User talk:Symposiarch

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Großer Sand

Vielen Dank für deinen Artikel, den ich gerade auf Portal:Germany/New article announcements und Portal:Germany angekündigt habe. Wenn du noch mehr über Mainz schreibst, kannst du deine Artikel dort eintragen, damit sie mehr gesehen werden. Viele Grüße ins goldisch Meenz, Kusma (討論) 22:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Gude Kusma, falls der Sommer schlecht wird, gerne, ansonsten bin ich lieber im Garten. Spätestens im Herbst/Winter geht es wieder los. Bis dahin: los en trinke, sunst verderrt er der..... ~~Symposiarch

Friedrich Kellner

I have a website about Friedrich Kellner on the English Wikipedia and on the German Wikipedia. I would like to somehow link one to the other. I tried that on my English page at the bottom, but I believe you felt it was not done correctly. Could you let me know what I should do? I looked at the help pages, but I was unable to discover an answer. I greatly appreciate your help. The diary is an important historical document, and I do want to make these sites as good as they can be. Thanks a lot,(Rskellner 06:14, 1 October 2006 (UTC))

Electoral Palace Mainz and other Mainz stuff

Hi Symposiarch,

I have no problem with others doing my work - the only article that I really had wanted to do was Deutschhaus Mainz, so I could get a link to Republic of Mainz on the Main Page :-) But if you have a list of things that need doing (other than the redlinks in this article) and want to share it, maybe I will find something that I want to translate but haven't thought of yet. Feel free to suggest any Mainz-related article and I'll try my best. By the way, there is some more Main Page coverage for Mainz coming up soon: Georg Forster, my only Featured Article, will be article of the day next Tuesday.

Do you have any references that could be added to Electoral Palace Mainz? If yes, please add some, and a referenced article with a nice picture about a building of this importance should easily get a spot on Template:Did you know on the Main Page. Nominations can be made at Template talk:Did you know. If you want, I can nominate the article for you, but without references, it will probably fail unless we can produce a REALLY interesting fact.

Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 13:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:GER/MZ

You noticed my new little project quickly :-) I hope we can use the project page to coordinate efforts about missing or inadequate articles. Just one thing: The switches in the {{WikiProject Germany}} template are currently case-sensitive, so "start" and "Start" produce different results, and some of the pages you tagged now display incorrectly. Do you think we should have extra importance categories for Mainz alone? It would not be hard to add that to the template. Any comments are welcome at WT:GER and the talk page of WP:GER/MZ. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 18:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

The {{WikiProject Germany}} template is now even more fancy and allows for Mainz-related importance using the MainzImp switch. Valid values are Top, High, Mid, Low. I hope I'll manage to write some more documentation soon. Kusma (討論) 19:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for joining, now it doesn't look like a one-person project anymore :-) Kusma (討論) 11:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I linked the DYK to de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Mainz Wiesbaden/Artikel in order to foster the project task force--Symposiarch 11:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On December 5, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article St. Stephan Mainz, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thankyou for this interesting article Symposiarch. Kusma kindly nominated it for DYK. Please feel free to self-nominate in future. Thanks Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

On 18 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Paul Haenlein, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hello Symposiarch. Well done on the article, which earnt you the pictured slot on DYK. Keep up the great work ! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Mainz Cathedral GA nom failed

Thanks for nominating the article. As far as I can tell, the prose is excellent, and everything else is great, except for one thing...inline citations. The GA guidelines state that articles must be referenced using an acceptable style of inline citation (criteria 2b), and, unfortunately, the article at this time has no inline citations whatsoever, which means I cannot pass the article for GA status at this time. I realize that a lot of this was translated from German, but apparantly you live in Mainz and speak German. Perhaps you could get the books that were used as sources out of a local library and then use Template:Cite book for all the facts in the article? Just a suggestion. Gutes Glück (hopefully I translated that right) and happy editing, Green451 02:46, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiWine

Welcome to the Wikipedia wine project. Don't worry about the number of participants; most of us participate in the project only occasionally. Hopefully you will find the time to expand some of the wine articles that interest you. -Amatulic 22:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK entries

Entries at T:DYKT usually go under date of creation, not date of nomination. I have moved and signed yours (see Template_talk:Did_you_know#January_8), hoping you wouldn't mind :-) I have also put the fact on Portal:Germany's DYK page. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 09:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

BTW I heard somewhere that Goethe also (probably for fun) fired a cannon during the siege, but that shot didn't hit anything. If we can find a source for that statement, perhaps "...that during the Siege of Mainz, German poet Goethe fired a cannon at the city?" is a more interesting DYK entry, However, as long as it's a rumor from my memory, it's not good enough I guess :-( Kusma (討論) 09:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK!

