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Re: Re: welcoming project

Sorry, what? Could you be more specific please? pfctdayelise (translate?) 15:01, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, right. I actually haven't updated that for ages, obviously, as I am well aware of the WelCom now...when I was primarily active on en.wp I used to alert quite a few people to the WP:AWNB. I had a Babelbox for it at one stage but I guess I removed it in the interests of succinctness. Thanks for paying attention, anyway ;) --pfctdayelise (translate?) 15:13, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mining in Australia is the new ACOTF

Hi. You voted for Mining in Australia for Australian Collaboration of the fortnight. It has been selected, so please help to improve the article in any way you can. Thanks. Scott Davis Talk 13:41, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For some reason, when I add that to my css, I can have no more than a few additional tabs, even if no dropdown menu tab is present. I am not sure why, something as acting as a sort of tab limit. If I remove position = relative, the other tabs show, but the menus is very wide.Voice-of-AllTalk 05:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Auspic email

Yes I still have the email, I will find it when I return to work on Tuesday. Adam 09:08, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RFA
Alphax, thank you very much for your support in my recent Request for adminship, it passed with a final tally of (65/3/3) - which I find both amazing and humbling. I wish I had time to thank everyone personally, but I'm afraid all I can offer is this token of my gratitude. I hope to live up to your expectations/hopes. If at any stage you need to contact me, for help or a request or to point out a mistake in my conduct, please make sure to tell me on my talk page. --Fir0002 08:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Hi Alphax, thank you for voting in my RFA which failed eventually at a result of (91/51/8). I do not plan to run for adminship until a later date. Once again, I would like to thank you for voting. --Terence Ong (talk | contribs) 14:44, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Group mentality

I seemed to have offended you somehow on IRC the other day (although I am still not quite sure why), but I nevertheless appologize for upsetting you in any way; I only meant our discussion to be a philosophical one on the morality of giving into group mentality, and not a personal one. Where 03:03, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stop violating the GFDL! :O

User:Salman01 had been moving pages and I was reverting his moves. Since he had moved the page and I was using move as well back the the original source there was no GFDL violation because the history of the content remained intact. The move comment is from the MediaWiki software... not myself and I am not sure there is any other way to stop move vandalism. Did those pages have any content besides the automated creation of redirects? gren グレン 17:13, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't be condescending.... I know there is a protect button I didn't use it because it was not (I thought) a recurrent problem but a mistaken user who would stop once I explained to him. I think the problem is that I thought the only page content was the creation of redirects. I should have checked to make sure there was no content. The editor moved the pages multiple times which I hadn't realized. Next time I will look more carefully. Thank you for notifying me and for you and bookofjude fixing it. gren グレン 18:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I moved Sholay (film) to Sholay (2007 film) and I deleted again. This time I restored the content that had been deleted by the move. That means I didn't violate the GFDL, right? I just want to be sure. Thanks. gren グレン 12:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User page

Thank you for taking on this project. I will try to be in contact with you as you go on doing this. I would also ask you to advise EvocativeIntrigue of your decision, as he was the one who originally approached me about fixing it. Other than that, full speed ahead!! P.S. I prefer a design similar to that of this page.--Chili14 04:04, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup on 24th August 2006

Apologies if you're already aware of this, but the Inaugural Adelaide Meetup will take place on Thursday 24th of August at Brougham Place Uniting Church, thanks to Alex Sims. Please indicate if you will attend or not.This message left by May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) on behalf of [ælfəks], 09:38, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adelaide Meeting

Thanks for the invitation for the Adelaide Meeting on the 24th of August but actually going to a uniting chuch seems incredibly POV oriented and sounds a bit like a set up from an Amway distributor. Thanks anyway Enigmatical 22:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Responses to Adelaide meetup

I've been receiving some responses to the notice you had me spam. I'll list them one here. For further notices, please watchlist User talk:Shreshth91. Thanks! --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 10:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Key signing

Hi Alphax! Would you be able to sign my key? You can see it on my user page. I all quite new to PGP. I'm using Enigmail on Thunderbird with KGpg as another GPG interface, and would be interested to know if you have any tips about signing and encryption over Gmail. Thanks. — Gareth Hughes 13:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

articles for deletion

Just found my article in the "articles for deletion". -> "Vanity page;non-notable. User has removed deletion notice twice." I'm sorry, was new to me, had no bad intention. Would be great, if the article won't be deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ricopuestel (talk • contribs) 13:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

OTRS

Hi Alphax. Sorry for the lack of attention on IRC, was sorting something at work. I read the mail, got very annoyed at the writer, and have mailed both her and the communications committee about her message. You can see the OTRS part of that thread here, the rest was just more shouting. Please let me know if there are more from her, and I will pay attention this time! Apologies again -- sannse (talk) 12:38, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Alphax

Hey Alphax, thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It finished with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. I really appreciate your support. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 10:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:STRAW

