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Thank you for the epiphany, much needed ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 20:01, 2 January 2014 (UTC) |
Thank you for the epiphany, much needed ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt#top|talk]]) 20:01, 2 January 2014 (UTC) |
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Thank you very much for the "Precious" acknowledgement that you made on my talk page back in December. I can honestly say that it made my day when I discovered it. I sadly no longer have time to contribute to the project, but it is very gratifying to know that my contributions back then are still appreciated. |
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I am very curious to know how you managed to stumble upon my contributions, though? It's been so long now since I was a regular editor here and I assumed that my work had been forgotten! Cheers, [[User:Ashnard|<font color="green">'''Ashnard'''</font>]] <sub>[[User talk:Ashnard|'''<font color="red">Talk</font>''']]</sub> <sup>[[Special:Contributions/Ashnard|'''<font color="black">'''Contribs'''</font>''']]</sup> 22:47, 3 January 2014 (UTC) |
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Did you know ...
- ... that Bach set Johann Gramann's hymn "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?
- ... that A Boy was Born (pictured), the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
- ... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
Welcome!
Hello, Gerda Arendt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, like Graham Waterhouse, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted. ... --> Again, welcome! Hell In A Bucket (talk) 13:39, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Archive of 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013
Go Gerda Girl
You do great work and I love it! Don't let Tony get to you. Ihre Arbeit ist grossartig. Weiter schreiben, eien lange Zeit. PS, I really liked the article about the church the communists blew up. BarkingMoon (talk) 11:50, 19 June 2011 (UTC) Sehr geehrte Gerda, I have a watch on your page since a few weeks ago. I approved and moved 167 to holding for June 24.BarkingMoon (talk) 12:11, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:13, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
- Keine Problem. Koennen Sie ueberpruefen DYK Noel F. Parrish? Danke. BarkingMoon (talk) 12:14, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
- Later, yes, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:24, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
- See my talk page. Thanks so much! BarkingMoon (talk) 11:13, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
On 30 December 2011 the article became a GA, thanks to Ched, PumpkinSky and MathewTownsend, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:40, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- See my talk page. Thanks so much! BarkingMoon (talk) 11:13, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- Later, yes, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:24, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
- Keine Problem. Koennen Sie ueberpruefen DYK Noel F. Parrish? Danke. BarkingMoon (talk) 12:14, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Flowers and sapphires
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Flowers!
For a true gem of a person ...
almost forgot one thing
Cherry Impact event barnstar
Standing Strong
uh, a tree for you
A barnstar for you!
The Mandarax Barnstar of Excellence
First ever Wiki Angel Award
... I'd make a Wikilove thingy ...... with a pretty picture, but I'm lazy so instead you'll have to settle for text" Barnstar Hi Gerda, I saw your note on my talk page. Thanks for the kind words, and for being so refreshingly pleasant and un-bitter all the time. An inspiration to us all. I'm sure I'll see you around eventually, but probably won't be for a while yet. Enjoying my time away. Cheers. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:56, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
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nice edit notice ;)
- http://wikipediocracy.com/
- http://wikipediocracy.com/2012/10/31/tis-the-season-to-be-banning-at-wikipedia/
A Halloween present from Wikipediocracy on my eighth anniversary. Best wishes. Mads Lange (talk) 09:28, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
- nice comment, peace maker - I pass free treats today, Reformation, even the Bach cantata got a pumpkin + I like sharing, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:32, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
- peace GA ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:44, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Some baklava for you!
I'm not by there very often, but today I saw the recent kerfluffle at AN/I and thought you could use some sweets. Lest you think this is all selfless, though, I brought a second fork. Care to split it? -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:33, 20 June 2013 (UTC) |
Thank you, sweet of you, - I would share with Andy first if his doctors allow. Day by day I hope the thread autoarchives (havn't looked today), - I am sure his doctors allow no stress ;) . Did you see the list of 18 discussions "drowning" a project? - Everybody who takes an unbiased look is welcome to share the baklava! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:58, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Infobox request
Work your magic, if you have a few minutes: A Song for Simeon.--ColonelHenry (talk) 23:55, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
- Done. Did you know that Simeon is among my images? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:41, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Infoboxes clarification request archived
Hi Gerda, the infoboxes clarification request in which you were named as a party has been closed and archived. The Committee clarified that acting on behalf of a restricted user to breach a restriction is WP:PROXYING and so is not permitted. For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:39, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
WP:PROXYING, which is a policy says "Wikipedians in turn are not permitted to post or edit material at the direction of a banned editor (sometimes called proxy editing or proxying) unless they are able to show that the changes are either verifiable or productive and they have independent reasons for making such edits"
(my emphasis). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:38, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Jahrhundertring
![]() | On 6 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jahrhundertring, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a French team created the Jahrhundertring (scene pictured) of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing "a near-riot"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jahrhundertring. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 17:17, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Really glad to see this cultural milestone make it into the encyclopedia and onto the front page too. Well done! Whiteghost.ink (talk) 03:19, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, see my memories :) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:51, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
nothing secret here
Hello Gerda, nice to meet you. Are you really the Notorious Infoboxen WikiCriminal that has been terrorizing the music articles? :-) As you can see from my first posting on AGK's talkpage, up above the duromac thing, I am *also* a notorious wikiCriminal. Or at least, notoriously silly (AGK blocked me -- then later unblocked me -- when they mistook one of my not-all-that-funny jokes over on the Bishzilla talkpage).