On January 13, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Siege of Mainz, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 17:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Palatinate of the Rhine

Hi there, I noticed you recently added Palatinate of the Rhine to the WineProject. I am not sure I agree with your decision. I agree with you that the Rhine valley is a very important wine growing region. Since you are from Mainz I am sure that you are well aware of this fact. My objection is that the article has to do with a historic political entity that no longer exists. Es gibt einfach keinen Kurpfalz mehr. Unless you are creating a article about the history of wine making, then it might be relevant, but that should probably be an article of itself. I would suggest you design modern political entities as relevant to wine growing, or focus on regions: Rheinland-Pfalz, Rhine River Vally, Baden-Württemberg, something like that. imars 12:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Rheinland-Pfalz would be a good idea, as it comprises 66% of the area cultivated with grapes in Germany. --Symposiarch 13:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 2 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jules Guyot, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 22:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Archbishopric of Mainz

Hi Symposiarch,

Good to have someone from Mainz aboard! I was considering creating a separate article for the State Electorate of Mainz from the article for the Archbishopric. What do you think?

Also, I had changed the predecessor of the Mainz to the Duchy of Franconia because it was from Rhenish Franconia that the ecclesiastical principalities for Mainz, Worms and Speyer came to power. (See [1]) I think this is preferable to having Nothing as a prededessor since the area did have a government before the Archbishopric gained power.

Cheers! Tartessos75 20 October 2007 —Preceding comment was added at 18:08, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Salve Tartessos75, for the State Electorate of Mainz you are right, there was a predecessor, but not for the ecclesiastic bishopric of Mainz. But it was not the Duchy of Franconia--Symposiarch 20:58, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

That's the problem with the info box. Although it is a "Former States" info box, the information it contains is a mixture of info about the secular state and the ecclesiastical archbishopric.

Tartessos75 —Preceding comment was added at 00:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

It is not only a problem of the infobox. This had been adressed in WP:GER/MZ, but not yet resolved.--Symposiarch 09:01, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Port of Mainz

On 17 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Port of Mainz, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 16:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Mainz addition / Mainz DYK

Hello Symposiarch, I must say that I am a bit... well, angry is the wrong word - irritated I guess - at two things you did recently. First you place Port of Mainz at DYK, without telling me (I was going to say COMPETING with or CHANGING my own submission, but you actually got in there first, to boot!) so that YOUR hook about the Roman port was accepted instead of MY own hook about the staple rights. I had been planning that hook for a few days, but first wanted to finish the article!

Well, you meant well, and it DID end up on DYK - but please ask the creator next time, he may have his own opinions on appropriate hooks and so on! Cheers Ingolfson (talk) 07:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, the second thing - your addition about Napoleonic times and how the stones of the Martinsburg were used for the port. As a reference you give the German article (when it is necessary to give another wiki (not good anyway) as a reference, then please put it in the article as a ref, not in the edit history, where it will be gone and lost soon). However, the German article had no references at all! Not good at all - I'll root a round a little to see if I can find any real references, if not... Please always provide references. See ya - Ingolfson (talk) 07:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I just found your comments here. I did not want to irritate you. I did not reflect your potential objectives. --Symposiarch (talk) 16:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Old and new German vine training systems

Hello Symposiarch, since you mention your Geisenheim background on your user page, perhaps you're able to answer this question that I asked on the WP:WINE project page. Tomas e (talk) 17:24, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

well, thank you for recognizing me as a Geisenheimer, but I am expert in beverage technology, not in viticultural.--Symposiarch (talk) 21:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, it was worth a try. :-) Tomas e (talk) 13:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Silvaner & GG

