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[edit] French capitalization
As of this writing, most of the French operetta titles (some of which are red links) in the article are capitalized incorrectly. The rule most often misapplied there is that if the first word in a French title is a determiner, one should capitalize the modified noun. For more information on capitalization of titles in the French language, see Laura Lawless's article "French Capitalization of Titles and Names" on About.com. – Ringbang 16:48, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- Hi, I have written on your Talk page to explain why I have reverted.
- If you look at the About.com page you have quoted you will see that the author points to three different ways of capitalizing French. We are using a system similar to the third type on the page.
- We follow the New Grove Dictionary of Opera style as explained on the Opera Project Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera.
- Hope this is all clear. Regards.
- Kleinzach 17:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Musicals Project
According to both the List of musicals and the Internet Broadway Database the music of Offenbach was used in several musicals. Thus he falls into the Musicals WikiProject along with the opra WikiProject. If the Musicals WikiProject finds that the article needs no mention of the musicals that Offenbach's music was used in, the tag will be removed and the article will remain the same. For now, however, please leave the {{Musicals-project}} tag on this page. Thanks! --omtay38 19:21, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
- That's fine. Offenbach is nevertheless an important composer of opera and operetta, and the editing of articles about him and his works follows specific styles (for French) etc. I hope we won't see any radical changes of the articles just because some of his music was reused in some musicals. Usually information about the use of music in other contexts is included in a special separate section. Regards. - Kleinzach 22:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
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- No problem. Chances are, the article won't see anything to drastic as a result of the musicals project, the tag was added to allow for the project to attain an overall sense of the number of articles related to musical theatre within wikipedia, not necessarily to find articles that would be radically changed to fit a musicals template. Your thoughts are well received. Thanks! --omtay38 01:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
