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300 years ago, an unusual Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

... inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

Today you can listen to the 2010 premiere of a violin sonata with the composer also the pianist. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Mozart music for today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:53, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Look for Wind of Change in music, and for vacation in places. The story is about a unique Bach cantata that relates to a current DYK nom. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:36, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Hey Graham, just one left on Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge/37 and just looking a second set of eyes on this is case I missed something as my brain is still a bit murky recovering from a virus. The two deleted edits of the target article Beibarys Atyrau are just a redirect and bot fixing that redirect. To me it looks like the rest is a mix of parallel histories and any actual copying was the same author anyway, so we should just leave and clear? Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 20:39, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

@KylieTastic: Yes, I've done that. Even *I* wouldn't do the history merge there because of the parallel histories. And on the highly unlikely event that another similar bot report is made, that particular item won't be detected as a cut-and-paste move any more because of this undeletion by @Dreamy Jazz:, so there's no need to tag it with {{nahmc}}. Graham87 (talk) 23:38, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks KylieTastic (talk) 23:42, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Graham87 Do you know a place on Wikipedia where sombody can to proofread an article like this one User:Aemijork/Vanessa_Hafenbrädl

In Germany we got the "Wikipedia:Übersetzungswerkstatt" but it seems dead.

Thank you Aemijork (talk) 11:32, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

@Aemijork: Unfortunately there isn't a page for your particular situation. But on skimming the opening paragraph, I notice some duplicate text that I've removed. You could submit it the page to articles for creation, but that will take a while. However, if you have a close personal connection/conflict of interest relating to the artist, you should submit it using that route, because the conflict of interest guideline discourages direct article editing in that case. The article strikes me as a bit promotional in its current form, but is also fairly long which would dissuade people from working on it. If you need help moving the page to the article namespace, feel free to ask at the teahouse, a friendly space for new users. Graham87 (talk) 11:54, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Oh i see and thanks for the help. Danke Aemijork (talk) 11:59, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

My request at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#Special:Undelete/Talk:Jewish exodus from Arab lands appears to have gotten lost in the shuffle, so I dug a bit further in case there were extenuating circumstances relating to the deletion and found out that it was presumably acccidentally deleted as part of a mass deletion by @El C: in 2007 related to a bot that had gone haywire. With the assistance of GPT 5.2 (and a few false starts in which I figured out exactly what I wanted to know),I made this database query, which came up with a few more pages that should be undeleted, as follows (I've manually filtered out a few where the deletions were unproblematic):

• Special:Undelete/Talk:Jewish exodus from Arab lands, as discussed above, the page with by far the highest number of revisions affected here
• Special:Undelete/Talk:Jerusalem artichoke, appears to have contained a bit of early discussion.
• Special:Undelete/Talk:Imad Fares, appears to have just contained maintenance templates per this deletion log entry. I would undelete it if I could but I'd understand that other people wouldn't and I don't think an undeletion would be essential here.
• Special:Undelete/Talk:Institute for Middle East Understanding, was earlier deleted as an orphaned page but the corresponding article was restored. I'd definitely restore the older edits if they contained text, otherwise, like the previous entry, meh.
• Special:Undelete/Talk:Cave of Adullam: seems to have contained a short but productive comment from 2004 that should be restored.

Anyone who sees this, feel free to do the relevant undeletions. I'll also write a message on the deleting admin's talk page and on the requests for undeletion page. Thanks. Graham87 (talk) 11:32, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

For those curious about the automated deletion summaries linked above, see this 2008 discussion. Graham87 (talk) 12:20, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Done, undeleted all. Turned out the Institute for Middle East Understanding had some (fairly trivial) extra content in addition to the maintenance templates. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:42, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

It looks like the three edits you imported there more properly belong in the history of Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:52, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

@Pppery: Yeah I thought of that ... but the gap in history would be quite large (too much for me) in that case). The history at "help desk" is all continuous ... but one of us can move the edits if we want. Graham87 (talk) 03:12, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

The gap can be partially filled with the history from "Wikipedia help desk" in the August 2001 DB dump. And I'd rather keep the two bits of the history together, even with a known gap, then pretend the gap doesn't exist by scattering them to two completely separate pages. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:26, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

@Pppery: Fair enough, I'll import/move the edits. This comment will be a permalink that I'll link to in the import summary. Graham87 (talk) 03:35, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I've just been watching BBC News - there was a story about a boy called Austin Appelbee, who swam 4 km to get help for his mother, brother and sister, who were adrift off Quindalup beach and heading out into Geographe Bay. I think that's your local area? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:40, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Yes, very close ... he was hospitalised at Busselton Health Campus. An amazing feat ... wow, didn't know that story made it to the BBC too! Graham87 (talk) 04:26, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

and now I've seen it on CNN! charlotte ^👸♥ 20:46, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@Queen of Hearts: Wow! This link worked for me. Graham87 (talk) 00:21, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