Hello Symposiarch! Saying that certain grape varieties may be used for Grosses Gewächs in certain Anbaugebiete is not POV, as you indicated in this edit, but rather a fact, since VDP's GG rules specify which varieties may be used in which regions:[2]. However, your edit had the positive effect that I read and added a reference to this document which made me realise that both Franconia and Saale-Unstrut may produce GG Silvaner; the latter was not stated before. Tomas e (talk) 14:09, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, you are nearly right. It is Erste Lage--Symposiarch (talk) 15:39, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Erste Lage is the umbrella designation covering the classified vineyards and the logotype. Wines are named Erste Lage only if they come from Mosel. The wines, if made dry, are called Grosses Gewächs in 11 of 13 regions, including the two which may use Silvaner. The only non-dry EL wines I've seen so far are Rieslings from Mosel. Tomas e (talk) 16:15, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

If even the Germans do have problems with the understanding of these designations, I have a bad feeling with the marketing organization...--Symposiarch (talk) 17:54, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

List of German wine regions

Hey Symposiarch, I was wondering if you would look over this article for spelling/capitalization/general errors/etc and also consider what location names should be wiki-linked. Thanks! Agne^Cheese/^Wine 01:16, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Seems like a test for me {;-)) It is not easy to consider what locations of relevance should be wiki-linked. --Symposiarch (talk) 10:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Schloss Vollrads DYK issues

I reviewed your hook for the article and I still found problems. I don't see an inline citation for that hook. We need it to verify the statement. Please complete it and reply at the suggestions page. Someone else can verify it if I'm not around. Royalbroil 04:49, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Schloss Vollrads

On 9 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Schloss Vollrads, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 11:11, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Backesgassefest

Why, thank you. Kelisi (talk) 18:20, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

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Mainz

Perhaps you care for this, Mainz (journal). Feel free to add--the article is very stubby. Drmies (talk) 02:54, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't have the impression that it is to stubby. Compared to the relevance for the English speaking world it is adequate.--Symposiarch (talk) 08:20, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

I thought you might want to pass it on to the German Wikipedia. Schoenes Wochenende, Drmies (talk) 14:14, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

I regret, but I don't want to disturb the Bonewitz family. Best regards--Symposiarch (talk) 18:23, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

mediaman Wikipedia Article

Hello Symposiarch, I am writing in response to your post on the page mediaman regarding the statement that the page is an advertisement. While the page is not intended as an advertisement, the US office of mediaman did make the mistake by entering an article about our company. Nevertheless mediaman would like to maintain our page on Wikipedia, but we would like to better conform to Wiki standards. Like other agencies who have profiles on Wiki, we are an important player in the digital marketing industry, especially in the German market, and have created notable innovations for our clients, such as Mercedes. More importantly, there is also a need for people getting factual information on our company. We have tried to edit the article and remain as neutral as possible regarding information. We believe we have met all the Wikipedia requirements.

Would you have any recommendations in order to remove the flag from the article? Would you possibly be willing to edit or create a German version so that it better suits Wiki standards?

I greatly appreciate your advice in how to best proceed.PaperCompass (talk) 14:18, 21 September 2009 (UTC)PaperCompass

Drais English Article

Hi Symposiarch! Thanks for your welcome and your edits to the Drais english page. I will be probably trying to update it with own pictures, I liv in Drais so this should be easy. I look forward to the future contact. All the best -- Robert_Germany_3 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:43, 1 December 2009 (UTC).

Important Wine Project discussion needs input!

