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"Pope Trump" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Pope Trump has 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 Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 April 12 § Pope Trump until a consensus is reached. Skemous (talk) 22:42, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
Harry Potter RfDs
[edit]Thanks for doing these as well, I just wanted to let you know that before nominating these, you should check the redirect history to see if it was ever an article and then blanked and redirected (WP:BLAR) and/or merged into another article. If so, this introduces complications as there might be salvageable content and/or copyright attribution issues. Do note that some editors may have not properly followed the guidelines for merging and attribution, especially decades ago. If so, this needs to be fixed.
If it appears that there was no merge into another article, you can summarise the pre-BLAR content to justify why it's not worth salvaging, usually by stating that it was unsourced. See some of the previous RfDs listed at the various talk pages for examples. Fork99 (talk) 14:15, 29 August 2026 (UTC)
Composers
[edit]When I joined Wikipedia (in 2009), composers had no infoboxes. It became a hot topic, but - if you ask me - calmed down, and by now most composers have one. A small group of editors doesn't like them, and - as you may have guessed - the principal author of RVW is among them. The discussion on Classical music resulted in this, - a hidden notice not to add an infobox without prior consensus was removed. You could just add a box and see what happens. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 15 September 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for your response! Crazy how "principal author" is something we have to deal with on a collaborative project! I'll add one and see how it goes... TNstingray (talk) 12:49, 16 September 2026 (UTC)
- I should have known from reading through the RfC link you provided at Talk:Ralph Vaughan Williams#Infobox that this wasn't going to go well. TNstingray (talk) 18:46, 16 September 2026 (UTC)
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- Thank you for the effort. - It was a nice surprise to see Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, by Brian Boulton, principal author of Imogen Holst, on the main page where we had Bach's Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19 yesterday, - see stories. I saw the opera last year, see music. - I would like to see the conflict end, - it's just a waste of time, and not good for editor relations. But I - regarded by many as the key problem in the matter (and why they didn't tell me) - am certainly not the right person to begin peace talks. - I added to the Holst discussion, saying the same in other words. There is no contentious topic "infoboxes", there is only a contentious topic "featured articles by a small number of editors", basically three editors, and a number of articles involved below 100, possibly not even 30. They could be put under some kind of protection - as a museum of old-style article writing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:41, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
- The main page pointed me at Carl Nielsen today, - I had forgotten that we had an infobox discussion for him (featured article by 4 authors, quite unusual) in 2023! In the end, the nominator said that 2 weeks passed without further input, and added the reverted thing back. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
New cross-language page link: List of Star Wars prequel trilogy characters
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October music
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Women: today Irene Butter (don't miss the short video in her story and article), yesterday Tabea Zimmermann for her 60th (I was in the audience for that concert in 2023, long video), and some day Ileana Cotrubaș again, whose article became GA today. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:13, 9 October 2026 (UTC)
more women: Jacqueline Van Quaille (created yesterday), Hilkka Kinnunen, died at 101, and Sofia Gubaidulina who would have been 95 today - the story is about the first, the video a love duet, and you can watch the whole piece on youtube --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:14, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
I brought more music to the main page ;) - check out my story: Rossini was in Wildbad, and began to compose again. A short video] shows how his music is kept alive there by a festival at historic places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:16, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
René Jacobs 80 today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:10, 30 October 2026 (UTC)
November music
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November begins with a Bach cantata that ends with a love duet (see story) in which he invites to the wedding and she quotes a bridal song. - Judith Blegen was on the same page until recently, and I hope to see Marisa Manchado there soon. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 3 November 2026 (UTC)
Gwyneth Jones 90, a good reason to give an article some references. I saw the scene pictured in my story, - the pic features in the infobox discussion of Götterdämmerung ;) - in 2013 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:04, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
Herbert Blomstedt, remembered here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:04, 10 November 2026 (UTC)