... that "Segne, Vater, diese Gaben", a round for saying grace of unknown authorship, has appeared in German collections for kindergarten, schools and events for young people?
2022 talk begins at #2022 in Freundschaft, 2022 images (my calender pics, new year's resolution "in friendship" and musical events) begin here, and the 2022 diary (my own pictures of places, songs, food, flowers ...) begins here, - just watch if you are interested.
My motto for 2022 is taken from In Freundschaft, an article about a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written by missed Jerome Kohl with whom I often exchanged thoughts in friendship. With great help from friends, it became a GA last year, and I translated it to German on 1 January this year.
While garden was a key topic last year, I want to focus on songs in 2022, beginning with Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, in memory of Erhard Egidi. Other topics are ongoing, and I began to mark groups on my user page. I love collaboration, which also shows there. Just check 2021 for the amazing number of users who began articles we expanded. 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, which was a pleasant sport for five years, but not so much in the name of WP:QAI - article improvement. Below I keep - for now - some entries from last year, those related to friendship. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 1 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
My talk goes like this: on top there's the latest DYK (Elena Gusevaas I write this, will change to Die ersten Menschen tomorrow); next to the TOC are boxes from my life, one for the month (with a pic I took last year, and songs), one for those remembered (Georg Christoph Biller and Heinz Werner Zimmermann now, name bold when on the Main page as Recent deaths that day, but that was yesterday), one for the last concert or opera heard (student concert), one for experience related to the DYK (if there is one, name bold, now Die tote Stadt), one for the last church, with songs (Las Palmas, on vacation, with stylised palm trees for columns). They usually go backwards in time, so yesterdays concert first, last year's opera last.
5 June: Pentecost - family gathering - "peace will conquer the war" - summary · 12: my songs, 19: more songs, 24: St. John's, name day of loved ones, Requiem for Christof May, 26: more songs
On 28 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jerome Kohl, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jerome Kohl, a music theorist of the University of Washington, was recognized internationally as an authority on the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jerome Kohl. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jerome Kohl), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I looked up to Jerome from the day he came in my life (in 2009, telling me that was a reliable source said about Stockhausen was wrong, - it's still on the talk of Siegfried Palm, my second article), and I imagine our conversations - thoughtful, on a meadow - as pictured, in the spirit of Stockhausen's wonderful titles: In Freundschaft, Kontakte, Originale, Licht ... We never met. We edit-warred over Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and Georg Katzer, but always with respect. (If you want a tedious task, change the now deprecated parenthetical references, in hundreds of articles.) We worked together on many other. He thanked me for links to performers of Stockhausen's music, and I tried to mention their relation to the composer on the Main page, see Wolfgang Marschner (intentionally in memory), and before.
I have a much simpler guide to arbitration. After spending many months working on it, cutting a word here, finessing a phrase there, I finally arrived at the final version. Here it is, the Ultimate Guide to Arbitration: Don't.
... last line: Das Land ist hell und weit. The land is bright and wide. (written in 1989 in Germany's East, when it was dark and narrow.) Trust the new ways. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:51, 14 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
... I'd add User:RexxS/Infobox factors to the essays about accessibility. I miss him... We have a RfC for Peter Sellers, and a reverted infobox (not a good one I admit, but a good one was suggested in 2012) for Cosima Wagner, and in both cases users could just have looked up his essay, instead of saying that once upon a time some "principal authors" said that an accessibility feature was not wanted for "their" FA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 9 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 24 October 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article La Passion selon Sade, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the title of La Passion selon Sade, an opera by Sylvano Bussotti(pictured with star Cathy Berberian), caused a scandal at its premiere and had to be changed for the next performance? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/La Passion selon Sade. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, La Passion selon Sade), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
From an archived thread: Br'er Rabbit, RexxS, LouisAlain, you are my friends, and I am sure that Wikipedia would be better with you than without you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 17 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
LouisAlain, this article is dedicated to you! Scandal seems to fit better than a hymn ;) I miss your inspiration, translation of cultural topics you found in obscure corners, good spirits, thankful heart. Thank you for literary context from Kafka to Schopenhauer. You others: please give me some of any of these because I thrive on them. I believe it's a scandal that we found no constructive way of collaboration, - I felt so talking in vain in the AN thread. Au revoir, and for a hymn after all, there's Möge die Straße uns zusammenführen, and telling you and myself: "go on with life, have a laugh, don't get too upset". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 24 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
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On 28 October 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article In Freundschaft, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that In Freundschaft was composed in friendship by Karlheinz Stockhausen as a clarinet solo for Suzanne Stephens(pictured), and later adapted to the instruments of other friends? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/In Freundschaft. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, In Freundschaft), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Hi Gerda, sorry to be a pain in the tail but I reverted this good faith edit because it didn't ask a question. As you can see from the relevant case page, I recommended that Arbcom decline the case and thought that RexxS exhibited no more than mild incivility, that was running rampant throughout the world during the start of COVID, and I agree with SV's comment " I want to add that he is one of the most genuinely kind editors I've had the pleasure to encounter. You may not get fake politeness from him, but you have found a friend if you ever need one." which I can wholeheartedly endorse from personal experience having met him in the pub several times. It would be nice to see if somebody can suggest a constructive action that has a reasonable chance of RexxS returning and contributing to Wikipedia, but I don't think that's it. Sorry. Ritchie333(talk)(cont)11:40, 15 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Ritchie, I don't think you understood. I wanted to know from Beeblebrox if the next time an appeal such as Sarah's - "every editor is a human being" - came around (regardless which case) he would listen. I don't know if he didn't see that appeal then, or saw it but it didn't change things for him. I thought that was clear without a question mark, also that without an answer, I'd not vote for him, or any other who accepted the case, before or after Sarah pleaded, because even arbs may change their mind and should follow the complete request discussion. The relevant discussion happened on Hammersoft's page, urging the one who filed the case to withdraw it, but - as we know - in vain. How may I word my censored question? I want arb's who listen to people like Sarah (knowing that there's no one like her), probably women ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:33, 15 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
I would go with "You accepted the RexxS arbitration case, despite many users including SarahSV suggesting it should be declined, not least because "every editor is a human being". Can you explain how it is acceptable to take action that causes long-term editors to quit the project, and what we might to do mitigate this?" Ritchie333(talk)(cont)12:37, 15 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
That could be your question ;) - I want only Sarah's, not the others, to keep things "übersichtlich" for someone (unfamiliar with the case, and again, it's not about that particular case) who wants to put the candidate's answer in context (and would have to read only one, not the others). - Let me think a bit, first I have other things to do. My design was to ask candidates not involved in that case: Would you have listened to SarahSV's appeal to decline the case? (with a link), but its a silly question for someone who obviously didn't. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:44, 15 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Today, the TFA mentions When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, created by a QAI member who was banned, the article taken to GA afterwards. Aga Mikolaj was created by banned friend LouisAlain who made the mistake to try to defend himself, which made things worse. RexxS has been criticised for not defending himself (in the arb case that I believe should not have been accepted, and that SlimVirgin pleaded not to accept), but I followed his model (better than falling in the other trap, not really versed in the language, misunderstanding ...). Think about the arb candidates' answers, you all. Some would not listen to SlimVirgin, so probably not to Littleolive oil who defended? ... not to valereee who said an apology worked for her? ... so perhaps not to women in general? I am happy that Opabinia regalis is standing! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 18 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Gianni Schicchi is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The work is the third and final part of Puccini's Il trittico, three one-act operas with contrasting themes, following the dramatic Il tabarro and the lyric Suor Angelica. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy. Set in 1299 Florence, the title character pretends to be a rich citizen who had died, dictating a new will in favour of the deceased's family members but especially of himself (scene in the premiere pictured). The comedy, a rarity in the composer's work, combines elements of Puccini's modern harmonic dissonances with lyrical passages such as the aria "O mio babbino caro". When Il trittico premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera on 14 December 1918, only Gianni Schicchi became an immediate hit. It has been performed more frequently than the other two, often combined with other short operas. - TFAtoday by Brian Boulton and Wehwalt
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Have a happy New Year filled with light and magic!
Hi Gerda, Best wishes that the new year brings peace, prosperity, health and happiness. Thank you for everything you do for the encyclopedia and this community.
Image: New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji, Utagawa Hiroshige, woodcut, 1857
I'm with you, Gerda! Here's to a year free of fear and filled with wonder! Thank you for bringing so much music to the world through your work here. May your walks in the woods bring you much joy. Netherzone (talk) 15:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s?
Happy New Year from me as well, Gerda. You've lit up my day on so many occasion this past year, thank you!
Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben, behütet und getröstet wunderbar, so will ich diese Tage mit euch leben und mit euch gehen in ein neues Jahr. — Bonhoeffer
Coincidentally, if such things exist, fi:Hyvyyden voiman ihmeelliseen suojaan is one of my favourite contributions as well, and the hymn deeply important on a personal level (the Finnish version uses a different tune, by Erkki Melartin, that I find sublime). New Year's resolution: read more about Stockhausen and try to listen without getting a headache! – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 12:57, 1 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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The Special Barnstar
I don't think I've given someone a barnstar before, and you are the first person that came to mind. I haven't seen as much patience, kindness and civility in most elite contributors as I have seen with you. I hope you have a happy new year! Wretchskull (talk) 13:46, 31 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
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On 1 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rudolf Pohl, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rudolf Pohl. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rudolf Pohl), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hello Gerda. Mere words are not enough to thank you for all that you have shared over the years. Wikipedia is blessed to have you as an editor. Best wishes to you now and always. MarnetteD|Talk21:20, 1 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 3 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Johann-Werner Prein, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that bass-baritoneJohann-Werner Prein took part in the 1994 premiere of Erwin Schulhoff's only opera, Flammen, which the Nazis had suppressed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Johann-Werner Prein. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Johann-Werner Prein), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
No evidence of notability, sources are not independent, searching for better sources at Google News gives some quotes from him, but no independent sources about him.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Fram (talk) 13:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Fram, I qiah you a happy new ywar, (I dislike templated tag mechanism instead of perdonal contact, ec
ven more when added while I am away with the top notice showing.) Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen, BWV 248 V would have been the perfect topic for last Sunday (= day of premiere) but I was away with friends, yesterday I was happily away wit friends, couldn's such a notice wait until I signal that I have time to continue an unfinished article? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Do you really believe new page patrolling should be adapted to the status of your user talk page notice? That will not happen. Fram (talk) 07:02, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
I believe in personal relations, happy new year (and yesterday not yet shown, for explained lack of time). I normally do try not to publish unfinished articles but - as explained - sometimes it doesn't work. Returning from a lovely day to the coldness of a bot message just isn't exactly how I imagine collaboration, and often find - look above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Your idea of collaboration seems to be to give out rewards named after banned, globally locked, abusive and copyright violating sockpuppeteers, and to proxy for abusive antisemites after they have been banned. Fram (talk) 08:16, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Oh, and it turns out that your initial complaint here is complete bollocks as well, as your "out" template wasn't even active when I posted my Prod template: see here. Great collaboration, accusing people of things which are not only not important in the least, but aren't even true. Fram (talk) 08:22, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Gerda, could you help me understand why my page Draft:Christian Van Horn was rejected on grounds of "This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article" and "This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources."? I have reached out to the user who rejected it via their talk page, but I would take any other feedback. You were kind enough to review the article earlier and any further help would be greatly appreciated.
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Mike, I took a brief look and first remembered nothing, sorry, then I remembered formatting, and thank you for changes. I'm not into draft reviewing much, but love opera. I am sure the singer is notable, but the article isn't the typical singer's article, - way too detailed. How about this: you trim it to much shorter, with only the most important roles and theatres, and only the best references, get it published, and later add some of the details? Who has the time to check all these sources? I don't have it right now, sorry. - I suggest you drop the (impressive) table for now, because it would need sources. Not even Jessye Norman has a table like that ;) - Compare other articles for models, perhaps? Johann-Werner Prein whicih you may have seen coming here? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:17, 5 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Gerda, thank you for the advice, that is wonderful strategy and much appreciated. The reviewer has said I have not proven notability, but that is such a subjective term. I thought showing all of his work with references would establish notability for such an artist since that is really the only way someone starts to become notable in opera, through awards, appearances, and recordings! Do you have any ideas about "notability"? Mikeycav (talk) 16:28, 6 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
It's a typical Wikipedia term, and I guess the reviewer was a bit overwhelmed, and is not versed in opera. Some are very strict when it comes to "independent" sources. What the Bavarian Opera writes (to take one example), is fine for me, but someone else might say that they are not truly independent. Being a rather recent singer, he has no chance to appear in the bible of opera singers, GSL. I just returned home after travel, so still not there for details. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:58, 6 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi
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frameles On 6 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nothgottes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nothgottes(interior pictured), a pilgrimage destination in the Rheingau since the 14th century, is a monastery of Cistercians from Vietnam? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nothgottes. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Nothgottes), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 7 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stefan Keil, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Stefan Keil moved to Yekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as Saint Nicholas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stefan Keil. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Stefan Keil), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I am fine but have little time, so you better ask users who know the topic better, or a related project. Formally, it looks good, well-referenced (please finish every paragraph by a reference)), and well formatted. I can't tell if the young person is already notable enough for any entry on Wikipedia. I am also concerned about your user name the same as the newspaper name. If you have a relation to the paper that should show on your user page, per WP:COI. - You could just move the article to Main space and see what happens. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 7 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your advice Gerda Arendt . Can you help me to move the article to your sandbox, and work on it put some edits, and move it to the main page if you want ? All the sources are available and in English there are also 4 sources and more and you can see his name on google search --Ensonhaber (talk) 14:43, 7 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
As explained, I have no extra time right now to even check. There's no need to move to anybody else's sandbox, - people can edit in yours, and the edit history (who did what when, - click on "View history" in the top line) will remain in place when moved, and you can move yourself, click on "More" in the top line, and "Move" will come up. Please if you have relation to the paper, declare that on your user page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
TFA issues
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I regard status on composer infoboxes. As they stated, Infoboxes are 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. For example, classical composers like Mozart, Haydn and Wagner does not have infobox without consensus, alongside with Bach and Beethoven have infobox with consensus. Members of the Mozart family have infobox unless if uses "composer" per WP:JOBTITLES. --49.150.112.127 (talk) 23:46, 8 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for asking, - how about creating an account, for transparency? - That was in 2010. Look at Beethoven, or Sibelius. I read the quote like this: "If there's no conflict all is fine. A discussion is only necessary if people disagree." If an infobox is not reverted by someone who has contributed to an article, it can stay. To have the same tedious discussion on all these people is just a waste of time. If you ask me the "composers are somehow different"-claim was a myth even in 2010, and I doubt that another general discussion on Project composers would have the same outcome (but believe such discussion would also be a waste of time). I go by Voceditenore, "live and let live" (2018): I leave Wagner and Debussy alone, knowing the preferencea of their authors, and add infoboxes to all articles that I write or improve. See also Infoboxes: time for a fresh look? by Brian Boulton (10 Jul 2013) and User:RexxS/Infobox factors. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
I didn't say he had. Please read the above. The guideline is more than 10 years old, and the quote - which is not from the guideline but from the arbitration case (2013) speaks - my understanding - only for cases where there is no consensus. If an infoboxes is stable for a month, it has been accepted. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:02, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
I've rare laughed out so loud here ;) - who are you? Pretending to be new and knowing that old nonsense. I told you before: read infobox factors. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:34, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Aesthetic Writer: if you want the infobox removed at Leopold Mozart, it is your responsibility to build consensus on the talk page first. Make your case there, and then you can strip the infobox, which has sat there uncontroversially for nearly two years. You boldly removed the infobox. We reverted in disagreement. Now you discuss on the talk page. Thanks. Thrakkx (talk) 15:31, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 9 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Die Schneekönigin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in Die Schneekönigin, an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's "The Snow Queen", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Die Schneekönigin. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Die Schneekönigin), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
on a day with snow, and DYK ... that the composer introduced me to the major operas? ... I know the woman who inspired the opera? ... the girl's name in the plot is Gerda? ... it's my mom's birthday?
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Hi Gerda, I know you are very busy and apologize in advance for any inconvenience, but I need your advice or help with a DYK nomination. I used the DYK Helper tool that's part of Twinkle (I think) - the link is in the toolbar at the top of the page. But it did not post correctly--the "subst:NewDYKnomination | article =" template coding appears, and the photo is not visible. Obviously I did something wrong or there is a bug in the DYK-Helper script. The nom is for Truth or Consequences Hot Springs that I created on January 2. Do you know how I can resolve this? Thank you in advance! Netherzone (talk) 19:17, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
no problem, Netherzone, just that I did something else. - I see that something was created under the correct name, but it looks "wrong". I can't immediately see why. What I see is that you shouldn't give refs as in an article, - I actually only present the url with brackets around it - but I don't see how that would brake it. Your best bet might be to ask on WP:DYKTALK. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 9 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for asking. You will remember that BWV 1 is planned for 25 March. Fine with me if that's not too close. I was thinking of 11 June - private anniversary, when I sang it first, the day before my grandfather's funeral. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:09, 12 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
The schedulers, collectively, would be delighted to run BMV 227 on 7 Feb and BMV 1 on 25 March. Unless you have a strong objection we will do so. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:25, 14 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), BWV227, is a motet by Johann Sebastian Bach. The longest and most musically complex of His motets, it is in eleven movements for up to five voices. It is named after the 1653 Lutheran hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Franck in six stanzas which form the motet's odd-numbered movements, with the hymn tune by Johann Crüger appearing in different styles of chorale setting (beginning pictured). The text of even-numbered movements is from the Epistle to the Romans. The hymn, focused on an emotional bond to Jesus, adds complementing aspects to the doctrinal scripture text. Jesu, meine Freude is one of the few works by Bach for five vocal parts, in a structure of symmetries on different layers. While the work was supposed to have been written for a specific funeral in Leipzig in July 1723, as proposed in 1912, Christoph Wolff suggested that Bach may have compiled it for the education of his choir in both composition techniques and theology. It was the first of his motets to be recorded, in 1927.
Supposed to go with the lead image, beginning of the first movement, the music being the same also for the last movement, just different text. Should I formally request on TFAR, Gog the Mild? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 15 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks - I had just set that up to work on myself, so it saves me a job and you will do it better. No need to formally request, I'm on it. Your draft is 1.098 characters long, including spaces. The limit is 1,025. Would you prefer to trim it, or should I have a go? Gog the Mild (talk) 21:24, 15 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), BWV227, is a motet by Johann Sebastian Bach. The longest and most musically complex of his motets, it is in eleven movements for up to five voices. It is named after the 1653 Lutheran hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Franck, the six stanzas of which form the motet's odd-numbered movements, with different styles of chorale setting (beginning pictured) making up the hymn tune, composed by Johann Crüger. The text of the even-numbered movements is from the Epistle to the Romans. The hymn focuses on an emotional bond to Jesus and Bach's treatment of Crüger's melody ranges from a four-part chorale harmonisation which begins and ends the work, to a chorale fantasia. Jesu, meine Freude is one of the few works by Bach for five vocal parts, in a structure of symmetries on different layers. It has been suggested that Bach compiled it for the education of his choir in both composition techniques and theology. It was the first of his motets to be recorded, in 1927.
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Sorry, made me smile ;) -. "with different styles of chorale setting (beginning pictured) making up the hymn tune, composed by Johann Crüger" - no, first came the hymn tune, then Bach's chorale settings of it. If we had room to mention the different settings in detail, all you mentioned were less interesting than the "free" one with only bits of the melody quoted, for Trotz, defiance. - I feel we do have to mention the funeral, because although the evidence that it is not so was there from the 1990s, many program notes today (and some of the sources) still say with certainty that is was composed for that event. Wolff is quite the authority, so I'd mention him by name, or the suggestion could be dismissed. - Bedtime. You can schedule, and we polish afterwards, hopefully with Dank and Dying helping. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:42, 15 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
The funeral, I think that there is little chance that you will get onto the main page mention of something that is not believed to be so. And trying to explain it uses a lot of characters. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:22, 15 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Gog the Mild, the funeral theory was wrong but held for almost a century, and many still believe it, - I think we need to explicitly say so. New try:
Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), BWV227, is a motet by J. S. Bach composed in Leipzig and unusually set for up to five voices. It is his longest motet, in eleven movements, and musically his most complex, in several layers of symmetry. It is named after the 1653 Lutheran hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Franck in six stanzas which became the motet's odd-numbered movements, while the text of the other movements is taken from the Epistle to the Romans. The emotional hymn and the doctrinal scripture text complement each other. Bach used the hymn tune by Johann Crüger in five different chorale settings (beginning pictured). While the work was believed to be funeral music, since a Leipzig church musician argued in 1912 for a specific funeral in July 1723, his evidence was refuted in 1995, and Christoph Wolff concluded that Bach may have compiled it for the education of his choir in both composition techniques and theology. It was the first Bach motet to be recorded, in 1927. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Promised: not that it matters much, but there will be articles about the one who claimed the funeral thingy, and the one who refuted, by when it appears. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:43, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Congratulations, Gerda Arendt! The article you nominated, Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:06, 13 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Congratulations. I had intended on taking a look when you first told me about it, then totally forgot. I'm glad we have you. Urve (talk) 09:51, 18 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Thank you, Gerda, for you New Year's greetings and the same to you. You are such a blessing to Wikipedia and fellow Wikipedians. In hindsight, I wish I'd made the effort to come and hear you sing when I lived near Hanover! I haven't been back to Germany in nearly 2 years now and am missing it greatly! GB. Bermicourt (talk) 21:09, 14 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, and hopefully we'll have another chance. Head for Idstein or Wiesbaden to hear me/us sing, but it was only twice in Idstein last year (November pictured on my user page, small group of only women, and the priest on duty said charmingly that women's choir sounds like in heaven), and once in Wiesbaden, Rossini concert. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 14 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 15 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Christine Haidegger, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the novel Mama Dear by Christine Haidegger(pictured) details her childhood in post–World War II Austria? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Christine Haidegger. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Christine Haidegger), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Hi Gerda, if I remember correctly, you were hoping to get one of your pages as TFA sometime in March (last year I 'stole' the day). If you need any support, let me know.Venicescapes (talk) 18:14, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 20 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Berggarten, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum(pictured), where members of the royal family were interred? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Berggarten. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Berggarten), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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You're obviously enjoying life traveling to the beautiful places in the photographs. Happy and safe travels, Gerda - thank you for sharing!! I was sidelined for 4 days with COVID, probably Delta because my taste/smell come and go...or who knows? It could be yet another variant. I've decided to take advantage of the time and sleep between Netflix marathons - as if I was free to choose anything else. Atsme💬📧 00:57, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, and all the best for recovery! Incidence is high in the capital where I woke up to the cathedral bells, so let's be careful. More beautiful pictures, not yet uploaded. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi! Not sure this is something that people do, but I just noticed GhostRiver's extensive work in this month's GA backlog drive. Looking over their contributions, I thought they seemed like someone you might want to give the Precious award to. Not pinging them here both in case you decide not to or else to maintain a pleasant surprise. I know I really valued it when you awarded it to me a while ago. Hope you're doing well! Ganesha811 (talk) 03:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 30 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elena Guseva, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Elena Guseva's training as a choral conductor helped her analyse the score when playing Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Vienna State Opera? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elena Guseva. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Elena Guseva), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I was impressed by her performance as Marietta in Die tote Stadt, alongside Klaus Florian Vogt and Christoph Pohl, - she entered on a bicycle. The review was out of proportion in length (thought I), but in the end arrived at mentioning "choral conductor" which please me greatly. Special thanks to GRuban for the image! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you and a few pointers
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Hi Gerda,
Just a few points I would like to make.
