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::See what you think of what I've done there. [[User:Wehwalt|Wehwalt]] ([[User talk:Wehwalt|talk]]) 19:27, 9 December 2023 (UTC) |
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::: {{u|Wehwalt}}, i could easily be misunderstanding this, as the political situation in antarctica is rather complicated, but i think only seven sovereign states have territorial claims in antarctica: argentina, australia, chile, france, new zealand, norway, and the united kingdom. the blurb now appears to suggest that about thirty countries have territorial claims in the continent.{{pb}}the [[antarctica#Politics|politics section]] of the featured article mentions that twenty-nine countries "can participate in decision-making", which is what i am assuming the original blurb meant by "governing". these twenty-nine countries (listed {{oldid2|1187986289|Overview of parties to the Antarctic Treaty System|here}} as having "[c]onsultative status") include all seven that have territorial claims, but also include five other countries that were original signatories to the treaty (if russia is considered an original signatory), and seventeen others that have conducted significant research on the continent. as a result, it seems to me that all countries with territorial claims are governing, but not all governing countries have territorial claims. this is why i had found the original link confusing and proposed to remove it: the link suggested to me that all thirty countries had territorial claims, when only seven of them did. [[User:Dying|dying]] ([[User talk:Dying|talk]]) 06:59, 17 December 2023 (UTC) |
::: {{u|Wehwalt}}, i could easily be misunderstanding this, as the political situation in antarctica is rather complicated, but i think only seven sovereign states have territorial claims in antarctica: argentina, australia, chile, france, new zealand, norway, and the united kingdom. the blurb now appears to suggest that about thirty countries have territorial claims in the continent.{{pb}}the [[antarctica#Politics|politics section]] of the featured article mentions that twenty-nine countries "can participate in decision-making", which is what i am assuming the original blurb meant by "governing". these twenty-nine countries (listed {{oldid2|1187986289|Overview of parties to the Antarctic Treaty System|here}} as having "[c]onsultative status") include all seven that have territorial claims, but also include five other countries that were original signatories to the treaty (if russia is considered an original signatory), and seventeen others that have conducted significant research on the continent. as a result, it seems to me that all countries with territorial claims are governing, but not all governing countries have territorial claims. this is why i had found the original link confusing and proposed to remove it: the link suggested to me that all thirty countries had territorial claims, when only seven of them did. [[User:Dying|dying]] ([[User talk:Dying|talk]]) 06:59, 17 December 2023 (UTC) |
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::Does any governance go on as a practical matter beyond the international treaty-making? It might be best to avoid the term.--[[User:Wehwalt|Wehwalt]] ([[User talk:Wehwalt|talk]]) 13:46, 17 December 2023 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 13:46, 17 December 2023
Only TFA schedulers should make changes to the table immediately below. But please feel free to note any concerns, queries or thoughts below it. Thanks.
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did petty work long enough in somers town during the 1910s that it would be reasonable to describe her time working in the area as "[d]uring the 1910s"? the article body states that "[s]hortly after 1910 Petty was employed in a dental and medical centre in Newport, Essex ... until October 1914 when she was employed by the NFRA as a travelling lecturer", and it seems unusual if petty worked in somers town while either working in newport or travelling. my impression after reading the article body is that saying "During the 1900s" may be more accurate, especially if a book about her work was published in 1910, but i am unable to confirm this from the article alone. dying (talk) 21:59, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
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thaddeus mccotter 2012 presidential campaign
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i presume that the term "Wall Street" is being used as a metonym in the blurb, as i did not get the impression from the article that mccotter focused his campaign on the physical street in manhattan's financial district. the article that the link targets, however, does focus on the physical street. since there will likely be main page readers unfamiliar with the use of this term as a metonym, would it be more appropriate to replace the link with one that more explicitly states what it is referring to? for example, "Wall Street" could be replaced by "banking" (targeting the "Banking in the United States" article) or "financial services" (targeting the "Financial services in the United States" article). dying (talk) 21:59, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
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i am just noting here for the benefit of the tfa coordinators, in case it comes up at wp:errors, that i had considered the cree nation to be the relevant country to reference in this blurb. note that canada is not mentioned in either the article lead or body, and that the canadian confederation did not occur until 1867. also, i admittedly relied on the extra character allowance for blurbs without images, so i apologize in advance for creating extra work if an image is eventually added. dying (talk) 21:59, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
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in the episode, was the points system actually used to sort good and bad acts? my impression from the article's plot summary was that the system was used to sort good and bad people. assigning points to the acts seems to have been part of the method used by the system, rather than the purpose of the system. dying (talk) 22:59, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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i am just noting here that i have edited the blurb to avoid using the name of the genus metonymically to refer to specimens of the genus, following this error report.courtesy pinging JMCHutchinson to check to see if there is anything i may have overlooked. dying (talk) 23:59, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
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would it be more appropriate to mention the estimated number of players by 1995 before the estimated number of copies sold by 1999? the current order initially suggested to me that the first estimate was based on the number of people who had played the game by some date on or after 1999, as i had incorrectly assumed that the estimates were in chronological order before i realized that two years after the launch would have been 1995. dying (talk) 22:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC) |
hector berlioz
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i had two questions about this blurb.
