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Leaving
I'm really sorry to see you go. I know we'll be worse off for not having your voice here and on the mailing list. Your contributions are valued, at least by me. All the best in the other aspects of your life. Guettarda 15:24, 17 September 2005 (UTC) you are complitely right. the whole story of copyright is a bit out of control paranoia @#$!!@#$$!@# but i think it is better to stay and hope (and fight) for the best (the point is to free knowledge not say that it is not free) than go away --Lucinos 12:14, 18 September 2005 (UTC) Is it related to the Nuvola icons ? Someone on the french channel briefly reported some problems with the trademarks within the icons. It's sad.. :/ Dake 22:35, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
==Who's RfA== Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 20:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC) Yo
Now slap it on your user page. Your page as is pretty much sucks ; - ) Redwolf24 (talk) 04:01, 1 October 2005 (UTC) Re: Afd nominationsHi Alphax. I've just read your post on wikiEN-l that starts off about an Adelaide roundabout and goes on to describe your views on deletion/inclusion/merging. It's by far the best description that I've come across of how I think the whole deletion process should be approached. Would you mind if I saved a copy of it to a user sub-page? --GraemeL (talk) 13:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Anthony HopkinsYup, I can prove just about anything, try me. It's a searchable book bio. You can also just search for " "Anthony Hopkins" Yeats " on Google or something. Usually turns up a bunch of results. Vulturell 07:53, 2 October 2005 (UTC) Thanks for the welcome!Could you take a look at the page "Jim Duffy (Author)"? I can't see any evidence that this person has written any books. There is a link to a newspaper article that supposedly talks about serialisation of "Jim Duffy's latest book" but that artcle was written by Jim Duffy himself and doesn't mention any book. Is this some sort of fraud? 143.238.245.214 05:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
My talk pagePlease don't revert things without checking them first. Thanks, Alphax τεχ 06:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
OopsWhere did I do that? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:49, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my RfA!Dear Alphax: Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I am most honoured by the trust that has been placed in me by yourself and other members of the Wikipedia community, especially since I did not conform to the standard edit-count criteria usually expected of administrator candidates. I promise to only use my administrative privileges to assist the community in doing good work, and also to be calm, considerate and careful in working to make Wikipedia a better place. I shall see you on IRC, my friend; I look forward to working, and conversing, with you in the future. (TINC!) Best regards, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) (e-mail) (cabal) 03:17, 8 October 2005 (UTC) Thanks for the welcomeHi, thanks for the welcome message - I've been walking the grounds of the WiKingdom for some time now and 've already gotten acquainted with how things get accomplished around here - but nonetheless thanks for the info. My job is usually tweaking and correcting, small edits and things. See you round :) --Ouro 09:36, 14 October 2005 (UTC) Me quitting EsperanzaHi. Why does this worry you? I have been inactive in Esperanza ever since I joined, so it doesn't make sense to stay there. Karol 13:50, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
ArbCom timeline
Any chance of updating Image:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee appointments.png once the election's over? Alphax τεχ 05:05, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Automatic post signingHello, Alphax. I saw this post on Kate's talk page:
I thought that you might be interested in MediaZilla (an offshoot of BugZilla), the MediaWiki bugfix website. It's where all software changes to MediaWiki are requested, discussed, and dealt with. That's where you'd go if you want to suggest adding that to the software. It's located here: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/. Just as a thought: I would think that that would be a problem, because if the software automatically added your sig, then it would also go onto articles, and if it only worked on talk pages, then you'd sometimes have to add it anyway (such as on RfCs, AfDs, elections, etc.) Anyway, I think it works O.K. as now, but I heartily encourage you to add it to MediaZilla. It never hurts to have more ideas. Hey, I hope this helps. Take care, --Blackcap | talk 16:06, 16 October 2005 (UTC) i already sign my posts on talk pages. i suppose i should add a link rather than assuming people know who i am :) is this any better? kate.
