Primefac

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Thank you for standing for arbitrator. I am far away from it all (travel, mourning), not in the mood, so just an informal question you can answer or ignore:

• Liviu Holender chose lieder by five composers whose music was banned by the Nazis—Schreker, Zemlinsky, Mahler, Korngold and Schönberg—for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt.

What does this 2024 DYK tell you about infoboxes for classical composers in 2024? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:22, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

I assume you mean the article and not the DYK hook itself (which has nothing to do with infoboxes). I suppose the article doesn't really tell me anything about infoboxes for classical composers in 2024, which... I guess is a good thing? I don't see any evidence of warring or dispute over the infobox. Primefac (talk) 16:43, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

I meant the hook mentioning 5 composers whose talk pages might tell you something about the degree of disagreement. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

I did not think to look at every talk page, will do so in the near future but I will be largely unavailable for probably 24 48 hours. Primefac (talk) 12:22, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

How about now? - November was rich in sadness and happiness for me, expressed in music. Regarding my (archived question), I found one so far who looked deeply into the matter, Simonm223. There are two composers on the Main page today, Siegfried Thiele and Aaron Copland. I find the response of my friend Jerome Kohl to a question on Copland's article talk promising. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:17, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

It is quite refreshing to see discussions on talk pages that are civil, even if the participants disagree. I believe I said something similar in the last round of elections, but it does appear that the age of edit warring over infoboxes has passed. While it's probably not a hill I would die on, I will admit that I like seeing an infobox at the top of biographies, if only to get those "fast facts" about a subject, so to see them in all of these pages shows that general opinions may be shifting from those of a decade ago. Primefac (talk) 17:08, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - I agree. A few editors of a few FAs don't agree, and they revert a new set of people each year who are used to infoboxes and never heard of a conflict, - I was one of those in 2012 ;) - 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) 16:41, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks! Primefac (talk) 12:13, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

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Showrunner

Hi, I saw your name in the revdel-user caegory. I saw this today and wonder if that oldid should be revdel'd? Not sure how the editor found that, may be worth the revdel to WP:DENY future attention? Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 12:43, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Nah, it's just silly nonsense, and old enough that it's more quaint than anything. Thanks for checking though. Primefac (talk) 12:54, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

STN template

Did you do something weird to the STN template? It now inserts a link to your merge proposal. See Sunrise Izumo for an example. Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 17:16, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

That is intentional, yes. I used the smallest message to minimize the visible impact. Primefac (talk) 17:27, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Your "minimal impact" makes the article very difficult to read. What's the purpose of inserting a link every time the template is used? Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 18:25, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

The intention is to let people who use the template know that the template has been nominated for merging. Primefac (talk) 18:26, 6 December 2024 (UTC)