User talk:Alan Au

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Alan Au is taking a wikibreak to attend graduate school and will be back on Wikipedia once school is over, though some editing may be done from time to time. Talk page messages might not receive a timely response.

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Contents 1 Social Networks 2 Speil chequer 3 Adam Link edit 4 vbh 5 re 6 Thank you 7 Re: Cooking pot 8 Bulk material handling 9 Kidron? 10 jowfair 11 Yer welcome 12 Delitunez 13 Request for assistance 14 Cookie Day 15 Links from Individual Hardy Boys Articles 16 Somalia-related articles 17 Verdugo Mountains 18 Hi, Alan 19 ISHR 20 Thanks for your support! 21 Thanks for your support 22 WP:VIP 23 Bureaucratship 24 Thanks 25 Thanks! 26 Update 27 Android79's RfA 28 Bmicomp's RfA 29 Vandalism 30 Thank you for your vote. 31 Deletion question 32 Ok Adam Thanks 33 My RFA 34 Jaxl's RfA 35 WP:CP 36 Thanks for your support 37 User:Adam Holland 38 Forgotten password 39 Johann Wolfgang's RfA 40 Channa micropeltes 41 AFD 42 Thanks a lot 43 Jtkiefer's RFB 44 Blounts Creek 45 Thanks 46 Thank you! 47 GraemeL's RFA 48 thanks dude 49 Jovo page 50 Information science 51 Sign in 52 Neutrality disputed 53 Welcome back 54 Wikipedia Userboxes/Computing 55 wpspam invite 56 Virtual Ethnograpy 57 Molecular Station Bioinformatics Portal 58 My RfA 59 My RfA 60 My RFA withdrawal :( 61 My RFA 62 DaGizza's RfA 63 Thank you 64 RFA Thanks 65 Sneaky "spam" 66 My RfA 67 Hapa article 68 Disambiguation - John Barnard (& Category) 69 24 (TV series) 70 Rabbi Morris Adler 71 RE: linkspam 72 Bruce Lee 73 My RFA 74 Regarding Hapa 75 VandalProof 1.2 Now Available 76 GolfBuzz 77 Spam 78 State reference and evidence 79 US housing bubble for featured article? 80 Meetup notes 81 Adding New Content 82 Proxima Technology Edit 83 Tropical cyclones 84 Nishkid64's RfA thanks 85 "Thank you for experimenting with the page Paul Griner on Wikipedia." 86 A Word of Thanks 87 Impersonator 88 RfA thanks 89 Afd 90 Copyvio 91 Image:Ibm704.gif 92 PGNx Media 93 Canvassing 94 PGNx Media Article 95 Your AfD Comments 96 Xbox Handheld 97 Thank you for the welcome! 98 GamingNexus 99 User:Infomanager 100 Games Workshop Online Community 101 Battle of Mookerheyde 102 Game Additions 103 Smaller Scale Serious Games --> But Still Appropriate 104 Some Thoughts 105 CVG->VG 106 PGNx Media 107 Question:Removal of content 108 Seattle meetup 5

[edit] Social Networks

Great job on the social networks clean-up. Its a thankless task, and I am glad you keep getting to it before I do... --Goodoldpolonius2 05:13, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speil chequer

Cheers mateie!

[edit] Adam Link edit

Thanks! That was my first contribution to Wikipedia.

It's startling how fast that was tagged and categorized as "fictional robot"... My faith in this system jumped higher quite suddently.

--Evolutioneer 02:52, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] vbh

hi

i agree to delete my pointless VBH disambig page. I was thinking any TLA would have multiple meanings, but VBH seems to be an exception!

Suggest replacing with a straight redirect to Virginal breast hypertrophy

Spute 20:29, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re

Allright, thank you Al

LevKamensky

[edit] Thank you

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page!

- Thatdog 02:00, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Cooking pot

I deleted the cooking pot article because the current contents were just a rephrasing of the title. If you take out the "typically used" (which really doesn't provide any extra information) you have "A cooking pot is a pot used for cooking." By all means, we should have an article about cooking pots, but that wasn't much of a start, and I maintain that it was a valid speedy. - RedWordSmith 04:31, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

• Fair enough. I've recreated the article, hopefully with enough of a start that someone might see fit to expand it properly. --Alan Au 04:35, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bulk material handling

What is your problem with stockpile or Stackers?. Both are widely used concepts that need more than a dictionary definition to describe them! Are you pissed because you can't create enough unique entries yourself? --PeterMarkSmith 05:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kidron?

Hey, just wondering how you found out the source of those copyvio pictures of the Kidron valley so quickly. DS 18:54, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

• Google image search works surprisingly well for this sort of thing. --Alan Au 18:57, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] jowfair

"We hope that you choose to become a Wikipedian and create an account. We hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia as a Wikipedian! --Alan Au 08:30, 6 August 2005 (UTC)"

What was this about? In re: Loukas Notaras article.

jay.

