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this again apparently, but now with someone's apparent sock on my talk page. Will wonders never cease? PICKLEDICAE🥒 19:41, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
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pics and thoughts on 13 August -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:56, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
If I'd seen your message I'd have held off and you could have assessed it as you suggested. It just seemed like with several editors saying they thought the conversation had lost its legitimacy, and the confusion from the multiple voting, it would be better to start afresh.
Anyway, hopefully a clear outcome will emerge one way or the other. Cheers — Amakuru ( talk) 15:45, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
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That' a good metaphor. And as to being here less, I see it's quality over quantity. Best -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 14:35, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
How long would it take to type, "I understand the concerns as expressed, I apologize for the disruption, and I will (fill in remedy here)? -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 21:40, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi Floq, saw the note you removed, and I can't speak for ST but I do see varying degrees of commitment in !votes as well. It's not a (Oppose.)<(Strong Oppose.)<(Uber Oppose.); more like (Oppose.<nul>)<(Oppose, Not sure why but something seems fishy)<(Oppose, because of these relevant reasons). The later tends to contribute more to the consensus building discussion. Not all 'crats may treat things this way, but I doubt any hold it against. For example your support comment (#62 ni this RFA has commentary that is relevant to other commentary in the discussion), and I'll likely consider it a "stronger" support then if you would have said "#Support, meh." or "#Super Support, froody dude". Nutshell: For me, it's not about the superlatives - but the content. — xaosflux Talk 17:39, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
I saw your post, too, and largely agree with Xaosflux. The arguments made are what counts for how strong or weak someone's participation is; it doesn't matter how "strong" someone's comment is just because they say so; if someone who casts a "strong oppose" has been contradicted with evidence, their argument is weak. Similar applies to a "weak" support; if they have a lot of misgivings and say so, their support can be considered weak; but if they state "weak" but only give strong reasons to support, then their "weak support" isn't so weak after all.
Tl;dr, it doesn't matter how strong or weak you claim your comment is; how you justify it is what counts.
(I'd better get back to that RfA now!) Acalamari 23:55, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
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1 September: I remember the Vespro della Beata Vergine, 2 September: the last of the Rheingau Musik Festival concerts, and today we can read The Story of Mr Sommer, and follow Ruth Lapide. - The view from the place in the Rheingau you know was exquisite after the inspiring music of Michael Wollny and Wolfgang Haffner who improvised the Johannisberg Blues. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:14, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Today's recommended reading: Opera in Ukraine -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:01, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
Today's Lars Vogt -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:16, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
a rainbow pic today, and a deer yesterday (but hard to see) - Jubilate Deo -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:39, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Floquenbeam, I'm having an issue with an Arabic user from Tunisia who keeps editing his country's football team's article. The article has always been written poorly (translated online or written by a non-native English speaker) with too much unnecessary content in the history section. I trimmed and copyedited it in August. For other countries' football/soccer teams, the history section is just an overview, and he keeps insisting reinstating the unnecessary content. I told him to stop edit warring and thankfully he listened, although he did it way too much. He has reinstated it again, so I removed it. He even once edited Senegal's football article and I had to revert it. The World Cup is 1.5 months away and we need as many soccer/football articles looking as good as possible. Should we block this user and/or ban him from editing articles relating to football/soccer? Should he stick to the Arabic Wikipedia? Thanks, Nearly but not perfect ( talk) 08:55, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I was up in the air between rpa, revert, or revert and revdel. Do you think it qualifies for rd2? ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 01:28, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Hey, she is a great user. I am sure the account is compromised. Have you notified ArbCom? It's an admin account, which you probably noticed already. Jehochman Talk 05:13, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Rather than post more verbiage at ANI and A/R/C, I'll move the discussion here. I still think there's no rush to press forward with a desysop, as I now think one will probably naturally happen in due course in a similar trajectory to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Carlossuarez46. I suspect the arbs are privately discussing this right now, and I think we'll hear something one way or the other in the next couple of days. As nobody is calling for an unblock (and I admit I was sort of playing devil's advocate a bit on A/R/C) and if that remains the case, then my interpretation of the policy is "Editors who are indefinitely blocked by community consensus, or remain indefinitely blocked after due consideration by the community, are considered "banned by the Wikipedia community"" and who on earth is going to argue that a banned user can't be desysopped? The main point is, I think, the issue is important (people need to be reassured in no uncertain terms this is not how administrators behave) but it doesn't need to be done urgently, if that makes sense. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:24, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
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In your statement, you missed my favourite - "Arbcom sometimes finds it hard to let a case request go without imposing at least some mark of their authority"... those scoundrels! — Amakuru ( talk) 21:01, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Stop War Editing or you will be blocked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NaNO2-jz ( talk • contribs) 17:51, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Your superimposed topic ban [1] is a bit incomprehensible, please clarify two issues:
for closing the sprawling closure review. Here's a sandwich.
