Sarritt

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Thank you and sympathy

Thank you for letting us know about your father, and you have my most sincere sympathy. He was very much appreciated around here for his thoughtfulness and humor, and we will all miss him. He was at all times concerned with presenting the truth of the matter at hand, and he played an important role in framing some of Wikipedia's most contentious subjects. Acroterion (talk) 01:10, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

What Acroterion said better than I could. I placed rose hips and a few more words on your father's talk. Best wishes, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:11, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

I just wanted to echo the sentiments expressed above regarding your father's death, and especially to offer you condolences in this doubtless extremely difficult time. Also, I wanted to inform you that I recently created an article about your father: Raymond Arritt. IntoThinAir (talk) 15:57, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you all for your kind thoughts. It's been wonderful to see the outpouring of memories on his talk page, and we've all been struck by just how consistently he's described (and how consistent it is with the man we knew off-Wiki). IntoThinAir, thank you for creating the bio article for my dad. I know that it's probably a sourcing violation for me to just tell you this on my talk page, but for the sake of accuracy: my dad's stroke was the evening of Tuesday, November 13, and doctors pronounced him brain dead the next day (not the next week). Sarritt (talk) 21:01, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the response and you're welcome. I said in the article that the stroke was the previous week because I was going by an Iowa State Daily article that was published last Monday (November 19) which said: "Raymond Arritt, professor of agronomy at Iowa State, died Wednesday after experiencing a stroke last week." But now I see that I seem to have misread it: it was saying his death and the stroke were both the week before the article was published (whereas I had thought it was saying the stroke happened the week before he died). I will fix the article. IntoThinAir (talk) 21:35, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Raymond Arritt article

I know that you are aware that an article on your father has been created. I have suggested that it appear on the Did You Know? section of the main page. Both for the article and maybe for that appearance, it would be great if you could provide a suitable photograph of your father. Is that possible? William M. Connolley, since you have email contact, can you ask Sarritt to consider this request? Many Thanks, EdChem (talk) 12:12, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Looking for a good photo now. Forgive my ignorance--where should I upload it/send it? Sarritt (talk) 18:55, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Sarritt, in the sidebar to the left of any page, even this one, there is a link called "Upload file" in the "tools" section. Please be advised that, for copyright reasons, the person who took the photo should be the one who uploads it. Alternatively, Wikipedia will need a copyright release to the Public Domain, or to Creative Commons for re-use and modification, from the photographer who took the photo. Softlavender (talk) 19:14, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the photo, and I add my condolences for your loss. Flibirigit (talk) 00:27, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

I agree with Flibirigit completely, thank you for the photograph, it is much appreciated.  :) EdChem (talk) 02:02, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Archived

Sarritt, regarding your post to Softlavender: your wish is of course my command, but I really loved to come to the page full of what your dad said, which is now full of what we said. As I suggested to Softlavender: how about keeping at least the threads where he spoke in the last - what? month, quarter, year, - you define the period. The present archives are nothing for me to understand, - why is what he wrote last in archive 6, things from 2017 in archive 8, and archive 9 is empty? Sorry to bother you with this, - you will have other matters to take care of. Best wishes. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:57, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

ps: we had this version a week ago, for example. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

The archives were messed up when Andy installed the bot archiving, and then someone reverted the TP removals but did not revert the additions to the archives. That created duplicates when I did manual archiving. The archives have all been straightened out now -- they go perfectly chronologically, and the last two archives are blank because the dupes have been removed. Softlavender (talk) 21:27, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Where is the thread "Precious" now, please? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Here: [1]. -- Softlavender (talk) 22:07, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Now, aftet you added it. Thank you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:12, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

You mean, after Andy set up archiving [2], the bot started archiving [3], you started bringing posts back from the archive, out of order [4], [5], [6], so that when Andy archived it was out of order [7], Fram reverted the talkpage to pre-archiving without clearing the archives [8], Andy reverted that [9], you re-added things from the archive, out of order [10], SN54129 re-reverted the archiving, without clearing the archives [11], I manually archived [12], [13], [14], you reverted, without clearing the archives [15], [16], [17], and I reverted you [18], and since there was massive duplication plus numerous posts out of order in the archives because no one had cleared the archives when they reverted Andy on the talkpage, so I had to spend 50 minutes removing all the duplicates in the archives and putting everything in chronological order? Softlavender (talk) 22:50, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

I was talking to Sarritt. You could have left the talk page in peace, not spending any time on something controversial, without an open discussion. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:30, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

2019

Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy 2019

a time for thanks and praise

begin it with music and memories

I wrote the wishes when we hoped to have your father's DYK on 28 December, and didn't remove it. I hope you agree to quoting his rules, under the link "inspiration"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Gerda, I'm not sure where this is located, but in general that sounds good to me--we love the rules and are happy to share them. Sarritt (talk) 02:12, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

You click on the big Happy 2019 in the box above, and then scroll a bit, or click on "inspiration". Once the day finally comes that your father is honoured on the Main page I'll move them up. I had hoped for 1 January, to start the year with a smile and sharing, but had mixed feelings because our loal music pictured was also great ;) - I guess I would have been more persistent without that little conflict. - I added the line that brought him to my attention to my editnotice, which everybody gets as a greeting who edits my talk page, including myself when I reply, - a good reminder to self. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK finally happened today! Please check out "Happy" once more, for a smile, and sharing, and resolutions. You know I wanted that for 1 January, but then wasn't sad about having our music pictured instead. Not too late for resolutions, New Year or not. DYK that he probably kept me on Wikipedia, back in 2012? (I think I told you.) By the line (which brought him to my attention, and earned the first precious in br'erly style) that I added to my editnotice, in fond memory? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:03, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

This is fantastic, Gerda, thank you for letting me know. One of his colleagues also emailed us about it this morning. It's so nice to have little reminders of him show up. I took a screenshot to keep. Sarritt (talk) 17:33, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

It goes to two archives, the Main page history (already written: 12 January 2019) and the Recent additions (will happen at midnight, you can go from the entry on the talk page, but then will have to scroll back, - in short it will end at tomorrow), but I prefer the other. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:07, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

I just stumbled over this thread: User talk:Shock Brigade Harvester Boris/Archive 4#He Lives!, - and in a way he does. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:09, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

And another: User talk:Shock Brigade Harvester Boris/Archive 4#Please never archive this talk page, written in 2012. How I agree! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:15, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

When I miss someone here, dead or alive, I write an article. For your father I wrote Im Frieden dein, o Herre mein, in memory of two rules with a biblical source. It's on the Main page now, DYK? Will translate it to German also. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:26, 2 February 2019 (UTC)