Thank you very much for your answers in a discussion I started recently.
The hint on closing "br" for new lines with a slash was helpful, thank you.
Please don’t tell me what to strike in my comments, and I will extend you the same courtesy.
I pasted your original comment in my answers to save people from continually having to look up the page for what you had originally said. Again, I would appreciate it if you don’t tell me how to format my comments. I did it that way for a reason.
It was also a bit abrupt of you to say “I believe we are done” when I may have wanted to reply.
Thank you for explaining. (For others: we come from the discussion on Classical music whether to say, beginning a symphony article, Symphony No. 4 or The Symphony No. 4, as the MoS says, and hundreds of articles have, + sonatas, motets, string quartets, - all these generic names.) No hard feelings, just that I have my internal rule of no more than two comments in a discussion, and I felt you didn't have the same ;) - If you want to reply, feel free, here or there, but I had the feeling some were tired already. I collided with the MoS in 2013 (A Boy was Born), and still get furious thinking of it, licking wounds. Perhaps that helps? Adding "finally" to a remark about my comment ("Someone with a clear comment (finally).") felt like you were degrading all other previous comments, therefore I recommended to strike that word. It was a nice compliment without it, thank you for that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:21, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Here’s the thing Gerda: Saying “hundreds of” articles etc. is using weasel words without any evidence to back them up. And how many articles don’t use “the”? A million? Even if using “the” in the name is correct, without “the” is better. But don’t just take my word for it, listen to how, for example, British people speak. It sounds more natural. The thing is MoS don’t want to admit it because then they are admitting they made a mistake. And that is me done for this topic now. I have better things to do :) BrightOrion | talk18:46, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
BrightOrion, I don't need a link to weasel words ;) - These hundreds of articles follow Wikipedia's manual of style, and if it sounds wrong to you try to change it. I won't, and I don't care about speculations about their motivations. Tim riley and Brianboulton are my models for British English. Today, I saw someone change thousand+ links to a dab page. If you up to such a thing, try the Composers's Symphony No. 4 thing, best first for less known people than Beethoven and Mahler. I, however, rather want to expand two articles of people who just died (such as Heinz Werner Zimmermann, begun by Jerome Kohl, missed much), expand Psalm 5, write about a mass, and most urgently: upload vacation images and show them to friends. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
You are right that Classical music editors know each other, see below. Brian Boulton died in 2019, but is still a model for me. He was one an authors of the Symphony No. 8 by Sibelius article, so we could cite him as a model for the Composer's Symphony approach. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Just my own opinion as a native speaker and writer of British English, for what it is worth: I would generally use "Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)" for the title, and spell the number out fully for the opening phrase of text, as "The Fifth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven....", etc.: in that context, the definite article is required. It's a matter of style: most people don't write numerals for numbers less than 10 when writing in formal text. Whether the number should have a capital letter or not is debatable, but one would need it for the Fifth or the Ninth and it would therefore be consistent to use it throughout. To use the lower case for the number would have a different connotation, such as "The first piano concerto of Frederic Chopin...", which (if I remember rightly) is the one we call "The Second Piano Concerto of Frederic Chopin...". Eebahgum (talk) 02:22, 1 February 2022 (UTC)ĘĘịịReply
Pico de las Nieves
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Dear Gerda, Fabulous pictures! The living masses resolving into receding poems from the painter's palate, the volumes rolling away like a tide. Domini est terra, et plenitudo eius - Quam admirabile est Nomen Tuum! (that's two different places...). Levavi oculos meos in montes unde veniet auxilium mihi. The whole world causes one to raise up one's eyes into the infinite firmament. Thankyou, I wish I were there. I do hope you took your auloi with you. - Blessings, Eebahgum (talk) 21:09, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
"Hebe auf" - makes it sound such an effort! I, too, sing out loud in the open air, giving to all and sundry the appearance of my being a madman. I sang an entire Psalm (to my own music) when on my own halfway up a very high hill in Snowdonia, before realizing that the top of the hill was rather beyond my reach. And when I go into an empty parish church in the country I often sing one. I sang one to God alone in St Margaret South Elmham in Suffolk one drowsy afternoon in 2020, and just as I finished I realized that I was not alone at all - the entire church was full of sleepy hornets - there was one sitting just beside me (and I have the allergy if I am stung), so I stole away home, or at least, out of the church, rather gingerly... Cortona S Maria NuovaBack in March 1989 I was staying at Cortona in Italy and walked over to the Franciscan cells at Le Celle by the road which sweeps around the contour of the hillside like a vast amphitheatre, looking down towards Il Sodo and the top corner of the Val di Chiana. Half-way around (coming back from the cells) I stopped, and, checking that I was quite alone, "This is surely better than La Scala" thought I, so I stood looking out over the descending hillside and let rip with a very full-throated rendering of "Dai campi, dai prati" (Boito, Mefistofele) in my best baritone declamation. Hoping I was not disturbing the monks in their celle, I enjoyed myself so much I sang "Giunto sul passo estremo" as well, possibly twice, into the deliciously cool but sunny air. It seemed to be going well... As I concluded, con gusto ("voglio che questo sogno sia la santa poesia: è l'ultimo bisogno dell'esistenza mia"), an Italian guide with a party of about 30 nice American ladies suddenly popped out from behind a nearby bush, and the guide remarked kindly, "You have found yourself an excellent theatre!" We all laughed, and everyone was very nice about it. I don't think I had quite ruined their morning, nor they mine, but I didn't reprise after that: the diffidence took over. It was the same week I did this sslightly peculiar sketch of the church a little lower down the same hillside. Younger days... Eebahgum (talk) 23:46, 30 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
You opened my eyes and ears, lovely, thank you. Spectacular even, - I love the sketch, and wish I had been one of those ladies! Recommended reading for all who watch this page. Singing (up to quartet) at the Gnadenthal church on bike tours is all I can offer in return ;) - on 13 June last year with the subject of my first article, - he set Psalm 121 for choir and organ, and nobody performed it yet, because the organ part is too difficult. I better upload an image of the interior. - When we sang the gently soaring Mendelssohn (pictured on my user page this year) the chaplain on duty kindly said that women's choir has been called "wie im Himmel" (as in Heaven) in Salzburg. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Eebahgum - then you might enjoy the oft-repeated story of the Soviet Russian tenor Victor Nikitin who was born with a beautiful voice, but missed all or most of his training due to war, but when he sang in the trenches the German soldiers stopped firing to listen. And on another track - I (who have no religion) have always wanted to stand on top of a mountain at dawn and sing Sol Ovitur - a mediaeval hymn to Jesus as the rising sun, with the melody and the melismas taken straight and unaltered from the Arab tradition. As John Lennon said - "imagine there's no countries". Storye book (talk) 11:06, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thankyou for that - difficult to get up that mountain and then sing those melismata without the aspirates, at any rate for me (for any hill makes me huff and puff nowadays)! ;- It's said that Caruso used to call the daily news to the neighbouring hilltop village in his youth. And if your "hill" happens to be F6, who knows what you, or anyone else, may find at the top of it? The Book of Samuel warns us against worship of high places. Eebahgum (talk) 12:12, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Eebahgum, I have been surrounded by mountains most of my life. From Italy where we lived in the Piedmont, to Montana, to Alaska (two mountain ranges), I love climbing. I have now worn a path to my favorite overlook of the lake from Sirr Mt. Even in snow that is feet deep I will walk or mush to sing my morning songs as often as possible. I have done this for as long as I can remember every where I have lived. My songs are different than most but they are sung from my heart and my Spirit. They often are of those I love and care about. They are also songs of thanks to creator and the universe. They are tributes to the Colors I hear and the Songs I see around me. Sometimes I drag my cello or carry a flute or take my bowls to play. On the rare occasion I am accompanied by a friend that brings his drum. When he is not with me my heart keeps beat. It is not a life for everyone, there are hardships around ever bend in the river, but it is a life I love and a life I intend to live as full as I possibly can. I will sing a song for you and the little one. --ARoseWolf14:38, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
thank you all, and don't miss edit summary "A symphony is heard from the tops of the mountain to the depth of the sea, a symphony of Life and Love". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:51, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I'm not offended, but think I explained before that I don't want much white space to come with the template automatically. If a recipient prefers that, fine, and if you'd change your post by a preceding "clear", I'd also understand. I add a preceding "clear" if I see something in the right corner of a page, such as an archive box, which would separate header and image, and I add it when it separates header and box of the following comment, such as arbcom messages (when I notice). But I like normal text flowing freely ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 31 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
I have no knowledge of any preceding history with those awards or spacing on that page. I just noticed that the image was flowing into other sections and added the "clear"s. I'm totally fine with anyone formatting their talk page as they wish. -- Valjean (talk) 22:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Bewertung von Artikeln
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Stub bis C darf jeder vergeben, inklusive der Haupt-Autoren des Artikels. Die Einstufung B sollte idealerweise von irgendjemand anders sein. GA und FA gehen durch zentrale Prozesse. —Kusma (talk) 07:58, 1 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Gerda, just saw that you removed a talk header from the Maureen Harding Clark article. I used to add a header to most (if not all) articles I created since I knew about it. I'll refrain from doing so in the future and only add one if there is a discussion.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 22:46, 2 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Paradise Chronicle, less work for you: only for pages where good faith is in danger, - as the template documentationsaid: "Talk pages that are frequently misused, that attract frequent or perpetual debate, articles often subject to controversy, and highly-visible or popular topics may be appropriate for this template." - Only, researching now, I found that the line was dropped in the meantime, rather recently. I will not remove the template then, but I will not clutter articles I write with it, the first thing saying to some entering that they need to be told to assume good faith ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:05, 2 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 4 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Die ersten Menschen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rudi Stephan was already composing the opera Die ersten Menschen when the 1908 drama about the first humans by Otto Borngräber, on which it is based, was banned in Bavaria? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Die ersten Menschen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Die ersten Menschen), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi, can you review this article (Abel Decaux) for me? I recently undertook a large-scale expansion of it, a large part coming from the French article. I also added some information I knew not present in the aforementioned article.
MarcelDupré1886 (talk) 17:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
as you can read on my user page: begun by Dr. Blofeld, expanded by Nikkimaria, further expanded together, and I thought about having lost RexxS for this project when I heard it last year --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:44, 6 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Since you are kind enough to thank everyone else on the day of their TFAs: thank you today for Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, as you describe it: "Bach's longest motet, with a complex text alternating hymn stanzas from "Jesu, meine Freude" with biblical text from Paul's Letter to the Romans. The music, in a symmetrical arrangement of 11 movements, displays various vocal scorings (from 3 to 5 voices) and compositional variation and finesse. For the longest time, the motet was believed to have been composed for a certain funeral, but recent scholarship questioned that."! DanCherek (talk) 03:52, 7 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you Dan, that's lovely! It was the work of many writing, reviewing, inspiring, - thanks to all! (more later) It played a special role in my life (perhaps more later). For the record the entry as Br'er Rabbit might have wanted it:
Beginning of the first movement
Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), BWV 227, is a motet by J. S. Bach. In eleven movements for up to five voices, it is his longest and most musically complex motet. It is named after the 1653 Lutheran hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Franck; the hymn's six stanzas form the motet's odd-numbered movements. Bach used the hymn tune by Johann Crüger in five different chorale settings(example pictured). The hymn's text focuses on an emotional bond to Jesus, complementing the doctrinal text from the Epistle to the Romans used for the even-numbered movements. Jesu, meine Freude is one of the few works by Bach for five vocal parts, in a structure of symmetries on different layers. It is unclear when the motet was written. Bach scholar Christoph Wolff believed that Bach may have compiled it to educate his choir incomposition techniques and theology; an earlier theory that it was written for a 1723 funeral in Leipzig is now discredited. In 1927, it became the first of Bach motets to be recorded.
What an absolute joy to read and very deserving of TFA. Gerda and others, the writing of this article very eloquently describes this beautiful motet. Thank you to all involved! --ARoseWolf18:10, 7 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Gerta, last night I came across this interesting short documentary:[1]. I of course immediately went to Wikipedia to learn about Georg Christoph Stertzing. Was surprised he wasn’t on Wikipedia yet. I assumed I would find an article you started and put to DYK! I did a rough translation. Does it look like there’s a lot out there to fill it out? All the best, Thriley (talk) 04:59, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I've looked up MGG but they don't have an article on him; only mentioning him in the Eisenach entry ([2]), describing the history of the organs of the Georgenkirche:
Teile der Franziskanerkirchen-Orgel fanden 1575 Verwendung beim Neubau der Georgen-Orgel durch Georg Schauenberg. Joh. Chr. Bach (1642-1703) und der Orgelbauer Georg Christoph Stertzing erarbeiteten gemeinsam die Disposition für eine neue Orgel, die 1697-1707 errichtet wurde. J. Adlung teilte deren Disposition in seiner Musica mechanica organoedi (Berlin 1768) mit. Weitere Neubauten erfolgten 1849 durch die Firma Holland (Schmiedefeld/Thüringen), 1911 durch die Firma Jehmlich (Dresden) und 1983 durch die Firma Schuke (Potsdam).
It also credits him with working on other organs in other churches in the town:
In der romanischen Nicolaikirche errichtete 1625 Hans Scheffer aus Eschwege eine neue Orgel, die 1717 durch ein Werk des Eisenacher Johann Georg Stertzing (auch Sterzing) ersetzt wurde. 1855 gab es hier ein weiteres neues Werk der Firma Markert (Ostheim) und 1927 eine Orgel der Firma Jehmlich (Dresden). Für die Annenkirche ist 1665 ein Orgelpositiv des Eisenacher Orgelbauers Christoph Knott nachweisbar. Auch in der Kreuzkirche hatte um 1710 Georg Christoph Stertzing eine Orgel gebaut.
However, Grove does have an entry of the Stertzing family as a whole. @Thriley: It's a bit late at night here for me to start writing stuff up, but if you're interested, I can mail you over the contents if you don't have access to it. Or I'll bother with checking it tomorrow. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 05:56, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Guten Abend Gerda, du hast mir für den Wechsel des Fotos gedankt. Wie findest du die Version dieses Fotos in der niederländischen WP? --- Gisbert ツ (talk) Illustrate Wikipedia !20:59, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Ich hatte eher den Hintergrund im Blick: schwarz auf nl, jetzt weiß (statt blau mit grauem Streifen) auf en.--- Gisbert ツ (talk) Illustrate Wikipedia !04:16, 9 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 9 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article St. Sylvester, Schwabing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that St. Sylvester is a Catholic church that combines the old village church of Schwabing, now part of Munich, and a 20th-century expansion under one roof? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/St. Sylvester, Schwabing. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, St. Sylvester, Schwabing), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
this looks like a good idea, countering all the battles, but - with a backlog of my own projects - I feel I can't commit to serious work. Call me when translations from German are needed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:04, 10 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 10 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Holger Mühlbauer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Holger Mühlbauer, who currently serves as the managing director of the German IT security association TeleTrusT, originally trained as a metalworker? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holger Mühlbauer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Holger Mühlbauer), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi Gerda, I've noticed that you have been nominating older articles for TFA. I think this is great because it helps with TFA diversity. There's a project called WP:URFA/2020 where editors review older featured articles to ensure that they still meet the featured article criteria. Can you check some articles on the list to ensure they meet the FA criteria? Specifically, after you check the article for a TFA nomination, can you mark the article as "satisfactory" at URFA/2020 to let us know that someone has checked the article? Please ping me if you have any questions. Thanks. Z1720 (talk) 13:58, 10 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Dear Gerda, it's truly a pleasure to hear again from a cordial and constructive individual who works to bring light, rather than heat, to Wikipedia and to the world! Nihil novi (talk) 09:29, 16 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks for yours efforts on Marguerite Priola, including the box. You may be interested to know that the image has been nominated for FP. See the WiR talk page for details. If it gets enough support, sooner or later it should be featured on the main page. Enjoy your vacation. We'll be driving back to Luxembourg from Denmark tomorrow.--Ipigott (talk) 15:36, 11 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
With love from Paris
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Hallo Gerda and thanks for completing drafts I involuntarily left behind. Still active on the French Wiki although at a much slower pace than before. Like the Olympics in 1900, the aim and values were praise worthy then and now... I still have fun translating articles from German and English under I.P though, the attribution issue being now completely meaningless.
I post this message from a Parisian cybercafe so if any well meant sysop wants to delete it and block the E.P, who cares ?
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Dear Gerda: Please, please, please stop reformatting Bach cantata as you did this morning. That formatting is unlike anything I've ever seen in a lede. You did the same thing on List of Bach cantatas, again breaking conventions/consensus on ledes. Why are making edits like this? Please stop. Thanks, Mathsci (talk) 09:39, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I hope I found a way: including the links in the prose (but silently thinking that they are less obvious that way). Everybody: we talk about List of Bach cantatas, a historic article, with a redirect Cantatas (Bach), and - name derived from it - Bach cantata, meant (in 2010) as an introduction to them. Now some think that the derived name is not good, and a move request is up (by JackofOz) to move it - of all names - to the present redirect for the list article. Confusion guaranteed. Help with a better name - if we really need one - wanted!! It doesn't help that - as I noticed only now - a sophisticated list was added recently to the introduction article, which should probably be split in introduction - if we still want it - and that list.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:35, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
nobody needs the article Bach cantata I am surprised that you wrote that. It does take effort and experience to create general introductory content. In this case, there are at least 6 good reliable sources that give general concise and readable introductory texts that do not involve lists. In the German/English language, there are 60 pages by Alfred Dürr; similarly for Jack Westrup, William G. Whittaker, Christoph Wolff (in English), Gilles Cantagrel (in French) and Günther Zedler (German). The fact that nobody has written a proper wikipedia article is irrelevant; no proper wikipedia article has been written on Partitas for keyboard (Bach), aka Clavier-Übung I. For Clavier-Übung III, introductory content does exist on wikipedia (and is summarised from Peter Williams' books). Mathsci (talk) 16:41, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
A good article about the subject would be needed, but I am quite critical of my poor efforts of long ago, and that's what we have, and that's what is no longer linked from other articles. (Take BWV 1, for example.) You might be better to write a proper introduction. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I agree with you on that. The Harnoncourt-Leonhardt boxed set has 98 pages in English in the hardcover booklet, written by Dürr, Schuhmacher, Krummacher, Geck, Wolff, Jordahn, Hoffmann-Erbecht, Gojowy, Harnoncourt and Blankenburg. OTOH for Handel, for example, the BBC guide to Handel Concertos by Stanley Sadie is a good source: I've used it for 3 articles. Similarly the three volumes of Winton Dean on Handel's Operas and Oratorios are good sources: individual operas take some effort (I helped with Giulio Cesare). Sometimes "less is more": Frédéric Chopin, for example, is concise yet encyclopedic. Mathsci (talk) 17:37, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Danke
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Ein Freund von mir ist Komponist, und sein Vater war ein Freund von Stockhausen, der In Freundschaft komponiert hat, und der Benutzer, der den Artikel über das Werk geschrieben hat, war ein Freund hier, auch wenn ich ihn getroffen habe. Und ein anderer Freund hat in einer Aufführung von Hymnen mitgewirkt, und sich gefreut, dass sie im Artikel erwähnt wird. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Gerda Arendt, hope you are doing well. I am reaching out as a courtesy to let you know that I've put forward a second TFA nomination for the April 22 date, after your nomination of Kathleen Ferrier. Don't know yet if mine will be selected, but thought it would be proper to let you know that I have also put my interest on that date as well. Truly admire how you keep Brian Boulton's memory alive with all of his wonderful work. Thank you for your time and have a great start to your week! Pseud 14 (talk) 03:22, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Gerda, I just saw this (from 2009) on the internet and find we are both in it! And for the right reasons...! I didn't know I was such a pompous windbag back in 2009 (but it comes as no surprise). I wonder if you ever saw it? Maybe I did, and have forgotten, but the Internet is (almost) eternal. That is even pre-Precious... I had only been editing for 3 years! Eebahgum (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
I woke up determined to expand the article, and translate it, - help? We so far have Ukainian, Moldavian, Italian and Japanese. I'll do German. Please note other plans here for coordination. Anybody bold enough for Russian? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:21, 26 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your terrific work on the Prayer for Ukraine article—I think I'm going to put some things aside to work on Mykola Lysenko's article. I was considering trying to start some kind of event at the CM project page to work on Ukranian music articles, what do you think about this? I feel like I (or you and I, if you have any interest) could assemble a list of important articles for the project to work on. Not sure if it would be limited to composers, maybe also performers or genres? If you don't have time, I understand, just thought I'd ask about it! I did finally get around to adding more to Crumb's article, by the way, though I think Lysenko will take priority for the time being. Aza24 (talk) 00:23, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
thank you so much - and I woke up thinking that I'd mobilise QAI ;) - I first want to polish the article some more, and nominate for DYK, and then see what's missing, first from the OREYA playlist and the essay about composers cited in the article. If you could add sources to the hymn from what you find for Lysenko, that would be great. We had Kateryna Kasper. Usually, new "needed articles" just come by red links for me, but feel free to do it more formally for CM. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Ah, lovely! Thank you for your work on this article, the message(s) you left on my talk page, and of course, prayers for Ukraine. Panini!•🥪00:13, 3 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your work on the article and for the DYK nomination. I'll look through these and add some. I don't think the Toronto99 SNL one is needed though, the existing sources in the article cover that performance pretty well. DanCherek (talk) 19:39, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Not sure I understand, Willsherr. A link was added to the article that didn't work for me, - was that by you? I can read this, and it is in English. Do you mean the other stanzas? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:07, 28 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Valery Gergiev
Perhaps you saw this:
Waleri Gergijew: München entlässt Chefdirigent der Philharmoniker[3]
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I know this old curmudgeonly PhD historiographer who is sort of legendary for being contrary and dismissive of others. But look at the guy's daily edits. He just adds sources. About EVERYTHING. Reliable ones. He doesn't always cite, but his sources inevitably prove to be good ones. Knowing his decidedly and openly rightist bent, it wouldn't surprise me that an inevitable result of his involvement on Wikipedia is a rightist bent towards sourcing... That said, he's a sourcing machine. In Wikipedia history, an influential presence. Deserves more than a barnstar. BusterD (talk) 20:27, 27 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Zwettler, Walter (2007). Zwettlers großes Buch der Bullterrier, Bulldoggen und Molosser (in German). Blaubeuren: Verl. Ulmer Manuskripte. ISBN978-3-939496-43-4. OCLC244289396.
