Talk:List of members of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Order of the Ordre
First, I think it was a good idea to split this list from the main article. However, I'm not sure the chronological order of this list is helpful to the reader. I suggest a sortable table along the lines of: which renders as:

The one thing I'm not sure about in this scheme is in which natural order (the table first appears before a sort button is pressed) the table should be written. Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:10, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed table
There hasn't been any opposition to the idea of a table, so, based on the idea above, I came up with this:

Table now at List of members of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Comments
I left out the two duplicate names (Marcel Marceau & Mark Podwal) as every Commandeur & Officier has to have a lower rank for five years.

I'm not particularly keen on the colour coding, especially the bronze.

Any comments before I put this table on the article page? Michael Bednarek (talk) 08:36, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I've changed the bronze colour to the one used in medal tables (see: MedalBronze), and I think it's a bit better. I'm going to transfer this table tomorrow to the article page. Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:10, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Now moved. Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:55, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

From the original page
These names were, correctly, dropped when the list got transferred from the main article Ordre des Arts et des Lettres to this satellite article. However, instead of hiding it as comments in the Wiki markup of the List article, I think it should be presented here on the talk page so people may feel encouraged to add the necessary details for individuals and add to the list.

Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:55, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * These members must be categorised and referenced before listing:
 * John Coolidge Adams
 * Barry Jean Ancelet
 * Paul Anka
 * Lisa Appignanesi
 * Robyn Archer
 * Juan Esteban Aristizábal
 * Claudio Arrau
 * Paul Auster
 * Cecilia Bartoli
 * David Bowie
 * Art Buchwald
 * Anthony Burgess
 * Louis Cha
 * Lars Saabye Christensen
 * William Lincoln Christie
 * Michael Cimino
 * John O'Conor
 * Clotilde Courau
 * Tony Curtis
 * Mahmoud Darwish
 * Elfi von Dassanowsky
 * John F. Deane
 * Celine Dion
 * Leonardo DiCaprio
 * Ralph Waldo Ellison
 * Péter Esterházy
 * Ella Fitzgerald
 * William Faulkner
 * Lawrence Ferlinghetti
 * Timothy Findley
 * Sivaji Ganesan
 * Gamal Al-Ghitani
 * Allen Ginsberg
 * Han Shaogong
 * Michael Haneke
 * Hal Hartley
 * Patricia Highsmith
 * Rustam Ibragimbekov
 * Kazuo Ishiguro
 * Shah Rukh Khan
 * Jin Yong
 * Gwyneth Jones
 * Maroussia Klimova
 * M. Balamurali Krishna
 * Shiro Kuramata
 * Emir Kusturica
 * Onat Kutlar
 * Phyllis Lambert
 * Lee Byung-Hun
 * Elizabeth LeCompte
 * Gong Li
 * Neville Marriner
 * Karita Mattila
 * John McGahern
 * Shigeru Miyamoto
 * Hayao Miyazaki
 * Peter Molyneux
 * Toni Morrison
 * Jessye Norman
 * Rodolfo Parada
 * Gordon Parks
 * Oscar Peterson
 * Trevor Pinnock
 * Jackson Pollock
 * Axelle Red
 * Robert Redford
 * Diana Ross
 * Salman Rushdie
 * Dariush Safvat
 * John Ralston Saul
 * Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
 * Mrinal Sen
 * Bo&
 * Memphis Slim
 * Frederica von Stade
 * Danielle Steel
 * Sharon Stone
 * Meryl Streep
 * Han Shaogong
 * Supertramp
 * Uma Thurman
 * Vangelis
 * Kenneth R. Weinstein
 * Bruce Willis
 * Mike Zwerin

I managed to screw this up
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Quentin Blake
I notice that while the table only lists the above as chevalier 2004, his biographic entry says he was promoted to officier in 2007. I am not qualified to edit this into the table myself.Rupert Butler (talk)