Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Rayner

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The result was: promoted by Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 12:58, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Michael Rayner[edit]

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... that Michael Rayner worked in his family's motor car business before starring in Gilbert and Sullivan roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Frans Goedhart

Created by Ssilvers (talk). Nominated by Pgallert (talk) at 13:21, 23 July 2015 (UTC).

Article new enough, long enough, and fully referenced; hook short enough, interesting enough, and cited to online sources. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 14:32, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Forgetting either green or grey checkmark? George Ho (talk) 18:06, 25 July 2015 (UTC) Ian Rose

Done. cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 21:28, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it sounds like he starred in G&S roles after he left D'Oyly, if I'm not mistaken. Could you clarify? ~ Rob^Talk 17:28, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

User:BU Rob13, Rayner is most famous for starring at the principal lyric baritone with the D'Oyly Carte continuously for 9 years. (D'Oyly Carte performed 48 weeks per year, 8 shows per week). After he left the company, he performed in more G&S roles and in other things, but his most famous period was when he was starring with the D'Oyly Carte. Does that answer your question? -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:22, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

@Ssilvers: Kind of. It appears D'Oyly was a G&S company, which I had thought was separate based on the wording of this article. My concern was whether the statement that he starred in G&S roles with D'Oyly is actually supported in the article. Upon further examination, the sources support it, but the wording doesn't, as the article never comes out and says that D'Oyly staged G&S productions. Could you add that to the article where you think it would work best? With that very minor change, this will be good to go. Great work with this article by the way; it's nice to see something related to theatre come through here! ~ Rob^Talk 18:33, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

User:BU Rob13, I added this clarification. Good to go? -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:13, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes, good to go. Assuming good faith on paywalled source. ~ Rob^Talk 23:50, 6 August 2015 (UTC)