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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions#17 July 2014|17 July 2014]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Philippe Capdenat]]''''', which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ''... that '''[[Philippe Capdenat]]''''s 2001 opera ''Une Carmen'' re-imagined Bizet's ''[[Carmen]]'' in Morocco?'' {{#if: |The nomination discussion and review may be seen at [[]].|{{#ifexist:Template:Did you know nominations/Philippe Capdenat|The nomination discussion and review may be seen at [[Template:Did you know nominations/Philippe Capdenat]].|{{#ifexist:Template talk:Did you know/Philippe Capdenat|The nomination discussion and review may be seen at [[Template talk:Did you know/Philippe Capdenat]].}} }} }} You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page <small>([[User:Rjanag/Pageview stats|here's how]], [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/index.php?page=Philippe_Capdenat&datefrom=2014-07-01&dateto=2014-07-31 live views], [http://stats.grok.se/en/201407/Philippe_Capdenat daily totals])</small>, and it may be added to [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics|the statistics page]] if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know talk page]]. |
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Revision as of 15:43, 17 July 2014
Danket dem Herrn in St. Martin, Idstein, 13 July
Festive multichoral sacred music by Heinrich Schütz
- Weib, was weinest du, SWV 443
- Christ ist erstanden, SWV 470
- Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, SWV 380
- Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, SWV 494
- Cantate Domino, SWV 81
- Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36
- Danket dem Herrn, SWV 45
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)
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
blushing
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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 ;)
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 (User:Gerda Arendt/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 then I'm a friend of 28bytes, also no real name but heart and reason.
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But my actual question for you is this -- I did not really understand your reply to me.
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)
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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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Hope is precious and great joy is found in living
Thank you for the sapphire—cornflower blue is a color of some significance to me. In the maelstrom that Wikipedia can sometimes be, remember these words from Ode to Joy:
Wem der große Wurf gelungen, Eines Freundes Freund zu sein, Wer ein holdes Weib errungen, Mische seinen Jubel ein! Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund! Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle Weinend sich aus diesem Bund!
Walk lightly and remain yourself, above the fray. →StaniStani 09:20, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you, it helps to open my shop again. - I sang the words last year, here, helping. The blue colour is also of significance to me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:28, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
- shop open --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:43, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Yay :-) — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:16, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Your efforts in creating and translating articles, here and elsewhere, is greatly appreciated. Thank you Gerda. Drmies (talk) 20:47, 21 January 2014 (UTC) |
A barnstar for you!
The Teamwork Barnstar | |
Your efforts in creating and translating articles, here and elsewhere, are greatly appreciated. Hafspajen (talk) 20:52, 21 January 2014 (UTC) |
- Thank you, both, you excellent writing team, - guess what, I even started attacked a Magnificat today, or should I say four? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:37, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
- Magnificat, Magnificat, Magnificat, anima mea Dominum, Magnificat Magnificat Magnificat anima mea! Hafspajen (talk) 00:53, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
- magnificent, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:56, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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To you, Gerda Arendt, for your unswerving dedication to improving this wonderful free encyclopedia, and for encouraging clear thinking among your fellow editors. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:39, 14 February 2014 (UTC) |
- "encouraging clear thinking", - I am actually crying now, thank you. - It will go in the selection "blushing", above. I remember winning an argument by "facts and myth", that was two years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
- Well, you definitely make me think, and your comments restrain my tendencies to rush to judgment. And restraint is something worthy to be cultivated, don't you think? Cullen328 Let's discuss it 08:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
- I keep trying to encourage clear thinking (without having been able to word it that well), - Eric is someone who didn't need that ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:33, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
- Well, you definitely make me think, and your comments restrain my tendencies to rush to judgment. And restraint is something worthy to be cultivated, don't you think? Cullen328 Let's discuss it 08:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
The 100 DYK Nomination Medal
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Gerda, to mark this new milestone. "Light as a flight of tumbling birds was the dipping and soaring of her syllables." Moonraker (talk) 00:06, 1 March 2014 (UTC) |
- Congratulations, Gerda! Chris Troutman (talk) 01:36, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
- thank you, in light flight, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:19, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Well done!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:04, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
- Congratulations. Oh, my gosh. You were really working. I think I am at my 5th... Hafspajen (talk) 12:25, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
- I think you read that wrong, it's for nominations for others, something I am really proud of ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:31, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
- No, I meant what i said Hafspajen (talk) 12:49, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
- You meant you are at your 5th nomination for someone else? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:51, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
- Congratulations. Oh, my gosh. You were really working. I think I am at my 5th... Hafspajen (talk) 12:25, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Cannot find your musician
Dear Gerda. Good morning! Thank you for
Waking up to a horn call: thank you, blowers! "Weiche, Wotan, weiche", as Anna Russell explains, means: "'Be careful, Wotan, be careful.' She then bears him eight daughters." - Please look at the discussion on Dick's talk and tell me what you think of it (and the image). (In real life, I have a friend called Dick who plays horn.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Done. - Next glove, same history (absent friend started, I continued and completely forgot): Victor Bruns, infobox and warning on the talk, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:55, 7 March 2014 (UTC) |
FA congratulations
Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 to FA status recently. I know you know all about WP:TFAR and the "pending" list, so this is just a reminder to use them as and when suits you. Many thanks. BencherliteTalk 10:27, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Can I add my congrats to the above? A thoroughly deserved and welcome addition to our FAs! - SchroCat (talk) 09:57, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
An award for you!
