User talk:Floquenbeam

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November music

memories -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:36, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

same procedure? but a surprise close --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Like pretty much every other process on WP, DYK seems so unfriendly, filled with Enforcers Of Policy And Rules And Mindless Bureaucracy. I sometimes don't know why you bother. I don't really know why I bother either. Perhaps recent events have just got me overly depressed and I won't feel so bleak in, say, four years. But the world seems so full of horrible people. Floquenbeam (talk) 22:30, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For a surprise, a Bach cantata is on the Main page today, where it was last year for the 300th anniversary, and they were too lazy to find something new ;) - Look at my story, and listen. "Es ist genug" translates to "It is enough", - 301 years ago, and three dialogues between Fear and Hope. - Nothing wrong with enforcers of policy, such as accessibility, but enforcers of misunderstood guidelines, that's the problem. Did you see what I wrote in the ballerina's DYK nom (on the talk page)? - Will upload more vacation pics shortly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:06, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A few more pics added. An open letter open to be signed (more info on the talk), - I haven't checked if you did, please ignore then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:43, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

signed! Floquenbeam (talk) 16:13, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story relates to 2 meanings of 9 Nov, - imagine: I found a DYK I liked from 2006, before my time here. - Why I bother: to make the subjects known. By known, I mean something substantial, - that someone served an organization for 70 years tells only about endurance, not creativity. I guess if they take the image - which says more than 1000 words - I'll let the pale words go, but if not just withdraw. - More pics from back home. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:02, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - Madeleine Riffaud - remember. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:14, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Madrid looks beautiful (never been). Took a peek at Riffaud, but will have to come back to it later. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:15, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The ballerina was promoted with no image and saying (no more than) she served the Bolshoi for 70 years. I told the promoter that I'll withdraw if no image. No reaction so far. It feels like saying about Riffaud that she worked in Resistance for so-an-so- many years. Interesting??? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:14, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC) [reply]

One Mass Message to hundreds of people about this is mildly annoying, but understandable. Two of them is no longer mildly annoying. If I wanted to participate, I would have. Floquenbeam (talk) 17:16, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I said something similar at my talk page. [1] Hopefully the foundation actually listens to said feedback. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 19:05, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My estimate of the odds of that happening are really low. Possibly influenced by a general skepticism about everyone and everything that I've been experiencing lately. The entire world is dysfunctional, I'm not sure why the Foundation is likely to be a counter-example. Floquenbeam (talk) 19:10, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible my optimism is based on having some success trying to make the relationship between the WMF and the community less of a venn diagram. Some of the most glaring technical issues on the app were fixed after I pointed them out (User:Clovermoss/Mobile editing). I was also told my feedback helped them to decide not to move forward with mw:Wikimedia Apps/Team/iOS/Fundraising Experiment in the iOS App. There's definitely been a lot of tense interactions but I'm generally of the hope that things can get better and that's it worth trying. Maybe I'll end up jaded one day too, though. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 19:14, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair, ending up jaded is much easier in the States. You're not irrationally optimistic; you're just Canadian. Floquenbeam (talk) 19:19, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I live near the border and I'm definitely concerned for my American neighbours. I have a lot of friends in the States. As for general optimism, I'm really not sure how Canadians got the stereotype of we're super nice. I am, but I know plenty of deeply cynical people. My life has also been very depressing. If you want to hear about my traumatic childhood, you can watch me talk about it here. I choose optimism because the alternative is much worse. I'd rather not be lost in a deep abyss feeling that nothing I do matters. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 19:31, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also found it annoying, a post at a noticebosard or something would have been less annoying than spamming everyone whether they took it already or not, which I did. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 19:32, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The eatings will continue until morale improves

This is what I thought after this comment. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:52, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bravo. I'm very disappointed that I didn't see the opportunity for that myself. Although I did get to sneak a second Voltaire reference into that thread., which (for an engineering nerd) ain't nothing. Floquenbeam (talk) 17:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Came here to make roughly the same comment as Barkeep! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:16, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now who will come here to make a third Voltaire reference? Place your bets now.... Barkeep49 (talk) 18:18, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It won't be me. I've only ever known the one. Bishonen supplied the first (hanged in silence...) --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:19, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]