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The story is today about the first published composition by Arnold Schönberg which I was blessed to hear. Listen, and perhaps read what Alma Mahler (to-be-Mahler at the time, to be precise, who was present at the first performance) said, and yes that was too much for the Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:14, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021. It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:18, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Libuše Domanínská, the subject of yesterday's story, would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) - Overnight, Tamara Milashkina became GA and Lando Bartolini went to the Main page. I made my story about his almost unbelievable career, from Luigi in Il tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968 (with a nod to Liberty) up to Calaf in Turandot in Beijing in 1999 ;) - 4 July is also the birthday of Brian Boulton who was a pioneer of a concise infobox in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:08, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on the GA!! DanCherek (talk) 02:54, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! On a friend's birthday - she is pictured on my talk - I have another RD death article that needs reviewing, Martti Wallén. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:53, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). - In Bach's chorale cantata, BWV 107 will be next, perhaps good for a lilypond of the tune or the final chorale? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:01, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you point me at the specific part that should be transcribed, I can give it a shot. (I pulled it up on IMSLP but don't know where to look.) DanCherek (talk) 04:37, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to link to Dahn, but when I last posted the website was under maintenance. here - melody looks slightly embellished, for the triple metre's sake. - Today's story is about an outstanding violinist from Georgia, which is a sad story in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:49, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, just what I needed ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:31, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I remember today it today, in Bach's 1724 cantata for this Sunday which is unusual in many respects. Another woman needs attention for RD, Marina Kondratyeva. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

She's on the Main page now. My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 - about Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera by Mozart, while yesterday's was - because of the TFA - about Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach, - so 3 times Mozart again if you click on "music" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:46, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think one can ever have too much Mozart so looks great to me! DanCherek (talk) 22:43, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Draft OLYA K wa real , you have deleted it. Can you please fix that? Olyasongs (talk) 16:41, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The text on the page page was a copy of http://www.olyafans.com/ which is not allowed for copyright reasons. DanCherek (talk) 21:34, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How can I protect a page? Someone keeps vandalizing a page and I keep reverting their edits but they won't stop. --Trulyy (talk) 23:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Trulyy: You can request page protection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. DanCherek (talk) 23:33, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DanCherek Thank you, and at what point can I myself protect a page? Is it only for administrators? Trulyy (talk) 23:44, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, only administrators have the ability to protect pages (and delete pages and block accounts). DanCherek (talk) 23:47, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Someone deleted Gone With the Wind from there. Dsdias04 (talk) 14:51, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not vandalism, just someone who removed it based on their own opinion (not ideal either). That said, you probably want to look for stronger sourcing than a single opinion piece in the Washington Examiner for inclusion. DanCherek (talk) 18:30, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for help with the format for the proverbs quoted in Ndau and English in the Ndau dialect article. I had done the same for a Mongo language article this weekend, so I just went and changed those proverbs to follow the same style. I plan to add proverbs in this way for all the African language articles for which there are good bilingual proverb collections in the public domain or in books/articles available at Internet Archive, so your edits will help me with all those proverbs yet to come too. Much appreciated! Laurakgibbs (talk) 23:13, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Laurakgibbs: No problem, good luck with the edits! DanCherek (talk) 23:24, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The Resilient Barnstar
	For taking part in the dirtiest work I have ever given the community. Scorpions1325 (talk) 15:15, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Scorpions1325: Thanks! The revision deletion is the easy part, you're doing the hard work! DanCherek (talk) 15:38, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't spamming and if it seemed that way it wasn't meant to appear that way and it wasn't J. M. Barrie's Amazon bio I was using I was only trying to raise awareness of Peter Von Brown since he apparently is a renown scholar on the subject of James Matthew Barrie receiving Honors at Knox College for his Independent Study of Sir J.M. Barrie as a Modern Mythmaker and was privy to the actual unused notes left by J.M. Barrie himself, jotted down as Barrie mused upon a new adventure for Pan. Therefore he might be someone to at the vey least acknowledge in passing or he might not but what if there's some truth in his bio? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CSOOCS (talk • contribs) 21:41, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Even portions of your message here contain text copied from Barrie's Brown's bio, because I know you didn't write the phrase jotted down as Barrie mused upon a new adventure for Pan yourself. DanCherek (talk) 22:06, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did mean to write Brown's bio instead of Barrie's bio, though. DanCherek (talk) 22:09, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry but this wasn't spamming just requesting a note to raise awareness of the author if you take this as some sort of a personal attack against Wikipedia perhaps such a thing might be taken out of context. One shouldn't assume the worst, this was just an innocent suggestion not some act of maliciousness against Wikipeda — Preceding unsigned comment added by CSOOCS (talk • contribs) 22:18, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it was malicious, just misguided, and sorry if my wording was harsh. I've modified my original message on your talk page to say "posting", not "spamming". DanCherek (talk) 22:25, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator DanCherek this was only to make aware of the author, some of your Users feel he is not worth mentioning because he self-publishes but one shouldn't disregard him if he is somewhat established. This is precisely why I stepped back from editing on Wikipedia because it caused too many unnecessary conflicts with others who were consistently squabbling with one another over what was best for such and such articles on Wikipedia. I try to return to help out in contributing in some way or other and now it starts all over again. NOTHING'S MUCH CHANGED...it's only become MORE COMPLICATED with all these BRAND NEW RULES TO NOT VIOLATE. I'm sorry if I'm venting but you can't add anything nowadays to this site without someone finding some sort of fault in it — Preceding CSOOCS comment added by CSOOCS (talk • contribs) 22:41, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry if you feel like your contributions aren't valued at Wikipedia. They are important. When editors disagree about a part of an article, it's typically resolved through discussion on the talk page, so I'm glad you are giving your thoughts at Talk:List of works based on Peter Pan. My initial post on your talk page was simply a request after I noticed that you were copy/pasting a similar blurb about von Brown's credentials to multiple pages. It's best to keep discussion centralized at the talk page in question. I understand your frustration and hope you feel better. DanCherek (talk) 01:22, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]