User talk:Scarabocchio/Munich biennale

Suggestions

1. Please surround the categories with the code <nowiki> . . . </nowiki> so this page doesn't show up in e.g. Category:Opera festivals (or add a colon (":") like so: [[:Category:Opera festivals]].
2. The main part of the article is the table, so making it collapsible doesn't seem useful.
3. What's with the column "WP?" For references? Add them to the titles.
4. What's the significance of the different shading?
5. Use the ISO date representation with the template {{Hs}} for sorting and a normal long date format for display.
6. Try to shorten the section headings; "1988–1994" / "1996 and later"; or omit them.
7. Don't use a spaced mdash; either unspaced or spaced ndash. Use ndashes for ranges ("… 2–3 weeks …", as you did for 1363–1443, where the "c" should be followed by a full stop and a space) and for separations in titles: "Piero – Ende der Nacht".
8. Don't use the ampersand ("&") but the word "and".

Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:45, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for these. In turn ...

1. Categories: Done
2. Not collapsible: Agreed. The stimulus for the article came from a desire to provide references/ links to significant contemporary composers. I only offered the option as I had seen too many tables moved to their own pages and began to worry that embedded tables were not the style
3. WP: I've adjusted this a little, and spelt it out.
4. Shading: it's to mark the different editions, but I wanted to avoid a column of "Edition", and numbering them 1, 2, 3 ...
5. Dates: done.
6. Shorter headers. Tricky .. I saw the "avoid starting the section with the word 'The'" rule, but can't find an alternative that works as well. Giving the years, for instance, doesn't clearly indicate how many festivals were under Henze. I'll carry on thinking about it.
7. mdash. Done.
8. ampersand. Done.

Thanks!! Scarabocchio (talk) 15:07, 21 March 2011 (UTC)