Firefangledfeathers ( talk / contribs) 12:15, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
And let's finish off the meal with some Baked Alaska. Jehochman Talk 22:23, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
(In my Leonides of Sparta voice)-- This! Is! Wikipedia!! joke best, -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 02:08, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi Floquenbeam, in the open Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block arbitration case, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed which relates to you. Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 00:06, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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Today is Erntedank in Germany, thanksgiving, and we celebrated our village's 650th anniversary, and had the dress rehearsal for Verdi's Requiem with an interesting band of marimba, piano, horn, bass, timpani and drum, - concert tomorrow, our national holiday. Seeing a pic I took on the Main page was also a nice harvest. - I would have waited but this tree is in Rüdesheim ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:17, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for bringing an end to the recent issue I was involved with on the noticeboard. I appreciate a line being drawn under the matter. SquireJames ( talk) 19:58, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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.in the next week, anyone in this thread says anything remotely critical about anyone else in the thread, let me know and I will block them for a week....@Le Marteau:, you're about one nasty comment away from being blocked indef
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Your sea lioning was pathetic and uncomprehending. If I have to read another line from the likes of you, with your faux concern and your hidden agendas to get the likes of me to finally STFU and stop attacking "Bon Courage", I think I'm going to vomit - @ Le Marteau
( See here on my talk page) — Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 02:05, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
Hey Floq! Haven't rapped atcha in a while. I don't know if you were aware, but they added a really cool new feature:
It's on the first page of user profile. Makes it much more difficult for bad actors to harass editors with false password resets. – xeno talk 15:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi Floq, please let's not fall out over this. We're both doing what we think is right on the project and maybe I am having a grumpy day, who knows. But it's not every day you wake up to find people accusing you of casting aspersions and generally causing mayhem. In retrospect I shouldn't have brought the issue up, it would seem, and I only did so because it's something that irks me, even if it doesn't irk you. Just for the record though, this really isn't commonplace at ITN. We all tweak the template at will, obviously, but I don't know of others who regularly reinstate reverted changes, and the only other instance I can think of is the case Black Kite alluded to in the thread. As I said, I'd like clarity one way or the other, that's all. Cheers anyway, and I hope you're having a good day aside from all this drama. — Amakuru ( talk) 18:41, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
God you're funny!-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:44, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
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celebrating GW60 (birthday of my first subject) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:17, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
3 concerts in 3 days can now be found together: a Ukrainian chamber choir, my cellist and composer friend's 60th birthday music (with a world premiere and that overview about his career), and Bach's ultimate statement about life and death -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:52, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
U.S. vacation pics -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 03:41, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving - Bach said it in music for peace - you archive so fast, I'd have added the latest pics but will find them linked on my talk -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:17, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
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consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.Hello, Floquenbeam.
This isn't an urgent request. You were the acting administrator, so that's why I am asking you about this. There is a long time editor and admin who was blocked, desysoped, and I think banned in mid-October 2022. You were the one who did the blocking. I think an official investigation was held then she was banned. Her user name begins with A, crud, now I have forgotten it. It is something like Athena but lengthier. Might you or someone consider hat noting her user talk page?
Here's why I say this: Most of Athena...'s user talk page is a lengthy to-and-fro that makes everyone involved appear not-at-their-best, i.e. lots of vitriol. Also, the name of the person who was the focal point of the entire thing, but who was not an instigator of anything, is mentioned. That might be embarrassing to her. Her first name (Wikipedia user name, I assume, although it isn't linked, but I guess, hope it isn't a real life name!) is Isabella. She wanted to be an admin. Perhaps she is now, idk. At a minimum, I think her name should probably be deleted from Athena...'s user talk page as a matter of privacy. FeralOink ( talk) 14:27, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
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I am pleased to award this long-overdue MBE to you in recognition of your outstanding contributions to Wikipedia. Your input is always very thoughtful, reasonable, intelligent, and logical, and you manage to keep a sense of humor. Your work has been exemplary!