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Helau

Thanks for the Mainz article. I changed a bit, please check. I looked up the title that I didn't understand, "Matters and Character", and found "Inhalt and Wesen" - Contents & ? (does carnival have Wesen? - but read much more about contents in the other parts, therefore suggest a new title there rather than a translation. (I would go as far as changing the German one as well - no fun in it, sounds more like philosophy than laughter.) Ta-taaaa, ta-taaaa, ta-taaaa, und ein dreifach donnerndes ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:04, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, "Inhalt and Wesen" should sound more encyclopedical. Probably you have seen that I wasn't able to finish translation before the holidays. Thank you for your attention. And always remember - it's a wiki! Narrhallamarsch and departure--Symposiarch (talk) 09:52, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Dear Gerda, I fear I am not familiar enough with the Did you know...? regulations, the proper format and the credit templates!--Symposiarch (talk) 18:51, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Hallo - please tell me how far you got, clicking on "nominate an article" on Main Page. It's all explained there, I probably couldn't do it better (in short: the "hook" statement has to have an inline citation right after it and of course has to be interesting, max 200 characters, article min 1500 - you are way above that). It's also good to read a few of the suggested hooks and commentary by editors - the hook (and the article) sometimes gets discussed back and forth. I found all editors helpful, especially to a newcomer. The nomination template looks like this: {{subst:NewDYKnom | article= | hook=... that ? | status=new | author=}} - just 3 fields to fill and then put it on top of Feb 15. Then watch the page for questions. The credit comes when the DYK appears. - Nothing to loose. (But please change "Matters" in that heading, that's "Materie".) I suggest you come up with a hook right here and we discuss it? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:12, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

So you nominated already! (But not with the template?) Please: put a reference right after the cinema sentence in the article - a simple rule. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:11, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Mainz carnival

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Hallo, don't give up too soon! I had an article like that, Siegfried Palm, translated from German, no inline-citation whatsoever - look how many I found. I believe the article is now better than the German one. Perhaps you can use some of your external links as references? You can put (in German) behind German ones, typically they get "accepted in good faith". Google helps a lot. All the best --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:45, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

and my latest example of nomination and question, for the feeling of the process, one nomination accepted and one rejected right below, - by the way you don't have to cite every line in Mainz carnival, one per paragraph is fine, once you are done notify at the nomination. Have fun, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:28, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

That one was approved after long discussion, now I encourage you to get yours done! Do you know how to write a ref or would you like help? First approach: copy those in the article. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:14, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

A few suggestions, some in English: [3] [4] [5] --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:06, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, your suggestions encouraged me... greetings from Mainz--Symposiarch (talk) 17:28, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Mainz carnival

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Materialscientist (talk) 06:19, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Pleased to see that on Main Page! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Again thanks for your support and encouraging Gerda!--Symposiarch (talk) 08:46, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Carnaroli

Hello, To answer your question in the edit summary, I had proposed this image for the article on Carnaroli because it has been labelled as "Quality image" on Commons. --Myrabella (talk) 00:51, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

o.k. I didn't know this, but the quality of the carnaroli grain can be better seen on the displaced image. How do you think about this aspect?! --Symposiarch (talk) 13:31, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

In addition, the alternative image shows an example of packaging but of course, one can prefer to display a close-up of the grains. I just took the liberty of adding a link to the Commons related category. Regards, --Myrabella (talk) 13:47, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

It's a wiki...

Reclassifying

What has prevented me from reclassifying is simply that I didn't know that I was supposed to do that. I also have no idea about the rating system. There are simply things that I let others judge.

I suppose I also find it a bit conceited to rate my own work. If you think these articles deserve a higher rating, by all means, give them one. Kelisi (talk) 09:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

As I suppose that anybody may rate, I will look trough the Rheinhesen villages articles in the cause of the next days. so long--Symposiarch (talk) 11:59, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Ferdinand Becker

Hi. Thanks for your corrections on Ferdinand Becker. I noted that we don't have an article on Gonsenheim yet. However, the German Wikipedia has a Good Article on it, so that may be the perfect start for a decent to good article here as well. As someone who knows the language and is interested in all things Mainz, this may be a nice project for a good new article here. This is the one I mean. Fram (talk) 10:06, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Fram, I know this article very well. It was the one which inspired me to write a comparable article about Mombach, and the start of my wikipedia addiction. I write mostly in the German and French wikipedia, altough I am supporter of the Mainz task force. I know that my French is not very good, my German is subject to improvement, but I don't like it to realize that my English knowledge decreases year by year.--Symposiarch (talk) 13:36, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, that's usually the problem with editors on multiple Wikipedias. While I can read some German, it's not good enough to translate the article accurately to English, so that's why I am not trying it. Fram (talk) 13:49, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Worms