Hi,

I noticed you changed WP:STRAW from a guideline to a failed proposal. Sorry for saying so, but that is beyond improper. That page has been a guideline for over a year. I urge you to explain yourself on the talk page *before* redoing your edit. Thanks. Fresheneesz 07:38, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Permissing granted copyvios

If permission is granted by e-mail, you can just remove the item from the page. —Centrx→talk • 17:34, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 21:13, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Emailuser on m:Checkuser Privacy

Good idea! ~Kylu (u|t) 03:04, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A panel about wikipedia - copyrights

Hi, I am assembling a panel of 5 that will talk about wikipedia in general. I am planing of making of covering it in 5 topics:

  1. Wikimedia Foundation
  2. Mediawiki
  3. Copyrights
  4. General info
  5. Sister projects

The panel will be a part of a more general Internet conferance that will be held 21-23 December 2006 in Ankara, Turkey.

I am looking for a person to cover the "copyrights" topic. And I think you would be an approporate person for the job.

Cat chi? 21:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dude

Dude I am so stoned right now......so I decideded 2 go round wikiipedia spreading good faith.So would you lik 2 join me in a duet of "i Like the crotch On u" by r kellie?I'll start it off...

I like the ... with big booties in 'em
I like the crotch on you
I want what you've got baby
Blind14 02:06, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:e-mail

Hi. Thanks for the note. I don't know what might have happened. The account is valid. In fact, after I read your message, I sent myself a test e-mail and it arrived normally. I've e-mailed you now. When you get it, try replying directly. If you still get an error, let me know, so that I can try to find out what could be happening with that account. Cheers, Redux 01:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I received your e-mail. I've already proceeded as requested. Thanks for the help :-) . Cheers, Redux 14:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elonka

Thank you for participating in my recent RfA. Unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful. However, I appreciate that you took the time to comment, and I did pay close attention to your thoughts, as I find it a valuable thing to understand how I am perceived by others in the Wikipedia community. Though the RfA was unsuccessful, I intend to continue contributing in a positive manner to Wikipedia, and if there is anything that I can do in the future to help further address your concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. --Elonka 10:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for supporting my RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA that I have passed with 73/2/1.--Jusjih 10:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections questions

Thanks for your questions on my ArbCom statement page! I responded - see here. If you have any more questions, or you require clarification or expansion on any of my answers, just post on that page, and I'll respond ASAP. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 08:14, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Outsourcing Page

You obviously take issue with the topic of "outsourcing", especially the criticisms, but I don't think the issue is the existence of a division of labor in society but how labor is organized. Would you agree? (NewTools 16:58, 8 November 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Mu. [ælfəks] 01:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your input

Thank you for taking part in my RfA. The RfA was not successful, mostly because I did a pretty bad job of presenting myself. I'll run again sometime in the next few months, in the hopes that some will reconsider.

In the meantime, one of the projects I'm working on is A Wikimedia Administrator's Handbook. This is a wikibook how-to guide intended to help new administrators learn the ropes, as well as to simply "demystify" what adminship entails. If you are an administrator, please help out with writing it, particularly on the technical aspects of the tools. Both administrators and non-administrators are welcome to help link in and sort all of the various policies regarding the use of these tools on wikipedia in particular (as well as other projects: for example, I have almost no experience with how things work on wiktionary or wikinews). Users who are neither familiar with policy or the sysop tools could be of great help by asking questions about anything that's unclear. The goal is to get everything together in one place, with a narrative form designed to anticipate the reader's next question.

A second project, related but not entailed, is a book on wikimedia in general, with a history of how various policies evolved over time, interesting trivia (e.g., what the heck was "wikimoney" about?), and a history of how the wikimedia foundation itself came about and the larger issues that occurred during its history (such as the infamous "Spanish Fork").

Again, thanks for your input on the RfA, and thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide for the handbook. --SB_Johnny|talk|books 13:02, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flickr

Thanks for the heads up on Image:White Rock Lake 4.jpg. I had also uploaded a 1, 2, and 3 which I fixed. Are all photos on Flickr released like this? Like someone from the Wikipedia can go and take them without asking? I was given a set of links saying I could use any of them as long as I put them under CC 2.5 (I guess 2.0) and attributed the author. drumguy8800 C T 01:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Radar animation of 9/11

I'll fiddle around and try and generate something workable for wiki-purposes in the next few days. A full animation of the event is not possible unfortunately as atmospheric noise was high early in the day, blanking out the smoke (it is a weather radar after all). The conditions improved a little while after the towers collapsed and then stay good for a considerable time. This gives plenty of time, and an animation showing the smoke billowing out to sea can be created - which is ideal really. I'll have to look closely at the timeline and see if the collapse of WTC 11 is visible (I suspect it probably is).--Nilfanion (talk) 23:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

[ælfəks]

