User talk:Gerda Arendt

today

my story

The pianist
Charles Wadsworth
established series
of chamber music concerts,
at the Festival dei Due Mondi
and the Spoleto Festival USA,
announcing program and performers
at the concerts.
watch playing
5 June 2025
(from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories)

memory and music

2025 talk

story · music · places

Schubert: Ave Maria Möge die Straße uns zusammenführen Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29 Von guten Mächten Le Laudi Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria La Partida Von Gott kömmt mir ein Freudenschein Segne, Vater, diese Gaben For the beauty of the earth

We moved from 2024 to 2025, with new calendar pictures and new music. The topic of Bach's chorale cantatas will keep me busy until 25 March, and then I want to focus on performances more generally, in history and in my experience. You can follow my daily stories, {{User Gerda Arendt/Top}}, often with an image and something to listen to: let's stay inspired and connected. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing efforts regard locations that played a role in my life, recent deaths, music heard and sung, composers, gardens. Watch my user page for articles, done in collaboration. Compare 2024 for the amazing number of users who began and expanded articles. Thanks also to reviewers, and I do plan to review more and write less, and in writing, focus more on quality than the little daily article.

2025 calender pics and musical events begin here, and the 2025 diary of my own pictures of places, songs, food, flowers is here, - just watch those lists if you are interested.

My talk goes like this: on top there's the "story" related to the day. Below are three or more boxes, often one for people remembered and others for musical experiences, performing or listening. In these boxes, topics related to the top story and topics featured on the Main page appear bold. Right here you see the image of the month with songs of the month, typically related to friends who gave them to me, on their birthdays or when meeting them. I archive from time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

call for collaboration

Isues where I need help, such as reviews:

Adolphe Adam: what do others think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

From 2024

Your GA nomination of Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8

The article Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8 and Talk:Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben, BWV 8/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Aza24 -- Aza24 (talk) 00:24, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aza24, thank you for the thorough review. I understand that in order to make Bach's chorale cantatas a good topic, this cantata - as part of it - has to be a good article, and I am willing to put work into it to make it so. However, right now I'm working simultaneously on several others with the same goal, and they require less work. I see me getting to serious changes for BWV 8 after the others, which will be in February. (The only one written later, BWV 1, is already a FA.) I'll make small changes now, perhaps today, but will then have to ask if the nom should remain open for longer or be closed and started over when I'm ready. Y'all: any help with this one and the others - making changes or reviewing - is welcome, see above, #calling for collaboration. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:06, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Graham87

Did you read Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-12-24/Opinion? With one of your photos: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost. I've already sent him encouraging words. Grimes2 (talk) 11:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had no time, thank you for pointing at it. I don't see a photo though. - Ah, in the overview, playing Haydn on Welte-Mignon piano --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:07, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2025

	Have a happy New Year filled with light!
	Hi Gerda Arendt, Best wishes that the new year brings peace, good health and happiness. Thank you for what you do for the encyclopedia and this community. And a special thanks for sharing music and your lovely photos with me throughout the year. Image: New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji, Utagawa Hiroshige, woodcut, 1857 Netherzone (talk) 15:07, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, still working on the last cantata for 2024, - will probably come over tomorrow with a photo or more tomorrow, to continue sharing. You can probably guess that the new calendar pics will be at User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2025--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:23, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks in 2024

		The Special Barnstar
		Happy New Year, Gerda Arendt! In 2024, other editors thanked you 1604 times using the thanks tool on the English Wikipedia. This made you the #3 most thanked Wikipedian in 2024. You were also the #2 most thankful Wikipedian in 2024, having used the thanks tool 2777 times. Congratulations and, well, thank you for all that you do for Wikipedia. Here's to 2025! Mz7 (talk) 19:23, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Giving is better than receiving. Happy New Year. Grimes2 (talk) 20:56, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, great helper all around, for example the latest RD for which I had no time due to real life! - I wonder about the ratio of (lazy) click-thanks to real typed thank-you notes, and hope that I can offer more of the latter kind. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg)