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Emre Simtay

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Well, the problem is just the other way round. Copyright violation is made by www.museumstuff.com. Please acknowledge that.--Symposiarch (talk) 21:07, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For creating Christophoruskirche, Schierstein before I did! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:15, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

or I, thank you, added pic, plan DYK, did you know? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:23, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm not really a Doctor, I do hope you know that! Never heard of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, doctorate in Evil Medicine?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:50, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Oh I know, but a lot of people wouldn't twig at the name Blofeld! If I was named James Bond 007 on the otherhand it would be almost universally recognisable.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:36, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Please add a bit and refs, I nominated it for DYK (with Martin Lutz) before leaving for a few days ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Well, I will try, but there is so much real life...--Symposiarch (talk) 16:39, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Precious

	details about German topics around Mainz
	Thank you for supplying detailed information about German topics such as Mainz carnival, Christuskirche, Mainz, and Christophoruskirche, Schierstein, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:44, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 83rd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:34, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Christophoruskirche, Schierstein

Orlady (talk) 00:07, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations for your second DYK, beautiful! Also on Portal:Germany. Did I tell you that I took the picture at a concert with Andreas Scholl, who sang "He was despised" in our Messiah? More moves like this, please. Look at Hauptseite for a similar title ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:13, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

I nominated a Bach cantata for Schon gewusst? on de, and one person doesn't like any, suggestion? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:17, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Claudia-Maria Buch

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Grüße aus Uruguay!

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Welcome:Nixus Minimax

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Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Hi Symposiarch-- I'm referred to you by Gerda Arendt, who suggested in our discussion "Something fishy" that you may know more about Carnival traditions than she.

I'm still puzzled by the tradition of starting Carnival as early as 11 November rather than at Shrovetide, but here my specific question has to do with this paragraph which doesn't seem to make sense (my emphasis below):

• Although the festival and party season in Germany starts as early as the beginning of January, the actual carnival week starts on the Thursday ("Weiberfastnacht") before Ash Wednesday. German carnival parades are held on the weekend before and especially on Rosenmontag (Rose Monday), the day before Shrove Tuesday, and sometimes also on Shrove Tuesday ("Faschingsdienstag") in the suburbs of larger carnival cities. The carnival session [is season meant?] begins each year on 11 November at 11:11 a.m. and finishes on Ash Wednesday with the main festivities happening around Rosenmontag; this time is also called the "Fifth Season."

Is "the beginning of January" simply wrong, or is this another special date in the celebration of Carnival? It's all very confusing. (And I still don't understand in what sense a "carnival" continues from November until Lent.) Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Milkunderwood (talk) 01:46, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Well

In the early history of carnival, the carnival clubs had been refounded and suspend every year. Due to that the classical refounding date, comprising a general assembly, was 11 November, the day before the christian christmas lent season. Nowadays these general assemblys are also held, in order to prepare the fifth season. So the days before christmas are the time to design choreography (dance), to draw up stage designs, to create verses to new and old songs etc.. The fifth season starts 1 January, e.g. in Mainz with a great parade. Durings the weeks until the socalled carnival week, carnival sessions are performed each week-end as a show for strangers, literally stranger sessions, but also during the week internally in smaller groups, like pub carnival societies, parishes and singing clubs. Street carnival is the high season and starts with Fat Thursday. But don't ask me for references, this is just tradition. In order to get more attention, smaller towns and villages prepone their festivities, which increases confusion to outsiders and dilutes tradition. Helau says --Symposiarch (talk) 09:08, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

That's very helpful information, about the "Christmas Lent season". User:Michael Bednarek has also posted in response to a question I had left at Talk:Cologne#Carnival a reference to Elferrat as an explanation for 11/11 11:11 (which I had been trying to associate somehow with 11AM 11/11/1918). Even without any references, it would be useful to puzzled readers if you or someone could provide a bit of explanatory discussion of the Christmas Lent season and perhaps the Elferrat, as well as what is referred to as the "fifth season" in some of these various Carnival articles. Anyone not familiar with the Elferrat tradition will naturally think of the WWI Armistice as being the obvious source of "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month".

