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)

Excellent User Page Award

Any chance of some help?

I'm a bit disapointed by my photo of a print, it was under glass, no lighting, so the flash is a problem, I tried to photoshop out as much as I could but I wondered if you had a program that could level out the background white as it gets real grey away from the centre. pretty please? :) --Alf 22:19, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I did my best to level out the flash, I also corrected the angular distortion so the frame around the sketch looks square now. I also reduced it to greyscale as color needlessly increased the file size for this image. If this is not what you wanted feel free to revert my changes.  ALKIVAR™ 22:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

You run a fast and efficient ship there Alkivar :) I've just been appreciating it high res and zoomed in, that's a great improvement. Thanks. --Alf 23:14, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

RECENT

RfB/Mailer Diablo

This is not a civility warning, but please don't use attacks on me personally to justify your argument. It really isn't relevant, and not very nice, either. Please also don't make assumptions about my motives. You called me a "non-admin general non-editor who badly wants the power". There is no "class distinction" between admins and non-admins (or at least shouldn't be), there's no relevancy to how often or how I edit, or whether or not I, as you charmingly put it "badly want the power" (which is, by the way, incorrect). Please comment on the topic at hand rather than descending into ad homeiem personal attacks. — Werdna talk criticism 17:21, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Bullcrap... I was just proving you have a decided POV on the subject.  ALKIVAR™ 17:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

If I didn't believe that adminship has nothing to do with featured articles, I wouldn't have said so. — Werdna talk criticism 02:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Warning

Did you not heed my prior warning about your signature? Please remove the image from your signature per WP:SIG. Images in signatures put undue load on the server. Your non-compliance might result in a WP:BLOCK — Nearly Headless Nick 15:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

When WP:SIG becomes POLICY and not a mere guideline then perhaps i'll comply... I had this conversation with several of the Dev's back in 2005! the image is on commons, not on the en server. The server load adjustment on EN is therefore negligable. Its an SVG image which requires the browser render it... it does not require server load to render. It neither interferes with line height nor blinks. In other words it does not cause any of the so called problems listed at WP:SIG.

There are more important things to worry about Nick, and i'd LOVE to see you block another admin without causing a problem. There is no valid and justifiable reason to block me. I'm beginning to think I should have opposed your recent RFA. You've been here since January 06... I've been here since 2004 dude... I know you think your doing the right thing here but your approaching this entirely wrong. Threatening a user (i'm pretty sure you didnt know I was an admin) just about always leads to the user misbehaving.

In conclusion, dont threaten me, I've been over this subject before with people who know a lot better than you do and they concluded it wasnt a problem.  ALKIVAR™ 16:54, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, you surely don't sound like an admin, but a newbie user. WP:SIG is an important guideline on Misplaced Pages and administrators need to set an example among other users. Does your being here since 2004 make you a "senior" administrator? In my opinion "No!". Start acting responsibly and remove the image from your signature. Commons or not, images put an ill-required load on Wikimedia servers and that is not good for the project in any way. My "threat" as you put it, would not have been there if you had heeded to the previous notices served to you by me as well as other editors. And please try to cut down on your abrasive tones. — Nearly Headless Nick 16:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually it's not an SVG, it's being rendered as a png (because some modern mainstream browsers don't even support svg rendering). But the rendering cost of an image isn't what's an issue ... it's the bandwidth. Yes, the SVG only has to be scaled down to sig size and stored as a png once, but everytime the page is viewed more bandwidth is wasted sending along that png. Alkivar, I know you'd block someone who was consistently violating WP:MOS, even though that is just a "style guideline". Please reconsider your hard stance on this issue. It's not worth fighting over. --128.8.78.50 16:48, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

RfB With A Smile :)