User talk:Gerda Arendt/2020



Did you know ...

... that the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt offered Bach's cantata Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende (Praise God! For now the year is ending) on New Year's Eve 2020?

... that the hook didn't make it in time?

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2020 · illumination, enlightenment and vision


Did you know ...

... that Ave Maria, an obscure piece for two men's choirs by Franz Biebl published in 1964, became a choral standard after Chanticleer made it part of their holiday programs?

(1 January 2020 · listen to Chanticleer, 2015)

... that John Rutter wrote the text and music for Angels' Carol, a choral piece for Christmas, using the Latin "Gloria in excelsis Deo" as a refrain?

(24 December 2019 · listen to us, 2019)

A barnstar for you! - thanks in 2019, visions in 2020

 * Thank you, Mz7, that's nice, just a statistical number, but nice, especially concluding 2019, a year I designated to be the year of thanks. I thank those who thanked me, - it always feels good to receive this little token of one's work being noticed and even liked. I'll transfer the barnstar to project WP:QAI for which I work. We had three topics in 2019 which are ongoing, and you can help (you all, I mean, member or not) to work on them:
 * Improve Psalms articles which come from stub (Psalm 56) to GA (Psalm 84). Thanks to Yoninah, JohnThorne and many more!
 * Expand and source translations by LouisAlain who is probably my most prolific "thanks-giver".
 * Polish articles of people who recently died, with the goal to have them appear in the Recent deaths section whare - sadly - Peter Schreier and Harry Kupfer are as I write this. Thanks to Coffeeandcrumbs, Martinevans123, Grimes2 and many more.


 * What really counts for me are written thanks is prose such as those from Voceditenore and Coffee.
 * Let's make 2020 a year of vision, together! Article for today Psalm 103. Happy editing in 2020! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Awesome! Another interesting statistical number: according to a different database query, you were also last year's most thankful Wikipedian, with 4246 uses of the thank tool in 2019. If you meant for 2019 to be your year of thanks, you certainly achieved it. Mz7 (talk) 01:43, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * You read my mind that I was more interested in giving than receiving ;) - Of course it's also just a number, - I regard the clicks as a lazy expression of thanks, and count more what I do in thanking users in prose.

 I hope that visions for 2020 will be as successful as the thanks in 2019:

... that missed friends return (... banned, blocked for no good reason, just given up ...)

... that edit-warring is replaced by discussion - I am on voluntary 1RR

... that people realise when they dominate a discussion too much - I try to stick to 2 comments

... that infoboxes added in good faith (now or in the past) are not regarded as vandalism

... that we'll live up to the legacy of Brian Boulton, in article creation (Percy Grainger and Lost operas by Claudio Monteverdi coming to mind), reviewing the work of others, willingness to seek compromise, and respectful attitude

... or in summary: that good faith and IAR are applied more generally, - just look at Ray's Rules and "go on with life, have a laugh, don't get too upset over this".
 * I may add to this list later - this is just a spontaneous wishlist. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:06, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * ps: The (missed) Rambling Man is with us again! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:16, 10 January 2020 (UTC) and the (missed) Begoon at least edited his user page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:35, 12 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Kirsten Flagstad - Liebestod - 1936 Covent Garden
 * Please let me offer my best wishes to you for the year 2020. May all your whishes and aspirations be fulfilled and many thanks for being so patient with heavy cases such as me. In other terms, thanks for being here, so helpful and ready to spare you time to help other users. On my part, I'll try to advance from inept to less inept. Respectfully yours, LouisAlain (talk) 08:56, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * love-ly, thank you! - just began "your radiance consumes all darkness" on my grandparents' wedding anniversary, composed for 2 January 1735, - and more articles about light to come ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:12, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * As Wayne Newton said, "Danke Schoen". SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 21:35, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Ave Maria (Biebl)
Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

222,222
Congratulations! Jmar67 (talk) 01:31, 4 January 2020 (UTC)


 * in 2020, the things you see ;) - thank you for copy-editing, must be a high number of repeated mistakes! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:18, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Psalm 85
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * kiss of Justice and Peace --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Nearly 5,000 clicks! Great job on the hook! And the image is beautiful. Yoninah (talk) 14:22, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you, - you wrote the most interesting part of it: that the famous kiss may be a misunderstanding ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:24, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

You're the sweetest
You always make me smile, thank you for your nice words of encouragement. I brought you some `Atayef cos baklava is too mainstream ~ Elias Z. (talkallam) 12:57, 31 January 2020 (UTC)


 * This is so especially sweet, thank you, ~ Elias! How did you know that I just typed ? Perfect timing! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:10, 31 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I am sorry for that. Looks like I'm missing out on a lot of Wikidrama. Anyway, I hope WP treats you nicely and you don't consider quitting ever again. ~ Elias Z. (talkallam) 10:45, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
 * As I said there: I stubbornly stay ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:49, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Die Himmel rühmen des Ewigen Ehre
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 2 February 2020 (UTC) The first in 2020 topic Beethoven, and second in psalms, for a pic of the composer from that year see above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:53, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Maria, Königin des Friedens
Gatoclass (talk) 12:03, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

The architect just celebrated 100! I took one of the images, but not the lead ... - album here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:14, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