dying (talk) 22:59, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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city hall mrt station and raffles place mrt station
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i had two questions about this blurb.
i also wanted to note that i don't know what the character limits are for blurbs covering multiple featured articles, but i believe the most recent such blurb is this one, which has 1207 characters. the length of the current blurb for the mrt stations is decently shorter than that example, so i am assuming that there is no issue here. dying (talk) 23:59, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 Exit B of City Hall station (top) and Exit A of Raffles Place station The City Hall and Raffles Place MRT stations are paired cross-platform interchanges on the North–South line (NSL) and East–West line (EWL) of the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. Both are situated in the Downtown Core district: City Hall station is near landmarks such as the former City Hall, St Andrew's Cathedral and the Padang, while Raffles Place station serves Merlion Park, The Fullerton Hotel and the Asian Civilisations Museum. The stations were first announced in 1982. Constructing the tunnels between the City Hall and Raffles Place stations required the draining of the Singapore River. The stations opened on 12 December 1987 as part of the MRT extension to Outram Park station. Cross-platform transfers between the NSL and EWL began on 28 October 1989, ahead of the split of the MRT network into two lines. Both stations are designated Civil Defence shelters. City Hall station features a mural by Simon Wong which depicts government buildings in the area, while two murals at Raffles Place station by Lim Sew Yong and Thang Kiang How depict scenes of Singapore's history. (See City Hall MRT station and Raffles Place MRT station.)
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 Painting by Gustave Courbet, 1850 Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as Harold in Italy, choral pieces including his Requiem and L'enfance du Christ, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La damnation de Faust. Expected to enter medicine, Berlioz defied his family by taking up music, and won the Prix de Rome in 1830. Berlioz married the Irish Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson, who inspired his first major success, the Symphonie fantastique, in which an idealised depiction of her occurs throughout. His first opera, Benvenuto Cellini, was a failure. The second, the epic Les Troyens, was so large in scale that it was never staged in its entirety during his lifetime. Meeting only occasional success in France as a composer, Berlioz turned to conducting, in which he gained an international reputation. He also wrote musical journalism throughout much of his career. (Full article...)
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i am fairly certain that the link to the "Golden Age" article is inappropriate, as that article focuses on a period in greek mythology, but i am not sure where best to retarget that link, assuming that there is an appropriate target. sources seem to agree that the pax romana is considered rome's golden age, but linking to this article doesn't appear to make sense in the context of the blurb, which talks about the restoration of such a golden age rather than the beginning of one. the "golden age (metaphor)" article might be appropriate, though it also references the pax romana as rome's golden age. dying (talk) 23:59, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
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i had two questions about this blurb.
dying (talk) 23:59, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
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lever house
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i had two questions about this blurb.
dying (talk) 22:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
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not my responsibility
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would it be helpful to crop the image so that it is more evident what the thumbnail depicts? (i recognize that the obvious joke here is to reply to me with "not my responsibility".) on my screen, the words look like a faint fuzzy dash. i admittedly couldn't tell at all from the thumbnail what it was trying to illustrate. dying (talk) 22:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
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c. o. brocato
it looks like st. john's high school is now called "Loyola College Prep". would it be appropriate to add a link to that article?
