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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed   in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
 * The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration
 * Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
 * The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
 * A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Not you
I'm so sorry, your emails came through, I'm just desperately trying to remember my password. I think I hid it from myself. I don't keep up my email and it's been about two months since I've checked them. I'll remember it. Just wanted you to know it isn't you. You can delete this if you want. -- A Rose Wolf  13:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC)


 * no problem - nothing important, just a few tidbits that offer some insight into who I am. — Ched (talk) 14:34, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, tidbits and insight, even more reason to remember. It's all important. I'll look at it and respond. I just wanted to let you know that I saw it. -- A Rose Wolf  14:37, 25 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Oh, by the way - I did go back and check to see if your real-life name was mentioned there .. and it is a very beautiful name by the way. — Ched (talk) 14:45, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I wasn't born with that name but it was my quasi-legal name growing up (long story I'll tell you by email in my response). I've had opportunities to change it but I associate more life experiences with it than any name I may have had before I was adopted by my uncle and aunt. Plus, I've heard just about every possible pronunciation imaginable. It makes for a good conversation starter. -- A Rose Wolf  14:54, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

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Oh joy ...
another Did not, did too venue on Wikipedia. You know - cause we don't have enough places here. — Ched (talk) 20:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


 * There seems to be the notion that the more you talk about it the more you will learn. When in fact it's just more of the same usually with out enough extensive context to come to a fair position or decision. Until we design a system that explores context in all of its many incarnations we cannot, not will not, but cannot consistently deal fairly with people. I was lucky enough to experience an arbitration many years ago in which the arbs took weeks to investigate allegations. I didn't realize how fortunate I was until recently. Most arbs do not have that kind of time. As we deal more and more with editors with long histories the more we need to be able to understand those histories and to place our concerns in context of that information. Another venue to deal with admins! One becomes so weary. Littleolive oil (talk) 22:02, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Well I'm sure it's all with the best intentions - but as you say Olive - one does indeed become weary. Still - thinking positive, so I hope you have a wonderful 2022. — Ched (talk) 03:27, 4 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I always tend to believe people mean well.:O) Littleolive oil (talk) 20:04, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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 * Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.


 * Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration


 * Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

Miscellaneous


 * The functionaries email list () will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

December thanks
Thank you for improving article quality in December. If you like Advent music, check this out. If you like Christmas music and wishes, watch my user talk until 27 December ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:19, 20 December 2021 (UTC)


 * And thank you Gerda for everything you do here. Not really doing much this month, but maybe next month I can ramp it up a bit.  I hope you and your family have a wonderful and Merry Christmas - and a great New Year in 2022. — Ched (talk) 01:57, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * look at the "songs" - now the last, Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen, BWV 248 III, shown on the Main page, and here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:25, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Supervote
See: Chinese covid coverup 8 support v 9 oppose. The closing rational makes it obvious that this was nothing more than a supervote. Pitiful; even more so coming from an experienced editor. — Ched (talk) 04:45, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Not too surprising, though. I wish it were, but...Intothatdarkness 17:42, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Hey, always good to see you out and about. Yea, I agree; it should be surprising, but it isn't.  So sad the amount of "political" editing that goes on here .. but I know it's nothing new. — Ched (talk) 01:57, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅ — Ched (talk) 22:04, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

October thanks
Thank you for improving articles in October! - Today: see yourself, read about a hymn praying to not be on earth in vain, about a comics artist whose characters have character (another collaboration of the "perennial gang", broken by one of us banned - as if blocked wasn't enough), and in memory of the last prima donna assoluta, Edita Gruberová. I had to go to two grave sites last week, one who died now, one who died 10 years ago, so standing upright and in black seems appropriate. More colours - but subdued - can be had on hikes, - click on songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:22, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you Gerda, but I'm sorry to say that I haven't really felt up to editing much lately. Hopefully that will change soon. — Ched (talk) 11:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * no pressure, - just sad sad that we ban people who have time and are willing, - so strange --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:09, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * today: memories in friendship --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:36, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Significant day in many respects, - remember 2010? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:12, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry - you'd have to be more specific on 2010. If by "significant" you mean something on wiki - no, not really.  I don't carry that stuff around with me anymore, it got to be too heavy on my heart. — Ched (talk) 00:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Grace Sherwood who was pardoned 300 years later, but the author wasn't. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:24, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Ahh - I remember those days: sad and angry times. Haven't talked to him in a while - will have to drop a "Holiday greetings" to him. — Ched (talk) 16:08, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Good idea! - That was the first time I witnessed how an editor is treated in a way he or she only wants to leave. It happened now to Doug, and LouisAlain, and every time it happens I wonder if Wikipedia can afford loosing content editors. I was in Paris, and passed cafés, and wondered if some LouisAlain added information as an ip because as a named user, he is no longer welcome on the site "anybody" can edit, allegedly. He gave us soooo much. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ... or Dark Clouds of Joy --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:45, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news
 * Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the  and   rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators.
 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
 * has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
 * A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

April
April: Easter - resilience - Spring - thank you for being around --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:33, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

dance and singing, peace doves and icecream --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Dove sono (Where are those happy moments ...?) - concert with Kyiv orchestra and Aleksey Semenenko (quite a story!) tonight, Symphony with war and peace in the subtitle --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
 * Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news
 * The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

