User talk:Graham87

May music

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Bach's cantata was performed 300 years ago, by occasion. The youtube is with Gerlinde Sämann, remember? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: you bet I do ... not just because of her blindness but also because of the tea rodent incident! :-)Graham87 (talk) 03:22, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

And on listening to the link, her aria was my favourite (not just because of her amazing singing, like all the singers in that performance), but also the oboe parts and the general feel of that movement ... sublime! And apparently, per the Youtube comments, she's reading the Braille music on stage during the performance. I think Braille music works best for singers because their hands are free to read while performing ... for just about every other instrument, we have to memorise everything! Speaking of which, yesterday I discovered an became obsessed with an absolutely lovely little piece that seems within my ability to play ... Grieg's "Arietta" from his Lyric Pieces! That piece along with Tchaikovsky's "Morning Prayer" from his Children's Album, inspired by the concert I attended two months ago, will be the next pieces I try once I have the bourrées from Bach's 1st English Suites under my fingers (they're getting there, but are trickier than I expected ... I'm not aiming to play them as fast as that recording though)! Graham87 (talk) 04:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

I often told others that tea rodent story ;) - Yes, she's reading Braille, and she is free to "look" at the conductor at the same time (which she does) while we can't. - Did you get from my talk that a friend sings (bass) in this? (Before the livestream started they had the choir sing Bach motets! - speech at minute 18, music 21, first a new a cappella piece, It's A Journey by Tania León, then Requiem 31) - Good plans for the piano! The French Suites are easier but the B-flat English one is just great! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:45, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Wow re everything. Nope, I didn't notice the link on your talk; sounds cool ... will check it out. Yes, a slight majority of the Bach suite movements I've learnt are from the French Suites (I actually got a hard-copy Braille version of all of them made for me from some digital files written in Braille ASCII ... because out of the sets of Bach suites, the French Suites have the most material that I can play). But I've been trying some movements from the English Suites that I really like that are within my technical ability (the prelude and bourrées from the 1st in A major, plus the allemande and sarabande from the 3rd one in G minor ... which I learnt about from some audio files on Commons that I added to Wikipedia in 2007), along with the prelude from the first Partita in B-flat (I studied the minuets from that partita as a kid as part of the Suzuki method, but was exempted from playing the gigue because of all the hand-crossing). Re the French Suites: so far I've learnt everything in the 1st French Suite in D minor except the courante and the gigue (the allemande is particularly delightful), the air from No. 2 in C minor, the allemande from No. 4 in E-flat major, and the gavotte from No. 5 in G major. Also, while we're on the subject of blindness and classical piano, I can't *hnot* mention Nobuyuki Tsujii, who is amazing! Graham87 (talk) 07:06, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Today's main page has again memories of three people who died, for two just the name and for the third an image (great!) coupled with a little bit from her life which seems too little for my taste. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:52, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

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

Margot Friedländer, May Abrahamse (with uncertain licensing of portrait), and Vakhtang Machavariani (nominated) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

listen to Machavariani's Mariupol --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: That story link you added went to the wrong place; I've fixed it on my end. Graham87 (talk) 15:52, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

thank you! - musings on 15 May --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:34, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

birthday of Erik Satie - can we get his article to GA for his centenary of death? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:56, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

all Verdi today: tenor Luigi Alva and the premiere OTD of his Requiem, see my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:58, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Jadwiga Rappé - lovely alto voice --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

A first: two stories about two people who worked together and died the same day --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:36, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, born 100 years ago, described by Alan Blyth --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:52, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Ascension Day today, time for a service at a small church nearby and meeting friends. 300 years ago Bach performed a cantata for the occasion, with a rich use of brass and winds, and to the libretto of a woman. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:53, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

reasons to look at Bach (and listen): it's a recent GA (not by me), he assumed the position of Thomaskantor OTD in 1723, he's up for PR, and several of his cantatas for GA, and his Easter Oratorio for FAC --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:33, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

another reason: the village organ he played, and we can still listen to its sound --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:17, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Wow, amazing that it's survived so well! I don't think that recording renders that instrument's sound particularly kindly though; maybe it's just me but I find it rather harsh to my ears (I've heard that organs are particularly difficult to record). This demonstration of that organ that I found by Kimberly Marshall sounds a lot nicer to me; even comparing that recording at 2:13 (where most/all of the stops are being used) to the opening of your link, I can tell quite a difference, but I don't exactly know how to explain it. Graham87 (talk) 08:10, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for exploring. I saw that other video also but it had too much talk for my taste, and the (fixed) camera shows the organ not quite straight, throughout ;) - an interesting cantata today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:31, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