• You seem to be making good contributions, so I thought I'd invite you to create a named account. --Alan Au 08:56, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Voila. It is I. =D No way to go back and claim credit for work I've already done, though, huh? - Jowfair

[edit] Yer welcome

My pleasure. It's good to be back on RC patrol. :) --InShaneee 03:28, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Delitunez

Very cute, made me laugh. =) I wonder if you're the same A. Au of the L4 kernel project... Collabi 07:58, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

• Heh, no, not me; that must be one of the other "Alan Au"s out there... --Alan Au 09:02, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request for assistance

Hello I have created an article regarding a large park in my city and although I'm sure it has little interest to you I was hoping you could assist by reading through it and giving me some feed back on every aspect. Feel free to edit grammer and such. I've just placed it in my talk page for now.

--Minshullj 20:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cookie Day

Hey man.

Cookie Day is something we want to make big so thats why I came to wikipedia, a lot of our friends and even family participate so please do not delete it.

Cheers

• Thanks for your comment. I recommend you use Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cookie Day or Talk:Cookie Day if you would like to discuss the article. --Alan Au 23:32, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Links from Individual Hardy Boys Articles

There is a discussion I referenced you (or you might be interested in) at [1]. --PhilipO 16:59, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Somalia-related articles

Hi. Can you take a look at the articles (Somaliland, Sanaag, Sool, etc.) and tell me if you think everything is up to par vandalism and fabrications-wise (I haven't been around for a few weeks). Thanks in advance for your time. Regards, El_C 23:09, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, Alan Au! I greatly appreciate your invaluable help with those articles. And I will definitely take advantage of your generous offer. All the best, El_C 05:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Verdugo Mountains

Thanks for creating a stub for Verdugo Mountains. Fpo and I have been collaborating on this article at User:Fpo/Sandbox. If you would like to contribute to a fuller version of the article, please let us know. We also have a talk section on the sandbox page. Mike Dillon 05:16, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hi, Alan

I just sent you a private e-mail. It will explain itself. Paul Klenk 07:16, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

• Heh, no, not me; must be one of the other "Alan Au"s out there... --Alan Au 07:21, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ISHR

Hi. Concerning the ISHR stubs: yes, I took just the first introductory sentences from the respective web pages to create these stubs. I have reworded some of them now, though, which is a little bit tedious. Thanks for the note. Karol 20:22, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support!

Dear Alan Au, thanks for your vote of confidance at my RfA. I'll try hard to make the soggy mop proud! — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 00:09, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support

Hi Alan, just a quick note to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was pleased to see so much support, especially from people such as you who I do not know very well, if at all. Now that I am an administrator I will do my best to please the community’s expectations. Best regards, Sam Hocevar 17:41, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:VIP

Well done on the archive. --Canderson7 01:26, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bureaucratship

Hi, Alan Au. Thank you so much for your support on my bureaucratship nomination. Unfortunately, it didn't pass, but I intend to run again soon. If you'd like to be informed next time around, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks again! Andre (talk) 05:29, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi Alan:
Thanks for support in my recent RFB nomination. I'm now WP's newest bureaucrat. :) Regards and merci beaucoup, User:Nichalp/sg 19:29, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi there. Continuing the vein of your previous couple of messages...thanks for the support on my RfA! I was surprised at how widely supported it was. Please do keep an eye on me and my logs, especially while I learn my way around the new buttons. Thanks again. -Splash 16:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Update

I made several updates to the page hope you find it useful. BTW check the Wiki for "corbis" in the search it is very very small and uninformative.

Thanks again Alan Jamesbenet 20:15, 9 September 2005 (UTC) 9/9/2005 11:00PM CT

[edit] Android79's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA and for your kind comments. android79 15:32, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bmicomp's RfA

Well, my RfA has not quite completed yet, but either way, I'd like to thank you for your vote and your support, regardless of the outcome. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 17:57, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

What is this "IP moderate" you have banished my vandal to? Instant Punishment? Adam 09:05, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

I think that you skew the line of vandalism and patent nonsense. If you read the articles for these two topics, you might notice that the article in question does not apply. I would also highly encourage a socratic discussion of the article, instead of immediately flagging it for deletion.--Voice Of Reason 01:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

• If you check the edit history, you'll note that I didn't tag it as "nonsense" or even "vandalism," just as "original research." --Alan Au 03:08, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your vote.

Thank you for your support in my successful RfA. I hope I can live up to expectations. - Trevor MacInnis(Talk | Contribs) 00:10, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion question

Hi. I wrote the article about the college newspaper that you thought should be deleted. It's totally fine. I understand that's the whole point of the Wikipedia. But since I'm new to this, I was wondering if you might do me two favors: (1) share with me what your criteria for deciding whether something doesn't belong; and (2) tell me a little about how the whole delete-or-not-delete process works. Thanks. --Kidicarus222 04:09, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ok Adam Thanks

I see my article has been deleted. Based on what you say I have no idea how to better it, it was 100x times better than some others around here. It seems there are double or even triple standards for deletion. Check wiki for Corbis. It is a disgrace and never got erased or corrected. Not at all informative, more like 1min worth of time. Eitherway best of luck but be sure to check more articles as there are many useless stuff that avoids your radar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesbenet (talk • contribs) 03:32, 22 September 2005