What makes you say that? It seems to have been a tiny business and I'm not sure the publisher even exists anymore. I see no reason to assume they check what they publish for accuracy. —Kusma (talk) 16:28, 3 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
That JSTOR link is about the other publisher. Your dog book is from "Ulmer Manuskripte", the JSTOR link is "Eugen Ulmer". I think you'll need to determine the reliability of your dog book by what other WP:RS say about it and use it for (WP:UBO). If they all say "this is the definitive book on bulldogs" then your book can be relied upon even if the publisher doesn't inspire confidence. (Vaguely reminds me of an example from mathematics: Thomas Royen's proof of the Gaussian correlation inequality is generally accepted now although he first published it in a predatory journal that any "serious" mathematician would usually ignore). —Kusma (talk) 20:50, 3 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Thank you, Gerda. I had to chuckle a little about your edit summary here though. I did not know that you are wary of Arbcom. But then I understood your edit. :) --Gereon K. (talk) 11:18, 5 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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This is to let you know that the Messiah (Handel) article will be rerun as today's featured article on April 13, 2022. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 13, 2022, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.
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Hello Gerda! I have seen you posting on some people's talk pages about Prayer for Ukraine (nothing bad about it). Today I"m going to get the chance to play the song for myself. I'm glad that there are people out there who do support Ukraine (including me), they really need it. I watched a video recently about how this war started, and it appears it's just because Russia is jealous that Ukraine was able to find a lot of natural gas, making Ukraine second to Russia in natural gas (i may be misinterpreting that as I tend to have terrible memory). Hope you continue to do well. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654514:53, 8 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
I did not know that. Assuming you are referring to the photo with the flowers (which is the one I see that mentions the song) it looks very pretty. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654515:07, 8 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
now I don't know which you mean, - I talk about the one beginning the thread #Ukraine here, of a choir from Zhytomyr, - another photo from there just above. I take many of flowers, so that may also be by me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:12, 8 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Ah my bad. I was looking at the one at the top of this page (below the DYK part). That still looks very good. Also, I just noticed that at the top of your talk page, there's this string of text: Faure Requiem Manuscript.gif I would assume that's meant to display as an image/gif? ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654515:18, 8 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 9 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elena Tsallagova, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that operatic sopranoElena Tsallagova has been described as a natural actress who can make even looking around a corner interesting? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elena Tsallagova. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Elena Tsallagova), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Sorry, I took my eyes off my watchlist and when I returned just now, the clock had just ticked over midnight at UTC and the item has disappeared off the mainpage. And by the way, this edit did not trigger a ping as explained in the lead of Help:Notifications (look for the word in bold font). Schwede6600:20, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
No problem, I thought you were watching , and if not had more important things to do, as I had. I know that a ping works only with a new signature, but when my mind is somewhere else I forget. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:37, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Nabucco you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of GeneralPoxter -- GeneralPoxter (talk) 19:00, 10 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Bridal Suite (Bernstein)
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The Hard Worker's Barnstar
I think you must be one of the most hard-working editors here - thank you for your tireless efforts in creating articles and in helping other editors with theirs. And congratulations on the Kafka DYK! Storye book (talk) 10:22, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
thank you but we must have a few misunderstandings ;) - Kafka was no DYK (see the one and only userbox on my user page) - I'm not working hard, I mean: creating articles is soft/fun/pleasure - what's sometimes hard is not being understood, but I'm getting better at it --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:58, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Many thanks
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I added a ref for an interesting recent article from the NY Times about the first performance of Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven). I do not want to expand it personally, for an article of this importance in a field I know only as an ignorant music-lover. Could you take at look at the article in the NYT and add what is necessary. (And I see the Louis Duport article needs great expansion, which I am similarly not competent to do--can you suggest someone? DGG ( talk ) 07:20, 12 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Forum Thomanum
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On 13 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Forum Thomanum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2002, Georg Christoph Biller and others conceived the Forum Thomanum as a new music educational campus for the Thomanerchor, Bach's choir dating back to 1212? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Forum Thomanum. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Forum Thomanum), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 14 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anna Korsun, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Anna Korsun, a composer who studied in Kyiv and Munich, and teaches in Amsterdam, was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2018? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anna Korsun. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Anna Korsun), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
More thanks to you GA. I think that the first time I heard Freude changed to Freiheit was a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein with the VP celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk14:53, 15 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 17 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Franz Grave, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Franz Grave, the first bishop of Essen born in Essen, focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Franz Grave. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Franz Grave), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 18 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mass in D major (Dvořák), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when the Mass in D major by Antonín Dvořák was first performed in 1887 at the chapel of a summer residence, his wife was a solo singer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mass in D major (Dvořák). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mass in D major (Dvořák)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 19 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Maria Moscisca, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Lviv-born Maria Moscisca(pictured) performed the title role of Verdi's La traviata at the San Francisco Opera in 1913, a review described her as "the impersonation of grace and refinement"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Maria Moscisca. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Maria Moscisca), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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The article Nabucco you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nabucco for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of GeneralPoxter -- GeneralPoxter (talk) 01:01, 21 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 21 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stephan MacLeod, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Stephan MacLeod's 2021 recording of Bach's Mass in B minor with ten singers was said to be "characterised by swift momentum, crisp articulation and benevolent attention to detail"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stephan MacLeod. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Stephan MacLeod), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
blushing - let's not forget Микола Василечко and the gnomes for this article, and strong support of many for the connected articles, also reviewers, and those in the processes to bring things to the Main page: thanks to all of you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:32, 24 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
congrats to your first TFA, SLAPP Suits! I have DYK and RD today, both took (too) long to appear, and I have de:Anna Korsun on the German DYK (which came fast, and de:Prayer for Ukraine was 3 March). - You could nominateArtem Datsyshyn, - I didn't because its shortish, and the key (Ukrainian) ref was gone from one day to the other ("Beautiful performance and joy in the eyes of young viewers give hope that beauty will help us save our fragile world!", 2014), and I didn't want three noms at the same time ... - see him here. - For the actress below, I'll offer you the quirky irony that she played in a Russian-Ukrainian tv series, unless we want to get even more quirky and say that she played in the series Mystery of St. Patrick and was killed on St. Patrick's Day. - weird question: want to join the cabal? 'cause you are a member by what you do, and your name is in the TFA section ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 23 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank ya thank ya, it feels good! And why thank you for the offer, I would love to join your cabal ;) I've expanded Datsyshyn's article a bit, did some copyediting; I was sortaaa hoping that it could make it to the MP today-ish but I realize now that this was a pipe dream. Should've planned that one in advance. Are Russian-Ukrainian tv series common? I wouldn't think they would be, although it doesn't seem impossible... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 08:23, 23 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Oleksandr Oksanchenko didn't ask for this war or for it to claim his life but he took a stand for what he believed in. I will not judge a warrior's heart on the merit of his fight but how well he fought for what he believed. Thank you Gerda for nominating and everyone that contributed to this wonderful article. It was an incredible read about an amazing Song. --ARoseWolf14:31, 24 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
The article Prayer for Ukraine you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Prayer for Ukraine for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message not delivered by Legobot, due to some sort of bot-malfunction, apologies for the manual handling and concomitant delay, on behalf of Serial Number 54129 -- Serial Number 54129 (talk) 14:18, 24 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 25 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rose Delaunay, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rose Delaunay(pictured), a French operatic soprano who began her career at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and her husband, an actor, celebrated their diamond wedding in 1937? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rose Delaunay. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rose Delaunay), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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You are 3C Royalty. Thank you for your continued, consistent community-minded work. I hope you are thoroughly enjoying being outside. :) Hmlarson (talk) 17:23, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 27 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bewahre uns, Gott, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Bewahre uns, Gott" (Keep us, God) is a hymn for protection and blessing that Eugen Eckert derived from a 1968 peace song written and composed in Argentina? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bewahre uns, Gott. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bewahre uns, Gott), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 28 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eleonore Schönborn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Eleonore Schönborn, who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eleonore Schönborn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eleonore Schönborn), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 17 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Franz Grave, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Franz Grave, the first bishop of Essen born in Essen, focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Franz Grave. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Franz Grave), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 18 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mass in D major (Dvořák), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when the Mass in D major by Antonín Dvořák was first performed in 1887 at the chapel of a summer residence, his wife was a solo singer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mass in D major (Dvořák). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mass in D major (Dvořák)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 19 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Maria Moscisca, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Lviv-born Maria Moscisca(pictured) performed the title role of Verdi's La traviata at the San Francisco Opera in 1913, a review described her as "the impersonation of grace and refinement"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Maria Moscisca. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Maria Moscisca), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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The article Nabucco you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nabucco for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of GeneralPoxter -- GeneralPoxter (talk) 01:01, 21 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 21 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stephan MacLeod, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Stephan MacLeod's 2021 recording of Bach's Mass in B minor with ten singers was said to be "characterised by swift momentum, crisp articulation and benevolent attention to detail"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stephan MacLeod. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Stephan MacLeod), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
blushing - let's not forget Микола Василечко and the gnomes for this article, and strong support of many for the connected articles, also reviewers, and those in the processes to bring things to the Main page: thanks to all of you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:32, 24 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
congrats to your first TFA, SLAPP Suits! I have DYK and RD today, both took (too) long to appear, and I have de:Anna Korsun on the German DYK (which came fast, and de:Prayer for Ukraine was 3 March). - You could nominateArtem Datsyshyn, - I didn't because its shortish, and the key (Ukrainian) ref was gone from one day to the other ("Beautiful performance and joy in the eyes of young viewers give hope that beauty will help us save our fragile world!", 2014), and I didn't want three noms at the same time ... - see him here. - For the actress below, I'll offer you the quirky irony that she played in a Russian-Ukrainian tv series, unless we want to get even more quirky and say that she played in the series Mystery of St. Patrick and was killed on St. Patrick's Day. - weird question: want to join the cabal? 'cause you are a member by what you do, and your name is in the TFA section ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 23 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank ya thank ya, it feels good! And why thank you for the offer, I would love to join your cabal ;) I've expanded Datsyshyn's article a bit, did some copyediting; I was sortaaa hoping that it could make it to the MP today-ish but I realize now that this was a pipe dream. Should've planned that one in advance. Are Russian-Ukrainian tv series common? I wouldn't think they would be, although it doesn't seem impossible... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 08:23, 23 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Oleksandr Oksanchenko didn't ask for this war or for it to claim his life but he took a stand for what he believed in. I will not judge a warrior's heart on the merit of his fight but how well he fought for what he believed. Thank you Gerda for nominating and everyone that contributed to this wonderful article. It was an incredible read about an amazing Song. --ARoseWolf14:31, 24 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
The article Prayer for Ukraine you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Prayer for Ukraine for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message not delivered by Legobot, due to some sort of bot-malfunction, apologies for the manual handling and concomitant delay, on behalf of Serial Number 54129 -- Serial Number 54129 (talk) 14:18, 24 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
You are 3C Royalty. Thank you for your continued, consistent community-minded work. I hope you are thoroughly enjoying being outside. :) Hmlarson (talk) 17:23, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
That guy rules. You overestimate me, though – I posted that and then immediately thought, "Wait, am I allowed to make a bass sing D4?" DanCherek (talk) 15:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 25 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rose Delaunay, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rose Delaunay(pictured), a French operatic soprano who began her career at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and her husband, an actor, celebrated their diamond wedding in 1937? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rose Delaunay. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rose Delaunay), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 27 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bewahre uns, Gott, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Bewahre uns, Gott" (Keep us, God) is a hymn for protection and blessing that Eugen Eckert derived from a 1968 peace song written and composed in Argentina? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bewahre uns, Gott. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bewahre uns, Gott), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 28 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eleonore Schönborn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Eleonore Schönborn, who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eleonore Schönborn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eleonore Schönborn), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 29 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Olga Bezsmertna, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after the Ukrainian soprano Olga Bezsmertna won the Neue Stimmen competition in 2011 (pictured), she was engaged at the Vienna State Opera? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Olga Bezsmertna. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Olga Bezsmertna), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
she sang "dove sono ..." - where did the happy moments go? - for the competition (yt, + 2020 Vienna stage yt) and in Munich now, where the Ukrainian flag topped the opera house, the facade was lighed with blue and yellow, and she came to the curtain call covered with the flag, then held by her and the conductor, Christopher Moulds - stand and sing. - dove sono ...interview in German "Ich mache nur was ich fühle (I only do what I feel) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 29 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 30 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ein Danklied sei dem Herrn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1886 song of thanks "Ein Danklied sei dem Herrn" was performed at a thanksgiving service for Pope Benedict XVI on the day of his abdication? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ein Danklied sei dem Herrn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ein Danklied sei dem Herrn), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Oh, I bet you'll like this. The baritone who sings the Count is one of the best petit-grand-opera baritones around here: Robert Garner. (He also choruses at the Met.)
Hi again, Gerda! Do you happen to know whether any YouTube uploads (maybe audio only) of Gundula Janowitz or Maria Stader (my two favorite Countesses) singing "Dove sono" are in public domain? If yes, I'd love to link to them, but I don't fully know how to tell. Thank you, - HandsomeMrToad (talk) 10:04, 31 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Can you tell whether this one - (Teresa Stich-Randall is my VERY favorite) - is public domain? If you can tell, how do you know? (Sorry if this is a naive question.)
It looks decently described (click on "show more") but lacks conductor, date and such things, so I wouldn't choose that for our article. Perhaps write about development of the tempo over time ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Wenn die Aufnahme in den letzten Jahren aufgenommen waren, es gibt keine Warscheinlichkeit das sie sind urheberrechtlich nicht mehr geschützt. Dennoch es sollte kein Problem sein (für ein Link), wenn die Video von offiziellen Quellen kommt. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 14:23, 31 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 31 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Panorama (German TV program), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Peter Merseburger refused to host a 1974 edition of German political TV magazine Panorama after a report by Alice Schwarzer(pictured) on an abortion was cancelled by authorities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Panorama (German television). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Panorama (German TV program)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I translated yesterday Unita Blackwell, promised years ago to Coffee whom we miss now. So we have 22 women, Russian, Ukrainian (4), Polish, French (4), Austrian (2), Italian, German (2), Slovak, US-American (3), Kyrgisian, Scottish - "the only real nation is humanity" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:40, 1 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 2 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gott liebt diese Welt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that all stanzas of the song "Gott liebt diese Welt" begin with this line, sending the message that God loves this world to young Christians in Mecklenburg after the Berlin Wall was built? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gott liebt diese Welt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gott liebt diese Welt), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Charlemagne (/ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn/ SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN, French: [ʃaʁləmaɲ]) or Charles the Great (Latin: Carolus Magnus; German: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814)....
Weil dieser Abschnitt schon eine Diskussion über die Geschichte ist: kannst du mich für diese Seite helfen? Ich habe es Quellelos gefunden, und habe dieser Problem zu reparieren versucht. Ich frage nicht zu viel, nur einer kurzer Blick für offensichtliche Fehler (wenn es gibt einige), wenn es für dich möglich ist. Danke, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:01, 4 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Whenever your name comes up, I see kind and thoughtful comments. Your constant devotion to kindling the value of friendship is both heartwarming and inspiring. — Mhawk10 (talk) 22:32, 2 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
(talk page stalker) Not the first time I've seen this sung by young singers ([5]), although not this young! Of course, never mind me for pointing out that, meiner Meinung nach, und auf ganz verschiedenen Gründen, the best aria in classical music remains this one (in that specific interpretation). Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:32, 3 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Dear User:Gerda Arendt, I wanted to thank you for wishing me on my Precious anniversary. I was very thankful when you gave that award to me and still remain so to this day. I hope that you are doing well. With regards, AnupamTalk07:40, 7 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 8 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Heather Phillips, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Heather Phillips made her European debut in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero at the Oper Frankfurt, reviewers agreed that her nuanced coloraturas served to portray Bianca's development? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Heather Phillips. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Heather Phillips), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 8 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hans-Karl von Kupsch, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hans-Karl von Kupsch, who was instrumental in the unification of the East and West German booksellers' associations, ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hans-Karl von Kupsch. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hans-Karl von Kupsch), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi. I want Federico Gatti be a FA. This article is already being GA Reviewed (by someone who's not very active, feel free to review it) but I constantly improve its content (I'd nominated the article for GA on 9 February but I've since then really improved it - look here). Can you teach me how to make it a FA? DrSalvus17:32, 9 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for asking, but perhaps better ask someone more familiar with the topic. Quite generally: have it GA first, and then run a peer review. Look at similar articles, and learn from them. Check the requirements. I'd expect more reviews of his playing, rather than listing a sequence of teams. Technically: check for alt text to images, and duplicate links. He is singing a contract? That amused me? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:26, 9 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 10 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Peter Merseburger, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after a career as political journalist, Peter Merseburger wrote biographies of Der Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein and chancellor Willy Brandt? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Peter Merseburger. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Peter Merseburger), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
the hook could have been more personal, and (hopes for East-West reconciliation, and two of the three persons) pictured, but such is DYK. pos. 7. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:28, 10 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 11 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chanson à bouche fermée, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chanson à bouche fermée, a 1933 choral piece composed by Jehan Alain, is sung without text and with a closed mouth? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chanson à bouche fermée. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chanson à bouche fermée), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi. I'm going to resume work on the music section for BWV 56 (parts of Whittaker). Dover features "Eleven Great Cantatas" in full score, including BWV 56 and 82.[6] The choice is not surprising; perhaps adding that reference might be a good idea. Mathsci (talk) 15:27, 11 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
I have communicated with Aryeh Oron of bach-cantatas.com, who has been kind and helpful; I have (temporarily) inserted the McDaniel/Werner exterior mp3 files from archive.org. In future, please could you transfer the comments on the article talk page to the FAC? Thanks, Mathsci (talk) 07:42, 14 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the communication with BCW, and the external sounds. (One was broken yesterday, url? - haven't check today.) - I reply where questions are. In case the FAC gets archived it may even better to have them on the article talk. In the unlikely case that we'll get 4 supports within a few days, I'd copy them to the FAC. Feel free to answer and make changes. - I am determined to get the recordings presentable, but day by day, there are first articles of people who just died, - with public attention now, they deserve better articles. I'd have not problem with the FAC archived now and tried again in a few months. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:50, 14 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
I assume you were pinged from Commons ... There are still several changes that need to be made to the "Music" section (Pirro, Whittaker, Cantagrel, etc). The section on recordings needs more thought on vocal interpreters (e.g. Hermann Prey, Gérard Souzay, etc), which can be sourced from Gramophone, Nicholas Anderson, etc. The HRIP and OVPP are a more recent phenomenon: there are academic essays on Joshua Rifkin's versions with "The Bach Ensemble" (which Jan Opalach as soloist). There are JSTOR articles reviewing recordings of the "Kreuzstab cantata". It was only days ago on 28 March 2022 that you were enthusing about the FAC; everybody is busy and this is the Easter period—even the Queen has had to miss Maundy Thursday due to frailty. Mathsci (talk) 10:00, 14 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
The coordinator gave us 5 days (on 12 April), and I won't ask for mercy, especially as I believe it would be better improved in leisure. I'll sing three times these holidays which is a blessing compared to the last two years, 2020 no service, 2021 only congregational singing. I am not sure that qualities of singers should be profoundly covered in the Cantata article, - that could go to the Recordings. In a way: only if enlightening the music. You will know best. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:12, 14 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 12 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Zofia Kilanowicz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Polish sopranoZofia Kilanowicz appeared as Roxana in Szymanowski's King Roger in Paris, and recorded Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Zofia Kilanowicz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Zofia Kilanowicz), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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right, so small question. the part about St John isn't in Menschick's article, and it doesn't look like the Johannespassion has its own link—could that be added to the article? Also, what... does it mean? Not up on my history of Christianity, unfortunately theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 21:36, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Theleekycauldron I am definitely not the person to ask about Christianity, but a passion is music played during Semana Santa (Holy Week as it is called in Mexico). Johannes is Saint John. Thus Johannespassion means St. John's Passion. (note similarity in the title of this one by Bach.) And thanks for jumping on that. I so rarely go to DYK, was surprised to see that one waiting for a review. SusunW (talk) 21:52, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
(ec) it's under Work, no? Johannespassion = St John Passion (disambiguation), they come small like his (no article, and unlikely to have one) and big like Bach's - that's for 2024, 300 years after the first performance on Good Friday. - Thank you for more detail, Susun! - nutshell: no link. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
More information from my housekeeper...It is a musical retelling of the Easter story in one of the gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, in this case the latter. SusunW (talk) 22:00, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
I think I understand the question, finally: The Passion after St John is an explanation of the title, no more. If you think it should also be in the article, feel free. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:17, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language sacred oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. Its text was compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It covers episodes related to the Messiah mostly in verses from the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation. Handel structured the work in three parts, each in scenes as in Baroque opera. Part I covers prophecies, the birth of Jesus and his work, Part II focuses on his Passion, while Part III deals with the resurrection of the dead. Messiah was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, with a small orchestra of trumpets, oboes, strings and continuo. After an initially modest reception, the oratorio became one of the most frequently performed Western choral works, often adapted to large orchestras and choirs after Handel's death. Mozart modified the instrumentation in his arrangement Der Messias to a German text. The famous Hallelujah chorus, concluding Part II, is often performed individually.
