Andreal life is very much in the way these days. I probably won't be able to log in as frequently and contribute as much as I would like. Messages left here probably won't get a quick response as before. Your patience would be very much appreciated.
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)[reply]
I have more vacation pics to offer, and today's story ofWerner 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 atMariä Heimsuchung - that we'd have to talk about these articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:01, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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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)[reply]
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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 joina discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk)14:03, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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 forHelena 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 onTalk:Helena Tattermuschová. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:22, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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, nowMichieletto, 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Three of "my" recent deaths bios are on the main page right now, onemy 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)[reply]
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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 foundtoday a youtube ofan 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 sangDona nobis pacem (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:04, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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 intoday's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:24, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I am proud to have brought two performing women to the main page. Sadly, death kept both from performing more, one sooner, the other much later. If you have little time just listen to the one who died young and see if it touches you (intoday's story, - I don't want to sprinkle youtube links outside my user pages). Latest pics from a day to the opera in Frankfurt, and afterwards (because train service is only once an hour) a lovely stroll along the Main river with illumination and the moon reflected. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:34, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Bock's wikibio looks fine to me, but the RD nom has zero support votes. I've left a note on ITN Talk about it. Hopefully, other editors can give it a late support vote or two. I'll check again later today. Hope this helps. --PFHLai (talk)00:15, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I'm not counting but wanted this pioneering women's historian. I had put her article in the background to work on three others and then had forgotten that two facts came without a ref. My fault. - I said that I nominated a fifth ;) - it's a man, but still no review yet. --Gerda Arendt (talk)07:11, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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