But my actual question for you is this -- I did not really understand your reply to me.
- (watching) Simply thank you! (I would use the button, but it doesn't work for IP. Also there's nothing secret here.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:06, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Well, okay, I understood the watchlist part, and the thank-you part. You are surely welcome. <bows>
But what button and what secret thing are you referring to? I do login as an IP, of course (you can call me 74 if you like), but User_talk:Clover1991 has registered a pseudonym; they are the one submitting the article, not me. Maybe the link to the 'secret' thing in my message was was confusing -- it is just a pokemon character, one of many not-very-notable-toys which has a long article in mainspace, badly in need of cleanup, and short on reliable sources. The pokeman-article is not related to the Duromac thing, directly, I was just using it as a metaphorical example of how wimpy our deletionist-standards are when something is 'popular' to some degree in the english-speaking-world. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 14:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
- 74, nice to meet you! (Feels like Lohengrin, no real name ;) - But then I'm a friend of 28bytes, also no real name but heart and reason.) - First: yes, I am the terrorizing witch, only nobody told me so far what that terror is, I see no evidence, hear only echoes of former wars. You enter a battleground: you are a warrior, - easy. Sparrow Mass: after gracing seven Schubert masses with an infobox I continued with Mozart, interesting story followed ;) - Now to your question: between registered users, there's a function where you simply click a button for an edit and have thanked the editor who made it, and it's more or less secret between the two. Sometimes I use it where I would not do it in public ;) - I wanted to thank you for your diligent research and the way to present it, I watch AGK since this, more recently this, - the former was more fun ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:22, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
- Appreciate your thank-you, kind and gracious humanoid. 74 does count as a name of sorts; think of it as a jersey number. :-) Since I am an outsider, and have only heard rumors of the Dread Infoboxen Wars, you should take my nutshell explanation with a grain of salt...
infoboxen oh nohz!
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- You can see the same kind of respect-my-authoritah problems elsewhere, with the ever-growing list of Arbitrarily Enforced Discretionary Sanction topics (which will soon cover half of mainspace), the ever-growing list of semi-protected pages (the encyclopedia only Real Contributors can edit), and in so many other ways. The rising authoritarianism is deadly[1] to wikipedia... growth in active editor-count ceased years ago,[2] and has been steadily declining since. WMF has proven they are unable to help us,[3] so we have to solve this one ourselves.[4] Part of the *motivation* for draconian pragmatic arbcom decisions that violate the-encyclopedia-anyone-can-edit, is purely and simply that no arbcom member, no admin, and few semi-admins-using-twinkle-huggle-stiki-reviewer-rollbacker-etc can spare the time to follow the five pillars. They are busy-busy, rushing from fire to fire, and there are no reinforcements coming, whilst the readership grows and grows and grows.
retention oh yehz!
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- We get literally 1000 new editors every month! Problem is, we lose 1050 editors, every month; that *must* stop. Thanks for listening, and thanks for improving wikipedia. p.s. Upgrades,[5] unofficial tutorial,[6] and the 'official' helpdocs,[7] too. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 13:21, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you for sharing elucidation! The infobox story goes back to 2005, did you know? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:39, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
Infobox
Thank you for your cogent arguments on infoboxes for all biographies, so the "look and feel" of Wikipedia extends to all people. The arguments against them for certain classes of people is just silly. I love the way you have collected their specious arguments. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, it's nice to feel understood ;) - did you vote? - here's another collection of arguments, the candidates speaking for themselves, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
tale of the ironing lady
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Gerda, apropos of Mark Williams-Thomas, why don't you simply add the parameter
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Thanks again!
