User talk:Graham87

July music
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)
 * 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 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)
 * Found a bit more. Today's story is about her, an outstanding violinist from Georgia, which is a sad story in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I remember today Bach's 1724 cantata for this Sunday which is unusual in many respects. Another woman needs attention for RD, Marina Kondratyeva. - The other Graham played at my home, Bach and some recent cello solo music! ... something we did more often when we were younger ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:45, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Wow, what a cantata! A comment on [this Youtube video of it led me to discover [[Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei, BWV 179|BWV 179]], with a breath-taking soprano aria, and BWV 105, where pretty much every movement is breath-taking in its own way. Cool re Graham Waterhouse performing at your place. It just happens that last night I was talking to a friend about the Voice intro project and going through the relevant category on Commons to try to find voices that she'd be interested in hearing ... and I came upon the Graham Waterhouse voice recording and thought of you! Graham87 (talk) 11:56, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Wonderful - all, the cantata, that you found other fascinating ones, and the Graham voice coincidence, - I'll tell him, and Andy who took it. - It was the second world premiere of his works at my house, after Smithereens (Waterhouse) during the pandemic. Another piece - for clarinet and string quartet for me on a round birthday - received its one and probably only performance in Idstein but not at my house. I wish Octogram more performances: a great tour into the world of sounds in eight directions, imagined from the octogon of the Aachen Cathedral. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:52, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 - about Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera by Mozart, while yesterday's was - because of the TFA - about Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach, - so 3 times Mozart if you click on "music" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:58, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your work around "deceased Wikipedians"! (When my time comes, no candle please, "died" not "deceased", and no archiving of talk page. I like User talk:Dreadstar which we actually had to restore from the history.) - Yesterday I listened in concert to Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, with Sabine Meyer: a delight. - Today's story is about Ruth Hesse, with a pic in the article only, sadly (show your mom, - a profile with closed eyes). I found it difficult to point at a YouTube sample, because yes, her signature roles - the Nurse and Brangäne - exist in great full-length operas with great casts, but hard to find her. - Talking of YouTube: today I was pointed at Elijah by a friend who performed in the concert of the Dessoff Choirs in their centenary year, and I'm quite impressed by samples (beginning and No. 32 where I linked it) - enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:33, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:13, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

AN thread
Hi Graham87. This is just a heads up that you are mentioned in Administrators'_noticeboard. –&#8239;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)
 * 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)
 * 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. He repeatedly feigns an inability to differentiate between a fake redirect and the valid target subject. 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? He likes to use his User page for a pouting WP:TANTRUM to cast passive aggressive WP:ASPERSIONS like this: . 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)
 * 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)
 * I've speedily deleted most of the pages he created where he was the only editor. Graham87 (talk) 02:34, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello, Graham87,
 * I'm not sure why you removed talk page access from this editor as they were not posting anything disruptive. But should you decide to do this, you should post a notice about how they can otherwise appeal their block through UTRS. Shutting down all avenues of appeal is really not fair to the editor. They were not a productive editor but they also weren't a vandal. Thank you for considering providing this information to blocked editors in the future. Liz Read! Talk! 02:34, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I posted which does indeed give the user a notice of how to appeal to UTRS. Graham87 (talk) 02:44, 12 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Thanks can't do a move as page is semi protected so have done an edit request Sharnadd (talk) 14:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Argyle, Western Australia
I think your hatnote at Argyle, Western Australia is fine. I thought at first it might be better to have it point to Lake Argyle directly but there also is the locality of Lake Argyle, Western Australia, which currently redirects to the lake but should really be its own article as it is a completely separate entity and then will go on the disambiguation page as well. Calistemon (talk) 04:36, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Yeah the first thing I'd think of would be the mine, probably thanks to my weather obsession and the Bureau of Meteorology's Argyle forecast. Graham87 (talk) 05:36, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Archive import requests
Hello! Could you please import PolicyPolicy and RefactoringPolicy? They'd be good additions to the policy pages in the historic archive. Cheers. —  Scott  •  talk  00:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Sure, I've restored the page Historical archive/Policy/PolicyPolicy, with as many edits as possible. I'd already imported the edits from Historical archive/Policy/RefactoringPolicy from the Nostalgia Wikipedia (see the page history from March 2010), but I've imported more edits from there from the August 2001 database dump (despite the gaps in the page history, which I normally hate), to provide context/history for the PolicyPolicy page. Graham87 (talk) 05:14, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Diamond. Thanks very much! —  Scott  •  talk  09:01, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Juantheman96
Would like to let you know he is back - at username Special:Contributions/Campista2015 and. Same exact geolocation (Hinesville, GA) and topics (Islam and communism in particular). He's very good at IP hopping and staying under the radar. wizzito &#124;  say hello!  05:22, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Blocked and tagged, where relevant. Graham87 (talk) 05:28, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Also at, although that is a lot busier and might not be wise to block wizzito  &#124;  say hello!  05:44, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah probably too busy. Unless you can give me some individual IP's for me to check ... see if I can narrow it a bit. Graham87 (talk) 05:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I tried to tell you it wasn't me but now you found them. Look at that maybe next time to select someone at random and blame them like what happened to me 24.214.117.142 (talk) 07:33, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Can you tell me what IP you edited from or what pages you edited? You seem to have no other edits on the IP address you are using right now. wizzito  &#124;  say hello!  18:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Copyvio?
Ahoy there. I have a question. Does this constitute yet another in a long line of belligerent WP:COPYVIO from this user? This edit is about half copied, because it's simply a copying of each chapter title and robotically pointless direct rephrasing thereof. Then a tasteless obliteration of formatting is just the cherry on top. I ran it past three plagiarism detection sites and they call it high, just by matching the text, but I didn't know if there's somehow an exception for a table of contents or for repeated excerpts. What I do know is that user's talk page is made of copyvio warnings, and the responses are all blatantly that he's above the law, that WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, or WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT. So I'm honestly confused because each title is akin to the weight of a quotation, but actually it isn't a quotation, and then the sum total of the text would be a violation. But there is absolutely 0.0000% purpose in it anyway. — Smuckola(talk) 18:51, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Maybe, but I'm not the best person to ask about this. I ended up with another Carnegie book on my watchlist due to vandalism, How to Win Friends and Influence People, and there was a similar removal from it by Tamzin ... but in that case the copyright violation was more blatant and much better-formatted (you'll have to trust me on that one). As for the user in question, I'm tempted to block them, but it seems fairer to see how they'll respond first. Graham87 (talk) 02:53, 20 July 2024 (UTC)