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Talk:MG Cars

What was the point of replacing a 21-year-old comment that was removed by its author 19 years ago? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 19:33, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I was wondering that. WP:REDACTED permits people to remove their talk page posts if nobody else has responded. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:42, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

@Jpgordon and Redrose64: Fair point; my restoration of that comment was a bit outside general practice. As part of my general checks of almost every article I encounter on Wikipedia, I like to make sure that the initial comment on its talk page remains intact (if it was constructive), whether archived or otherwise. If the comment had only been on the page for a couple of weeks or so before its author removed it I would've let it go, but it was there for over a year and therefore associated with the page for a significant part of its history. WP:REDACT goes on to say: "... Once others have replied, or even if no one's replied but it's been more than a short while, if you wish to change or delete your comment, it is commonly best practice to indicate your changes." At the time of the deletion in question in April 2006, all I can find in the talk page guidelines about talk page comment removal is: "Avoid deleting comments on talk pages, particularly comments made by others". This isn't a situation I encounter very often, though I've done restorations in situations like this in the past. Sometimes I just like asking the oddest questions of page histories and therefore get the oddest answers ... Graham87 (talk) 04:47, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

It just seems kinda pointless. Kinda like whoever is fixing lint errors on talk pages of users blocked or departed years ago. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 05:35, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

@Jpgordon: There was MalnadachBot, which has since stopped editing. Some people still fix these errors but only the more serious ones I think. Graham87 (talk) 05:38, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Sort keys

A sort key (specifically "Mahler symphony 9" in a category list) isn't a matter of likely or "unlikely to be confused". Please learn what they do before removing them, thank you. ELSchissel (talk) 01:10, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

@ELSchissel: I know what sortkeys do ... I just didn't read the diff properly, and my edit summary was referring to the hatnote. Graham87 (talk) 05:17, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Fair enough. Has since been reverted, anycase. ELSchissel (talk) 08:35, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Cleisthenes

I may have very unhelpfully tried to "help" here...

Essentially, there are two "famous" Athenians by that name, and by far the more famous is Cleisthenes, the democratic reformer. Cleisthenes (son of Sibyrtius) was a very minor political figure mostly known for being the butt of the joke in a couple of comedies by Aristophanes.

Personally, I'd suggest that if Cleisthenes (Athenian) redirects anywhere, it should be to Cleisthenes with a hatnote (as it currently does after my edits), but I'm not convinced that having that redirect adds a whole lot of value over just Cleisthenes (disambiguation). UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 12:59, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

@UndercoverClassicist: Not a problem; I've adjusted Talk:Cleisthenes (Athenian) so it also redirects to the same place. At least all the edits to Cleisthenes (son of Sibyrtius) are in the right place now after my history merge. Graham87 (talk) 13:05, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

June music

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The image shows foxglove in abundance, each an upright stem with many purple flowers, but the many next to each other creating an almost abstract band of purple vs. the light green of the leaves below and the dark green of the forest above.

The places: a day full of great discoveries, culminating in Oliwa Cathedral which was called a must-see by Graham Waterhouse who played the organ once. (There are two, one with an extra set of pipes separately at an angle. Dinner right next to the Abbot's Palace, where Penderecki had also been a guest.

