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Here Zhao Mengfu depicts the changing seasons with profound vibrancy and delicacy. The artist brought the work to his friend Zhou Mi—who had been exiled for refusing to work in the Mongol-controlled court—in hopes of comforting him with a reminder of the home to which he will never return. Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains, Zhao Mengfu, 1295

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You may remember Maryvonne Le Dizès, my story today as on 28 August. Some September music was unusual: last compositions and eternal light, with Ligeti mentioned in story and music. - I see that yu are busy, - will you still do the GA review? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:23, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought of you when I saw this Monument to the Genius of Beethoven (Dem Genius Beethovens). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:45, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of course I also thought of you for the songs by Hildegard of Bingen. Today Rohan de Saram - unbelievable story --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:24, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today I remember an organist who was pictured on the Main page on his birthday ten years ago, and I found two recent organ concerts to match, - see top of my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:43, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today brought a timely promotion of Helmut Bauer to the Main page on the day when pieces from Mozart's Requiem were performed for him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:06, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. -Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:48, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:49, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:19, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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greetings from a trip -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:08, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:23, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered, and you were behind it! I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. Thank you for turning to the Bach cantata, but I have urgent work on five four others for Advent, Christmas and New Year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:07, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My second Christmas story is about Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121, 300 years today, and its song, 500 years old. An aria is inspired by a baby leaping in his mother's womb. Enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:39, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My third Christmas story is different. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:05, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aza24, I want to express gratitude for the work you've performed on Byzantine Empire and in the discussion over the review. We have more to do, but it's much easier now due to your contributions. Biz (talk) 19:18, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Biz, thanks for this note. I'm happy to help and look forward to contiuing the process. I'm yet to look back over my new editions; I expect I'll do some revising of them soon. I'm also considering taking a crack at the Science and medicine section, which seems a bit jumbled.

Glad to have you on board as well. – Aza24 (talk) 07:16, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Aza24. Having your eyes on science and medicine will help us move a lot quicker. Biz (talk) 17:02, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated History of Christianity - again - please take a look and criticize at will. Here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Christianity/archive2 Jenhawk777 (talk) 23:41, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Jenhawk777, merry Christmas! I'm sorry to see that the nomination did not go your way. Reading through the FAC, I'm thinking you need to reconsider your approach to this article. What you have is a really fine GA, chalk full off high-quality sources and interest.

Of course, it's a completely noble effort to aim for an FA, but I have a feeling if you aim for something else, FAC will come right along: aiming for longetivity. Surely its best to create articles that can stand the test of time for decades to come? Thus, there's no rush in aiming for such a valuable product, perhaps considering reevaulating what you have.

You are coming at the topic from the perspective of an expert, with you own ideas and experiences; that is, it seems your are saying "I want to say *this*, now where do I source it?". That is why you have such an immesne diversity of soures and are coming across objections to disorganized structure. If you're only citing disparate articles and chapters, the article will appear like a collection of disparate articles and chapters. Instead, try restarting with the most core sources possible—rely on them until you absolutely cannot. Collect their main themes, and then fill in the gaps with your knowledge of other references.

For instance, why is A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years not cited more? A book of essentially the same scope of your article, written by a prominent historian is a godsend. Or what about González? I see that Jaroslav Pelikan has a set of books on the same topic. You are spoiled by these kinds of publications; when I attempted the history of music I realized there is hardly a single worldwide historical overviews on the topic!

I hope this insight is not too obtrusive of me. I'd very much like to help you with the article moving forward. Aza24 (talk) 07:56, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is both helpful and kind. Thank you. Not having done an FA before I did not know that it has some special requirements. I didn't have a clue what Borsoka was talking about when he criticized its disparate elements as if it should tell a single story, because it isn't a single story. It is in fact multiple stories, but it turns out FAC does want a coherant narrative. That's a total rewrite and Airshipjungleman is doing that which is really amazing. I am learning just watching him work magic.

I did not actually begin from "I want to say this" but I did begin with the previous article's content. I have some knowledge of the early and Antique periods, but I am not knowledgable about the Middle Ages, so that was all new for me. I learned a lot doing this! I mostly used the "Cambridge History of Christianity" - 45 references to it. There were multiples I could have used as they mostly all say the same things, but in order to be sure I had the most recent scholarship I had to check journal articles as well. There are a lot of sources because there are a lot of topics under this big umbrella! I always check multiple references on any one topic just to be sure I understand the majority view of something - it can take me a week to get a few sentences that can be used. But I love the research part of this process. Reading reading reading. I always end up buying new books! I bought "The Early Christian World" this time!

I have company coming later today that I am cooking for so it's time to get the turkey started, but I wanted to be sure and tell you thank you for your sweet and valuable insights. I will be nominating it again, so you will have another chance one of these days! Bless you and yours, hope you are having a great holiday, Jenhawk777 (talk) 18:26, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Aza, how are you? It's nice to see you back! I recently published my longest articles, the first one is (long overdue) rewrite of El Lissitzky, and the second one is Jewish Ethnographic Expedition, which I sought would be a short one but then discovered troves of sources on everything: photos, music collection, theater, war, etc. I'll really appreciate if you'll be able to have a look at any of the two (or both!), any comments are welcome. Artem.G (talk) 12:22, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Artem.G, nice to hear from you! Glad to see both of these articles progressing nicely. I'll take a look soon. Best – Aza24 (talk) 07:35, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks @Dustfreeworld—Happy holidays to you as well! Aza24 (talk) 07:38, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). - I saw a lovely opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, - see here. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:15, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, my story today 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. Any thoughts about my responses for BWV 8? Dada Masilo will be my story tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:59, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. - Did you see Masilo talking and dancing? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:33, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today a violinist from Turkey, Ayla Erduran, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:49, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... 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) 19:46, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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 ;) - You can now improve Goehr towards FAC ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:27, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... for your encouragement re Haydn. On my end, I recently looked at your edit list and much appreciate your work on "The Silver Swan". I own a recording of this piece by the Waverly Consort from long ago that I find really beautiful and touching. Opus33 (talk) 03:17, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Opus33, nice to finally meet you. I'd seen your contributions in article histories & talk pages, but I believe I became active here during your extended stay.

I adore "The Silver Swan" as well; hopefully I can get Orlando Gibbons to FA sometime this year, then maybe move onto some of the later composers with poor articles (Grieg and Pagannini are particularly barren). Are you planning on becoming more active in this new year? Aza24 (talk) 06:15, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm amused by your question since I see Wikipedia editing as a form of addiction!  :=) Hopefully, I will stay safe and continue to edit not much more than I'm doing now. Thanks for asking, though. Opus33 (talk) 07:04, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]