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:Congrats dear Gerda–[[User:Symposiarch|Symposiarch]] ([[User talk:Symposiarch|talk]]) 11:07, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

:Congrats dear Gerda–[[User:Symposiarch|Symposiarch]] ([[User talk:Symposiarch|talk]]) 11:07, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

:Congratulation. ”'<span style=”text-shadow:3px 3px 3px grey”>[[User:Grimes2|<span style=”color:black”>Grimes</span>]][[User talk:Grimes2|<span style=”color:blue”>2</span>]]</span>”’ 17:09, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

:Congratulation. ”'<span style=”text-shadow:3px 3px 3px grey”>[[User:Grimes2|<span style=”color:black”>Grimes</span>]][[User talk:Grimes2|<span style=”color:blue”>2</span>]]</span>”’ 17:09, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

# [[Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110]] – [[User|Ian Rose]] – 2 ”’ Jan”’

== January 2026 ==

== January 2026 ==

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We moved from 2025 to 2026, with new calendar pictures and new music. The topic is to prepare peace, in small steps. You can follow my daily stories, {{User Gerda Arendt/Top}}, often with an image and something to listen to: let’s stay inspired and connected. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing efforts regard improving articles of people who recently diedrecent deaths, music heard and sung, and their makers. Watch my user page for articles any given day, done in collaboration. Compare 2025 for the amazing number of users who began and expanded articles. Thanks also to reviewers, and I do plan to review more and write less, and in writing, focus more on quality than the little daily article.

2026 calender pics and musical events begin here, and the 2025 diary of my own pictures of places, songs, food, flowers is here (Hazel in bloom near Leine, Döhren.jpg|2026]] to come), – just watch those lists if you are interested.

My talk goes like this: on top there’s the “story” related to the day. Below are three or more boxes, often one for people remembered and others for musical experiences, performing or listening. In these boxes, topics related to the top story and topics featured on the Main page appear bold. Right here you see the image of the month with songs of the month, typically related to friends who gave them to me, listed on their birthdays or when meeting them. I archive this talk from time to time. —

Isues where I need help, such as reviews:

Thank you, I like to hear that! It helped that I was fascinated by the subject. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:56, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

more in the archive

Thank you for all your kind messages on my talk page throughout the year and for helping me enhance my knowledge of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach (to some extent). Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Keep contributing as you do. Cheers. MSincccc (talk) 19:02, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, for your thoughtful message and your constructive reviewing! Unser Mund sei voll Lachens 😉 – My little DYK Christmas gift still needs an approval, a song that a beloved family member liked. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:11, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the reminder. I’ll give it an anchor, to quote in discussions 😉 – I should perhaps make a list of DYK sentences I made which refer to peace, and perhaps make it the topic for 2026 … (so far I thought about dedication and interesting stories). – Peaceful Holidays to you and yours! My song this year is funny, – look above. We’ll sing the song of the angels (thank you for the illustration, and I’ll add mine) on Christmas Eve, this year from Bach’s Magnificat, one of three works by Bach for five voices, and “et in terra pax” (peace on earth) is especially expressive, listen. I should expand the section. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enjoy! —Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:13, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The 2015 DYK said: … that in his Christmas cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110, Bach embedded voices in the overture of his fourth orchestral suite and achieved a “marvellous rendition of laughter-in-music”? —Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:02, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments in the FAC are welcome! —Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:02, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It became a FA on 30 December! —Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:29, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As a big classical music person, I know that if I ever need to know something about one of Bach’s cantatas, there’s a good chance it’s a Gerda Arendt GA. Thanks for the work you do with content and at GAN (including, recently, your first review!—unsurprisingly, you did terrifically) and for honouring those we have lost at RD. And of course, thank you for your daily stories, wonderful music, and lovely pictures that you leave on my and others’ talk pages. Have an incredible holiday season and see you in 2026!