i also wanted to note that i added the infobox image to the blurb because it appears to have been published in a yearbook in 1953 without either a copyright notice or subsequent copyright registration. the image was uploaded about a week ago, which is why it wasn't present in the article at the time the blurb was initially drafted. dying (talk) 21:59, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Dying: Nice find with St. John's / Loyola College Prep; I added links to it. Also, if you have confirmed that the added image if public domain, then somebody should probably delete the other image as that was a fair use one I added when I was unable to find a PD one. (Should there be something added to the "alt" parameter as well?) BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
- BeanieFan11, i admittedly do not know if there is any standard at tfa regarding the use of alt text. i think the vast majority of recent tfa blurbs do not have anything specifically written as alt text, so {{main page image/TFA}} ends up using the caption or the title as the alt text by default. i believe itn and dyk also generally do not provide custom alt text, though i am less familiar with the practice for the other sections of the main page. if there is any alt text that you wish to add, though, i assume that doing so should not be a problem.by the way, i wanted to note that, although the current image of brocato appears to have been taken from a yearbook published in 1953, i am not certain if the photo was actually taken in 1953, as asserted by the infobox caption. i am not familiar with how photos for the yearbook were generally procured at baylor university at the time, though this source suggests that all the senior portraits for the 2024 yearbook have already been taken, during the past four months. dying (talk) 06:59, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
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as the blurb discusses tolui's sacrifice of his own self rather than just something he had an interest in, would it be more appropriate to link to the "altruistic suicide" article rather than the "self-sacrifice" article? dying (talk) 23:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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sun in fiction
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this source suggests to me that "Surveying a Dying Sun" is the title of the artwork, rather than, for example, the title of a short story. if so, should the title be in italics, as per mos:italictitle? i think, if this is the case, the caption in the blurb could also be reworded as "Surveying a Dying Sun, a 1953 magazine cover". dying (talk) 23:59, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
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antarctica
the text "governed by about 30 countries" links to the "Territorial claims in Antarctica" article, which appears to focus on the territorial claims and their history, and doesn't really seem to discuss anything about any governance currently present in antarctica. i couldn't find a suitable alternative article for the link to target; the "Antarctic Treaty System" article briefly touches upon the subject, but it is already linked elsewhere in the blurb. would it be more appropriate to simply have the text not link to any article? dying (talk) 23:59, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
- See what you think of what I've done there. Wehwalt (talk) 19:27, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Wehwalt, i could easily be misunderstanding this, as the political situation in antarctica is rather complicated, but i think only seven sovereign states have territorial claims in antarctica: argentina, australia, chile, france, new zealand, norway, and the united kingdom. the blurb now appears to suggest that about thirty countries have territorial claims in the continent.the politics section of the featured article mentions that twenty-nine countries "can participate in decision-making", which is what i am assuming the original blurb meant by "governing". these twenty-nine countries (listed here as having "[c]onsultative status") include all seven that have territorial claims, but also include five other countries that were original signatories to the treaty (if russia is considered an original signatory), and seventeen others that have conducted significant research on the continent. as a result, it seems to me that all countries with territorial claims are governing, but not all governing countries have territorial claims. this is why i had found the original link confusing and proposed to remove it: the link suggested to me that all thirty countries had territorial claims, when only seven of them did. dying (talk) 06:59, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Does any governance go on as a practical matter beyond the international treaty-making? It might be best to avoid the term.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:46, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- See what you think of what I've done there. Wehwalt (talk) 19:27, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
battle of the trebia
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did sempronius's formation actually "f[ight] their way out to the safety of Piacenza"? the article body suggests to me that, although they fought to break through the carthaginian army, after they broke off their pursuit, they deliberately avoided engaging the carthaginians when heading to piacenza.i briefly thought that maybe the breaking through could be considered "f[ighting] their way out", but that appears to have been done in the direction away from piacenza, if i am reading the maps correctly. perhaps "10,000 under Sempronius maintained formation and fought their way out to the safety of Piacenza" could be replaced with "10,000 under Sempronius, who had fought their way out, maintained formation and retreated to Piacenza". dying (talk) 23:59, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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Suggestion
