User talk:Alex756/Archive

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If you would like to get me to read your comments you can place those comments below. If your comment is highlighted, then most likely I have read it (or someone else has highlighted it). Check the page history summaries to see what I have highlighted). My responses are highlighted in grey. If you want to learn a bit about me then go into the archives above and you can see what interactions I have had in the past with Wikipedians. Also, there is a lot of information about me in the history of my user page. I have decided not to restore all that stuff after my wikipedia:wikivacation, it was just too much information...

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Image copyright

Please could you add a license to the Java cup that you uploaded) (Image:A-Cup-of-Java.jpg) about a year and a half ago ;-)? I'm pretty certain you added it with GFDL in mind, but could you please add a license notice to it? - Estel (talk) 19:47, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

See my response on Estel's talk page.— © Alex756 05:52, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

New AMA Coordinator election?

Alex, it seems that new elections for the AMA Coordination should be performed. In the Wikipedia:AMA Coordinator Election Procedure page, it's said that the coordinator's term is 6 months long and the last elections were in April. What will be done? Should the term be declared 1 year long? Cheers from another AMA member! --Neigel von Teighen 20:06, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I will do whatever a group of members decides to do. How should this be discussed? — © Alex756 05:52, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Alex, Keith D. Tyler sent a post in the talk page of the AMA and is waiting for a response, I think. Anyway, it's not a matter of a group of members, but of the AMA procedures. --Neigel von Teighen 18:02, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

:Responses on the relevant AMA pages.

The Ramones

Hi,

While trying to update The Ramones with the interwiki to the portuguese wiki, I got a Spam protection filter. Could you please do something about it and insert the link pt:The Ramones? Thank you. Marcelo Schlindwein 14:48, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Fixed. — © Alex756 05:52, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject New York City

Hello, I've started WikiProject New York City, and from your edits it seems you might be interested. See its talk page for the beginning of a discussion on the standardization of neighborhood names, and bringing New York City up to featured status.--Pharos 13:54, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation.

Grand Army Plaza copyvio?

In the article you created in Aug 2003, Grand Army Plaza, a large ammount of the text is identical to the text at http://www.prospectpark.org/hist/main.cfm?target=../dest/gran_hist , which is linked from the page.  :This appears to be a copyvio. I hope it's not, as I just put quite a bit of work into the page, and I'd hate to have to redo all the work, but unless I hear otherwise, that's what it currently looks like. Please let me know whatever you might know about this. Thanks for all your good work on Wikipedia. JesseW 03:19, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

See my responses on JesseW talk page.

:I think the problem is fixed now. I've responded further on my talk page. Thanks! JesseW 01:29, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Call for AMA election

AMA Member Advocate,

There's a poll currently in the AMA Homepage about making a new AMA Coordinator election. Please, cast your vote there (though it's not mandatory). Any comments you have about this, write it on the AMA Homepage talk page. Cheers, --Neigel von Teighen 18:43, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done.

Need an answer

Hi Alex! I need to know something: what happens if the advocated member doesn't respect the advocate's advices? Answer me by e-mail using the "E-mail this user" tool, because my case is somewhat delicate and I can't leave my "client" alone now... --Neigel von Teighen 22:53, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Message on Neigel's talk page.

Happy to take the badge

Alex,

I'd be happy to offer what help I can — I happen to have experience with IRC from my glory days as an MMORPGer. I've already done some footwork and we can hold the meeting on Wikipedia's network, irc.freenode.net. To keep things simple, I figure we ought to just call the channel #ama — I've checked and it's not in use.

I'd be happy to post what information and links are needed, at your leisure. The only issue is date and time for a preliminary meeting, which I assume from your message is to be tomorrow, but what time is unclear.

Please contact me as soon as possible, since my ability to handle this will be spotty throughout the day, and we want to get the ball rolling as quickly as practicable. Wally 19:09, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

All right then — let me know when I ought to be there, and I'll let some others know as well. Wally 05:17, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sorry I couldn't/didn't make it to the meeting today. See the last sentence of my first post above, and my explanatory e-mail sent not long ago offering an explanation. Suffice it to say, I was unfortunately detained. Wally 22:16, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your help Wally.

Regrets and a suggestion

Hello. Glad to see you around Alex :-) And to see activity... to which I really cannot participate :-( just too much to do. I feel like I do advocacy all the time, but not really here any more.

I have a suggestion... about the sign-post... why don't you make a deal with it, so that to advertise your activity over there ? :I'll give you an example. Say a user A is unhappy with a certain rule, but the rule has a couple of tough gardians; User A is quite timid, so does not really dare to be bold with the gardians and question the rule. He might ask help from a more vocable person, and this person could start making the opinion on the sign post... so as to test the solidity of the ground. Such as raising the question of this rule interest and general support. :Depending on feedback, the advocate knows better what chance there is for success.

What do you think ? SweetLittleFluffyThing 23:26, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Good idea Anthere, will suggest it at the next meeting.

Will not be able to attend AMA meeting

Due to the fact that I will be on a business trip then, :I will be unable to attend the meeting. Burgundavia 01:33, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the regrets.

Yes, I'm afraid the chances that I'd ever be able to participate in meetings scheduled at that time are very low. Saturdays are more plausible for me, though I'm not promising anything or asking for it to be changed on my account. I'm not worried about IRC, I'm sure I can figure out the technical aspect, but I'm about at the limit of the time I can afford to commit to Wikipedia matters and don't really need to add more things to suck up my time. With that in mind, I can't imagine why meeting more than once a month at the most would be necessary.

My column about arbitration in The Signpost is intended to be regular (unless for some reason the arbitration process itself becomes less active); I'm glad you like the project. Personally I've determined that since very few people in the formal dispute resolution process are concerned about having someone to represent them, I've moved away from the idea of being an advocate in that sense. Instead, I've tried to monitor the process overall and occasionally provide input, more with the idea that I was trying to represent the community generally. In a way, that could be seen as an extension of AMA work, although I didn't necessarily phrase my participation in those terms. --Michael Snow 17:41, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Michael, your work is to be commendable. This is the spirit that moved me to start the AMA. Thank you.

'Table/Tabling/Tabled' ambiguous

Just pointing out that the word 'tabled' means different things in British vs American usage. This created some difficulty in a high level summit meeting at one point. It can mean "to bring the discussion's focus to" and also the opposite: "to retire a point from discussion"... it can mean both putting onto the table and removing from the table in other words. User:Pedant (having computer issues so I can't log in this week)

Spam filter causing problems

Every once in awhile, the spam filter blacklist starts catching a slew of legitimate websites. Can anyone talk to a developer about this? I can't even tell you what the blocked sites in question are, because it'll block me from saving it to your talk page. 69.243.41.28 02:09, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The page I was having trouble with was pornography addiction. All the links had to be disabled in order to get it to save. I will go back and see if I can save it now. 69.243.41.28 02:31, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Article suggestion

Would you consider writing a short article or a stub entitled "reasonable suspicion"? That would compliment the "probable cause" article to which you contributed

Questions Regarding Accepted Case

Hi Alex,

I could use a bit of advice here. I've just accepted the Robert the Bruce case, which is in arbitration. I have several questions that I'd like to ask about potential irregularities in the process which I feel make the proceedings invalid, but I don't feel comfortable doing so here. Would you mind terribly if I sent an e-mail discussing this in more detail and asking your input? Wally 01:15, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Re:

I replied @ User_talk:Sam_Spade#Adding_the_AMA_to_your_welcome_message. Cheers, Sam Spade (talk · contribs) 21:44, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)