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My [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#1 Oct|story today]] is about a woman and her husband who played Bach’s [[Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106|Sonatina]] for us (Rheingau Musik Festival, long ago) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O85lwrca-_c on an upright piano], and it made me cry, and I still remember. – ITNN, last day again: [[Dieter Kaufmann]]. — [[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 10:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
My [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#1 Oct|story today]] is about a woman and her husband who played Bach’s [[Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106|Sonatina]] for us (Rheingau Musik Festival, long ago) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O85lwrca-_c on an upright piano], and it made me cry, and I still remember. – ITNN, last day again: [[Dieter Kaufmann]]. — [[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 10:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
: Amakuru has taken care of the Kaufmann RD nom already. –[[User:PFHLai|PFHLai]] ([[User talk:PFHLai#top|talk]]) 22:20, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
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Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). — Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:19, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- A nice way to start the new year! —PFHLai (talk) 01:00, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- I like it, – last similar time – and “Zeit” = time even in the title – was in 2019, Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a. I hope to add more premiere performances – not only Bach chorale cantatas – to OTD this year, but sadly it starts with three articles about people who recently died, so deserve attention right now. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, my story today 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. Dada Masilo will be my story tomorrow. (Her presence on the Main page was short, as her life.) —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. Did you see that there was a RD article for me every day but Sunday? —Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for your steady supply of quality materials for use on MainPage. —PFHLai (talk) 00:28, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the credit for Ayla Erduran, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music —Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- You’re welcome, Gerda. You earned it! —PFHLai (talk) 02:33, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- … and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:04, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, – small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation 😉 —Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:42, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- I have more vacation pics to offer, and today’s story of Werner Bardenhewer. I took the pic, and it was my DYK on his 90th birthday, in both English and German. He spent the day in Africa, and after his return said – chatting after a mass of thanks he celebrated at Mariä Heimsuchung – that we’d have to talk about these articles. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:01, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the credit for Ayla Erduran, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music —Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for your steady supply of quality materials for use on MainPage. —PFHLai (talk) 00:28, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Thank you for the resource dpa-international, you have provided in the article Hans Dieter Beck. I know dpa, but this English resource is new to me. Grimes2 (talk) 10:50, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- You’re welcome, Grimes2. dpa articles sometimes show up on the newsfeed on MSN and Yahoo. I wish their webpage has a search engine. But I know I should not complain about free resources. It’s good to have their articles available as a news source. —PFHLai (talk) 14:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
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- Thank you, learning. – I saw it for Horst Janson, another case of last-day RD nomination. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:09, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks to Amakuru, Janson reached RD on MainPage a few hours ago. —PFHLai (talk) 00:15, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- food pictured, and I have another article – marked ready – on WP:ITNN —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:30, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- Looks like Stephen has taken care of that RD nom. —PFHLai (talk) 12:58, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, he did! – Many more “places” if you like. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- today: a German-born Spanish art collector, – the video in her honour is remarkable, as what she gave the world. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:50, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
- I find today’s birthday child particularly inspiring, by enthusiasm and determination. That was – believe it or not – a pictured DYK in 2021, without the last line though. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Today’s story is about Edith Mathis, who portrayed young women by Mozart. The video of a 1993 interview has videos of her performances. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:11, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
- I point at a composer today, as the main page does. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:22, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- thank you for ITN work, with spring flowers and a song bird (in places) —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:38, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
- You’re welcome, but to be honest, I haven’t been doing much these days… — PFHLai (talk) 13:05, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
- Looks like Stephen has taken care of that RD nom. —PFHLai (talk) 12:58, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- food pictured, and I have another article – marked ready – on WP:ITNN —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:30, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks to Amakuru, Janson reached RD on MainPage a few hours ago. —PFHLai (talk) 00:15, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you, learning. – I saw it for Horst Janson, another case of last-day RD nomination. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:09, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
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Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! – We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! — Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:08, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
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Two (!) bios for recent deaths wait for attention on WP:ITNN. The woman seems more important, if there’ attention for only one of them 😉 —Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
- Looks like Black Kite has taken care of the RDs already. —PFHLai (talk) 13:12, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, that was a relief! – Tout est lumière. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:31, 7 April 2025 (UTC)
- My story is about music that Bach and Picander gave the world 300 years (and 19 days) ago, – listen (on the conductor’s birthday) —Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:55, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. – Also finally, I managed a FAC, Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to join a discussion about what “On this day” means, day or date. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:03, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
- Waltraut Haas – I had time for her only today, check ITNN —Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:27, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
- Haas reached MainPage a few hours ago, thanks to Spencer. —PFHLai (talk) 21:15, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).