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From vacation, so missed some interesting stories, such as about Jubilant Sykes. Today about Richie Beirach, jazz pianist. Which of his music samples would you have chosen? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Tamás Vásáry today, who began his career with a Mozart concerto at age 8. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:12, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Giants today, RD Helmuth Rilling and OTD Friedrich Cerha 100. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Today something new: a 100th birthday of someone alive, György Kurtág! In 2004 I was there when he and his wife played for the Rheingau Musik Festival where he was the featured composer. They played as the 2019 DYK said, on an upright piano, - listen, the last piece was the same. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Awwww, I remember them!. Graham87 (talk) 00:47, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

I was too tired to remember that you would remember and gave everybody the same info ;) - Today will be Percy Grainger, with the only video he played. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:37, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Today's main page features four biographies I helped to bring there, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, - a record for me, I believe ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:45, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Hey, Graham87. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:03, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Happy 21st, congratulations and well done. Oronsay (talk) 01:52, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For your meaningful edits and articles written, I hereby award you, on the 20th of February 2026, 11:41 AM local Jakarta time (my local timezone), the Writer's Barnstar! Keep up the great work! Jeremy1231233 (talk) 04:42, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

@Jeremy1231233: Thanks! Graham87 (talk) 04:43, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Perseverance
	Being completely blind yet being able to create and edit meaningfully? You're a great space to the Wikipedia community, despite your physical limitation. I hereby award you the Barnstar of Perseverance, 11:50, local Jakarta time. Jeremy1231233 (talk) 04:50, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

@Jeremy1231233: Thanks again! Graham87 (talk) 06:52, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 26 § Categories:Single-article songs by artist on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ZNático (talk) 17:36, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Please undelete Talk:Vegetable on wheiels!, a remnant of page move vandalism by Willie on Wheiels, so I can history-merge it with Talk:Vegetable (or feel free to do the history merge yourself). The history may be trivial (what was in the only non-blank revision may well have been nonsense), but I actually feel fairly strongly that this history should be restored because the only reason it's deleted is because of the page move vandalism; it simply wasn't moved back when Vegetable on wheiels! was. I'll tag the talk page for speedy deletion if necessary. "Talk:Vegetable" is the only page listed as "created" by this vandal. I'm putting this one here and not Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion because it's so odd that I think it's worth noting here (and more people here might be amused by it). Slightly related is this old vandalism or whatever it was that I just uncovered. I discovered both of these cases because User:Roqvicpois/Vegetable Proteins is in today's batch of bot-tagged U6 candidates in review. Graham87 (talk) 14:52, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done (although yes, the first revision was nonsense). charlotte ^👸♥ 15:58, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

@Queen of Hearts: Thanks. Oh wow; that first revision was a stock bad Internet joke about the infamous Terri Schiavo case and her being a vegetable (as she had been in a vegetative state for some time), posted less than a week before her death. Graham87 (talk) 16:07, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

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Aribert Reimann's 90th birthday, with a hook mentioning his 80ths, the opera played by Oper Frankfurt after he died, listen to video, and I was there. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:04, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Sorry about this. I was looking at your editing history to prepare for adding credit for WP:RIP to The Signpost, and my finger slipped on the "rollback" link. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:23, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

@Bri: No worries; these things happen. Graham87 (talk) 02:29, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

I assume you did not just clear 400? KylieTastic (talk) 13:51, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

@KylieTastic: Ta for the note. Nope, only one on that page. Graham87 (talk) 13:56, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

May you please merge the history of User:2024 Lakeview-Russell Points tornado and User:GrenadinesDes/sandbox? Made a terrible mistake of moving the former one and I'm hoping you're able to combine the histories back together. GrenadinesDes (talk) 20:44, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Done. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:19, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

@Pppery thank you GrenadinesDes (talk) 21:24, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Indeed, thanks, @Pppery:. I've just got up now. Graham87 (talk) 02:28, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

The institutional memory is appreciated! My intent seems in line with the RfC though. The documentation said we don't use that method, but doesn't imply we shouldn't. For context, I went down this rabbit hole because a potentially troublesome user had made their user talk history hard to parse by move-archiving. Perhaps I phrased it sub-optimally? Vanamonde93 (talk) 04:15, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@Vanamonde93: No worries. Nah I think it's fine. For talk page watchers, this refers to my edit summary here; it brought back memories of the proponent of the page move method mentioned in that summary. Graham87 (talk) 04:20, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Enforcing this is another matter of course, but perhaps it will discourage those who may not otherwise know better. Vanamonde93 (talk) 04:44, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@Vanamonde93: Heh, that text addition was just referenced by @PrimeHunter: at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Searching edits to a given page name?. Quite prescient, but it seems more relevant to mention that here rather than over there. Graham87 (talk) 04:44, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I think the difficulty of searching a difficult user's talk history is a recurring problem. I considered proposing an outright ban at VPP - but recent discussions about user talk management have gone poorly, with a lot of concern about rule creep. So it did not feel worth the trouble. Vanamonde93 (talk) 05:48, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

		The Signpost Barnstar
		For helping to write an insightful and solemn obituary (vol. 22 issue 4).

☆ Bri (talk) 04:51, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@Bri: Thanks very much! Graham87 (talk) 04:54, 10 March 2026 (UTC)