A hello
Just popping in to leave a greeting. First, thanks for all your excellent work on the wiki. I appreciate all the encouragement you've given me. --LilHelpa (talk) 00:44, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * LilHelpa, thank you, great helper! I remember how you made the very beginning easy for me! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Beethoven
Good morning! Other than Bach, Beethoven is my favorite classical composer. The first time I heard 'Moonlight Sonata' was when I was eight years old when my Mom played it on our piano. It touched my heart deeply. God bless. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 04:43, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Gwillhickers! Rather similar memories: at age 10, I began piano lessons, and one of the first records my mother bought contained that 14th sonata, performed by Friedrich Gulda. I played Für Elise rather soon, and it became my father's favourite, played on all his birthdays. I learned the first movement of the sonata in self-study, but wouldn't manage the third which impresses me the deepest. - I changed the header, - it's his year! Memories of singing Die Himmel rühmen des Ewigen Ehre and Choral Fantasy date back to age 12. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:07, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Alte Liebe
— Wug·a·po·des​ 01:24, 28 February 2020 (UTC) ALte Liebe - old love. In the book, a couple married during the German student movement. - In memory of Käthe, married in the 1970s. Part of my February flowers. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * So I found this photo of the authors together. It's not very good, but is it better than none? Also for the Bernd Schroeder article? --GRuban (talk) 16:08, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes!! thank you! - We have a rather good one of her but I found it unfair to use for the joint venture. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:14, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Infobox book
I am helping with Sixto-Clementine Vulgate. I do not want to italicize the IB title but cannot resolve the problem. There is a parameter to force it but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Otherwise I will ask on the template's talk page. The idea here is that the English title is an informal one and should not be italicized. Jmar67 (talk) 22:52, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Good idea to ask on the template talk. It should not have the title italic, when the article title is not, per the parameter. Never had that problem, sorry. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:22, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Perhaps RexxS would know? - We don't talk about the article title style - which works - but the title in the infobox itself. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:26, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I have a solution, but it will need consensus to change the main infobox template. --RexxS (talk) 02:41, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, both! - see also WP:QAI/Infobox, - and once we are there can we also install a parameter Image_upright? ... which actually should be in every infobox with an image. - Rossini's birthday today, a rare thing ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:14, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * RexxS and all: once in wishlist mood, for Precious anniversaries, I copy a template, and manually change the user name, the image size and the years. I like to do that, because it's moments of remembering that I/we are thankful for a user's contribs. However, for fewer typing errors and life after me - returning from a funeral ... - I could imagine to call a template with a year as the only parameter, which fetches the basepagename and adjusts the imagesize accordingly, 1 year 0.2, 2 - 0.25, 3 - 0,3 ... - so far we have eight, and need to find a way for 10 and beyond to not get much larger ;) - --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I've made Template:User QAIbox/auto that you can use like this: . You give the number of years as a capitalised word. It scales up to ten years, but stays at   for anything beyond nine years. It should still accept the other parameters as well, but you shouldn't need them for Precious Anniversary. If you get a chance to test it (maybe just preview it on some pages) and it's okay, perhaps you can add a little documentation to Template:User QAIbox/auto/doc, indicating how you'd like to see it used? --RexxS (talk) 20:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * That's lovely, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:31, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * ... and used, and modified here to eight, because that's what it is for me know, thanks to a friend. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:16, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * RexxS, I was pleased all the time, but fail to find the right id (in the list) for pablo X, - seems to be something about capital or not. - Help? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not really sure what problem you've run into. If you remember, we only made the sizing to go from one to nine years, and let ten and more all be at the same large size. The template works fine with sixteen years:, but its size is no bigger than for ten years. Capitals make no difference to the template. --RexxS (talk) 16:50, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * RexxS, I tried to describe. The id in the table, for a user's entry, has to be equal to basepagename in the template, or the link from the years doesn't go to the right position. I managed for all so far since we use the template but not for pablo_X (or Pablo_X), and don't know what my mistake is. It's eight years for him, - he was recommended to me by Br'er Rabbit for his eighth anniversary of editing. I remember as if it was yesterday. and liked all encounters with pablo, from that first on, sadly becoming more and more rare. Just look at his present talk page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:45, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay, found it. Pablo X likes to style themselves as "pablo X". But the template uses to pick up the name and make a link to the id in the table at WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Precious, and their BASEPAGENAME is actually "Pablo X". Because links to anchors are case-sensitive (and the id creates an anchor), the link generated (WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Precious) didn't have an id (anchor) in the table that matched. I've just changed the id in the table from "pablo_X" to "Pablo_X" (their real name). The anchor now matches the link and it works as intended. It looks like you need to make sure that values for id in the table match the actual BASEPAGENAME (which almost certainly begins with a capital). Cheers --RexxS (talk) 20:28, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for confirming that. I was sure I had tried that as well, but shouldn't be too sure. Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:31, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow, I never knew that you were such a Machiavellian mastermind. You've been behind everything, haven't you? lol ~ HAL  333  15:02, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Jessye Norman
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I feel blessed, having heard her in person at Carnegie Hall. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:14, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Request
Planning on taking the Honan Chapel article to PR in 14 days, and would be very appreciative if you could take a look, given how helpful you have been in the past. Have a strong connection to the building; lived (in a hovel) for two years literally 2 minutes walk from it as a student, and for the last 20 years the Gobnait window works for me in about a million ways. My best friend was married there in 2005. Anyway, if you get a chance. Ceoil (talk) 21:56, 4 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Ceoil, for an irresistible invitation. Once someone said to me "whatever works for you" and how true that is. The Opera house pictured was 2 minutes away from where I lived as a student, and I visited frequently. Back then, we sang St. Matthew Passion one year, and St. John Passion the other. This year, It would have been Matthew again, see above. What works for me is the song of defiance, also see above, which I sang even before, in Bach's incredible version. GA nom failed. Lyrics so suitable to these times: "weg mit allen Schätzen" - away with all treasures - and he composes weg, weg, weg, weg ... - but "ich steh hier und singe" - here I stand and sing. (I used it in defiance of arbcom already, as you probably know, and I was recently reminded.) - What keeps me busy is making articles decent of people who recently died - many. I haven't looked today yet. Then, I'll turn to that wonderful image, please be patient. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:54, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I looked now - only looked, and it's another one with many pictures which make placement tricky. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:25, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

(more in the archive)

DYK for Three Latin Motets
--valereee (talk) 00:01, 7 April 2020 (UTC)


 * One of them is Beati quorum via integra est. - Difficult to translate, the tricky word being "integra" which is not easy in both English and German, - looking for an adjective related to integrity, for the way, which is the way of living, not just walking. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:18, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * We sang it last on 8 March. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:46, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I found this about it: “I am always delighted when I hear sung the words from a psalm, “Beati quorum via integra est” – blessed are they whose way is “whole”. “Integra” is full of resonances: uncorrupt, integrated, wholesome, complete. Yet perhaps our splendour, if humanity has any, ultimately lies in the split in our nature, and how we handle it...“ [Chris Clarke, “Wholeness”, in Knowing, Doing, and Being: New Foundations for Consciousness Studies (2015), p. 157]. His Latin may be better than his wisdom, but if I were you I should use his translation. Moonraker (talk) 02:30, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, taken. Now I'd also be interested in the meaning in Hebrew. Yoninah? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:51, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The Hebrew word, תְמִֽימֵי־דָ֑רֶךְ, can be literally read as "pure in the way." El_C 23:57, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That sounds great, but would need some explanation for me. I like a positive word like "pure", compared to "blameless", "undefiled", and also to the frequent "perfect", because nobody is ... - The recordings sounds pure ;) - Yoninah, I think some of this should go to Psalm 119, even if we can't quote the whole long thing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:19, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The Hebrew word תְמִֽימֵי means as says "wholesome", also "straightforward", "sincere". "Purehearted" would work. Yoninah (talk) 18:16, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I had better add that the word “via” has most of the meanings of “way”, and in this psalm it plainly doesn’t mean something you stand on! So the word way might as well be kept. It’s a matter of which other word to use for the metaphor, and wholesome may be better than whole. Moonraker (talk) 19:21, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

On infoboxes
Gerda, are you not still limited to two comments per infobox discussion? (I'm thinking of here). I should not like to see you getting into any trouble. Best--Smerus (talk) 12:23, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That provision has now expired (although I hope I don't need to remind you all that arguing about infoboxes is never going to end well for anyone). &#8209; Iridescent 12:46, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That provision has now expired (although I hope I don't need to remind you all that arguing about infoboxes is never going to end well for anyone). &#8209; Iridescent 12:46, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Gerda's dream

 * ... has expired in 2015 - I wonder when the new times begin when those boxes are treated nothing special, like tables and images, - it could be now, imagine ;) ... imagine how much editors' time could go to something more useful than debate if something meant to help readers (and could be opted out if not wanted) is permitted to help or not. - ps, and see my New year's intentions on top: I normally try to stick to 2 comments voluntarily, in ANY discussion, because it's more polite to other participants (and - selfish - it limits my waste of time). - Today's topic: Psalm 31, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I think you are wise - I will try in future to limit myself to two comments as well. Hope you are keeping well - I am finding lockdown very tedious. Best--Smerus (talk) 15:20, 10 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I answered below. and gave it a Passion header. For the infoboxes, I began hoping in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:08, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