May music
I like my talk today (actually mostly from 29 May - I took the title pic), enjoy the music, two related videos worth watching! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:05, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

June songs
My song collection in June is especially rich, look, and the hall where I first heard DFD, Pierre Boulez and Murray Perahia. Do you find the baby deer in the meadow (last row)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:57, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Today is a birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:53, 30 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Happy Birthday Gerda. — Ched (talk) 22:44, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
 * did I say mine? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:13, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

July thanks
Thank you for improving articles in July. Did you know that we had 3 FAs by QAI members this month? - I was away, for hiking in the Swiss Alps and a funeral, more on my talk. Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
 * Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
 * Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news
 * The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
 * A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
 * The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous
 * An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
 * Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
 * You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
 * An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Repetitive contributions by a now blocked user
Hey there! I noticed you were a contributor to the Fearless Fagan article (where I again noticed this) so I'm taking a liberty of checking in with you. I edit a lot of old movie articles and every once in a while I see a film article infobox with budget numbers which are sourced to an unlinked "The Eddie Mannix Ledger." It seems User:Dutchy85 was in the habit of adding this sort of detail, always citing in an identical way. In answer to a query about this (in their talk archive 9) Dutchy85 claimed they had gotten access through the Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles. This would be cool if true, but it's a primary source. The library does list a photocopy of that document in their archives, on microfiche. Given that this user has been blocked indefinitely for several instances of copyright violation, how can I trust this claim of sourcing? Apparently there are several reliable sources which seem to draw from this source and count on it as reliable. Could we use such data if it were republished in analysis like this study, beginning on page 97? BusterD (talk) 08:35, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hey - sorry for the slow response.  I'm on ... let's call it "medical leave" at the moment, but if I get a burst of energy then I'll take a look.  To be honest though - you probably want to check with someone else on this for now. — Ched (talk) 20:29, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Lightbreather appeal
The Arbitration Committee is considering an unban appeal from. You are being notified as you participated in the last unban discussion. You may give feedback here. For the Arbitration Committee, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:32, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Responded there - thank you for thinking of me. — Ched (talk) 16:57, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

August thanks
Thank you for improving articles in August! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:20, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I haven't done much of anything lately - but thank you for the kind thoughts. — Ched (talk) 16:58, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Micro 4/3 Lens Mount Article
I noticed you did some minor updates on this article fairly recently, so I was hoping you might provide feedback on my suggestion (in the Talk section) that the article needs a pretty comprehensive re-write. And, of course seeing as you know this topic already maybe you would even help or lead the re-write.

I'd love your feedback, positive or negative. I'm proactively reaching out to recent editors of the article to get a group consensus before undertaking any editing of the article.

ZeroXero (talk) 20:56, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

March thanks
Thank you for improving articles in March. Music if you like. Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:10, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

The Prayer is on the Main page, finally + new flowers, and btw: the TFA is a young writer's first --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:01, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I haven't done much of anything recently - but thank you for the kind thoughts. — Ched (talk) 22:14, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * doesn't matter, really - Sunday flowers and sounds, don't miss the extraordinary marriage of the beginnings of the theme of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, and Prayer for Ukraine - here! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:44, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

TY
thank you all for the kind words. — Ched (talk) 16:23, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

October music
Today we sang the choral concert of the year, Verdi's Requiem with an interesting band of marimba, piano, horn, bass, timpani and drum (pictured). - Seeing a pic I took on the Main felt good. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:10, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

new day, another pictured DYK (but not pictured by me this time): look at power work tensions (if you translate) - grapes are good for you, even pictured I hope! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:38, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

today's DYK: two facts from the two concert of this years Rheingau Musik Festival I liked best, both a cappella singing. If you follow the songs, you see a circus, where I performed singing, and in the end the whole tent joined for Dona nobis pacem. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:56, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

who shall separate us? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:34, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

leaving the month with reformation and a cat treat --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:49, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for improving articles in November while I was on vacation. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:52, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving - Bach said it in music for peace --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:39, 24 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you - hope you had a nice one too. — Ched (talk) 00:22, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, pictured with roses and apples (if you click on songs) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:38, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

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December greetings
Latest pics, with an opera discovery and some snow. Today my talk has a DYK that was planned for 22 November, among the recent deaths the author of Duck, Death and the Tulip, and now a choir pic of "our" concert last Sunday, likely to become next year's lead image. Enjoy. Best wishes for the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:02, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Thinking about you today. Hope you have the best of seasons. Take good care. BusterD (talk) 21:07, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt, in case of interest. - Enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:34, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

January music
-- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:01, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

February stories
How are you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:07, 21 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm ok - thank you for asking Gerda. — Ched (talk) 17:09, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, love to hear that! - My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:06, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1
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 * 1) The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
 * 2) They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences. Please tell them what you think.



An A/B test for on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

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March flowers
Today we remember the 150th birthday of Max Reger, who saw the horrors of a world war right when it began in 1914, while others were still in high patriotic moods -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:24, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks - the RfC with the non-neutral invitation to fight was closed, and went rather peacefully - what can we learn from it? - I saw today that Brian added an infobox to Imogen Holst in 2014, edit summary "risk" - should it still be a risk in 2023 to follow his example? -- forgot to sign --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

April songs
A little flower for you - how are you? - Today is the 80th birthday of John Eliot Gardiner. Br'er cropped his image for me ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 20 April 2023 (UTC)