Son of JimboHaha, I chuckled at that, even though I know it was in a serious tone. There already is a son of Jimbo... Raul654. He is the sole FA director, he controls what's on our main page every day, he's an arbitrator, bureaucrat, admin, and admin on other wikimedia wiki's. There's your real son of Jimbo. Redwolf24 (talk—How's my driving?) 19:30, 16 October 2005 (UTC) AdminshipYou have been nominated. Cheers, Ingoolemo talk 02:37, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
My RfAHi Alphax! Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I will be able to live up to the confidence placed in me. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 05:05, 19 October 2005 (UTC) Automatic public watchlist adding and removingI can now automatically add and remove pages from any number of (publically viewable) watchlists. I'd be happy to help you get this set up yourself, if you like. (Thanks very much for the hints about getting your drop-down menus working, they are a very Good Thing). JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:51, 19 October 2005 (UTC) < big >
AFDHi there! I basically share your sentiment that AFD is a cesspool... I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what could be done to alleviate that? Preferably some change in policy or an alternate process that would reduce bureaucracy, factionalism and strife. Yours, Radiant_>|< 22:42, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
RFAWith 25 opposed and 21 in support, I would suggest withdrawing and reapplying later. At least that way it will say "withdrawn by candidate" instead of unsuccesful. Happy editing. freestylefrappe 22:57, 20 October 2005 (UTC) JavascriptHi there. This user's first edits are to his monobook, which I find highly unusual. Would you mind checking it out at your leisure? --HappyCamper 23:36, 20 October 2005 (UTC) mjspe1Thanks for the welcome, but i'm not new, i've been around for a month or two —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjspe1 (talk • contribs) 00:45, 21 October 2005 (UTC) Reply to comment on Radiant's talk pageI agree with your ideas in theory - voting based on subject areas is bad, and giving reasons is obviously a good thing. However, imposing a minimum number of opinions may force people to be distracted from actually writing an encyclopedia when many of the results are fairly obvious. Furthermore, you don't appear to have given any practical thought to how this would work in practice. If you used these criteria to close AfDs, you would literally be keeping virtually all of the current content, including material such as hoaxes, which no one, including yourself, is likely to want kept. AfD may be may a cesspool, but breaking it in that way would make the entire encyclopedia a cesspool; it would literally shut down our ability to delete anything that was not speediable. Ambi 14:16, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
RE: Errors/Preview
Re:Deletion of stub redirectsPerhaps you should have spoken up when SFD was first mooted. It was always the intention to use the page for all deletion debates related to stubs: templates, categories, and redirects. The very first day the page went live several stub redirects were nominated for deletion, and that's the way the page has been used ever since. There's no point having standard naming protocols for stub templates if those names don't also apply to redirects, and there's definitely no point in flooding RFD with things which are better handled alongside the templates and categories to which they relate directly on SFD. It's also very important to keep them together because quite often a template due for deletion is temprarily turned into a redirect in order to create a newly namd template. it makes no sense to vote delete on something as a template at SFD, turn it into a redirect until work can be done on it, and then have to vote again on the redirect. Since everyone has been happy with the way these redirects have been voted on and deleted fror the last four months, why should there suddenly be a problem? If there was a problem, anyone watching our for problem deletions would have noticed redirects being deleted by SFD in the past and complained. No-one did. It may be worth noting, by the way, that SPUI was quite happy to vote on redirects on SFD - it's only when the debate about a particular group of redirects started going against him that he decided to remove all the votes from those redirects from the SFD page. Whether that is a coincidence or not, I don't know, but I suspect not. Grutness...wha? 05:32, 22 October 2005 (UTC) Thank you for your welcome!Well, I am trying not to be a troll or vandal :) Instead, I'm trying to help improve Wikipedia, I hope my work so far has contributed something. I will also try to correct errors and expand articles in the future. And don't worry, nothing stupid will drive me away for as long as I can fight it :) Long live Wikipedia! --Arny 09:42, 23 October 2005 (UTC) Tab menusI got it working eventually. It was a chacheing problem. I was testing on my own talk page and for some reason, several of the functions seemed to be cached in variables and forcing a reload of my monobook didn't clear them. As soon as I tested it on a user talk page I hadn't visited before, it worked. A couple of comments. You need to change vfda in your css to be afda. There is also a problem where the popup will appear in the wrong place if the menu tab is smaller than any of the tabs it contains. I had problems with the AfD tabs, but as soon as I made the tab name longer, everything worked. --GraemeL (talk) 19:11, 24 October 2005 (UTC) monobook.jsI have got the thing that adds tabs (such as purge) to the top of the page; how easy is it to change what the text in the tabs says? I have done a few experiments but can't see what to do. FireFox 13:30, 25 October 2005 (UTC) the wub's RfAThanks a lot for your support on my RfA, I really appreciate it. the wub "?!" 13:32, 25 October 2005 (UTC) I'm really confusedI'm really confused. It doesn't work. Could you do it for me? If yuo copy everything in User:Celestianpower/monobook.js into User:Celestianpower/test.js then add your code (which looks good) in the right place then I would be your bestest best friend. Well perhaps not but I'd be overwhelmingly grateful. :) --Celestianpower háblame 13:54, 25 October 2005 (UTC) Ya...... I try! See when I logged out as an anonymous editor - see MDAC history. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC) AFD votingCan you kindly explain why you keep voting "Delete NN", even when this doesn't make any sense (eg. untranslated pages)? Alphax τεχ 02:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