St John Passion 2020, in defiance

 * Thank you ;) - Normally, we would have sung St Matthew Passion, instead, I sang along in the St John Passion from Bach's burial place in the Thomaskirche, and sometimes cried. Exceptional tenor who took ALL roles, with keyboard (switching harpsichord and organ) and percussion. They left out some arias. Great moments! (... such as "kreuzige" hissed to drums, and "es ist vollbracht" first as Jesus, then an octave lower than in the alto aria, and at its end high, as if uplifted ...) - link Carus bachfest --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:09, 10 April 2020 (UTC)


 * A header for it: Passion trotz(t) Pandemie, which is hard to translate. Suggestions welcome. Trotz (defiance) is a key word in Jesu, meine Freude (which I quoted after the arb case, to connect to the beginning). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:08, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Purcell)
--valereee (talk) 00:01, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Finally. We sang it on 8 March, and put the secrets of our hearts into it, "spare us, Lord!" ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

 Did you know ... that Henry Purcell composed basically two settings of Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts, a complex one early, and a simple one for the burial of Queen Mary?

(in memory of B.W.)

Precious

 * Thank you, Bibliomaniac15, blushing to a colour like the strawberries below, and mostly: welcome back!! - You may have noticed (look for the Yogo above) that I try to prepare the award for a time after me, and you are most welcome - as some others do already, and everybody is invited to - to pass the award. We sometimes have two one day, and miss days, - doesn't matter ;) - It's good for me to do first thing in the morning: to look around for the many reasons to be thankful. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!

 * Thank you, blushing. I took the liberty of enlarging the pic, because while I recognized it, it may have been too small for others. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 2 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I did think that the image was a bit small, but it was almost 1am when I posted it and I was too tired to think of doing that! In my opinion, the Mass in B Minor is one of the most wonderful pieces of music in the world (if you can call that huge work a "piece of music"!). I have been privileged to perform it twice with my choir, and I think our choir director is considering it for the spring of 2022 again. I am very much an amateur chorist, but am fortunate to be part of a rather good choir. I hope we'll get back to rehearsing and performing again in August, but who knows... --bonadea contributions talk 13:11, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * bonadea, I agree about it's magnificence. Sung unforgettably in a concert for Peace here, at the Wiesbadener Bachwochen, again unforgettably here the day before the Iraq war ultimatum (you should have heard us sing Dona nobis pacem!!!), and last in 2013, my perspective pictured in my work of love, here, promised. Dona nobis pacem, - same music as Gratias, very meaningful. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:10, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Hans Herbert Jöris
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Did you know that Hans Herbert Jöris conducted the first church concert I ever heard, with a Bach cantata? - 15 May is his birthday, and Monteverdi's. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Anna and Bernhard Blume


Did you know ...

... that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason?

... that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying that "death must be abolished ..."?

A birthday
Happy birthday? El_C 05:13, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * not mine today (but close) - want to add? - Today is the birthday of one with the river Rhine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:20, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Cool, sounds primordial. El_C 05:42, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * What can you do in restricted times? I'm on my way to make the meetings real, in portions, a hike to that meadow, another around the rose town, a bike tour along the Rhine from Oppenheim and another to the Kreuzkapelle, a lunch overlooking the Rhine in Mainz, and church services happened already, more hikes and even organ concerts are planned, and for me, that's even better than seeing them all the same day as 2 decades ago. It helps to live in a blessed area where others come for vacation. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:23, 27 June 2020 (UTC)


 * (Belated apologies.) That sounds absolutely serene. Petting a chipmunk is also nice. Anyway, A very merry Unbirthday to you! To you! El_C 01:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Happy petting that happy chipmunk! - Thank you for the wishes, coming a good day, 20 years OTD that the Chanticleer sang at Unionskirche, Idstein, as part the Rheingau Musik Festival, and I was permitted to take photos during their rehearsal, - such wonderful and still vivid memories of walking around in a great building filled with unbelievable harmony. I wanted to make a box above but perhaps better to keep it down here, modestly. What I did was begin the years with their sounds, DYK? Look above for Chanticleer. - This year, a cellist - subject of my first article here, and I never wanted to write any other, only there was this red link ... - wants to play for me and my guests, as many birthdays before, which is more tricky to arrange. My favourite church (pictured above) is too small (36 people right now), the next holding 100 but too resonant (looking forward to an organ concert there on Saturday, which was planned for March), - perhaps I'll ask Unionskirche ... - Would you like to tell me a place and a song for my virtual sing-along? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 29 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I found the 2000 program, - first half sacred music by William Cornysh, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Vasily Polikarpovich Titov and John Taverner, and then music by Alberto Ginastera, Benitez Valencia, Astor Piazzolla, George Gershwin, Nacio Herb Brown, and spirituals. We were taken by the black voice of Eric Alatorre, who retired only last year, as I found out today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:45, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Meine engen Grenzen
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
 Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:16, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, - I remember well, first article deleted within minutes, but then I received great help, first by Cmadler, then Michael Bednarek (see above), LilHelpa (see just above), Jerome Kohl, and all you others (in the order of appearance). Thank you! (If I think I missed you, let me know, right here. )-Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:20, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

 * Thank you, more detail above ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:40, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
Thank you for your many years as one of Wikipedia's shining stars. Your exemplary work is greatly appreciated! M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  07:15, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, blushing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Congratulation! Grimes2 (talk) 08:22, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and even more for updating Leon Fleisher! A nice gift: Monteverdi's operas are a featured topic now!! We can't thank Brian enough for being such an inspiration, still! DYK, today is also his day of Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago ;) - Thank you, Aza, for the initiative to honour him. Giants2008, letting you know for the FLN above. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Bon anniversaire.
I got a reminder.

So I hope you are well, and you can't say I forgot.

Take care.

Begoon 19:01, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * How lovely to see you "alive". 'cause missing the dead is bad enough. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:07, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, blushing a bit. Did you see 3RR above? I enjoy the softer tones ;) - DId you know that Erich Gruenberg was the lead violinist for Sgt. Pepper? I didn't, and keep learning? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:02, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
 * No I didn't - that's very interesting. I'm actually currently burning through the discography of another great British band: The Kinks. ~ HAL  333  02:05, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt
The article Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Aza24 -- Aza24 (talk) 22:41, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Rhythm Is It!
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

I remember well. Education of an energetic kind, for kids from many cultural backgrounds to work towards one goal, - a model for us all. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

TFA Monteverdi Vespers 1 September


This article is about the Vespers for the Blessed Virgin, or Vespers of 1610, by Claudio Monteverdi. His opera L'Orfeo, premiered in 1607, is the first opera still widely performed, and the Vespers are similarly exceptional. Monteverdi, aspiring to a better positiom than court musician in Mantua, demonstrated the broad range of his abilities, writing with a post in Rome in mind, but instead went to San Marco, Venice, a few years later. We don't know if the music was ever performed completely during his lifetime, nor if he actually expected it to be performed that way. Certainly musicologists and musicians have been fascinated from the 20th century on. Monteverdi set much more text than the usual 5 psalms + Magnificat, and required a 10-part choir in one psalm, and a rich orchestra. He combined the ever-present Gregorian chant with dramatic and virtuoso elements from the emerging opera, and offered a great diversity in musical styles and expression. Here is a short introduction, - in the background you hear an extreme performance, a recording which renders only the music Monteverdi wrote (and no additions to make it a proper liturgical vespers service), with 10 singers, and soloists for all instruments. I heard them in concert at the Rheingau Musik Festival which will be missed this year.

