User talk:Graham87

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300 years ago, an unusual Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

... 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) 14:53, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Today you can listen to the 2010 premiere of a violin sonata with the composer also the pianist. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mozart music for today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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) 19:53, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Look for Wind of Change in music, and for vacation in places. The story is about a unique Bach cantata that relates to a current DYK nom. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:36, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Graham, just one left on Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge/37 and just looking a second set of eyes on this is case I missed something as my brain is still a bit murky recovering from a virus. The two deleted edits of the target article Beibarys Atyrau are just a redirect and bot fixing that redirect. To me it looks like the rest is a mix of parallel histories and any actual copying was the same author anyway, so we should just leave and clear? Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 20:39, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@KylieTastic: Yes, I've done that. Even *I* wouldn't do the history merge there because of the parallel histories. And on the highly unlikely event that another similar bot report is made, that particular item won't be detected as a cut-and-paste move any more because of this undeletion by @Dreamy Jazz:, so there's no need to tag it with }. Graham87 (talk) 23:38, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] Thanks KylieTastic (talk) 23:42, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Graham87 Do you know a place on Wikipedia where sombody can to proofread an article like this one User:Aemijork/Vanessa_Hafenbrädl

In Germany we got the "Wikipedia:Übersetzungswerkstatt" but it seems dead.

Thank you Aemijork (talk) 11:32, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Aemijork: Unfortunately there isn't a page for your particular situation. But on skimming the opening paragraph, I notice some duplicate text that I've removed. You could submit it the page to articles for creation, but that will take a while. However, if you have a close personal connection/conflict of interest relating to the artist, you should submit it using that route, because the conflict of interest guideline discourages direct article editing in that case. The article strikes me as a bit promotional in its current form, but is also fairly long which would dissuade people from working on it. If you need help moving the page to the article namespace, feel free to ask at the teahouse, a friendly space for new users. Graham87 (talk) 11:54, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] Oh i see and thanks for the help. Danke Aemijork (talk) 11:59, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

My request at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#Special:Undelete/Talk:Jewish exodus from Arab lands appears to have gotten lost in the shuffle, so I dug a bit further in case there were extenuating circumstances relating to the deletion and found out that it was presumably acccidentally deleted as part of a mass deletion by @El C: in 2007 related to a bot that had gone haywire. With the assistance of GPT 5.2 (and a few false starts in which I figured out exactly what I wanted to know),I made this database query, which came up with a few more pages that should be undeleted, as follows (I've manually filtered out a few where the deletions were unproblematic):

• Special:Undelete/Talk:Jewish exodus from Arab lands, as discussed above, the page with by far the highest number of revisions affected here
• Special:Undelete/Talk:Jerusalem artichoke, appears to have contained a bit of early discussion.
• Special:Undelete/Talk:Imad Fares, appears to have just contained maintenance templates per this deletion log entry. I would undelete it if I could but I'd understand that other people wouldn't and I don't think an undeletion would be essential here.
• Special:Undelete/Talk:Institute for Middle East Understanding, was earlier deleted as an orphaned page but the corresponding article was restored. I'd definitely restore the older edits if they contained text, otherwise, like the previous entry, meh.
• Special:Undelete/Talk:Cave of Adullam: seems to have contained a short but productive comment from 2004 that should be restored.

Anyone who sees this, feel free to do the relevant undeletions. I'll also write a message on the deleting admin's talk page and on the requests for undeletion page. Thanks. Graham87 (talk) 11:32, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For those curious about the automated deletion summaries linked above, see this 2008 discussion. Graham87 (talk) 12:20, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] Done, undeleted all. Turned out the Institute for Middle East Understanding had some (fairly trivial) extra content in addition to the maintenance templates. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:42, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the three edits you imported there more properly belong in the history of Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:52, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Pppery: Yeah I thought of that ... but the gap in history would be quite large (too much for me) in that case). The history at "help desk" is all continuous ... but one of us can move the edits if we want. Graham87 (talk) 03:12, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] The gap can be partially filled with the history from "Wikipedia help desk" in the August 2001 DB dump. And I'd rather keep the two bits of the history together, even with a known gap, then pretend the gap doesn't exist by scattering them to two completely separate pages. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:26, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] @Pppery: Fair enough, I'll import/move the edits. This comment will be a permalink that I'll link to in the import summary. Graham87 (talk) 03:35, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've just been watching BBC News - there was a story about a boy called Austin Appelbee, who swam 4 km to get help for his mother, brother and sister, who were adrift off Quindalup beach and heading out into Geographe Bay. I think that's your local area? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:40, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64: Yes, very close ... he was hospitalised at Busselton Health Campus. An amazing feat ... wow, didn't know that story made it to the BBC too! Graham87 (talk) 04:26, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] and now I've seen it on CNN! charlotte 👸♥ 20:46, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] @Queen of Hearts: Wow! This link worked for me. Graham87 (talk) 00:21, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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From vacation, so missed some interesting stories, such as about Jubilant Sykes. Today about Richie Beirach, jazz pianist. Which of his music samples would you have chosen? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]