I've been meaning to give this to you for a really long time, but when you jumped in to defend me, I knew I had to finally go for it. Thank you very much for that, and, more broadly, for EVERYTHING (hehe) you do around here! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:50, 7 December 2022 (UTC) |
Wow, thanks Mandarax, that's an impressive-looking barnstar. Sorry you're dealing with all that. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 00:33, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
The first part of what you wrote is a welcome addition at RFA, the second part hurts. I certainly can change my mind. I have been contributing here for some time without incident. I have reformatted my question there. I had much respect for you after you intervened in a dispute a while back. I also supported your admin candidacy. I just stopped by to say it is not necessary to make hurtful comments about an editor just because of a question at RFA. cheers and happy holidays. Lightburst ( talk) 22:48, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Get well soon! I wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a prosperous new Year. Best regards RV ( talk) 09:40, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
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Have some Darwinbish repellent. :) - ZLEA T\ C 01:59, 19 December 2022 (UTC) | Darwinbish is irresistibly attracted by the Darwinbish repellent and makes off with it, leaving a Floquenbeam repellent in its place. darwin bish 21:29, 23 December 2022 (UTC). |
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trip to Paris, imagine -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:46, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
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I have edited here for 16 years, with more than 200,000 edits, and have rarely encountered a more combative user, as User:Danceswithedits if they continue to make baseless accusations and personal attacks, please would you consider revoking talk page access? I accepted their draft United States Civil Rights Trail at WP:AFC, and a number of other users reverted the "extra" content he edit warred to include but I seem to be taking the flack for it and it's wearing me down! Theroadislong ( talk) 19:43, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Howdy. In regards to this revert, no worries, I'll get out of the middle of this since I am not an admin. But you may want to chat/sync up with BusterD, who gave the user a final warning for removing talk page comments. I feel like it might be a bit confusing for one admin to go "you will be blocked if you remove this" and another admin to go "actually, it's OK to remove this". Hope this helps. Thanks and have a great day. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 19:40, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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Since you have clearly worn out a wooden mallet after the result of this ANI thread, you need a replacement. Here you go. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:30, 27 January 2023 (UTC) |
Hi Ritchie, thanks! Now I can cancel my Amazon mallet subscription. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 19:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
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Bish, Gerda, Chris, Ealdgyth, and RV (again):
Thanks for the New Years wishes! Considering I didn't really do anything around WP last year, it's nice to still be thought of. All the best to you and yours this new year. Here's hoping (at least for me) that it's pretty much nothing like 2022! -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 19:54, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
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Gerda, if you remember my youngest, you might enjoy knowing that starting yesterday, she's in Genova for a month. I'm concerned she may never return; she sent a selfie at breakfast at an outdoor table on a steep and narrow brick-paved street with focaccia and a cappuccino (what she calls her first "real" cappuccino), and I don't think I've ever seen her so happy. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 16:22, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
"Note to self: Remember to never volunteer to help out in contentious areas". I should have known... Ealdgyth ( talk) 22:14, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. It may indeed be time to give my tp stalkers a break. Mind you, I tend to be more pleased than annoyed when I see the familiar one-two of vandalism-revert on my page, because my tp watchers are so incredibly fast. As I told them recently, when they revert my page, lightning stands still! Bishonen | tålk 19:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC).
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yesterday's cantata, 300 years later -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:15, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Every once in a while I read your userpage for entertainment. Still find much of it funny, even in reruns. That said, if you'll forgive a fussy grammarian, "Mrs. Floquenbeam, while watching my daughter and I both "playing" at the same time" should be "Mrs. Floquenbeam, while watching my daughter and me both "playing" at the same time" (emphasis added by me). For some reason I want to sign off as "Cheers!", even though we're both American. I think it comes from watching too much British TV.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:24, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
"I don't think any of you know squat about anything other than sports": That's not true. We know squat about late 18th century poetry. And sports. Floquenbeam ( talk) 19:02, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
Given your closure at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1118#Redirects created by recently discovered HughD sockpuppet, should this tagging be undone? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 05:53, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
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Sometimes I feel like I'm more interested in people not losing the bit than they are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 17:54, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
In another ANI moment, I agree with your assessment on the IP issue, but please have a read of the user pages of some of the involved editors... there's one that might not be coping with this. Catfish Jim and the soapdish 19:26, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
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today: where I learned opera -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:31, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks (I escaped the pocket) - the RfC with the non-neutral invitation to fight was closed, and went rather peacefully - what can we learn from it? - I saw today that Brian Boulton added an infobox to Imogen Holst in 2014, edit summary "risk" - should it still be a risk in 2023 to follow his example? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:09, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
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"Such comments are surely not what Arbs want during the case request; and that doesn't seem like anything they'd welcome at the evidence phase either." I'm curious as to your view of why not, esp. case request? ARC strikes me as the obvious place for the community to express loss of trust? Levivich ( talk) 20:22, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
My bad, the page was open but not updated...do you want me to remove? Valereee ( talk) 18:56, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Hey Floq.
I saw your notice at the top of the page. This is just so you know in case the discussion gets archived before you see the notifications, I pinged you at ANI in relation to this discussion about Justanother2. Context is in relation to your comments at this February 2022 ANI thread involving the same editor, where you asked to be informed if the user's behaviour was causing problems.
No worries if you're not about, and don't see this until after it's been resolved in some way. Just wanted to let you know the context for the notifications :) Sideswipe9th ( talk) 20:11, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Gah, when you put it that way, he sounds like some sort of Elon Musk -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 17:45, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
I just hopped over after seeing your post on IH's page, and I was going to try and say something witty about how these situations play out. It was at that point that I saw the large MEH banner and though, "yeah, that's about right."
Meh. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 17:43, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Here's where we find out just how psychic you are.... SarekOfVulcan (talk) 23:06, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
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My story today is about the Alchymic Quartet, - I went away from DYK but it's the last one from last year. - The songs are about vacation, continued. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:47, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
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...for this. Expect to be Ingenuity's first block. Abecedare ( talk) 18:05, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
The irony is that if you had remembered not to make the second oops, you wouldn't have made either of them! :) Izno ( talk) 17:38, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
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I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day (mentioned before). And the following day we sang it for the composer ;) - And today we remember a composer who created music especially for us! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:07, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Pentecost was full of music, and my story today is that 300 years ago today, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:53, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hey Floq, I just saw your edit summary at MastCell's talk page, and I'm taking it in the context of you making a similar correction at my talk today. Please don't let the discussion with me leave you feeling bad.