The article is the work of many over many years ... The main inspiration came from Brian Boulton who wrote the articles about the composer and his operas, and who generously left me the sources he had collected, the greatest honour I received in my ten years here. (from the FAC)

(1 September 2020 - 1 September was the day of the dedication in 1610, and of our concert in 2019)

Congrats
On your TFA. I have enjoyed reading it. Altamel (talk) 06:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Maybe one day you could do the same for Selva Morale e Spirituale? I think the Beatus Vir Primo is the best walking bass in musical history (fight me!). When we were rehearsing this, our conductor was ill one day so we had Robert Hollingworth dep for him. The band for the performance included the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, and I am still friendly with some of them now, since my friend Catherine often books them for the concerts I do with her. Guy (help! - typo?) 07:52, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I wrote Selva, but would rather take the Brahms Requiem to FA. Struggling with Mass in B minor, since 2012, and Jesu, meine Freude (which I find even more defiant than the Brahms) right now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Guy, what do you think about the thread a bit above, named Silence (which was much longer, archived), or - similar topic on ARCA which I revived today because I believe we really need to call a war ended that ended long ago, only some overlooked that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:33, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Yesterday's horrible news
What a huge huge loss. I didn't even know him that well, but I am devastated. DBaK (talk) 08:57, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * So am I. - We talk about the memory of Jerome Kohl, with whom I had good conversations over ten years, - many topics, such as Schnebel (he said: "Sad to see another great music maker gone") and Stockhausen's Originale which I saw, and he said "Fantastic! What an experience it must have been! Thank you for telling me!". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Silence
While I agree with the sentiments of this post, I think it's worth quoting a bit of Ignore all dramas : "Say something there only if you can say it well and politely, and it helps all concerned, causing no further harm." I have to say that for those who understand what you mean, you're telling them something they already know, and for those who don't (or don't want to), you're just going to antagonise them : "none so deaf as those who will not hear". Let those who want to tear each other's heads off do so and go about your business improving the encyclopedia; hopefully when the dust is settled around the charred remains of burned-out editors, some may think "you know what, we really should have looked at that picture of a kitten after all". Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  13:12, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * You just caused further harm sadness. I replied to a post on your talk, where I had mentioned silence, and (instead of silence) was questioned further. Silence please. I miss a great person. There's a picture of a kitten, - hope you like it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:07, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

...

It crossed my mind that Licht - Jerome's great work - matches my topic of the year - vision - perfectly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:20, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

It crossed my mind further that perhaps I should not be silent about being just an observer of the infobox wars (or however they might be called). I was wounded, and had enough, deciding to step away in 2015. - Let's look at the current discussion. It could have been so short. Nominator presents reasoning per the MoS to uncollaps an infobox, asking for good reasons not to follow the MoS in the specific case. There are no good (= factual) reasons. So instead, we argue about not so good reasons, on several noticeboards, with rising heat. I try to be silent but sometimes the level of frustration is too high. It's a complete waste of everybody's time. The simple answer to a good proposal could be "Why not?" - The Autobahnkirche Siegerland is a place for silence. Thank you for watching, made nice stats. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Matthias Hölle
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

This DYK was worded as a greeting to my friend Jerome Kohl who wrote all we know about Stockhausen and works. It became a tribute in memoriam, In Freundschaft. The piece was played at a concert dedicated to William Waterhouse. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 8 September 2020 (UTC)



a minute of silence

Did you know ... that Matthias Hölle, a regular bass singer at the Bayreuth Festival, appeared in the world premieres of Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht and Samstag aus Licht at La Scala in Milan? (8 September 2020)

... that cellist, composer, and conductor Rudolf Hindemith was the brother of the famous Paul Hindemith, with whom he played in the Amar Quartet, but later used pseudonyms to hide the relation? (7 September 2020)

Thank you
Thank you, just what I needed. (Funeral 17 September, in Munich, where the memorial is.) Thank you also for excellent copy-editing. The article is the result of many users working together, - I hope they watch here. I couldn't believe - prompted by the death of his nephew - that he had no article. I love that music, sung in Hannover and Wiesbaden. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:00, 12 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I like the setting of this text in Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem. Guy (help! - typo?) 07:46, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * That's what we mean. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Moop Mama
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:04, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

listen to Meermenschen (people from the sea), in rehearsal --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:43, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

You're very clever
I must say you're very clever to be able to align the pictures nicely without Br'er Rabbit or RexxS helping. I always make futile attempts and then end up asking RexxS. Very envious of your skills! Little Stupid talk, 09:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC).
 * PS, yikes, I see a picture of Darwinbish on this page. Hope she hasn't been bothering you! Little Stupid talk, 09:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC).
 * Gerda has an adequate supply of apples, so fret ye not. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  10:08, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * (ec) Darwinbish has stolen grabbed some apples, but I have a large supply. All my technical cleverness comes from the two you mentioned, and Alakzi who showed me how to have pics in one line as here. Thanks to them as long as I can remember, - one banned, one ill, one given up! Look above, RexxS made me a neat template to remember Precious by just changing the number of years celebrated, imagine! (If I'd organise the dates, that might even run without me.) Feel free to use the QAIbox, modeled after the popcorn Br'er gave me as a farewell gift, eighth anniversary now as he mentioned then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:13, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I would also say that although good editors leave the project, if you look around carefully, you'll see new editors coming up through the ranks and starting to contribute more, like zmbro. Let's show our appreciation for those as well. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  10:16, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I like hints for Precious. (I also like others to pass Precious, - no need to wait for me.) I think I do my share of appreciating newcomers, greeting red links on my watchlist, and passing Precious for a first DYK. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:21, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I stole my cutest infobox opera from the 2013 arb workshop pages, image by Br'er, title idea by Voceditenore who also was instrumental in creating the template with Andy, facts somewhat updated. I think we just reached kind of peace there, - imagine (that I ). All operas by Rossini have an infobox now, not only his latest. Much room for improvements: more appropriate images, for example, and many composers not yet improved. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:42, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * ps: 1201 transclusions of the template as of now, but I guess 1 is what you see here ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:45, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I thought the image on the right was the result of putting the wrong sort of dash in an FA candidate. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  11:01, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Highly suitable. Jen probably thinks the same about ref details. Thanks for helping her with the flowcharts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:05, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Eugen Szenkar
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Fitting to remember this persona non grata on the day I remember that eight years ago, this community banned my friend whose name was not Jack: creative, productive, helpful, witty, charming, a great photographer, a free spirit, miraculous, who said "wikis are not about authoritah they are about collaborations and merit." in September 2012. (You read that in my edit notice, didn't you?) I debated with myself then if I could still be a member of such community.


