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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2021
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18:17, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda
Non-legally binding Santa Clause disclaimer statement: any supposed similarity to the Christmas card sent to you by MarnetteD is purely coincidental. Merry Everything!! (.. I already sent you the Rock Bottom version, didn't I...)
 * Thanks Martin! ... ermmmm I don't remember you rocking my bottom, but do please remind me? My flaky memory is quite a feature nowadays ... Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:45, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * One of my favourite home-made YT videos. (Mongezi Feza – trumpets; Ivor Cutler - poetry)  Martinevans123 (talk) 21:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * AHA yes! Thank you so much. Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:52, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy Everything!
I wish all my friends and colleagues here a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and/or other seasonal and/or religious event as appropriate, or indeed just a nice few days off and a drink or two – whatever works for you! Happy happy, best wishes to all, DBaK (talk) 16:14, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Class 47
Yeah, that was confusing for a reader who wasn't familiar with the complexities of the subject. Basically 111 locomotives still exist, 78 as Class 47s and 33 which were converted to 57s. Of the 78, 31 are preserved and 33 are mainline registered, but four of those are actually both, so that's 60 locomotives. 17 are stored unserviceable and 1 was exported to Hungary = 78. Since that's never going in the lede (and the number that are mainline registered can be fluid), I've just simplified it. Black Kite (talk) 23:43, 26 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Ah great, thank you @Black Kite for an excellent sortout! Cheers DBaK (talk) 12:56, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Opera
today an Italian opera, my second ever, as the TFA written by two dear people, and a park where I went with dear people, as pictured DYK --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

on Beethoven's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

... and today memories of singing Monteverdi, Handel, Rossini - a triple nod to Brian - and a Bach sing-along to come tonight, stay tuned --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:33, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

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) 11:50, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

... and now the last, especially for trumpet lovers, Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen, BWV 248 III, shown on the Main page, and here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:26, 27 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Lovely, thank you so much @Gerda Arendt! One of my favourite moments whether listening or playing! DBaK (talk) 13:02, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

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Districts of Newcastle upon Tyne list
This list that you have doubts about was constructed by a very obvious sock of User:Politialguru. Along with others, I've addressed their block evading edits at existing articles but was unsure about the best way of addressing an article they had themself compiled and that whether that in itself was a suficient basis to delete the list. As you also have doubts about it, any thoughts? Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:03, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ...I've tagged it with WP:G5. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:09, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That was denied as ineligible. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:18, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah right – thanks – fair enough I suppose, and good luck with your next bit. I suppose if it does survive it will either become useful or get ignored, so no-one will actually die either way ... I was just a bit baffled about what it was for, but ho hum. Tickled to see Benwell mentioned – are you local? – my grandfather was landlord or manager or something at the Benwell Arms (... or Benwell Hotel??) about a zillion years ago. I think it is now something very unglamorous like a carpet warehouse or something. Maybe just waiting for a rich madman to make it a trendy gastropub ... cheers DBaK (talk) 20:11, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * No likelihood of deaths rather sums up the bulk of Politialguru's socks edits. They make numerous, substantial, bafflingly pointless changes, peppered with sufficient actively suspect material that they were blocked but keep coming back for more. Can't remember how they came into my radar but it's not because I'm local. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:30, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Sheesh, and thanks. I had a look at some of the LTA stuff last night and very promptly wished that I had not ... best wishes (and good luck!) DBaK (talk) 10:00, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Update: this is getting very offtopic but I looked at Streetview and it (the ex-boozer) is now a rather nice-looking supermarket with flats above and new dormer windows in the roof. It's in better shape than it has been for a while, so I can probably keep my millions ... DBaK (talk) 10:02, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Just for you!
And here's a little rendition of Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz" that I knocked out just for you only last week. Enjoy!! Joyce Fakeowska 123 (talk) 21:56, 29 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hahaha thank you Martin! Excellent stuff that you created here. The thing I find bizarre is that I don't remember knowing about this story at the time. I am supposed to be a classical music person (OK I was not working in music then but even so) and yet it seems to have floated way over my head. Did you know about it then?? Cheers DBaK (talk) 09:58, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I surely cannot have been drunk for all of 2007???? DBaK (talk) 09:59, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Lol. Ditto - similarly, I had never heard of her. In fact, the nearest I got to Joyce Hatto was Beth Ditto. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:01, 30 December 2021 (UTC) p.s,. I managed most of 2006.
 * ... not forgetting my K.310 Mozart, of course! Enjoy! Ingrid Mills 123 (talk) 11:18, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year, DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered!


Happy New Year! DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2022
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2022
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12:44, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Epiphany
Happy new year, in friendship! - Epiphany seems like a good day to say so, after a Bavarian peasants' mass (sorry, on the train home, no recent pics of that - just keep watching), and two DYK, even with a pic I took. I enjoyed meetings with friends in real life, and wish you many of those. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:50, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you ! So much good stuff. Happy New Year to you, too! DBaK (talk) 08:30, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you
For spellchecking my article on William Thornton Whitsett. No matter how many times I proofread, I still miss really fundamental errors. Txantimedia (talk) 23:21, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2022
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23:02, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Prayer for Ukraine
I took a pic in 2009 that was on the German MP yesterday, with the song from 1885, in English Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

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From Gerda
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) 21:28, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Oh how great, thank you so much! DBaK (talk) 21:47, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2022
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