User talk:Graham87

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Figure it's worth noting with your new block - on top of the generally problematic edits, they appeared to still not understand ARBPIA ECR, despite being blocked twice for it in the past month after being warned twice. The Kip ^(contribs) 07:51, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@The Kip: Just wow ... I didn't even want to wade in to that quagmire. Graham87 (talk) 07:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September music

What do you think of my short version of the life of Alexander Goehr? I was happy to include a link to an article by Brian Boulton, - we sang the Monteverdi Vespers on 1 September 2019. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:34, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Awwww BWV 78 ... the soprano/alto duet is one of the first pieces I fell in love with when I really started getting in to classical music. This year I heard the cantata in full for the first time; what an amazing first movement! It was performed at Bachfest while I was there, but unfortunately I couldn't make it to that concert because it was on the same day as the organ excursion ... oh to be in two places at once! (Hearing a historical baroque organ was one of my top priorities, but that cantata would've been good to hear live too). Re Goehr: indeed nice summary; I hadn't heard of them before. Wonderful re Monteverdi articles and the Vespers anniversary yesterday. Graham87 (talk) 15:51, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How lovely, your meeting of the duet! I therefore included it in my DYK proposal ;) - Today's story has 3 composers, I couldn't decide for the one on the Main page or the one who didn't make it on his bicentenary, so took both, and the pic has a third. Listen if you have a bit of time. The music, played by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, impressed me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:50, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inufan socks

Hi – you recently blocked Winedrunk, so I'd like to ask for your advice on a related matter, if that's okay. Winedrunk is, as you remarked in the block notice, a sock (one of 155!) of Inufan, who is an LTA on it.wiki but hasn't ever edited here. Now another sock from the same farm, Pippet12 (already blocked on it.wiki), has just gamed autoconfirmed here with a series of dummy edits. I don't want to take them to ANI when they haven't done anything wrong (not yet, at least), and I can't open an SPI as the master isn't blocked here on en.wiki. And I get that blocks aren't applied pre-emptively. What would you suggest? Shall I continue watching to see what their next move is? Or should I just mind my own business and move on? :) Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:11, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DoubleGrazing: Blocked. Well they're technically block evasion of Winedrunk, who was obviously going for more than autoconfirmed, so SPI would be OK (but it's heavily backlogged ... but these are WP:DUCK situations). Hmmm maybe it's time to request global locks? Graham87 (talk) 09:18, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay. I thought the master would first need to be blocked, but now that you mention it, makes sense – it's the one and the same user, after all.

With another 153 to go, I might come back to you for more...

Thanks for dealing with this so swiftly! -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:24, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DoubleGrazing: Well there's always these RelatedChanges on it.wiki (I assume you know how to set your interface language to English if need be) ... I might just request a global lock of the lot. Graham87 (talk) 09:29, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, every day is a school day, even for an old git! No, I didn't know you could change the interface language. I do now. Thanks for that, it'll come in very handy – suddenly navigating ja.wiki will be so much easier! :) Cheers, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:42, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DoubleGrazing: No worries. I myself forgot that there are now global preferences too ... Graham87 (talk) 09:45, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So this user appears to have been a problem here for a while now too ... pinging Dekimasu who tagged Winedrunk's user page. Graham87 (talk) 09:57, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would rather avoid WP:BEANS here, but as the one who has taken care of almost all of this on EN so far, global locks would certainly be helpful (especially given disruption on Commons that takes a lot longer to deal with), I doubt there are any other active socks here at this precise moment, there are somewhat more socks on other Wikis than the number that's listed above, and there is also long-term IP socking. Dekimasuよ! 10:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, in my opinion it is fine to treat Trottapiano as the master on EN. The only other options are Souta (very inactive) and GMatteotti (sometimes treated as the master on Commons). Dekimasuよ! 10:11, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dekimasu: Cool, I started the ball rolling on Meta before seeing your reply. Graham87 (talk) 10:14, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]