 * Agnus Dei - mourning becomes ... (11 April 2012)

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[Breathing out a light spray of stroopwafel crumbs as she speaks :] Darwinbish has stolen your stroopwafels! The stroopwafels made her happy and she'd like to give you a great big hug for leaving them where she could reach them. Spread the WikiLove by giving her some more baked goods, unless you want her boys to pay you a visit!  darwin bish  BITE 12:48, 20 May 2012 (UTC).

Br&#39;er Rabbit (talk) 13:20, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Dona nobis pacem - a promise (16 October 2012)

Here I am, still singing in defiance. Darwinbish has stolen the apples. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:46, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Dutch composers
Thanks to a beloved friend I have sung music by Ton de Leeuw, Daan Manneke, Vic Nees, Alphons Diepenbrock, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (in the church where he was organist), and probably others, especially if you count Flanders as part of Netherlands (hello Ockeghem and Josquin des Prez!). Who's your favourite Dutch composer of the last 100 years? Do you sing in a choir (or did you, prior to The Event?)

Have you ever heard ro sung Josquin's Nymphes des Bois (déploration de la mort de Johannes Ockeghem)? It is astonishing. Or Vic Nees' Magnificat? Guy (help! - typo?) 22:39, 18 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for asking, - for choirs check the infobox on my user page, for more detail of compositions click on "memories" there, several Flemish, - I wrote about Jules van Nuffel's In convertendo. I'm tired right now, past midnight here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:47, 18 October 2020 (UTC)


 * I have to butt in with how much I adore Nymphes des Bois – part of a popular Medieval/Rennaisance tradition of writing laments when great masters died (see Armes, amours by Andrieu for Machaut, or Ye sacred muses by Byrd for Tallis for other famous examples). If you're interested, this JSTOR article has a list on the page 31. Aza24 (talk) 22:57, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * , like! Thanks. Aslo mentions Ockeghem's Mort, tu as navré de ton dart, which I have also performed. Guy (help! - typo?) 07:19, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Variations for Cello Solo
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 7 November 2020 (UTC)


 * ... not without irony, and as it happens DYK #1500 after #1 was about the composer whose birthday was a few days ago, a day before the piece was planned to be played. He also wrote Bright Angel, look: "He recalls a hike which he took, age nine, with his father William Waterhouse. In 1972, when the bassoonist taught for one year at Indiana University, they crossed the Grand Canyon from the North Rim to the South Rim, on the North Kaibab Trail and the Bright Angel Trail." - more memories - Did you know that he wanted to call the variations Väriäschons, as a German might pronounce the English? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:09, 7 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Inviting DBaK and Smerus to the party, who know relatives, and Cmadler who helped me with the first article, - back from deletion and to DYK.

A barnstar for you!

 * grinning a bit --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:03, 7 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I remember when I was starting to add up DYKs I noticed you had over 400, and thought, "Will I ever get there?" Now I have over 400 and you have ... 1500! You'll always be the front-runner! Congratulations! Yoninah (talk) 21:57, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, - it's due to three things: 1) eagerness to share topics I'm interested in, 2) LouisAlain constantly providing people I never heard of (or so I think and later find out I heard that voice but forgot her name), 3) being tired of infobox discussions, the determination to write simple short articles where nobody will discuss the topic, - and right, the last time was January 2018, Psalm 149, remember? (... which therefore didn't go to DYK). Thank you for all the wording help, and next psalm will be 148. - The front-runner became tired at 1666, - we'll see how I long I last, - writing more GAs instead would be nice. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:13, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow! That is so impressive, Gerda. —valereee (talk) 13:35, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Christian Flor again
Hi Gerda, I thought the Flor article might contain all the German which I attempted to translate, and found in doing so that I had made the elementary misreading of 'Lieder' for 'leider!' (sic). This changes the sense significantly, because Rist is saying that he is concerned with the Wideraufrichtung of the fallen Christenthum - alas! (leider!) - rather than the revival of merely the (Songs) of Christenthum - quite a different scale of challenge, one might think! I apologize for my former inaccuracy. "Re-edification" was a popular English usage for the setting-up-anew of the church in the 17th century, with resonances of OT Zachariah, and makes a fair equivalence for Wideraufrichtung (again-setting-up-rightly). oops, Eebahgum (talk) 07:15, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Eebahgum, thank you, and no problem with mistakes, I make them all the time. Best probably if you change the article. In modern German, it's Wiederaufrichtung, wieder=again, wider=against, - a similar trap as Lied=song vs. Leid=sorrow. I noticed that the English in the article is longer than the German, and found no time yet to find the rest. Busy with a grim piece for peace. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for having done all that before I asked! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, at any rate it makes better sense now. What a very convoluted way they had of expressing themselves. Haha! Eebahgum (talk) 08:40, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * You said that succinctly ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Flowers for the Elderly
Hi Gerda! I hope you're well. Yes, it does make me smile that Die Fliege is getting some love.

Since you popped up on my notifications I thought you might appreciate a little update. In the past few months while studying Health and Social Care (retraining to become a care worker) I've started a local community project. Visit Twitter.com/FlowersElderly and follow the link to see the website.

All the best, <b style="font:1.3em/1em Trebuchet MS;letter-spacing:-0.07em"><b style="color:#000">nagual</b><b style="color:#ABAB9D">design</b></b> 22:48, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 * That's great news! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:56, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

DYK for For the beauty of the earth (Rutter)
Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 00:02, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate that, and happy thanks if not! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:18, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

December with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:41, 26 November 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging


 * see also conversation at User talk:Rosiestep --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Macht weit die Pforten in der Welt
—valereee (talk) 00:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Ein Lichtlein brennt
Thank you, Gerda. That was kind. --Frans Fowler (talk) 04:16, 29 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Macht hoch die Tür - danke!
 * new: Macht weit die Pforten in der Welt
 * Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
 * Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
 * Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
 * new: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * new Kündet allen in der Not --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:03, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Your thoughts..

 * Dear Gerda I think I must retire from this place. I left a year and the petty hate is still here. Am I escaping the real world by leaving here? After all, all that we encounter in the 'real world' is here, but a little magnified. Have you ever considered leaving? Leibe Simon Adler (talk) 06:25, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Simon, I considered leaving in 2012, when teh community (so I, no? - which drove me almost crazy, and I made a category that I don't belong to that community) banned my friend. I then considered that some would just want me go, and didn't want to do them the favour. I was never tempted again. I recommend (to everybody): just don't edit. Simon, thank you for wonderful things you told me here. I'd sadly add you to Die Fliege if you left us. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I took a year-long break myself, back when (aside from occasional pop-ins when people e-mailed me directly about something). It can be refreshing. If you find you're not inspired to return after a year or whatever, that's fine.  I used to play pool 4–6 nights a week.  I don't now.  Used to skateboard for hours almost every day, except in mid-winter (and even found some ways around that!). I don't now.  Your time is your own, and your interests are free to realign!  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:54, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * No, I am not leaving. I was a bit upset when I foolishly contributed to the drama boards a couple of days ago. It just bugged me that some colleagues just can't let go of an idée fixe, that of a narrow, tortuous logic that can be tagged on (tenuously) to a condemnation of another's WP behaviour, which can be perverted to near- persecution. I mentioned WP:Apology being a lost art round here. It seemed to have sunk in to our more self-aware colleagues, but it just left me sour. If you cannot function here, how can you function in the 'real world' where things are infinitely worse. I have had my year out, and it affected my edit count badly! It was nice to see my page watchers had all stuck with me through that year out. It is the little things.. Anyway, thanks for your encouragement, means a lot. Simon. Simon Adler (talk) 03:14, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * You add to a good day, thank you Simon! I know the feeling (look around, where the long entries are on this page). However, today is a birthday of a friend, and Die güldne Sonne (The Golden Sun) is mentioned on the German Main page (more long entries for the English version). Please see if my is for you, - nutshell: go away when a wall is too hard, "have a laugh, don't get too upset over this". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * go away when a wall is too hard, "have a laugh, don't get too upset over this" – yes, yes, this, a thousand times this. It is an incredible and useful skill to sometimes just walk away and do something else. I wish I had it better but even so. I could not agree more ... and I think it is better for the encyclopaedia and probably for us as individuals to go on editing even if it's at a different level of commitment for a while. DBaK (talk) 16:13, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ... just remember that the quoted line is by someone much wiser than I am, - it's in my edit notice, did you see? - Now they play the Bossi Concerto. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:20, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