The story: Bazon Brock spoke at an exhibition at Kolumba to honour Anna and Bernhard Blume on her 80th birthday. [1] Did you know "An Anna Blume"? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

I have Easter Oratorio on the main page, but of course told the story, which is admittedly complex, on Easter Sunday for the music's 300th anniversary. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:40, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

sang today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:00, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Stravinsky pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics - but too many who died + I have a "defiant" cantata up for GA --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:52, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

too many died, see my story and listen to Comfort ye (sung in German) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:04, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Oh no, that's awful ... that Vladyslav Gorai died in Ukraine like that! Too young. Also RIP Alfred Brendel, my favourite Schubert player, bar none. Graham87 (talk) 14:14, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

yes - you could help upgrading his article, - too little Schubert and too little Liszt, - he was about the first to play Liszt like a serious composer --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:16, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

... and too little Haydn, - anyway, on the main page, and "look" at the autograph of Beethoven's last piano sonata (too hard to describe, very controlled writing) and listen to a pianist who wanted to serve the compositions most of all --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:28, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

I'll hear today's topic today, - you can listen before I do because it was streamed yesterday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:45, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Quick undeletion/speedy deletion needed

Could someone undelete the non-overlapping edits at Gianpiero Moretti? They need to be history-merged with the article, per the report at Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge/10 (permanent link). I also mentioned this in my speedy deletion rationale at Gianpiero Moretti/temp, which contains overlapping edits from 2006 that used to be at the "Gianpiero Moretti" page. Thanks! Graham87 (talk) 09:46, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

There are five deleted edits. In textual form, they are:

• 14:56, 15 June 2009 Donnie Park 31 bytes (Redirected page to Giampiero Moretti)
• 14:54, 15 June 2009 Donnie Park 28 bytes (Redirected page to Momo (company))
• 17:18, 21 June 2008 Cs-wolves 28 bytes (Undid revision 220800835 by Cs-wolves)
• 17:16, 21 June 2008 Cs-wolves 681 bytes
• 20:00, 10 May 2006 Matthead 28 bytes

Which ones are "the non-overlapping edits"? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:21, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Thanks for the list. I'd say the last two in your list (the second one representing the trivial cut-and-paste move) ... but yeah, that's not as many edits as I expected! Had I checked the deleted edits using database queries before writing this message, I probably wouldn't have added this request here. But having said that, if I were still an admin, I would've undeleted those two edits for the sake of completeness. I'm OK either way, honestly. Graham87 (talk) 03:10, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

OK,  Done undeleted two revisions. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:19, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

July music

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The image shows a dense group of many chamomile flowers contrasted by a single red poppy flower right of them, all seen from above. I admire the flowers for blooming although it looks dry. It's Kafka's birthday again, 12 years after the one with the Google doodle. It took a week to get the composer of the Mission: Impossible theme to the main page. The concert I listened to yesterday was remarkable, pic added to the performer. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:48, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Ah, the concert contained a piece by Eric Bogle, a fellow Aussie! I found the full program; I wasn't familiar with Bogle's song "All the Fine Young Men" listed there. I know and love his most well-known songs (listed in his article); there have been many moving recordings of them over the years. This recording of Green Fields of France", being the first one I heard, is one of the very few recordings that has made me melt several times. Graham87 (talk) 02:34, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