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You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 21, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 19:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey Floq, I just wanted to say thank you very much for backing up my comment on ITN and pointing out that I was not, in fact, making a bad faith accusation as GCG claimed. As you mentioned, I was lamenting on how certain !voters are able to (unintentionally or not) state an incorrect fact in their !votes, and it suddenly gains steam when others say "per that rationale". With no real means for fact-checking and with an already subjective consensus-finding process, an admin on ITN is generally left with no choice but to accept that rationale if it comprises the majority of !votes. This is along the lines of what I was getting at, but I suppose my statement was so short and ambiguous that it could have been construed as accusing one another of lying.
Sometimes it feels like I'm in Crazyland where up is down and black is white, when it comes to ITN, which is partially prompting my mental health break -- along with some changes in my life that remind me that Wikipedia is not therapy. I'm glad to have your voice of reason present in that discussion. Cheers, ⛵ WaltClipper -( talk) 13:49, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
This will be my final remarks on the subject.
I just saw your explanation on Tryptofish's page, and you giving him the benefit of the doubt. After all, it's not like he's a new user. He's been here 15 years.
So have I.
Not once did I have anyone even attempt to give me the benefit of the doubt.
I was worried I'd burned bridges but it turns out there were none to begin with.
-- Golbez ( talk) 02:27, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
I know you did the right thing. And I know I said it was the last line. I ... I think I just wanted to share how hurt I was with the person who helped. Sorry to rip the scab off again. I'll go. -- Golbez ( talk) 02:48, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/AlisonW. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/AlisonW/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 30, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 23:51, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
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On my talk are links to two musical videos, one is a full concert I enjoyed, opening of the RMF at Eberbach Abbey, and the other a short introduction to a "forgotten composer", which actually has me (small, short) in the background during the closing statement by the new festival's initiator (recorded just before the concert) while I was talking to the recipients of the new prize. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:06, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
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The proposed decision for the AlisonW case has been posted. Statements regarding the proposed decision are welcome at the talk page. Please note that comments must be made in your own section. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 15:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
I have moved the discussions under Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022 § Topics to review for 2023 to Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023. Please feel free to continue discussion on the 2023 talk page! isaacl ( talk) 21:42, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry about you getting sucked into the Dysfunction Vortex. – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 18:57, 16 July 2023 (UTC) |
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute/Evidence. Please add your evidence by August 4, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 13:04, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
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Why ask for objections if you're going to close something so quickly regardless of the feedback you get. Which in this case amounted to one (non-admin) objection and 1 (admin) for whom it was not their first choice but can live with it and regardless of the uninvolved admin feedback upthread, which had read to me when I looked at it 5 hours ago as heading towards removing TPA. Like if the feedback you get isn't going to matter just close the thread in your preferred way, which isn't my preferred way but feels with in admin discretion. I wouldn't have said anything if not for the rapid close after your proposal and I'm certainly not going to undo it (because again your decision feels within discretion and so I'm going to respect it the same way I'd have hoped for a decision for TPA to be revoked would have been respected) but suggest that you only ask for agreement if you're willing to actually wait for that agreement to happen. Barkeep49 ( talk) 15:03, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Floquenbeam, I have seen you around goodness knows how many times over the years, and I have always respected you as an administrator. (Which doesn't mean I have never disagreed with you, nor does it contradict that fact that you have at least a couple of times indicated that you have had no respect for decisions I have made which you didn't agree with.) On this occasion, though, I think you were mistaken. Your closure did not come by any means reflect anything which could be regarded as consensus in the discussion, and no matter how strongly you feel that your view was right, you should not have imposed that view while it was clear that it was not in line with so large a proportion of the comments which had been posted. JBW ( talk) 16:46, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I agree to a very considerable degree with your view of the administrators' noticeboards, and for precisely that reason I stay away from those boards unless something happens which leads me to one of them on a particular occasion. I don't, however, agree with how you have applied that view on this occasion. I also wonder, if you believe that the way you expressed yourself above was not "mocking" what I said, what you would regard as mocking. JBW ( talk) 21:17, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
First, just want to say, I appreciated the AN close. Second, if per the above you don't wish to express an opinion here, that's of course fine. This is just a curbside (wow, not in Wiktionary). I'll also throw in pings to Rosguill since they restored the close, to UtherSRG per comments on my talk, and to Drmies since he made the tragic mistake of nominating me for RfA with a co-nom who makes very few blocks, and thus getting all my tough block questions forevermore. (It's never stopping, Doc. Not till they've desysopped both of us. Maybe not even then.)
Anyways, Special:Diff/1167582128. I hate these situations. It's de jure a TBANvio, from someone who's on his last last last warning, but at the same time it's relatively minor and, for a number of reasons, it's never ideal for the proximate cause of an indef to be something relatively minor, even when the person's been told that even a minor violation will be the end of the line. I'm on the fence just about 50/50. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 19:10, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Removing {{unlocked userpage}} would have the same effect as the semi-protection, no? Not sure what the purpose is of adding semi-protection when the page deliberately has been left as unlocked by @ Tamzin. lizthegrey ( talk) 23:14, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
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My story today pictures a friend whose birthday is today ;) - we listened to music she helped publishing - at a fancy place (which looked different when Bach played there). - Saw Rhein in Flammen but am behind with images. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:57, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
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this again apparently, but now with someone's apparent sock on my talk page. Will wonders never cease? PICKLEDICAE🥒 19:41, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
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pics and thoughts on 13 August -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:56, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
If I'd seen your message I'd have held off and you could have assessed it as you suggested. It just seemed like with several editors saying they thought the conversation had lost its legitimacy, and the confusion from the multiple voting, it would be better to start afresh.
