User talk:Graham87

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December music

Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:35, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today, listen to Sequenza XIV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:37, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher, by the other Graham. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:51, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pingpong

Pinged you on meta but I have no clue what happens if you try to contribute there so you can also answer here if you prefer so you don't have to listen to that mess. Polygnotus (talk) 03:13, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Polygnotus: I've replied there. Pings don't work retroactively, as you tried on Meta, so I would've never found out about this discussion without your message here. Graham87 (talk) 03:35, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Yeah, the serial ping system is incompatible with my multicore brain. Polygnotus (talk) 03:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for blocking?

Hi,

Carl Bogus [his real name], a friend of mine and a thoroughly honest law professor, told me that he doesn't understand why he has been blocked from editing Wikipedia

No doubt if he knew, he could take steps to cure or avoid whatever problem may have arisen.

Thanks for any guidance.

Sincerely,

—— Shakescene (talk) 22:00, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No such account exists here. You need to specify the account name for Graham87 to help you out. --Yamla (talk) 22:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Shakescene and Yamla: Indeed. I don't recall any cases like this and can't find anything when checking my block log over the past year. But having said that, his Wikipedia article says he's in Rhode Island, which indicates that he may well be affected by my block of 2600:8805:8000::/33, which is targeted at a highly prolific and disruptive IP-hopping user (as my block log there indicates, I'd tried narrower ranges in the past but they didn't work well enough). In other words, Carl Bogus's block may well have been caused by collateral damage. Graham87 (talk) 02:20, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also in Rhode Island, but fortunately, I don't seem to be affected by this block. —— Shakescene (talk) 02:23, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Shakescene: That's because you're logged in and he probably isn't. To create an account for him, we'd need his desired username and an email address to send a temprorary password to; any of us can do this, or he can go through the request an account system. Graham87 (talk) 02:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, re the block, see this ANI discussion (which I was notified about on my talk page) and the links therein. If anyone wants to know how I became so paranoid and aggressive about blocking that I lost my adminship, this editor is probably one of the top five or so of those who contributed to making me that way. Graham87 (talk) 02:51, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Does that disruptive editor have a history of logged-in disruption too? If not, we could try allowing account creation on the range; can always re-disable if they start making the same edits logged-in. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 02:58, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tamzin: Not in the relatively recent past (that I know of), so I'd be OK with enabling account creation and seeing what happens. Graham87 (talk) 03:00, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. @Shakescene: Ask your friend if he can create an account now. If he still can't, he should try clearing his cookies. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 04:30, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]