Welcome to the one hundred and ninty first WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 18,943 last month to 19,208 on 28 February 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 219 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,983 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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12:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Some bubble tea for you!
We meet again! Thank you for quickly nominating that interesting talk & user page. I can't wait to see what other wonderful, detailed reasons to contest the deletion that ChatGPT they come up with. Schrödinger's jellyfish✉00:34, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered :) (although maybe the smile isn't as nice to you given the whole disillusioned part). Anyways, I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀(talk)11:36, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
No, smiles are always nice, and welcome. Thank you very much for the message. I will certainly go and have a look. Please feel free to remind me if I have not responded properly within a week, or something! Cheers DBaK (talk) 12:42, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello there! Interested in having a chat with fellow Wikipedians? There's a meetup in Leeds on Saturday 4th May 2024, at the Tiled Hall Café at Leeds Central Library.
You're receiving this one-off message as you're either a member of WikiProject Yorkshire, you've expressed an interest in a previous Leeds meetup years ago, or (for about 4 of you), we've met :)
I plan to organise more in future, so if you'd like to be notified next time, please say so over on the meetup page.
Please also invite any Wikimedia people you know (or have had wiki dealings with) – spread the word! Hope to see you there.
Spotting your new comma (for which thank you) chez Arthur Bliss reminds me that you are a musician, and so perhaps may be interested to comment on the current featured article candidacy of Jacques Offenbach. (Not closing a parenthesis with a second comma is my besetting prose sin. It is at least sixty years since I was first pulled up for it as a schoolboy.) Tim riley talk10:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Ooh I would love to! Thanks Tim – I will have a look ASAP.
Describing me as "a musician" is a bit much but very generous. Usually "a mere trumpet player" will suffice ... sometimes just "a person who owns some trumpets" ...
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty second WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,208 last month to 19,275 on 8 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 221 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,047 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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I feel understood! - Two days later in time, a different music, - Happy Easter! - You would have liked yester-night's Easter Vigil, with 4 (!) concertos for two trumpets in organ version (between readings, for offertory, for communion and for postlude). The choir was busy on Good Friday, and has to learn all the Bach for 5 May. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:34, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Greetings! I noticed your comment at AfD. I wanted to offer some insight that might be helpful. The short of it is: it's probably not the subject. The points: 1) In this cultural and social context, it's very unlikely a nobleman is actually editing his own article: he has people for that; 2) In the same context, it's likely any agent might claim to be the represented party; instead of "I represent" or "I work for," it's frustratingly normal to get "This is" or "I" (email me if you want anecdotes). We aren't talking to a prince, but we are talking to the underling or maybe the friend of an annoyed prince. Probably doing his (it's certainly a he) job. Of course, we aren't subject to any wishes, but I find it helps to see this definite COI editor in the most realistic light. Thanks for reading as I split COI hairs. And thanks for your comment at AfD. Cheers! JFHJr (㊟) 19:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Sure, understood, and thanks for the insight. Probably I shouldn't have weighed in at all – it's really not my area and I had only stumbled over this by accident because he was posting to some Talk pages that I watch. I was just a bit baffled by what I thought of as rather unusual behaviour ... it's good of you to have put in in context for me. Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
You weighed in for the right reasons, the discussion is better for it, and I'm glad you did. JFHJr (㊟) 21:09, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
The statue is great! Personally I love the middle image best but I can see good points in them all. DBaK (talk) 21:33, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Just chiming in...I too think the middle one is good, but my only complaint is that it shows a bit too much human development in the background, although I doubt anyone can tell but me. Viriditas (talk) 21:28, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
By a crazy coincidence we were at the Alnwick Garden yesterday in order to see their massive cherry orchard in blossom. It's been there for 16 years or something but we have never managed the timing before. Absolute bliss. DBaK (talk) 21:35, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Oh how lovely, thank you ... the Flammkuchen looks wonderful! Also the sheep, safely grazing as one gathers they should. I shall now have to go and listen to the cantata, of course, despite its woeful lack of trumpets. Tsk. Presumably Bach thought they would frighten the sheep, or possibly the accountant.