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On 13 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Christian Herwartz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Christian Herwartz, a Jesuit who lived in an open community in Berlin from 1978 to 2016, held "street exercises" and peace prayers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Christian Herwartz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Christian Herwartz), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I'd understand if there was a difference in meaning. Hallelujah Chorus is a fine redirect. I'm less sure about Western culture (music). Western classical music might be even closer to what was meant by the original authors 10 years ago, who saw no need to link at all. Perhaps all these possible links are rather a detour from the subject? - Did you know that on the Main page, we are not permitted redirects? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 14 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 15 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nabucco, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the titular character of Verdi's Nabucco, the opera that established his fame, is a combination of three historic rulers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nabucco. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Nabucco), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Not quite sure what you mean. Same author and period: of course I used the earlier as a model for the later, and will expand, so left bits commented out to further serve as models. If something went in the new one openly, and is wrong, please remove. I am busy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 15 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 15 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wolfram Menschick, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Johannespassion by Wolfram Menschick, a setting of the Passion according to St John for three soloists and choir, will be performed today at Essen Cathedral? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wolfram Menschick. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wolfram Menschick), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
We don't include information in articles just because it makes a good DYK or because you want to see it on the main page on Good Friday (or any other specific day). Please stop twisting articles to get your prefered DYK. You wouldn't have included that information about any other concert, but included this bit just because it played now. That's not how an encyclopedia works, that's just people believing DYK to be more important than the actual article. It should not have been written and nominated like this, and it should not have been approved and promoted by people who should know better as well. Fram (talk) 15:39, 15 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
I'm discussing your behaviour, you are one of the most prolific DYK nominators. If you don't nominate this kind of thing, then the behaviour of the others further down the line won't really matter. Fram (talk) 15:44, 15 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 15 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oksana Shvets, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oksana Shvets. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Oksana Shvets), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Glory-of-the-snow in snow, Oberauroff
Your photograph of Glory of the snow (Scilla luciliae) is gorgeous. To me, it represents new life...spring eternal. Atsme💬📧21:42, 15 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 16 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Artem Datsyshyn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Artem Datsyshyn, the National Opera of Ukraine's principal dancer in ballets such as Swan Lake and La Bayadère, is said to have danced with "romantic sublimity" and "psychological depth"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Artem Datsyshyn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Artem Datsyshyn), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Wishing you a joyous and memorable Easter that is filled with love and song! And if you can, please send me the recipe to that dish. What a great photo, Gerda! Atsme💬📧14:55, 17 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
- I'm the only chef at home, and didn't even apply for the job! Thanks for reminding me to simply look up the recipe online, so here is the classic French version, and the WP version. I remember my trip to Patagonia, at least a decade ago, and while in Argentina we ate what looks like the dish you photographed, beautifully prepared (I prefer mine med-rare rather than still mooing). It was soooo delicious!! And thank you for your efforts and thoughtful dedication to the victims in Ukraine...such a tragedy. Atsme💬📧19:35, 17 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
For Easter
My favorite German cave-man sings Handel's Messiah
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I know you like putting the subject first, but I think the charity concert for Ukraine is the catchiest part—this version keeps the reader hooked in long enough to tell them both the singer's name and this very cool thing about her. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 02:30, 17 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 18 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Katharina Konradi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Katharina Konradi, a soprano born in Kyrgyzstan, made a recording of lieder with pianist Gerold Huber including settings by Lori Laitman of children's poems written in Terezin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Katharina Konradi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Katharina Konradi), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 19 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article European Theatre Convention, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2014 the European Theatre Convention started a programme known as Dialogue of Cultures to support exchanges with theatres in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/European Theatre Convention. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, European Theatre Convention), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hello, Gerda Arendt!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! ArsenalGhanaPartey (talk) 14:53, 19 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
ArsenalGhanaPartey, yes, I need help. Article history: this article about a notable subject who wrote standard volumes about dance, was translated from German last year by a user who is no longer with us. The problem - as with many others from German - is that the facts are supported by book sources which none of us has. What can we do? Reduce the article to that he wrote the books, or leave the facts from his life, assuming in good faith that the German authors didn't invent them? There are links to this person, waiting for it to become an article. - I smiled a lot about the invitation to the Teahouse ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 19 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
as I said, I smiled a lot, almost grinning - but at least this came in good faith, - why AGF seems always lost when the infobox topic is touched I don't know --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:53, 21 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Monika Buczkowska
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On 20 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Monika Buczkowska, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Monika Buczkowska, who made her stage debut as a student in Poznań as Mozart's Susanna, was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a charity concert for Ukraine at the Alte Oper? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Monika Buczkowska. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Monika Buczkowska), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Hello. An IP editor has twice added an infobox to Harrison Birtwistle, identical to the one you added before it was reverted pending discussion at the talk page. Did you perhaps accidentally log out before editing that article? Storchy (talk) 14:56, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Storchy: In the future, you'll want to handle this privately by default. Gerda couldn't admit that she was the IP if even she was, because that would be outing her own IP address. So, email the person if you're unsure, but if you are sure, go to WP:Oversight. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 23:10, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
thank you - I am all for treating composers like other human beings, and Birtwistle was also a clarinetist, and a father (which the lead doesn't reveal, nor the place of death which readers may want to know now, not after we came to a conclusion in a discussion) but - anybody - please add to the discussion, not to the edit-war --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:42, 21 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Hans Robertson
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On 21 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hans Robertson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hans Robertson ran a studio in 1920s Berlin where he photographed celebrities such as artist Käthe Kollwitz, boxer Max Schmeling and dancer Gret Palucca(pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hans Robertson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hans Robertson), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 22 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Emily Pogorelc, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that that American soprano Emily Pogorelc went from winning the 2018 "Most Promising Talent" prize at Glyndebourne to appearing as Mozart's Cherubino at the Munich Opera Festival? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Emily Pogorelc. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Emily Pogorelc), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 23 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Judita Nagyová, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during a German charity concert for Ukraine, Slovakian singer Judita Nagyová performed a solo in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Judita Nagyová. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Judita Nagyová), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi, Gerda! It's been awhile, and so I just thought I would say hello! Hope your wiki-work was been going well. I've just been laboring at Kullervo... but my ambitions always grow further and further. Now, I'm thinking about Luonnotar, too! With warmth, ~ Silence of Järvenpää (talk) 02:25, 24 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
thank you for coming over, look around for my work here, and I hope to get to some little flowers for you later today, - was too tired last night - you have good plans, best wishes! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:49, 24 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you!
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On 25 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Maks Levin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a photograph by Maks Levin, showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Maks Levin. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Maks Levin), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
he said: "Every Ukrainian photographer dreams of taking a photo that will stop the war." - funeral: respect to "a man who was dedicated to the service of the truth"
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On 28 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dove sono, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the melody of Mozart's aria "Dove sono" from Le nozze di Figaro, asking "Where are those happy moments ...?", begins similarly to the Agnus Dei from his earlier Coronation Mass? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dove sono. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Dove sono), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
That was a beautiful double rainbow picture you took, Gerda. The colours are very vibrant, especially in the primary bow. Reflection bows are so cool. It really exemplifies our lives. We sometimes lead and sometimes we simply reflect the light of others. I think I enjoy being the reflection more than the primary bow. I get to experience the love light of others as their Lifesongs vibrate upon my strings and then I get to reflect those colours back into their lives and see the results in ways most could not comprehend. People look at the storms in their life as something tragic and evil. And they revere the sun filled days with joyful glee. Yet it takes the dark rains of the storm and the bright light from the sun to create these masterpieces we call rainbows. Both are needed to form the most beautiful and awe inspiring representation of life and a promise of a new and better day.. Storm and Sun, Light and Dark, make us the Rainbow that we are. Such graceful yet terrible creatures are we. --ARoseWolf14:02, 28 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
You said that so well. Did you know that I took a pic of a double rainbow, almost the same location and expression, on this day in 2002, and learned a day later that a friend had died then? Friends travelled to London from Germany to hear Kiri Te Kanawa sing Dove sono, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:10, 28 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
It does not surprise me that a rainbow revealed itself to you at the time of loss of someone dear to you. It can mean so many things for each person. I think the over arching message of the rainbow is that storms will come and they will pass. New days follow and they may be different days. They may be days where all we have left are the imparted Songs of lost friends and loved ones in our lives but that, in itself, is a beautiful thing. To be so impacted by others and carry a part of them so intimately connected to us that it becomes a part of our Song is the richest form of life we could ever have on this adventure. --ARoseWolf15:02, 28 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
yes - great music that I heard tonight, more to come here and in some articles - pic is a placeholder, the Kurhaus was in blue and yellow during intermission, and I hope I got it --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:23, 28 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
at this point, we have a pic of the orchestra, with little Ukrainian flags mounted to the double basses - article about the conductor planned for today - they called it "The Voice of Ukraine", and a representative of the Government of Hesse, and the vice president of the European Parliament spoke to the musicians and us. The music was extroardinary touching, especially in extremely soft moments, an full of power. Other pics to come, blue more prominent than yellow on the house facade. Did you see that today's featured image is blue, and we have a woman by the name of Marietta Blau in On this day? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 29 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Gerda, I don't know whether you follow the same interests of the late Sarah. I uploaded here the photographs she asked me to take knowing that I am an Italian that lives in Rome. You at en.wiki know better how to use them -- Blackcat21:15, 28 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Just letting you know that I moved the Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre hook from prep 3 to prep 4 so that I could slot in a special occasion hook. SL93 (talk) 00:49, 1 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 18:04, 1 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 3 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Klaus Wallrath, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Klaus Wallrath composed a mass for peace for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster, performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Klaus Wallrath. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Klaus Wallrath), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
heard: children's musical Bartimäus geht ein Licht auf (Bartimäus sees the light) - any translation for the phrase, which also means to understand something, finally? - rehearsed: his version of Gott liebt diese Welt --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:41, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
For God's sake stop
Have some decency and stop flooding DYK with your sausage-krautz bullshit pseudoreligious music. Not a week passes without you putting in some "Did you know that Herr Schlampewurtz sang some german plagiarism of French Te Deum in Krautzschtadt, Germany?" It is neither interesting nor relevant to anyone except you. Тимур Азадов (talk) 08:28, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
I find all forms of music to be interesting and quite relevant and I, for one, am thankful for Gerda and DYK. Apparently I am not alone either. Don't stop, Gerda. In fact, I look forward to your next DYK submission with great anticipation! --ARoseWolf14:52, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
thank you, that will be tomorrow (Leo Hussain who conducted an opera about a couple on their way to a new country by ship, and then he finds out that she was a guard in Auschwitz, and half of the opera plays there, reflecting the past - imagine!), and of course I don't stop (anything) just because someone tells me to stop, - just the opposite, for defiance ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:58, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
We may have our own opinions about music hooks and whether or not they appeal to us, but in no way are Gerda's hooks "bullshit". Gerda, just ignore the troll and don't take it personally. You do great work on musical topics and your articles are greatly appreciated. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:58, 5 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Leo Hussain
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On 4 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leo Hussain, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a reviewer noted that when Leo Hussain conducted Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the Oper Frankfurt, the orchestra excelled in chamber music moments, hard beats and distorted entertainment music? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leo Hussain. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Leo Hussain), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I saw the opera there (in 2015) which plays in Auschwitz for most of the time (remembered by a protagonist who was a guard there, and her new husband doesn't know when it begins on a ship sailing to a new living place). It is based on a play by Zofia Posmysz, who was an inmate there. See it if you can, but it was ready in 1968, and not performed until 2006. I praise Oper Frankfurt for taking the risk of being unpopular. - I saw the conductor again, with funnier fare, intro. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 4 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Zofia Posmysz, such a brave soul. My great-grandfather was held in a sub camp of Dachau while his eldest son was taken on to the main camp. He would later be moved to the same camp with his son and would witness his death. According to my great-grandmother he actually had to bury him in a mass grave but this is based on her recollection of what was written. He wrote these experiences on whatever he could find and those "letters" were found among countless others when American forces liberated the camp. So I've been told that after the war two of the American soldiers that liberated the camp found my great-grandmother in Italy and gave her these letters from him and I believe my grandmother donated them to a museum before I was even born. I do know that my oldest brother has researched most of this out. Thank you for sharing this Gerda. It has has so much depth of meaning and relevance to myself. --ARoseWolf15:19, 4 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
I think I've managed to replace it (even if I wasn't supposed to edit above the line). Grimes2: Ortrud was an evil sorceress - so the angry look is to be expected.--Ipigott (talk) 15:06, 4 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
2022 AFL Women's Grand Final
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Hi Gerda! I just noticed that you had reviewed the 2022 AFL Women's Grand Final nomination. However, I already did a review of the nomination a few days before your comment and had been discussing with the nominator on how to move forward. Is it okay if you explain why you made a new independent review? Thanks and happy editing! Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:55, 5 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Because I saw that "discussion": not accepting a good hook with an exceptionally good image, where the image alone (of a woman in action!) tells the story. - We have too many noms waiting for review to not accept any decent one quickly. Storye book has a good response to the frequently cited "not interesting for a wider audience" in the nom for Serhiy Kot: "Wikipedia (including DYK) needs to have something for everybody". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:29, 5 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you
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On 6 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Johannes zu Eltz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Johannes zu Eltz, who decided to become a Catholic priest after earning his doctorate in law in law, has advocated blessings of same-sex marriages by the Catholic Church? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Johannes zu Eltz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Johannes zu Eltz), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Obviously you did, but I am just a higgerant brass player and I didn't ... this blew my mind. I was half-asleep listening to Radio 3 the other morning and then I nearly fell out of bed in astonishment because they were playing Brandenburg 3 with horn and oboe parts! Oh my goodness – what a sound, and what a wonderful revelation. Not to you, I do get it, and of course I can see the authorship of the article as well as the next person. But please believe me when I say it was a very exciting thing to me to hear this for the first time. Always full of surprises, the old boy, no!?
In other news, I played in a very nice Easter Oratorio quite recently. Gorgeous music and lovely fun, albeit on new rather than repro technology! Still lovely to do though, and if it had been on natural trumpets I'm sad to say that I would have been in the audience or the pub! So the dreadful authenticity, tut tut, worked just fine for me, thank you very much. Cheers DBaK (talk) 22:46, 6 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 8 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Es tönen die Lieder, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Es tönen die Lieder", a German round about greeting spring with songs, first appeared in 1869 in a collection of works by Adolf Spieß, who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Es tönen die Lieder. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Es tönen die Lieder), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 9 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Du, o schönes Weltgebäude, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1653 hymn "Du, o schönes Weltgebäude", about renouncing the world, contains the stanza "Komm, O Tod, des Schlafes Bruder", which Bach used to conclude his cross-staff cantata? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Du, o schönes Weltgebäude. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Du, o schönes Weltgebäude), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
These premature DYKs absorb too much time and energy. Why appropriate all that material without asking, including text, audio and images? It's fortunate that my university proxy gave complete OCR access to the de Gruyter book by Egert Pöhlmann. I only found that out later, by accident. Mathsci (talk) 08:55, 10 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
I think we have a different concept of DYK. To my understanding, it's to raise attention to new short incomplete articles in the hope that some others may add. You did that, and I thank you. How much energy you put into it is up to you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 10 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre
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... that Kyiv's Molodyy Theatre is located in the same mansion (pictured) originally occupied by Les Kurbas's first theatre of the same name? (1 - 10 May)
... that the melody of Mozart's aria "Dove sono" from Le nozze di Figaro, asking "Where are those happy moments ...?", begins similarly to the Agnus Dei from his earlier Coronation Mass? (3 - 28 April)
... that a reviewer noted that when Leo Hussain conducted Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the Oper Frankfurt, the orchestra excelled in chamber music moments, hard beats and distorted entertainment music? (4 - 4 May)
... that a photograph by Maks Levin, showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel? (6 - 25 April)
... that Klaus Wallrath composed a mass for peace for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster, performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company? (8 - 3 May)
I don't have enough German, I'm afraid. The reviewer doesn't seem a German-speaker, or a music editor. Draft:Helmut Günther looks ok to me - you might ask at the Music project, or just move it yourself. Johnbod (talk) 10:39, 12 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Understand. Will think about it, but am hesitant to move myself what two others have rejected. Good to know that you think it's ok. Schröder looks promising, and my busy watchers are active already. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:49, 12 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks for your feedback on my DYK nomination--I'm just here for some clarification. Are you saying that every film should have a reliable source reference like in Johnny Depp filmography, or would something like a movie poster with her name on it qualify? I guess this is a level of citation I haven't dealt with before, and am just used to seeing the unsourced tables in most filmographies.
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On 13 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ladislaja Harnoncourt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that as a young girl, Countess Ladislaja Harnoncourt was thought to be uneducatable and was nicknamed the "wild Laja"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ladislaja Harnoncourt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ladislaja Harnoncourt), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I added a ref, no new content (hard to translate, how she poured water over her son to tame a fury), just lovely pics, one of the three eldest boys making music - infectious singing! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:40, 13 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for coming over, no, not you :) - it all depend on how "notable" is defined: a person who fulfills Wikipedia's rulez about references, or a personality people want to know about. Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:49, 17 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Dear Gerda, hope you are enjoying beautiful spring weather.
Because I reviewed a recent DYK of yours, Maxim Berezovsky is now on my watchlist. When the short description got changed from "Ukrainian composer" to "Russian composer", I noticed that the same editor @Jingiby: also changed other biographies with a similar edit summary: "Neither Ukrainian identity, nor Ukrainian state existed then." You know much more about composers and their biographies than I do, so if you have time could you offer some information concerning Berezovsky? HouseOfChange (talk) 14:05, 14 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
"The only real nation is humanity." I am probably the last person to ask about nationalities. I'd recommend to talk to the user. Bach is labelled a German composer although Germany didn't exist when he lived, - a matter of culture more than nationality. Perhaps that is a thought to discuss with Jingiby. When the first Ukrainian Symphony is credited to Berezovsky, there must be something Ukrainian about him. His infobox has no nationality, and perhaps that would be best for the short description as well. We wouldn't call Sibelius Russian just because Finland was under Russian occupation for some of his lifetime, no? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 14 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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I was just checking my archives and I see you thanked me last in March. The display of my brand new laptop is damaged badly and I'm feeling sad. I thought to ask you for some refreshments. ─ The Aafī on Mobile(talk)07:12, 15 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 16 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Serhiy Kot, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Serhiy Kot was the editor of Ukrainian Question, a collection of articles on the status of Ukraine in the 1930s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Serhiy Kot. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Serhiy Kot), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I'm glad that this made it through despite the long DYK nomination. Over 3,000 views while on the main page is pretty good. SL93 (talk) 17:55, 19 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hello dear Gerda. I hope you are doing well. Please let me ask you, as a professional editor of the Encyclopedia and an expert user, may you express your opinion if this edit is completely correct in terms of WP policies? As you consider, a lot of the article's content has been deleted. Thank you indeed for spending your time. Best, Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:57, 17 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
I'll look, but not anytime soon, sorry, - too many things where I'm behind, and pleasant RL. Best begin a discussion on the talk, and contact a project or two. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 17 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 17 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lancelot Lawton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the historian and political journalist Lancelot Lawton addressed a House of Commons committee in London in 1935, beginning: "The chief problem in Europe to-day is the Ukrainian problem"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lancelot Lawton. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lancelot Lawton), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 21 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article AJ Glueckert, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that AJ Glueckert appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Erik in 2017, described as a "clarion sensitive tenor", and at the Oper Frankfurt as Flamand in 2018, with "passionate power"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/AJ Glueckert. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, AJ Glueckert), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Would there be a link, other than party member? If no, let her rest. If yes: you take some other politician German-English, let's say Wilhelm Knabe, and look what needs to be done. For linked terms, you link in German and see if there's an English article matching. All this in some sandbox, - then I'll look. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:38, 25 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 25 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Magna Lykseth-Skogman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Magna Lykseth appeared as Isolde (pictured) when Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was first performed at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1909? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Magna Lykseth-Skogman. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Magna Lykseth-Skogman), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
written by Ipigott, because of the great image by Adam Cuerden, and more by the team in the pipeline, and the TFA is by Ceoil, - long live collaboration! - This would have been even better on Wagner's birthday, but I forgot. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:38, 25 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Gerda can you help me? How do I specify on an article that it is a subpage of another article, and how do I put a link to that subpage on the main article? I thought the instructions said to just put a link with a slash, but when I did that it came up red. HELP! Jenhawk777 (talk) 15:35, 26 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 27 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nadja Stefanoff, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Nadja Stefanoff portrayed the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt, one reviewer complimented the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nadja Stefanoff. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Nadja Stefanoff), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
... that when Nadja Stefanoff portrayed the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt, a reviewer complimented the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly?
not sure, because the second bolded article doesn't count. I believe that the 1930s date - connecting it to the Hitler Youth wanted or not - is part of the information. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:09, 28 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 29 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra brought music by three Ukrainian composers to concert halls in Poland and Germany in April 2022, including the Berlin Philharmonie and the Kurhaus Wiesbaden(pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kyiv Symphony Orchestra. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kyiv Symphony Orchestra), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 30 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Segne, Vater, diese Gaben, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Segne, Vater, diese Gaben", a round for saying grace of unknown authorship, has appeared in German collections for kindergarten, schools and events for young people? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Segne, Vater, diese Gaben. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Segne, Vater, diese Gaben), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Help! Can you point me to where it specifies that capitals should not be linked? I tend not to link major ones, but I do often link some capitals, and I'm interested in getting this right, Amitchell125 (talk) 22:03, 29 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
sure, I'm just not the person to come with guidelines all the time ;) - as you probably know, questions regarding them are often answered by typing WP: and adding the question, in thi case WP:OVERLINK. We had a longish discussion if Estonia should be linked (at Arvo Pärt), and I think you are on the right track linking those that a majority of readers may not know, but whoever doesn't know Kyiv in 2022 can probably not be helped. Did you see the violinist's video? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:57, 30 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hello! I came across this submission and I thought that it might interest you — Draft:Marianne Dumas. I have not reviewed it and I am not sure if the subject is notable, but it definitely needs better sourcing and perhaps you could help with that. — The Most ComfortableChair05:08, 31 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Yes, interested, a woman playing Bach on a cello. I did what I could, regarding language, references, layout, but can't help to independent sources. I wouldn't be surprised if the IP who created that was the artist herself. It's not ready as it is. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:37, 31 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
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I just got around to updating my article about the German violinist Michael Wieck to reflect his death, which occurred last year. His story has fascinated me ever since I first read it (in German) 20 years ago. – Sca (talk) 16:11, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
The original article was translated (by yours truly) from German Wiki, which had no documentation at all. Typisch? Also, As far as I can make out with my fragmentary knowledge of French, the French Wiki version of the article is basically a translation of ours. -- Sca (talk) 13:21, 3 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 3 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Friedrich Oberschelp, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Friedrich Oberschelp founded and conducted for five decades the Bielefelder Kinderchor, a children's choir that filled the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle in Bielefeld for Christmas concerts several times each season? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Friedrich Oberschelp. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Friedrich Oberschelp), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
On 7 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bielefelder Kinderchor, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Friedrich Oberschelp. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bielefelder Kinderchor), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I bought their (vinyl) Christmas album decades ago and found it wonderful. Subsequently replaced with a CD of the same, which I duplicated and gave to friends. -- Sca (talk) 12:34, 3 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
They seemed to me until I looked closer. Among his 100 mass, there are more than one in C major. Sadly, I confused that when writing Aulica, and still need those refs (Hägele) for the biography. Aulica is not on Hägele's website, that was my clue. You can compare the scores. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:03, 5 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 7 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aleksey Semenenko, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that German violinist and professor Aleksey Semenenko was stranded in Ukraine for a month because Russia invaded the country the day after his performance? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aleksey Semenenko. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Aleksey Semenenko), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
... better no comment about how poor I think the hook is for a creative artist, a symbol of the voice of Ukraine that is not silenced --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:54, 7 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Liva Järnefelt
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On 7 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Liva Järnefelt, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Liva Järnefelt performed leading roles at the Royal Swedish Opera, such as Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin(pictured), and Bizet's Carmen, which she also performed for her 25th anniversary with the company? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Liva Järnefelt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Liva Järnefelt), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 8 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jonathan Tetelman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when tenorJonathan Tetelman appeared as Loris Ipanov in Giordano's Fedora, which had made Caruso famous, a reviewer called him ideal for the role? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jonathan Tetelman. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jonathan Tetelman), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 8 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Luigi Gaggero, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Luigi Gaggero conducted the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, restoring Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No. 3 to its 1951 version, with the last movement themed "Peace will conquer war"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Luigi Gaggero. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Luigi Gaggero), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Dear Gerda, apologies if the question I'm about to ask may be basic (despite my age, I have a very limited understanding of computers and related matters), but... how does one use an "sfn" hatnote when there is no author named in the work cited? I'm currently working on a major rewrite of a Shostakovich article and am struggling with how to properly cite this. An editor on another Shostakovich article found a compromise by listing "Sikorski" as the last name of the author in the "Cited sources" section. That, however, is the name of the publishing company, not the author(s), whoever they may be. Is there a way to make this sfn work without resorting to imprecise tactics? I asked you because you might be one of the very few people on Wikipedia that I've had any prolonged interactions, for which I'm very grateful. Would also appreciate it if you know of a better place to direct my question to. Thank you very kindly in advance. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 22:46, 8 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
See Template:Sfn, scroll down to: No author name in citation template.
