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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. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:35, 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) 20:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher, by the other Graham. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:51, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 Antônio 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) 16:34, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today is a woman poet's centenary. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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) 20:48, 23 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) 14:38, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pingpong

Pinged you on meta but I have no clue what happens if you try to contribute there so you can also answer here if you prefer so you don't have to listen to that mess. Polygnotus (talk) 03:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Polygnotus: I've replied there. Pings don't work retroactively, as you tried on Meta, so I would've never found out about this discussion without your message here. Graham87 (talk) 03:35, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Yeah, the serial ping system is incompatible with my multicore brain. Polygnotus (talk) 03:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for blocking?

Hi,

Carl Bogus [his real name], a friend of mine and a thoroughly honest law professor, told me that he doesn't understand why he has been blocked from editing Wikipedia

No doubt if he knew, he could take steps to cure or avoid whatever problem may have arisen.

Thanks for any guidance.

Sincerely,

—— Shakescene (talk) 22:00, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No such account exists here. You need to specify the account name for Graham87 to help you out. --Yamla (talk) 22:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Shakescene and Yamla: Indeed. I don't recall any cases like this and can't find anything when checking my block log over the past year. But having said that, his Wikipedia article says he's in Rhode Island, which indicates that he may well be affected by my block of 2600:8805:8000::/33, which is targeted at a highly prolific and disruptive IP-hopping user (as my block log there indicates, I'd tried narrower ranges in the past but they didn't work well enough). In other words, Carl Bogus's block may well have been caused by collateral damage. Graham87 (talk) 02:20, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also in Rhode Island, but fortunately, I don't seem to be affected by this block. —— Shakescene (talk) 02:23, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Shakescene: That's because you're logged in and he probably isn't. To create an account for him, we'd need his desired username and an email address to send a temprorary password to; any of us can do this, or he can go through the request an account system. Graham87 (talk) 02:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, re the block, see this ANI discussion (which I was notified about on my talk page) and the links therein. If anyone wants to know how I became so paranoid and aggressive about blocking that I lost my adminship, this editor is probably one of the top five or so of those who contributed to making me that way. Graham87 (talk) 02:51, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Does that disruptive editor have a history of logged-in disruption too? If not, we could try allowing account creation on the range; can always re-disable if they start making the same edits logged-in. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 02:58, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tamzin: Not in the relatively recent past (that I know of), so I'd be OK with enabling account creation and seeing what happens. Graham87 (talk) 03:00, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. @Shakescene: Ask your friend if he can create an account now. If he still can't, he should try clearing his cookies. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 04:30, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Juantheman96 redux

Shame to see that your admin privileges were revoked. You were really the only admin who even dared to care about Juan's active and persistent block evasion. wizzito | say hello! 08:36, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And yes... he is still at it on the Xfinity Wifi range in the Savannah area. 2601:586:D030:0:0:0:0:0/45 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)) wizzito | say hello! 08:37, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wizzito: Thanks, yeah it wasn't fun. I'm trying to minimise how many of those sorts of cases I have to deal with these days. Graham87 (talk) 08:43, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for writing "Graham87's reconfirmation RfA debriefing". I bet it wasn't easy to put everything out there. But it will probably help at least one other person. ☆ Bri (talk) 14:56, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bri: No worries; I hope it does. It was more taxing intellectually than mentally in terms of how to put it together in a coherent way, if that makes any sense; User:Graham87/Personal Wikipedia timeline/How I lost my adminship was much harder to write from a mental perspective, probably because it was the first time I'd written those things in public. Here's a permalink to the way it is now, because I'm like that. :-) Graham87 (talk) 15:07, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have only just learned of this; I’m very sorry to hear that you had to relinquish the tools. For what it is worth, I would have supported your re-RFA, but I am glad you have stayed on as a regular editor at least. I have always found you to be very helpful and polite when I have approached you. Patient Zero^talk 07:24, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's been officially published. Graham87 (talk) 05:40, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Quick undelete

