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)

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)

RECENT

Bob Saget

I'm not sure why you've removed the majority of the page content and protected the article. I've found the majority of citations needed already, but I obviously can't add them if the page is protected. -- Ned Scott 20:27, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Poke? -- Ned Scott 04:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

No, really, would you like to actually respond to my message? From what I can tell, two editors removed content with no edit summary explaining why, and nothing on the talk page. Other users saw this, were confused, and reverted the edit. You then went and protected it because of that. There was no edit war, there was no issue about BLP, and it was nothing requiring protection. And here it sits, still protected. -- Ned Scott 07:02, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Brian Adias

Can you do something about this page...the edit warring on it is getting crazy.

Edit warring galore at [[Rodney Begnaud

Yup

Re: your user page

Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I have expressed some concerns regarding your user page. Please see Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Hello._Possible_misuse_of_userpage.3F. Thank you.--0rrAvenger 02:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Ecstacy rising.jpg

This image was contributing nothing to the article on ecstacy, it just sat in the external links section for no real reason. As such, I removed it, and it is now orphaned, and tagged as such. J Milburn 16:18, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Burntsauce (talk · contribs)

Could you please explain why you have unblocked the above user, with no discussion with the blocking admin and full support for the block at AN/I? Ryan Postlethwaite 09:41, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Please note, that after a clear consensus on AN/I that your unblock was invalid, I have reblocked Burntsauce for the remainder of his original block. Ryan Postlethwaite 10:57, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Alkivar. I was wondering if you could clarify for me what you meant when you unblocked Burntsauce with the log message ten of all trades should remember that blocks must be placed according to blocking policy. My understanding of the blocking policy is that blocks are used (generally speaking) to prevent ongoing harm or disruption to the project, and that blocks are placed after other, gentler methods have failed.

In the case of Burntsauce, a number of editors had politely asked him to use edit summaries at least for major edits, and particularly when he was making deletion nominations. In the case of deletion nominations (PRODs and AfDs) the requirement for edit summaries is a matter not just of etiquette, but also of policy. His response to these requests has uniformly been to delete them from his talk page.

After several requests, and after being provided with detailed instructions for how to turn on the automatic prompting for edit summaries in the Mediawiki interface, and after being warned that future 'submarine' PRODs would result in a block, Burntsauce continued to spurn the use of edit summaries. Consequently, he was blocked as there seemed no other way to interrupt this disruptive behaviour. The block message on his talk page linked in great detail to the past polite requests, instructions, and warning, and to the policies that he had been ignoring, as well as indicating once again why his actions were disruptive, and the very simple conditions under which his block would be lifted.

In the future, if you feel that one of my administrative actions should be undone, I would appreciate the courtesy of at least a polite notification from you rather than a snide message in the block log. (Better yet, a request for clarification from me will usually result in a detailed response.) Where one exists – as it does in this case – I would also urge you to participate in the AN/I discussion. Far be it from me to lecture another admin about the importance of following the blocking policy, but do bear in mind that such notice and discussion are required so as to avoid touching off wheel wars. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Rodney Begnaud

Please stop removing the image from the Rodney Begnaud article. It is there to show who he is, and there for adds that to the article. According to you, maybe we should remove all images from all biographies? Any further removal of this image will lead to me contact an admin.

Thanks, Kris 17:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

You sir are 100% wrong... and since you have clearly not read our fair use policies UNNACCEPTABLE USE section you have been blocked for 48hrs. Please read our fair use policy page. My removal of your image was completely within the grounds of policy, and any further uploading and readding of it by you will lead to further blocks.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 18:01, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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User:OKMUHBIJN

Hi. I noticed that you re-applied the indefinte block to this user following my re-application of the 24 hour block (after this discussion). As you can see from the discussion I failed to get an explanation for the indefinite block from CSCWEM, so I just wondered if you are able to shed any light on this (including the references to the ArbCom). Cheers TigerShark 23:28, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

WP:ANI and Bob Saget article

An editor questioned your full protection of the Bob Saget article on ANI here. As another editor has contacted you on three occasions without receiving a response from you, and as I can see no reason for it to be fully protected that complies with our protection policies, I have restored it to semi-protected status (as I understand it receives a great deal of vandalism). I'm happy to discuss this with you on my talk page or at ANI. Cheers. -- Merope 10:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Japanese Wikitruth site

Yes, that makes sense. It's just that you seemed very certain; you said they're in no way, shape, or form linked to each other. I was curious as to how you could be so sure. SlimVirgin 03:27, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Well my certainty comes from the facts as I see them... no i'm not 100% certain... but i'd say 95% is plenty good enough. Especially considering... if they already host a wiki... why would they also use a japanese Live Journal equivalent blog? Wouldnt it make more sense to just have a few wiki pages written in japanese?  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 03:34, 13 June 2007 (UTC)