User talk:Dr. Blofeld

August

I'm still not done with Rihm, created an article on one of his pieces today. His music was played on Walter Fink's birthday, which was covered on DYK when it happened, imagine! But now I'm busy with BWV 101 which will turn 300 tomorrow. Should be in better shape by then ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:40, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today I have two "musicians" on the Main page, one is also the topic of my story, watch and listen! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:20, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... and a third, like 22 July but with interview and the music to be played today at the Proms --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:22, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extrordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:06, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I've heard it! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:49, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! - Today's story is about education, 10 years OTD after lecturing our founder). Music for today's feast is Monteverdi's, the best concert we ever did (so pictured again on my talk), but it wasn't recorded, substituted with a "Pacific" one that comes with subtitles line by line in Latin and English: I learned something! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:12, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sunday story about another of Bach's chorale cantatas, listen, as I listened to two impressive very different choral concerts, - music by 16 composers. In the latest cloudy pictures: a hidden deer, a cat and a blaze of a sunset. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:35, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I bet the acoustics are great in that place! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:22, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes where I sit, but miserable in the back. Just returned from another concert at Kurhaus Wiesbaden, where acoustics are great (will put on my talk soon). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:53, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I started Werner Bokelberg but have no more time for this photographer of Dalí and Romy Schneider. There is more detail in obits from Stern and FAZ, in German. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:06, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Help? My story today is about a woman, nominated for RD but needing support as I write this. A composer died whose article is long and mostly unreferenced. And some articles open for review, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:06, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm rather "müde" today. Went for a long run early this morning and didn't sleep very well. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:36, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sleep well then. I thought of at another concert at Kurhaus Wiesbaden (pictured on my talk): come some day to see it yourself! Next year's festival program will be out in January. - The woman has appeared but Goehr needs more work - I still hope that we'll manage over the next few days. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:30, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today is the birthday of Alma Mahler. I believe that Siegfried Lorenz should be mentioned on the Main page among the Recent deaths. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... and he appeared! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:21, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September music

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) 15:26, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recommended reading today: Frye Fire, by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking of fires, did you see Rebecca Cheptegei? Horrific! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:54, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, so sad. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:29, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Kudumbam (1967 film)

The article Kudumbam (1967 film) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Undersourced, can't find any third-party source. Unless expanded, I'm not opposed to redirecting it.

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Film lists

I've certainly gone on record in the past that I believe film lists should be organized alphabetically — for one thing, the film titles are the most centrally important piece of information in the list, and for another, organizing it by commercial release date leaves films unable to be listed at all if they've screened at film festivals but haven't opened in the multiplexes yet (frex, I created several articles about Cannes-premiering films back in the spring which I wasn't able to add to List of French films of 2024 and had to list on the talk page for future reference instead, which isn't at all the way that should have gone.) Plus it also makes the list unnecessarily complicated to edit, because of all the rowspans that have to be adjusted every time a new film is added.

I don't think maintaining two separate sets of lists would be necessary, however — I don't see a problem with having release dates be present in the list as a supplementary column, and obviously if the lists are sortable then a reader who wants to see the films organized by release date can simply sort on that column — but I absolutely agree that the base sort order should be alphabetical rather than chronological, because the titles, not the dates, are the most salient and important characteristic of the list. (Chronological order is the right choice in cases where the specific succession order is important information in its own right, such as a list of holders of a specific political office, but the question of whether Blazing Saddles technically came out before or after Thieves Like Us is trivia, not a centrally defining characteristic of either film.)

I don't recall whether there's ever been a discussion at WP:NFILM to establish a consensus one way or the other, however. Bearcat (talk) 15:07, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, also it's important when viewing on small devices that the lists are condensed, the A-Z tables look so good. The problem is that the more recent lists people seem to develop them by release date. I think what we need is some kind of consensus at WP:Film and multiple people watching the lists to stop that ip restoring the bloated tables. I would argue that all the more recent lists should be converted to A-Z format and made easier to edit too, including that French list. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:14, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]