Granted! A long term goal could be to get all of the articles up to GA at least. I'm planning a similar thing with Academy Award winning films. Haha although there's rather a LOT of cantatas to do... Maybe 5-10 GAs and 3 FAs would be a better short term goal.. Happy to review any of them, although I might have to ask you to review a few of mine!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:17, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
And my long term related goal could be to blue link all the red links in the cantata articles :-]♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:11, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Congrats on getting this article through FA and a well-deserved FOUR award...just to let you know, you can put a little top icon for FA, GA, and Four on your user page by posting somewhere on your user page:
Just don't forget to change the "icon_nr=" parameter as needed. Good Job, Gerda. I very much enjoy your continued work on the Bach Werke and other musical gems.--ColonelHenry (User:Gerda Arendt/ColonelHenry|talk) 22:04, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
BWV 172Thank you for the lovely note and I am sorry for my slow response: I'm a bit snowed under. I will try to have a look at Baroque instruments but I am not sure I am equal to the job! You realize I'm going to have to go off and listen to 172 now, don't you? Thank you! :) In other news, (a) have you seen The Grand Budapest Hotel? It claims to have been inspired by Zweig. We enjoyed it! and (b) just to boast, my brass band was playing outside St Paul's Cathedral yesterday for the women priests 20Y thing - it was fantastic! Cheers DBaK (talk) 18:43, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
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Structure of compositions
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Hello, Gerda! I've read both The Creation structure and St Matthew Passion structure and was about to do the same with Canto Ostinato. Do you think I should create a new article or should I embed a wikitable in Canto Ostinato? I'm already doing some tests at my sandbox. Wildbill hitchcock (talk) 22:05, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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- The one thing I learned on Wikipedia was patience ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:24, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
difference between hard and tough
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Hi Gerda, there's a question over at WP:RD/L on which you may be able to advise, although I realise it's not really your kind of music! Martinevans123 (talk) 19:43, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
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Is this To romantic?
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Hafspajen (talk) 17:30, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
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- Without a hard heart, you can't survive here. Do you know why the men leave and the women, left behind, have to do the work, in the name of a better women/men ratio? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:08, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
- HM, like women... User:BracketBot informs.BracketBot (talk) 20:28, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
- HM? Her majesty? Humble minister? Honest musician? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:19, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
- User:BracketBot informs you: I like you best. I'll' be back for your Jägermeister soon. .BracketBot (talk) 20:28, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
- thank you for that important message (trying to stay serious) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:03, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
- Lovely image. I tried also. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:22, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
- thank you for that important message (trying to stay serious) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:03, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
- HM, like women... User:BracketBot informs.BracketBot (talk) 20:28, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
DYK for St John Passion structure
On 18 April 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article St John Passion structure, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the structure of Bach's St John Passion (first page pictured), the centre of symmetry is "Durch dein Gefängnis ...", expressing: "By your prison ... came our freedom"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/St John Passion structure. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 17:31, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Excellent work, future FA, mark my words!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:00, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Help
my salad days
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This is almost ready. User:Hafspajen/Remember... Bur remember, when clear, you post it... OK, I need help. Because this reviewing makes me desperate. Template:Did you know nominations/Biertan fortified church, Câlnic Citadel, Dârjiu fortified church, Prejmer fortified church, Saschiz fortified church, Valea Viilor fortified church, Viscri fortified church it is abourt thr German Saxons in Transylvania. But I am pretty nervous to give a green tick. Mainly because of the scandals with the DYKs lately, and I am not too knowledgeable about about DYK or the the content. Could you please step in as a co-reviewer, or single, I need help. Looks interesting, but makes me nervous, the hook, too-please... Do you realise that they are seven articles to check? And people were making a lot of fuss about my refs, noew I am using thee monkey, .<ref>{{cite web|url=|title=|publisher=|accessdate=}}</ref> but this I don't know anything about. <ref>[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/596 Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania] at the UNESCO site</ref> Isn't this the bare URL people cry about? And Sagaciousphil is not here nowadays.. looks like it. Sca? Any interest in this? Feels like it would need more the one person, maybe two, three, four.. Hafspajen (talk) 15:09, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
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The 500 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
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Gerda, you are one of the very few people who have reached this milestone. Thank you for your tireless contributions to Wikipedia and the DYK project! -Zanhe (talk) 06:39, 19 May 2014 (UTC) |
Jesu, meine Freude
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Für Jesu, meine Freude. Deine Arbeit wird geschätzt. John (talk) 22:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC) |
- Freut mich! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:32, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
Again
behave with the level of professionalism
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Recalled again here among others: "Gerda Arendt is indefinitely restricted from: adding or deleting infoboxes; restoring an infobox that has been deleted; or making more than two comments in discussing the inclusion or exclusion of an infobox on a given article. They may participate in wider policy discussions regarding infoboxes with no restriction, and include infoboxes in new articles which they create." Note that a) "create" means something different than "major contributor", and b) "making more than two comments in discussing the inclusion or exclusion of an infobox on a given article" is broader than simply "making more than two comments in a particular discussion". The first restriction you have clearly violated several times, most recently today; the last you have likely violated on multiple occasions. A final plea: unless/until your restrictions are amended or removed, stick to them strictly. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:43, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Like Gerda, has anyone told you that you are the most sincerely positive person on wikipedia? Montanabw(talk) 02:43, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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Congrats!