I think we can close this discussion now and both of us calm down. Good day! --Rogerd 03:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
SubpageOh, thanks, I didn't see that. Link, Hero of Wind 06:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC) re: need more people....Hey. ^_^ I don't actually hate people who use templates in their sigs. I used to do it myself, actually, until an admin told me to stop, so now my sig is all big and ungainly. I don't think what you said was a personal attack, per se, but it also wasn't very nice, mature, or thoughtful. But blanket voting is unproductive. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 19:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Firefox extensionWould you happen to know how to make a firefox extension using Javascript? It would be very simple and used to fight vandalism. The basic idea is to feed RC diff's into firefox, and let it determine which pages contain text (such as an obscenity) listed in a file. For pages that don't contain anything on this list, the tab is closed. The others remain open and ready to be examined. If you can't figure out how to hookup the IRC RC output into firefox, then it could be used with WP:CDVF to open new tabs in firefox to be checked. I found a guide to making extensions, but it says you need to know Javascript. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 03:50 I have responded to you and updated the image description page. Someone messed with the image I was using. Either way neither image should have any kind of copyright issue as far as firefox (copyright holder) is concerned. --Cool Cat Talk 08:50, 30 October 2005 (UTC) please delete Category:Korean basketball playersHi, Alphax. Could you please delete a category I created in error, called Category:Korean basketball players. After I created it, I realized it should be the more specific Category:South Korean basketball players, which I then created. But I can't delete the Korean page. Could you please do that for me?--Mike Selinker 19:25, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Synchronising Thunderbird message filtersSo, I've got multiple accounts set up in Thunderbird - including a "local folders" account - and I want to synchronise the message filters on all of them. Any clues on how to do it (including shell scripts, provided they don't use perl)? Alphax τεχ 06:27, 5 November 2005 (UTC) I noticed that you changed the link from "Native Americans" to "Native Americans in the United States". I am changing it back. The majority of Inuit in North America live in Canada and their southern neighbours are Canadian Indian not American Indian. The link to the disambiguation page allows for the reader to choose which group they want to read about rather than being sent to the possibly incorrect one. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 10:28, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
ThanksThanks for both the Inuit and the user page. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 10:59, 6 November 2005 (UTC) Thanks from PamriHi, Thanks a lot for your vote and support at my RFA. I am now a wikipedia administrator and I hope, I can keep your trust. Thanks again. -Pamri • Talk • Reply 16:36, 6 November 2005 (UTC) Yes, I cleaned up the WP:US pages, but forgot to join. What do you mean by how compatible is afd helper with other scripts? Except that at the moment I'm using the poor style of loader function (might be changed by the time you look again), my scripts won't break any others. At the moment the AFD-nomination function is not as good as AutoAFD. But I am creating something more generic to simplify performing many of the functions wanted in scripts, see User:Jnothman/automod.js. -- jnothman talk 00:48, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you!Thank you so much for voting in my RfA, and especially thank you for supporting me. I really appreciate it, and will wield the mop and bucket the best way I know how. Your monobook.js and .css skins have become a subject of many of my copyings; I love the ammount of time and energy you put into coding it, and it's working beautifuly. Hopefully with my admin powers, I can more fully use the skin, and find a way to clean it up (my .js file is 220KB). Anyways, thanks for voting again, and thanks for the skin. -[[User:Mysekurity|Mysekurity]] [[additions | e-mail]] 01:11, 7 November 2005 (UTC) Johann Wolfgang's RfAThank you for your support on my RfA. I will use my new abilities with the common interest in mind. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
[Helpdesk-l]I just wanted to say "good job" on all the replies. Guettarda 15:26, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Alphax/archive04
Thanks for your support on my request for adminship. The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks!FireFox 19:13, 8 November 2005 (UTC) AfD footerHi there! You added a comment to AfD Talk saying that the change I put in back in September was not a good idea, but you didn't mention why. Could you please cite specific problems? In this AfD talk I made a proposal, DESpiegel suggested an alternate, and I implemented his suggestion with Android79's blessing. I'd really like your opinions on this matter, as you obviously have a strong opinion and could contribute to the discussion. Best regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 23:59, 8 November 2005 (UTC) Philwelch's RfAThanks for supporting my successful RfA! — Phil Welch 03:31, 10 November 2005 (UTC) |