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)

I must compliment you on your excellent userpage. Kudos to your creativity :) I am inspired.  ĐõÇ §αмέЄЯ 06:32, 10 August 2007 (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)

Esperanza User Page Award

Congratulations, Alkivar, you have been nominated for the Esperanza User Page Contest! The judges have received the fifteen entries, and are ready to start judging. The judges will take a week to complete the judging process, and they will contact all the participants when the judging is done.

Please drop by the contest page for contest updates and questions. Take care, and good luck! Daniel.Bryant 09:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiLove!

Here's a chocolate bar for you! Chocolate bars somehow promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving something friendly to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others using Template:smile! Happy editing! --TBCΦtalk? 08:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Get it? A chocolate bar for Alkivar? Anyhow, keep up the great work, you've contributed a lot to Misplaced Pages. :D (another ackward attempt at comedy by TBCΦtalk?)

Thats such a dorky joke... but it made me smile ... thanks for the thought.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 18:42, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

A well deserved barnstar for you, for your creation of the List of units using the B-26 Marauder during World War II. It helped me get rid of some red links on my own pet project...List of United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons. Cheers--Looper5920 10:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Been meaning to give you one of these for a while now. I think I have agreed with you on 99% of every Misplaced Pages discussion we have both participated in, even on the really controversial ones that I am often in the minority of. It's good to know someone else in the project shares my views on so many topics. VegaDark 04:34, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

For doing the right thing

There are people that talk the talk...

...And there are people that walk the walk. I don't give out Barnstars, I give out this thing, and on rather rare occasions at that. Thank you, for standing up, and for doing the right thing. Good luck. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

The Surreal Barnstar

RECENT

Response to my question

Hi Alkivar. I wanted to respond to your question (in the ArbCom case, that is), but I can't figure out how to clearly do so without the indenting getting all confusing. Would it be alright with you if I indented the comments you made in response to my question so that the discussion is easier to follow? (I don't even know if anyone reads them really, but I figured more legible = better). (If not, I'll muddle through). Best, --Bfigura 22:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Just indent as normal to respond to mine (as I was at * you should go to **)... I un-indented because the further to the right you get the more squished the text appears.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 22:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually it's a moot point, I kinda answered my question myself. Thanks though. --Bfigura 01:02, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

What the hell?

IS THIS... User:Lady Aleena/Dishwasher ??? Burntsauce 22:31, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

• Some weird list thing she put together... ask her.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 22:32, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Atze Schröder

Hi, Alkivar, I'd very much appreciate your advice on this article. You reverted it back in May and protected it. Now I'v stumbled across it by chance just to see that the old problem obviously is still evident. I restored the version that included the artist's real name but was reverted by another user citing WP:BLP#Privacy_of_names. I dont' agree with this user's opinion. Schroeder clearly is a well known person in his native Germany so there is no reason for protecting his identitiy. He is definitely not a private but a very public award winning individual. Therefore WP:BLP#Privacy_of_names can't be applied. Plus your argument regarding decisions of German courts is still valid so I referred to it in my comment. I don't feel like starting any edit war but at the same time I don't feel like acquiescing quietly to unnecessary self-censorship. I'd welcome your advice on this matter and thank you in advance. --Catgut 03:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

• Hi Alkivar, I was the user who reverted the change. Further discussion on the entry can be found here: Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Atze Schröder. --B. Wolterding 10:57, 30 October 2007 (UTC)