I'm sitting here trying to figure out which entries require my attention and feel a little lost. Can I suggest that the ones which are resolved henceforth be hatted? Similarly those where the date has passed or the venue has moved over to WP:ERRORS.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- I put a tick in the title line - see Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2023. A tick can readily be removed if a discussion is subsequently reopened. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:09, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Since there's no table of contents, hatting would be easier on the eye when scanning. Wehwalt (talk) 19:29, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Has anyone created a button that unhides everything on a page that's been hatted? If not, and if some day I remember that I've seen a comment on one of these pages but I don't remember the precise wording (so I can't search for it), then I would have to pull up edit screens and read wikicode or unhat everything one at a time until I find it. So ... not sure. - Dank (push to talk) 19:35, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- What about collapsing? That is easily done and undone. Wehwalt (talk) 19:49, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, are you thinking of collapsing each day individually or using one or just a few collapseboxes? (If just a few, I might add ticks, say, during the week, and then put the whole week in one collapsebox.) - Dank (push to talk) 19:52, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- I'm just making suggestions and seeing what is practical. Personally, I'd prefer hatting. Then I only have to scroll down to see what isn't hatted. Wehwalt (talk) 19:59, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Wehwalt, i'd be happy to follow whatever works best for you. i'll try collapsing each day separately so that others can raise a point about a previously addressed blurb without feeling like the discussion on blurbs in the collapsed section has already closed. since {{hidden archive top}} appears to have been designed for use by uninvolved editors to close a discussion, i'll use {{collapse top}} instead. (admittedly, {{collapse top}} also says that it should be used by uninvolved editors, but i can't seem to find a more appropriate template.) to be clear, anyone can feel free to revert my collapsing; i am only doing so to make it easier to determine what may need attention, not to close a discussion.also, Wehwalt, if you think you'd prefer to collapse multiple sections into one box, or have any other ideas you wish to try out, please feel free to restructure my edits in order to do so. by the way, i see a table of contents immediately below the scheduling table, but i don't know if your preferences are set up to not display it.Dank, i generally don't use javascript, so for an embarrassingly long time, i had thought that hatting a conversation simply placed a border around it, suggesting to others that they should avoid continuing the conversation. i had no clue it actually collapsed the enclosed text. continuing that idea, i am guessing that a quick way to expand all collapsed conversations on a page is to turn off javascript and reload the page. dying (talk) 04:59, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- I'm just making suggestions and seeing what is practical. Personally, I'd prefer hatting. Then I only have to scroll down to see what isn't hatted. Wehwalt (talk) 19:59, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, are you thinking of collapsing each day individually or using one or just a few collapseboxes? (If just a few, I might add ticks, say, during the week, and then put the whole week in one collapsebox.) - Dank (push to talk) 19:52, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- What about collapsing? That is easily done and undone. Wehwalt (talk) 19:49, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Has anyone created a button that unhides everything on a page that's been hatted? If not, and if some day I remember that I've seen a comment on one of these pages but I don't remember the precise wording (so I can't search for it), then I would have to pull up edit screens and read wikicode or unhat everything one at a time until I find it. So ... not sure. - Dank (push to talk) 19:35, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Since there's no table of contents, hatting would be easier on the eye when scanning. Wehwalt (talk) 19:29, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
yes, virginia, there is a santa claus
i had two questions about this blurb.
- the article states that "The Sun started reprinting the editorial annually at Christmas after 1924". does this mean that the annual republication only began in 1925?
- was o'hanlon's original letter actually first published in 1897? i know the text of the letter was published in 1897, but i am currently unable to find a publication of the letter itself before 1997, when it appeared on antiques roadshow. i don't know enough about u.s. copyright law to determine if publication of the text of the letter in 1897 means that the letter itself is also in the public domain, so i thought i might raise the issue here.
