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Seasons Greetings!

If I've forgotten anybody!

Hello there, 'tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! A big thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia in 2024! Wishing everybody a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2025! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:38, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

December music

Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. - On the train back from Paris. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:21, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today, listen to Sequenza XIV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:37, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:48, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful to see it reopened! That's cool that you were there to photograph it just a few days ago!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:57, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree! - Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:47, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I started Museum Reinhard Ernst! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:18, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that! It's fascinating! - I'll look after I completed work on bringing 5 seasonal Bach cantatas to GA. - 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 Antonio 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) 16:21, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great work on the cantatas! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:15, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Turns out that the average German Wikipedian is almost three times as productive in terms of article output when you consider active editors. We average about 57 articles per active editor, German wiki about 170 per active editor. Much less stubs too! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:21, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting! - One GA achieved, working on the third nom which should come today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today is a woman poet's centenary. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:51, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(Second GA achieved, also OTD for Christmas Day.) - Pics from Paris. - Today it's another great woman, soprano Sigrid Kehl, and I found a 1963 Christmas Oratorio detail. 10 years earlier than that cycle, Bach wrote seven cantatas for the 1724 season, based on seven songs, - my focus this year. Expect three stories for the three days they celebrated in Leipzig ;) - Enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ps: you started one of the seven, remember? Want to help expanding? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, I remember! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My first Christmas story is about Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91, 300 years today, and its song, 500 years old. Enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you're having a great day, I had a rather large Christmas meal with family and am still stuffed! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:15, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was good, smaller company, smaller meal (but still too much) ;) - My second Christmas story is about Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121, 300 years today, and its song, 500 years old. An aria is inspired by a baby leaping in his mother's womb. Enjoy! Today's meal was buffet with friends, too much again ;) - New pics from Paris. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:13, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My third Christmas story is different. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:56, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy holidays!

Hello Dr. Blofeld: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:30, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:30, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers Mr. Linkin! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:08, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~
Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua!
God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce!
Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством!
শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스!
สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành!
Весела Коледа! ~ Meri Kirihimete!

Hello, Dr. Blofeld! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 14:45, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers Captain, love the different language one! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:09, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Seasons greetings

Hello Dr. Blofeld: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:55, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers 7+6, can't believe it's this time again! Where did 2024 go?? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:14, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Peace and Love

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, people's rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 22:00, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Buster! And very true! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 05:31, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings

		Season's Greetings
		Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow (1563) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 17:36, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent choice! Cheers John. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:07, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nadolig Llawen

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.
Happy Christmas and Best wishes for a peaceful 2025: "Gabriel's Message" performed by the Winchester Cathedral Choir.
("Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen", Basque folk carol)

Martinevans123 (talk) 13:12, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Diolch! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:58, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American film industry accountants has been nominated for merging

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Merry Christmas!

	A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
	Have a great Christmas, and may 2025 bring you joy, happiness – and no trolls or vandals! Cheers SchroCat (talk) 08:33, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers Schro, always appreciate you stopping by at Christmas! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

Many thanks for the Christmas greeting, best wishes to you too for a happy Christmas and new year! Warofdreams talk 22:46, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thanks, and thank you, have a good one! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:43, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Christmas

Love the dragon decoration! Thanks, all the best to you! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:45, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas, Dr. Blofeld!
Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 23:02, 22 December 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Proposed deletion of Omsk Aviation Technical School

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Nomination of Salim Yahya al-Kharega for deletion

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Happy Holidays

Hello Dr. Blofeld: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Abishe (talk) 15:11, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks Abishe, hope you're having a good one!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:24, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Wings (1927 film)

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Proposed deletion of Karagama

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Nomination of Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu for deletion

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Seasons Greetings

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Thanks! A Happy New Year to you and everybody! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:29, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January music

Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). - I saw a lovely opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, - see here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Frohes neues Jahr! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:15, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Danke! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:32, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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2025 Update from Women in Green

Hello Dr. Blofeld:

2024 has wrapped up, and what a full year it was for WikiProject Women in Green! Over the past year, we hosted two edit-a-thons, one themed around women's history and another on women around the world. We also managed to achieve most of our 2024 annual goals, nominating 75 articles for GA, reviewing 64 GA nominations, nominating 8 articles for FAC, peer reviewing 3 articles and reviewing 10 FAC nominations. Excellent work, and thank you to everyone involved!

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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 4 § Category:Airports in Tahiti

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Proposed deletion of Zabaʼir ʽUdwan

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