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... for your comment on Verdi. I didn't know that list, and found it funny, surprised to find Charlie Chaplin on it and Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ;) - I was similarly surprised that Verdi isn't among the top 200 (but Wagner is). Thank you for the fun. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:19, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- No problem. I think Verdi isn't on there because his talk page doesn't have the WikiProject Composers tag, his page views would put him around number 60 (alongside Erik Satie, who has an infobox). Shogeneral (talk) 23:05, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- Give him one? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:15, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- Done Shogeneral (talk) 23:47, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- Give him one? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:15, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
My view at Tamás Vásáry, with composers mentioned Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Árpád Szendy, Ernő Dohnányi, Zoltán Kodály, Bach, Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, James MacMillan, Verdi, Gluck, Brahms. - 2 have no infobox. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- Yeah, a majority of composers seem to have infoboxes now. It's only a matter of time until almost all composers have infoboxes, whether through revision of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Composers#Biographical_infoboxes or through RfCs Shogeneral (talk) 23:07, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- I think that RfCs are a waste of time. Did you read Mozart's? What would be different for Verdi? - It would be enough that four users would change their minds. Telling them that their view is silly is possibly not the most promising approach ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:13, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- I agree that they're a waste of time for most articles (e.g. a Verdi ib can be added without one), but I don't know if a consensus to add infoboxes on featured articles like Debussy can be established without one. I've read the previous Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov RfCs Shogeneral (talk) 00:40, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
- You will have seen that I didn't participate in those two, - I leave them to the preference of their writers (who don't like being called "owners"). Verdi, however, is written by a bunch of authors, and he was predominantly an opera composer. Project opera has removed the aversion against infoboxes (which goes against the MoS, regarding POB and POD) in 2019. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:53, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
- I agree that they're a waste of time for most articles (e.g. a Verdi ib can be added without one), but I don't know if a consensus to add infoboxes on featured articles like Debussy can be established without one. I've read the previous Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov RfCs Shogeneral (talk) 00:40, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
- I think that RfCs are a waste of time. Did you read Mozart's? What would be different for Verdi? - It would be enough that four users would change their minds. Telling them that their view is silly is possibly not the most promising approach ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:13, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
Thank you for Verdi! Perhaps take a look at Cosima Wagner. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:31, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
- Will do, I'll see if I can find a photo or better painting that can be used for the image as well. Shogeneral (talk) 18:30, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you! Rossini's Petite messe solennelle (which is not petite) premiered on this day, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:29, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
- Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page, I'm most proud of a woman's work, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 16 March 2026 (UTC)