Talk:Pleyel et Cie

"Cie" / "Company"
"Pleyel et Cie ("Pleyel and Company")...": "Cie" doesn't mean "company". --Siliciustheone (talk) 09:19, 7 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes. The company is often referred to simply as "Pleyel". Right now, Pleyel redirects to Ignaz Pleyel, but that is not set in stone. Pleyel could redirect here or this article could be moved to Pleyel. Binksternet (talk) 14:11, 7 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, "Cie" does mean "Company", cf. cie. &mdash; MFH:Talk 02:14, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Passive voice/other edits
For CorinneSD: I do understand the nature of academic prose (having spent my share of time in academia), but I must respectfully disagree that the version several edits back was better. IMHO, the passive voice portions read very awkwardly, whereas active voice reads much more clearly, without any compromise in academic standards. In addition, with apologies for sounding self-serving, my previous edits tightened the prose (though not completely, as I now see from another look) and properly moved in-house company citations to external links. On the last point, whilst on the subject of academics, a company's own webpage and related internal pages are not objective, third-party sources in a wikipedia article where that company has a vested interest, so that it was necessary to place those 'references' as external links. Your reversion unwittingly removed those edits, as well as other additions like the Eleanor Beardsley article that had nothing to do with the earlier issues of grammar.

I certainly don't want this to turn into an edit war, as we most probably both have better ways of spending our time. I wish to explain that I did not make my edits and additions beyond the grammar edits lightly, or with any malice aforethought. Thanks for reading, DJRafe (talk) 07:18, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

"Red spruce"?
According to a Wikipedia article, "Picea rubens, commonly known as red spruce, is a species of spruce native to eastern North America, ... [etc.]" No mention of its growing in Italy. Autodidact1 (talk) 22:39, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Incomplete and incomprehensible last phrase.
The article ends in a strange phrase, "Another one of which was a newer version of a Pleyel piano." I don't know what the author intended to say. &mdash; MFH:Talk 02:11, 14 February 2019 (UTC)