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You mentioned rumors on the talk of singer who is alive. Biographies of living people deserve protection. If you have no better source for a rumor than a blog please remove it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:33, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gerda, you are wrong (or as John McLaughlin would say, WRAWNG!) Karl Ridderbusch is not a living person. He died in 1997. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 00:58, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. Are you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:19, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Karl Ridderbusch is not a LIVING person. He died in 1997. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 00:54, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I took an interest in the article on the Nome King and added additional sources and analysis. I could find, however, relatively few books of literary analysis about him. They largely define him as a symbol of capitalism, tyranny, and slavery.

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First, there is no policy that states anything of the sort. You are referring to the manual of style, which is a guideline. Secondly, the source request is not about the plot summaries, it's about the dates of the show. There has been plenty of confusion regarding the actual dates of airing for the series, and episodes airing out of order. There are no sources on the page for that. Thus, the tag is accurate and should not be removed until the dates can be reliably sourced.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 21:38, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding: if you check out the links here you may find more things to be added, - there's also List of compositions by Sigismond Thalberg where I was too lazy to link. Please add content and sources! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:16, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there. I saw your question on Michael's talk page. A word of advice, edit-warring works two ways, and if you're not careful, reporting your opponent to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring can end up with you blocked as well. It almost happened to me once. I've also weighed in on Talk:Don Giovanni and agree with your view. I'll revert him if he adds it again. Voceditenore (talk) 17:39, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 17:45, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You asked about uploading. Take it from here, - if you took the photo, it's easy and should be self-explanatory, and other things I never did myself ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Saw your note. Here is your answer, assuming Lam (who had joined Corey's group 10 days earlier) was indeed a suicide; although he's often reported as a suicide, I'm not sure the cause of his death was ever made public (see ref for green quote that follows). Be aware (cf. UNDUE, BLP etc.), despite the prominence of Altom's suicide, it's a problem far beyond any one lab or department: Corey is far from the only professor who had a reputation for being shall-we-say "difficult", and at least five students at Harvard (grad + undergrad) killed themselves in just one academic year: Altom's death marks the fifth suicide within the University community during the 1997-98 academic year, and the second suicide within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).^[1] And of course not just Harvard.^[2][3] And, counting secondary students, it's just horrific in India: one every hour.^[4] regards, Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 17:59, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Firstly, it's all very well and good if Friday the 13th is the only role of hers you've seen or care about, but she (a) has had bigger roles in other films that count toward passage of NACTOR's "significant roles" criterion; (b) has Gemini and Dora award nominations under her belt, which are in the tier of awards that constitute an automatic pass of NACTOR's award criterion; and (c) has and cites the sources needed to get her over GNG. Any one of those three would be enough in and of itself; having all three is the equivalent of hitting a home run with all three bases already loaded. Bearcat (talk) 03:17, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

singers and arias

Thank you for quality articles on opera singers such as Hans Peter Blochwitz and arias such as Ella giammai m'amò, for updating articles about opera based on singing experience and knowledge, for adding videos and "signature roles", but removing not notable recordings, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1962 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:40, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I've moved your unsourced article Tu che le vanità to Draft:Tu che le vanità where you can work on it and provide references once you're less tired. Cabayi (talk) 12:53, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy 2019 -

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Please check out "Happy" once more, for a smile, and sharing (a Nobel Peace Prize), and resolutions. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:30, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:27, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Today, and tomorrow, he stars on the German Wikipedia's Main page, de:Carlos Feller! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:16, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Will you fix the bare urls for references in Bernd Weikl? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, I replied here. - RoyBoy 23:00, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Can someone explain to me, in ordinary non-tech language, what "pp-protected" means? I have not been behaving in a nuisance manner as far as I know. At least, I haven't been doing so deliberately. Do I need to fix something or apologize to someone?? Please advise! Thank you, HandsomeMrToad (talk) 10:18, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I answered on the protecting admin's talk where I saw it first on my watchlist. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:24, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Dove sono has no article, only a redirect. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:04, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not to worry! I'll fix that later today. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 17:23, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good start. I added further, and it's almost there for DYK, just the line "frequently performed in recitals ..." needs a reference, please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:37, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done! HandsomeMrToad (talk) 17:36, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Nominated, sorry misspelt your name, therefore no ping. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:54, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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February songs

my daily stories

fresh flowers for you, with thanks for your opera work! - My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:58, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:42, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice! I sang some sacred music by Bortnyanski once upon a time long ago, in a college choir specializing in USSR and the satellite states, but never Vedel.

Tomorrow I am singing Dr. Spinelloccio and the Notary (Amantio) in a concert-performance of Gianni Schicchi, with a whole ensemble of singers who are in a league far above my own. Each of these guys is the real item, a bona fide rising opera star, not a perennial dilettante like me. If I can manage to avoid embarrassing myself, I'll try to post a video, or at least an audio, to YouTube.

And later in the month I'm singing Hunding! HandsomeMrToad (talk) 05:30, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Five years!

And how was performing?--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Gianni Schicchi? It was kind of a disaster for me. Lately I have been having "senior moments" and losing count while on stage, and I missed a number of entrances. I am restricting my repertoire to material I already know very well, and avoiding rapid, bewildering pieces like Schicchi for the time being. Thank you for asking.

Hunding was better. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 03:50, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for sharing. Gianni Schicchi was my second opera, and I loved it immediately ;) - for my latest experiences, see here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:41, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's an hilarious opera, and the music is eerily catchy, and it rises to tremendous orgasmic climaxes in several sections. I love the trio the women sing; as our director said, it's a vulgar comedy and suddenly the Rheinmaidens are there. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 08:05, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's a great director ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

He's kind of an amazing man. He was very nice to me about the errors and said he was planning to hire me again in spite of them. We have bonded, partly because a close relative of his died of Parkinson's (which I also have) and he likes the idea of using singing as a kind of physical therapy for Parkinson's. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 16:51, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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