vague point would it help to rephrase the first sentence thus biography offenbach's father isaac juda eberst born october in offenbach am main took the name offenbach in when he was already in deutz where he had moved in yon jean claude jacques offenbach editions gallimard paris the alternative would appear to be a long explanation of the napoleonic edict thank you that sounds good although i would prefer a link to an explanatory article or some footnote but maybe that's just me one more thing the italics around his father's name and the bolding of offenbach ought to be dropped play titles confusingly in 'other stage works' three of the play titles with a wikipedia link are no longer spelled the same case as given in the articles about the plays can you clarify there are no red links in that section zach there aren't any red links because the three plays in question are piped links to their english titles cg p b u m's observation that the french titles in these articles uses different capitalisation is correct we know that the most widely used style of french title capitalisation which is a bit idosyncratic and not cosnsistently applied in french writing is not used in the opera or classical music projects on wikipedia where a strict but easily understood system is used other projects are not so strict that's why those articles on the plays use a different spelling ah missed that shouldn't we be using the english titles after all the tales of hoffmann appears just below zach wouldn't that make for an awkward list as we don't have english titles for all these plays perhaps but then what is the least bad solution my primary editing instinct tells me that consistency should come first at least within the article zach but at the cost of consistency within the paragraph shrug whatever no biggie the list itself is a useful improvement to the article in whichever language the titles are listed yes it's not a major thing from wikipedia manual of style france french related works of art it seemed that only classical music and opera had opted out of l acad mie fran aise into 'grove' no problem also visual arts but as we have often remarked this is a classic 'no win' situation zach