The article Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg) for comments about the article, and Talk:Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:01, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg) - AirshipJungleman29 - 3 Jan
Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113 - Kyle Peake - 11 Jan
Alexander Goehr - simongraham - 19 Jan
Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 - Sammi Brie - 27 Jan
Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139 · Michael Aurel · 15 Feb
Mirella Freni - MSincccc - 24 Mar
Jahrhundertring - MSincccc - 2 Apr
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 - LastJabberwocky - 2 Apr
Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111 - Jens Lallensack - 9 Apr
Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122 - Vacant0 - 10 Apr
Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133 - Dracophyllum - 10 Apr
Easter Oratorio - 750h+ - 13 Apr
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 - simongraham - 8 May

ITN recognition for Wilhelm Brückner (luthier)

On 4 January 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Wilhelm Brückner (luthier), which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Tone 13:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles of people who recently died have been a focus from 2019. in 2025, they have been a daily topic, both on the Main page were Helmut Schlesinger appeared from 31 January until 5 January, but also in the daily little articles, with the one exception of a Sunday. Not all of them made it to Main page appearance, but were at least improved. Storye book is great in finding images, MONTENSEM in polishing composers' articles, Thriley in translating to begin articles for people with red links, Grimes2 all around helpful in finding and exploiting references, and several excellent in posting (just look belpw). Anybody can review!

Wilhelm Brückner (luthier) - Tone 4 Jan
Dada Masilo - Masem - 5 Jan
Loretta Di Franco - Masem - 5 Jan
Tom Johnson - Spencer - 6 Jan
Jean-Michel Defaye - Step hen - 8 Jan
Hans Dieter Beck - PFHLai - 11 Jan
Ayla Erduran - PFHLai - 12 Jan
Otto Schenk - Spencer - 14 Jan
Walter Deutsch — Bagumba (talk) - 17 Jan
Elgar Howarth - PFHLai - 19 Jan
Claire van Kampen - Amakuru - 21 Jan
André Soltner - robertsky - 25 Jan
Gabriel Yacoub - Stephen - 28 Jan
Kazuyoshi Akiyama - PFHLai - 1 Feb
Horst Janson - Amakuru - 4 Feb
İlhan Usmanbaş - Stephen - 6 Feb
Helga de Alvear - Schwede 66 - 8 Feb
Paul Plishka - Schwede66 - 10 Feb
Hans-Peter Lehmann - Schwede66 - 12 Feb
Edith Mathis - Spencer - 13 Feb
Maria Tipo - Stephen - 17 Feb
Sigrid Metz-Göckel - Stephen - 18 Feb
Vladimír Válek - PFHLai - 23 Feb
Ilkka Kuusisto - robertsky - 23 Feb
Ricardo Kanji - Stephen - 27 Feb
Simon Lindley - PFHLai - 2 Mar
Ferenc Rados - Stephen - 4 Mar
Edesio Alejandro - Stephen - 10 Mar
Jean-Louis Pichon - Sam Walton - 12 Mar
Sofia Gubaidulina - PFHLai - 15 Mar
Hans Peter Korff - Bagumba - 18 Mar
Manfred Schukowski - Spencer - 20 Mar
Alan Cuckston - Schwede66 - 29 Mar
Ray Barra - Spencer - 31 Mar
Hans-Josef Klauck - Schwede66 - 2 Apr
Barbara Frischmuth - Black Kite - 6 Apr
Enrique Bátiz - Black Kite - 6 Apr
Peter Stuhlmacher - Schwede66 - 11 Apr
Roberto De Simone - PFHLai - 12 Apr
Roberto Cani - Schwede66 - 16 Apr
Peter Seiffert - Spencer - 16 Apr
Werner Thissen - PFHLai - 22 Apr
Peter Ablinger - xaosflux ^Talk 24 Apr
Waltraut Haas - Spencer - 30 Apr
Kari Løvaas - Stephen - 3 May
Charles Beare - Stephen - 3 May
Christfried Schmidt - Schwede66 - 6 May
Margot Friedländer - Schwede66 - 10 May
May Abrahamse - Spencer - 11 May
Vakhtang Machavariani - robertsky - 13 May
Matthew Best - Spencer - 16 May
Alena Veselá - Stephen - 18 May
Alla Osipenko - Stephen - 19 May
Luigi Alva - Stephen - 21 May
Jadwiga Rappé - Spencer - 23 May
Yuri Vladimirov - Schwede66 - 25 May
Yury Grigorovich - Spencer - 26 May
Marthe Cohn - Schwede66 - 28 May
Per Nørgård - Schwede66 - 3 Jun
Susann McDonald - Schwede66 - 3 Jun
Charles Wadsworth - Tone - 4 Jun