Anyway, hopefully a clear outcome will emerge one way or the other. Cheers — Amakuru ( talk) 15:45, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
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That' a good metaphor. And as to being here less, I see it's quality over quantity. Best -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 14:35, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
How long would it take to type, "I understand the concerns as expressed, I apologize for the disruption, and I will (fill in remedy here)? -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 21:40, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi Floq, saw the note you removed, and I can't speak for ST but I do see varying degrees of commitment in !votes as well. It's not a (Oppose.)<(Strong Oppose.)<(Uber Oppose.); more like (Oppose.<nul>)<(Oppose, Not sure why but something seems fishy)<(Oppose, because of these relevant reasons). The later tends to contribute more to the consensus building discussion. Not all 'crats may treat things this way, but I doubt any hold it against. For example your support comment (#62 ni this RFA has commentary that is relevant to other commentary in the discussion), and I'll likely consider it a "stronger" support then if you would have said "#Support, meh." or "#Super Support, froody dude". Nutshell: For me, it's not about the superlatives - but the content. — xaosflux Talk 17:39, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
I saw your post, too, and largely agree with Xaosflux. The arguments made are what counts for how strong or weak someone's participation is; it doesn't matter how "strong" someone's comment is just because they say so; if someone who casts a "strong oppose" has been contradicted with evidence, their argument is weak. Similar applies to a "weak" support; if they have a lot of misgivings and say so, their support can be considered weak; but if they state "weak" but only give strong reasons to support, then their "weak support" isn't so weak after all.
Tl;dr, it doesn't matter how strong or weak you claim your comment is; how you justify it is what counts.
(I'd better get back to that RfA now!) Acalamari 23:55, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
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1 September: I remember the Vespro della Beata Vergine, 2 September: the last of the Rheingau Musik Festival concerts, and today we can read The Story of Mr Sommer, and follow Ruth Lapide. - The view from the place in the Rheingau you know was exquisite after the inspiring music of Michael Wollny and Wolfgang Haffner who improvised the Johannisberg Blues. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:14, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Today's recommended reading: Opera in Ukraine -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:01, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
Today's Lars Vogt -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:16, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
a rainbow pic today, and a deer yesterday (but hard to see) - Jubilate Deo -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:39, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Floquenbeam, I'm having an issue with an Arabic user from Tunisia who keeps editing his country's football team's article. The article has always been written poorly (translated online or written by a non-native English speaker) with too much unnecessary content in the history section. I trimmed and copyedited it in August. For other countries' football/soccer teams, the history section is just an overview, and he keeps insisting reinstating the unnecessary content. I told him to stop edit warring and thankfully he listened, although he did it way too much. He has reinstated it again, so I removed it. He even once edited Senegal's football article and I had to revert it. The World Cup is 1.5 months away and we need as many soccer/football articles looking as good as possible. Should we block this user and/or ban him from editing articles relating to football/soccer? Should he stick to the Arabic Wikipedia? Thanks, Nearly but not perfect ( talk) 08:55, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
I was up in the air between rpa, revert, or revert and revdel. Do you think it qualifies for rd2? ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 01:28, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Hey, she is a great user. I am sure the account is compromised. Have you notified ArbCom? It's an admin account, which you probably noticed already. Jehochman Talk 05:13, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Rather than post more verbiage at ANI and A/R/C, I'll move the discussion here. I still think there's no rush to press forward with a desysop, as I now think one will probably naturally happen in due course in a similar trajectory to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Carlossuarez46. I suspect the arbs are privately discussing this right now, and I think we'll hear something one way or the other in the next couple of days. As nobody is calling for an unblock (and I admit I was sort of playing devil's advocate a bit on A/R/C) and if that remains the case, then my interpretation of the policy is "Editors who are indefinitely blocked by community consensus, or remain indefinitely blocked after due consideration by the community, are considered "banned by the Wikipedia community"" and who on earth is going to argue that a banned user can't be desysopped? The main point is, I think, the issue is important (people need to be reassured in no uncertain terms this is not how administrators behave) but it doesn't need to be done urgently, if that makes sense. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:24, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
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In your statement, you missed my favourite - "Arbcom sometimes finds it hard to let a case request go without imposing at least some mark of their authority"... those scoundrels! — Amakuru ( talk) 21:01, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Stop War Editing or you will be blocked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NaNO2-jz ( talk • contribs) 17:51, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Your superimposed topic ban [1] is a bit incomprehensible, please clarify two issues:
for closing the sprawling closure review. Here's a sandwich.