Thanks much, Gerda, for the reprise of your award. It's refreshing and encouraging to encounter some kindness amidst the bellicosity, irrationality, and bigotry that I frequently encounter. TimidGuy (talk) 12:02, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Patrice Chéreau
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Patrice Chéreau 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 Jburlinson -- Jburlinson (talk) 23:41, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey.
Appreciative gesture; gratitude. DS (talk) 14:05, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Many Thanks
I want to thank you for the kind Precious award dealie you left in August. (Alas, I've not been on the site much at all lately. This has been a rough week for me as a writer, and I can't tell you how lovely it was to find your considerate words waiting for me here. Kudos for being so thoughtful and positive. Scartol • Tok 19:49, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
- Lovely, considerate, thoughtful, positive: that's you, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:38, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren
![]() | On 31 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bach set Johann Gramann's hymn "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Jolly New Year!! Gerda. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:34, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you, needed ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
- From me too, but ... "all praise, and then this happened, - even more we need good wishes," — just elected (highest vote) — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 09:38, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- Did you know that he helped me in a seemingly hopeless case in 2011, and again in 2012. (Look for my name in his well organized archive if not.) Who's going to help me now, in this seemingly hopeless case? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:21, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- ps: I went to the Swedish Wikipedia to find out who wrote the excellent article 'tis the season' shown above, - he did, some don't like that, for me it was a revelation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- But why now? — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 19:18, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- You look at his last two archives, mostly of one day, matters of COI and outing, - he - integrity in person - didn't want to serve on arbcom with the slightest bit of doubt. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- I have just finished wading through the two archives and as far as I can tell it all boils down to something referred to as "WO", whatever that is: is it Wikipedia:WikiOverload? I cannot find out, and some chinless wonder. The mind boggles.
I feel angry now. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 21:21, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- I have just finished wading through the two archives and as far as I can tell it all boils down to something referred to as "WO", whatever that is: is it Wikipedia:WikiOverload? I cannot find out, and some chinless wonder. The mind boggles.
- You look at his last two archives, mostly of one day, matters of COI and outing, - he - integrity in person - didn't want to serve on arbcom with the slightest bit of doubt. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- But why now? — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 19:18, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- Happy New Year Gerda!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:38, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- Happy New Year to you (but I confess that "Nazi" bothered me, - nothing compared to the above but enough to stay silent) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- Oh! Thank you Nikki Maria, although I fail to see why it relates to WO — and why it should present such a hoo-haa. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 22:11, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- Last year my present was an enlightening article titled "'tis the season" (shown above under the popcorn, and discussed here), - I looked for the author, no result, and found out now (to my delight) that it was 28bytes, - only others were less delighted, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- Oh! Thank you Nikki Maria, although I fail to see why it relates to WO — and why it should present such a hoo-haa. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 22:11, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- Happy New Year to you (but I confess that "Nazi" bothered me, - nothing compared to the above but enough to stay silent) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- From me too, but ... "all praise, and then this happened, - even more we need good wishes," — just elected (highest vote) — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 09:38, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Emailed.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:24, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
- clarified, thank you, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:03, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Help
Hi Gerda, sorry to bother you and i hope you don't mind but Wehwalt sent me in your direction. Im looking for someone to write or help in writing the critical reception section for Rocky the Musical. The main issue is whilst i have a couple of sources in the article i struggle to translate from German (Google translate is terrible and i don't speak German) on top of that i have difficulty in finding other German sources for the opening night reviews as there are so many German sources on sites and some seem to talk about openings and others just in general but i struggle working out which are which.Blethering Scot 19:11, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- If you have time. See my user, closed for the season, - traveling and sad, see above, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
- ok, well thanks. If you ever do have the time or the feeling takes you it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.Blethering Scot 00:05, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Happy New Year
Happy New Year, 2014 | |
From Amandajm (talk) 09:30, 2 January 2014 (UTC) The Epiphany Window, St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, by John Hardman & Co. of Birmingham |
Thank you for the epiphany, much needed ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:01, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you!
Thank you very much for the "Precious" acknowledgement that you made on my talk page back in December. I can honestly say that it made my day when I discovered it. I sadly no longer have time to contribute to the project, but it is very gratifying to know that my contributions back then are still appreciated.
I am very curious to know how you managed to stumble upon my contributions, though? It's been so long now since I was a regular editor here and I assumed that my work had been forgotten! Cheers, Ashnard Talk Contribs 22:47, 3 January 2014 (UTC)