In The News Barnstar

		The In The News Barnstar
		Thank you for your contributions to In the news and our collaborations. The number of RD contributions are 354 starting in 2017. Grimes2 (talk) 12:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I am actually only interested in a small aspect of the section, the Recent deaths, but - with great help by you and others - achieved that there was no day in 2025 without one on the Main page, - right now there are two. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DtoQ Award

		The Deletion to Quality Award
		For your contributions to bring Magdalena Hinterdobler (prior candidate for deletion at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magdalena Hinterdobler) to Good Article status, I hereby present you The Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! 1989 (talk) 15:34, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I like that one! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Hans Dieter Beck

On 14 February 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hans Dieter Beck, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hans Dieter Beck (pictured), a co-head of the publisher C. H. Beck, rode a bicycle to work until he was 92? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hans Dieter Beck. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hans Dieter Beck), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Laun chba ller 00:02, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hans Dieter Beck - 14 Feb
Kazuyoshi Akiyama,
Alexander Goehr - 7 Mar
Simon Neal (baritone) - 16 Mar
Ana María Iriarte - 17 Mar
Tout est lumière - 7 Apr
Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina) - 24 Apr
Barbara Frischmuth - 5 May
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 - 8 May

7 March 2025, Ravel’s 150th anniversary

Hi! I’ve seen you around a couple of times from some discussions that you have had with others and noticed that you love classical music! I’d thought that I would share with you my love for Maurice Ravel (my number one favorite composer for several years). I listened to several concerts this year dedicated to his 150th anniversary: pieces included La valse, Boléro, Introduction and Allegro, etc., all very wonderful pieces. T^{fess up?}_{or down?} 01:01, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I thought of it and brought him to the main page at least by mentioning his name. I will write my story about one of his pieces, Trois Chansons (Ravel), created on 7 March 2019. (I had meant to use the Introduction and Allegro, in which I was involved a bit in 2011.) I want to create a new article on the occasion, Tout est lumière. Nice to meet you and your love! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you meet me in a discussion from Talk:Maurice Ravel/Archive 1? - My story:

Maurice Ravel
wrote texts and music for
Trois Chansons,
his only composition for choir a cappella,
in response to the outbreak
of World War I.
watch with score
3 April 2019

I fondly remember ballet, opera and concert including an opera whose 100th birthday is coming up soon! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:54, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for responding! Trois Chansons? I’ll need to check that out, haha. And I’ve seen you around on user talk pages sharing some works of music, etc., so that was how I found out about you. Very sweet of you! (I was into Wikipedia editing for only 5-6 years so I’m a little bit of a newbie.) T^{fess up?}_{or down?} 14:22, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead, check out. When I came across the Trois Chansons I was intrigued by his response to war: write something light, in your tradition, strengthening identity. I always list the articles I look at on my user page, - feel free to add and correct. - Below: almost too much of a good thing, a conductor and five other composers to be celeebrated ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:44, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Alexander Goehr

On 7 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alexander Goehr, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester, described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alexander Goehr. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Alexander Goehr), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 12:05, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

incoming gift~

	A lotus for you
	Enjoy the lotus n have a good day~ bdanh 12:11, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for a surprise! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:14, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kürten 2025

Hey Gerda, the Stockhausen Courses are happening again this summer. It's where Jerry and I formed our friendship. I know it's a schlep for you, but it's closer than it is for me from NYC! I'll be giving a lecture, and Bergisches Land is beautiful! Hope you can come! Trumpetrep (talk) 22:31, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds interesting, but I would understand nothing, - amateur choir singer that I am. Jerry and I formed our friendship here, when he helped me with my first steps and corrected a fact form a source, - the source was wrong. I went to a performance of Originale in Berlin thinking of him, and we chatted. Then William Waterhouse. - Can anybody attend? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the Courses are open to all. Trumpetrep (talk) 20:11, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Tout est lumière

