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Fixed. Masato.harada (talk) 08:28, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

April 2026

Your edit to Erotikon (1929 film) has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. Plot descriptions cannot be copied from your sources, including official sources and IMDb, unless these can be verified to be public domain or licensed compatibly with Wikipedia. They must be written in original language to comply with Wikipedia's copyright policy. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:04, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I've rewritten it. Masato.harada (talk) 08:27, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

David Kynaston

Hi Masato.harada. Thanks for your comment about the new material I added to the lead on the David Kynaston page. I did so because an editor had added a box asking for a lead that more fully covered the content on the page. I've taken your comment on board and had another go at an extended lead. I'd be interested to hear if you think what I've written is OK. All the best. Dropbear2 (talk) 01:10, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi there. Personally, I think it looks fine now - summarises the key points in the article, as per MOS:LEAD. Perhaps add 'The first volume, Austerity Britain, was named "Book of the Decade" '? A minor quibble: I think "in which he is chronicling" would read better as "which chronicle", but I'll leave that to you. If you're working on improving the article, the body could use some expansion, which ony really discusses 4 of his 30 books. This could then be reflected in the lead. Good luck! Masato.harada (talk) 08:37, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I've made the changes you suggested, which made sense. Good luck with your edits too! All the best. Dropbear2 (talk) 04:00, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

comma

The comma at you reverted is correct. See innumerable FAs and GAs, e.g. Clarence 13X, Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet, Charles I of Hungary, Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Please reinstate it. Spicemix (talk) 18:43, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

@Spicemix, I can come up with a similar list of FAs which do not have a comma. In fact, every one that I picked entirely at random did not have one: Ian Fleming, Gioachino Rossini, Charles Darwin, Kenneth Horne, Gustav Mahler. It looks like there is no standard, even for FAs. The comma makes no sense because if the parenthesised section is removed, the sentence's punctuation should still be correct. However, "Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, was an English actor, film director and producer." has an unnecessary comma after 'Attenborough'. You might want to enquire at the help desk - there seems to be an inconsistency in the FAs. Masato.harada (talk) 06:21, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

The principal is that once a parenthetical comma has been opened it should be closed. See e.g.MOS:GEOCOMMA, MOS:DATECOMMA. It is a formal matter, not strictly functional. How can one cite "necessity" in all manner of punctuation matters? The discrete use of hyphens, endashes and emdashes? A sloppy writer can select any and intelligibilty will still be there. Is there any need to close a bracket (in this case, for example? Spicemix (talk) 07:19, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

@Spicemix, on further consideration, I've changed my mind and restored it. Thanks. Masato.harada (talk) 15:15, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Use (or not) of 'lang' template

I am writing an article about a French actress who appeared in several films and plays which are not well known in the anglosphere and do not have WP articles nor common English translations, so I would like to understand whether to use the 'lang' template for their titles, or to use simple italics. The instructions for Template:Lang explain the use of the template for a simple piece of foreign-language text or phrase, such as "Je suis française". However, should the template also be used for the original foreign language title of a work? For example, I see the articles for La Revue Nègre, Les Misérables and Les Liaisons dangereuses do not use it. Is this because they are all best known by their foreign-language names? The article for Children of Paradise uses the template in the opening sentence ("French: Les Enfants du Paradis"). Masato.harada (talk) 13:13, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

There are three parts of the MOS which say yes:

• MOS:FOREIGNITALIC: The {{lang}} template and its variants support all ISO 639 language codes, correctly identifying the language and automatically italicizing for you. Please use these templates rather than manually italicizing non-English material.
• MOS:FOREIGNTITLE: Non-English titles should be wrapped in the {{lang}} template with the proper ISO language code (the shortest available for the language or dialect in question), e.g.: {{lang|fr|Les Liaisons dangereuses}}. [...] Since 2017, the template automatically italicizes non-English material in a Latin script [...]
• MOS:OTHERLANG: Non-English text should be tagged as such, typically with a template like {{lang}}, except in headings. The templates mark the text language and script with an ISO 639-conformant IETF language tag, so that speech synthesizers can correctly read the text aloud. [...] It is usually unnecessary to specify italics in addition to the {{lang}} or {{langx}} templates, which italicize text using the Latin alphabet by default. If text should not be italicized, such as the names of places or people, the parameter |italic=unset may be added.

If editors aren't using the template, it's probably just due to lack of awareness of why/how. In your case it's ideal to use it.

(I don't know why Les Liaisons dangereuses doesn't use the template. It's even used as an example in the MOS.) Blepbob (talk) 16:13, 11 May 2026 (UTC)