And the paragraph I quoted from Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, which jumps from "the beginning of January" to "the Thursday before Ash Wednesday", to "11 November at 11:11 a.m." makes no sense at all, the way it's organized, and with no explanation provided. That paragraph already has no sources provided, and I shouldn't think sources would be required for a clearer and fuller explanation. Milkunderwood (talk) 19:14, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Oswald

Danke für das gute Gutenbergbild! Karlheinz Oswald, über eins von Christus im Dom würde ich mich sehr freuen, auch Bonifatius ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Oswald passed DYK, without the pic, well ... - at the moment, pictured, another one related to Mainz (diocese), Thomas Gabriel and his Missa mundi (on my user and P:DE for a while in case you miss it), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:37, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Gerda always working for good music, thank you!--Symposiarch (talk) 20:45, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks a lot for contributing that article. I tided up a bit of it for you, but there was one line which was still unclear: "Incidentally was 1974-1984 supporting the Technisches Hilfswerk." Do you mean that he volunteered at the Technisches Hilfswerk? Valenciano (talk) 20:14, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes thats it. Thanks for your contributions as well, --Symposiarch (talk) 20:54, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Belinda Kemp

Hello! I saw the Belinda Kemp article and I couldn't really see why she's notable. WP:ACADEMIC should be the most applicable guideline to use. Since I recognize you as a long-term contributor, I gave the article the benefit of the doubt rather than PROD or AfD it straight away. Could you either explain to me what I'm missing in the article or expand it to cover what makes her notable? Best regards, Tomas e (talk) 16:49, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I tried to find more evidence to get her notable. Thank you or your trust in me, but I failed.--Symposiarch (talk) 21:15, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

details about German topics around Mainz
Thank you for supplying detailed information about German topics such as Mainz carnival, Christuskirche, Mainz, and Christophoruskirche, Schierstein, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:44, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Two years ago, you were the 83rd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

thank you Gerda, unfortunately the company I am working for is very demandingat present. Again thanks --Symposiarch (talk) 20:13, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Take care! - Perhaps music might help, 3 Oct this where we met, 5 Oct Missa in F here, for Kirchweih, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Music sure will help!! Thanks for encouraging.--Symposiarch (talk) 18:02, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Four years ago, you were recipient no. 83 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:23, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing Allgemeine Zeitung, - I filled a red link in may latest FA, go ahead adding. Mark your calender for 3 September, 7:30pm, sorry, Wiesbaden again, same conductor same place you know, but the selected choir, with great music by its namesake which you can rarely hear, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Five years now! Concert 3 October: Der Messias, Mozart's adaption of Handel's ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:54, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Six years ;) - Next singing in Idstein 10 June, 11am, Kirchweih, a new (for us) mass by Christopher Tambling, and more goodies to come! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Seven years ;) - 7 April, 6 pm, Die sieben Worte + more, St. Martin, Idstein, performed by students of the Mainz Hochschule für Musik! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:31, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, was in the Landesmusikschule Rheinland-Pfalz during the week-end. --Symposiarch (talk) 17:52, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Eight years ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:26, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

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I am not familiar with baklava creation, but I will look in my kitchen for something seasonal. Thanks a lot!!--Symposiarch (talk) 20:01, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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Mainz: Sentence difficult to understand

Hi Symposiarch, I see you've contributed some great work on the city of Mainz. In the Mainz article, there is a sentence of yours that is difficult to understand: When the Mainz legion camp was founded in 13/12 BC, the buildings near the Rhine, stood for the civil settlement of the present city. Can you rephrase it please? (Or, if you prefer, explain the sense here in German so I can help you with clearer English.) Thanks --Frans Fowler (talk) 04:36, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for reading Frans. I will try.--Symposiarch (talk) 07:20, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for your trust, but it is nearly done, well done, now.--Symposiarch (talk) 15:14, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

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Glöck

Hello, I know had a look at Niersteiner Glöck. Interesting and good article. I did some copyediting, including change of sentence structure, which I hope increased its readability by non-German readers. I hope I didn't "mangle" it too much. I can't be sure, though, since I had Pfalz (rather than Rheinhessen) wine in a glass next to my computer, a Rebholz Kastanienbusch GG 2006. :-) Tomas e (talk) 20:23, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

I cannot see mangling. To increase its readability by non-German readers was the reason for my request to you. Thanks for performing it.--Symposiarch (talk) 21:34, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

