Wikimania 2006

Firstly, enjoy your Wikibreak; come back clear-headed and ready to edit! Second, I noticed you live in New England, and are a DJ (awesome!), and wondered if you've heard of Wikimania 2006, which is happening right here in our fair city of Boston. I know it's a few hours' drive from where you are, but if you could participate in IRC chats, or volunteer to help with Wikimania, we'd really appreciate it. I enjoy working with you, and look forward to seeing you in the future. Happy wikibreak, Mysekurity 02:44, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I love the userpage! 02:44, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

St. John's College High School

Fantastic work on the St. John's College High School article, it looks wonderful! Bahn Mi 21:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Images

Thank you for the additions of pictures of the Bendix and Thompson tropies! KillerChihuahua 13:09, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I dispute your unsourced assertion that you ever sit on your "lazy ass"! If you expect such controversial claims to remain unchallenged, you should not use such a recognizable sig! No one even has to check your contribs to see that is a deliberately false and misleading statement. I am deeply disappointed in you for attempting to push this unsupported minority POV. KillerChihuahua 13:17, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing my ugly user page! I really appreciate it. I had tried to make it look nice, but I just couldn't figure it out! Thanks!Reggaedelgado 19:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

ALF, now with added ALF

Here's a barnstar for converting me to ascii and HTML they are fantastic, thanks. I spent three hours this week trying to find just an ascii version, so I am delighted to have these in user space. Big smile on my face now, thanks. --Alf 11:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Love Don't Copy That Floppy

Funny shit, I wish I still had one of the posters (the one with a swashbuckling floppy) that they sent out to universities during that campaign so I could up it to commons. Also, excellent work on the many aspects of warez (it's refreshing to see well written articles by people who have a clue). Nice userpage, too, 'cept the whole spiel about being conservative ;-P (at least you aren't a GWB fanboy). --Dragon695 18:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:Alkivar-003-TWEAKED.jpg

I have a question about the above mentioned picture. You state it was taken by Utopium Photography, yet you claim to be the copyright holder. If this picture was not taken by you, but you are the subject the photographer has to release the copyright to you. Just like wedding photos, the married couple do not hold any copyrights, or infact any rights to the photos. Mike _{(T C)} 23:30, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Dude... you have absolutely no idea what the hell your talking about. In the US, works for hire cannot be registered for copyright by the creator. See this pdf:

Under the 1976 Copyright Act as amended (title 17 of the United States Code), a work is protected by copyright from the time it is created in a fixed form. In other words, when a work is written down or otherwise set into tangible form, the copyright immediately becomes the property of the author who created it. Only the author or those deriving their rights from the author can rightfully claim copyright.

Although the general rule is that the person who creates a work is the author of that work, there is an exception to that principle: the copyright law defines a category of works called “works made for hire.” If a work is “made for hire,” the employer, and not the employee, is considered the author. The employer may be a firm, an organization, or an individual.

Note the section in bold. Nuff said.  ALKIVAR™ 19:27, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Cool

Cool userpage you've got! Gerard Foley 01:17, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Paul Oakenfold

I agree that the way I worded it, it sounded like he mixed his own records. I sat there for a few minutes trying to peice together a sentence that would be both grammatically correct and convey the correct message. "Not only did Oakenfold produce records, but he also mixed them." A few too many modifiers. The words but and also are both redundant but without them the sentence is screwed. Perhaps, "Oakenfold even mixed the records he produced for others" or something of the ilk? drumguy - speak? 02:05, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

By the way, wonderful userpage. Did you develop it or did you copmod a template? drumguy - speak? 02:06, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I subst'd some of the templates... and modified them to match the theme (the GFDL only and the Userpage templates) the rest I developed by hand. I'd be glad to give you any help you need developing one of your own if you'd like.  ALKIVAR™ 21:47, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

young orphaned images

I think you were the one who asked a little while ago for a report of young orphaned images? Here it is. Let me know if any tweaks are needed. --Interiot 23:02, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Gorgeous Userpage!