==Who's RfA== Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 20:57, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thank you very much for your vote on my RFA, it is now the 8th most supported RFA ever, and it couldnt have happened without your vote. I look forward to serving wikipedia. Again, thanks. →Journalist >>talk<< 23:54, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jaxl's RfA

Hi Alan, thanks for your support vote on my RfA! Robert 15:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:CP

Hi, you've reported copyright infringements to WP:CP in the last week, a new measure was recently passed to allow the speedy deltion of new pages that are cut and paste copyvios. Please follow these instructions if you come across this type of copyvio. Thanks. --nixie 00:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Blatant copyright infringements may now be "speedied" If an article and all its revisions are unquestionably copied from the website of a commercial content provider and there is no assertion of permission, ownership or fair use and none seems likely, and the article is less than 48 hours old, it may be speedily deleted. See CSD A8 for full conditions. After notifying the uploading editor by using wording similar to: {{nothanks-sd|pg=page name|url=url of source}} -- ~~~~ Blank the page and replace the text with {{db-copyvio|url=url of source}} to the article in question, leaving the content visible. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to speedily delete it or not.

[edit] Thanks for your support

Thank you very much for your support on my nomination for adminship. In particualr, thanks for lsiting to my comments and being willign to re-think your view. i promsie to rethink mine on issues that come up when there is reason to do so. Now that I have been made an admin, I will do my best to live up to the truest you and the community have placed in me. If you ever see my doing something you think is incorrect or questionable, or does not live up to the standards that should be expected of an admin, please let me know. DES ^(talk) 16:07, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Adam Holland

Hi

I noticed that you deleted some images uploaded by this user. What do you make of this one? Image:Zukofsky,_Louis_Willow_Stret_Brooklyn_Neights.jpg . Hope you enjoyed your wikibreak. Filiocht | The kettle's on 10:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Forgotten password

Alan: Thanks for your message of welcome. This is IronDuke. Unfortunately, I cannot log into my account, and would like to. I asked for my password to be sent to my email, but it hasn't been. If you can't send it to the email I gave you, could you try ironduke101@hotmail.com? Thanks. 162.84.209.3 06:49, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Johann Wolfgang's RfA

Thank you for voting on my RfA. I realize that I have not been here long, however other users said I would do just fine as an administrator, so I followed their advice. You are right about my lack of experience, if my RfA fails I will try again in 2-3 months. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Johann Wolfgang [ T ...C ] 19:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Channa micropeltes

--Canelli 13:35, 10 November 2005 (UTC) Hello, I do have a question as well as a objection. I am new in the Wikipedia world. Therefore I may be totally wrong. My question is why you redirected the snakeheads article from the Channa micropeltes? And this also my objection. It is simply wrong! It would be much better placed as a redirect from Channa. I am to stupid to do it myself. Maybe you could change it according to my suggestion?

-)

Thankyou --Canelli 13:35, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] AFD

The afd2 template was missing when I was looking at the article, so I added it in.--Shanel 03:55, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

So yeah, I guess maybe I clicked on it before you were done--Shanel 03:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks a lot

Thank you very much for the tips you gave me on notability. I was wondering if my second article (which is really just a stub) is better? --Energysword 00:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jtkiefer's RFB

[edit] Blounts Creek

I have turned this article into a stub about a rural town in Beaufort County, South Carolina. I would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 09:38, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi thanks for the heads up on my signature I'll see if I can remedy it. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 23:28, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

[edit] GraemeL's RFA

[edit] thanks dude

for your help. three cheers!

Electronicpaule 22:34, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jovo page

Thanks for the feedback. I have updated the Jovo page, and I hope you take another look at it. I will try to expand it more as time permits, but at least it looks more like the similar construction toy entries that are already out there. Thanks, Alex --Adoskey 03:31, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Information science

Yeah, I'm sorry, I wanted to leave a message on your talk page first, but I also felt it should be moved quickly as the describtion of Category:Information science was changed to that of library and information science. I think the problem is that information science is rather unknown outside Western-Europe and even the Netherlands and people start confusion it with a lot of other things such as LIS and information theory. —R. Koot 13:50, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Are you absolutely sure information science is used to refer to LIS? I'm going to make the page into a disambiguation page for now. —R. Koot 14:02, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sign in

Whoops, just forgot to sign in. I'm JHMM13. 152.17.55.241 05:27, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality disputed

Thanks, Alan, for checking out my first article. You marked it as "neutrality disputed", but since that time I have altered the wording. What is the procedure for getting a review of the new content? Thanks!

Thank you, Alan, for your response, and for your congrats. :) Zebruh 17:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back

Welcome back from wikibreak! --TantalumTelluride 21:03, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Userboxes/Computing

Heylo, Alan Au! I've added the ISPs to the computing area, becuase i thought canadian ISPs would fit as well as the american ones. I mean...canada was the second or third country online, and we do have a massive internet user base (somewhere along 4 million out of our 32.1 million!). If you wish, you *can* remove them, but i think they fit in... the ones i've added were Cogeco, Rogers, Bell Sympatico, MNSi, Jet2.net, Shaw, and IGS (Information Gateway Services).