dying (talk) 23:59, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- I'm working on a rewrite. I'm not happy with the lead. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:44, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Eddie891, you probably know this, but if you make "substantial" changes to a FA it is good etiquette to ping in all of the FAC reviewers. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Gog the Mild, just was referring to revising the lead, not the whole article. Didn't think that was substantial, though if someone disagrees by all means let me know. Eddie891 Talk Work 02:30, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Eddie891, you probably know this, but if you make "substantial" changes to a FA it is good etiquette to ping in all of the FAC reviewers. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- Either way-- if it was created in 1887 and published 1997 or published in 1897 it's in the public domain. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:44, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- but it's not a great scan. Maybe we could just use some seasonal image? Eddie891 Talk Work 00:45, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- I'd prefer for the blurb image to have direct relevance to the article. Sure, we can have a 19th century rendering of Santa Claus but I'd say the letter is more relevant. How about cropping the image of the printed version in the Sun to show a few key lines, I would suggest starting with "Yes, Virginia ..." through "... if there were no Santa Claus". Wehwalt (talk) 02:55, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- How about File:Yes,Virginia,ThereIsASantaClausClipping (cropped).jpg? Eddie891 Talk Work 16:29, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- I put it in but the print is pretty microscopic in thumbnail. Maybe we can find a version of it that would look better. Wehwalt (talk) 00:12, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- How about File:Yes,Virginia,ThereIsASantaClausClipping (cropped).jpg? Eddie891 Talk Work 16:29, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- I'd prefer for the blurb image to have direct relevance to the article. Sure, we can have a 19th century rendering of Santa Claus but I'd say the letter is more relevant. How about cropping the image of the printed version in the Sun to show a few key lines, I would suggest starting with "Yes, Virginia ..." through "... if there were no Santa Claus". Wehwalt (talk) 02:55, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
pope sisinnius
i am admittedly having trouble trying to determine which church the term "universal Church" is referring to. was it the roman catholic church, the latin church, or perhaps another church? also, since "govern the universal Church" is presented as a quote in the article, one could reword this for the blurb by simply mentioning the church explicitly in the blurb instead. dying (talk) 23:59, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- Tweaked, plus copy edited for clarity and to get it under the character limit. Unlimitedlead and dying, what do you think? Gog the Mild (talk) 09:53, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
coventry city 2–2 bristol city (1977)
it seems surprising to me that, back in 1977, news of the results of another game that had started five minutes earlier could reach the pitch so quickly that the players basically didn't do much during the last five minutes of the game. did the news really spread that quickly? a cursory google search brought up a few sources that stated that the game was delayed by fifteen minutes, which makes more sense to me, though i admittedly haven't completed a thorough survey of reliable sources. dying (talk) 23:59, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Dying: good evening - the news spread quickly because it was broadcast on the scoreboards around the ground... and obviously they had heard the latest scores on the radio too - 1977 wasn't exactly the days of Morse code, horse-back messengers and semaphores
. I think the 5 minutes vs 15 minutes thing is one of those stories that's been retold incorrectly so many times that the wrong version has taken hold in some people's imaginations - indeed, I got into a bit of a discussion about this with someone in the Coventry City Facebook group a few months ago. But as far as I can tell, virtually all sources from the actual time in question (for example this: [2]) as well as the Jim Brown book which has a match report in it, the delay in this one was definitely only 5 minutes. What's perhaps added to the confusion is that the later game in 1997, when Coventry once again escaped relegation at Sunderland's expense (it's discussed at the end of the article) really did have a 15-minute delay. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 00:31, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
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andré messager
the blurb currently uses a work from 1897 as an example of the start of messager's successful period. this seems strange to me, since the 1897 work isn't really a good example to illustrate when his successes began. in addition, the sentence before already mentions an earlier ballet, from 1886, as one of his best works. would it be better to simply avoid explicitly mentioning the date range? it seems self-evident from the years presented alongside the titles of the works. below is one possible rewrite.
| whose best-known works are the ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886) and the opéra comique Véronique (1898). His successes span the period from the late 19th century (Les P'tites Michu, 1897) to early 20th century (Monsieur Beaucaire, 1919), including musical comedies with Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps. | |
| → | whose best-known works include the ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886), the opérette Les P'tites Michu (1897), the opéra comique Véronique (1898), and the romantic operetta Monsieur Beaucaire (1919). He also wrote musical comedies for Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps. |
dying (talk) 07:59, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- I note in passing that the original post seems to be conflating what are now considered "his best works" and his "successful period". It may be that they are indeed the same and the blurb needs tweaking. Or that they are not and that the blurb is an accurate statement. I leave this for wiser heads to rule on. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:36, 15 December 2023 (UTC)