Yours is the nicest userpage I've seen, in browsing several hundred. Nice work! Waitak 10:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

RECENT

This is Moe

French cemetery photo

Hello Alkivar! I would just like to know if you were able to give the exact provenance of this File:FrenchCemetery103004-01.jpg photo of the defaced French cemetery. Although I understand why you put it & I share your ideas, I'd like you to understand that such an image - without its precise origin - may lead to some confusion among people foreign to France. To speak clearly: a few years ago, Ariel Sharon claimed France was becoming a dangerous country for Jews, which has upset quite a few people in France, including large parts of the Jewish community. Such an image, if you don't give its precise location, may lead some people to think that France is an antisemitic country. I'm sure you understand why we should not support this misinterpretation. They're have been a few cases of such Neo-Nazi vandalism, in Carpentras in the mid-90s, and sometimes in the Alsace region, where Neo-Nazis are pretty strong. Salud! Lapaz 18:35, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

If my memory serves it was in the Alsace region. But I'd have to refind the article on AP wire to get verification.  ALKIVAR™ 02:17, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok found it....

"Graves desecrated by vandals with Nazi swastikas and anti-semitic slogans in the Jewish cemetery of Brumath, close to Strasbourg, October 31, 2004. It is the third time in the last six months that Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated in the Alsace region."

Colditz Castle/Popular culture

Slash titles for subarticles are deprecated in mainspace per WP:SP. I moved the article to Colditz Castle in popular culture a while back, but you moved it back without explanation. Is there any reason for keeping the article at its current nonstandard title, or should I just go ahead and move it again? Night Gyr 08:16, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Two reasons 1) WP:SP is a guideline not policy 2) as a subarticle / it does not get hit by random article. I am a strong believer that spinoffs merely due to main article size (not for content expansion reasons) should not be hit by random (and lead the viewer to a negative impression).  ALKIVAR™ 16:01, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

What's you objection to writing a paragraph of introduction on each subarticle and letting them stand on their own? List of escape attempts from Colditz Castle could be a fine list on its own if it had an intro paragraph instead of its self-referential notice about being broken off for size. If you write an intro, they can know what Colditz Castle is, and read the main article if they want to see that first. Night Gyr 20:01, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, official policy deprecates them at WP:NC#Do_not_use_an_article_name_that_suggests_a_hierarchy_of_articles. It's not just a consensus guideline. Night Gyr 03:03, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey...

Thanks. Good to see ya around again. -Mysekurity 22:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Opiate Addicts

Hey, thanks for simplifying the name. I'm kind of curious why you kept the word "known". It seems a bit redundant to me - known as opposed to rumored? WP policies regarding reliably mean of course we're only going to report sourced ie "known" addicts, so the word seems a bit superfluous. Or is it required for some other reason I'm not noticing? Cheers, Kasreyn 22:47, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I honestly didnt think much beyond the fact that they need to be "known addicts", not just "known users". Of course any addition still requires WP:V and a decent link. Do you have a problem with the title?  ALKIVAR™ 08:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

You've got mail...

... email, that is. --Mark Neelstin 20:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Template substitution

Hello Alkivar. Please consider substituting {{Indefblockeduser}} when you use it; the new dated categorisation will not work unless the template is substituted. See also Template substitution for more details and reasoning. // Pathoschild (/_map) 20:52, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank-you

Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue III

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Peppers talk speedy-deletion review

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F. Hip Hop

Thanks for pitching in on this clean-up effort, it will be good to have someone with some music article experiance. But as we've already put the normal editors there off-side pretty badly with the huge pile-on, could I get you to be extra-gentle with your edit summaries? Thanks cobber.
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Edit summaries

Hi, Alkivar. I just wanted to let you that there is a discussion about you at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding edit summaries in case you would like to comment. -- Kjkolb 18:24, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Alkivar, although Kjkolb phrased that in a questioning way, there does appear to be an issue here that needs to be addressed and this is the time and place to do it. I personally haven't researched your edit history much, nor do I have much of a stand in the issue, but you need to discuss this and explain the edits that have come under question here on AN/I. Please do so, it would be much better for you to talk about the issue than to ignore it and frustrate more users. Snoutwood (talk) 06:37, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Duckdid

CheckUser is inconclusive at this point, so you'd have to block based on other grounds (e.g. being an obvious sockpuppet). Jayjg 20:43, 5 June 2006 (UTC)