[edit] wpspam invite

Hey there! I saw you reverting or removing linkspam. Thanks! If you're interested, come visit us in Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam so we can work together in our efforts to clean spam from Wikipedia. -- Perfecto 04:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Virtual Ethnograpy

Hi Alan, Thanks for alerting me to this - I was not sure where the original text came from. I was extremely surprised to come back to the article this morning to find it marked as a copyright violation! I have posted a revised version of this entry on the "Virtual Ethnography/Temp" page and I hope the problem has been fixed by appropriately referencing the source.

If you still feel the first paragraph represents a copyright violation, let me know and I will try to re-write it, but there are only so many ways you can say "virtual ethnography is new development in the field of anthropology"!

Compo 12:26, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Molecular Station Bioinformatics Portal

Is there a reason Molecular Station Bioinformatics is being removed form Directories & portals in Bioinformatics? Bioinformatics

It is a portal and a directory as the other and is a larger resource.

The site is the biggest bioinformatics portal right now with over 800 links.

If you have a good reason to classify it as spam (which would be difficult considering the nature of the other links there now) post it here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.20.136.242 (talk • contribs)

• I recommend that you take a look at the WP:NOT and WP:SPAM pages, which may help you better understand why external links are often unwelcome. Anyhow, since you asked for reasons, here are some of mine:
  1. You are an anonymous user, and you do not sign your comments. While this is understandable for a new editor, it severely weakens your credibility.
  2. You have very few edits, the majority of which seem to be additions of external links to commercial sites. This can be fixed by establishing a stronger edit history.
  3. The links were added to Wikipedia without any explanation in either the edit summary or the talk page. Unfortunately, this may not be sufficient if the link is truly inappropriate.
  4. The target site doesn't appear to contain any substantial content, and is really only a collection of links. This makes it a poor resource.
  5. The target site contains several non-functional links (in particular, the "about us" section). This also makes it a poor resource.
  6. The target site runs advertisements, and includes invitations for further sponsorship. This raises questions about commercial intent.
  7. The target site does not appear to have any policy governing user-added information, which means that its quality and accuracy is suspect.
  8. The discussion at User_talk:Kirill_Lokshin/Archive_4#Link_spam indicates that other members of the community consider the links to be inappropriate.

I'm sorry if you disagree with this assessment, and I hope that you will continue to look for ways to contribute in a less controversial manner. In particular, I recommend you establish a stronger edit history by registering for a named account and contributing content (not just links) to articles. Perhaps then, your addition of external links might be viewed more favorably. However, right now I have no way of knowing whether you are trying to contribute in good faith, or if you're simply trying to exploit Wikipedia for personal benefit. --Alan Au 08:13, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

• Also, if it makes you feel any better, I've removed the entire "Directories & Portals" section from the Bioinformatics article. --Alan Au 08:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure who posted the previous links which you considered spam, however the site is quite new and quite good, and has been updated. Bioinformatics now contains many features such as bioinformatics news, Articles, and as mentioned a very detailed source of bioinformatic tools and databases. I am not here to spam, simply to add information such as RNA bioinformatics which is quite important, and point users to a new and upcoming resource. Also the page that I referred to is not a directory of links. Sorry for any misunderstandings as I am a new user and new to the ways of the wiki. However, I believe my molecular and bioinformatics knowledge to be extremely good. Kindly, --Bioinformin

You mention on my talk page that RNA Bioinformatics has "zero hits" on Pubmed. Are you sure you know how to do PubMed searches? Are you sure you know how many articles came up? I received 1424. If you are not an expert on Bioinformatics why do you edit a Bioinformatics page? "RNA Bioinformatics" obviously has zero hits on pubmed as it is a general category, not something people write about on pubmed. Similarly, "Protein Bioinformatics" on pubmed only gets 6 hits from the database, although it has been used in hundreds of thousands of articles. Learn to use pubmed appropriately, and you should welcome new members which may not know everything about wikipedia, but may know much more than you about Bioinformatics and Science. For all you know a new member could be a professor of Bioinformatics, and for all I know you could be a high school student. Also, if you people have any reasons to not want good resources on wikipedia simply because you are webmasters of a competing site, I will make sure to report you to wikipedia authorities as what I am posting is not linkspam and I was contributing information to the article and not only posting external links. -- Bioinformin

For example, acceptance of "RNA Bioinformatics": *RNA World Website. Another example RNA Bioinformatics Presentation RNA Bioinformatics is used for the study of: - Viruses - Translation - Splicing - RNAi - RNA enzymatic activity - RNA binding factors - Devolpment --Bioinformin

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for your support in my RfA. It passed, with a final tally of 62/0/1. I'm touched by all the kind comments it attracted, and hope I'll be of some use with the new tools. You know where I am if you need to shout at me. Flowerparty? 15:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Computerjoe's talk 22:00, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA withdrawal :(