L'ange de Nisida
Would you like to draft and place an infobox on L'ange de Nisida? I don't really like the stacked images there now. I'd rather remove the template (which survived deletion) and use the current lead image for an infobox. -- Laser brain  (talk)  16:44, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure, and just change what you don't like. One of the arb candidates found the 2016 version, that may be a start. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:46, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I left the parameters "based_on" and those for the premiere open, - usually we list only staged performances, and 2018 might be confusing anyway. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:57, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I like it! Thank you. -- Laser brain  (talk)  17:36, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * You made my year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:10, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * in the context of the earlier

Infobox rules?
Hi, Gerda. Sorry if this is a sore point, and if it is I won't ask again, but for some reason I got the impression you might know where the rules regarding adding and removing infoboxes to articles are formally written down. I had the impression they were something like "if there has been an infobox in an article for a while, it stays", but I can't find that, and may be getting that confused with the rules on national varieties of English. Could you point me to the rules or arbcom decision or RfC or whatever? --GRuban (talk) 13:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, rules don't exist. My approach for the last 5 years has been: I add infoboxes to articles I write or improve myself, and leave others as they are. It has done miracles for my health, - just returned from medical check happily. Recently, prompted by operatic side navboxes up for deletion, I have added opera infoboxes again. In 2013, arbitration only said that it needs discussion on each individual article's talk, which I try to avoid as a massive waste of time, and not promoting kindness. The 2013 rulings are on my 2013 talk, amended a few times, - I was absolved in 2015.
 * I have my private, - about good faith and "have a laugh", and occasionally I need to look at that myself. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * see also: (but I'm not) + Templates for discussion/Log/2020 November 16 and its review --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Magnificat (Penderecki)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 8 December 2020 (UTC)


 * nice on a Marian feast, and in honour of Penderecki who died this year, a friend who celebrates 60 years as a priest today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:09, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Marjon Lambriks
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

... rescued from deletion in collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:27, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * blushing deeply - thank you for the colours of the rainbow and the spirit your words carry. Look above: I try to reach those who are frustrated enough to leave, and am happy for everyone who doesn't leave this ship ;) - you made my day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:25, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I can add an Amen to that. Gerda is the standard we all hope to measure up to someday. Jenhawk777 (talk) 00:04, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

More of those adoring thank yous.

 * Jen, I'm blushing deeply. - Did you know that I made the redirect He was despised? ... and hear Andreas Scholl sing the aria
 * he was - - despised, - despised and rejected. (... and didn't only think of Isaiah's Servant, but some here - and too many no longer here - whose friend I am)? Tell all in need: take courage. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Leonard Bernstein Discusses Humor in Music and Conducts Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
I started preparing articles on albums that won the Grammy for Spoken Word and came across Leonard Bernstein Discusses Humor in Music and Conducts Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. I found Bernstein's lecture quite interesting and took a stab at starting an article. Sony has released the lecture to YouTube here. I thought you might enjoy and perhaps consider collaborating to develop the article? Cbl62 (talk) 08:26, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, - busy right now - Beethoven's birthday tomorrow - but will look! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:35, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for List of monuments to Ludwig van Beethoven
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Gustav Classens
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Christian Schreiber (philosopher)
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Johannes Chum
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Beethoven - happy 250th birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:36, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

The celebration of Beethovens birthday on the main page is fantastic, Gerda. Grimes2 (talk) 09:14, 16 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for noticing, - not that I care about the rank, but it's a nice coincidence with what I thik was my best DYK effort in 2020. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:54, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

A bit much?
Don't you think that posting the same message to the pages of 32 different editors is a bit ... promotional? --Guy Macon (talk) 18:39, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I promote music, and especially above the Ode of Joy. The message was expressing thanks for (estimated) more than half of the recipient. Check out responses, perhaps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:42, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congratulations! With 11,899 views, your Beethoven monuments hook is one of the most viewed hooks for the month of December. Accordingly, it has been included at DYKSTATS December. Keep up the great work! Cbl62 (talk) 19:57, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Cbl62, firstly, when I entered it to the stats I was told that it didn't even have enough views/hour to qualify, so this is a nice surprise. Secondly, I was only the one to have the idea, and the nominator, - all thanks and notification should go to Aza24. Thirdly, I'll move to the topic. - Good news! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:15, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * After some back-and-forth, the threshold for DYKSTATS was further tweaked, and Beethoven now makes the cut. Deservedly so. Cbl62 (talk) 21:20, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I like that! Did you see the whole bunch, Cbl62? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I did. Nice work. And I also left a congratulatory note for Aza24 per your note. Cbl62 (talk) 21:26, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Detlev Jöcker, too. Impressive! Cbl62 (talk) 21:10, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Zweig's The World of Yesterday - too much? (Gerda and Stalkers help request #1)
Dear Gerda and your legion of Talk Page watchers, Best to all, DBaK (talk) 22:02, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) I absolutely get it that everyone is very very busy. I am having one go at this issue but then shutting up shortly. Please do not worry for a nanosecond if you have no time to address this. It's not even worth discussing and no offence can or will be taken. Given all those preconditions, if you feel like it:
 * 2) Please have a look at Talk:The World of Yesterday, at the recent topic "Article issues".
 * 3) There you will see a worry from  that the article is a mess. Quite a big mess – you need to see what they wrote about it.
 * 4) I wouldn't really know how to go about fixing this, if indeed it needs fixed..
 * 5) I have a very mild COI which might perhaps keep me off addressing it too much anyway; more important, though, is my lack of competence to address this! ...clutching-head emoji...
 * 6) If it's not you (or you or you or you, stalkers), then do you know who is a good literature/German/overlength/whatever editor who might be interested or able to help?
 * 7) I would be most grateful if someone could please have a look, but the Thames is not on fire and no-one will die over this if it is unaddressed for the next 17 years. I just thought I should have one try at helping and then I am: "bye-bye".
 * See just above, I'll nominate the last bit for Christmas, and go to bed. Friends, please help! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:04, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Britten's Owen Wingrave - mention a version? (Gerda and Stalkers help request #2)
Dear Gerda and your legion of Talk Page watchers, hello again, Best to all, DBaK (talk) 22:14, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) I absolutely get it, still, that everyone is very very busy. I am having one go at this other issue but then shutting up. Please do not worry for a nanosecond if you have no time to address this. It's not even worth discussing and no offence can or will be taken. Given all those preconditions, if you feel like it:
 * 2) Please have a look at Talk:Owen Wingrave, at the recent topic "2020 Grange Park Opera lockdown(ish) version".
 * 3) There you will see a question from me about a new version (Grange Park Opera) and whether the article needs or wants it.
 * 4) Apart from my complete lack of editing competence I have a mild COI here which precludes me getting into this, other than offering the info then going stfu at myself. I say that you ought to have a look anyway, because (I think) it's jolly good but that's the whole point, innit?  – I'm standing too close to it to use even the limited judgment that I occasionally display. So, over to you, if you fancy a look, and if not, no worries.
 * 5) If it's not you (or you or you or you, stalkers), then do you know who is a good opera/music/Britten/whatever editor who might be interested or able to help?
 * 6) I would be most grateful if someone could please have a look, but the Thames is not on fire and no-one will die over this if it is unaddressed for the next 16.35 years. I just thought I should have one try at asking fellow editors about this and then I am: "bye-bye".