The full program (sung) is on Martin's talk. Piano music based on Bach, Debussy (from Children's Corner #4) and Chick Corea (from Children's songs #20 #7). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:04, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Check out my talk, - if you have little time, listen to Gilda Cruz-Romo in the final scene of Aida, If you have more read her article, and if you have still more check out my music, some sung with me in choir, some played by friends, all heard with friends. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:53, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Wow, that's a lot of music! You might remember me talking about a Bach in Busselton concert last year. Well by accident I just recently discovered that the Anglican church in the nearby town of Dunsborough has regularly put on classical concerts for some time now (quite a few of which I would love to have attended!), but I found out about it just in time to get to a concert featuring music by Schubert and another featuring Beethoven ... they should be great! Graham87 (talk) 03:45, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you: my music. A music teacher from my village played the Beethoven Cello Sonata and the Arpeggione Sonata in my living room. He died last year, and I knew it only afterwards. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:56, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Awwww wow. The full programs of my concerts are now available here and here. A good variety of nice music ... some familiar to me, some I'll be hearing for the first time. I was surprised about them only playing selected movements of the Schubert/Beethoven sonatas, but they only have so much time. (Edited to add later: I only realised after asking an AI version of myself to react to the concert programs what one of the pieces in the second concert is ... a punk song, the title track of the album Unknown Road by a punk band I've never heard of, Pennywise ... arranged for piano. That'll certainly be interesting and definitely adds to the variety!) Graham87 (talk) 12:30, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Hmmm, on looking further, maybe it's some or all of the solo piano version from their album Full Circle, found here? That makes so much more sense! Graham87 (talk) 13:21, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes. - Nicolai Gedda would have been 100 today. If you have little time, just listen to his flower song. If you have more read about Helena Tattermuschová, the cunning little vixen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: The first concert, the Schubert one that I was most looking forward to, was indeed sublime, full of expressive performances, especially that of the Impromptu in B-flat major, my favourite, with some very interesting articulation/phrasing that worked really well. Mum's favourite part was the excerpts of Schubert's 1st piano trio, because of how good the violinist was. In all, a great day out! Graham87 (talk) 09:43, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! - Today you can listen to what the DYK says. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:11, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: The second concert was good too. One of the highlights was the encore from the soprano and the main pianist, which I managed to track ddown: "Ah ! quel dîner je viens de faire !" from La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach, in the 1956/57 New York Metropolitan English translation. This version was the closest high-quality recording I could find that resembled my concert, though it has a full orchestra and the translation was different. The encore was very much appropriate because the main thing offered after both the concerts was wine, without any food; my mother and I didn't partake. Oh and re the punk rock solo piano piece he played the whole thing, all 14 minutes of it ... a bit much for us. Graham87 (talk) 09:54, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Interesting! - You may want to listen to yesterday's concert of all Brahms. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:24, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Unfortunately it's geoblocked here. "Dieses Programm ist in Ihrem Land nicht verfügbar", it says. I knew I wouldn't have time to listen to it tonight but wanted to see if I could another day. Late Brahms can be absolutely sublime, like the piece I heard at today's concert. I can find other recordings of the two Brahms pieces. I don't know the Double Concerto but I vaguely know the Symphony No. 4. In general I slightly prefer chamber to symphonic music at least partly because it's easier to keep track of in my head,, but there are always exceptions. Graham87 (talk) 14:49, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

I love "Gestillte Sehnsucht", actually played it (and the other for the scoring) with a hobby singer and a professional violist, for a few listener's at the singer's home, - longtime ago. I wrote that article. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:55, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:52, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

I remember a 2016 TFA in today's story, in memory of 16 July 1916. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:39, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

I well rememberour conversation about Reger's Requiem, but I don't think I realised it was a TFA back in 2016 for it's hundredth anniversary ... cool! So there's one more interesting concert soon where I live ... we're incredibly lucky to have the organist Felix Hell coming to Busselton next month! (I feel a bit better about linking to his article after my work on it, including a cleanup). I don't know what he'll play, but I imagine the program of his Sydney concert will be similar. Graham87 (talk) 04:25, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Sounds good! - I "caught" - in "places" - the great smile of a pianist who had just stepped in to play Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, successfully, - you mom may like it! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:16, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:07, 20 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) 19:02, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Wow, amazing ... I remember hearing a radio documentary about him some time back and talking about him with a bassist friend of mine (who counted Karr as one of her favourite bassists) ... I've let her know about his passing and sent her the video link. Graham87 (talk) 04:43, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, - my brother was also in admiration and heard him play once life, the Arpeggione! - Thanks for your visit on my talk! - Béatrice Uria-Monzon and her story, Julia Hagen and her no story --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:00, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:00, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Jahrhundertring remembered, with the picture of a woman who can't believe what she has to see --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:58, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

They're a Weird Mob Article

Hello Graham, how are you, first thank you for correcting the links for the article of film They're a Weird Mob (film), i understand and acknowledge the concept that the links are not relatable to the article. I actually mate primarily am writing to ask advice on a subject, i am constantly receiving criticism for adding links with some people saying that some links are personal research, but than you just go to sites that like this Margie Hines, that are information that are taken from public records or Genealogy sites etc., and i was wondering about this because doesn't that actually constitute personal research, that is not necessarily third party verified. like it is not written in a text. thank you of your assistance, kind regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.5.91 (talk) 08:10, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Gilbert and Sullivan Discography