Thank you, Grimes2! What I do is not checking guidelines but visit articles and copy. I this learned my referencing from Kafka (but don't do the same because things changed). A recent article to look at would be Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227. Generally: you can define almost anything to be the name sfn is calling. In the above example | ref = {{sfnref|BGI|1996}}. Normally, the first parameter could be a publisher or a journal, just something the reader would recognise in the short citations, and the second a year. When calling, you can add page numbers as usually. - Another solution is to say N.N. for the author, but I find that less informative. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 9 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Yoel Gamzou
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On 9 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Yoel Gamzou, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at age 22, Yoel Gamzou from Tel Aviv conducted an orchestra that he had founded, playing his completion of Mahler's Tenth Symphony in Berlin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Yoel Gamzou. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Yoel Gamzou), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hello! @Gerda_Arendt, I need your help to promote Textile to GA. I have expanded and cited it to a certain level. Kindly spare some time to visit the page and guide me through which areas we can improve. I have identified that that some areas needs improvement . Thanks and regards RV (talk) 03:36, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I am sorry, but I don't have time for my projects this month. I'll look but - not familiar with the subject - can't do more anyway. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:40, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 10 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Theo Lebow, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that tenor Theo Lebow performed the roles of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso in the world premiere of the opera 27? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Theo Lebow. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Theo Lebow), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I saw that multi-talented singer a few times (Cimarosa, Rossini, Britten), but DYK doesn't like to say such things. He created these roles, but DYK has a problem with creation on stage. - All this doesn't matter right now. I am known for polishing the articles of people who recently died. Some of those, I knew personally. Some took their life. But not yet both, and then a man who carried the hopes of many. It was a shock. Can we forget pettiness, please.--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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I cannot make any translation machine give me an answer. The word is in the title of this film, 'Das Burlebübele mag i net', which features the woman whose biography I am working on. How would I translate that title? SusunW (talk) 15:47, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
In high German - this sounds Swabian to me - it would be Bauernjunge or Bauernbub, farmer's boy, a rather young one, "Bübele" for "Bub". - I don't like the little farmer's boy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:52, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
MarnetteD, you may be on the right track! Could it be a slang term for butch? The film is an autobiographical account of two lesbian activists who fought for political rights in the 1970s and 1980s - one in East Berlin and the other in West Berlin. (Who knew we had a language reference desk?) I always just ask Gerda, Ian or George. LOL SusunW (talk) 16:17, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
We have had a language reference desk all this time, its called Gerda, Ian and George. Consequently also might make a great name for a singing group. We know Gerda can sing. What about Ian or George? (rhetorical question) --ARoseWolf16:26, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Interesting thought SusunW. I've learned many many things at the ref desks over the years including this
fascinating item
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I recently saw Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. A fascinating dip into the past. At the 30:14 to the 30:25 mark there is a line of people walking through the streets dressed in costumes that are eight or nine feet tall interspersed with a couple people wearing what looks like a some kind of box. Can any of you tell me what this is about? Is it an advertisement or something else? I will be interested to learn what your research comes up with. MarnetteD|Talk19:11, 14 May 2021 (UTC)Reply
They're advertising something called Bullrich Magensalz, which was some kind of remedy for an upset stomach. The scene is referred to on page 49 of this academic article [8] (pdf). --Viennese Waltz19:40, 14 May 2021 (UTC)Reply
Very interesting. Thanks for your research skills Viennese Waltz and DuncanHill. The article mentions that it goes back to the 1820's and that it is still for sale in Germany today - or at least in 2019 - just amazing. I don't know if there is any wiki-article where the "Bull-rich Giants" could be mentioned but I do appreciate your helping me learn about this. MarnetteD|Talk20:47, 14 May 2021 (UTC)Reply
Happy to be of assistance. You could probably add it to the article on the film if you wanted to, using the article I linked to as a source. --Viennese Waltz21:21, 14 May 2021 (UTC)Reply
LOL ARoseWolf I have no clue if either George or Ian sing, but Ian is definitely an aficionado of music. MarnetteD, I love your advertisement story. Gerda, "she doesn't like the peasant, not the Lord, and wants to remain single" seems spot on, but how do I get there from the simple word? I guess I could put in a note, that the title is a play on a folksong, but I'd need some sort of reference saying that, right? SusunW (talk) 16:42, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks all. Good link Grimes2. Really appreciate the help! I'm going to go with a note that says "In the lyrics of the similarly titled East German Folksong, "Es Burlebübele mag i net" (Swiss version "Es Burebüebli mah-n-i-nit") the singer rejects the farmers boy, the son of the Lord, and any imperfect rascal who makes mistakes, preferring to stay single until death". SusunW (talk) 17:23, 10 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 11 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Friedenskirche, Stuttgart, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after bombing in World War II, the surviving tower of the Friedenskirche, a Lutheran church in Stuttgart, was combined with a new concrete structure? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Friedenskirche, Stuttgart. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Friedenskirche, Stuttgart), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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"And he who never managed it should slink
Weeping from this union!"
Is that really the best translation? "slink" sounds kinda odd to this American's ear. 'Course my German is pretty spotty, and my knowledge of poetry isn't much better. :-) Sometimes I think it's better not to understand certain lyrics, although that's probably true more in opera than in choral music.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:13, 11 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I have no idea. I bet there's some official translation of this famous piece (which is not called "Ode", just "To Joy") (which may be 18th-century English), a translation that should probably be cited, and perhaps literal translation from time to time. The latest change, however, had no similarity to the original which says that whoever didn't manage, should sneak away, weeping. I sang it once. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:20, 11 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I agree that the best would be to use a translation cited to a reliable source rather than what we have now. That said, "sneak" is better than "slink", and there should at least be a comma in the English version (after "manage"), just like the German.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:23, 11 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
(ec) Deepl gives me "steal away" for "sich wegstehlen" (what a thief would try after robbery). - Sorry, I don't know "slink". On my way out, but have great watchers. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:25, 11 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I found this in the external links, for a starter, with a translator given. It seems to be a singable version (something in English matching Beethoven's music), rather than going for precise meaning. It has "steal". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 11 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
(edit conflict) It's all pretty much the same thing, but "sneak away" and "steal away" are better than "slink", with "steal away" being better than "sneak away". I don't know how idiomatic the original German is, so that makes it hard to choose, and, besides, I'm not a professional translator, and even they can disagree. Translation is often an art rather than a science. I don't use the word "slink" often, but I usually think of it in connection with animals, particularly dogs, who, feeling guilty about something, slink away to avoid punishment. Never thought of it in relation to human thieves.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:36, 11 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Paula Lizell
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On 12 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Paula Lizell, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Paula Lizell, a former star of the Royal Swedish Opera, advanced from coloratura to dramatic Wagnerian roles? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Paula Lizell. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Paula Lizell), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I was going to use the image at first, but I saw that the majority of approved image hooks were biographies and buildings. Now the majority of hooks, including non-image hooks, are biographies. It has gotten very hard over the past few days to build a balanced set because of that. I'm so hoping we can move to one set a day or just have even more articles approved soon. SL93 (talk) 11:45, 13 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for coming over, and no need actually to excuse. Just that when an article is written for the featured image, it would be nice to have it, and double so if the hook says exactly zero about this person, because - see above. I'm working on the next one (started by Ipigott for an image improved by Adam Cuerden) but am tempted to use a different image as more closely related to the hook to come. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:20, 13 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hi, Gerda. If you have the source for his date of birth, please add to the wikibio. I'm not inserting the {CN} tag while the link is on MainPage, so I'm leaving a note here on your usertalk. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 17:20, 12 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I found no source for the exact date of birth, only the year 1973.[1]
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Gerda, I don't know if you remember me, since I haven't really been active here on Wikipedia for several years. I was wondering, though, whether you are still involved with the "Precious" award and, if you are, where I might go to nominate someone for that award. The user HaniwaEnthusiast has been tirelessly and devotedly writing, expanding, and rewriting articles about ancient Mesopotamian deities from scratch using reliable, scholarly sources for the past year at least. Just a few examples out of the literally dozens of articles she has written or rewritten include Nanaya, Ninshubur, Ninlil, Anu, Sin (mythology), Ningal, Utu, and sukkal. A much fuller list can be found on her userpage. Sadly, because the articles she works on are mostly obscure and not often read, she has received almost no recognition for her truly outstanding and indefatigable work. I feel this situation is an egregious injustice and I was hoping you could do something to give her just a tiny bit of the recognition she deserves. —Katolophyromai (talk) 05:39, 13 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 15 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hanning Schröder, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hanning Schröder, who played with his wife in the Harlan Trio in the 1930s on historical instruments, was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hanning Schröder. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hanning Schröder), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi, Wanted to stop by regarding the links in the GMN article at DYK. I checked the manual of style and in MOS:LINKONCEGenerally, a link should appear only once in an article, but it may be repeated if helpful for readers, such as in infoboxes, tables, image captions, footnotes, hatnotes. I will get working on the list, already put an infobox in there this am, I just got lazy - usually I put them in every article. Bruxton (talk) 14:07, 15 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. I know the guideline, but interpret "helpful for the readers" a bit broader. I followed it slave-like in early articles such as Melos Ensemble, not linking a player who had been mentioned in the lead again in the article, which led to sentences with some players linked (those not mentioned in the lead) and others not, which made the others look less important, - just strange. We are not slaves of guidelines, and I "freed" myself by repeating when it makes sense. For most readers, the man is probably already known but tell me a reader who will remember when it comes to the woman that they had seen her in the lead. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:21, 15 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Gerda, this is for you. Events that occur seem to matter more because they often cause sharp altering changes but the real impact is in the details between these events, where we are, move and interact with life. I call this our center. Our challenge is to find the details in the mundane, this center of our Song, and make its impact on us more defining. We are more than the sum of the visible or known us. There are hidden colors waiting to be explored, we just have to touch brush to canvas. --ARoseWolf18:20, 15 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 16 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Klara Höfels, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that actress Klara Höfels, known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Klara Höfels. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Klara Höfels), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 16 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, the concert hall of Bielefeld, remains mostly unchanged from its completion in 1930? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rudolf-Oetker-Halle. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Thanks, but I only gave the wikibio a few last-moment touch-up edits before the link goes on RD. It was pretty much good-to-go, anyway. --PFHLai (talk) 17:28, 16 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you
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Thank you so much for your kind words and message. It really does help. Wikipedia was getting a bit of a grind and your words gave me renewed energy. I found this and I thought you might like it, a prayer written by a recently deceased Wikipedian, Jzsj, who started writing on Wikipedia when he was 79 years old and added so many articles:
"Lord, I pray that I may see the grace in this pandemic.
When it ends, may I not return to business as usual,
but rather may I have grown more eager
to adorn my life with good works,
in preparation for the eternal banquet of heaven."
Fr Jack Zupez sj
Cardofk, thank you so much for the prayer and knowing its author however late! - We prayed for a priest who recently died, also at church. I am open to advice about taking his good deads (we know well) to DYK without ignoring the less good deads (we don't know well). Everybody. I know being silent would be easiest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:46, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Another historic opera singer
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I'm working at the moment on Adalgisa Gabbi but I thought I should let you know now as I'm pretty tied up these days and it's important not to overstep the deadline if you think it's worth a DYK. I'll be adding a portrait and will also try to include more details of the critical assessments she received.--Ipigott (talk) 13:49, 16 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I think I've now included the essentials. I realize the Google link to GSL needs editing. Maybe you can correct it. There used to be a Wikipedia routine for Google books which worked well with GSL too but for some stupid reason it's been deleted. Let me know if there are any other items in the article you would like me to work on.--Ipigott (talk) 12:14, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
That's great, and thank you for the update. Today - unplanned - I work on another soprano (who died yesterday, and comes from a corner of the world covered little), Gabbi is planned for Monday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I've more or less completed work on Carrera. If you are interested in DYK, it will have to be today or tomorrow but no problem if you can't make it. You've been doing a fantastic job with all the others.--Ipigott (talk) 11:10, 26 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 18 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Arno Lücker, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Arno Lücker ran a series of concerts titled 2 x hören (listen twice) at the Konzerthaus Berlin in which performers were interviewed between two renditions of the same piece of chamber music? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arno Lücker. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Arno Lücker), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 20 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stadthalle Hannover, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Stadthalle Hannover(pictured), the largest classical music concert hall in Germany by capacity, was modelled after the Pantheon in Rome and completed by 1914? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stadthalle Hannover. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Stadthalle Hannover), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi, when I was on NPP I noticed this article which might interest you. It was moved from redirect today so it could be good for dyk. It needs some work. Cheers. Bruxton (talk) 20:59, 20 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Gerda and thank you very much for the latest message. I am embarrassed to say that I have failed to find the baby deer – may I please have a little pointer as to where I should look? On the other hand, I did find, and very much liked, the Vivaldi two trumpets picture! Cheers DBaK (talk) 07:02, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, dear, for coming over ;) - For the baby who tried to hide, click on "songs", and check the first pic in the last row. The brief sound that creature made was louder than a trumpet and frightened me first, but it remained frozen until I got the camera. - What do you think about writing the trumpet concerto article together one of these days? Do you think it's the primary topic for Concerto for two trumpets, or should we add Vivaldi's name? Listening was sheer pleasure (first movement for communion, third for postlude)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:07, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hi Gerda. Thank you so much for that, and sorry for the slow reply. Yes I found the little one thanks – very cute!
I like the idea of working on that article, yes, thank you, but I worry that if you wait for my availability you could find it a looong wait. Spare time is in very short supply at the moment. So if I can help then I will but actually if you just want to go ahead, please do so. I haven't had much of a read around it yet so it will be interesting (or perhaps worrying?) to see how many decent sources emerge.
I'm completely inexpert in the question of primary topics and titles and the like. My instinctive reaction is that the article title should include Vivaldi – to use just the bare title would seem very odd to me, perhaps conferring some kind of exclusivity or something? But, as I say, not my area.
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I was surprised to find that there is no article about the organist Nicholas Kynaston, yet many other organist pages list him among their teachers. German wikipedia has an article, Nicolas Kynaston [de], which makes the lack of an English article all the more surprising. Might you put him on your "to do" list? Feline Hymnic (talk) 15:50, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Why did you remove the additional links I provided for other Pompeii townhouses in the See also section of the Page House of the Faun. There were several listed and I only added more since additional pages for Pompeii townhouses have been added to English Wikipedia since the couple of links were added? I'm only trying to increase traffic to newly developed pages. Mharrsch (talk) 16:54, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Gerda, thanks for suggesting alternatives. Actually, I found an existing template (that needed to be edited by the way) called {{Archaeological site of Pompeii}} that displays links to all the townhouses (after I added to the list) as well as links to other structures in Pompeii. I'm placing it below the last section of each Pompeii related page in the expanded state so it acts like a footer for all pages created for individual Pompeii sites. Since I am working on creating more pages for Pompeii houses, I will make a note to myself to include that template at the bottom of each one and edit the template itself to include a link to the new site each time I add one. I hope this is satisfactory. I'll go through all of the existing pages and replace any See also lists with the template so pages are uniform. Thanks again! Mharrsch (talk) 21:39, 21 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 22 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Thomas Resetarits, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Burgenland Croat sculptor Thomas Resetarits created Stations of the Cross(example sculpture pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Resetarits. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Thomas Resetarits), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Gerda, i have been staring at this blurb for this article for a while now, and although i laughed at the comment you left at your tfa/r nomination, realistically, i doubt i would be able to trim over 30% of the blurb's length without removing some substantial details. would that be alright with you? you are, of course, welcome to revert any of my removals if you disagree with them. dying (talk) 02:45, 22 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I think our best appraoch would be to talk to the author who had an accident when a nom was due (so I made it, without knowing), but now should be the best to discuss which details absolutely have to stay. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:49, 22 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Greetings in a major key
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On 25 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wilhelmine Holmboe-Schenström, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the mezzo-soprano Wilhelmine Holmboe(pictured), who studied in Paris with Pauline Viardot and moved to Italy to perform, was one of the first Norwegian women to be acclaimed internationally for her singing? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wilhelmine Holmboe-Schenström. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wilhelmine Holmboe-Schenström), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 26 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lorenzo Passerini, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Lorenzo Passerini, who has conducted several operas in Sydney, revived Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lorenzo Passerini. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lorenzo Passerini), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
changed to ... that songs from the collection "Auf dem Weg durch diese Nacht" (On the way through this night) were performed at the 2022 Katholikentag? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 27 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks for your anniversary message, and I'm sorry I didn't reply last year! It is good to know that my work, sometimes on strangely-chosen subjects, is appreciated. Andrew Dalby12:45, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK Ernst Jacobi: I recognized, that I'm surprisingly now the nominator of the DYK. But I only corrected the template. What can we do? Grimes2 (talk) 10:16, 30 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
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While I really appreciate all your work on the articles I have created on opera singers, Gerda, I think you might have accidentally made a mistake in reverting my last edit on Avelina Carrera. Perhaps the edit summary was not sufficiently clear but I simply wanted to avoid two identical wikilinks on the same item. In the same edit, I also corrected "role Elsa" to "role of Elsa". Perhaps you would like to take a fresh look at the article as it now stands. You will note that there are now two wikilinks on Lohengrin, one in the lead and one at the beginning of the Career section. I realize that some editors feel it is useful to repeat wikilinks in long articles if they first occurred in the lead but this article runs to less than 600 words and the two occurrences are quite close.--Ipigott (talk) 10:20, 30 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sorry that I failed to notice the other correction. Do as you please, but I repeat links from the lead in articles I create (long or short), not trusting that a reader will remember. I think I explained that further up on this page (Melos Ensemble), but again: Carrera is "yours" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:31, 30 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
No it's not mine; like all the other articles here it's part of a collaborative effort. Just as I have accepted your boxes, which still do not appear very encyclopedic to me but seem to please others, I'll also go along with your repeated wikilinks and will think twice about changing them in the articles I copy-edit. I don't think I'll be creating many more biographies of opera singers for the time being as the WiR focus on music ends today. I'll nevertheless see if there are any I can cover from our focus on the Baltic states.--Ipigott (talk) 15:01, 30 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I put "yours" in quotation marks for a reason. While I cherish collaboration, there's also something like editors' preferences, that I tend to respect. The boxees are not "mine", but standard for project opera, best expressed here: Yay!. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:31, 30 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Today's TFA Carsten Borchgrevink has a nice short box (2009). Why Cosima Wagner - by the same author - should not have one, is beyond my understanding. She isn't even a composer, just a composer's wife. Needless to say, why composers should not come with a little help for the "idiots" who need a fact fast, is also beyond my understanding. My last woman in music for the month is Heather Engebretson, seen. But first fresh air. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:23, 30 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I don't follow. What I saw was that you changed "It's That Man Again ... was a BBC radio comedy programme which ran for twelve series from 1939 to 1949." to "It's That Man Again ... is a BBC radio comedy programme which ran for twelve series from 1939 to 1949." Which sounds wrong, and I didn't check the rest, nor have I time to do that now. You can do me 2 favours: 1) never use an unclosed br (I fixed the above one), because it ruins the colours of the editor, 2) don't put too much in one edit. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:16, 3 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Duino Elegies Featured article review
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I have nominated Duino Elegies for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:42, 3 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the invitation. I feel responsible as it's about German poetry, but confess to know nothing about Rilke sources. I read the 2013 FAC, with Brianboulton's comment, and know that he was diligent with sources. I'll ask Victoria who helped with a Whitney poem. It's Brian's birthday today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:05, 4 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Diana Tishchenko
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On 5 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Diana Tishchenko, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Diana Tishchenko. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Diana Tishchenko), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Gerda, thanks for letting me know about the situation regarding the blurb; i had no idea. in that case, i will leave a message on the fac nominator's talk page, and ping you to keep you in the loop in case you are interested. dying (talk) 01:36, 5 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hallo G.A., Dein Artikel gefällt mir, sehr gut gemacht, ich hab eine Frage: ist dieses Lied in seiner englischen Version gebräuchlich? Bei Youtube sieht man allerhand Videos von Prozessionen in London und andernorts in UK. Da würd es passen. Danke und viele Grüße Inetdeswerdisagedürfe (talk) 12:22, 9 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Oh no... English spoken here... Sorry, I left school many years ago... please allow me using german
Brückenschlag: you'll find Menschen, die ihr wart verloren, - had to be inserted on demand from the congregation Das Übersetze ich mit meinem miserablen Schulenglisch so, dass der Artikel zum Lied auf Wunsch einer Kirchen-Gemeinde verfasst wurde... die dieses Lied anscheinend singt...--Inetdeswerdisagedürfe (talk) 12:29, 9 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
I don't know, and it doesn't matter. Probably not, because no translation shows when searching. The English Wikipedia serves the world not only English-speaking countries. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:06, 9 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Ich meine ich hätte einmal einen Hinweis gelesen, dass das englische Come all ye creatures of the Lord ein schwierig singbarer Text sein soll und auch aus diesem Grund evtl. unüblich wurde. Den Link finde ich nicht wieder..--Inetdeswerdisagedürfe (talk) 12:34, 9 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Memory lane: I was blessed with an inspirational concert at Lutherkirche Wiesbaden, called Salmo! - referring to singing psalms which they did, making me think of Yoninah. The complete program is at MDR their first summer program with Andreas Reize, the new choir master, the 18th Thomaskantor after Bach, which they performed in Leipzig, Merseburg, Suhl, and in Wiesbaden on 8 July for Rheingau Musik Festival.