DYK for Robert Hammerstiel
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you, bright colours on the darkest day --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)
The article Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven) for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Aza24 -- Aza24 (talk) 07:20, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
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Hello there! Shearonink (talk) wishes you & yours the very best of the season!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia, here's to: hoping your holiday time is wonderful and - especially -

that the New Year 2021 will be an improvement upon the old of 2020. CHEERS!

(Sent: 04:07, 18 December 2020 (UTC))
 * Thank you for the inspiration, Shearonink, please watch here for my Christmas greeting, - I'm still in preparation, and celebrate Beethoven 250. Further greetings best with a level-3-header below. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:34, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Response
Thank you for greetings and wishes, - mine will grow here, - please keep watching into the New Year, I will not post individually. Just find out if it speaks to you, and watch for updates throuout 2021. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Kündet allen in der Not
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Vespro della Beata Vergine
Vespro della Beata Vergine is a featured article. The mentioning of Psalm numbers were changed from Wikipedia's numbering system (Hebrew) to Catholic, leading to piped links and unlinked numbers which I find misleading. ... I need sleep. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Waking up, a discussion of two users has been called a consensus which was enacted. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 19 December 2020 (UTC)


 * This is exactly what is making us all lose time... See ya next year. --Francis Schonken (talk) 22:00, 19 December 2020 (UTC)


 * You make me smile. I could so well imagine this whole thing not to have happened, and much more time not lost. ... Please leave me alone a bit more. Merry Christmas, or whatever you celebrate. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:07, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
 * nutshell: we can name the psalms this way and that way as long as it's established that both systems exist. A change of that style would need a broad consensus, not two users thinking it's better. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Böhm)
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I heard it on the First Sunday of Advent. Bühm set all eight stanzas, while current hymnals have only five. Today, same place: Bereitet die Wege. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays

 * That's a stunning image, - thank you for the good wishes, John! My reply ever-changing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:13, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

God Jul och Gott Nytt År!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks"> Gråbergs Gråa Sång is wishing you the season's greetings. Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus, or the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for (almost) everyone.


 * Thank you, and also to you, - My reply ever-changing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:51, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Buon Natale
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May you have very Happy Christmas, Gerda ...

and a safe New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music.

Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 16:58, 22 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Voce, how angelic! My reply ever-changing, with sweet music planned for 24 December, mysterious music for 25 December, and joyful music for 26 December. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

(Season's Greetings)

 * <font color="#006633"> Merry Christmas & Happy New Year


 * Frohe Weihnachten und
 * alles Gute zum neuen Jahr!
 * Wesołych Świąt i
 * Szczęśliwego nowego roku!
 * Linksmų Kalėdų ir
 * laimingų Naujųjų Metų!


 * – Sca (talk) 17:50, 22 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Sca, look above for reply. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:10, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Yo Ho Ho
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 Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!


 * Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:09, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Rudolf Steglich
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:01, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Thank you, - come here for my reply tomorrow please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:47, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

same:
 * MRRaja001 (talk) 09:09, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:25, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, both! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:50, 25 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Kingsif (talk) 10:45, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * scope_creep Talk 11:42, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, both, and merry Christmas! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:43, 25 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Hope you had a good Christmas in this dismal year and that you will have a happy and prosperous New Year. Donner60 (talk) 01:25, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Donner60, and also to you, - my card is here. Yes, it was good, and hope also for you! - forgot to sign


 * Jenhawk777 (talk) 04:22, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Jen, and which of my two cards do you like better, sounds of peace and joy or mystery and joy? Can you help with Psalm 71, planned for 1 January? See WT:QAI --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Thank you, Davey. My creativity will flow tomorrow, please look here then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:56, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
<div style="border-radius:1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75); float: left; margin-top: 3px; background-color: #FC9; border: 1px solid #8888aa; padding: 10px; width: 425px; clear: both;"> <div style="border-radius:1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75); border-style:solid; border-color:#4682B4; background-color:#900020; color:white; border-width:5px; text-align:left; vertical-align;top; padding:18px;" class="plainlinks"> "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,  I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version) HAL ]] 333  is wishing you a  Merry Christmas.


 * Thank you, and please be back tomorrow for a response. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:58, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

same:  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 20:21, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and also to you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:24, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

 * Thank you, and please come again tomorrow for the reply. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:47, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for St. Michael, Kaubenheim
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * One of User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2020, and only yesterday I learned of the good story how the image (not by me) came to be: that the grandfather of a friend's friend was pastor there, and the parents got married. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (theologian)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * That song - of bells ringing peace and joy throughout the world, sweet and holy sound - "Glocken mit heiligem Klang klingen die Erde entlang" - can be sung like kitsch, but I hear my grandfather's sonorous bass voice, - he was from Silesia. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

My card 1
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Did you know ...

... that St. Michael, a 17th-century chapel on a hill near Kaubenheim, Bavaria, which offers services in summer and for Christmas, received electricity around 1980? (story)

... that Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger wrote "Süßer die Glocken nie klingen", a popular 19th-century Christmas carol to the melody of an evening song, evoking the sound of bells as a symbol of peace and joy? (story)

(24 December 2020)

Your GA nomination of Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)
The article Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Aza24 -- Aza24 (talk) 01:41, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Aza24, that is a very welcome gift, part of our passion for Monteverdi and Beethoven. For good wishes, please look around. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

 * X
 * <font color="#006633">  Merry Christmas & Happy New Year


 * X
 * With as much love as you show to us all Gerda. Peace. Simon Adler (talk) 02:58, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Simon, you make me blush (again). For more reply see below and around, please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Slow as Christmas!!

 * Thank you, fairy, look on top and around, - I don't send cards, but make my musical "card" in steps, with two things on the Main page right now, and three to come. Sing for me, something to yourself. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
Frohe Weihnachten. Grimes2 (talk) 08:17, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, - you are just amazing! I declare you honorary member of teh cabal, for always being there to help, rescuing articles from deletion and tags, repairing (my) typos, negligence in copying and dab links, finding all this yourself, - Frohe Weihnachten! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:38, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
@ Have a blessed Christmas! Warm regards RAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 14:21, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, you too! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:53, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Thank you, and also to you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

 * Thank you, - perhaps I should change my plan for today, There is no rose. Merry Christmas! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:50, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
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 * Thank you, and Merry Christmas! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:50, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for O magnum mysterium (Lauridsen)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the 2020 Christmas bottom line. Merry Christmas! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:50, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Fröhliche Weihnachten!
I hope you like crystallised oranges.