On 7 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tout est lumière, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Tout est lumière, a setting by Maurice Ravel for soprano, choir and orchestra of a poem by Victor Hugo, earned Ravel a place in the second round of the 1901 Prix de Rome? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tout est lumière. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tout est lumière), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for posting artistic items on my talk page. I can't always reply to them but appreciate your doing this. Best wishes, Opus33 (talk) 02:29, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I concur with Opus33, by the way. I don't spend as much time here as I did years ago, but I always enjoy looking/listening - thank you Gerda. Antandrus (talk) 02:44, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina)

On 24 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sofia Gubaidulina combined the Passion narrative according to John with texts from the Book of Revelation when she composed her 2000 Johannes-Passion? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

– 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 00:03, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

26 April

in memory of Pope Francis:

26 April · service

Christus ist erstanden! O tönt Wahrer Gott, wir glauben dir Ist das der Leib, Herr Jesu Christ Nun freue dich, du Christenheit Freu dich, erlöste Christenheit · 6 November 2016 Laudato si'

in memoriam

Laudato si' Pope Francis Peter Ablinger Werner Thissen · Brian Boulton Jerome Kohl and others who have just given up

17 November 2024 · service

São Francisco das Chagas, Bacabal Nun danket all und bringet Ehr blessing song

ITN recognition for Charles Beare

On 3 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Charles Beare, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 23:04, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Kari Løvaas

On 3 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Kari Løvaas, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 23:25, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Christfried Schmidt

On 6 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Christfried Schmidt, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede 66 19:18, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62

The article Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 for comments about the article, and Talk:Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 21:21, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Record user page

You now have the most edited user page on Wikipedia (excluding subpages). Renerpho (talk) 00:29, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

please explain --Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:54, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: This page lists the most edited pages on the English Wikipedia. With 20,839 edits, your user page User:Gerda Arendt is currently the most edited user page that is not a sub page (like User:AmandaNP/UAA/Time) or a redirect. You broke that record, previously held by User:Orenburg1, a while back, during the week from 9-16 August, 2023. However, I only now got around to updating the list on WP:Wikipedia records, which is when I noticed the change. Renerpho (talk) 09:15, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder how I "broke a record" that was at 18,xxx, making only a few edits each day and now at 20.xxx - however, I don't care much about records anyway. I'm happy that 99% of edits are article-related. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:23, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Margot Friedländer

On 10 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Margot Friedländer, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede 66 23:21, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for May Abrahamse

On 11 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article May Abrahamse, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 04:51, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Vakhtang Machavariani

On 13 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Vakhtang Machavariani, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. – robertsky (talk) 17:14, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Matthew Best (conductor)

On 16 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Matthew Best (conductor), which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 03:58, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Alena Veselá

On 18 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Alena Veselá, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 03:27, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Alla Osipenko

On 19 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Alla Osipenko, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 00:56, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sandwich text

Your stories are hard to read. Text is sandwiched on the left side of the picture. Example Alla Osipenko. Grimes 2 11:26, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sandwiched means between two pictures, there's only one in the article. Or do you mean the Story. I can't help that looking different for different user definitions of image upright, - for me, there's no text left of the image. Should I use fixed pixels, perhaps? Which would be hard because I always tried to avoid that, and the framing template doesn't offer it, at present. How is this for you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alla Osipenko,
a prima ballerina of the Kirov Ballet
in Leningrad from 1954
alongside Rudolf Nureyev,
danced with the
Yacobson Ballet and the Eifman Ballet
and taught at Hartford Ballet Company
and (back) in Saint Petersburg.
watch (1960)
19 May 2025

This version of your story is better. Thanks. Grimes 2 12:07, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

adopted --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:16, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	I've seen you spreading kindness everywhere...have a wonderful day :) it's lio! \| talk \| work 11:29, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, - I try. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:37, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Luigi Alva

On 21 May 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Luigi Alva, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 04:13, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Jadwiga Rappé

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ITN recognition for Yuri Vladimirov

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ITN recognition for Yury Grigorovich

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ITN recognition for Marthe Cohn

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Women in Red June 2025

New: LGBTQ+ | Alphabet run K & L
Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

--Lajmmoore (talk 06:03, 29 May 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Signpost?

