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June music[edit]

Enjoy today's story, related to my topic of the year: 300 years Bach's chorale cantatas, and the first was written for today. The music opens with a French overture for a chorale fantasy. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:57, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Franz Kafka died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. I uploaded a few pics from the visit of Graham87. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:31, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kafka would have been a good choice for TFA. I assume the problem is it already ran once. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:18, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, nevermind, it's run twice, both times on his birthday. Three would definitely have been pushing it! Floquenbeam (talk) 16:19, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No need to tell me, I was one of the authors ;) - and I don't like celebrating death dates, but if the Main page has it ... - - The stats were good, 173k+ the day before (no idea which website had it then) and still 31k+ yesterday. The OTD people had no room for the cantata, arguing it had to be 11 June, just because that happened to be the date of the First Sunday after Trinity in 1724. On 11 June, it's no Sunday at all, let alone the correct one, - I can't help. - Did you see that I added another pic of Graham at Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett, after his mother agreed to be seen? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't seen, cool. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:33, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story is about a tune used by Bach and Mozart. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:57, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today I wanted to write a happy song story, on a friend's birthday, but instead we have the word of thunder on top of it, which would have been better on 2 June, this year's first Sunday after Trinity. The new lilypond - thanks to DanCherek - is quite impressive. As my 2 Jun story said: Bach was fired up. - Today's Main page is rich in music, also Franz Liszt and a conductor. I try to avoid the topic infoboxes, really, but compare Liszt and Schumann: which difference do you see? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today is "the day" for James Joyce, also for Bach's fourth chorale cantata (and why does it come before the third?) - the new pics have a mammal I had to look up. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:34, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had no idea there were nutria in Europe too. They're a problem here in the states. Interesting. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:23, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was the first I saw that was not in a kind of zoo. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:26, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New pics of food and flowers come with the story of Noye's Fludde (premiered on 18 June), written by Brian Boulton. I nominated Éric Tappy because he died, and it needs support today! I nominated another women for GA in the Women in Green June run, - review welcome, and more noms planned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:26, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

nice edit summary --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Gerda. might have been a *bit* brusk, but geez. Floquenbeam (talk) 23:40, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can listen to the concert I heard yesterday. Singing today!! (see my talk) Opera afterwards! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:26, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today is a feast day for which Bach composed a chorale cantata in 1724 (and we had a DYK about it in 2012). Can't believe that Jodie Devos had to die, - don't miss her video from the Opéra-Comique at the end, - story to come. The weekend - as I told you but not many others - brought plenty of music sung and listened to, and some of it is reflected in the last two stories! + pics of good food with good company --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I know this makes me an ugly American commoner, but ... that ain't enough food on that plate! Glad the company was good, and I hope the tiny morsels were at least delicious. Dessert looked more reasonable...

Glad the weekend went well, and lots of music is always good.

Sorry to hear about Ms. Devos. Hard to believe cancer is still a thing (culturally, not medically. I know basically nothing medically). Back in the 70's everyone seemed convinced that we were just a decade or two away from obliterating it. Floquenbeam (talk) 21:31, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nice addition to a good day: Igor Stravinsky became FA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:57, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I travelled too much to find time to upload more food pics with more substance ;) - more good company and music (click on "music")! - What do you think of the DYK on the talk of Gerhard Klingenberg? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the DYK process terribly well. Does the reviewer just get to have their way? Or is there something similar to a 3rd opinion? Floquenbeam (talk) 23:24, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If the reviewer and the nominator don't understand each other, a third pair of eyes could perhaps see where that happens. That N. and I understand the guidelines differently went to ANI as you may remember, and you made this wonderful comment on my talk that every hook should begin with "... that N. is terribly important". Of course I could go by that and life would be much easier, but I'd be ashamed to say about a great stage director and head of the Burgtheater only that early in life he changed to a stage name because of the regulations of his university, with the reason given that the average reader will not know without explanation that the Burgtheater is probably the leading German-language drama theatre, and so unique that it doesn't need a place for disambiguation. My point: someone who doesn't know can read the Burgtheater article, and even if they don't, it seems interesting to me that he became head of the theatre where he stepped in at age 18, more interesting at least than the above stage name thingy which he shares with hundreds of actors, and without a hint at a future great career. One possibility in such cases is to supply an ALT hook different of all provided, or point out in which direction it could go, another to support or unstrike a hook. Or talk to N. in a way they may understand which obviously isn't given to me ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:08, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your closure[edit]

I just wanted to drop a note thanking you for closing the Cat Predation thread at ANI. You were entirely correct that it'd gone on too long, and I appreciate you taking the time to wade through enough of that quagmire to sum up consensus. Thank you for your work! EducatedRedneck (talk) 18:08, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, I hope it proves at least partially helpful. I feel like whether a problem gets resolved quickly at ANI or metastasizes into a multi-week argument is pretty much a game of chance. I wish we had a better way. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:05, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Null edit[edit]

Not certain how I am supposed to interpret that. Answer at leisure; I am fairly certain that if it was urgent you would have been clearer Elinruby (talk) 07:11, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just a lightweight way to get your last edit summary off of people’s watchlists overnight. If you want to remove something, just remove it. If the edit summary is used to make accusations they can’t respond to, it escalates everything. Doing so intentionally would have warranted another warning for battlefield behavior. Doing so without really thinking warranted a quiet replacement as the latest post. Floquenbeam (talk) 11:14, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok fair enough. You now join the ranks of the very few admins who have ever given me a good explanation of their actions when asked. Noted. Elinruby (talk) 11:43, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PS: And thanks Elinruby (talk) 11:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of users banned from GA?[edit]

(Prompted by your recent help at ANI re user SunriseInBrooklyn.) Is there some central place one could look for a list of users banned from GA? If so, the bot that maintains GAN could use that to flag their nominations, or even forbid them. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:52, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie: I very much doubt it. Technically any topic ban from GA would be logged on this page: Wikipedia:Editing restrictions#Active editing restrictions. But they're not listed/worded in a uniform-enough way to be read by a bot. After a lot of Ctrl-F'ing, there appear to be 4 GA-related restrictions, worded as T-bans from "GA", "GAN", and "Good articles". Two of those are indef-blocked users, one is just a restriction to 1 GAN at a time, and one expires in October. So this seems uncommon enough that it wouldn't make sense to reformat them (and, even harder, make sure future bans were formatted right), or list them somewhere else, so a bot could read it. I think you just got unlucky. Hopefully not too much time was wasted. BTW, it was really airshipjungleman (sp?) who discovered it, so they deserved your thanks at ANI not me. Floquenbeam (talk) 18:21, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thanks for helping sort it out, anyway! Not much time was wasted, and if it's as rare as it appears to be I agree it's not worth worrying about. Good to know about the editing restriction page -- hadn't seen that, and frankly I hope I never have to think about it again, but now at least I know it's there. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:24, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

July music[edit]

The story is today about the first published composition by Arnold Schönberg which I was blessed to hear. Listen, and perhaps read what Alma Mahler (to-be-Mahler at the time, to be precise, who was present at the first performance) said, and yes that was too much for the Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:34, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. - Did you notice that the July was taken the day when you counted the places I saw that one day? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:29, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021. It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Libuše Domanínská, the subject of yesterday's story, would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) - Overnight, Tamara Milashkina became GA and Lando Bartolini went to the Main page. I made my story about his almost unbelievable career, from Luigi in Il tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968 (with a nod to Liberty) up to Calaf in Turandot in Beijing in 1999 ;) - 4 July is also the birthday of Brian Boulton who wrote about Il tabarro, and who was a pioneer of a concise infobox in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]