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Contents
- 1 Hello Gerda!
- 2 DYK for Islossningen i Uleå älv
- 3 DYK for Frank Stähle
- 4 Quotes
- 5 DYK for Ainsi parla Zarathoustra (Boulez)
- 6 Pierre Boulez
- 7 Quite a contrast to much of your surroundings
- 8 User:Pablo X
- 9 DYK for Hana Blažíková
- 10 A barnstar for you!
- 11 Self-abasement
- 12 Francis Schonken blocked
- 13 DYK for Christe, du Lamm Gottes
- 14 Helga Goetze infobox
- 15 Happy Easter, Gerda!!
- 16 Happy Easter!
- 17 He was appointed
- 18 RE: Translation
- 19 DYK for Concerto for Piano and String Quartet (Busoni)
- 20 Thank you for contributing to A+F
- 21 Bernard Jumentier
- 22 Your GA nomination of Requiem (Fauré)
- 23 DYK for Die Tageszeiten
- 24 Long overdue
- 25 DYK for Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
Hello Gerda!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I have checked 365 of the articles created by you for typos, please check if my edits are correct. I noticed two more problems, but I am not sure how to fix 'em, would you be so kind to take a look?
- Salve Regina (Latry) contains " It ends like bellsDer letzte Ruf ."
- String quartets (Waterhouse) contains "movement threeOpening of"
Ciao ciao, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 06:06, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
- That is amazing, the checking I mean! Thank you so much! I fixed the first. The second: someone added the sound file of the basis by Lassus, I removed it as misleading,but if wanted it should be clarified that the sound is not what the article is about, just the inspiration. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you, here is a list of the edits I made on articles created by you. Feel free to undo/improve my edits. Have a nice day, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 07:26, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
DYK for Islossningen i Uleå älv
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Frank Stähle
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Quotes
While searching for quotes I found this gem:
“ | Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. | ” |
— Euripides
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The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:29, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
- No, thank you, for being 100% human in this computerized world. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:57, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
- blushing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:07, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
- I found this gem: "death, sleep, a journey of departure, peace and consolation are some of the intertwined themes and images" of Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, for 2 February. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:13, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
- I remember back when I was so young I wasn't allowed to use the recordplayer and I had to beg my sister (3,5yrs older) or parents to do it for me. I must've heard the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Peter and the Wolf and Peer Gynt at least a million times, and I still listen to them regularly. Peer Gynt. Suite No. 1, Op. 46 is probably the saddest music ever, but hauntingly beautiful. My userboxes aren't very informative (although it is true that the Brotherhood of Nod is the only army I support, mainly because it is fictional and because it has an awesome backstory) so I figured I should give some insight into who I am by my choice of quotes. I don't think you'll like all of them, but maybe you'll like some of them. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 08:16, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Was Trout Quintet and excerpts from La traviata for me. - I saw Götterdämmerung, conducted by Boulez (see below), - a friend had the ticket which you get only after years of waiting, but didn't care for Chéreau's ideas. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- I was working on an addendum for my previous comment, but you have already replied! I have updated my previous comment, see above.
- That is an awesome friend. Ah, Der Ring! Wagner wasn't a fan of Euripides. I love the idea that they actually created an instrument for Der Ring. Of course my musical taste has expanded, but it hasn´t really changed. I still listen to In the Hall of the Mountain King and Rondo alla Turca but these modern versions are very very different! The Quixotic Potato (talk) 09:18, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Der Ring: Boulez made rather modern music of it, that was fascinating, different! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:59, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
- Was Trout Quintet and excerpts from La traviata for me. - I saw Götterdämmerung, conducted by Boulez (see below), - a friend had the ticket which you get only after years of waiting, but didn't care for Chéreau's ideas. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- I remember back when I was so young I wasn't allowed to use the recordplayer and I had to beg my sister (3,5yrs older) or parents to do it for me. I must've heard the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Peter and the Wolf and Peer Gynt at least a million times, and I still listen to them regularly. Peer Gynt. Suite No. 1, Op. 46 is probably the saddest music ever, but hauntingly beautiful. My userboxes aren't very informative (although it is true that the Brotherhood of Nod is the only army I support, mainly because it is fictional and because it has an awesome backstory) so I figured I should give some insight into who I am by my choice of quotes. I don't think you'll like all of them, but maybe you'll like some of them. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 08:16, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- No, thank you, for being 100% human in this computerized world. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:57, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Ainsi parla Zarathoustra (Boulez)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Pierre Boulez
I've re-added the infobox. GiantSnowman 06:52, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you for trying, but see also. Quote: "Indeed, if the "wars" could begin to end here it would be a great start in a new year!" (written in 2014) On the same page: "Reversions" (trying to change the guidelines) and "A Statistical Note on Infoboxes". Your help is most welcome, but you probably can use your time better ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:28, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- I was a bit confused about the infobox-situation, but after reading for 5 minutes I decided it is probably best to ignore it. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 10:00, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Only 2 more minutes: It's best for your health to ignore it. I often mentioned a friend who told me "ignore ignore ignore". If you add an infobox to Pierre Boulez, that is a bold edit. If you take away an infobox on Laurence Olivier that has been there for years, that is improving the article. The same friend who told me to ignore protected LO because of an edit war over the hidden notice about the new lords of the article not wanting an infobox. He was desysopped. May he rest in peace. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:31, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