Since I saw you visibly had the role of uploading recent deaths proposed, do you think you could have soon my now fully approved proposal of Kim Shin-Jo, one of the two survivors of the Blue House Raids important in South Korean history, uploaded before it is too late? I worked hard on upgrading this page to be fit for nomination, I’d love it being even for a single day up on the big page. 70.52.61.63 (talk) 02:20, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry, I was offline and away. Another admin has taken care of the RD nom already. — PFHLai (talk) 02:43, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
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Nothing new: another RD article on his last day on WP:ITNN. — Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:15, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for not being available. It looks like Schwede66 took care of the RD nom yesterday. — PFHLai (talk) 08:08, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- yes, and never a problem —Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:24, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- recommended reading today: Christfried Schmidt, a story about patience. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- Margot Friedländer, May Abrahamse (with uncertain licensing of portrait), and Vakhtang Machavariani (nominated and marked ready) —Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Osipenko: more lead perhaps tomorrow, but the next two are waiting … —Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:37, 18 May 2025 (UTC)
- No rush. This RD nom is not expiring yet. —PFHLai (talk) 13:40, 18 May 2025 (UTC)
- … and appeared – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, born 100 years ago, described by Alan Blyth —Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- No rush. This RD nom is not expiring yet. —PFHLai (talk) 13:40, 18 May 2025 (UTC)
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- An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.
- An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
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Stravinsky pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics – but too many who died — Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:51, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
too many died, see my story and listen to Comfort ye (sung in German) —Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusually a great writer of novels, music with light and a place with exquisite food. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
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Today is Bastille Day, commemorated by a DYK as my “story” and a visit to the Bastille Opera in “music”. I like the interview coming with the story, on the day before the big event, but for pomp and circumstance, the affair with 600 singing children and orchestra, and the singer dressed in the national flag, was also captured on videos, much slower. – I am not happy with changes for Helena Tattermuschová, beginning with the introduction of ref Operawire, which is practically our article as it was when she died, and then a slow edit war with a new user about the wording of the death sentence, as explained on Talk:Helena Tattermuschová. — Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
- If there is another English source that can be used there, please feel free to replace the OperaWire footnote. —PFHLai (talk) 23:35, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
- I didn’t find one. I just see a problem with a so-called ref, that not only quotes from “us” but from an earlier inferior state of the same article. – Thank you for reverting the sentence in question. Two more questions as follow-up. I explained WP:BRD to the “new” user (who knows “rvv”), but they deleted it from their talk (like everything else). I encounter that red-link user name wherever I go, now Michieletto, just entered on my user page today, and it becomes a synonym for slow edit warring over small things. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
- Again: a musician at the end of the RD line, Raymond Guiot. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:50, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
- Spencer took care of Guiot about 12 hours ago. —PFHLai (talk) 12:30, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, it was nice to wake up to that! – Thank you for trying kindly with the “new” user who deleted every question and warning from their talk. I wonder if we should retrieve all these threads and show them on the talk, to show an admin tempted to unblock what was going on. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:17, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
- You’re welcome, Gerda. Not sure if I was helping. Oh, well… —PFHLai (talk) 02:54, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
- You were helping! I wasn’t understood, John wasn’t, Floq wasn’t but your post remained. Perhaps you can talk to them about their unblock request which would serve as a good example for “digging a bigger hole”. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 03:32, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
- You’re welcome, Gerda. Not sure if I was helping. Oh, well… —PFHLai (talk) 02:54, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, it was nice to wake up to that! – Thank you for trying kindly with the “new” user who deleted every question and warning from their talk. I wonder if we should retrieve all these threads and show them on the talk, to show an admin tempted to unblock what was going on. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:17, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
- Spencer took care of Guiot about 12 hours ago. —PFHLai (talk) 12:30, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
Three of “my” recent deaths bios are on the main page right now, one my story today, Gary Karr, and I loved to find his breakthrough concert in 1962 as a video. In my music today I match it with 9 other double bassists, 7 conducted by a person who’s birthday is today – coincidence 😉 —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:47, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
On Bach‘s day of (not so recent) death, I decorated my user pages in memory, with his music, and my story ends on “peace”. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).
- Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
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- The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.
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Today’s story – short version: ten years ago we had a DYK about a soprano who sang in concerts with me in the choir, – longer: I found today a youtube of an aria she sang with us then, recorded the same year, – if you still have time: our performances were the weekend before the Iraq war ultimatum, and we sang Dona nobis pacem (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. — Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:04, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
Sorry, late again: I added Aino Pervik to ITNN today, on the last day, – please check —Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
- Curbon7 took care of this nom a few hours ago. —PFHLai (talk) 01:45, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
- And you took care of the next one, thank you! – Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There’s listening and reading in today’s story, and I like both. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:24, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- On top of my talk: birthday of a great violinist and Requiem for a great friend. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:13, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
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My story today is about a composer and his ballerina wife, pictured as I saw them in 2009. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:10, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
Lourdes Ambriz – last day again —Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:31, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
- Curbon7 took care of this nom a couple of hours ago. —PFHLai (talk) 00:00, 5 September 2025 (UTC)
- Curbon7 then wet on to post two more of “mine” 😉 – great help! – I enjoy a DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:51, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
- Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:08, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- My 100th biography to the Main page in 2025 is Siegmund Nimsgern. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:22, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
- 100th! A nice way to celebrate the equinox today. 🙂 Cheers! —PFHLai (talk) 17:40, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2025).
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My story today is about a woman and her husband who played Bach’s Sonatina for us (Rheingau Musik Festival, long ago) on an upright piano, and it made me cry, and I still remember. – ITNN, last day again: Dieter Kaufmann. — Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
- Amakuru has taken care of the Kaufmann RD nom already. —PFHLai (talk) 22:20, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