Firefangledfeathers ( talk / contribs) 12:15, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
And let's finish off the meal with some Baked Alaska. Jehochman Talk 22:23, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
(In my Leonides of Sparta voice)-- This! Is! Wikipedia!! joke best, -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 02:08, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi Floquenbeam, in the open Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block arbitration case, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed which relates to you. Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 00:06, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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Today is Erntedank in Germany, thanksgiving, and we celebrated our village's 650th anniversary, and had the dress rehearsal for Verdi's Requiem with an interesting band of marimba, piano, horn, bass, timpani and drum, - concert tomorrow, our national holiday. Seeing a pic I took on the Main page was also a nice harvest. - I would have waited but this tree is in Rüdesheim ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:17, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for bringing an end to the recent issue I was involved with on the noticeboard. I appreciate a line being drawn under the matter. SquireJames ( talk) 19:58, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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.in the next week, anyone in this thread says anything remotely critical about anyone else in the thread, let me know and I will block them for a week....@Le Marteau:, you're about one nasty comment away from being blocked indef
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Your sea lioning was pathetic and uncomprehending. If I have to read another line from the likes of you, with your faux concern and your hidden agendas to get the likes of me to finally STFU and stop attacking "Bon Courage", I think I'm going to vomit - @ Le Marteau
( See here on my talk page) — Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 02:05, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
Hey Floq! Haven't rapped atcha in a while. I don't know if you were aware, but they added a really cool new feature:
It's on the first page of user profile. Makes it much more difficult for bad actors to harass editors with false password resets. – xeno talk 15:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi Floq, please let's not fall out over this. We're both doing what we think is right on the project and maybe I am having a grumpy day, who knows. But it's not every day you wake up to find people accusing you of casting aspersions and generally causing mayhem. In retrospect I shouldn't have brought the issue up, it would seem, and I only did so because it's something that irks me, even if it doesn't irk you. Just for the record though, this really isn't commonplace at ITN. We all tweak the template at will, obviously, but I don't know of others who regularly reinstate reverted changes, and the only other instance I can think of is the case Black Kite alluded to in the thread. As I said, I'd like clarity one way or the other, that's all. Cheers anyway, and I hope you're having a good day aside from all this drama. — Amakuru ( talk) 18:41, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
God you're funny!-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:44, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
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celebrating GW60 (birthday of my first subject) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:17, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
3 concerts in 3 days can now be found together: a Ukrainian chamber choir, my cellist and composer friend's 60th birthday music (with a world premiere and that overview about his career), and Bach's ultimate statement about life and death -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:52, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
U.S. vacation pics -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 03:41, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving - Bach said it in music for peace - you archive so fast, I'd have added the latest pics but will find them linked on my talk -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:17, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
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consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.Hello, Floquenbeam.
This isn't an urgent request. You were the acting administrator, so that's why I am asking you about this. There is a long time editor and admin who was blocked, desysoped, and I think banned in mid-October 2022. You were the one who did the blocking. I think an official investigation was held then she was banned. Her user name begins with A, crud, now I have forgotten it. It is something like Athena but lengthier. Might you or someone consider hat noting her user talk page?
Here's why I say this: Most of Athena...'s user talk page is a lengthy to-and-fro that makes everyone involved appear not-at-their-best, i.e. lots of vitriol. Also, the name of the person who was the focal point of the entire thing, but who was not an instigator of anything, is mentioned. That might be embarrassing to her. Her first name (Wikipedia user name, I assume, although it isn't linked, but I guess, hope it isn't a real life name!) is Isabella. She wanted to be an admin. Perhaps she is now, idk. At a minimum, I think her name should probably be deleted from Athena...'s user talk page as a matter of privacy. FeralOink ( talk) 14:27, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
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I am pleased to award this long-overdue MBE to you in recognition of your outstanding contributions to Wikipedia. Your input is always very thoughtful, reasonable, intelligent, and logical, and you manage to keep a sense of humor. Your work has been exemplary!