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- "New lords of the article"? Your incivility towards others who do not automatically bow down to your opinion is what got you (mercifully) constrained by Arbcom previously, and yet it appears you still haven't learnt, given the several comments recently about other editors who don't agree with you. Good thing Dreadfulstar was desysopped: they acted utterly inappropriately and deserved the full censure of both ANI and Arbcom for their actions under the influence of red mist. – SchroCat (talk) 11:48, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- I am not restrained by Arbcom. What else did you miss? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:25, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- I've missed nothing: you were constrained by them. – SchroCat (talk) 12:27, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- "New lords of the article"? Your incivility towards others who do not automatically bow down to your opinion is what got you (mercifully) constrained by Arbcom previously, and yet it appears you still haven't learnt, given the several comments recently about other editors who don't agree with you. Good thing Dreadfulstar was desysopped: they acted utterly inappropriately and deserved the full censure of both ANI and Arbcom for their actions under the influence of red mist. – SchroCat (talk) 11:48, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Good advice. I was surprised that no one seems to have mentioned the fact that you can easily hide parts of the Wikipedia interface you dislike. For example, if you do NOT want to see infoboxes then you can use CSS to hide them, like so:
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- Unfortunately that doesn't really work the other way around.
- My time is better spent checking the rest of the articles you've written. I've checked 365 of them (because of the new year) so I have 285 to go. WP:QAI's focus on quality articles is good for me, because I prefer articles like this one over articles like this one because of this reason. Let's "ignore ignore ignore" non-productive stuff. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 11:57, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, on Sundays, because of this reason (using {{diff}}), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
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- Only 2 more minutes: It's best for your health to ignore it. I often mentioned a friend who told me "ignore ignore ignore". If you add an infobox to Pierre Boulez, that is a bold edit. If you take away an infobox on Laurence Olivier that has been there for years, that is improving the article. The same friend who told me to ignore protected LO because of an edit war over the hidden notice about the new lords of the article not wanting an infobox. He was desysopped. May he rest in peace. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:31, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
- I was a bit confused about the infobox-situation, but after reading for 5 minutes I decided it is probably best to ignore it. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 10:00, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
It's Monday, the discussion is now at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:27, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
I'll bear it in mind, thanks! GiantSnowman 12:27, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Quite a contrast to much of your surroundings
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'A gem, you are|- | Thank you for being here, Gerda. You persist and make your presence felt, like a lovely waterlily that blooms in a swamp. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 15:57, 17 February 2016 (UTC) |
- Thank you, - did you know that swamp is close to my thoughts, and WP:Great Dismal Swamp? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:09, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- I had seen some of your swamp work, not all. Highly commendable and valued, but it must be hard (not "draining", clearly). One learns to understand some of the special lingo here mostly by stumbling across it. Very best wishes to you Gerda. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:26, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- I helped PumpkinSky writing Great Dismal Swamp maroons while he was blocked. Four years since the original meditation on what the blocking of content editors means. The article became a GA (my first) before he was unblocked two months later ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:34, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- I hadn't seen all that sad story. Have seen some of how contentions FA and DYK and Wikicup and RFA still are. I mostly stay away from those and just slog away at adding citations and trying to move pages away from the view that science depends on authority rather than evidence or citations. Great Dismal Swamp maroons is one of the great ideas for an article; a different sort of encyclopedia could be built from such inspiration. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:56, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- I helped PumpkinSky writing Great Dismal Swamp maroons while he was blocked. Four years since the original meditation on what the blocking of content editors means. The article became a GA (my first) before he was unblocked two months later ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:34, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- I had seen some of your swamp work, not all. Highly commendable and valued, but it must be hard (not "draining", clearly). One learns to understand some of the special lingo here mostly by stumbling across it. Very best wishes to you Gerda. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:26, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
User:Pablo X
These are not real categories. I thought we were supposed to remove them? And surely user pages should not be in categories?Rathfelder (talk) 23:02, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
- They are an expression of categories the user thinks he is in. I have two red links on my user page myself, and when someone turned one blue, I got furious and changed it. Red is to signal: "exception!", "I don't belong!" - This has nothing to do with useful user categories such as what language(s) a user speaks. - General rule: don't touch other user's user pages. Period. Unless it's vandalism, which you can check in the history: when someone else edited. (As - sorry- I handled yours.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- ps, for clarity: vandal users on their own user pages are of course a different story, - if you see that: act and/or report, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:35, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Hana Blažíková
— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Special Barnstar |
For getting Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 up to FA status. Well done Gerda! Hope to see more at FAC! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:53, 12 March 2016 (UTC) |
Self-abasement
Has many names in many cultures. Such as "Self-criticism", or "Seppuku". A time-honoured ritual, indeed, which Wikipedia has adopted with full force and vigour (In voller Kraft und Wirkung). <g>. Collect (talk) 17:51, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, - danke. I was too proud to appeal until the last AE made me drop my pride. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:59, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Francis Schonken blocked
This is to me a disaster! I know him as an excellent editor of Bach and related articles. Please help to undo this as soon as possible. Marlindale (talk) 00:57, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
- We work fine on his talk page, where he said - wisely - that an unblock procedure would be a waste of time. (I have never been blocked but in the case, I would do the same.) I concur. I will be over soon. I take improvements drafted there to articles, and you can do the same. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:08, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Christe, du Lamm Gottes
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:02, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Helga Goetze infobox
Hi Gerda Arendt
Thank you so much for making the inbox work! It looks great!