Congrats on your TFA....and the FA as well. Well done! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 13:45, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you, pure pleasure! Looking forward to "your" station! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:48, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
A Special Barnstar For You
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A special barnstar for a special person who spreads special love here at Wikipedia. Thank you. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:54, 12 June 2014 (UTC) |
- Thank you, love it especially (having been admonished of battleground behaviour in the most official way)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:56, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Template gallery
Isn't that interesting that the world seems to know me as the one for infoboxes
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I just ran across this template gallery for welcome messages and thought of you. The first time I wanted an infobox for an article, I had a terrible time finding one. Imagine if there was a gallery like this for infoboxes, how easy it that would make it for the users. Regards, —Neotarf (talk) 03:47, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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Precious
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Now is that fair that you should be the one who gives away all that gorgious gems and receive none? (Oh, well, you did actually, as I can notice, above. At least one more... ) Hafspajen (talk) 20:48, 22 June 2014 (UTC) |
- Thank you, love it. Today's went to an editor who had been proclaimed awesome three times before, and I received one awesome, three sapphires, a moonstone, an emerald, and now an aquamarine, but it's not fattening, just flattering, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- Can you translate a bit of sv:Mansoor Hosseini? Heard the premiere of the top piece, interesting! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- Well, I can try, sigh. This is Gerda, you give her or jewelry and she gives you work... Hafspajen (talk) 23:05, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
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- You give her jewelry and she gives you an idea ;) - here of a bird in red sky (see my user page, pumpkin sky) by an Iranian composer who lives in Sweden, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
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- Well, I can try, sigh. This is Gerda, you give her or jewelry and she gives you work... Hafspajen (talk) 23:05, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
What
What are those little cloths called, with embroideries, in old villages put on the wall? What are they called and do we have an article on it? Hafspajen (talk) 14:30, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry, don't know even in German for sure. One is "Wandbehang", which goes to Tapestry but isn't exactly the same, another starting point might be Needlepoint, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- That's the technique, but how do you call the things hanging on the wall? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- Sampler (needlework). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:36, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- That's the technique, but how do you call the things hanging on the wall? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- The things you know! I confess I didn't believe it until I got to the line: "The word "sampler" is sometimes inaccurately applied to any piece of needlework meant for display." ;) - I just created a composer. I didn't do a thing, Belle did the translation, but I turned the link to blue, so by the unfathomable wisdom of our arbitrators I created it. I would say that the term "create" is also sometimes inaccurately applied. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- ps: see also de:Stickmustertuch (but I never heard that term before, - learning) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- I only filled in some tiny bits in Hafspajen's translation, so don't go giving me too much credit. (and I noticed I forgot to translate the instruments, but you seem to have got them anyway). Belle (talk) 22:29, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- I should have looked at contribs, not signature alone ;) - Hafspajen, here are many thanks for you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:35, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, the crown of thorns. Thanks Belle, do you know Swedish? Hafspajen (talk) 22:54, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- I should have looked at contribs, not signature alone ;) - Hafspajen, here are many thanks for you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:35, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- I only filled in some tiny bits in Hafspajen's translation, so don't go giving me too much credit. (and I noticed I forgot to translate the instruments, but you seem to have got them anyway). Belle (talk) 22:29, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
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for dreams
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Rosa Elmshorn (by W. Kordes' Söhne, a truly great rosarian 1951)
Some thorns come with roses, - take some for overcoming disgust, some for translations, some for dreams --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
- Lovely pictures... You don't happened to look at the little white patch with the rose name? This looks like an Elmshorn, for example. File:Roses Eltville 2014-3.JPG. Hafspajen (talk) 14:52, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
- The two close-ups were not in the garden, where they have labels, but one on the bank of the Rhine, the other (pink) close to the boats. That one actually may have a label, I will look on my next visit. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:00, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Your optimism
What can I say that you haven't already said?