GoldRomean (talk) 19:05, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for such an uplifting personal message! The season has been good so far, see singing above, – pictures to follow, but I’m too celebrating 😉 —Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:03, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

—Rosiestep (talk) 23:31, 26 December 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Thank you, Bishs! Look what happened, below and below! —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations Gerda on the successful FAC of Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110! Your dedication and artistry truly shine through—well done!

el.ziade (talkallam) 20:19, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Elias! It would not have happened without you! —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Spencer, just in time. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:38, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Begin with a thankful Bach cantata, including prayer for peace, and other great music. To collaboration and peace, —Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:13, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

		The Special Barnstar
		Happy New Year, Gerda Arendt! I have lost count of how many years now it has been that I have written this message on your user talk page, but here I am again in 2025. In the past year, other editors thanked you 1538 times using the thanks tool on the English Wikipedia. This made you the #2 most thanked Wikipedian in 2025. As you once told me, giving is better than receiving, and in 2025, you were also the #1 most thankful Wikipedian with 3132 uses of the thanks tool. As I said last year: congratulations and, well, thank you for all that you do for Wikipedia. Here’s to 2026! Mz7 (talk) 05:13, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, Mz7, – in words (which I still believe is the better way to thank)! I was curious and I found 2020. No. 1 is new, and that being in “thankful” is wanted! I’ll move this into next year 😉 —Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:03, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do feel free to reuse. This picture is as tenacious as you (see it tomorrow) and it mirrors the happiness you share with so many. Thank you. – Roger aka Victuallers (talk) 10:23, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Roger! I share my story which also changes each day, and in 2026 will share music, changing often. Today, look at music. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:30, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, that’s a great idea. Listen! —Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and also to you! —Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:49, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

1. Gary Graffman – Schwede66 – 2 Jan

Congrats dear Gerda–Symposiarch (talk) 11:07, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulation. Grimes2 17:09, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

1. Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110 – Ian Rose – 2 Jan

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Seymour Lipkin when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance.
Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:30, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit summary in the revert said “unexplained”, but that’s not right: I explained that {{infobox person}} is better suitable for classical pianists, see Gary Graffman and others. You said “content removal”, – please tell me which content was removed, and to which “error” you refer to? – Happy new year! —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:41, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It was a wrong parameter in infobox. occupation is correct instead of occupations. I fixed that. Grimes2 19:50, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Graffman is linked on 94 pages, – I hope I won’t meet many more of the kind. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:03, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The error was on article Seymour Lipkin. Grimes2 20:12, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please go back and preview your edit… Special:Permalink/1330819192 You will see a big red preview warning that says Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox person with unknown parameter “occupations”. When you change the infobox type, as you did in your edit here, you need to preview it and make sure that all the parameters match up. They did not. You made this mistake multiple times.

As for the unexplained content removal, why was this persons Genre and their Instruments removed from the infobox? Your edit summary said ibox person better for classical people. That does not explain why you would remove their genre and the instruments they play from the infobox. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:58, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I made the change multiple times, but not until today did I notice that infobox person requires “occupation” (singular) only, while the other seems to tolerate both singular and plural. Sorry about that, always learning. Please explain why you think it would be helpful to mention that a pianist plays the piano? – Please excuse that – with four recent deaths articles waiting for improvements, and 94 articles to check, I didn’t preview every time for a change I made multiple times, – back to the beginning. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Let’s start over. Let me be clear, if I had a nickel for every time I have broken a page by not previewing… I could retire and edit wikipedia fulltime! My initial message, which is a templated message that I custom wrote, was intended as a friendly “hey you made a boo-boo here, try not to do it again”. Far from a big deal!

As for the data in the infobox, far from a hill I want to die on. I guess I just disagree that {{Infobox person}} is a better infobox than {{Infobox musical artist}} for a person who is a musician. But more to the point, your edit summary (IMHO) did not adequately explain why you were removing that information from the Infobox.

UNKNOWNPARAMS is kinda my pet project, so I’m constantly monitoring those with a custom module on my userpage. The unknown param is what brought me to the page.

Sorry if my initial message came across the wrong way. “always learning”, aren’t we all?! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:26, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

yes, we should keep learning – my edit summary is as templated as your message, short (and most often understood) for a stance that project opera has in its recommendations —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:37, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

in case that’s too hard to find: “If an infobox is used for opera singer and other opera-related biographies, Infobox person is preferable to Infobox musical artist which was designed for non-classical musicians.” —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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