Talk:Arthur Sullivan

WP:DISINFOBOX

Per WP:INFOBOX, "The use of infoboxes is neither required nor prohibited for any article. Whether to include an infobox, which infobox to include, and which parts of the infobox to use, is determined through discussion and consensus among the editors at each individual article." While sports and politician bios can benefit from infoboxes, most articles in liberal arts fields do not: "Infoboxes may be particularly unsuited to liberal arts fields when they repeat information already available in the lead section of the article, are misleading or oversimplify the topic for the reader". I disagree with including an infobox in the articles that you templated because: (1) The box would emphasize unimportant factoids stripped of context and lacking nuance, in competition with the WP:LEAD section, which emphasizes and contextualizes the most important facts. (2) Since the most important points in the article are already discussed in the Lead, or adequately discussed in the body of the article, the box would be redundant. (3) It would take up valuable space at the top of the article and hamper the layout and impact of the Lead. (4) Frequent errors creep into infoboxes, as updates are made to the articles but not reflected in the redundant info in the box, and they tend to draw more vandalism and fancruft than other parts of articles. (5) The infobox template creates a block of code at the top of the edit screen that discourages new editors from editing the article. (6) It would discourage readers from reading the text of the article. (7) IBs distract editors from focusing on the content of the article. Instead of improving the article, they spend time working on this repetitive feature and its coding and formatting. See also WP:DISINFOBOX. In addition throughout the articles within the scope of WikiProject G&S, the consensus has been not to have infoboxes, so adding an infobox would degrade the consistency of design throughout these articles. -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:16, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

The above was added after someone requested an infobox. It can be archived if there is no further discussion. -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:02, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

I've set an archive on the page, so it should fall of naturally fairly soon. - SchroCat (talk) 12:10, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Location of death

"..of heart failure, following an attack of bronchitis, at his flat in London"

Where in London was his flat? Harfarhs (talk) 14:22, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Westminster (SW1 in present-day terms). Tim riley talk 16:12, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

That doesn't surprise me; thank you. I think including the district would improve the article. Harfarhs (talk) 06:45, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

We know the address (a mansion block, long demolished). Do you think it would be helpful to add it? Seems a bit too much detail to me, but happy to add if wanted. Tim riley talk 13:31, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

I don't mind it. It wasn't in the City of London, and we certainly don't want people to think that he lived in Islington! -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:58, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Cheek! We Islingtonians are innocents! Shall tweak the article. Tim riley talk 19:53, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Lead picture

The lead picture has long been

This picture, seen later in the article

was briefly also added to the lead. I think it inappropriate for the lead, as it dates from 1870 – before Sullivan was well known and before the works for which he is well known were composed. In my view restoring the later image to the lead was the correct course. Tim riley talk 11:32, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

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Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert. Among his early works were a ballet, a symphony, a cello concerto and a one-act comic opera, Cox and Box, which is still widely performed. He wrote his first opera with Gilbert, Thespis, in 1871. The impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte engaged Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury, in 1875. Its box-office success led the partners to collaborate on twelve full-length comic operas, known as the Savoy operas, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe, though initially successful in 1891, has rarely been revived. His works include twenty-four operas, eleven major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord". This carte de visite of Sullivan was taken around 1870 by the English photographer H. J. Whitlock.

Photograph credit: H. J. Whitlock; restored by Adam Cuerden

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