I know! WP would be a MUCH friendlier place if there were more editors with your view of the world!!
Best wishes (and thanks), Pdfpdf (talk) 14:46, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you. See above, I have been called a warrior, almost exactly a year ago, - thank goodness I can laugh about that and sing ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:55, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
- bzzt, they need to be "admonished for treating Wikipedia as if it were a battleground and advised to better conduct themselves." (link from "here" on top of my user page) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:05, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
I wish we could clone Gerda! Hey Gerda my new living guitar hero now Paco has passed is this guy.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:47, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Errrr ...
Are you the only sane person editing WP? (I used to think that, on the whole, "most" people were sane ... ) Pdfpdf (talk) 14:35, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
- I am not sure that I am sane. Are you? Does it matter? ;) (any particular reason for your musing?) (I like to work with many people, most of them called Precious, like yourself, hundreds of them.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:40, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Traum durch die Dämmerung
On 28 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Traum durch die Dämmerung, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Richard Strauss reportedly composed "Traum durch die Dämmerung" ("Dream in the Twilight"), from a love poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, in 20 minutes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Traum durch die Dämmerung. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass (talk) 08:17, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
- Congrats for the above! Hafspajen (talk) 12:10, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
- Ditto, it looks really good. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:26, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
The title is more than just my alt name and alter ego. Not sure if you've seen this, but I figured you would enjoy this little essay I wrote some time back. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 16:24, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- I enjoyed it - again ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:29, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- ps: look above for grandfather, who would have fit nicely (also mentioned in this thread) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:35, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Sounds like an interesting man :) I'm curious if there are other, similar versions of this in other cultures. It seems a pity to only have the one very American version of the parable. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 16:40, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- I know one remotely similar, but it could also be US first, about a business consultant and his bet with a shepherd. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:47, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- In one of my favourite operas, Gianni Schichi, the hero is the peasant, who is the witty one to fake a will in favour of a noble family, not forgetting to give himself more than all others, - and his daughter is then "fit" to marry one of them. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:55, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Gianni Schicchi | |
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by Giacomo Puccini | |
Description | One-act opera, part of Il Trittico |
Librettist | Giovacchino Forzano |
Language | Italian |
Based on | Dante's Divine Comedy |
Premiere | 14 December 1918 |
- Dennis, Here's my alternative info, thanks for appreciating redundance, - nice because typically the first argument against this is redundance ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:28, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- You're such a smart lady, you humble me regularly with your vast knowledge. I need regular humbling, so you are doing me a favor. ;) Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 20:06, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Do you want to make me blush? (Examples pictured further up.) - This is not knowledge, it's interest. - Did you look at our FA? What do you think of the image in the upper right corner? Do you recognize that it is supposed to be a navbox? Do you like to navigate away from an article which you just entered? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- You ask a lot of questions, young lady. I noticed the info box with the drop down menu, I've seen Eric do that before, I like those for many articles, although I prefer traditional infoboxes for science stuff. I did enjoy theatre in my youth (participating and watching), but opera has always escaped me. It's like they're singing a foreign language... Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 20:35, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Do you want to make me blush? (Examples pictured further up.) - This is not knowledge, it's interest. - Did you look at our FA? What do you think of the image in the upper right corner? Do you recognize that it is supposed to be a navbox? Do you like to navigate away from an article which you just entered? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Be careful, very careful, see above for minefield. - This thing is not a collapsed infobox, as Eric sometimes uses, but see also. This is a navbox, tells you nothing about the article, but navigates away from it. The normal position for a navbox is on the bottom, and guess what? There it is. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, I noticed it looked different, the headers and such. That is different and pretty useful stuff. But will it be confusing to readers expecting a traditional "see also" section but its missing? Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 21:33, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- For me, the navbox at the bottom is pretty useful. I am not sure what's useful for you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- No, it is useful, but if users are used to seeing a "see also" and they don't, it might not immediately obvious. Consistency. I'm sure I would get voted down, but I'm one that like redundancy in stuff like that, and would probably like both. I'm funny that way. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 21:44, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- For me, the navbox at the bottom is pretty useful. I am not sure what's useful for you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, I noticed it looked different, the headers and such. That is different and pretty useful stuff. But will it be confusing to readers expecting a traditional "see also" section but its missing? Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 21:33, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- Be careful, very careful, see above for minefield. - This thing is not a collapsed infobox, as Eric sometimes uses, but see also. This is a navbox, tells you nothing about the article, but navigates away from it. The normal position for a navbox is on the bottom, and guess what? There it is. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Start over: Did you see the singer (where Eric helped)? What would you think if you came to a singer article, and instead of telling you when he was born and where he studied, you would get a navigation to other singers who studied with the same teacher, and not a picture of the singer, but of the teacher. ?? (And forgive me: I have no idea how "see also" comes into play.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:56, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
