User talk:Sca/Archive23

November vacation[edit]

I was away for vacation in the U.S. - I hope you can enjoy pics a bit. Too many misunderstandings in words, I'm afraid. I love collaboration. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ich auch. -- Sca (talk) 13:08, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Danke. - Thanksgiving in the U.S. - Bach said it in music for peace --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:41, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

POTD queue[edit]

See Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 2022. Thanks for taking an interest! Schwede 66 22:37, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In perusing the POTDs for the rest of this year, didn't see any questionable use of "depicts." -- Sca (talk) 18:09, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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December music[edit]

Thank you for updating the awarded woman! - I did the same for a Ukrainian conductor. - I also like to share vacation pics again. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Today, a hymn for a Marian feast, I learned that Yvonne Ciannella died, the soprano who impressed me in my first night at the opera, and as she died in March, sadly no Main page reverence is possible, - at least she had a good DYK, at a time when opera singers were considered interesting. I'm proud today that Christiane Hörbiger made it to that corner, and happy that we celebrate the birthday of Jean Sibelius again. Please check out Volodymyr Kozhukhar whom I nominated for it. - I heard an excellent Christmas concert yesterday, by Tenebrae, and a short excerpt of them singing "Deo gracias" is also linked from my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:37, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Today was a day rich in music, with two new pictures, and also rich in WP:QAI contributions on the Main page: the TFA, 2 DYK and 2 RD with members as principal editors. The church pictured there (not by me, nice snow dust and tall evergreen) comes with memories, detailed on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Latest pics, with an opera discovery and some snow. Today my talk] has a DYK that was planned for 22 November, among the recent deaths the author of Duck, Death and the Tulip, and now a choir pic of "our" concert last Sunday, likely to become next year's lead image. Enjoy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Enjoy the season, dreaming of peace! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:54, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or, in case of interest. - Enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ERRORS[edit]

I really don't understand. You claim to be devastated by the ITN ban, but now you're continuing to make useless sarcastic comments, but at WP:ERRORS instead. The ITN ban was not some close decision; essentially no one supported your ITN editing pattern at the ANI discussion. Do you have some reason to believe it will be different if this continues and someone reports to ANI that you've shifted to ERRORS? I feel like you may not realize how little slack people are going to give you if you just shift the location you make these kinds of posts. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:49, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Floquenbeam: OK. Sorry. It seemed a rather silly, almost humorous, OTD item, but the takeaway (to use an overused word) seems to be that Wikipedia has no sense of humor under any circumstances whatsoever. That seems sad, but I accept it. -- Sca (talk) 17:09, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's not the interpretation I would choose, but if it keeps you out of trouble... Floquenbeam (talk) 17:25, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Where is humor allowed? -- Sca (talk) 17:32, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In moderation, pretty much everywhere. But actually, that wasn't really humor, just snark. Snark is less welcome anywhere. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:07, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Things have changed at Wiki. There were lots of snarky comments some years back -- way too many.
But let me reiterate that I never dreamed my ill-fated – and much regretted – joke at ITN/C would be taken as 'racist' or ethnically prejudiced. Such would have been totally out of character for me.

'Guess I'll just have to keep on smilin' through the ~~rain~~ pain.

— Sca (talk) 20:30, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry[edit]

Hi Sca, sorry about restoring your block notice which you’re not actually supposed to delete. Please help me understand what was wrong with your block. LordEnma8 09:33, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Archived. – Sca (talk)

Cut it out[edit]

Discussion of your block belongs here not on my talk page. Just because you speedily archived the discussion here doesn't mean it moves over to my talk page. I'm tired of repeatedly explaining that to you. Right now you are blocked from only one page. If this disruption keeps up you are likely to be blocked altogether. Your choice. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:04, 28 October 2022

msg received. i give up. -- Sca (talk) 20:44, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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