Talk:Jean-Pierre Rampal

message: The article claims that Rampal was principal flute of the Paris Opera.  There seems to be some doubt about this.  In his autobiography, Rampal definitely describes playing at the Opera in Paris.  But he does not specially say he was principal and at one point mentions being ready to play second in Der Rosenkavalier and being suddenly called upon to sight-read first because of illness.    Does anyone know what the basis for the claim that Rampal was principal? Rcneville 04:09, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Principal flute of the Paris Opera?

message: I'm struck by the lack of a photo of Rampal in the article, other than that shown on the cover of his autobiography; can no "headshot" of him be found that could be included without committing a violation of copyright? Vivliothykarios 18:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We've been waiting for you to come up with one. :-) But seriously, there are no doubt photos out there that could be donated, if only we got the right person's attention. Students of his perhaps? Makes me wish I'd taken photos the couple of times I saw him in concert... Stan 02:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Incidentally, WP's rules don't allow album covers to be used as cheap photo substitutes. Stan 16:52, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Incidentally, WP's rules about uploading images suck. --AVM (talk) 19:40, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:The Art of Jean-Pierre Rampal.jpg

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Jean-Pierre Rampal book.jpg

message: During my copy-edit, I excised a fair amount of text that wasn't encyclopedic.  Too much of this article read, and still reads, like an editorial review of Rampal's work, rather than a neutral and dispassionate encyclopedia article.  // ⌘macwhiz (talk) 19:41, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice work. Graham87 04:37, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

text: Nope, flautist is an exceptable alternative and is most common in British English. Graham87 01:41, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

text: Unquestionably acceptable. Flautist isn't even exceptional. Yes of course ist is an English suffix, but only thanks to French, Latin, and, even earlier, Greek. In English we see it attached to latinate bound bases, thus atheist, baptist, evangelist, hedonist, papist, pugilist, sophist, ventriloquist. But even if we didn't, and if instead flautist were utterly unique, so what? From just one website: 1, 2, 3, 4. Flautist (without italics or scare quotes) is clearly in use within English by literate, adult users of L1 English; thus it's a regular English word, no matter how much you might happen to dislike it. -- Hoary (talk) 02:55, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: While flautist is acceptable, flutist is definitely more common. It is also closer to what he called himself (flûtiste). It is a recorded fact that some flutists prefer not to be flauted for being a flawtist.  --Lambiam 07:51, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I'm a Brit and I never heard of a flutist. Did he self-identify as a flautist or a flutist? I would point out that his Wikipedia's category is :Category:French classical flautists which is a subcategory of :Category:Classical flautists by nationality, so anyone determined to persue this would need to start there.--Shantavira|feed me 14:27, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

text: Well, for the purposes of this article, this really comes down to an WP:ENGVAR determination. One of the handy things about that piece of the MoS is that has a pseudo-hierarchy/enumeration of factors to test the options against.  Here I would say both that the MOS:COMMONALITY argument is not strong enough to overwhelm either option, and likewise there are no strong MOS:TIES, considering the article subject is connected first and foremost with the francophone sphere.  That leaves us with MOS:RETAIN, which states, in essence, that at this point the wrangling over the options is not justified by the difference in their benefit, and we should merely default to any well-established stable version which has persisted for a significant amount of time and up until any dispute(s) about the options--that is to say, just an import of the the more general WP:STYLEVAR recommendation, adapted to this particular context. SnowRise let's rap 09:06, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Copy-edit

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