User Talk: JackofOz

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January music

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300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

: And Happy New Year to you, Gerda. -- Jack of Oz [[User talk:JackofOz#top|[pleasantries]]] 02:35, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
:: Thank you - inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
:: Mozart music for today! - Thank you for having started Isaiah Jackson (conductor) ↗, - can you help to bring the article to a standard presentable on the main page? Unsourced facts, some degree of quoting to closely from the sources, jumps in the chronology ... - he deserves better. I can't even see the obit. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:: 20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor ↗ (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13 ↗, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:46, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion ↗ of :The Old Dark House (disambiguation) ↗

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February music

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Today some 1510 carving ↗ from St. Valentin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Today something new: a 100th birthday of someone alive, György Kurtág ↗! In 2004 I was there when he and his wife played for the Rheingau Musik Festival ↗ where he was the featured composer. They played as the 2019 DYK said, on an upright piano, - listen, the last piece was the same. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:56, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

My story today is again about Percy Grainger ↗ (FA by Brian Boulton), this time with a video that surprised me. - I saw that you wrote an article about one of his works, - thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
: He's always been seriously underrated. -- Jack of Oz [[User talk:JackofOz#top|[pleasantries]]] 03:16, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Yes, agree, - how about an article about the piece he played for the BBC, - just a redirect so far? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:46, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Today's main page ↗ features four biographies I helped to bring there, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, - a record for me, I believe ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:40, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

March music

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Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page ↗, I'm most proud of a woman's work ↗, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:37, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:44, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

more Bach in story and music on Palm Sunday, imagine: four Easter cantatas in today's concert, and more places in Cyprus! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:20, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Copyright issues on James Matra ↗ from 2013

As an FYI, I've just removed a paragraph from James Matra ↗ that you appeared to have copied from the ADB back in 2013.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=541958809 ↗ GreenLipstickLesbian💌 ↗🧸 ↗ 06:34, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

:Category:Novels by George Harmon Coxe ↗ has been nominated for deletion

<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">48px|alt=|link= ↗</div>:Category:Novels by George Harmon Coxe ↗ has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization ↗ guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at '''the category's entry ↗''' on the categories for discussion ↗ page. Thank you. ScalarFactor (talk) 18:29, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas ↗

You are invited to participate in the '''Destubathon of the Americas ↗''', a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ ''Dr. Blofeld'' 17:06, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Moving E. T. A. Hoffman

Hi, you have moved E. T. A. Hoffman ↗ from a correct title (E._T._A._Hoffman) to an incorrect title (E.T._A._Hoffmann). Any chance you could undo? Cilantro-Breath-Overdrive (talk) 06:53, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

: Fixed now. My apologies. (I should know better than to trust eyes as old as mine.) -- Jack of Oz [[User talk:JackofOz#top|[pleasantries]]] 11:55, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
::Brilliant, thank you! :) Cilantro-Breath-Overdrive (talk) 11:56, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Redirect listed at Redirects for discussion ↗

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Redirects you have created have been listed at redirects for discussion ↗ to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines ↗. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at '''{{slink| Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 May 19#caffè breva }}''' until a consensus is reached.  '''consarn ↗ (talk beige) ↗ (count ribs) ↗''' 14:10, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

June 2026

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