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

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Notice of noticeboard notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Drbogdan misuse of talk page while blocked. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:29, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A reminder to WP:AGF and WP:DROPTHESTICK in the future

Hello. I noticed the way you communicated with @FactsheetPete and I wanted to politely ask you to consider your own behavior here. Whether intentionally or not, you and @Tiggerjay have chased away a new editor by immediately accusing them of meatpuppetry. Yes, the behavior may look suspicious. Yes, the activity pattern looks suspicious. Yes, the accounts are all different. But as others have pointed out, this commonly happens with articles relating to current events. There is a very fine line between a meatpuppet and someone who sincerely agrees with the argument someone else presented. As a guideline, I would advise you to avoid WP:ABF in these discussions, as you are doing when you allege meatpuppetry. If you don't have damning evidence, enough to take to ArbCom, WP:DROPTHESTICK. guninvalid (talk) 08:09, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for the blue links. I was unaware. —-Floquenbeam (talk) 09:47, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January music

Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:52, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Gerda! I actually had a chance to click on one of your watch/listen links! Very cool. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:30, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Glad about that! - Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, my story today 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. Dada Masilo will be my story tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today a violinist from Turkey, Ayla Erduran, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:09, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:11, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today, between many who just died, Tobias Kratzer on his 45th birthday who was good for an unusual DYK mentioning a Verdi opera in 2018, - you can see his work in the trailer of another one that I saw, and my talk page has a third (but by a different director). 2025 pics, finally. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:56, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I have a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who became GA yesterday, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:06, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have more vacation pics to offer, and today's story of Werner Bardenhewer. I took the pic, and it was my DYK on his 90th birthday, in both English and German. He spent the day in Africa, and after his return said - chatting after a mass of thanks he celebrated at Mariä Heimsuchung - that we'd have to talk about these articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:55, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I've been ignoring you, to the extent that I let it fall of my talk page! Looking forward to taking a peek at vacation pics, will try to pick up my pace a bit. Floquenbeam (talk) 18:10, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

your User Page quote

the center of the universe, I live very, very far away from it now. I am really confusing🤓 about what's that mean?? KPopMachine (talk) 20:58, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]