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my story today

Hevenu shalom aleichem is my story today. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I added some images from Aachen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:48, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

... and some more. My story today is about my song of defiance, - it was a great pleasure to hear it performed today! The line "Ich steh hier und singe" (I stand here and sing) is in the movement with the music pictured, which begins with "Trotz -- Trotz -- Trotz", sounding much tougher than "defiance" ;) - in this YouTube it's at 4:55. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:06, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Performers of the 4 Nov concert now pictured on my talk. - I proudly remember having sung in an oratorio premiere seven years ago OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:18, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Today I have three items on the Main page, almost too much of a good thing! Bach's amazing cantata with the unusual scale, first performed 300 years ago OTD, the nun for the prostitutes, and Schumann's wedding gift for Clara. Also first day of vacation pics uploaded. - On AN, was I clear enough? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:55, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Today is St. Martin's Day, which stands for sharing. Sharing one more day of vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:44, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Enjoy your last day! Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:58, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't clear, I'm back for over a week, but uploading is slow, one reason people keep dying whose articles need work (one of them from stub to GAN), the other the continued waste of time of certain "discussions", Feydeau to AN (was I clear enough?), Rossini with the latest weapon: that a link from a composer's bio to his list of works somehow violates policy, - I mean, how kafkaesque can one get? - But today is Sunday, mushrooms found and eaten, pics to come, just slowly. Three of those who died on the Main page this one day (just not all at the same time). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:43, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

I began another day of vacation pics, with the deepest blue of the sea ;) - we celebrate the birthday of a friend who wrote quite a book about the compositions of a man who will turn 300 soon. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:08, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

AN

Hi Barkeep, Just a quick note about the Misplaced Pages delayed revert on the AN discussion. Sorry to have reverted you, but I think that if thread had been set up like that in the beginning it may have been OK, but it was already quite involved by the time of your split.

I'm never convinced about such splits (similar to those at ArbCom): being pigeon-holed as being from "position" will taint responses away from what is said to who has said it, which isn't the best way. If you want to change it back to the split, feel free: I won't complain about it! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 23:24, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@SchroCat thanks for this message. Given the discussion that has now subsequently happened I don't think it's possible to reinstate. While we're here, I do feel a need to tell you that if I'd had more time to defend the action I would have logged a warning against you and another editor in that discussion for disrupting the RfC a couple weeks ago. Seeing you and a different editor post a huge string of replies at the start of this appeal thread was a major reason for my attempted restructuring. I'd ask that you really think about the impact your contributions are having on infobox discussions and to self-moderate. Barkeep49 (talk) 00:02, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

I do try and self moderate, but when multiple editors breach any known of form personal attack (c.f. “pathological", "your obsessiveness here is pathological and disruptive" and "SchroCat is acting obsessive, hypocritical, and disruptive"), I seriously wonder why I fucking bother. If I’d have come out with just one of those, I’d have been blocked in a heartbeat. But two editors are responsible for those comments (they are the two who have commented as much as me on the RFC), and yet no-one struck those comments as being personal attacks and no-one warned those two editors about their behaviour and they carry on regardless. It’s like Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility in infobox discussions never happened - and makes being brought to ANI for not insulting someone even more bizarre. The current IB pushers are more aggressive and more disruptive than at any time in the past, and there is no administrator protection against their aggressive baiting, lies and disruptive behaviour. WP is going to lose good editors again because of a vocal and activist group, and the pot stirring will weaken the encyclopaedia more than it has done before. - SchroCat (talk) 00:17, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Re if thread had been set up like that in the beginning it may have been OK, the thread was set up like that from the beginning, but it was lost in what I assume was an edit conflict. Levivich (talk) 23:35, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Huh. Look at that. Barkeep49 (talk) 00:26, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

If moving my entire Queries section into its own section below the Close-or-not discussion will help, please feel free to refactor on my behalf ... I'm reluctant to mess with it myself, but won't care if someone else wants to. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:49, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Levivich, Apologies - I didn't get any edit conflict notification when I saved my comment, so apologies for over-writing it. - SchroCat (talk) 18:42, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Misplaced Pages vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

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I just added something to the talk page of Cuba/Israel relations, and followed the link to my IP account. It shows some edits that I didn't make, and the claim that I am blocked by a user called Lourdes. I went to their page to try to ask why this IP was blocked, and what that means, but it said that you blocked them. What on earth is going on? 1.136.104.255 (talk) 05:20, 18 November 2023 (UTC)