The place was the first building I visited when I arrived in town because it's near the main station. It was also where I sang Bach's Komm, o Tod, des Schlafes Bruder and Mozart's Requiem with Frank Stähle, whose birthday is on 12 July.
Salmo: the boys sang Psalms 150 by Ernani Aguiar (Salmo 150), 100 by Heinrich Schütz, 84 by Johann Hermann Schein, and 149 (+ another line from 150) in Bach's motet. The review's image shows the conductor with some boys. It's detailed and all praise but sadly not going beyond Mendelssohn, while we found the late works especially impressive, - listen to the 2009 Locus iste by Paul Mealor and the 2000 Sleep by Eric Whitace. The encore was an arrangement of Bach's Air on the text Dona nobis pacem - what we need.
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... that I admire you dedication and enthusiasm for did you knows, and I have always loved your hooks — they have always been "interesting" to me. I hope you are not disheartened by the recent discussion on this topic because I would hate to see you participate less in the process. As someone who is guilty of writing a hook which might seem uninteresting to some but not to me, I understand where you are at. If you feel the need for help, I am here — I can suggest ALTs to the hooks you nominate, which you may feel that might not appeal to a broader audience or if they get held up in the nomination phase for the same reason. For the record, I see nothing wrong with your hooks and they have always fascinated me. I do not believe that you should amend your ways, because, at least to me, there is nothing to amend. Thank you for all your DYK work! — The Most ComfortableChair11:10, 14 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
thank you and don't worry, I'm not disheartened. I will keep saying substantial about subjects, and if that is not welcome, so be it. You can review, and argue, if you like. I am happy with company. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 14 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Thank you very much for distributing wonderful gestures of appreciation around Wikipedia, tirelessly and with an unbreakable belief in the spirit of the project.
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Hi Gerda, Hope it's beautiful weather where you are and that you're enjoying flowers and music and chirping birds. I haven't heard from you in a while -maybe you're traveling?- but hoping all is well! Rosiestep (talk) 14:17, 15 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Gerda I had a superquick look, probably not all that helpful (sorry!) and left some notes on the Talk page. I will try to help more but it's Incompetent Juggling Time at the moment. Oh and I linked something nice for Voces8! Cheers DBaK (talk) 07:42, 16 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 19 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ernst Jacobi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ernst Jacobi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ernst Jacobi), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi Gerda, thank you for your reply on my deletion of the Hauskonzerte. Let me elaborate why I think this has no encyclopedical value:
It is nothing special. Nearly every musician did similar projects during the pandemic and before. Including this, would mean, we would have to include similar sections for other musicians.
It doesn't add anything to his notability. Musicans give concerts, all of them do. Including each and every concert, even if it has commentary would overload any wikipedia article. A good example is the article of Friedrich Gulda, who was also very controversial and politcally active. He died with 80, Igor Levit is just mid 35, but Igor's article is already double as long. The length of the article should also reflect the notability of a person. Igor Levit's article is in my opinion already much too long and reads like advertisement for his person.
The article does not follow similar articles on other notable musicians. Musicians such as Yuja Wang, Matha Argerich or Krystian Zimerman which are much more famouse internationally have substantially shorter articles.
Advertisement: This section reads as an advertisment for Igor Levit's Twitter channel which is part of his political work/agenda. I understand if an article on Donald Trump includes notable tweets, as it was one of his main communication platform during his presidency, but Igor Levit is just a politically active artist from Germany, not the president of the USA.
Even if you think the format "Hauskonzerte" is so important, that it needs to be included, then there is no reason, why the article needs a linke to every single one of them. A general link to his twitter account would be enough. Linking Twitter in wikipedia is usually a good way to boost search engine optimization, but this is not what Wikipedia is for. Apart from that the general guideline is to avoid listings.
I hope you better understand my reason for deleting this section. I am happy to discuss the topic further with you, if you think there are other reasons or good points for leaving this section in the article.
Thank you for coming over, Jole, and while I follow your arguments, I don't agree with all of them. Please move the points to the article talk page, where those interested in the pianist can take part. I was not involved in the creation, but quite generally go for mentioning a musician's music (vs. positions, famous orchestras, famous halls, famous conductors, prizes). Perhaps the listing can be reduced to less detail, but again that's not for you and me but the community to decide. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:53, 19 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Wilma Schmidt
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On 20 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wilma Schmidt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt, who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic operas, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wilma Schmidt. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wilma Schmidt), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
heard of him, but as in the article, 50% sex scandal - today I have time for a Ukrainian actress who died, no more, but go ahead, it's certainly what our general readership will be interested in. I did RD for Hannelore Elsner who bore him a child. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:05, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
I may not get to it. Major yardwork due today. Sexuell bedrängnis isn't my cup of tea, either. (I heard more than enough about that when I worked for our Human Rights Commission.) -- Sca (talk) 13:51, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 21 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Louise Janssen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Danish-born sopranoLouise Janssen appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Lyon as Eva in the French premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Louise Janssen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Louise Janssen), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 22 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Adalgisa Gabbi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Adalgisa Gabbi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Adalgisa Gabbi), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hello Gerda! I've created and nominated the article of a popular and appreciated Catalan singer. Could you take a quick look at the article and, from your eye more familiar with the world of music, tell me how it's and what I can improve? Best regards. _-_Alsor (talk) 16:13, 22 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 23 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sarah Traubel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that soprano Sarah Traubel appeared as Inanna in Jörg Widmann's Babylon for the opening of the 2022 Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sarah Traubel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sarah Traubel), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 24 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Erasmus Schöfer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Erasmus Schöfer chronicled the resistance in Germany, from the protests of 1968 to German reunification, in a tetralogy of novels? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Erasmus Schöfer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Erasmus Schöfer), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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I see that you're offline for a while. Enjoy the vacay! I initially stopped by to extend my condolences and sincere sympathy for your loss as someone who experienced the loss of a sister on July 16th, and knows full well the emotional roller coaster of grieving. Stay strong, sweet Gerda. Atsme💬📧12:40, 24 July 2022 (UTC).Reply
Just dropping a note under here. Be safe, Gerda, and know that my thoughts are in your direction. I am so sorry for your loss and I hope it is a beautiful memorial service. I will hold off on writing to you until you return. --ARoseWolf19:24, 25 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 26 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Heather Engebretson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Heather Engebretson portrayed the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for the first time, a reviewer said that her voice "can tremble with panic and shine with hope"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Heather Engebretson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Heather Engebretson), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzXWn4RMjh8 is DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN Jacques Offenbach: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, Creative Commons Attribution licensed. It has a lot of names associated with it, but this page https://www.visitberlin.de/en/event/les-contes-dhoffmann seems to say that the Olympia automaton was played by Engebretson at least once. But maybe the one in the video is red haired and not her? Then she does look black haired at 0:13. Also I think another the black haired one is Pasaroiu. If you say they're them, I'll gladly take and upload a screenshot, but I don't want to get them wrong. --GRuban (talk) 03:45, 26 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
no time to look now, but - remember Muszely? - Engebretson probably played all roles, absolutely able to, and Olympia most likely if this was early in her career. So I wouldn't attribute to Pasaroiu without some other reference for her being in it, as much as I like her. (I liked her old ibox pic better than the stylish new one, btw.) They may have sung on alternate days, though. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 28 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 26 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fausta Labia, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that after the Italian soprano Fausta Labia(pictured) worked at the Royal Swedish Opera, she appeared as Mascagni's Iris at La Fenice in Venice and as Wagner's Sieglinde at La Scala in Milan? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fausta Labia. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fausta Labia), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 28 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Messe modale en septuor, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that organist Jehan Alain's Messe modale en septuor was written for a septet of soprano, alto, flute and string quartet? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Messe modale en septuor. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Messe modale en septuor), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Gerda, you send out these little jewels and beautiful messages titled "Precious" but I want you to know that the real precious is you. You have no idea what you have meant to me over the last two years, the last year especially. Thank you for your incredible light and the beauty of the Song I hear from you. All the pictures, songs, articles and DYK's are masterpieces to me. We all have rough edges and there is no doubt that many could find something to disagree with about any of us but you are a lovely person and an amazing editor and I truly believe I wouldn't be alive today without the "garden talks" we have had during my darkest days. I love you very much, as a fellow editor, a friend, and a sister. You are my Precious and a shining jewel. I may still check in from time-to-time and I'll make sure to leave a little note for you or ping you when I do. Keep shining and take care of yourself. --ARoseWolf17:10, 28 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
just precious, especially that you don't leave us alone, friend and sister! Today is a friend's birthday, he gave me a song, I went to a concert, and they sang that song! You may be the one person not surprised ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 30 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article R. B. Schlather, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that R. B. Schlather directed the world premiere of Hertzberg's chamber opera The Rose Elf in Brooklyn, as well as Cimarosa's L'Italiana in Londra and Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Oper Frankfurt? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/R. B. Schlather. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, R. B. Schlather), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I saw the two latter ones,a comedy and a tragedy. which would make me interested in his future work no matter which piece - he has a great gift to tell stories on a simple stage with plenty of emotion, look and listen. Today is my parent's anniversary, and I like to keep the blue stairs to heaven for the occasion. - "Danket dem Herrn" was our daily prayer. Danket, danket dem Herrn. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:24, 30 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Jesus bleibet meine Freude
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Hallo Gerda, lange nichts mehr von mir gehört. Ich möchte dich auf das neuste Projekt von Martin Fröst aufmerksam machen, Xodus, das er mit einem Jahr Verspätung im Mai im Konserthuset in Stockholm vorgestellt hat. Es schließt mit einer hörenswerten Interpretation des genannten Stücks, wobei Fröst als Klarinettist und Dirigent von Orchester und Chor auftritt. Aber auch die anderen Stücke der 74 minütigen Aufführung mit teils eigenwillig vorgetragenen Kompositionen von Bach bis zur avantgardistischen Moderne sind ein Genuss für Auge und und Ohr, ebenso wie die Soloauftritte von Fröst mit seiner Klarinette.
The Duino Elegies: Weighing Beauty and Existential Suffering
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Hi Gerda, there is a fascinating problem I found with the "quote" in the Duino Elegies lead: "Weighing Beauty and Existential Suffering". It doesn't exist anywhere in Gass, which is fully available on archive.org. Yet, I would argue that Gass's throughout the book does point toward that interpretation. Interestingly, Colonel Henry did not initially have quotes (for example, see this See this 21 March version. They were added later.
More interesting, when I did my search, I found- like you did, I think- that the line is now being quoted in other people's books without attribution! (e.g., Susan Slavik (2015), in the Google Book link you had for the edited volume from Cambridge Press Formations of Identity; Peter Cox (2015) in "Don't be a Waster of Sorrows", Lafleur Cockburn (2020) in African Women and their Networks of Support) It's also a minor meme on Rilke websites. But I could not find a pre-2013 quote. (Not to say it doesn't exist, but is misattributed.)
The basic solution seems simple, delete. I'm not so sure. Because it has taken off in the Rilke literature, I'd like to keep it as it documents a Wikipedia artifact. (ColonelHenry, didn't check) The line could be seen as summarizing the criticism in the text of the article, so for now, I kept it, but removed the quotes and citation. That works for me, as I like to avoid citations in the lead, except in the case of literal quotes.
But, Given your long experience here and the kindness of your perspective. I've seen this before in other articles I edited, where creative editing becomes taken as "common knowledge" I'd like to hear your thoughts on this issue in particular. I'll gladly go along with what you decide. If you feel comfortable and have the time, I'd like to know your thoughts on addressing this in general, too. Wtfiv (talk) 20:20, 3 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
This is interesting! - I saw the many occurrences of the line, but didn't realise that Wikipedia was the origin. - I deal with Recent death articles, and often face a similar situation: when obituaries took their information obviously and sometimes less obviously from Wikipedia. (Therefore I often prefer to cite what the same authors wrote for a subject's last round birthday.) - I think your solution is fine, - a little monument to creative editing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 3 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
I didn't know you edited the recent deaths articles! It makes sense given the sensitivity and caring of your posts and presence! You are aware of the moment, and it aligns nicely with article discussing Gadamer's influence by Rilke: a recognition of our state of presence. Thank you for in input! (And, I'm glad you are okay with the solution!) Wtfiv (talk) 02:31, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
I/we edit selected selected recent death articles, those with mostly German souces, and those related to music. The full list is here, this year's above, an example is right below. - Thank you for your wonderful summary in the FAR! You seem not to know that corrected pings need a new signature to make them work, but I trust that SandyGeorgia will watch the place. I admire your skills in finding and formatting sources, and wording to match them! What do you think of rescuing the other article (that didn't survive FAR) together, A Song for Simeon? My topic, see BWV 125. Take your time, - I have a FAC open, and could not nominate another one right now anyway? I'd appreciate if you could look at the cantata article for FAC (but am still working on the new recordings section), again rescuing the work of a banned user ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Gerda, I would've enjoyed saving "Song for Simeon" as part of a FAR. I think it may have been salvagable but its been closed already, and I don't want to do a FAN. (Though I can successfully navigate them, I have found the experience extremely unpleasant.) Now that it is closed, it can't be reversed, I think.
That said, I'll review BWV 56. It may take me a week or so to focus on it, as I want to work on my current project a bit, but I'll get to it. (Ping me if I forget.) At a casual glance it looks great, and reviewing it would be a great education for me! Wtfiv (talk) 18:18, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the ping; Wtfiv, Hog Farm will be interested to hear that ColonelHenry's damage extended beyond Wikipedia. I'd opt towards deleting it, so as not to honor an editor who created multiple hoaxes. It's disturbing to hear that high quality sources replicated a Wikipedia error (and what amazing sleuthing work on your part !!). I've not looked at the FAR yet ... still fretting about Darjeeling, which does not look like it will make its TFA date, at the rate it's moving... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 11:19, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
I disagree that it's damage if - as Wtfiv pointed out - the sentence presents the essence of the source's thought, and others felt the same, and quoted it. It will remain even if we delete. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:23, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Sandy Georgia. I'm with Gerda. I think the phrasing is so good that others have taken it on, and they never cite a source. I think Wikipedia deserves to keep the visible credit for a work others, including academics in "peer-reviewed" edited volumes have plagiarized. The only people who would know it is ColonelHenry's phrase is people who look at the article history (and who does that?) and people ColonelHenry tells. Wikipedia gets the credit, which I think it deserves as the beacon of successful collaboration. As long as the phrase is accurate and not falsely attributed, that is. Wtfiv (talk) 20:12, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
sung (each year for decades, but not for the last two, of course) at the processions - Come, all ye creatures of the Lord, - no idea why DYK dropped that hint --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Goodbye Gerda
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Did you know that... before we had ever interacted on this website, a relative of mine mentioned and told me from time to time about the good things you did for him as a librarian? For real. I asked him what you were doing with Lutheran hymnody, and he said that you were "popularizing it". At the time, I didn't understand that you had put your beautiful work here. I am going to be site banned soon, so goodbye, and thank you for teaching me things I didn't know about the development of the hymns.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 21:25, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 8 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Avelina Carrera, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Avelina Carrera(pictured) made her debut at the Liceu in Barcelona in 1889, stepping in as Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, and created the role of Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier at La Scala? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Avelina Carrera. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Avelina Carrera), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi Gerda,
I too feel badly about how the Duino Elegy FAR went. I think we both misunderstood what was initially asked. We assumed that the article was in decent shape and just needed a bit of pruning and care in the citations to bring back to health. We both spent a great deal of time finding sources, formatting, and working on aligning the texts. But its clear that a bigger issue was brewing in the FARC that we were unaware of, which was addressing a pattern of Wikipedia abuse that was much bigger than just the article we thought we had to tidy.
That's not to say we didn't have a point. WP:DENY states: "Some material is still going to be valuable in dealing with vandalism, so this is not about pretending vandalism does not exist. Instead, information on vandalism should be critically appraised: first, whether it has genuine value; then, whether that value outweighs any detriment from the publicity of that vandal or their vandalism." That was our argument. Ultimately, the provenance and origin of the quote remains unclear, as the citation apparatus was added post-hoc. It's a good phrase, and in my opinion, well-crafted regardless of where it came from. I had to laugh when I found that the Duino Castle Website(!) uses the quote "intensely religious, mystical poems that weigh beauty and existential suffering." (scroll down to "Find Out More About" and click the "Rilke tab).
But I think that the magnitude of what the FARC saw elsewhere played a determining role here. Given their larger context and the work they've been doing, I'll respect their decision, though we both put in far more time than we would of had we known that the article was already on the side of delisting.
And there is one point, where I do agree the article needs significant work: the majority of the middle was really just a summary of one set of commentaries. This issue was brought out by Victoria's comment- which also made me laugh and which I agree- that it was a quote farm. A good article would probably use many other sources as well to discuss the themes and symbolism. I reserved judgement, as I thought our role was just to clean up the aritcle. Again, we both misunderstood the state of this article.
Because we assumed FARC were okay with the content, just concerned about the citations, we both spent innumerable hours on the project. But please don't feel it was a waste or that you were not valued. Also, just think of all that you may have learned about the Elegies that you didn't know before.
I'll share how it wasn't a waste for me. I certainly learned a lot about a topic that I didn't know before, and in working through the incorrect information in the article came to a deeper understanding of who Rilke is as a person. I was delighted to see that the Gadamer and Rilke connection was real, even if the original citations misrepresented that relationship before I updated them. And, for me, the list of translations that Grimes2 and I found tells me just how influential the poems are, and the list simultaneously makes me laugh- there's so many!- and gives me a deeper respect for Rilke's influence.
I, for one, was delighted to get to know your presence in Wikipedia in more depth. You always thoughtfully support and value others, but I didn't have a sense of who you were and your own editing style and interests until we worked together. What I very much appreciate about you is how your warmth, caring, and positivity come through just in terms of your posts and in terms of the articles you are committed to improving. Just knowing you a bit more made the project worthwhile, and gave me a deeper sense of how I should value your work. Wtfiv (talk) 20:00, 8 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
blushing: thank you, good to know you better now. - Victoria said she knew why I did what I did, and I am not sure. I wanted to see the article improved, and to learn more about the Elegies, - achieved. I don't think I put in "hours and hours", just enough time to check and transform a few references a day. I had many projects that took more time, such as converting the old-fashioned referencing in the (many and long) articles written by Jerome Kohl who died just when the style became deprecated. (Look for his name further up, - he wrote In Freundschaft.) I don't regret any of them. DYK that the influence section of the elegies also appears in Rilke's bio? It could be "snipped" in the elegies completely. (I learned a new word, - I knew only "snippy", and smiled.) Would you do that? On top of the Precious list, I quote a prize that means much to me right now: "grant each other the presumption that we are acting in good faith" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 8 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
I edited the main article a bit. Got rid of references to the Elegies and mention of Wittgenstein, who supported Rilke but didn't care much for his poetry according to the sources. The rest can stay, as we saw that they were influenced by Rilke, but not the Elegies in particular. Wtfiv (talk) 21:40, 8 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Juanita Lascarro
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On 9 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Juanita Lascarro, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Colombian singer Juanita Lascarro became a soprano at the Oper Frankfurt, where she appeared as both Calypso and Penelope in a new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Juanita Lascarro. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Juanita Lascarro), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 10 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ruslana Pysanka, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ruslana Pysanka, who hosted a Ukrainian television program together with Volodymyr Zelenskyy from 2008, died as a refugee in Germany? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ruslana Pysanka. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ruslana Pysanka), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 11 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Roman Bunka, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the German guitarist Roman Bunka(pictured) studied the Arabic oud in Egypt and played in Mohamed Mounir's band at the Pyramids of Giza to celebrate entering the year 2000? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Roman Bunka. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Roman Bunka), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Gerda, you do such good work. And you have been so helpful and kind in your thank yous. I noticed today that in July 2022 you were helping an editor who is trying to get unblocked. And then I saw you had a loss in your family. I just think very kindly of you. THANK YOU! I have never done one of these Wikipedia thank-you's before so I hope I didn't mess this up.