Hello Alan Au, it is my apologies to bring you that I've withdrawn my RFA. Due to the lack of experience, I would go under admin coaching first before trying again later. I would thank you for your vote in this RFA whether you voted support, oppose or neutral for me. I appericiate your comments (if you do have) you made and I hope to see you here in future. --Terence Ong 16:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

[edit] DaGizza's RfA

Hi Alan Au, thank you for supporting me in my RfA which passed with a tally of (93/1/2). If you need any help or wish discuss something with me, you are always welcome to talk to me. Gizza^{Chat ©} 12:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for commenting on my recent request for bureaucratship. I deeply appreciate your kind words, and also the comments and feedback that you left me. I hope that I can improve and gain your support in the future. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 23:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFA Thanks

Thank you for your support vote on my RFA. The final result was a successful request based on 111 support and 1 oppose. --CBDunkerson 18:00, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sneaky "spam"

There was nothing sneaky about it. I was simply taking advantage of a marketing opportunity I thought I'd discovered. I didn't add anything to Wikipedia that wasn't of value or relevance. There are plenty of existing external links that serve the purposes of the individuals to whom the links belong. Aside from linking to an excellent source of the very subject matter, I made a couple intelligent edits to an obviously biased article. Nothing wrong with attempting to create some balance. Try not to be so power-hungry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.66.134 (talk • contribs)

[edit] My RfA

Hello Alan Au: Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 77/3/0. I hope I can perform at the standards expected for administrators. If I make any mistakes, or you need anything, please let me know. Prodego talk 01:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hapa article

Edit away at the links. I'm not going to complain. It's something that needed to be done. But maybe save the Realhapa site? Those folks are vigilant and do seem to represent a widespread POV here in the islands. The Chronicle book is marketing, remove. Zora 07:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Aack! Getting rid of all of them is going a little too far. If you're going to prune links, you need to click on each one, read enough to judge whether it's useful or not, and then reduce it to, say, five links. If it takes too much time to do that, then don't do anything! I'll get to it later. Zora 07:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey Alan, I pruned away a bunch of broken links, and gave a once over on the working ones - I'm torn on the hapas.com and realhapas.com: although Zora speaks of a widespread POV that hapa only refers to kanaka maoli mixtures, for all my life in Hawaii I never encountered it - realhapas.com was created by someone who had a bad experience/flame war on hapas.com, I'm pretty sure it's tin-foil hat. Anyway, let me know what you think of the edits, thanks for bringing up the linkspam problem for everyone to address. --JereKrischel 20:59, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation - John Barnard (& Category)

Hi & thanks for this great 'tidy-up'. Ballista 06:05, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 24 (TV series)

yeah, sure, no problem -Xornok 06:18, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

well, personally, i dont like long pages, they seem overcrowded. if individual ones arent good, then hour bout individual pages for the first 12 hours and the second 12 hours? only 2 new pages, and it'll cut back on the page length some -Xornok 06:22, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

well, i did the same thing for the reimagined Battlestar Galactica page, it took me a few hours, but i was bored. people dont seem to mind. in fact, theyve started adding more details now that they dont have a limited space for only one episode on a master page. and, if people dont like it, they can revert it, i dont care, i just have free time and think that it would make navigating a little easier... -Xornok 06:31, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rabbi Morris Adler

RE: Rabbi Morris Adler

Sorry if there was some confusion, I am the web administrator of http://moad.addr.com, and retain the rights to the website. I cited everything that I took from my webpage even so, yet it was still taken down due to copy right violation. If any more information is needed, I left more information on the page's talk page.

-- Aaron 05:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: linkspam

anytime! --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 12:50, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bruce Lee

Actually I reverted the addition of the external link in your edit - did you mean to revert to an earlier version? Because you actually added that link in this edit [2] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tufflaw (talk • contribs) .

[edit] My RFA

Hello Alan Au, and thanks for supporting me on my recent request for adminship! It has succeeded with an unanimous support of 67 votes, so that I am now an administrator. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page should you wish to leave any comments or ask for any help. Again, thanks a lot, AndyZ t 22:04, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Hapa

That is hypocrtical because each of those links are links to other people's personal websites and groups. The page suggested for hapa's give hapa's a resource to not only convene but also learn genuine perspectives. If I am not allowed to post a website that is more than resourceful yet, someone from Mixed Folks whose link does not even directly attend to the word Hapa then clearly there is an issue here and quite ironically a sense of biasm. You can not give me a good reason why X-Plicitely Mixed's Hapa website can not be there but a overly broad website is allowed too. As a matter of fact XP has a forum dedicated exclusively to Hapa's whereas most of those websites (excluding Eurasian nation and Hapas) don't even do that. If you continue and support this type of biasm by the constant editing of the link to X-Plicitely Mixed's Hapa site, I will bring up a dispute and personally contact Wikipedia myself (Call them, etc, the whole 9 yards). X-Plicitely Mixed's Hapa site is not commercial, do you see any products sold? Clearly not, nor is it anyone's personal website, rather a professional one meant to attend a Multiracial and in that case, Hapa/Eurasian audience. I would like to to diffuse in the most peaceful manor, please clarrify your reason's, otherwise I will handle this another way I trust; rather un-preferably, I'm sure we can work out something. Again I see hypocrisy.

