User talk:Graham87

July music

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The July pic shows a group of orange day lilies seen last year in a Weimar park. Where I used to live in the U.S. they grew abundantly along roads in July. - My 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) 13:20, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

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) 13:33, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: You mean 3 July :-) ... Graham87 (talk) 14:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

You are right, of course. I didn't quite arrive in July yet, and 3 June was Kafka's day of death - with a story. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:12, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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 was a pioneer of a concise infobox in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:13, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:19, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

AN thread

Hi Graham87. This is just a heads up that you are mentioned in Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Admin_Misconduct. – Joe (talk) 08:31, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Smuckola

Calling me a "newbie" and removing stuff from dab (tasing (disambiguation) and BLJ (disambiguation)). JoshuaAuble (talk) 18:34, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

@JoshuaAuble: I don't know why you're messaging me, but I agree with Smuckola here. If you keep up your current editing pattern, you may be blocked; it's disruptive. Graham87 (talk) 03:37, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

How exactly is it disruptive? I'm confused. JoshuaAuble (talk) 00:22, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

@JoshuaAuble: It wastes the time of other editors. Graham87 (talk) 00:33, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Graham87. All this user does is weaponized ignorance and WP:SEALIONing when caught in his WP:MEATBOT WP:FANCRUFT campaign of trying to coin extremely obscure lingo from video game fandom into this encyclopedia. Immediately after feigning confusion here about your instruction, his next edit was to immediately do it again.[1] He repeatedly feigns an inability to differentiate between a fake redirect and the valid target subject.[2] There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that he knows this is against policy or guidelines, as is demonstrated on his participation of countless AfDs of his redirect spam. They have explained so many times why we can't spam redirects for jargon (especially for fake pet terms) that aren't even named in the target article like at petapixel. There again, he feigned that inability to differentiate. It's all WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT or WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Whatever you say, he moves the conversational goalposts and replies to what you didn't say, with another broken record. You can see the wall of belligerence aka his Talk page, including the one time when his sole response to me was "?" and then doing it again. Just like with the gibberish he posted to you above, he did another non-sentence here and on completely the wrong Wikipedia. Why would anybody even think of digging up random accounts that have been indefinitely blocked for a year with no edits and then mess with their Talk page?[3] He likes to use his User page for a pouting WP:TANTRUM to cast passive aggressive WP:ASPERSIONS like this: [4][5]. So he thinks the problem is not violating your admonishment, it's not everybody else's countless AfD of his spam (aka "work", lol), it's not his violation of policy, it's not obvious reality, it's personally my fault for saying so. You're lucky! So now there need to be more speedy deletions of fake redirects if you'll help facilitate that, and I strongly suggest a block. Please stop this poster child for WP:NOTHERE WP:CIR. Thank you so much, and I've meant to tell you many times I admire your attitude and your work. — Smuckola(talk) 00:58, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

@Smuckola: I've indefblocked him and run Special:Nuke on his most recent creations (and may well delete more of his rubbish). Thanks very much for the kind words. Graham87 (talk) 01:21, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

@Smuckola: I've speedily deleted most of the pages he created where he was the only editor. Graham87 (talk) 02:34, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Fried chicken

You have protected the fried chicken page and I would like to please request a move for the title of the page to be renamed as southern fried chicken. As editors are not allowed to put in historic information about types.of fried chicken as only southern fried chicken is allowed to be discussed in the article. If it was solely a page on general fried chicken there should be no country of origin as fried chicken was known to have not come solely from the USA. Thank you Sharna Sharnadd (talk) 07:49, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

@Sharnadd: I did not actually protect it; my username is only in the logs due to a page move I made. In any case, to request a page move, follow the process at requested moves. Graham87 (talk) 07:52, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I can't make a page move as it's administrator access so looks like I will have to find one Sharnadd (talk) 08:00, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

@Sharnadd: No, you shouldn't find a random admin; as I said above the correct procedure is to start a requested moves discussion. Graham87 (talk) 08:02, 9 July 2024 (UTC)