Britten knew very well that all boys are show-offs.

The choral writing in "This Little Babe" is extraordinary. Narky Blert (talk) 04:23, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and I agree, - perhaps I should change my plan for today. Merry Christmas! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:50, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

 * Thank you, Netherzone, and Merry Christmas! for now, - that will by my signpost for the new year also. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:55, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Reinhold Johannes Buhl
Gerda, hope this Christmas day finds you well and healthy. Wanted to give you a heads up that I moved this article to draftspace. I didn't notify LouisAlain because I didn't want to cause you any angst. The issue is that with NPP becoming cleaned up, LouisAlain's articles are now at the end of the queue, but they can't be marked as reviewed in their current state. LouisAlain was informed that there were issues with the article almost a month ago, and has done nothing to improve it. It appears they are complacent with you cleaning up after them, and you appear to be okay with that. When I come across one of their articles at the beginning of the queue, if I can I mark it reviewed, but if I can't, I simply let it stay in the queue, hoping it will be improved. But when it gets to the end of the queue, action has to be taken. I hope you understand.  Onel 5969  <i style="color:blue">TT me</i> 13:22, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll think about it next year, being more than "booked" for this one. I don't follow LouisAlain's productions around, just look at what I see per my watch list. I missed this one. Grimes2, any chance? On Christmas, which means tomorrow as well in Germany, I do only fun work if any, same on Sunday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Natalis soli invicto!

 * Thank you, Ealdgyth, and Merry Christmas! for now, - that will by my signpost for the new year also, in cased of interest. The top pic was taken by a friend in response to a request for my birthday, and I think the bright toy colours serve us well these day. There's also a (linked) story. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:55, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
-- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:05, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, for a thoughtful message, and Merry Christmas!, - we celebrate 2 days, and in Bach's Leipzig, it was 3 days, so cantata tomorrow! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:49, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Erfreue dich, Himmel, erfreue dich, Erde
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:01, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Psalm 148
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

My card 2
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Did you know ...

... that Psalm 148, calling heaven and earth to be glad, inspired the 17th-century Christmas carol "Erfreue dich, Himmel, erfreue dich, Erde", which Maria Luise Thurmair expanded with more details from the psalm in 1963?

(26 December 2020)

... that O magnum mysterium, a motet for double choir by Morten Lauridsen, is a setting of a medieval Latin text for Christmas to music described as "ethereal sounds in imperturbable calmness"?

Happy New Year!

 * BoringHistoryGuy, thank you for the artful display of art and thought, and no, history is not boring ;) - Wishes for the new year are here, and for Christmas here, - take what you like! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:32, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Astronomically speaking.
Hallo Gerda,

You may have noticed I'm not much of a religious person (reason over imagination) so Christmas, Ramadan and Roch Hachana have no meaning to me. But since I believe in science over "nanny tales" (Ludwig Feuerbach), I have noticed that the new year has already begun. Please, let me sincerely wish the best to you (health being the primary concern) for this upcoming new turn of Earth around the Sun. And more specifically, a significant increase of the number of DYK you'll put out. I promise I'll keep up providing material that may be of some use to you in that respect. Your obedient servant. LouisAlain (talk) 16:59, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, LouisAlain! I look forward to more collaboration in 2021 whenever it begins, and take good wishes anytime. Just please check translations for "under (the baton)" and new music, which to avoid would make my days brighter ;) - I hope the pic for the imagination on top speaks to you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:07, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * If you don't protest I declare you an honorary of teh cabal. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:09, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays

 * Thank you, Ceoil, and thank you for much inspiration! My card is here, - matching colours ;) - Safe and well with some hikes in sun and some in snow. Planning to listen to BWV 28 with the matching title Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende (Thank God! that year is going to end now) - a comment from almost 300 years ago. Working on the article of the place, and the cantata should also be improved. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

A New Year With Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Peaceful Christmas and a very Happy New Year
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:red; background-color:gold; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks"> Warmest seasonal wishes to you and hoping 2021 is brighter.'''

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:58, 30 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Martin, you seem to have spent weeks on the making of this card. My latest Christmas card is on top, and New Year in the making below. Please come again! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:14, 30 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Gerda, thank you for appreciating and praising people! Really great. Have a good start for 2021. All the best, Horst-schlaemma (talk) 19:37, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you,Horst, and have a good new year 2021! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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

 MRRaja001 (talk) 11:06, 31 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you, and have a good new year 2021! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

same images:
 * Many thanks for your help and support over the last year. Best wishes, Amitchell125 (talk) 16:42, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Amitchell125, and have a good new year 2021! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:37, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

HNY
Ich konnte zum ersten Mal seit 40 Jahren nicht mehr zur Mitternachtsmesse gehen, aber ich wünsche Dir einen guten Rutsch 🙏 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:51, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Danke, talk, I just went to the thing mentioned on top, excellent spirits! I took pics, - perhaps keep watching, for a (hopefully good = peaceful) new year 2021!. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:37, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Fortunately I was able to  watch  the live streamed mass from  here although  of course it  came 7 hours late for me in Thailand. The choir was wonderful. Frohes neues Jahr! 😋 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:15, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year

 * thank you for the blue card, /Timothy. Mine - for a good new year - is here, and my collection here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:37, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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

Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌴Help out at CCI! 01:35, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

DYK for Black-on-black ware
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Gerda, thank you again for your help with this. It's rather thrilling to see the article linked on the main page! Blessings to you for a wonderful new year. Netherzone (talk) 00:11, 30 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Netherzone, it was a real pleasure, and easy even! - I remember the feeling of the first, 6 hours on the Main page back then. - I hope you saw my card, - for more images and outlook look here. - Let me know when the next DYK is ready, for nomination or for review of the nomination ;) - My third card is in preparation, see? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:29, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Gerda, I created another new article, Pueblo pottery on December 23, which may qualify to run in the DYK column in the future. I would have jumped on this sooner, but there is a lot of technical info in it, and I had to wait for some books on the subject to arrive which held me up from alerting you sooner. I think it is in good shape for nomination now. A good hook might be: Did you know.... Pueblo pottery has been made by made by indigenous Pueblo people and their antecedents, the Ancestral Puebloans and Mogollon cultures for almost two thousand years?
 * If you have the time, let me know what you think. And if it's too late for a nomination, I will soon create the article on the matriarch potter, Sara Fina Tafoya, who inspired seven generations of women (and men) potters of the Santa Clara Pueblo. Thanks for the inspiring cards and the best to you, Netherzone (talk) 15:16, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 23 is fine, last day today. I'll nominate for you as it's last minute, and you'll do the next, with my help, and one day sooner ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:53, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thank you! Yes I promise, I'll do the next, and sooner! Netherzone (talk) 15:59, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar
-Philippe (talk) 05:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Now you made me smile, Philippe ;) - Have a good new year 2021! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)