- I think the idea is interesting, again, kind of like a "see also" feature simply because they are tangentially related. I'm not sure about the example you use here (most singers that have articles here didn't study with someone, so consistency is a problem), but I'm intrigued by the idea in general. It isn't very "wikipedia", but it seems to be very "encyclopedia". I do like the idea of a nav box on an opera that links all the other operas from the same composer. That could be true with any musician, for example. Not prepared to have a final opinion, but the idea is very interesting. I can see that in some kinds of articles, it would be a huge improvement, I'm just not smart enough to know what all types of articles off the top of my head. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 12:50, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- I think we agree more than it looks. I am all for a navbox of all (or at least the notable) operas/works of a composer, but please where a navbox belongs: at the bottom. Look at Gianni Schicchi: it's at the bottom, {{Giacomo Puccini}} - Many composers have one. - The other navbox on top - which was there before - can't be as well formatted, - horizontal is better for a presentation of groups. I chose the (hypothetical) example to show how little sense it makes to me, to showcase not the topic of the article (opera/singer), but instead something secondary (composer/teacher). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:06, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Peace music
Look, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:21, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- I have in the meantime combined the content of the two original Infoboxes "String Quintet" and "Intermezzo". I am not very happy with result.--Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:47, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- I agree, it looks confusing, with so many data different, - I would restore the former version and argue on the article talk page if needed, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:15, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- I have put on the comment page of String Quintet and Nikkimaria's talk page that we were not very happy with the combined infobox and that I was intended to restore the original infoboxes. Some time later I have restored them. There is in the meantime no reaction from Nikkimaria and the restored the infobox for "Intermezzo" is still present (hopefully definitively!). Have a fine evening! --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 18:06, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- FYI: In the meantime I have been thanked for it by Moxy. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 18:55, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- Look for Moxy (or "shout the loudest") here ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- Saw my name - got to love the ping thing. I still feel the same way as then....that is let the main editors decide the content and layout preferred. Don't let Wikiproject members bully you around - this POV is policy as per WP:Advice pages. All that is needed is a talk about the merit and disadvantages. In this case the second box is nice but does look a bit out of place. But that said I would respect the choice of the main contributors to have it there if they wish since there is no policy broken... as in not misleading, no OR etc.. No need to cause conflict for no reason - best the content editor move on to a new article - not wasting time trying to defend there valid contributions. To be honest I generally stay away for this problem now - as in dont edit classical music article much. I do read lots of them and fix refs from time to time. On a side note I just finished Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia and would love Nikki or Gerda Arendt to look it over perhaps a nice copy edit as you both know my grammar skills are lacking. Fuhghettaboutit has done a great job copyeditng behind me but would love a third set of eyes. -- Moxy (talk) 01:45, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for coming over, Moxy, same sound thinking as ever! - Main editor, what do you think of splitting the four in three and one, and have extra articles on the extra movements in the string pieces? (as Nikkimaria forked BWV 120a off BWV 120, and several others, and therefore several Bach cantata articles don't have an infobox) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- Saw my name - got to love the ping thing. I still feel the same way as then....that is let the main editors decide the content and layout preferred. Don't let Wikiproject members bully you around - this POV is policy as per WP:Advice pages. All that is needed is a talk about the merit and disadvantages. In this case the second box is nice but does look a bit out of place. But that said I would respect the choice of the main contributors to have it there if they wish since there is no policy broken... as in not misleading, no OR etc.. No need to cause conflict for no reason - best the content editor move on to a new article - not wasting time trying to defend there valid contributions. To be honest I generally stay away for this problem now - as in dont edit classical music article much. I do read lots of them and fix refs from time to time. On a side note I just finished Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia and would love Nikki or Gerda Arendt to look it over perhaps a nice copy edit as you both know my grammar skills are lacking. Fuhghettaboutit has done a great job copyeditng behind me but would love a third set of eyes. -- Moxy (talk) 01:45, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- Look for Moxy (or "shout the loudest") here ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- FYI: In the meantime I have been thanked for it by Moxy. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 18:55, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- I have put on the comment page of String Quintet and Nikkimaria's talk page that we were not very happy with the combined infobox and that I was intended to restore the original infoboxes. Some time later I have restored them. There is in the meantime no reaction from Nikkimaria and the restored the infobox for "Intermezzo" is still present (hopefully definitively!). Have a fine evening! --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 18:06, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Thank you
Beste Gerda,
Thank you for your revert of Psalm 146 (Bruckner). See the discussion I had with Nikkimaria. I found her argumentation for removing the text dull.
