Talk:Bridget D'Oyly Carte

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[edit] Role in the opera company

Great start on the article! The previous edit said:

Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, born 25 March 1908, was the granddaughter of Richard D’Oyly Carte and proprietor of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1948 to 1961.

As a topic sentence, I think this is misleading. Although the corporate structure changed in 1961, Miss Carte remained at the head of it — as the article accurately goes on to say. It's usually a good idea to keep topic sentences simple, so I reworded it to say that she was head of the company from 1948 to 1982. The body of the article describes the change that took place in 1961. Marc Shepherd 13:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Quite so. Decidedly better. (En passant, I note you capitalise 'earl'. Is this Wikipedia's house style? Modern usage in England is tending to drop the upper case (also in e.g. prime minister, lord chancellor etc).) Tim riley 17:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I capitalized Earl based on the usage at the Earl of Cranbrook page. I don't know if Wikipedia has an official utterance on the matter, but this is the de facto style in similar articles. Marc Shepherd 21:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)