Another thing, based on the history under the word Eurasian, you are seen reverting to a previous version. I find it ironic that you allow the eurasian webpage of X-Plicitley Mixed to be broadcasted under the word Eurasian yet you don't with the word Hapa. As a matter of fact you desire to place the link in a position that seems of your personal preference. Either way I have the history saved and will make my case to the appropiate individuals if we can not resovle a legitable and justifiable stance.

Interesting enough I also checked on the word blasian. You delted the message board that goes to a blasian (meant for those half black and half asian) on X-Plicitley Mixed. I would also like an explanation about this? Everything seems to be perfect timing Alan. Odd, I look forward to hearing from you, if not, from your superiors, to the top of Wikipedia. Guranteed dear sir. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Liberalpunt (talk • contribs) .

• (my response is on Liberalpunt's talk page) --Alan Au 06:26, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey ALan. Thank you for your response. I am going to follow up on all of this very closely later on. At the time being may I humbly ask that you restore the forum board on the blasian forum. The link posted before was up for almost a month plus until you removed it. There are extremely few blasian resources and blasians looking for a perfect discussion group would find that link absolutely suitable for them my kind friend.

All the best Alan, and pssst.. Goodluck on those studies!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Liberalpunt (talk • contribs) .

[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

[edit] GolfBuzz

Alan, thanks for your concerns on GolfBuzz it definitely was not meant as spam rather to focus on the niche social networking sites and to provide and example. On the social networking page they reference the niche sites however they provide no examples. GoldBuzz is the largest social network in the golf arena. It did not make sense to refer to niche social networks and not have 1 example. I am glad that your referenced that it was not self promoting because great effort was made to make it that way a new section is going to be added on Monday to list press references to add to its credibility. Can you remove you recommendation or tell me what needs to be done? I have been working with other editors however I am getting confilicting messages and it is getting a little frustrating since there is no consitency. I am new to contributing but I do not want to feel like I am wating my time. Prcoulson 20:02, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam

I first off want to say thanks for helping to keep wikipedia clean. Without people like you this place would get messy. I did follow the link you sent me on spam and it was informative. I further read up on External Links and Vanity Guidelines. As I continue to add to wikipedia I will keep all this in mind. As for the link in question I did add it back as it would be considered acceptable by everything I have read thus far. If you disagree please e-mail me and we can talk about it - Wikvin 15:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] State reference and evidence

Please state reference and evidence that such a group called "partisans of God" exist and that they are based in Lebanon —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 222.155.41.76 (talk • contribs) .

• I don't have any information about whether such a group does or does not exist. However, I tend to treat unexplained deletions by anonymous editors in politically sensitive articles as vandalism. I recommend you bring up the issue on the article talk page prior to making controversial edits. --Alan Au 07:43, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Alternately, you could add a {{fact}} tag instead of just deleting the disputed content. --Alan Au 07:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US housing bubble for featured article?

Thanks again for making the effort to provide comments and feedback on the US housing bubble article. As summarized at the page Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Response_to_objections_raised_above, I believe that all the objections and issues raised have been addressed. Would you please have a look and consider supporting this for "featured article" status? Especially given the (unfortunate) recent news (see, e.g., today's New York Times "most-emailed" Op-Ed "Housing Gets Ugly" here), this would be an especially timely featured article, and help "Wiki" live up to its speedy name. Frothy 02:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup notes

Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle4. Edits welcome. - Jmabel | Talk 08:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Nice meeting you the other day! Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject_Seattle... --Lukobe 06:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding New Content

Hi Alan Au,

I was wondering how you go about setting up a new section in Wikipedia. I noticed that the Big Bear Lake, California and Big Bear City, California have very little information on the area other than demographics. I added a link to the Big Bear Solar Observatory on the Big Bear City page as it is a premiere Observatory in the United States. I wanted to add information, but it doesn't really seem to fit in the Geography or the Demographics categories and I want to try to contribute in adding some history information and some area information like I see on other localities.

Thanks for your guidance early on in this process. I appreciate it. ALauraBorealis 21:21, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Alan Au,

I was wondering if you could take a look at the edits I have made and let me know if you think I am on the right track now. I am trying to note the sources for my information as clearly as possible, but I want to make sure I am doing it correctly/properly. I would love any suggestions, no matter how small.

ALauraBorealis 22:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proxima Technology Edit

Hi,

Thanks for reviewing my article on Proxima Technology. I don't understand what your comment means--I'm hoping that if you can clarify what I'm doing wrong, I can modify the article to fit within the Wikipedia guidelines.

So, can you explain what "Fails to establish notability" means?

Thanks,

Johan Eder 21:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones

Yeah, within the wikiproject it's pretty much merge anything that can be fitted into the seasonal article. Thanks for trying to help. I've a feeling that unfortunately we may have to watch the guy in case he creates more (to be honest) useless articles which can easily be put into the seasonal article to make the seasons better, which is the current aim of the project on tropical cyclones. Cheers again, – Chacor 01:22, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nishkid64's RfA thanks

Thank you very much for participating in my RfA, which closed successfully earlier today with a result of (60/9/4). Although, I encountered a few problems in my RfA, I have peacefully resolved my conflicts and made amends with the people involved. If you have any further questions or suggestions, feel free talk to me. I hope I will live up to your expectations. --Nishkid64 22:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Thank you for experimenting with the page Paul Griner on Wikipedia."

