User talk:Baumgaertner

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punctuation in E.C. Osondu

You're right that there's something not quite right about the following sentence: 'He is the winner of the 2009 Caine Prize, for which he was a finalist in 2007, for his story "Waiting."' Removing the commas, however, changes the meaning of the sentence. He won the 2009 prize for "Waiting"; the commas separate the relative clause from the rest of the sentence, and if they're removed, it says that he was a finalist in 2007 for "Waiting." For some reason, I can't seem to find a way to make this statement clearly: He was a finalist in 2007 for some other story, but he finally won in 2009 for "Waiting." Please have a go at it. Cynwolfe (talk) 23:31, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, absolutely, please rewrite it. Always glad to find other people who care about commas. I don't know what story got him nominated in 2007, but it wouldn't be the same one; the competition website may have it archived, but I'm traveling right now and my time online is limited. I dashed that little article off after seeing the story in The Guardian as I was packing; Osondu had been red-linked previously in the List of Nigerian writers. Cynwolfe (talk) 10:53, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nadia Boulanger - Removal of US from intro

Hi there - I saw you removed the reference to her specific influence on the US in the intro. While I'm not hugely bothered as this is only the lead, I do think that there's an argument to be made that her influence on Americans exceeded that in other countries (vide the carefully-named American Conservatory). Her influence on the French and Germans, for example, was much less. What do you think? pgbrown (talk) 07:27, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes there does seem to be many US composers who went to study with her. Maybe that should made into a sub topic about her students. If you wanted to put the note back into the lead though I certainly would not go and change it again. Baumgaertner (talk) 01:19, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've reworded the lead for clarity, see what you think? I'm not sure whether we need a sub-section dealing with her students, as there's already a List of students of Nadia Boulanger and some key students are already mentioned in the main article. By all means take a crack at it if you'd like, though. pgbrown (talk) 18:01, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]