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Symposiarch, I appreciate you looking over these articles. Please correct whatever I mess up. I found myself Lulling around a bit while fixing a footnote in a chapter I'm writing on the Boniface correspondence--which also needs an article. Those two articles from Tangl, NA 40/41, are always giving me a headache--I can never decide whether to cite the two separate articles or that 1966 reprint. BTW I assume you know Rudolf Schieffer died? Another giant gone. He was kind enough to provide a biographical chapter on Boniface for the volume a colleague and I are preparing. Is von Padberg still alive? Drmies (talk) 01:15, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

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Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

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begin it with music and memories

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Thanks, I started with Michael Jackson and Adele. I am so sad that I may not share those emotions on Bach as you do. But if you invite me, or keep me updated to join some concerts with explanations by you, I would be happy to be intrduced in a different world. I'm gonna make a change, For once I'm my life. See you in the mirror.Symposiarch (talk) 19:21, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, we'll do Puccini, Monteverdi (1 September) and Dvorak (28 October) in 2019 concerts. Watch the Merry 2019 link, I will post details there. The new conductor of Boni-Chor plans a mass with tenor and percussion for Easter. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Please check out "Happy" once more, for a smile, and sharing (a Nobel Peace Prize), and resolutions. I wanted that for 1 January, but then wasn't sad about having our music pictured instead. Not too late for resolutions, New Year or not. DYK that he probably kept me on Wikipedia, back in 2012? By the line (which brought him to my attention, and earned the first precious in br'erly style) that I added to my editnotice, in fond memory? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:52, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

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Your thank-you clicks are music in my ears. Did you know that Rückwardt appeared on DYK on 8 March 2018? - Tomorrow, if you cross the bridge, you can hear Mendelssohn, Kiel and Pärt at the place you came to once, 11 mass. Playlist here ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the Playlist. It was not feasable today, but keep me posted.Symposiarch (talk) 17:59, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Just keep watching there. I can tell you already that we will sing Missa angelica for Easter ;) and the Missa brevis by Nystedt for Pentecost. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

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If you can expand, such as details from the new synagogue, please do! I am busy, RL. A family member played with him as a child - chilling. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:29, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Also: the africa action will celebrate 20 years on 18 May, Wiesbaden where you know, choir will sing, Rheinberger, Mendelssohn, Duriflé. Klein aber fein. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:30, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Next chance: Stadtklänge Wiesbaden, 15 June, look for the flyer on Google - framed by ringing of all city bells and a eucumenical service here at 6pm, concerts with singing in seven places, - detailed program of what I'll do (4:30p) is on my talk (and will stay here), including Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaarum? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

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in friendship

Thank you for being around! - Happy new year, in friendship! - Today I show yesterday's snow and today's music, Schon gewusst? in memory of Jerome Kohl, a friend --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:58, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Gerda, it is always a pleasure to meet you here. Great thanks for all your work.--Symposiarch (talk) 17:00, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! 2022 began happily with vacation. I uploaded images but stopped at 22 January - click on songs. 30 January means 10 years of Precious. It's also the birthday of a friend, - I'm so happy I mentioned his DYK on his 90th birthday when he was still alive. I have a great singer on DYK whom I heard, Elena Guseva, and wait for a Recent death appearance of Georg Christoph Biller whom I saw in action. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

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Always precious

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Thank you Gerda, you are so kind to me.--Symposiarch (talk) 15:45, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

July songs

Thank you for the invitation to the winery! - Last Friday, I attended a unique concert - the 18th Thomaskantor after Bach conducting - and with some good luck caught him happy afterwards! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately the ″Kloster Eberbach″ logo is blurred. I will be guiding tours this Saturday and Sunday.--Symposiarch (talk) 16:05, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Will be in Johannisberg ;) - ... and another concert was 14 July: Voces8, pictured - I have a FAC open, in case of interest --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

more July songs, from Swiss Alps and a funeral - Johannisberg again yesterday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:15, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