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On 15 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Salmo 150, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in a choral tour program titled Salmo!, Bach's 18th successor first conducted Salmo 150, an a cappella setting of Psalm 150 by the Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Salmo 150. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Salmo 150), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 19 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Victória Pitts, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Victória Pitts from Brazil portrayed characters in all three parts of Puccini's Il trittico at the Oper Frankfurt in 2022, including Zita in Gianni Schicchi? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Victória Pitts. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Victória Pitts), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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I login in once every blue moon, and was surprised to see notification from you. Your efforts on keeping memories of disillusioned editors alive is truly heartwarming. Thanks again. Alex Shih (talk) 17:01, 19 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 20 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Claudia Winterstein, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after Claudia Winterstein dropped plans to become an architect because of the Berlin Wall, she led her party as a member of the Bundestag? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Claudia Winterstein. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Claudia Winterstein), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 21 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Iain MacNeal, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when the Canadian baritoneIain MacNeal appeared as Odysseus in Dallapiccola's Ulisse at the Oper Frankfurt, a reviewer noted that he portrayed the "character's self-exegeses"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Iain MacNeal. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Iain MacNeal), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 22 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cello Sonata (Debussy), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Claude Debussy(pictured) described his Cello Sonata, composed within a few weeks in July 1915 at a Normandy seaside town, in a letter to his publisher Durand as of "almost classical form"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cello Sonata (Debussy). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cello Sonata (Debussy)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Not sure if that's meant seriously (and I do see the irony of discussing "seriousness" in relation to a carnival article). I found the article due to a complaint on my talk page unrelated to the article itself, and I'm uncontent both with my response to the complaint and the complaint itself. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:05, 23 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 25 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Regina coeli (Mozart), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the last of three Regina coeli settings written by Mozart for Salzburg Cathedral is scored for four soloists, choir and orchestra? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Regina coeli (Mozart). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Regina coeli (Mozart)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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I know nothing (nothing!) about music but just the same I’m very very impressed w your music article contributions. It’s obviously fine stuff. Put it on your college applications when the time comes, because, in my opinion at least, this is what good and careful scholarship looks like! Cheers. jengod (talk) 03:04, 25 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hello, Gerda Arendt ! I like to write articles about music / albums; I've written 2 album GAs (with 1 GAN), but never a featured article. I saw Wikipedia:Mentoring for FAC, and decided to contact one of the mentors. I think that my first album GA that I wrote over a year ago, Mount Eerie (album), could be a FA, but I have no idea where to start. Mentorship and opinions would be greatly appreciated. — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 04:06, 26 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
User:PerfectSoundWhatever, you may want to see someone who is more familiar with the subject, but I can help you with basics. Perhaps compare other FAs about albums, reading them and checking out their FACs. Ongoing: WAP (song). You can check what other reviewers want. The most formal way to do it is a peer review. Without lookig closer: I'd want a background section, making someone who never heard of the group familar without a click. Another FAC specialty is alt tect to all images, as if describing what the image shows for someone blind. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:10, 26 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much, I'll write a Background section, add alts, and look at similar FACs. (If you'd like), could you point me in the right direction of someone more familiar with the subject? (I will probably talk further with DMT Biscuit, as he wrote a GA and an FA on albums by the same artist, although he is currently "a little rusty and sidetracked") — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 04:26, 27 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
The input of someone completely unfamiliar often also helps, and I am interested, just don't set all your hopes on me. The next FAC I'll review is also an album, - perhaps watch, and perhaps review youself, to get the feeling, and to be a known name in the FAC community. The great thing about FAC reviewing is that you can just drop one remark or review the whole thing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:22, 27 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for St. Martinus, Hattersheim
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On 27 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article St. Martinus, Hattersheim, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when the new church of St. Martinus(pictured) in Hattersheim was built in 1915 with Jugendstil elements, the architect incorporated parts from the earlier church? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/St. Martinus, Hattersheim. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, St. Martinus, Hattersheim), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 27 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Danket, danket dem Herrn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 18th-century "Danket, danket dem Herrn", a thanksgiving round based on Psalm 106:1, has been described as one of the most widespread rounds in German? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Danket, danket dem Herrn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Danket, danket dem Herrn), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi Gerda Arendt, the source for the original image I sent you is now not obtainable, so I found another (better) version of the illustration, and uploaded it. Please use the new one instead. Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 20:00, 30 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Divertimento (Bernstein)
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On 31 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Divertimento (Bernstein), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that at its premiere at Symphony Hall, Leonard Bernstein(pictured) described his suite Divertimento as a "fun piece" that "reflects my youthful experiences here where I heard my first orchestral music"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Divertimento (Bernstein). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Divertimento (Bernstein)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 1 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kai Bumann, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the German conductor Kai Bumann was the music director of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, and toured Japan with the company twice? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kai Bumann. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kai Bumann), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi Gerda, hope all is well. Can you do a technically incompetent editor a favour and reduce the size of the sig in the H.D. infobox. Have tried and failed...hangs head. Ceoil (talk) 01:13, 4 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
no technical competence neded, so please don't blame yourself! I looked up infobox writer, and the size is fixed. You can go to that talk and request it be flexible. Or you can cheat in infobox writer, and define the image of the signature as you would place it in text, "frameless" and "upright". Or you can use infobox person, which has a parameter signature_size (in px). I always use infobox person, for all people. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:04, 4 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
I talk to Martin, he's been helpful finding sources. - Some other things are also not well, but that is normal for human life ;) - look around on this page for details - and what you'll find is an amazing array of great music, latest for viola --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:04, 4 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 4 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Story of Mr Sommer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Story of Mr Sommer, a 1991 novella by Patrick Süskind with illustrations by Sempé, has been described as "a children's tale for adults"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Story of Mr Sommer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Story of Mr Sommer), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 5 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Opera in Ukraine, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that in the history of opera in Ukraine, Mykola Lysenko's historical Taras Bulba(title character pictured) was the first grand opera, but not performed during his lifetime because he refused a performance in Russian? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Opera in Ukraine. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Opera in Ukraine), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 7 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Matti Lehtinen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Matti Lehtinen, a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy, was the voice of God at age 93? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Matti Lehtinen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Matti Lehtinen), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Hi, Borys Lyatoshynsky is in the bag as a GA, could you please do the honours and get him to appear in DYK? The DYK thing is something I'm not very good at, but I think he might enjoy a moment in the spotlight! Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 15:13, 8 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 9 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Artemy Vedel, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the choral music of Artemy Vedel, who is regarded as one of the Golden Three composers of 18th-century Ukrainian classical music, was censored but performed from handwritten copies? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Artemy Vedel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Artemy Vedel), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I don't need pings much, saw it on my watchlist. I was torn which name to give the article. It has four official names in the four languages of Switzerland, but no official name in English, - I only translated from what the Lucerne Festival presented, but only on the English website, not in the concert announcement. For the article title, I settled for English, to make it found under English words such as Youth and Symphony. For the hook, however, I preferred German, for the foreign feel, and because the hook explains the other two words, which makes it repetitive when using an English name. - I won't fight your change, but ask you you to consider my view. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:14, 13 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
I did consider it; the issue I see is that the English reader has no idea what the article is about, as the rest of the hook doesn't give enough context. If you'd like to rework a hook with a German title and sufficient context in the rest of the text, I'm willing to pull, but I see the current version as quite decent. Vanamonde (Talk)11:26, 13 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
For Featured Articles promoted recently, there will be an existing blurb linked from the FAC talk page, which is likely to be transferred to the TFA page by a coordinator at some point.
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On 14 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Linus Roth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Linus Roth, who plays the 1703 Dancla Stradivarius violin, recorded all compositions by Mieczysław Weinberg which feature a solo violin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Linus Roth. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Linus Roth), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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The Resilient Barnstar
... and here's another one for resilience. The world needs to know about our great musicians, and with strength and courage you see that it does. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 08:56, 16 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 21 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Spannungen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that concerts of the Spannungen festival of chamber music, founded by pianist Lars Vogt in 1998, are played in a power plant? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Spannungen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Spannungen), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 22 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Francesco Lanzillotta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Francesco Lanzillotta conducted Dallapiccola's Ulisse at Oper Frankfurt in 2022, a reviewer noted that he "does not shy away from agglomerations of sound"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Francesco Lanzillotta. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Francesco Lanzillotta), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 23 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Maiden in the Tower, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that The Maiden in the Tower, the only opera by Jean Sibelius, was withdrawn after only three performances with the intention to revise it, which never happened? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Maiden in the Tower. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Maiden in the Tower), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 28 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Danylo Matviienko, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ukrainian baritone Danylo Matviienko, who holds a master's degree in mathematics, appeared as Demetrius in Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Oper Frankfurt? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Danylo Matviienko. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Danylo Matviienko), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 2 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Die Deutsche Liturgie, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when pieces from Mendelssohn's German Liturgy were sung by the Thomanerchor(pictured) in 2022, a reviewer noted "a captivating purity in the tone of devotional Reformation romanticism"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Die Deutsche Liturgie. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Die Deutsche Liturgie), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 4 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Five Flower Songs, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Britten's Five Flower Songs, part songs composed for a couple's 25th wedding anniversary, premiered at their estate Dartington Hall? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Five Flower Songs. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Five Flower Songs), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi Gerda Arendt! Dang, I just realized how long it's been since we've last talked... quite some time ago. I hope you're doing well and that life is treating you with happiness. :-) You may notice that there were some messages left by a few IP users a bit ago. They've been engaging in egregious harassment and... other unpleasant words and trolling. ;-) I'm keeping an eye on things, and I'll make sure that things are cleaned up. If you do find yourself seeing more trolling by random IP users (*cough* proxies lol), please let me know. ;-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)11:05, 5 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 6 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article St. Martin, Sindelfingen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the flat wooden ceiling of St. Martin(pictured), the Lutheran main church of Sindelfingen built in the 11th century, is still preserved? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/St. Martin, Sindelfingen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, St. Martin, Sindelfingen), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hello Gerda. Take a look at these offerings on OperaVision this month. I think it is fascinating to feature four different versions of the Orpheus and Eurydice tale. I'm also looking forward to the celebration of World Opera day. Have a nice weekend. MarnetteD|Talk14:29, 7 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for coming over. It's all fine, I just look at the hooks related to Germany because I speak the language. With other things, you can help me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:19, 11 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Opera
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Hey, Gerda, out of curiosity - and because my list of opera images is about a hundred long so I could use some focus - but what are your top few operas? Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.1% of all FPs09:15, 12 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 12 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Borys Lyatoshynsky, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Borys Lyatoshynsky wrote Mourning Prelude, described as among his most tragic works, the day his father died of typhus? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Borys Lyatoshynsky. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Borys Lyatoshynsky), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
glad he appeared, but a little private piece, and no image, that's just poor for a Ukrainian composer of the 20th century, wo wrote a symphony with a movement "Peace shall conquer the War". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:09, 12 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 13 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kraftwerk Heimbach, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the eight original Francis turbines of Kraftwerk Heimbach(pictured), a hydro-electric power station that opened in 1905 as then the largest in Europe, served until 1974? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kraftwerk Heimbach. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kraftwerk Heimbach), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi Gerda! Nora Forster is a German newspaper heiress, actress/model, and music promoter...I thought you might have better luck finding German-language sources. Could you take a look? TJMSmith (talk) 23:01, 13 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 14 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fritz Pleitgen, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Fritz Pleitgen, who interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, directed the broadcaster WDR from 1995 to 2007? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fritz Pleitgen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fritz Pleitgen), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi there, Gerda :) I appreciate you leaving the message at WT:DYK about Talia Or – I'm sure someone will be along to settle that question.
In the meantime, I want to bring up a tendency I've noticed at your nominations. While I'm sure you don't intend any disruption, and you know how highly I think of you, I notice that you have repeatedly pinged Storye book (courtesy ping) in situations where you are in a protracted discussion over a hook you have proposed. It would be preferable if, when you desire a second opinion, you stick to 1. leaving a {{DYK?again}} () template on the nomination, and/or 2. leaving a note at WT:DYK with a link and a description of the nature of incident, without pinging a specific editor or mentioning the nomination on their talk page. While I understand that this is inconvenient, and less likely to lead to a prompt reply, I think it would be beneficial for DYK's atmosphere to leave third opinions to a random outside party. Thanks for understanding :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 03:27, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Claudia, I have gone to WT:DYK, as you may remember, more than once, and it has not worked. Check out the archives. It is one reviewer who wants my hooks changed, so I call one editor who has proven to have the language to reach them, sometimes, sadly not in the Talia Or case. Here is an artist of international revognition, and the proposal is to only mention where she was born, and when I say what I think it's not understood. Do you understand my frustration? I will not change wanting to say what her activity and art is about, and not where she was born, being born seeming about the most passive thing in your life, and yes I like to use the full permitted space of a hook to pass as much as possible to the millions of readers who will not click. - Look at the world. Singing that in a circus tent today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:26, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
I understand, that must be frustrating. However, I'm afraid I have to push back on the idea that you should call a specific editor who has the language to explain it to another editor; WP:CANVASS specifically forbids posting messages to users selected based on their known opinions, including their ability to adequately explain and support your view of the situation on the nompage itself. If this were solely the case, Storye book would be interacting with nominations by leaving messages on Narutolovehinata5's talk page, and not contributing to the consensus-based discussion.
It seems to me that these two editors represent the extremes of opinions on your hooks – and if it is the engagement of one that inclines you to ping the other, I suggest that we put an end to these discussions. I do think that it would be a better use of everyone's time, yours included, if outside parties weighed in instead.
Narutolovehinata5 and Storye book, I request that both of you voluntarily refrain from commenting on the interestingness, concision, flow, character count, or other viability of any hook proposed by Gerda Arendt, broadly construed. For Narutolovehinata5 in particular: I have no issue with you reviewing the sourcing of the hook, nor the quality of the article, but I ask that you leave the text and style of the hook to a second, independent reviewer not of your choosing.
Gerda, I ask that you stick to what I've started this thread to say: please keep your requests for outside comment unspecific. If NLH5 and Storye book agree to leave reviews of your hooks to others, I believe that would be the easiest path to resolving this dispute; but I also think that this is something you should keep in mind for the future. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 07:09, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you to Narutolovehinata5 for your agreement to refrain from commenting on interestingness of Gerda's hooks. That will save time for all of us. Your opinion and intention has never been a problem, though - your comments have often led to an improvement to the initial hooks. The only problem has been when a nomination has apparently stalled, and we have all worked together to resolve that, every time. So far, that has worked. Storye book (talk) 11:04, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Theleekycauldron: Since Narutolovehinata5 has agreed to refrain from commenting on interestingness of Gerda's hooks, there will be no further reason for any disagreement between us, because historically that has been the only central issue initiating problems - not because of their opinion or intention, but because the nomination sometimes stalls as a result. Whether people choose to review on the subject of interestingness has never been the issue. The issue has been about the subject of interestingness blocking the progress of DYK noms to completion. But now, that is over and I thank you for your intervention in that respect.
However I would ask you to please be careful about how you view my part in this. You say " WP:CANVASS specifically forbids posting messages to users selected based on their known opinions, including their ability to adequately explain and support your view of the situation on the nompage itself. If this were solely the case, Storye book would be interacting with nominations by leaving messages on Narutolovehinata5's talk page, and not contributing to the consensus-based discussion. It seems to me that these two editors represent the extremes of opinions on your hooks". That does not make sense to me. I don't remember ever contacting Narutolovehinata5 on their talk page. If I have done so, it would not be about undermining the progress of, or corruptly affecting a DYK nomination, as your statement appears to imply.
Both Narutolovehinata5 and I have locked horns a few times, but it has been openly and honestly on the DYK nomination pages. There is nothing hidden here. And I have never spoken with Gerda outside WP. Moreover, I certainly do not have extreme views about the general subject matter of Gerda's articles. You are using the Talia Or nomination as a prime example of the issue that is worrying you, yet if you would kindly read that Talia Or nom template again, you will see that I actively dislike Talia Or's style of singing personally, but that I have continued to review the nom in a constructive manner, as one should do with all articles where no crime (e.g. copyvio etc.) has been committed. My only motive in all DYK review matters is to move the review on to conclusion in a proper manner. As for the implication that I am speaking for Gerda on her own nominations, that would be impossible, because she writes on all sorts of types of musical (and other) subjects, so that one cannot second-guess her private opinion on any of them.
I do try to re-word hooks into proper Standard English where necessary, and that is something that we all do, especially in cases where the nominator's second language is English; it is done as a service, not as a weapon in a dispute. On the contrary, Narutolovehinata5's and my main motive is the benefit of DYK, and a peaceful and satisfactory outcome of nominations. That has always been a consistent fact. We may disagree, and it may look like a dispute to you, but there has always been mutual respect, because that motive has always been there.
So although I can see that you have the best intentions, here, I suggest, theleekycauldron, that you don't make assumptions about my motives here. I greatly respect Narutolovehinata5 as a reviewer in general on DYK - they constantly make a huge difference to the DYK backlog, and DYK would be the poorer without their hard work and regular reviews. Yes, we have disagreed, but DYK has not suffered for it. Gerda's nominations still pass through the system in due course, just like everyone else's. Storye book (talk) 11:04, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Storye book: Well, I certainly appreciate your kind words for Narutolovehinata5 :) and I certainly didn't intend to make any statements on your intentions. I only meant to respond to Gerda: if she wants you on a nomination only because you can get across to NLH5, that's fine, but then it'd be preferable for you to interact with NLH5 on their talk. When Gerda pings you to the nomination discussion, and you influence consensus in a way she agrees with, that presents a CANVASS problem – even though I assume it to be fully unintentional.
That said, it seems like we've all agreed to put this on a backburner for now :) my thanks to everyone for working towards a calm resolution, so we can basically wrap this up. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 17:21, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 17 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sarah Aristidou, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2021 Sarah Aristidou recorded Jörg Widmann's Labyrinth V, a wordless piece for her soprano voice with "ululations, sobs, jazz inflections and wild laughter"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sarah Aristidou. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sarah Aristidou), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 19 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Taylor Scott Davis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Stardust, the title of a composition by Taylor Scott Davis for eight voices a cappella commissioned by Voces8, became also the name of the vocal ensemble's 2022 tour? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Taylor Scott Davis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Taylor Scott Davis), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
... introduced on 12 July: "This article is about a cantata by J. S. Bach, one of the most beloved, so here we try a third time. Thanks to all who commented and improved in the long article history. This cantata is a solo cantata from Bach's third cantata cycle, - both aspects not yet covered in a FA. It is one of few cantatas that Bach called a cantata. The article was began by Dgies and expanded by Mathsci in 2009. It received a GA review by sadly missed Yash!. I asked Mathsci to do a third round, because he contributed most after the last nomination, but he was banned. - Today is the birthday of the conductor with whom I sang it. Those attending a memorial concert for him joined singing the closing chorale." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:55, 23 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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As you seem to take an interest in the history of opera, I thought I should let you know I've recently done some copy editing on Enriqueta Legorreta. The biography was created by SusunW who has turned up a number of interesting sources. Maybe we should try to cover more Mexicans who were active in opera around the same time.--Ipigott (talk) 09:53, 24 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Should have checked first. I see you made a number of useful improvements. Sorry to have bothered you unnecessarily. I'll be more careful in future.--Ipigott (talk) 10:25, 24 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for all the sources. I'll perhaps make a start on at least one of them over the next few days, unless Gerda gets there first! The Mexicans obviously deserve more attention. I see there is already a Spanish article on Irma González. We should be able to build on that and expand using the other sources.--Ipigott (talk) 15:43, 24 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 24 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Markus Becker (pianist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Markus Becker, who earned awards for his recording of the complete piano works by Max Reger, also recorded jazz? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Markus Becker (pianist). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Markus Becker (pianist)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 28 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ella van Poucke, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ella van Poucke, a cellist who studied at the Kronberg Academy, returned there as a soloist, playing Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in the new Casals Forum? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ella van Poucke. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ella van Poucke), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Hi and thanks again for giving me this prestigious award. I do believe Mediocre Legacy does deserve it. He's hard-working and keeps updated a lot of pages on football (without him we'd have a mountain of non-updated pages). Maybe, I'll report you more editors dedicated on football deserving of this award. DrSalvus23:09, 28 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, recommendations are welcome! But how about this: you do it yourself? You don't have to formally join the project, although you are of course welcome to do that as well. Interest in article quality is the only prerequisite, and monthly flowers the only reward ;) - The award: a header as specific to the recipient as possible, three lines of prose for symmetry, with a grain of humour if possible, and an entry in the list which has has the template to simply be copied at the top). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:41, 29 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, and much of it good! You didn't reach three lines, humour is not apparent, and please keep in mind that it is not only for the user but "the world" - one link to an article would make it less general. Formally: in the id, you need to replace spaces by underscores, - I did that for you. And please add your name in a comment which I also did. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:57, 29 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 30 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Casals Forum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the walls of the Kronberg Academy's Casals Forum(pictured) are curved and covered with wood in a manner reminiscent of a string instrument? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Casals Forum. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Casals Forum), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 30 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Silvia Hauer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Silvia Hauer, a singer of Rossini's Rosina and Bizet's Carmen at Staatstheater Wiesbaden, performed the mezzo-soprano solo of Verdi's Requiem in 2022? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Silvia Hauer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Silvia Hauer), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 31 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Matthias Hanke, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Matthias Hanke, an organist and choral leader by age 14, in due course became responsible for all Protestant church music in Württemberg? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Matthias Hanke. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Matthias Hanke), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Someone responsible for Protestant church music seems a good fit for the day! Created by LouisAlain last year, almost forgotten in draft space, revived, discussed for months at DYK, and now on a timely day, possibly by chance, - those are the miracles of DYK, - thanks to the crew there! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Gerda, You've been so kind so many times and I need the help of a German speaker, so I'd like to ask you a question. I've taken on the project of changing the use of abgerufen am to "retrieved" in references in English Wikipedia. Almost every time abgerufen am is followed by a date, but in two articles I've found it followed by a single digit. For example, in this edit to Fritz Hafner I'm not sure what is intended or if the change I've made is correct. Thank you in advance for your help. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 14:53, 31 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
mind-reading: the source is dated the fifth of some month, and the retrieved just says the seventh (7.), so I assume the seventh of that same month. Not that it matters much. If you can still retrieve that same source you might want to give it today's date. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 31 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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The conversation frustrates me. The consensus in the discussion seemed to favor the original hook. It seems that I am now expected to go against clear consensus as a hook promoter. I support your hook staying. SL93 (talk) 19:27, 31 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
I was out so don't know what developed, but am sorry that you are frustrated. What frustrates me is that I spend about twice as long in getting agreement on a 200 char sentence than writing the whole article. We should really do something about the "interestingness" - it has been said again and again that what bores one is exciting to another, and to feed only mainstream interests makes for little variety in facts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 31 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Happy birthday, Graham, in friendship, my first subject in 2009, so also first DYK, and then already I argued about the hook, because I didn't want to make him known with the context of extraterrestrial ;) - as these days I don't want to make a singer known only for being dominant. Another friend has her birthday today, a double bass player, - three string players are pictured further up. The list of works is far from being complete, but enjoy what you can. I took the pic last year, at a Roman watchtower reconstruction at Kastell Zugmantel of the Limes World Heritage Site, in walking distance from where I live. The big celebration will come 5 November. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 2 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn
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On 5 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Look at the world, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Look at the world" is a 1996 choral harvest anthem with text and music by John Rutter, written for CPRE "on the theme of the environment and our responsibility towards it"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Look at the world. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Look at the world), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 8 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shchors (opera), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshynsky(pictured) composed his second opera, Shchors, about a military hero from 1937 in keeping with the Soviet party line? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shchors (opera). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Shchors (opera)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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On 9 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sung Min Song, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sung Min Song, who was an informatics engineer in Seoul until age 26, performed the extreme tenor role of Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell as his debut at the Saarländisches Staatstheater? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sung Min Song. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sung Min Song), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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This Ukrainian composer has been up for a pre-FA peer review for several weeks now, without any responses. Are you able to take a look? Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 22:31, 9 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 17 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Enriqueta Legorreta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Enriqueta Legorreta(pictured), who was the first Mexican woman to appear as Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre, became an award-winning environmental activist? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Enriqueta Legorreta. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Enriqueta Legorreta), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
I love collaboration with friends, - friendship being my motto for the year which has worked. I guess it will be resilience next year, inspired by a barnstar above ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:05, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Dear Gerda, after sometime away from wp, I am a little bit unsure if this is the right way to approach you: Would you please be so kind as to link Hufnagelnotation with Hufnagelnoten (re: Wienhäuser in D-wp). All the best & enjoy advent in Limburg, wishes --Carpediem192931 (talk) 16:30, 25 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
I moved this to the bottom where new entries go. (For the next new thread, just click on "New entry" in the top line, and it will happen automatically.) I am not sure I understand your question. Do you mean an interlanguage link, Hufnagelnotation [de]? If yes, just replace it with {{ill|Hufnagelnotation|de}} Unfortunately that has to be done in every article where it's mentioned. If not, please explain what you mean, Carpediem192931. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:42, 25 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
was looking in the D-Wikipedia for Hufnagelnoten ended with the Wienhäuser manuscr. If there would be an entry or better a link, as not everyone comes up with H-notation. As I am not knowledgeable enough to make this, I thought of you, as my last wp-contact yonks ago & music friend. greetings carpediem192931 Carpediem192931 (talk) 16:53, 25 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
thats what I am saying, if you look at the Wienhäuser manuscr.page at D-wp. A redirect whe you enter H.-noten to H.-notation would do, for us not so musically advanced. Carpediem192931 (talk) 17:10, 25 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Please write the link to the Wienhäuser, - I am too hungry to search and need to make the food, so it will take a bit. Just add :de: before the name in a link in square brackets. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:21, 25 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Obituary in the Signpost
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On 28 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cameron Shahbazi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2020 when Persian-Canadian countertenorCameron Shahbazi performed in Written on Skin in Cologne, his "Luciferian charm" and "iridescent voice" were noted? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cameron Shahbazi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cameron Shahbazi), 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.