Hi. I saw that you updated a link to the G&S Discography here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stanley_Kirkby&diff=prev&oldid=1302745612

• Is there a way to update all the links to pages at the Discography automatically, or semi-automatically? I know there are hundreds. -- Ssilvers (talk) 08:49, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

@Ssilvers: You can ask at Wikipedia:Link rot/URL change requests. If there's a defined pattern to the URL change (e.g. it's just a matter of changing the domain), that would be helpful to know there. I was considering asking about the domain myself at that page but didn't do so because the old links aren't Soft 404's so they should eventually be processed by InternetArchiveBot. But if you think it'd be beneficial to get them fixed on mass, then feel free to ask for that. I was at the Stanley Kirkby external links section because I was wondering why there weren't any recordings of his voice on Wikipedia ... and then realised that there might be copyright issues due to his date of death (I heard a few recordings of him on Youtube). Graham87 (talk) 09:03, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

"Import request: de:Anton Walder → User:1949kurt/Anton Walder"

Hallo Graham87, vielen Dank für dein Angebot! Könntest du bitte den Artikel de:Anton Walder in meinen Benutzerbereich (User:1949kurt/Anton Walder) importieren? Ich möchte ihn dort übersetzen und für die englische Wikipedia vorbereiten. Viele Grüße, — 1949kurt (Diskussion) 1949kurt (talk) 15:03, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

@1949kurt: I've imported the edits per your request to User:1949kurt/Anton Walder. I'm responding in English because my German is phrasebook-level only, at best. Graham87 (talk) 03:22, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

"Hello Graham87, thank you for your help—but how do I see the English translation? What do I still need to do myself?" 1949kurt (talk) 09:29, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

@1949kurt: You'd need to translate it yourself for that. See Help:Translation for guidance. If you are unable or unwilling to translate the article on your own, let me know and either mark the user page I just made for speedy deletion with {{db-author}} or I can help get it deleted. Graham87 (talk) 09:34, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Hallo Graham87 "I thank you for your willingness to help. I would be very glad if you could translate the article for me... Please help me get it deleted. Why is everything so complicated? Thanks. Kurt" 1949kurt (talk) 13:06, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

@1949kurt: I can't translate it because my German is nowhere near good enough for that; my grasp of the language is only barely useful enough for things such as ordering food at restaurants. I've tagged User:1949kurt/Anton Walder for speedy deletion for you. I'm sorry; I should have clarified that you understood what you were asking for before carrying out the import, as Wikipedia doesn't have a place for requesting translations. . Graham87 (talk) 13:35, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, bitte? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:00, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Dear Redrose64,

Thank you for your help, but I just can’t figure out how to get the Wikipedia entry about Anton Walder—which is only available in German—published in English as well. How complicated is something like that? Apologies if the translation isn’t entirely accurate, as DeepSeek is handling it.

Best regards,

Kurt49 1949kurt (talk) 12:50, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

I have marked the page User:1949kurt/Anton Walder for speedy deletion for you."*

"Sorry for bothering you again and again with my problem."

• "But what does 'marked User:1949kurt/Anton Walder for speedy deletion for you' mean? What do I need to do now?"

1949kurt (talk) 12:58, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

@1949kurt: You don't need to do anything; the page has been deleted. To mark the page for speedy deletion, I added {{db-g7}}, a piece of code known as a template that lets admins know that the page needs to be deleted. If you have any questions about Wikipedia, you can ask them at the teahouse, a friendly space for new users. Graham87 (talk) 13:04, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Lieber Herr Graham ich bin erstens überrascht sass ich mich mit ihnen über so eine weite Distanz unterhalte west Australien, zweitens dass sie blind sind, und drittens dass sie so hilfsbereit sind. (das kann man von den deutschsprachigen Mitarbeiter nicht behaupten).Liebe Grüße aus Österreich Tirol 1949kurt (talk) 13:15, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Dear Mr. Graham,

first, I’m surprised to be talking with you across such a vast distance—all the way to Western Australia! Second, that you are blind, and third, that you are so helpful. (Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the German-speaking contributors.)