I was thinking, why not structure, compose, and anthologize your "stories" and updates in such a way that it is written as a column for The Signpost? It would need to be current and topical, but I think it would be super interesting, and could give needed insight into how one person (you) approaches content creation on a topic that is both personal, professional, educational and entertaining. I think such a column could benefit from a co-writer, perhaps one of your close collaborators on the music-related projects. You could structure the column in such a way that it gives readers insight, from a very quotidian, "I'm in the studio throwing clay and my hands are dirty and the cat just knocked over my coffee" style (this could be against the rules of German culture, however), into how one goes about applying their interest and expertise to the article creation process, and it could walk them through the vagaries and idiosyncrasies, in a very detailed and hands-on way, from DYK, ITN, GAN, to FAC. Something like, "This is the song I've been performing lately, and it led me to write articles x, y, and z, and this is what I had to do to get it through DYK and GAN, and I was helped by User X, but found constructive criticism with User Y, etc." Also, you could even collaborate with avowed rivals like Naruto for some kind of humorous effect, which could add self-deprecating humor as well. I've seen a lot of technical columns like this, a very nuts and bolts style, in the coding community outside Wikipedia; I don't see any reason why we shouldn't have one devoted to music content creation in the same way. Something to think about? Viriditas (talk) 00:40, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thak you for thinking, and I was pretty amused about the cat and the "rivalry" ;) - Sorry, I don't get to "my topics" enough. See below, a harpist and a composer went to the main page, the harpist got a decent obit only now - prompted by our list perhaps, I wonder - which isn't in the article, the symphony article isn't developped yet, another recent death article waiting for 4 days already, and let's not talk of long-term plans such as BWV 79 for FA in October (struggling with the current "defiant" nomination) and the St Matthew Passion for 2027 which is soon. How about you writing a funny thing about what you observe: that frustration about not being able to tell the stories I find interesting on DYK, and instead having my little private enterprise where nobody looks. (One recent story, not advertised, raised the count from the usual 5 to 16, imagine! Yesterdayy's ended at 10.) --

A Signpost article (or column) gets around 500-1500 views on average, but that's just a guess based on its viewable stats. The good news is that's more than 16. :) I just learned this format is called process journalism, but we don't even have a page about it! Let's use your above comment as an example: How did the harpist and composer get to the main page? What did you mean by the harpist obit was prompted by the list? And yes, the long-term plan for BWV 79 as a FA is exactly the process I'm talking about. This is a column in itself. I want to know these things, and along the way, I want to learn about the music. When you combine the two, it's absolutely fascinating. This is more of a talking shop kind of niche, but focused solely on music articles and the process behind improving them. I don't have this specialist knowledge, but you do. Along the way, you can bring more people to music and attract them to your special interest. Viriditas (talk) 09:00, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Per Nørgård

On 3 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Per Nørgård, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede 66 04:47, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Susann McDonald

On 3 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Susann McDonald, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede 66 04:56, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good friday

Hi, you reverted on Good Friday [1] with the comment "the service, yes, but not the occasion". Is this a misunderstanding, as it seems to be exactly my point: the service is called like this but not the whole day? Greetings, Medusahead (talk) 09:23, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But the article is not about the service alone, and things bolded (to indicate a redirect) in the lead should be other names for the article name, which is the occasion. You can add a sentence about the service and it's name in the prose of the article, with a reference, and perhaps mention it in the lead, but not bold. All this should better be discussed on the article talk page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:28, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are right: I think I wasn't quite awake then ;) - thank you for improving! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:38, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

J.S. Bach DYK nomination

Hi Gerda. The J.S. Bach DYK nom has just been reviewed. Missing citations have been spotted in para 2 of the 18th century section, and para 2 of the 20th century section. Please find citations, or find an editor who can? Thanks. Storye book (talk) 06:46, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for telling me. It came up in the PR also. I'll see what I can do. So far I didn't write anything in that article, and those who did most are banned. Everybody welcome to help!! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Charles Wadsworth

On 5 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Charles Wadsworth, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Tone 14:49, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]