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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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

... 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)

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)

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)

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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)

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)

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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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

thank you for ITN work, with spring flowers and a song bird (in places) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:38, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome, but to be honest, I haven't been doing much these days... -- PFHLai (talk) 13:05, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

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Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! - We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:08, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

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Two (!) bios for recent deaths wait for attention on WP:ITNN. The woman seems more important, if there' attention for only one of them ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Looks like Black Kite has taken care of the RDs already. --PFHLai (talk) 13:12, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, that was a relief! - Tout est lumière. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:31, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

My story is about music that Bach and Picander gave the world 300 years (and 19 days) ago, - listen (on the conductor's birthday) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:55, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. - Also finally, I managed a FAC, Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to join a discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:03, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Waltraut Haas - I had time for her only today, check ITNN --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:27, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Haas reached MainPage a few hours ago, thanks to Spencer. --PFHLai (talk) 21:15, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

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Since I saw you visibly had the role of uploading recent deaths proposed, do you think you could have soon my now fully approved proposal of Kim Shin-Jo, one of the two survivors of the Blue House Raids important in South Korean history, uploaded before it is too late? I worked hard on upgrading this page to be fit for nomination, I'd love it being even for a single day up on the big page. 70.52.61.63 (talk) 02:20, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I was offline and away. Another admin has taken care of the RD nom already. -- PFHLai (talk) 02:43, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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Nothing new: another RD article on his last day on WP:ITNN. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:15, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for not being available. It looks like Schwede66 took care of the RD nom yesterday. -- PFHLai (talk) 08:08, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

yes, and never a problem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:24, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

recommended reading today: Christfried Schmidt, a story about patience. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Margot Friedländer, May Abrahamse (with uncertain licensing of portrait), and Vakhtang Machavariani (nominated and marked ready) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Osipenko: more lead perhaps tomorrow, but the next two are waiting ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:37, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

No rush. This RD nom is not expiring yet. --PFHLai (talk) 13:40, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

... and appeared - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, born 100 years ago, described by Alan Blyth --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

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Stravinsky pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics - but too many who died -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:51, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

too many died, see my story and listen to Comfort ye (sung in German) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusually a great writer of novels, music with light and a place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

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Today is Bastille Day, commemorated by a DYK as my "story" and a visit to the Bastille Opera in "music". I like the interview coming with the story, on the day before the big event, but for pomp and circumstance, the affair with 600 singing children and orchestra, and the singer dressed in the national flag, was also captured on videos, much slower. - I am not happy with changes for Helena Tattermuschová, beginning with the introduction of ref Operawire, which is practically our article as it was when she died, and then a slow edit war with a new user about the wording of the death sentence, as explained on Talk:Helena Tattermuschová. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

If there is another English source that can be used there, please feel free to replace the OperaWire footnote. --PFHLai (talk) 23:35, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

I didn't find one. I just see a problem with a so-called ref, that not only quotes from "us" but from an earlier inferior state of the same article. - Thank you for reverting the sentence in question. Two more questions as follow-up. I explained WP:BRD to the "new" user (who knows "rvv"), but they deleted it from their talk (like everything else). I encounter that red-link user name wherever I go, now Michieletto, just entered on my user page today, and it becomes a synonym for slow edit warring over small things. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Again: a musician at the end of the RD line, Raymond Guiot. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:50, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Spencer took care of Guiot about 12 hours ago. --PFHLai (talk) 12:30, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it was nice to wake up to that! - Thank you for trying kindly with the "new" user who deleted every question and warning from their talk. I wonder if we should retrieve all these threads and show them on the talk, to show an admin tempted to unblock what was going on. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:17, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome, Gerda. Not sure if I was helping. Oh, well... --PFHLai (talk) 02:54, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

You were helping! I wasn't understood, John wasn't, Floq wasn't but your post remained. Perhaps you can talk to them about their unblock request which would serve as a good example for "digging a bigger hole". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 03:32, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

Three of "my" recent deaths bios are on the main page right now, one my story today, Gary Karr, and I loved to find his breakthrough concert in 1962 as a video. In my music today I match it with 9 other double bassists, 7 conducted by a person who's birthday is today - coincidence ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:47, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

