, 1872)

<Three Times a Lady> (V Gunina vs S Sevian, 2015)

<UnBb3vable!> (Shredder vs Gull, 2013)

<Wyvill, Wyvill Rock You> (Anderssen vs Wyvill, 1851)

<13. PLAYER OF THE YEAR <>>

<Candidates>: Magnus Carlsen, Veselin Topalov

<Nominees>: Levon Aronian, Pavel Eljanov, Boris Gelfand, Anish Giri, David Howell, Radoslaw Wojtaszek

<14. GAME OF THE YEAR <>>

<Candidates>:

D Khismatullin vs Eljanov, 2015

<Nominees>:

Carlsen vs Aronian, 2015

Jonny vs Komodo, 2015

Navara vs R Wojtaszek, 2015

W So vs Aronian, 2015

W So vs P Maghsoodloo, 2015

W So vs Ding Liren, 2015

<6. MOST CONSTRUCTIVE <:>> AylerKupp and YouRang

<13. PLAYER OF THE YEAR <:>> Levon Aronian, Anish Giri and Wei Yi

<14. GAME OF THE YEAR <:>>

I nominate <Domdaniel> and <Penguicw> for BEST USERNAME.

I nominate <FSR> and <shams> for MOST HELPFUL.

I nominate <TheFocus> and <john barleycorn> for FUNNIEST POSTER.

I nominate <Karposian> and <Lord Ramsbottom> for MOST CONSTRUCTIVE.

I nominate <harry lime> and <AJ of Alaska> for BEST PROFILE.

I nominate <FSR> and <perfidious> for BEST ANALYSIS.

I nominate <Baron harkonnen> and <kkderek> for MOST INFORMED.

I nominate User: jnpope for Best Avatar.

Wei Yi for Player of the Year

Sally Simpson for Most Helpful