Busy yesterday with Mozart K. 466, Delibes messing around pretending to be in the C16, and, fantastic revelation, Emilie Mayer's Symphony No. 1 ... lovely music, a touch too early (or late) for great trumpet parts but hey ... DBaK (talk) 21:31, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Yesterday's cantata had a trumpet ;) - Well, Bach didn't use trumpets unless for the high holidays or other special impact. We rehearse the oratorio with orchestra fully only on concert Sunday, not to have to pay the trumpets for two days. Did you get a chance to play that? - I am happy that Kathleen Ferrier made it to the Main page again on her birthday, - that was my idea four years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:20, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Lovely about Ferrier! No, I have never played BWV 12. It's a very interesting one ... weird key, weird notes ... maybe a Zugtrompete oder so was because you sure as redacted can't play it on a bogstandard natural trumpet! I must look up my learned sources ... or possibly pour a glass of something nice, which would also help. Cheers! DBaK (talk) 20:04, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you, I learned a lot, also that I have to be more precise. When I said "that" I meant the oratorio ;) - Just one less in BWV. I can't speak too much about an upcoming concert or someone will say canvassing or advertising. As you may have seen on my talk I received a logged warning in a contentious area for having said I rub my eyes, please watch. That's canvassing. Rubbing eyes is not neutral. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Plead the Fifth is a protection against self-incrimination. It's me not wanting to comment in order to not get into trouble, albeit in a jokey way.
Wall done on Davies. What sad news ... he was excellent.
Mozart Requiem rehearsal tonight ... more on Friday, gig on Saturday. It is not exactly a challenging trumpet part but it is very, very satisfying to play. DBaK (talk) 21:40, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
You may remember that the Requiem was also our last concert. Conductor's birthday is the same as Mozart's but he didn't usually like Mozart music (just the Ave verum and the Mass in C minor). It changed over dealing with the score. - I had no idea of that Grainger piece, - I just wanted to know what the image in my story shows ;) - Perhaps I should have made the story about that. However, today is the birthday of a friend with whom I went to Der Ring in Minden, so it had to be the Ring ;) - Her future husband and his colleague played the first notes. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty third WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,275 last month to 19,335 on 28 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 220 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,054 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Elections
This is the month for local elections, Mayoral elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. There will be a large number of results articles that need creating or updating. There will also be updates to most of the location articles, with changes to the governess sections and infoboxes. Not to mention the people articles for those standing for election.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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22:27, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Biddlestone Chapel
Hi, thanks for getting in touch, I hadn’t seen the talk page. Looking at pictures I quite agree but couldn’t find a source either, hopefully one crops up - there’s rumours it will move to BBC One, as some other Alibi shows have, which would increase the chances Hildreth gazzard (talk) 18:26, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Gosh – that would be fun! I shall watch keenly. I am sure an RS will turn up sooner or later. Thanks so much for the reply, cheers, DBaK (talk) 18:43, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Gosh, and the Sächsischen Barockorchester is rather useful too! I slightly wish I were playing, but it is lovely to watch and listen from out here! DBaK (talk) 18:47, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. I am off to do a lovely concert at the weekend, led by you-know-who's sister. Lots of French music and lots of lovely song in which the trumpet stays stumm, which works fine for me as it's just such a nice place to be! This tacet? – I can take it! (Old joke but yeah.) Cheers DBaK (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
you-know-who will play for the RMF, first time, children's concert - for listening pleasure, look up the baritone's article and look for youtube and Wohnzimmer (= living room): during the pandemic, he played in his parent's living room where he was caught, accompanying himself on the grand piano, until a duet in which his mother took the piano part while he not only sang the baritone role but also played the lines of the soprano (to be seduced) on the clarinet in between; he then accompanied his cellist sister, and finally sang a song with his dad who must have been c. 85, - enjoy! (talking "musical family") --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:13, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Today's story is my little contribution to Trinity Sunday, with a church named after the Trinity (which I'd have liked to see pictured, and what would be a good description of that kind of facade? "splendid" was reverted as not neutral) and a cantata Bach conducted 300 years ago for the occasion (having composed it 9 years earlier). No trumpets. I confess that I wrote the FA without having ever listened but did today and found it quite intimate and lovely. - Today an organist who regularly steps in for our cantor presented a great version of the Widor Toccata for the postlude after the service, so sparkling and lively in the upper register that often gets drowned by the bass cantus. Which reminded me of you-know-who practicing the piece on the same instrument for a sister's wedding. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:52, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
last offer in May: photos of the river Rhine, and the adjacent Eltville rose garden, - high water and interesting weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:12, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty fourth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,335 last month to 19,422 on 3 June 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 219 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,076 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The June 2024 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
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