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The Reviewers Award
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:49, 28 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
I voted. While I intentionally did not list the collection of answers as a voters guide, others quoted it in RfCs and WP:AN. I wonder where the candidates looked, even when I told them specifically to look at Laurence Olivier. How many more RfCs do we need to call the infobox wars over? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:10, 11 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Silence of Ainola?
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On 4 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bernardo Adam Ferrero, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bernardo Adam Ferrero wrote compositions such as Danzas alicantinas for Spanish civil and military bands that he conducted? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bernardo Adam Ferrero. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bernardo Adam Ferrero), 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.
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German ITN: In Hamburg ist Irina Scherbakowa (Bild), Mitbegründerin der in Russland verbotenen Menschenrechtsorganisation Memorial, mit dem Marion Dönhoff Preis ausgezeichnet worden. Copy-ed'd her article but did not add this award. DYK?– Sca (talk) 15:07, 5 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Glad you enjoyed Avdeeva. Heard her here in Los Angeles in 2019 in the Beethoven PC4; her playing evoked favorable comparisons with pianistic greats of yesteryear. What an artist. — CurryTime7-24 (talk) 17:36, 9 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
I was blessed with a seat where I could see her face and expression, - can't be described. I never take pics during performance, and afterwards, it wasn't quite the same. I found this here. - Her article should be better, but I think I should really turn to Christmas first. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:47, 9 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Happy holidays!
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my card is in the making, and I gave it a start on 23 December, for growth over the new year, - best keep it watched if interested
Happy holidays!
I finally got time to work on Wikipedia again, and I saw you and Balon Greyloy had conversed this week, which reminded me that I always enjoy seeing you. :)
Neopeius, you should see me smile! - Happy holidays also to you, - keep watching this page, or my card! I started my first Christmas article yesterday, finally, but singing began in November, pictured further up, concert to come on Sunday: Noël! - You asked: personal health is well, music - both listening and singing - has been excellent, but peace on earth is not, - we'll have to work on it. - Friendship - my motto for 2022 - has grown, and I'm thankful for that! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:39, 9 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
I know it's red. It will probably follow the format of this year's, but the November calendar pic is not yet decided, and the December pic possibly not even taken, - my rule is that it has to be taken in the same month the previous year, but I sometimes permit myself exceptions from the rulez. - Did you know that you can watch a page before it's created? I didn't for a long time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:34, 9 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Peace Dove Christmas
Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension.
Ohara Shoson (Koson), Egrets in Snow, Ohara Koson, 1927
Have a wonderful holiday season filled with peace, joy, prosperity and wonder.
Hi Gerda Arendt, Thank you for all your contributions during the year, and for sharing kindness, food, music and beautiful scenery throughout! It is always a treat to hear from you, friend. May your 2023 be filled with creativity and good health. Image: Egrets in Snow, Ohara Koson, 1927
Merry Christmas dear one. Have you finished all your cantatas and exhibitions of your wonderful skill and knowledge yet? We have one more performance to go - on Christmas Eve! It's for kids though, so I of course am looking forward to it. Bless you and yours across this holiday season. I pray for peace for all. Jenhawk777 (talk) 23:43, 20 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you and yours nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969TT me20:07, 20 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Happy holidays!
Happy New Year!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Gerda!
The other day, I was having a conversation with someone about holiday cards and social media. It occurred to me that, in the years since I left Facebook, the site I use most to communicate with people I like isn't actually a social media site at all. If you're receiving this, it's pretty likely I've talked with you more recently than I have my distant relatives and college friends on FB, at very least, and we may have even collaborated on something useful. So here's a holiday "card", Wikipedia friend. :) Hope the next couple weeks bring some fun and/or rest. — Rhododendritestalk \\ 18:49, 22 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, that looks truly fantastic, illuminated, bookwormy, leading upward. Creative and festive - thank you for sharing. I was never on FB, - I enjoy friendships here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:17, 22 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
BOZ (talk) is wishing you a MerryChristmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!
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I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ (talk) 23:07, 22 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Wishing you and yours the best over the holiday season, and here's hoping 2023 won't bring as much global trauma as 2020, the worse 2021[22] & fecking 2022! Ceoil (talk) 04:12, 23 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank, friend, for coming over with this image of mystery and light in darkness! Best wishes for a good 2023 also to you, with good music, thoughts and company! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 23 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Dear Gerda, Thank you for being such a thoughtful colleague to me and so many other Wikipedia editors, with the time and effort that you invest so generously in bestowing awards to our community. I hope your Christmas season will be filled with happiness and the joy of singing your favourite music. I send my very best wishes to you and yours for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2023, in good health, joyful spirits, and a sense of achievement in all that you do, here and in real life. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!)11:34, 23 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Pdebee, for the friendly wishes. The time in giving awards is productively spent, but the time arguing over DYK wording less so, therefore I'll retire from that corner of the Main page. Here I thought I had the perfect story for Christmas, Vom Himmel hoch in Mendelssohns's chorale cantata version, a youthful approach faithful to the great models by Luther and Bach. See? - Longer version: the nativity story is about 2000 years old. 1500 years later, Luther wrote it for his children, making one of them the messanger who brings the good news of in which unusual way there came reason for glory to God in the highest and peace on Earth, - the messanger singing in the first person! What a brilliant idea: everybody singing it is that messanger, even the child of eight years! Again 200 years later, Bach composed his chorale cantatas, including one for Christmas by Luther, choosing not the family-style Vom Himmel hoch but the No. 1 official song for the occasion at the time, Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ. Again 100 years later, Mendelssohn revived the idea of a chorale cantata using this carol. It remained unprinted. Again 200+ years later, when I was ten, my sister and I dressed up for Christmas as the angels (there's a photo but too private to share, imagine:) white long dresses, golden wings, hair open that usually was in firm braids, and playing the music on recorders ;) - Decades later, this user still finds joy in being the musical messanger: "Des laßt uns alle fröhlich sein" - let us all be cheerful about it - merry Christmas! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:14, 23 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
I heard the cantata first (that I remember, and only the first movement) on radio when my brother, a double-bassist with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, played it in the Christmas concert of North Rhine-Westphalia, then with minister-president Hannelore Kraft, and it was a pleasure to watch how she sang in the congregation.
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Christmas mass was impressive, fine music, high level. I was at St. Bonifatius together with my parents, obviously they didn't like the mass as well as I did. Charpentier is a discovery. Grimes2 (talk) 15:20, 25 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Gerda. I just wanted to take this time to thank you for all you do around here. I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas, and may the New Year be filled with wonders and joy. Zaereth (talk) 21:36, 25 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Gerda - I've seen you do a bunch of work on German musicians and church-related people, so I'll go to you for this - do you know whether Traugott Ochs (an early 1900s German chapel master, organist, and conductor) is notable? BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:35, 10 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Ochs looks notable, but needs more sources. Same Prèvost. Wittekind is poorest, - no source. The others are between. I can't help with finding sources, just do, and keep me posted. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:50, 10 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for St. Bernward, Hanover
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On 11 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article St. Bernward, Hanover, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that St. Bernward(pictured) in Döhren was consecrated in 1893, when part of Christoph Hehl's design of a basilica in the Romanesque Revival style was built, but the building was only completed after World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/St. Bernward, Hanover. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, St. Bernward, Hanover), 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.
It was at this church that I sang my first solo (of few) in a church concert, no problem with Jauchzet dem Herren in a quartet but knees seemed to give way for a Purcell motet where the alto had to open in low register ("The Lord is great"). - It was at this church that family thought of Sibylle on our Day of the Dead this year. (Look for her name above if you missed it, associated songs Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud and Non, je ne regrette rien.) Today is the Third Sunday in Advent, and we (congreation) sing in the service, and we (choir) give a concert with French music. Keep watching ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:10, 11 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for New Jersey's 1927 biannual elections proposal
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Good morning Gerda,
I have made an extension to the History section on 8.12. Unfortunately, it was reset by User:Nikkimaria on 9.12 on the grounds that the sources were insufficient. I then put the matter up for discussion (discussion on Clarinet) on 11.12.. There, the Binksternet, also criticised the wording.
I corrected my draft and, as best I could, eliminated awkward phrases, deleted some passages ("opinions") and expanded the sources for the period after 1843. You can see the draft here: User:Gisbert K/sandbox3. Could you read please it once and, if necessary, improve the wording and perhaps give me some other hints? - Gisbert ツ (talk) Illustrate Wikipedia !08:30, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
I will look, but I first want to nominate one article for Christmas, which still needs expansion and am still in looking over my watchlist. Patience please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:37, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
I took a quick look, and the standard of the English Wikipedia - at least a ref at the end of each paragraph - is not yet met. Can you split this long thing in parts, to be looked at one after the other? - More when I will have dealt with a new RD article and nominated the second Christmas article. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:12, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hello Gerda, you find the text long; however, it is only about one sixth of the text of the article Clarinet, into which it is to be integrated. The section "History" is to be completely overwritten by the new text, which can only be done in one go.
I have extended the footnotes again, so that now, as you suggest, there is a footnote at the end of each paragraph.
I suggest that you only deal with the text. It should appear in "normal", easy-to-read English. If this is not the case, I ask you to correct it. Thankyou. - Gisbert ツ (talk) Illustrate Wikipedia !10:21, 16 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. I have still not nominated my second article for Christmas, so please have more patience. As yesterday, the weather is brilliant, so time better spent outside than at a PC. By "long" I meant, it's too long to be accepted as one change. Better make logical splits, and change in pieces. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 16 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Gisbert, I looked now. I saw only two sentences obviously coming from German, and one of them seemed a duplication anyway. Please - generally - avoid "today" and "you". You may want to check that refs follow facts without any space, and check if italics are closed in a ref. I am not sure about "Ancient Greece" vs. ancient Greece, - such things. When you yre happy, I suggest you tell Nikkimaria to check it out. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:34, 17 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
DYK for Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac
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I'd have liked to see this pictured on 22 November, the composer's birthday and St. Cecilia's Day, but better late than never. Is it too late for Concentricities? Wolf Erlbruch needs supports or it will be too late. Several DYK nomination linger. I want to write two articles for Christmas ... - In das Warten dieser Welt (In the waiting of this world) + Jetzt ist die Zeit (Now is the time). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:08, 15 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 17 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Azio Corghi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Azio Corghi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Azio Corghi), 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.
Great article! Reminds me of the time I tried to learn Tartini's Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill) back in high school. Very technically challenging, even once you got the hang of all the double stops. (But it sounds so cool though!) Anyway, it's always nice to see some love for Tartini's lesser-played sonatas. Super underrated composer! DanCherek (talk) 07:22, 18 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Gerda. My empathy doesn't make sense all the time, even to me, but neither does my sight or song. I've learned it has purpose though. No matter if it is understand or not, it is genuine and freely offered in the deepest sense of all that I am. You are loved. --ARoseWolf16:13, 20 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For your years of contributions to DYK as well as the consistently warm attitude you brought to it. Ideological differences aside, you will be missed :) you are truly a one-of-a-kind contributor. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 07:48, 21 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, and we can work together. I am tired of being told my approach is wrong when it's just different (see a little above), and there will be so much less friction in reviews and less work for prep builders ;) - I just looked back at 2022, and I feel there were plenty of reasons to be thankful for. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 21 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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The Writer's Barnstar
You have contributed so much to WIkipedia's coverage of classical and sacred music, that your influence is difficult to measure.
This fact was brought home to me when my husband bought a book for his dad for Christmas called "Stories of the Hymns" written by Glenn Rawson and J. Tonioli. I noticed they cite Wikipedia extensively in that book, and as I was looking up the articles they cited I realized that you have contributed to a LOT of them. Take joy in the fact that your work is being cited in the real world, and bringing joy to others.
Reading the absolutely lovely experience ONUnicorn shared above just reinforces the fact your impact is felt by so many people. You are an amazing light in this world, Gerda. I love your Song so dearly. I don't even think words can do justice. Your impact reaches much deeper than DYK's, FA's, GA's, articles or lists. Your impact is felt in the deepest part of who we are. Thank you for being you. I wish you love, joy, peace and health for the upcoming year. I appreciate you and value you with all of who I am. --ARoseWolf15:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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On 26 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Talia Or, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Talia Or(pictured), who sang as the Voice of a Falcon at La Scala, was born in Israel and is based in Germany? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Talia Or. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Talia Or), 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.
It's still Christmas here in the states – this appearing today is a wonderful testament to your dedication to facing trouble head-on. Merry Christmas and thank you, my dear friend! Urve (talk) 02:07, 26 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
It's still Christmas here, Urve, we have two days: thank you for coming over and saying that. Only, I don't deserve it. In that particular case, we ended up - instead of saying something about German-Israeli Jewish-Christian collaboration that Yoninah would have liked (shown on top) - with saying as the climax that she is based in Germany. Well, - most opera singers from all over the world are just because it has most opera houses. We don't say that she is a soprano, and that "voice of a falcon" could also mean a role in a play. I hope that readers will find the article anyway, just because of the way she looks at you. - I didn't face that well, and I am determined to not let these misunderstandings waste my time any longer, by avoiding them from the start. I tell you - all who kindly watch this page - that when she and her mezzo colleague Silvia Hauer sang the Agnus Dei in Verdi's Requiem (pictured above), which has the two voices in octave parallels and nothing else, they sounded as one voice - and the house was silent, listening. (It reminded me of the perhaps best DYK of 2022, which made me happy because people read about Kathleen Ferrier: ... that in Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Benjamin Britten assigned the tenor of Peter Pears to Abraham and the alto of Kathleen Ferrier to Isaac, with both singing in homophony as the voice of God?) - Yesterday, we thundered in the same house ;) - Did you see: one Wiki-friend actually came to listen! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 26 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
What a beautiful person with I'm sure a beautiful voice. Thank you for the post on my talk page. I needed this today. It's been a hard few days. You spread joy, Gerda, and I need it. We all do. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 09:16, 27 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Pichemist was:
This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
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Hello, Gerda Arendt!
Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Signed,Pichemist( Contribs | Talk )21:00, 28 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Gerda Arendt Yes, it does seem to have a better indication of notability now but the fact that the first reference is used 8 times while the others are used once seems to indicate that the only reference which can have data extracted from it is the first one and the rest is just reference bombing. (See WP:REFBOMB) Signed,Pichemist( Contribs | Talk )07:40, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Pichemist, I could use the Rostock reference for the same facts from his life as the Tübingen one, but that's what I'd call reference bombing. He just had these stations of a scientific career, making him one of the voices heard in the world when it comes to the history of Latin. I added two detailed reviews, one in English, to call that reference bombing seems a bit ignorant. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Not for Harvard and Columbia. What else do you need? - This is not my typical topic, so I really need advice. In the article Renaissance Latin, he is not only mentioned in the references, but by name in the text, as an authority, - that's what I see. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:38, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
((talk page stalker)) The 1st JSTOR link points to the full book Latin: Story of a World Language and is, I think, not accessible to anyone. The 2nd is a 1-page review of another book, Wege, Umwege und Abwege, which only mentions Leonhardt superficially. Probably violating T&C, this is its text:
Buchbesprechungen - Comptes rendus 249
Jürgen Leonhardt/ Silke Leopold/ Mischa Meier: Wege, Umwege und Abwege. Antike und
1. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2011. 127 S.
Der Althistoriker M. Meier, der Latinist J. Leonhardt und die Musikwissenschaftleri
setzen sich in je einer Studie mit dem Ansatz auseinander, die Geschichte der neuzeitl
eine Kette von Versuchen zu beschreiben, an die griechische Tragödie als (vermeintli
der Gattung anzuknüpfen.
Meier, der sich schon öfter mit Wagners Verhältnis zur Antike beschäftigt hat, z
schied vom <Gesamtkunstwerk> - Emanzipation von der Antike: Das deutschsprachig
ater im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert» (11-66) mittels eines Gangs durch d
schichte seit Wagner (mit Schwerpunkten auf A. Bungert, F. Draeseke, J. Bittner, E. H
R. Strauss, H. Pfitzner, F. Schreker und E.W. Korngold), dass sich die fortschreitende
von Wagner, dessen Kunstwerk der Zukunft das Ergebnis seiner spezifischen und eige
tikerezeption sei (22), als «ein Jahrzehnte übergreifender Prozess der schleichenden
der Antike als vermeintlicher Urmutter der Oper» (ebd.) beschreiben lässt. Neue Kon
Bereich des Musiktheaters, die die attische Tragödie einbezogen (etwa bei Honegger u
ky), erfolgten im 20. Jh. hauptsächlich aus einer dezidierten Ablehnung der Wagners
heraus.
Einer der öffentlichkeitswirksamsten Komponisten in diesem Bereich war Carl Orff. 30 Jahre
nach seinem Tod lässt sich manches unvoreingenommener beurteilen, was zuvor gelegentlich durch
die Kraft seiner (polarisierenden) Persönlichkeit überstrahlt wurde. Leonhardt weist in «Sprachbe-
handlung und antike Poesie bei Carl Orff» (67-97) überzeugend nach, dass im Gegensatz zu Aussa-
gen des Komponisten und seiner zeitgenössischen Interpreten Orff gerade nicht an die Verbindung
von Wort und Musik in der antiken Dichtung anknüpfte, sondern einem musikalischen Ansatz folg-
te, der von ihm selbst kam (97). Sein Verfahren erinnere «an den liturgisch überhöhten Gestus des
barocken Rezitativs und damit an die Tradition von Kantate, Oratorium bis hin zur Passion» (78). In
«Orffeo. Carl Orff bearbeitet Monteverdi» (99-127) zeigt S. Leopold, dass Orff sich zwar im Zuge
seiner (1925 in Mannheim uraufgeführten) Neugestaltung von Monte verdis Orfeo wissenschaftlich
mit diesem Komponisten und seiner Zeit beschäftigte, sich aber um die daraus resultierenden Er-
kenntnisse letztlich wenig kümmerte (105): Bearbeitung und Neukomposition flössen ineinander;
der Text wurde stark gekürzt und so modifiziert, dass aus der Geschichte von der Macht der Musik
eine von der Macht der Liebe wurde; dadurch passt der neue Text auf weiten Strecken überhaupt
nicht mehr zu den originalen monodischen Passagen, in denen Wort und Musik zu einer Einheit
verschmelzen; damit verfehlte Orff genau das, was Monteverdis Werk epochal macht.
Alle drei Studien regen auf ihre Weise zu weiterem Nachdenken an: So wären, von Meier aus-
gehend, nun die Gründe zu eruieren und zu diskutieren, weshalb im 20. Jh. der Rückgriff auf die
antike Tragödie hauptsächlich dort zu finden ist, wo man sich von der Wagnerschen Ästhetik distan-
zierte. Die Beiträge von Leonhardt und S. Leopold markieren den Beginn einer neuen Würdigung
von Orffs Werk jenseits des Kredits, den man der Orffschen Selbstdarstellung allzu lange unbefragt
gewährte. Darüber hinaus machen sie auf grundsätzliche methodologische Probleme aufmerksam,
was die Auswertung künstlerischer Selbstzeugnisse und Selbstdeutungen betrifft.
Werner Schuber
of 2018 · 2: the last of the RMF concerts, 14: 3 DYK and the Denkmal concerts, 19: funeral of Elizabeth II, 22—25: travels and strings sound
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This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RoseCherry64 -- RoseCherry64 (talk) 01:01, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
. 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:Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen, BWV 248 III for issues which need to be addressed. RoseCherry64 (talk) 10:39, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
; see Talk:Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen, BWV 248 III for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RoseCherry64 -- RoseCherry64 (talk) 12:41, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
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- I'm the only chef at home, and didn't even apply for the job! Thanks for reminding me to simply look up the recipe online, so here is the classic French version, and the WP version. I remember my trip to Patagonia, at least a decade ago, and while in Argentina we ate what looks like the dish you photographed, beautifully prepared (I prefer mine med-rare rather than still mooing). It was soooo delicious!! And thank you for your efforts and thoughtful dedication to the victims in Ukraine...such a tragedy. Atsme 💬 📧 19:35, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
how does it feel to be a freshman editor again? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 05:49, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
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Like it. El_C 12:58, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
--ARoseWolf 18:20, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
and what I really want to do is explore Locus iste (Mealor). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Danket, danket dem Herrn at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:48, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
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, next plan: Ich habe genug, BWV 82, for 2 February 2023, heard at one of the many RMF concerts, translating to "I am content". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:34, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
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Enjoy! 
El_C 00:47, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
) template on the nomination, and/or 2. leaving a note at WT:DYK with a link and a description of the nature of incident, without pinging a specific editor or mentioning the nomination on their talk page. While I understand that this is inconvenient, and less likely to lead to a prompt reply, I think it would be beneficial for DYK's atmosphere to leave third opinions to a random outside party. Thanks for understanding :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 03:27, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
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