User talk:Floquenbeam

Even more MEH than usual

Probably only checking in every 5-10 days. Could be tomorrow, could be never, it's not a real plan or anything. Combination of busy IRL and kind of tired of this place.

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Against stupidity the very gods
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July music

Sounds like of the five pics on top of my talk, the Kafka-one would suit your mood best. (It's his birthday again, 12 years after the one with the Google doodle.) I admire the flowers for blooming although it looks dry. It took a week to get the composer of Mission: Impossible to the main page, good for frustration but also building friendship. The concert I listened to was remarkable, pic added to the performer (building encyclopedia, after all). More than a decade ago, I came to stand in line for the loo next to her, and we chatted, - unforgettable. Her husband sang "He was despised" for us a bit later, - same. The other pic was from my position when making Palestrina music in a circle of friends (... my friend in the wheelchair turned 90!). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:08, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That was certainly an eclectic set list! Floquenbeam (talk) 20:18, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for looking! - More of that kind coming today, will post afterwards. - Check out my talk, - if you have little time, listen to Gilda Cruz-Romo in the final scene of Aida, If you have more read her article, and if you have still more check out my music, some sung with me in choir, some played by friends, all heard with friends. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:48, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nicolai Gedda would have been 100 today. If you have little time, just listen to his flower song. If you have more read about Helena Tattermuschová, the cunning little vixen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today you can listen to what the DYK says. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:10, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you can listen to yesterday's concert of all Brahms. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:05, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today is Bastille Day, commemorated by a DYK as my "story" and a visit to the Bastille Opera in "music". I like the interview coming with the story, on the day before the big event, but for pomp and circumstance, the affair with 600 singing children and orchestra, and the singer dressed in the national flag, was also captured on videos, much slower. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:51, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Bastille Day, Gerda. thanks for the links, as always. Floquenbeam (talk) 17:35, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I remember a 2016 TFA in today's story, in memory of 16 July 1916. - Places takes you to "our" place again, and the previous day the location was close by, Hildegard's foundation (as the 1900s imagined it), with an American a cappella ensemble of 6 women singing, including Hildegard's music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:38, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What's the difference between that and a pizza? Looks good, in any case! And, good memories. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:27, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No yeast in the dough. Yes, good memories! - For years I postponed translating Claus Peymann, now I have to. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:48, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ps: if you have a little bit of time, I told you about Helena Tattermuschová. If you check the latest edit history, you'll find one of the longest edit summaries I remember to have written, and what happened next? All this after I started a talk page discussion and they were also reverted by PFHLai. The user whose edit history is short (but who knows to use "rvv") has a habit to delete everything on their user talk, where I tried to explain WP:BRD first. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:59, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have the page on my watchlist, but I'm not sure that's useful since I'm here only intermittently. A glance at the history of their user talk page shows that they are already on other admins' radar, and are apparently close to being blocked. It doesn't look like they understand that this is a collaborative project. Floquenbeam (talk) 13:22, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be a language problem, and I thought that they might understand someone like you better than me or my friend John ;) - What I see are three things that bother me (besides the normal attitude that their way to do things is better than that of all others): 1) put "Death" in headers where the sentence about the death is just standard information about DOD, POD and age, which doesn't need to found by searching because it's repeating the infobox, 2) reword the sentence about death to something not the standard order, 3) eliminiting spaces that are there to enhance readability in edit mode (edit summary "tidy"), - all this in more articles than that one, and seemingly in articles I work on. Guess who was among the first to arrive at Claus Peymann after I began yesterday. Nothing to complain about edits in that case, - so perhaps they are able to learn, who knows. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:45, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a somewhat blunt warning on their talk page. Let me know if they continue. If I'm not around, you can see their talk page history for other admins who are apparently familiar. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:28, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) If you have little time, just enjoy the last of the latest pics, where I think I captured a great smile (of a leading pianist who had stepped in for Chopin). - If you have more take note that they now tried to do it again, for Peymann. I reverted with another longish explanation for an edit summary. Peymann is not yet on the main page but nominated. - after edit conflict: I let you know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:31, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I know, that's what I just saw...my message on their talk page was after they did that. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:35, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought so, but now that I had typed it ... - hope you like the smile ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yep! have a good weekend. Floquenbeam (talk) 17:55, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It would have been better without this. Predictably they also showed up at a singer who died yesterday. - Good: three items around Ukraine on the main page, see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:12, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PFHLai left them a kind message. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:01, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And then they kept going. I've blocked them to try to force them to discuss things with others. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:48, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:05, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three of "my" recent deaths bios are on the main page right now, one my story today, Gary Karr, and I loved to find his breakthrough concert in 1962 as a video. In my music today I match it with 9 other double bassists, 7 conducted by a person who's birthday is today - coincidence ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:59, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Still the same number of bassists in music, but you get a new note because of more views from "our" place. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Béatrice Uria-Monzon and her story, Julia Hagen and her no story --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:35, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jahrhundertring remembered, with the picture of a woman who can't believe what she has to see - like this --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:14, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I know you hate my guts (so this has very little to do with me), but thanks for moving quickly and unblocking this guy. GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🦋 17:43, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't hate your guts as a human, if that helps. I certainly think you believe your approach to recall is best for the encyclopedia. But yes, I do often think you're doing more harm than good. But anyway, in this particular case, you're welcome. Floquenbeam (talk) 17:47, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, sorry, that wasn't meant to be an accusation or anything. I know you have thoughts on my "motivations", commenting without acknowledging the reality of that situation would have felt weird. Anyways. Again, just wanted to say thanks for both letting a new user know that yes, they do have a right to be treated fairly on Wikipedia, and for trying to save somebody who should know better from themselves before it's too late. Good day. GreenLipstickLesbian 💌🦋 05:38, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]