User talk:Floquenbeam

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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. --Friedrich Schiller

June music

story · music · places

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

Thanks for protecting another who I had asked for help

		The Original Barnstar

ChaseKiwi (talk) 11:36, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks ChaseKiwi, haven't had a barnstar in a while. Slacker that I am....

Committed suicide

Hello Floq, I hope you're well, it's been a while since we spoke... but as you can probably imagine I am not at all happy about your reversion at Etika. Your assertion that we shouldn't say committed suicide has been rejected by the community in the link I posted, and you have no place restoring your edit once it had been reverted. WP:MOS is clear that "Where more than one style or format is acceptable under the MoS, one should be used consistently within an article and should not be changed without good reason. Edit warring over stylistic choices is unacceptable." Your reason for changing this does not constitute a good reason, particularly on an article already signed off at a recent FAC. Please self-revert.  — Amakuru (talk) 13:02, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello Amakuru, I hope you're well too. I note that "committed suicide" was used exactly once, so "used consistently" is not an issue. I also note that we, apparently, are supposed to follow the sources, and the ones referenced in the article don't use committed. I also note my comment at WP:ERRORS, which I won't copy/paste here, but I'm sure you'll see. I would also like one good reason - not a policy, guideline, or essay, but just a real-world normal humans talking to each other actual reason - why it is so important to use "committed suicide" instead of "killed himself". I know it is not the case here (not a rhetorical flourish, I really do know this), but generally, what I've heard from others in real life boils down to "I shouldn't have to participate in this politically correct crap", but these days I'm less interested in giving a fuck what anti-PC people say, so I don't know of another one. Floquenbeam (talk) 13:12, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

The F-word! How anti-PC of you! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 13:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh no, you're going to cancel me! Floquenbeam (talk) 13:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

(watching and not knowing how to indent) John made good points about avoiding "commit suicide." but is not active, sadly. How is this idea: regardless of how the article words it, and the sources worded it: as a phrase to which some readers react, it could be avoided on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:37, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

I agree. There's a separate discussion at WP:ERRORS about that, but this is about the article (I changed both). Floquenbeam (talk) 13:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Derogatory material

Can you delete two revisions from User talk:189.203.182.220?102.159.156.200 (talk) 16:05, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done. How's that for service? :) Floquenbeam (talk) 16:09, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

What is the difference between single-struckthrough grey-text and double-structhrough black-text revisions and/or edit summaries as shown in special:contributions/102.215.253.95? Thank you anyways.102.159.156.200 (talk) 16:18, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Single-struck means revision deletion by an admin. Double-struck means supressed by an oversighter. Admins can see revdel'd stuff with their x-ray glasses, but only oversighters can see double-struck content. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Before you go, can you move Draft:Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld's edit history to Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld's? Thanks in advance.102.159.156.200 (talk) 23:16, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

That doesn't make sense to me; the history of Draft:Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld doesn't have anything to do with the contents of Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld. The edit history consists of messing around with redirects and odd AFC submissions (by you, I assume), except they have no content. Why would you do that? --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:04, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Since the non-draft version exists, can you delete the draft version? I don't need it anymore.102.159.156.200 (talk) 14:08, 25 June 2024 (UTC)