My Talk Archives • Archive 1 • Archive 2 • Archive 3 • Archive 4 • Archive 5 • Archive 6 • Archive 7 • Archive 8 • Archive 9 • Archive 10 • Archive 11 • Archive 12 • Archive 13 • Archive 14 • Archive 15 I am suffering from wikiburnout and chronic Wikistress. And real life is very much in the way these days. I probably won't be able to log in as frequently and contribute as much as I would like. Messages left here probably won't get a quick response as before. Your patience would be very much appreciated. Take care, everyone. Happy editing. -- PFHLai

Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:19, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A nice way to start the new year! --PFHLai (talk) 01:00, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I like it, - last similar time - and "Zeit" = time even in the title - was in 2019, Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a. I hope to add more premiere performances - not only Bach chorale cantatas - to OTD this year, but sadly it starts with three articles about people who recently died, so deserve attention right now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, my story today 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. Dada Masilo will be my story tomorrow. (Her presence on the Main page was short, as her life.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. Did you see that there was a RD article for me every day but Sunday? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your steady supply of quality materials for use on MainPage. --PFHLai (talk) 00:28, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the credit for Ayla Erduran, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Gerda. You earned it! --PFHLai (talk) 02:33, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:04, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:42, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have more vacation pics to offer, and today's story of Werner Bardenhewer. I took the pic, and it was my DYK on his 90th birthday, in both English and German. He spent the day in Africa, and after his return said - chatting after a mass of thanks he celebrated at Mariä Heimsuchung - that we'd have to talk about these articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:01, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

Thank you for the resource dpa-international, you have provided in the article Hans Dieter Beck. I know dpa, but this English resource is new to me. Grimes2 (talk) 10:50, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, Grimes2. dpa articles sometimes show up on the newsfeed on MSN and Yahoo. I wish their webpage has a search engine. But I know I should not complain about free resources. It's good to have their articles available as a news source. --PFHLai (talk) 14:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, learning. - I saw it for Horst Janson, another case of last-day RD nomination. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:09, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Amakuru, Janson reached RD on MainPage a few hours ago. --PFHLai (talk) 00:15, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

food pictured, and I have another article - marked ready - on WP:ITNN --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:30, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like Stephen has taken care of that RD nom. --PFHLai (talk) 12:58, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, he did! - Many more "places" if you like. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

today: a German-born Spanish art collector, - the video in her honour is remarkable, as what she gave the world. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:50, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I find today's birthday child particularly inspiring, by enthusiasm and determination. That was - believe it or not - a pictured DYK in 2021, without the last line though. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story is about Edith Mathis, who portrayed young women by Mozart. The video of a 1993 interview has videos of her performances. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:11, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I point at a composer today, as the main page does. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:22, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

• Arcticocean
• Wugapodes

Euryalus

CheckUser changes

• Firefly
• L235

Oversighter changes

• Firefly
• Guerillero
• L235
• Moneytrees

Technical news

• Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.