Warm regards from Austria, Tyrol –

1949kurt (talk) 13:15, 31 July 2025 1949kurt (talk) 13:19, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

@1949kurt: Danke schön! (And thanks for the English translation; I'd used Google Translate to read your message in German before you sent it). On my European trip last year, I spent a lot of time in Germany, getting as close to you as Munich, but unfortunately I didn't quite make it down to Austria (though I would've loved to)! Graham87 (talk) 13:30, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

I am busy, so - sorry - too late for this. What did you mean by "Ich möchte ihn dort übersetzen ...", please? Kurt? I could perhaps help, but not anytime soon. Import into the English Wikipedia isn't even needed, just a note in an edit summary of the first edit where it comes from and a templated note on the article talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Indeed. Thanks, Gerda. Graham87 (talk) 14:57, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Dear Graham 87

Thank you for your help, but I just can’t figure out how to get the Wikipedia entry about Anton Walder—which is only available in German—published in English as well. How complicated is something like that? Apologies if the translation isn’t entirely accurate, as DeepSeek is handling it.

Best regards,

Kurt49 1949kurt (talk) 12:51, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

@1949kurt: Someone needs to write the translation. Wikipedia is a volunteer project, so this will happen if/when someone wants to translate the article. There is no functional place to request such a translation; it'll happen if/when it happens. Graham87 (talk) 13:31, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

First of all, thank you for pointing this out to me; I wasn’t aware of that. :-)
However, regarding your edit summary here, I’m curious as to why you believe the performance details are more appropriate in the Ode to Joy article. From my perspective, it seems relevant to include them in both articles: Symphony No. 9 is the original composition by Beethoven, while Ode to Joy is the choral theme within that symphony and also has its own section discussing its significance and adaptations.
I look forward to your thoughts.
Best regards,
Silas Nicolaisen^{(talk | contribs)} 19:03, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

@Silas Nicolaisen: I don't think it should be at the top, because the 9th symphony is much more than the "Ode to Joy" theme, especially a piano arrangement thereof. I can't find a section of the 9th symphony article that the audio file precisely belongs in, but I'd be inclined to leave the determination of what to do to regular editors of the article. I like the arrangement and performance though. (It appears to be on a digital piano but you play very expressively, so despite that it still works for me). Graham87 (talk) 03:49, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Many of your other audio files appear to be copyright violations per your Commons talk page ... what's up with that? Graham87 (talk) 03:59, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Silly heading about pronunciation

@Gerda Arendt:: Just thought you'd be amused to know that until now my American English speech synthesiser used by my screen reader badly mispronounced your name ... (a) with a hard j sound and (b) as if it rhymed with heard-a (or "murder", in a non-rhotic English accent ... i.e. one where the r at the end of a word like "murder" isn't pronounced). So basically like Jurda would be in English. Your message above finally motivated me to fix it ... I got it to pronounce it "ghairdah". I could've asked my screen reader to switch to German for your name but I generally don't like it when the voice changes mid-sentence. So I tell my screen reader to ignore language tags ... except I found them useful when reading an online German-learning book once, so I turned them on just for its website. Graham87 (talk) 15:22, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Unblock

Unblock my other accounts LangBuilds (talk) 21:23, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

LangBuilds: What other accounts? UrielAcosta (talk) 21:27, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Whatever. I've blocked LangBuilds as a sock; nearly all of their edits before this one were reinstating those made by a previously-blocked IP. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:32, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BusFan901. --Sable232 (talk) 21:32, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Pppery & Sable232: Thanks, I was of course thinking of BusFan when I asked what other accounts. UrielAcosta (talk) 21:35, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

@UrielAcosta, Pppery, and Sable232: This is a creatively named sock of EvilLangBuildsMc. Graham87 (talk) 03:17, 1 August 2025 (UTC)