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September music

September songs

The rose pic was taken on 11 Sep 2021, and this year was full of music that day, Tag des offenen Denkmals, not only singing in church and rehearsals for Verdi's Requiem (for concert 3 October, 5pm, the church you know), but two concerts at special places pictured, one a synagogue (pictured on its wall), and I thought of you. Today three DYK: a piece we'll perform on Sunday (in St. Martin, Idstein, in case you want to listen again, rehearsal from 10, service at 11), a violinist we heard in June playing the Berg Concerto (my brother played in the orchestra), and a Youth Orchestra shaped by a conductor who recently died. Almost too much of a good thing. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:16, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Gerda, nice to read from you. I visited the synagogue just one week before as they celebrated their Bar Mizwa, or 12th anniversary of opening. Susan Borofsky & Friends performed Barbara Streisand meets Bob Dylan Songs, Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon. Extraordinary good.--Symposiarch (talk) 16:31, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! - Today, we sang old music for two choirs at church, pictured, scroll to the image of the organ of the month of the Diocese of Limburg (my perspective), and if you have time, watch the video about it --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:27, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

... and today I wrote an article about music premiered today, Like as the hart. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:11, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

travel and strings sound --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:51, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

October music

October songs

Today is Erntedank in Germany, thanksgiving, and we celebrated our village's 650th anniversary, and had the dress rehearsal for Verdi's Requiem with an interesting band of marimba, piano, horn, bass, timpani and drum, - concert tomorrow, our national holiday, 5pm in case of interest, - same place as last time. Seeing a pic I took on the Main page was also a nice harvest. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:23, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

today's DYK: two facts from the two concert of this years Rheingau Musik Festival I liked best, both a cappella singing. If you follow the songs, you see a circus, where I performed singing, and in the end the whole tent joined for Dona nobis pacem. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:38, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

who shall separate us --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

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February songs

February songs

my daily stories

Thank you for many thanks! - 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) 18:09, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

I appreciate 'your suggestion for 7 weeks without' very much. It is a pitty that it needs such.--Symposiarch (talk) 09:28, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

agree ;) - today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:16, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

und die Chöre sind für mich..--Symposiarch (talk) 10:57, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Konzertempfehlung mit Mädchenchor (allerdings in Wiesbaden) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:14, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Gerda, I enjoy your recommendations. Recently I experienced Gasthof Kern.--Symposiarch (talk) 17:42, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Misatango coming up for me - and you, if you like to listen. Will be at Kern afterwards but private party. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:16, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

August music

August songs

my story today

Thank you for coming over to my talk! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:19, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

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December greetings

December: story · music · places

Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. - I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:33, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Dear Gerda thank you for your seasons greetings. I wish you and your loved ones thoughtful days, MC and HNY. Symposiarch (talk) 21:10, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! - Christmas music pictured --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:46, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Impressive, enjoy it.--Symposiarch (talk) 10:37, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

2024

Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy New Year

2024

Like 2019, see above ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:10, 1 January 2024 (UTC) On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Today a friend's birthday, with related music and new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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DYK from 2006

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DYK that I used a DYK of yours, 2006, when I didn't even know Wikipedia, for today's story? Thank you, and also for the generous signs of appreciation, especially for food pics, - see places for the latest. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - Madeleine Riffaud - remember. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

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 (on the Mainz Hauptfriedhof), and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:12, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

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December music

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We'll sing tonight, 6pm, double chorus music in Bußgottesdienst. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:56, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, too late. We had sung our ″Mainz Gospel Night″ on Saturday and I was totally worn out yesterday. Next Sunday I will sing with both choirs at the Ingelheim Christmas market. Another challenge. Contemplative days, --Symposiarch (talk) 08:48, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

not to forget together with the orchestra of Hesse State Police in the Marktkirche, Wiesbaden on 20 December.Symposiarch (talk) 15:54, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Sounds great! - Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:27, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

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. 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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:11, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

How was yesterday's music? (I was coughing too much to attend.) - You are quite welcome to open more of the burials or had otherbut only with sources, as it's on the Main page. After some hesitation, I added the pic of my friend's burial to the article, because it shows the layout better than the pics of individual monuments. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:51, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Yesterdays music was phantastic. The church was overflowing and never full like this said the press officer. Huge contrasts between the rich orchestration of the police music and the plain SATB of the choir which brought the best out of the gospel power. Although many out of them were also coughing or other cold like symptoms. Finally we had a struggle who will finish the concert. Wiesbadeners liked it. Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come. --Symposiarch (talk) 17:31, 21 December 2024 (UTC)