I've been meaning to give this to you for a really long time, but when you jumped in to defend me, I knew I had to finally go for it. Thank you very much for that, and, more broadly, for EVERYTHING (hehe) you do around here! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:50, 7 December 2022 (UTC) |
Wow, thanks Mandarax, that's an impressive-looking barnstar. Sorry you're dealing with all that. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 00:33, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
The first part of what you wrote is a welcome addition at RFA, the second part hurts. I certainly can change my mind. I have been contributing here for some time without incident. I have reformatted my question there. I had much respect for you after you intervened in a dispute a while back. I also supported your admin candidacy. I just stopped by to say it is not necessary to make hurtful comments about an editor just because of a question at RFA. cheers and happy holidays. Lightburst ( talk) 22:48, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Get well soon! I wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a prosperous new Year. Best regards RV ( talk) 09:40, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
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Have some Darwinbish repellent. :) - ZLEA T\ C 01:59, 19 December 2022 (UTC) | Darwinbish is irresistibly attracted by the Darwinbish repellent and makes off with it, leaving a Floquenbeam repellent in its place. darwin bish 21:29, 23 December 2022 (UTC). |
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trip to Paris, imagine -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:46, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
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I have edited here for 16 years, with more than 200,000 edits, and have rarely encountered a more combative user, as User:Danceswithedits if they continue to make baseless accusations and personal attacks, please would you consider revoking talk page access? I accepted their draft United States Civil Rights Trail at WP:AFC, and a number of other users reverted the "extra" content he edit warred to include but I seem to be taking the flack for it and it's wearing me down! Theroadislong ( talk) 19:43, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Howdy. In regards to this revert, no worries, I'll get out of the middle of this since I am not an admin. But you may want to chat/sync up with BusterD, who gave the user a final warning for removing talk page comments. I feel like it might be a bit confusing for one admin to go "you will be blocked if you remove this" and another admin to go "actually, it's OK to remove this". Hope this helps. Thanks and have a great day. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 19:40, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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The wooden mallet replacement programme |
Since you have clearly worn out a wooden mallet after the result of this ANI thread, you need a replacement. Here you go. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:30, 27 January 2023 (UTC) |
Hi Ritchie, thanks! Now I can cancel my Amazon mallet subscription. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 19:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
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Bish, Gerda, Chris, Ealdgyth, and RV (again):
Thanks for the New Years wishes! Considering I didn't really do anything around WP last year, it's nice to still be thought of. All the best to you and yours this new year. Here's hoping (at least for me) that it's pretty much nothing like 2022! -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 19:54, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
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Gerda, if you remember my youngest, you might enjoy knowing that starting yesterday, she's in Genova for a month. I'm concerned she may never return; she sent a selfie at breakfast at an outdoor table on a steep and narrow brick-paved street with focaccia and a cappuccino (what she calls her first "real" cappuccino), and I don't think I've ever seen her so happy. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 16:22, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
"Note to self: Remember to never volunteer to help out in contentious areas". I should have known... Ealdgyth ( talk) 22:14, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. It may indeed be time to give my tp stalkers a break. Mind you, I tend to be more pleased than annoyed when I see the familiar one-two of vandalism-revert on my page, because my tp watchers are so incredibly fast. As I told them recently, when they revert my page, lightning stands still! Bishonen | tålk 19:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC).
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yesterday's cantata, 300 years later -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:15, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Every once in a while I read your userpage for entertainment. Still find much of it funny, even in reruns. That said, if you'll forgive a fussy grammarian, "Mrs. Floquenbeam, while watching my daughter and I both "playing" at the same time" should be "Mrs. Floquenbeam, while watching my daughter and me both "playing" at the same time" (emphasis added by me). For some reason I want to sign off as "Cheers!", even though we're both American. I think it comes from watching too much British TV.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:24, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
"I don't think any of you know squat about anything other than sports": That's not true. We know squat about late 18th century poetry. And sports. Floquenbeam ( talk) 19:02, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
Given your closure at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1118#Redirects created by recently discovered HughD sockpuppet, should this tagging be undone? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 05:53, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
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Sometimes I feel like I'm more interested in people not losing the bit than they are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 17:54, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
In another ANI moment, I agree with your assessment on the IP issue, but please have a read of the user pages of some of the involved editors... there's one that might not be coping with this. Catfish Jim and the soapdish 19:26, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
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today: where I learned opera -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:31, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks (I escaped the pocket) - the RfC with the non-neutral invitation to fight was closed, and went rather peacefully - what can we learn from it? - I saw today that Brian Boulton added an infobox to Imogen Holst in 2014, edit summary "risk" - should it still be a risk in 2023 to follow his example? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:09, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
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"Such comments are surely not what Arbs want during the case request; and that doesn't seem like anything they'd welcome at the evidence phase either." I'm curious as to your view of why not, esp. case request? ARC strikes me as the obvious place for the community to express loss of trust? Levivich ( talk) 20:22, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
My bad, the page was open but not updated...do you want me to remove? Valereee ( talk) 18:56, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Hey Floq.
I saw your notice at the top of the page. This is just so you know in case the discussion gets archived before you see the notifications, I pinged you at ANI in relation to this discussion about Justanother2. Context is in relation to your comments at this February 2022 ANI thread involving the same editor, where you asked to be informed if the user's behaviour was causing problems.
No worries if you're not about, and don't see this until after it's been resolved in some way. Just wanted to let you know the context for the notifications :) Sideswipe9th ( talk) 20:11, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Gah, when you put it that way, he sounds like some sort of Elon Musk -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 17:45, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
I just hopped over after seeing your post on IH's page, and I was going to try and say something witty about how these situations play out. It was at that point that I saw the large MEH banner and though, "yeah, that's about right."
Meh. ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 17:43, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Here's where we find out just how psychic you are.... SarekOfVulcan (talk) 23:06, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
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My story today is about the Alchymic Quartet, - I went away from DYK but it's the last one from last year. - The songs are about vacation, continued. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:47, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
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...for this. Expect to be Ingenuity's first block. Abecedare ( talk) 18:05, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
The irony is that if you had remembered not to make the second oops, you wouldn't have made either of them! :) Izno ( talk) 17:38, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
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I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day (mentioned before). And the following day we sang it for the composer ;) - And today we remember a composer who created music especially for us! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:07, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Pentecost was full of music, and my story today is that 300 years ago today, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:53, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hey Floq, I just saw your edit summary at MastCell's talk page, and I'm taking it in the context of you making a similar correction at my talk today. Please don't let the discussion with me leave you feeling bad.
