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I'm glad you got to see that opera Gerda Arendt. Operavision began showing Vivaldi's Catone in Utica from the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara today. I'll be seeing it sometime this weekend. I have to beg your forgiveness as that never ending discussion is one of the reasons I've stepped away from full time editing. I hope you have a nice weekend. MarnetteD|Talk18:25, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
You are the second to tell me the problem is a certain discussion. No, I see a deeper problem when a group of editors is likened to an army, in whatever context (and being German, Wehrmacht hits me as particularly provocative, and being for Ukraine, the statement it could as well be Russian tops that ...). A personal attack is bad, but an attack at a group - I am speechless. This group is normally just called the community. Your edits were not removed, so I hoped you might be able to translate my speechlessness into diplomatic civil talk. - I looked at the soprano's article, and it's worse than I thought. I began a bit of clean-up, help welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:44, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks - the Mozart RfC (with the non-neutral invitation to fight) was closed, and went rather peacefully - what can we learn from it? - I saw today that Brian Boulton added an infobox to Imogen Holst in 2014, edit summary "risk" - should it still be a risk in 2023 to follow his example, towards a compromise? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:25, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
Allmovie has gone crazy, Allmovie has been listing some films in a very weird way, now it considers The Godfather a Thriller and Heat an adventure film. Firefoxhd (talk) 19:00, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
My story today is about the Alchymic Quartet, - I went away from DYK but it's the last one from last year. - The songs are about vacation, continued. - I heard 3 fabulous opera singers yesterday, - one of them has an article of 1 sentence, since 2008 ... - I had heard and worked on the other 2 before, expanded one and created the other. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
I mostly agree with you here. My plan was to finish checking my watchlist, which after 3 days is so long that it's nerve-wracking, and then to address that problem by removing many of the unnecessary links that had been removed correctly in the other user's mass removal. Would you mind terribly if I reverted you, promising to do at once what it was my intention to do, now that my watchlist is at ease? That would be 100 times easier that searching the whole article. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 20:03, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Reverting is not the way to follow the policy and guidelines SergeWoodzing. Please add the links when you have the time - there is no hurry in doing that. Since there is no way to when you will have the time to get to it the article is better off without the overlinks. Thanks for your work over the years here at WikiP. MarnetteD|Talk23:10, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
more pleasant music (heard today!) if you click on songs - did you know a string quartet with two cellos (and no article yet in English? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:48, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, I will watch out for her. Lieselotte Fink, our soloist, moved me to tears when she sang the Et incarnatus est in the Misatango, and I stood next to her mother in choir. She was a baby on her mother's lap when we rehearsed St Matthew Passion the first time. Last week, I felt I had to take care of the articles of two mezzos who died, - can you help with Soňa Červená? The reviewer was not happy but didn't explain why. She received an award for best actress when well over 80, - what a life! - Now on the Main page: Günter Wewel, one of the first basses I saw on stage. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:13, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Last weekend was nice, class reunion a funny number of years after completing school, and the lovely park where I spent many Sundays as a child. Today's story is quite dramatic, there's a yt trailer to the hook. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:04, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
My story today pictures a friend whose birthday is today ;) - we listened to music she helped publishing - at a fancy place (which looked different when Bach played there). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:00, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
(Finally: June pictures updated, with three great RMF concerts!) She played for us at her party (Saturday), on four instruments including baryton, with family members (granddaughters!) and colleagues, from Renaissance to Haydn. - My story today is very personal: the DYK appeared on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, and describes a concert I sang. I was requested to translate the bio into German for a memorial concert ... - see background, and we talked about life and death. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:44, 12 July 2023 (UTC)