> Thank you for experimenting with the page Paul Griner on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please > use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about > contributing to our encyclopedia. --Alan Au 20:06, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Alan Au-

The page was not intended to be an "experiment." It was intended to be an entry. Paul Griner is a real person and the information contained was accurate, though admittedly incomplete. Please replace the page to its former format so that it can be completed.

http://coldfusion.louisville.edu/webs/a-s/english/people_2.cfm?id=36

Regards, jhpiiiesq -- jhpiiiesq 05:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Alan Au-

Thank you for your note and direction to WP:Bio. I will accumulate more details before restoring the page. It would have been nice had the deletor taken the time to mention why they took action.

Cheers, jhpiiiesq -- jhpiiiesq 14:36, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Word of Thanks

Alan, thanks a million for adding the categories to the Pat McInally page. GeorgeC 03:44, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Impersonator

Congratulations on earning your very own wacko. Glad to hear that it's been cleared up! — Saxifrage ✎ 03:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a tally of 66/11/5. I learned quite a bit during the process, and I expect to be learning a lot more in the days ahead. I appreciate the feedback I received from you and the other neutral votes, and I hope I can earn your trust. I will be taking things slowly (and doing a lot of re-reading), but please let me know if there is anything I can do to improve in my new capacity. -- Merope Talk 13:50, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Afd

I only did this because on the articles previous nomination people said that it obviously met WP:MUSIC, this time I was just trying to make it clear that the article does not meet it. T REX_speak 22:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

D'oh! Why didn't I think of that? Clearly the ol' brain's checked out today. Good get, though. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 09:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Ibm704.gif

Regarding this image, you tagged this with {{CopyrightedNotForProfitUseProvidedThat}} a year and a half ago after email communication with LLNL (it's currently marked for deletion), but based on the email quote you added, isn't {{attribution}} more accurate? Please let me know. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 00:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PGNx Media

Hey Alan,

Thanks for taking an active interest in the page. The article was rewritten to address previous issues with notability and too much personal information about Jose. Please let me know if you have any suggestions to make the page better. These guys are starting their sixth year, which is quite an achivement I think!

Paul —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Infomanager (talk • contribs) 21:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Canvassing

Hi, I would recommend sending people to [{WP:SPAM]] at the moment, as that is the guideline that covers this. In Infomanager's defence, he fist contacted me and the user who closed the AfD. Also DRV is not a vote (even more so than AfD) so really fears of votestacking needn't apply. I think often it is a question of advocacy, rather than canvassing. Rich Farmbrough, 13:40 31 December 2006 (GMT).

• Rich, thank you. I posted those comments to the users before I was made aware of canvassing. Afterwards, I promptly deleted the comments. Happy new year's to you! Infomanager 06:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PGNx Media Article

Alan: I apologize for my tone in the last response to you. It appeared that you weren't assuming good faith because 1) you previously accused me of being involved with the website or its editors (I know that this is not allowed) and 2) you critized a large reviews archive, which should be seen as a good thing. I should not have accused you of having any personal involvement because I don't know that you do. However, as I did with your previous incorrect accusation, I hope that it can be brushed to the side.

With that said, your last comment implies that you are fairly content with the article. The reason I'm the one arguing it for it is because I am the one that wrote it in July, but unfortunately, I since lost a copy of the source code and couldn't begin the new article myself. Infomanager 06:25, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

• Read your comment: Thank you for otherwise approving of the article--the original article proposed was poor and I have spent countless hours since then re-writting it. Please see my comments above for the personal accusation; I was out of line. As I mentioned before, I applaud your civic tone and am looking forward to working with you on future projects. I'm actually gathering the research now for an article on Gaming Nexus, but I think it would have the same problems that the PGNx Media article is having so I don't want to spend much time unless I know that it would be worthwhile. Lastly, thanks for the talk page guidelines. Infomanager 06:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your AfD Comments

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the GuildCafe AfD. I just wanted to mention that a large part of what the company does is provide a platform for adding social networking features to online games; this is mentioned in the Gamasutra reference. The website is the front-end to this. The platform has been noted in the media references as relevent and important for the industry. Tarinth 14:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Xbox Handheld

You participated in an AfD for Xbox Handheld. I re-wrote the article as a stub and provided sources. Please take a look at the re-written article Xbox Handheld and comment at the AfD discussion [3] Alan Shatte 22:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for the welcome!