Are you sure the second vowel should be /ə/ ? I'm not convinced, because when I say it both syllables are stressed, so I would vote for /æ/ again. --pfctdayelise (talk) 04:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

wikt:axe offers /æks/. I would be pretty surprised to find a schwa at the start of a one syllable word in English. --pfctdayelise (talk) 11:54, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mulesing is now WP:ACOTF

Hi. You voted for Mulesing, which has been selected as Australian collaboration. Please help to improve it in any way you can. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 12:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Water fuel cell

Hello, I believe Water Fuel Cell violates WP:CITE, WP:V, WP:OR etc... After more than three time that the request for sources has been placed and removed(over a period of several weeks), I am RfCing (Jan 9th 2007). A poll is being held on the talk page. --CyclePat 03:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

monobooks...

Can you fix the tabs in my monobook --Adam1213 Talk + 03:42, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Worm

The worm basically is a javascript that when put in your monobook.js makes you perform edits that tell others to put the same code in their monobook. It spread a bit, but died out after the warning, it just takes advantage of new users. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 03:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Licencing of Star Control images

I just noticed that back on March 11 2006 you briefly added a GPL licence template to Image:Arilou.png and then removed it again with the edit comment "my mistake - not released under a free license, yet". I'm confused, since Star Control#The Ur-Quan Masters indicates it is under a free licence. Has that changed since March? Bryan Derksen 09:00, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup on 23rd April 2007

Hi Alphax,

Apologies if you're already aware of this, but I'd like to let you know that the second Adelaide Meetup will take place on Monday 23rd of April at ZUMA Caffe, 56 Gouger Street, Adelaide. The meeting is at 7:30am for breakfast with Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 2 for more details and indicate if you might attend.

Thanks,–cj | talk 14:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
NB: The above message is being delivered to users who are listed at WikiProject Adelaide or in Category:Wikipedians in South Australia with AutoWikiBrowser.

Wikifun

Round 14 is starting just about now. --Spondoolicks 16:59, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:1915 Dance by Rodchenko.jpg

Hello, Alphax. An automated process has found and removed a fair use image used in your userspace. The image (Image:1915 Dance by Rodchenko.jpg) was found at the following location: User talk:Alphax/archive06. This image was removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image was replaced with Image:Example.jpg, so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image to replace it with. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 22:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do I deal with a complaints against an user?

As I have posted this to two other users for advice, I am writing to you on how do I deal with an user as he has given me and another user a vandalism tag for an edit which me and that user, as a result I tried to explain to him that I have not vandalised the article, just general editing, he went out to dish out the blame and this is become heated.

In order to post the full complaint, I have attempted to make use of the ARV button on my Twinkie, but the comments is too big for it, so how do I post this complaint against this user

Another one is, shall I reply back to him, knowing this one is more heated than his previous reply as I don't like to be the person to back down and allow him get his way, therefore I take the blame for a general edit? Willirennen 23:53, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PGP

Alphax, Care to extend the web of trust with eachother's PGP keys? Mine is at User:Xaosflux/PGP. — xaosflux Talk 01:45, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Your monobook.js

Hi,

I installed your monobook.js, but some of the features do not appear to be working fully. Popups works, section 0 editing works, and the links in the toolbox work. But nothing else seems to work. No other tabs that I can tell are available, no regex. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places... Any suggestions? Thanks!

St.isaac 02:33, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Nuvola apps cookie.png

I feel strange writing about this but this is not a cookie\biscuit. Instead it is more a cupcake. Simply south 20:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No personal attacks?

WP:NPA. It's a policy.

However, I've found this. I know it's a bit old... but I thought you were very harsh with this person. Had this person not been anonymous, I would have kindly asked you to apologise to him/her for such an inappropriate conduct.

Here's the anonymous person's message, from the cURL talk page:

(about someone who thought this article was hard to read to technically-uninclined people) 

Sure, but if you are reading such page, you should know (as a basic) 
what are those protocols, operating systems, and other technical words. 
They are basic in the computer science world.



To which you replied 

Sir, you fail at life and as a person for your arrogance. A reader 
could arrive at this page from ANYWHERE. They may have no idea what any 
of the "basic technical words" mean. [ælf?ks] 07:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Note the "fail at life and as a person". How can a well-constructed comment, such as this one, be made in bad faith?

However, I don't find his/her comment arrogant, as it's clear that if you fall on an article about such a deep and somewhat obscure software application, you are bound to have at least basic computer science knowledge. (well, you don't need a PhD =))

I think I can assert you failed at it, this time. --Sébastien Leblanc (Talk|Mail) 12:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(note that this is not a personal attack)

Surely you have better things to be doing then raising an ten-month old message with a user who hasn't edited since February?--cj | talk 13:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Tag for a pic

I think I need to put a tag of some sort on a pic I uploaded, but I'm not sure how at all! Need a hand please! User:Maggas 21:47, 7 September 2007 (ACST)

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