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You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 21, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 19:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey Floq, I just wanted to say thank you very much for backing up my comment on ITN and pointing out that I was not, in fact, making a bad faith accusation as GCG claimed. As you mentioned, I was lamenting on how certain !voters are able to (unintentionally or not) state an incorrect fact in their !votes, and it suddenly gains steam when others say "per that rationale". With no real means for fact-checking and with an already subjective consensus-finding process, an admin on ITN is generally left with no choice but to accept that rationale if it comprises the majority of !votes. This is along the lines of what I was getting at, but I suppose my statement was so short and ambiguous that it could have been construed as accusing one another of lying.
Sometimes it feels like I'm in Crazyland where up is down and black is white, when it comes to ITN, which is partially prompting my mental health break -- along with some changes in my life that remind me that Wikipedia is not therapy. I'm glad to have your voice of reason present in that discussion. Cheers, ⛵ WaltClipper -( talk) 13:49, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
This will be my final remarks on the subject.
I just saw your explanation on Tryptofish's page, and you giving him the benefit of the doubt. After all, it's not like he's a new user. He's been here 15 years.
So have I.
Not once did I have anyone even attempt to give me the benefit of the doubt.
I was worried I'd burned bridges but it turns out there were none to begin with.
-- Golbez ( talk) 02:27, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
I know you did the right thing. And I know I said it was the last line. I ... I think I just wanted to share how hurt I was with the person who helped. Sorry to rip the scab off again. I'll go. -- Golbez ( talk) 02:48, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/AlisonW. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/AlisonW/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 30, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 23:51, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
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On my talk are links to two musical videos, one is a full concert I enjoyed, opening of the RMF at Eberbach Abbey, and the other a short introduction to a "forgotten composer", which actually has me (small, short) in the background during the closing statement by the new festival's initiator (recorded just before the concert) while I was talking to the recipients of the new prize. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:06, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
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The proposed decision for the AlisonW case has been posted. Statements regarding the proposed decision are welcome at the talk page. Please note that comments must be made in your own section. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 15:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
I have moved the discussions under Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022 § Topics to review for 2023 to Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023. Please feel free to continue discussion on the 2023 talk page! isaacl ( talk) 21:42, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry about you getting sucked into the Dysfunction Vortex. – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 18:57, 16 July 2023 (UTC) |
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute/Evidence. Please add your evidence by August 4, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 13:04, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Why ask for objections if you're going to close something so quickly regardless of the feedback you get. Which in this case amounted to one (non-admin) objection and 1 (admin) for whom it was not their first choice but can live with it and regardless of the uninvolved admin feedback upthread, which had read to me when I looked at it 5 hours ago as heading towards removing TPA. Like if the feedback you get isn't going to matter just close the thread in your preferred way, which isn't my preferred way but feels with in admin discretion. I wouldn't have said anything if not for the rapid close after your proposal and I'm certainly not going to undo it (because again your decision feels within discretion and so I'm going to respect it the same way I'd have hoped for a decision for TPA to be revoked would have been respected) but suggest that you only ask for agreement if you're willing to actually wait for that agreement to happen. Barkeep49 ( talk) 15:03, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Floquenbeam, I have seen you around goodness knows how many times over the years, and I have always respected you as an administrator. (Which doesn't mean I have never disagreed with you, nor does it contradict that fact that you have at least a couple of times indicated that you have had no respect for decisions I have made which you didn't agree with.) On this occasion, though, I think you were mistaken. Your closure did not come by any means reflect anything which could be regarded as consensus in the discussion, and no matter how strongly you feel that your view was right, you should not have imposed that view while it was clear that it was not in line with so large a proportion of the comments which had been posted. JBW ( talk) 16:46, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I agree to a very considerable degree with your view of the administrators' noticeboards, and for precisely that reason I stay away from those boards unless something happens which leads me to one of them on a particular occasion. I don't, however, agree with how you have applied that view on this occasion. I also wonder, if you believe that the way you expressed yourself above was not "mocking" what I said, what you would regard as mocking. JBW ( talk) 21:17, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
First, just want to say, I appreciated the AN close. Second, if per the above you don't wish to express an opinion here, that's of course fine. This is just a curbside (wow, not in Wiktionary). I'll also throw in pings to Rosguill since they restored the close, to UtherSRG per comments on my talk, and to Drmies since he made the tragic mistake of nominating me for RfA with a co-nom who makes very few blocks, and thus getting all my tough block questions forevermore. (It's never stopping, Doc. Not till they've desysopped both of us. Maybe not even then.)
Anyways, Special:Diff/1167582128. I hate these situations. It's de jure a TBANvio, from someone who's on his last last last warning, but at the same time it's relatively minor and, for a number of reasons, it's never ideal for the proximate cause of an indef to be something relatively minor, even when the person's been told that even a minor violation will be the end of the line. I'm on the fence just about 50/50. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 19:10, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Removing {{unlocked userpage}} would have the same effect as the semi-protection, no? Not sure what the purpose is of adding semi-protection when the page deliberately has been left as unlocked by @ Tamzin. lizthegrey ( talk) 23:14, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
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My story today pictures a friend whose birthday is today ;) - we listened to music she helped publishing - at a fancy place (which looked different when Bach played there). - Saw Rhein in Flammen but am behind with images. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:57, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
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