On Bach's day of (not so recent) death, I decorated my user pages in memory, with his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

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Today's story - short version: ten years ago we had a DYK about a soprano who sang in concerts with me in the choir, - longer: I found today a youtube of an aria she sang with us then, recorded the same year, - if you still have time: our performances were the weekend before the Iraq war ultimatum, and we sang Dona nobis pacem (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:04, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, late again: I added Aino Pervik to ITNN today, on the last day, - please check --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Curbon7 took care of this nom a few hours ago. --PFHLai (talk) 01:45, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

And you took care of the next one, thank you! - Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading in today's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:24, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

On top of my talk: birthday of a great violinist and Requiem for a great friend. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:13, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

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My story today is about a composer and his ballerina wife, pictured as I saw them in 2009. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:10, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Lourdes Ambriz - last day again --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:31, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Curbon7 took care of this nom a couple of hours ago. --PFHLai (talk) 00:00, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Curbon7 then wet on to post two more of "mine" ;) - great help! - I enjoy a DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:51, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:08, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

My 100th biography to the Main page in 2025 is Siegmund Nimsgern. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:22, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

100th! A nice way to celebrate the equinox today. :-) Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 17:40, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

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My story today is about a woman and her husband who played Bach's Sonatina for us (Rheingau Musik Festival, long ago) on an upright piano, and it made me cry, and I still remember. - ITNN, last day again: Dieter Kaufmann. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Amakuru has taken care of the Kaufmann RD nom already. --PFHLai (talk) 22:20, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Amakuru performed three miracles that day! - Carl Nielsen (FA by four colleagues, not me) is remembered on the main page! My story on the Germany National holiday is a song calling to trust the new ways, written shortly before the events leading to reunification. I saw a lovely Mozart opera production yesterday, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:18, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

A good story for a Sunday: Martin Neary conducting Purcell. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Happy birthday, Margaret Medlyn! (I found the article - not by me - when searching for someone whose birthday is today.) - I took a cat pic, presented by Rosiestep today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:58, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Happy 50th birthday, Alain Altinoglu!) - I let the video begin with a closeup of the octobass ;) Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:02, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

I am proud to have brought two performing women to the main page. Sadly, death kept both from performing more, one sooner, the other much later. If you have little time just listen to the one who died young and see if it touches you (in today's story, - I don't want to sprinkle youtube links outside my user pages). Latest pics from a day to the opera in Frankfurt, and afterwards (because train service is only once an hour) a lovely stroll along the Main river with illumination and the moon reflected. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:34, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I am sad that I had to bring two more people there, and thank you for the promotions. At least the video in my story is cute, made for children. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:57, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome, Gerda. Thank you for getting the wikibios ready for use on MainPage. --PFHLai (talk) 04:16, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! - My latest: Roberta Alexander, - listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:15, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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• See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

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• It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
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• Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
• The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

• How to use Special:IPContributions
• How automatic IP reveal works
• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

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Today I remember a singer who impressed me on stage, - thank you for November promotions to RD! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome, Gerda. Thank you for getting wikiarticles ready for their appearance on MainPage. --PFHLai (talk) 09:13, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Yesterday: Sister Stan, with a fine docu by RTÉ to watch. - Today Armand Avril reached the last day on ITNN. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:26, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Now Sister Stan and Armand Avril are both on the RD line on MainPage. --PFHLai (talk) 14:59, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Followed by four others, but Gisela Bock has her last day today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:41, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Bock's wikibio looks fine to me, but the RD nom has zero support votes. I've left a note on ITN Talk about it. Hopefully, other editors can give it a late support vote or two. I'll check again later today. Hope this helps. --PFHLai (talk) 00:15, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, you tried. - As you know I have three biographies on the main page today, but miss a fourth one, nominated a fifth, that means little time for other matters. My places now include La Scala, - see music, Verdi three times, and twice in my story! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:58, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome. Not sure why there have been no new votes at all. Oh, well... I'm sure you'll another one soon.--PFHLai (talk) 23:22, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I'm not counting but wanted this pioneering women's historian. I had put her article in the background to work on three others and then had forgotten that two facts came without a ref. My fault. - I said that I nominated a fifth ;) - it's a man, but still no review yet. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks to Grimes2 and Schwede66, Donald McIntyre is now on the RD line. --PFHLai (talk) 03:25, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for support in November! - On St. Cecilia's Day - patron saint of music - I remember a composition by Benjamin Britten, and have a woman on the main page who illustrated songs, with a sense of humour. My music features our latest choral Abendlob, with English music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