Furthermore, we and she are apparently not on the same wave length! I restored dates of publication with ref of the Gesamtausgabe and she continues to say that it is still not substantiated... I also saw your discussion about the Infobox of Symphony No. 8... I will stop any discussion with her.
Guten Abend, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 19:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- I restored the text without seeing your discussion. (I saw it later.) Two pieces of advice: 1) You gave the ref Gesamtausgabe in your discussion, but is it in the article, as an inline citation? (formality, formality) 2) Don't discuss "with her", discuss content on the article talk pages with whoever is interested, - please. Did you know that I mentioned Bruckner's symphonies a lot last year? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:48, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- What do you think of a navbox Anton Bruckner, comparable to template:Giuseppe Verdi, all in one, instead of four small ones that don't know of each other? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:27, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- Despite the fact I added the ref Gesamtausgabe in the article as an inline citation, she persisted to say that it was still not substantiated. The reason that I definitely will no more discuss with her... Beste Grüße, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 21:16, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- Try to forget then, move forward: how about the template question? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:19, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
- The examples of the Magnificat, Psalms 114 and 146 are quite unique, because they were first recorded in 1971 (according to van Zwol), 1984 and 1987, using scores prepared especially for these performances, long before there were issued in the Gesamtausgabe by Paul Hawkshaw in 1996.
- For the Magnificat a score was prepare by Carragan. You find a copy of this score on Jonn Berky's site. After the issue in the Gesamtausgabe two recordings have been issued: in 1997 by Farnberger with the St. Florianer Sängerknaben and in 2011 by Thomas Kerbl (Linzer Brucknerfest).
- For Psalm 114 a score based on Bruckner's manuscript has also made (by Robert Simpson?). No "faithful" recording of Psalm 114 (i.e., in accordance with the official score) has been issued after the issue of the Gesamtausgabe.
- For Psalm 146, a performance by Riedelbauch (28 November 1971) using a copy of Bruckner's manuscript had been issued in c. 1973. Another performance occurred in Vienna by Heinz Wallberg with the Niederosterreichische Tonkuenstler Orchestra on 10 November 1991, of which a recording is put in the Bruckner Archive. In 1995 a performance by Leon Botstein, which used the score prepared by Hawkshawn for the Gesamtausgabe, has been recorded and also put in the Bruckner Archive. John Berky has provided me with a copy of it. The recording, which has not been commercially issued, is unfortunately not of very high quality.
- Make it sense that I put this info somewhere else: comment page of Bruckner or by each work, respectively? Let me please know it.
- The template "Verdi" is for sure interesting, but I do not know whether I would apply for Bruckner, because of his high number of smaller religious and secular works. See List of compositions by Anton Bruckner.
- At the end of this week we leave for a 2-week holiday in the French Alps. In the meantime I will not have much time to devote to Wikipedia, because there is still much left to do in the house and the garden... --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:56, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- I didn't wait and started {{Anton Bruckner}}. I think it's not too large (we had a proposal for Mozart, you can imagine ...), and let readers see the more unusual composition better. No rush, enjoy your vacation. When you return, you could start something on the recording and publishing history of Bruckner's works, it sounds interesting. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:17, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- "My current and future approach to conflict is and will be moderated by my understanding of the value of reasoned discussion where possible, and formal dispute-resolution processes where necessary" - guess who wrote that? - I found it here, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Precious
Thank you, that was a nice surprise to come back to. Where do I go to exchange the voucher for the sapphire? Belle (talk) 09:20, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- You ask the photographer. You can do that on Commons where he is an admin. Did you kow that he also wrote about the Great Dismal Swamp maroons? "... people have the ability, as individuals and communities, to take control of their lives, even under oppressive conditions" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:34, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- Not where I'd choose to set up home (Belle, would you like to live in the Great Dismal Swamp or on the Fantastic Sunny Beach? Give me a minute.) Poor slaves, imagine what life must have been like to run away to that. Anyway, I don't think I shall be venturing to Commons on the chance of a single sapphire of indeterminate size. If there is a lorry full of fist-sized ones going, I'll be over there in a flash. Belle (talk) 11:08, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- What do think about the prospect of meeting a nice man whom you can't meet here any more? My partner on Kafka (so far the most successful TFA, did you know? see my user infobox if you don't believe it) thinks that things got too kafkaesque here. I agree to kafkaesque, of course ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:14, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) "Kafkaes"? Is that a coffee-flavoured cheese-cake? Sounds yummy! Can you email me the recipe? ♥♫♪☺♥♫♪ pete au aka --Shirt58 (talk) 13:50, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- invent one, sounds good - I should do hooky typos more often ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:00, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, Shirt58. Recipe