Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Giants2008 20:10, 18 June 2012.

Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature

 * Nominator(s): BencherliteTalk 01:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

A arms dealer endowing a university professorship in literature in honour of a war hero? A French politician trying to fix the election? Not stories you find every week in your university newspaper, I'm sure. "I am nominating this for featured list because..." it's about time I brought something here, after a two-year gap doing other things, and I think this now fits ths bill. In fact this is something I nearly finished polishing up in 2010, around the time that I was doing other Oxford University professorship lists such as Laudian Professor of Arabic (which has a much longer history, hence the reason that list is much longer), so I thought I'd finish it and give it a twirl to see what people thought. Thoughts / comments welcome. ''Zut alors! Bonne chance, mes amis! C'est tout. Au revoir et joyeux Noel'' (ok, I'm really running out of my French lesson memories now)... BencherliteTalk 01:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Image review. No complaints.  Good raise  11:48, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. Good work, as always.  Good raise  11:48, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Support Dana boomer (talk) 23:49, 31 May 2012 (UTC) Comments Just a couple of minor comments on prose. Referencing and the sole image look good. Dana boomer (talk) 15:37, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Support why not. As usual, not too dreary from my darker blue colleague. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:01, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * History, "government to agree a common position with the University" - I think there might be something missing here...
 * History, "ambassador to agree him with the representative" - again, grammatically off.


 * Thanks for stopping by. I've rewritten that little section, which was getting a little complicated. Hopefully it fits the bill. BencherliteTalk 15:54, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I actually like the original version better. Nice long sentences are so rare on Wikipedia. I presume Dana's irritation with the passage stems from the use of the transitive form of agree, which I was so delighted to learn existed when I looked it up while reviewing this list.  Good raise  16:36, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Rock, meet hard place! I quite liked the second phrase that Dana boomer picked up on, but it was an unfortunate casualty of my need to rewrite the first. C'est la vie. BencherliteTalk 16:50, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I like the new version, but I won't scream (or revoke my support) if you change it back. Goodraise, that is exactly what I was objecting to - and the wording was so foreign to me that I didn't even think to look it up! After reading the wiktionary page, this appears to be a UK/Ireland form (I can definitely state that I have never seen it in writing in the US!). Although technically correct, I would think that the usage of a transitive form of "agree" would be foreign to so many readers as to make it better to use something like the wording currently in the article. YMMV Dana boomer (talk) 23:49, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Gah, it's been a while since I faced the use of the word "transitive" in a discussion, whether in real life or here (if there's a difference). I'll stick with what's there now, I think, and thanks for your review and support.  Bon soir, tout le monde. BencherliteTalk 00:06, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
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