Hey, could any admins watching this undelete Talk:KROQ for me, per a request I made at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge (permalink)? I could do most of the rest from there on. I'll probably get to the history merge within the next couple of hours, if the undeletion is done within that time; I wasn't too sure about my time availability yesterday so I thought I'd post at the history merge board first. Graham87 (talk) 03:44, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 04:00, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or do I need to seldel the 2019 edit? I'm not sure exactly what your buttons can do on their own. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 04:02, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tamzin: Thanks, perfect! Will get to it later. Graham87 (talk) 04:08, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All done; I've tagged the page with the leftover redirects, Talk:KROQ-FM/temp, for speedy deletion. Graham87 (talk) 06:44, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page moves

Hello, Graham87,

When moving pages, especially en masse, please leave behind redirects. Because you didn't do so on some recent project page moves, we are left with a lot of broken redirects that need to be deleted. Just consider doing this in the future, both for the main page and for the talk page. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:19, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: Thanks for the note, and sorry about causing all that bother. I didn't leave redirects behind in that case because I'd moved the pages to bad temporary titles ... I didn't even think about broken redirects! (I've gone and re-created them all, correctly). I'll keep broken redirects in mind in the future, but I don't see myself doing many mass-page moves like that for a while yet. Graham87 (talk) 08:37, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Admin/accountcreator/edit-filter whiz page watcher help potentially needed

... For this edit filter problem, relating to my attempt to import some edits from the August 2001 database dump. Before I lost my admin userrights, I gave myself account creator on the remote chance I'd need antispoof permissions; when it was taken away from me by JJMC89, I wasn't particularly phased because I knew I wouldn't use those permissions particularly often ... this is one of the times I might need it. The import is for the JohnnyCash redirect and was inspired by this upcoming Women in Red press release, where I've been trying to establish which was our first biographical article about a woman, which was Rosa Parks (but the "JohnnyCash" page, which wasn't really a biography, was created before then). Thanks! Graham87 (talk) 13:03, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's occurred to me that the easiest way to get around this would be to add the eventcoordinator permission to those not tripped by the filter, if that's feasible. Graham87 (talk) 13:07, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Importer seems like a better thing to tie it to. Replied at EFFP. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 16:38, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Hi Graham, I don't normally send out Christmas messages, but here's one:

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,

I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)

Redrose64 🦌 (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas.

This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove.

Spread the cheer by adding {{Subst:Xmas4}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

It's still 25 December here in England; but it must be morning of 26 December by the time that you get this.

I've known of you for many years mainly through VPT and accessibility. We finally met in London, during May this year, and I hope never to forget that day - it was really great meeting you and your mother, I hope that you both enjoyed your visit. I read your subsequent conversations with Gerda Arendt with great interest. Like the two of you, but sadly to not as great a degree, I also appreciate some forms of classical music via my parents, and have a complete set of Beethoven symphonies (Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic), plus other works by other composers. But I really have to defer to the both of you wnen you discuss J.S. Bach and the other greats.

I appreciate that it's not been a good time for you in the last few months, but I really do hope that things will improve, maybe you'll regain the admin bit within the year. If you reapply, I shall certainly support. All the best wishes for 2025, Redrose64 🦌 (talk) 17:38, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64: Thanks very much, that means a lot. Yes, indeed it's Boxing Day here now. It was a blast meeting you and everyone else in London ... plus the London and Europe trip generally! Beethoven symphonies are great too, especially with Karajan; my favourite is the second movement of the 7th symphony. Yes, this year has been a very unusual mixed bag for me, with very good things (the Europe trip includeing meeting you and Gerda, the new piano, having Codeofdusk come over to Australia from the US) and very bad things (the passing of my long-time Wikipedia friend JarrahTree, computer troubles, and the loss of my adminship). I indeed hope to get my adminship back at some point. Graham87 (talk) 02:36, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]