on my desk by tomorrow please (and if it has chocolate shavings and cream on top so much the better; I can do a few more lengths in the pool to burn it off, no problem). Belle (talk) 14:43, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- Belle, my only academic qualification is a BA (Hons) in Eng. Lit. from the Parkville Soviet. (Well, I started it off as "Eng. Lit." at the University of Tasmania - no, Tasmania isn't a fictional place, and yes, there really is a University there - but it ended up as a degree in "Cultural studies".) So you'll have to let me know whether you want the recipe for the baked or unbaked version of the Kafe-Kaes. --Shirt58 (talk) 12:38, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- Shirt58, First unbaked then baked pleash. Belle (talk) 13:06, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- Belle, my only academic qualification is a BA (Hons) in Eng. Lit. from the Parkville Soviet. (Well, I started it off as "Eng. Lit." at the University of Tasmania - no, Tasmania isn't a fictional place, and yes, there really is a University there - but it ended up as a degree in "Cultural studies".) So you'll have to let me know whether you want the recipe for the baked or unbaked version of the Kafe-Kaes. --Shirt58 (talk) 12:38, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, Shirt58. Recipe on my desk by tomorrow please (and if it has chocolate shavings and cream on top so much the better; I can do a few more lengths in the pool to burn it off, no problem). Belle (talk) 14:43, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- invent one, sounds good - I should do hooky typos more often ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:00, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) "Kafkaes"? Is that a coffee-flavoured cheese-cake? Sounds yummy! Can you email me the recipe? ♥♫♪☺♥♫♪ pete au aka --Shirt58 (talk) 13:50, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Can you, or esteemed watchers, perhaps add 1 or 2 items to Fiacre (carriage) to make it fit for DYK, while the cake bakes? I am the reviewer, or would do it myself ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:27, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
Drummer Rail
Thanks for that, Gerda. When I get on to rewrite Gerd Heinrich, which won't be for some months, I might need your help with translations if that's OK Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:36, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- With pleasure, tok - tok - tok --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:41, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
7-1!!!
LOL, what a thrashing, who'd have thought!! Great game!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:55, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- I was surprised, I must say ;) - red links in Park an der Ilm, btw, - did you hear me drumming tok-tok-tok? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:06, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
Good article list?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:07, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- What do you mean? A list of my Good articles? Some have the little green on my user page. Some are mentioned here, others in its archive. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:14, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
There are no Good Article Lists, only featured lists. I've made a proposal to introduce them! Tempelherrenhaus (Weimar) needs proofing :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:20, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- Where's the proposal? - Thanks for the house! - It should be moved to Tempelherrenhaus, Weimar, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:29, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
Why? Buildings on wikipedia as far as I know it is most common to put them in brackets in towns. It's only geographical articles you use the comma.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:44, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- Like my churches? St. Martin, Idstein, and many others? - I will get back later. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
I agree that the comma does look better visually.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:08, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- Oh, yes: if that football game ends up as a draw at the end of extra time, I think it would be the polite thing to do to award the trophy to Brazil for hosting such a lovely tournament instead of going to a Penalty shoot-out. Just sayin'. --Shirt58 (talk) 14:44, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Congrats on winning the world cup! Probably the first time I've ever wanted Germany to win a football match hehe!! They were easily the best team in the tournament.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, - not one of my merits though. Will get to the Weimar venue soon, two more in the pipeline before, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:09, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, good old Basti! .. even if he is named after a Cornish pie. Am also a big fan of Hummells!! Martinevans123 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- You are not the best of mind readers, it's a choir and a conductor. I have someone else for the other topic now, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- ps: I will not give you red links, or they may also end up "not created by me", and therefore without infobox ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:18, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- "Herr Gott, Beherrscher aller Dingo." - isn't that an Australian piece? Martinevans123 (talk) 14:23, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- Possibly. I don't know it, and it has no infobox ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:14, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Geistliche Chormusik
Hello! Your submission of Geistliche Chormusik at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! CeeGee 17:04, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Whisperback
Hello. You have a new message at Prayerfortheworld's talk page. Message added 05:09, 12 July 2014 (UTC).