Alan- Thanks for the welcome! I would love to help you rewritting The Chronicles of Spellborn if it gets deleted. ~ Jess (Jessica Anne Stevens 05:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] GamingNexus

Looks like they have an article after all. I found it when I was working on creating my own. Infomanager 07:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• I fixed up the article a little and added a redirect from Gaming Nexus. If you have a decent copy of the logo, please upload it and include it in the infobox. Infomanager 21:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Infomanager

As someone who dealt with User:Infomanager you might want to know that I blocked the user for sockpuppeteering, including the sock named User:Thinkjose. ~ trialsanderrors 06:06, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

• That's too bad--I was happy to extend good faith, but now I'm just upset at having my goodwill abused (especially given the number of socks used). In any case, thanks for following up on this. --Alan Au 08:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Yeah, I noticed that he lied to you about his affiliation. I also see that some of his socks visited your talk page above. If he returns under a different name and you see some suspicious activity let me know. ~ trialsanderrors 11:08, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Games Workshop Online Community

Thank you for commenting on the Games Workshop Onlince Community AfD. I have cleaned up and restructured the article (such as "de-directory-ifying" and cutting down on irrelevant material) per these edits and comments left on the AfD page. It is now more encyclopedic, and the article asserts its subject's impact on the Games Workshop games and indeed miniature wargaming as a whole. Accordingly, I urge you to review your decision, and possibly provide further recommendations to improve the article even more. Thank you! :-) --Grimhelm 17:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Replies left on the AfD page. I'm not sure if there is some confusion here on a particular point, so I would like to point out that the article's subject does not refer to a computer game in any capacity (the hobby the community contributes to is miniature wargaming). If I was mistaken to think this, I apologise, but my other comments should address your concerns. --Grimhelm 19:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Mookerheyde

You wrote that in 1870 a mass grave was found near the Groesbeekseweg in Mook. Do you have a source for this? (I live there and don't know about it). --P.wormer 12:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Game Additions

Hi Allan,

I appreciate your attempts to maintain an accurate and focused wiki, however I think you may have been a bit hasty in your decision to remove the serious game links I added. They are valid serious games on valid worthwhile topics and bring a new perspective on what serious games can be to the wiki. I would ask that you respect the posts.

Cheers 24.85.218.238 23:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)Richard Hart April 3, 2007

[edit] Smaller Scale Serious Games --> But Still Appropriate

Hi Alan,

Since I now have an official account, I would like to ask that the 2 serious games I had added be reinstated on the Serious Games page. If you take a look at the actual content of the 2 games, you will see that are on very important and timely topics and add to the resource. "Buggin" is a small scale Flash based serious game about proper handwashing. Might not seem important ... but if people realized they could significantly reduce their chance of getting sick, just by washing their hands properly(which most people don't) it would have a huge impact on their health. The other game is called "Infection" and is designed to encourage the player to learn about the proper use of antibiotics, which is also quite important given the rampant abuse of persciptions for viral infections, which are not affected by antibiotics and may contribute to antibiotic resistance. Other then the fact that someone had to make the games and get credit for it, which is the case for all serious games, I do not see a conflict.

These games are located at:

http://www.ethicalentertainment.com/antibiotic/infection.html http://www.ethicalentertainment.com/hand/buggin.html

Cheers

--Rhart sg 14:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some Thoughts

Hi Alan,

Just some friendly food for thought :-)

Since wikipedia is controlled by individuals, some with more power then others, I wonder if it is truly possible for any information to be reported in an unbiased way. With each individual having their own thoughts, opinions, agendas and temperaments and all having the power to post or remove what they want I wonder if you are fighting a loosing battle.

If group consensus is not a requirement and it is the individual that decides what does and does not belong, what is it that wikipedia actually represents.

I would be curious what you're thought are on this matter.

--Rhart sg 19:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CVG->VG

Hey, thanks! I had been working on this task for a few days after being told about it by another editor, but wasn't aware of the discussion itself. I appreciate being pointed towards it; I was able to read up on what has happened as well as leave a note in case I can help with more things once this is fixed. *Vendetta* _{(whois talk edits)} 21:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PGNx Media

An editor has asked for a deletion review [4] of PGNx Media (see article here [5]). Since you participated in the discussion, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Arielguzman 01:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question:Removal of content

I have submitted Azibo toolbar as an Open Source platform for creating Toolbars on Toolbar page twice. I have manually ensured that the text is legal within Wikipedia requirements. Why is the addition removed then? Visitsb 12:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

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I totally agree with the information chaos caused by new editors adding links. I do not have a editing track record on Wikipedia since recently either. Wikipedia is a platform to publish user contributed content that other users might find helpful. As a user community, in best of the interests of everyone, the objective of the content should be as neutral as possible, and provide addition to existing content in a completely neutral point of view. The Toolbar page clearly provides information on what a toolbar is, but doesn't provide any information on how to create one (though there are links to prominient third-party toolbars such as Google, Yahoo, or even Wikipedia). Adding information about an open source project that users can use to create a toolbar is a valuable addition to the page. There are other pages on Wikipedia that have a similar pattern linking to open source projects (or even commercial ones). I request addition of my deleted link on Toolbar page as it only adds upon existing information for user's benefit (not authors). Visitsb 13:24, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seattle meetup 5

Hi Alan Au, I see that you've attended the previous Seattle meetup. I hope that you can make it to the next one on June 19! Bestchai (talk) 21:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)