Jscarboro (talk) 21:30, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
- You are welcome! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:33, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Happy Easter, Gerda!!
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Some Easter Lead Belly for you! |
"Pasg Hapus! ... Happy Easter to you!" Martinevans123 (talk) 10:05, 27 March 2016 (UTC)} |
- Thank you. Did you hear my music today? - Actually, we sang Haydn's Missa in tempore belli, first time at the church, 154 years after the choir was founded, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:12, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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- How magnificent. I listened to J.E.G. here. Quite incredible. And congrats on the wonderful Featured Article! Martinevans123 (talk) 13:32, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Happy Easter!
Best wishes to you on Easter, and I hope this is a joyous year for you.
Congratulations on your Featured article appearing on the Main page today. – Corinne (talk) 19:34, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
- It could get better, - too many dear people died (see dedication above), but your wonderful tulips certainly make it brighter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:35, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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He was appointed
In BWV 172, the phrase following He was appointed reads weird as there is a break between it and the quote template. Should there be a colon or something like "He was appointed with the following conditions:" The article has been translated into Spanish and now on FAC, so maybe I'll ask for some clarifications in the future. Cheers! Triplecaña (talk) 13:35, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
- Perhaps there's a better wording. With the appointment, he received a title (Konzertmeister) and new privileges, - can you say that better? - Thanks for translating, impressive! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:40, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
- I'm not the translator though I am reviewing it at the moment. I don't feel bold today to edit it :P. Other issue: "No. 171–180". Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. Retrieved 8 April 2013. should be on Bibliography under scores right? Triplecaña (talk) 13:48, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
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- You could suggest a better wording right here or on the article talk, - sorry for not looking closely ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:56, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
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RE: Translation
Thanks to you for your geat job!! It was a pleasure for me read and translate this article. Kind regards --Obelix83 (talk) 19:11, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
- That was my first solo FAC, picked for love of the music ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:15, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Concerto for Piano and String Quartet (Busoni)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Thank you, - I did little in terms of new content, only pushed to review for DYK (139 appeared, 64 of them for the month, 23+ to come) ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Bernard Jumentier
Hello Gerda
and sorry that I missed your little message sooner this week. I was thinking that maybe I could find something to your taste that still doesn't exist here and I found that French composer (I had never heard about before). As is written on my user's page, I cannot translate from French at a level that would meet the standards we all expect from WP although I may have a try after all. Please let me know what you'd like me to create from the frWP that could be of some interest. Tschüss, LouisAlain (talk) 21:44, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you, just waking up (kidding, was off today). Will see, busy with Reger, for his centenary, - any compositions perhaps? I remember that the French Bach cantatas were compete much sooner then the English. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:18, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Requiem (Fauré)
The article Requiem (Fauré) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Requiem (Fauré) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sainsf -- Sainsf (talk) 08:01, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
- Good article in good time, two years after Wadewitz died, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Die Tageszeiten
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:27, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Long overdue
I'm sure someone has beat me to it, but if they haven't (and even if they have), you are precious and awesome for being so kind and welcoming in this often hostile environment. Hats off to Gerda! Kafka Liz (talk) 07:36, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
- I seem to have screwed that up, re: the date and all, but you still deserve it! Kafka Liz (talk) 07:41, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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- Thank you! It can always be repeated, and I do so a lot. I was told on 3 August 2010 first, and will not forget, repeated 18 February 2012 (look for my name in the list) and a few times on my talk, like yours ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 10 April 2016 (UTC)