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I went to see the church in Paris where Guy Morançon worked, quite a place. - Happy birthday, Gabriel Dessauer - enjoy music he played, Dance Toccata. - Lorenz Weinrich has his last chance for ITNN. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:16, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Bagumba has just taken care of Weinrich. --PFHLai (talk) 20:22, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

relief, I just noticed --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Actually, it was Schwede66. But it doesn't really matter who. It's done. :-) --PFHLai (talk) 20:46, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Actually, I received credit from Bagumba (but Schwede66 may have done it, no time to investigate). More Morançon (who didn't make it, and didn't make OTD on his birthday either): listen to his Mendelssohn on a great instrument, illustrated with historic images. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:24, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

It was the first time that I was involved (a bit) in a pictured ITN blurb. More pics of buildings by him on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Laughter for Christmas - enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:43, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays to you, too, Gerda. Happy editing! --PFHLai (talk) 09:58, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Christmas was happy! - Again: an article on ITNN last day, pianist Justus Zeyen. Working on a Bach cantata for New Year's Day. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:00, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Spencer has taken care of Zeyen earlier today. --PFHLai (talk) 21:45, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
• Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). T382958

Miscellaneous

• The December 2025 administrator elections are scheduled from Nov 25 – Dec 15.
• An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

Merry Christmas, PFHLai! Wishing you Season's Greetings and a Happy Winter Solstice! As the year comes to a close, I want to express my appreciation for your dedicated efforts on Wikipedia and extend heartfelt thanks for your assistance throughout the years. May the holiday season bring you and your loved ones abundant joy, good health, and prosperity.

4meter4 (talk) 16:26, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays to you, too, @4meter4. Thank you for your wikicontributions over the years, particularly the nice ones for use on MainPage. Happy editing! Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 13:33, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!

Hello PFHLai, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2026. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 08:17, 25 December 2025 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 08:17, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays to you, too, @Abishe. May your new year be filled with joy and peace, too. Happy editing. --PFHLai (talk) 09:57, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

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Happy New Year to you, too, Volten001. All the best in 2026. Happy editing! Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 12:23, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

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• All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
• Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
• Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

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Thank you for diligent promoting to the RDs! - happy new year! - 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) 14:37, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you, too, Gerda. Thank you for getting so many wikibios ready for use on the RD line on MainPage. Happy editing! Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 01:33, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! - 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) 21:13, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Nice anniversary materials for MainPage! --PFHLai (talk) 20:16, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

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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) 22:58, 19 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) 16:16, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Nicely done, Gerda! Congrats! Thank you for getting so much wikimaterials ready for use on MainPage. Happy editing! Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 17:53, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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• Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
• A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.

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• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
• The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

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• Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
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on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:32, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

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• The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.

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Christian Schwarz-Schilling needs attention on WP:ITNN. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Amakuru took care of it, - enjoy flowers, story ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

👍🏻 --PFHLai (talk) 17:28, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Today's FA is Bridge, - a broad topic by many. My father loved bridges, and I wrote a few articles with that in mind (Empress Elisabeth Bridge, adding to Chain bridge and Müngsten Bridge, the latter for childhood memory), and also thinking of bridges between people. - I brought two bios to the same page, Christian Schwarz-Schilling and Bill Ramsey whose regular Swingtime I used to hear in the car driving to choir rehearsals. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:33, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Now I nominated Oleg Maisenberg last minute to WP:ITNN, explained why there. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Bagumba has taken care of this nom at ITN. No worries. --PFHLai (talk) 14:43, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Yes, thank you! - Today's story is about one of three bios I brought to today's main page: look and listen, an extraordinary woman in many respects. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:17, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:24, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

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• Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
• The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
• Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
• Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.

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• The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
• The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
• A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.