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December music

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]

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]

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]