DYK for Weib, was weinest du
On 13 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Weib, was weinest du, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Weib, was weinest du, the "Easter dialogue" composed by Heinrich Schütz, was performed at the first Schütz festival in Dresden? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Weib, was weinest du. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass (talk) 11:24, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Geistliche Chormusik
On 14 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Geistliche Chormusik, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Geistliche Chormusik, a collection of 29 motets by Heinrich Schütz (pictured) containing a "plea for peace", appeared in 1648, when the Thirty Years' War ended? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Geistliche Chormusik. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:51, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Apologies, but some help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm not sure where else to go. A user named John has deleted the evidence he purports to not know the existence of in a current ANI discussion. I reverted his edit that attempted to cover up the evidence, and his response was to threaten to ban me. Since his stance seems to be that anything he doesn't like deserves a banning, I do not wish to engage him directly. He's shown himself to be not trustworthy in my estimation. You may see the thread here. The evidence he has tried to cover up is the user page for NatureGuy1980, which I administered before I gave up editing Wikipedia because of bullying behavior such as this. 98.223.105.116 (talk) 06:14, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- I don't know how I could help you, but also don't see where you would need help. The evidence is in the history for everybody to see, and it is discussed. I would not change a user's own statement, but actually think yours is stronger now (compared to mentioning a single attacker, - the believers in the holy MoS are a movement, not a single person.) I translated the Invisible Rail, not the invisible rail (which becomes almost invisible in prose), but believe that readers actually understand both. I wrote A Boy was Born, and am disgusted every time I look at it. - My advice: go to John and thank him for making your statement stronger. - (Reminds me that I should thank the arbs for their blessing of admonishment and restriction.) - In the thread you mentioned, "plea for peace" is the/my last word. Look above: it's now on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks Gerda. 98.223.105.116, if you have left Wikipedia, I suggest making a clean break. If you have a grudge against another user I suggest bringing evidence rather than making unsubstantiated allegations, which isn't allowed. I'll copy this to your IP user talk in case you don't see it here. --John (talk) 07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- The evidence has been discussed at length. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. In particular, see the second point raised here. A negotiated close, an indefinite block? My faith in the system had been somewhat restored with the action taken against SMcC yesterday. Your heavy-fisted actions are making me reconsider yet again. You are doing a really great job of discouraging knowledgable editors.
- Thanks Gerda. 98.223.105.116, if you have left Wikipedia, I suggest making a clean break. If you have a grudge against another user I suggest bringing evidence rather than making unsubstantiated allegations, which isn't allowed. I'll copy this to your IP user talk in case you don't see it here. --John (talk) 07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Re:Christian music
Hello, Yes, many of the works of J. S. Bach and Heinrich Schütz are within the scope of WP Christian music. However I am not a member of that project (and it has been labelled semiactive) so perhaps adding it to relevant articles may not be important. Members of WP Christian music should identify those articles, so other editors are not obliged to do so. (I only belong to WP Anglicanism and WP Cornwall.)--Johnsoniensis (talk) 13:29, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you, helped, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:07, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
- Your message today was a very big surprise; I never expected to be called an «awesome Wikipedian». Under my former name I had a listing for making numerous edits. The assessment and generally gnomish activity is most of my work rather than the creation of new articles as writing a new article which will stand up to scrutiny by others can take a long time. (Though I know very little German I contributed a few times to the German WP as User:FFS.) You are certainly thorough in going back to my early contributions on Cornish topics; the picture shows a building once used by German immigrants to Manchester. Thank you so much for the sapphire.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 09:44, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
- I am happy with your pictured response! I am a gnome myself, and I am so proud of it that it's intentionally the only topicon I show, and I like to find fellow gnomes and fairies. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
Spelling
Even in English, I often get "i before e except after c" wrong. Fortunately the spell-checker is there to help me. But German is a lost cause for me. I would never notice the problem, and my spell checker says it is all spelled wrong. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 13:58, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
- ei vs. ie is hopeless for spell-checker, because we have sie and sei, Stiel and steil, Lied and Leid. But we don't have Kreig ;) - The problem I see, more generally, is: what do we do when a "reliable source" is wrong? In this case, the title page of the book shows that the title is misspelled. In a recent article, a source said that the hymn was by Martin Luther. Wrong. Yes, he wrote one that starts similarly, but this was a different one. When I noticed, I changed it, but wait for someone to say that I got the source wrong, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:05, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
- Google Books metadata is often wrong. E.g. Die deutschen Juden und der Kreig 1729. 1729? I came across a great example the other day with Ogura, Takeshi (1997-11-21). Dynamic Aspects Of Natural Products Chemistry. CRC Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-90-5702-209-8.
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(help) Somehow a chapter called The Louvre and its public persona, 1848-52 by Gabriel P. Weisberg has found its way into the scanned version of this book on chemistry. I always give a url so someone checking can see what I saw, even if the attribution is wrong.
- Google Books metadata is often wrong. E.g. Die deutschen Juden und der Kreig 1729. 1729? I came across a great example the other day with Ogura, Takeshi (1997-11-21). Dynamic Aspects Of Natural Products Chemistry. CRC Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-90-5702-209-8.
- And yes, apparently reliable sources often have errors of fact. Authors make mistakes, and publishers are often slack on checking facts in works by well qualified authors. If I find two sources that contradict each other, I often pick the one that seems right, but add a footnote saying what the other sources say. See Canadian Historical Dinner Service. A bit of original research maybe, but I think acceptable in a footnote. It may help prevent the error being put back in. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:31, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
- Good idea, not just change but point out the other version, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:12, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
DYK
I've proposed an ALT (just to shove a fly in the ointment; you know how I am, can't let things be straightforward). Belle (talk) 12:17, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Philippe Capdenat
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