User talk:Ali'i

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Aloha! Welcome to my talk page. I don't want to archive. Anything of great import can be found in the history. A hui hou. --Ali'i 12:39, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Thank you!

Thank you for your work in removing watermarks from images! It was work that really needed to be done. —Bkell (talk) 00:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I try. Mahalo. --Ali'i 13:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Also a hearty thanks from me on the removal of the watermark from the Gettysburg Lincoln Monument. It helps the picture in a featured article. CJC47 (talk) 13:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem! Thanks for even noticing! ;-) Mahalo. --Ali'i 13:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Christopher Dodd campaign

The longer version of the article has a lot of details that don't belong in a general encyclopedia (month-to-month campaign appearances of the candidate), not to mention pictures that have little to do with the content itself. Compare e.g. Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, also only include "First half 2007" and "Second half 2007" instead of all months of the year. --Wiendietry (talk) 13:21, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. I undid my undo. Mahalo. --Ali'i 13:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Are you still watching this article? Seems that other people reverted it to the bloated version again. --Wiendietry (talk) 12:21, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your RFA

I expect to support you though I need to do more research. However, how would you like this handled? PouponOnToast (talk) 17:35, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh dear... I don't know... I've never had to do this before. I'll ask Dusti about it. Mahalo. --Ali'i 17:36, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Replied on my talk, just in case you didnt watch list it. I've never been to Hawaii... going on 26 years now. Need to get out there. Gwynand | Talk•Contribs 18:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I was there on my honeymoon and am totally retiring there. PS - switched to support per OrangeMarlin's statement that you have made progress in bridging what seemed to be an unasuagable gap. I want admins that get involved with disputes, so even if your dislike of ominbus RFC's is wrong, you get my nod. PouponOnToast (talk) 19:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Deleted contribs: you're very close to 200. (My quick count was 199, but I may have been off a little). Guettarda (talk) 19:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Guettarda. That's pretty suprising to me. :-) --Ali'i 19:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
A good chunk of it is to various "Bad jokes & deleted nonsense" articles, others are talk pages of redirects (not sure why people feel the need to delete them, but hey, whatever it takes for people to run up their tally of admin actions), and most of the rest appear to be image-related. It's remarkably easy to run up several hundred deleted contribs. Guettarda (talk) 19:33, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Of course, "Bad jokes & deleted nonsense"... back when the deletion discussion of these was to nuke anything that wasn't linked (nor particularly funny), I had chopped down a page or two. Totally forgot that. Mahalo. --Ali'i 19:35, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your desire not to use admin tools except in "the most grievous of circumstances" - actually, in my opinion admin tools are, first and foremost, editing tools. I believe that the tool I have used most is the ability to move pages over a redirect with non-trivial history. There's also the ability to undo your own screw ups - if you make a category, and then realise you misspelt the name, or if you uploaded an image and forgot to change the default name to something useful, or to help another editor clean up something simple... Then there are things like cleaning up vandalism on a protected page, or adding a template to a page that was protected by not tagged.

There's a real problem with people thinking about admin tools as administrative tools. Some people choose to act that way once they're admins. But that's just a culture that has grown up because admins can block. That isn't what adminship is for. (If you haven't read it, read Irpen's comment about mandarinship at the RFAR.) Guettarda (talk) 20:11, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] to explain my oppose

Love the okina in your name, btw. My position is that you have a right to acknowledgement by the wider community, and if they like what you've done, a right to a thumbs-up vote that you're a trusted user. I just don't think that WP:RfA is the place for that vote, as I explained. I am trying to point out whenever it comes up that we need other community-wide assessments of editors so that RfA doesn't bear the entire burden. Maybe "Good Article" reviewer, or some kind of position necessary for WP:Flagged revisions/Quality versions would be the right forum, I don't know. - Dan Dank55 (talk)(mistakes) 18:52, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. And although technically, it's only an approximation of the ʻokina. ;-) --Ali'i 18:55, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

You've got another question. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 22:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My edit

Yep, I was trying to joke that everyone should edit drunk every so often. Didn't work too well.--Cube lurker (talk) 18:01, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your RFA

Best of luck for your RFA -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 09:33, 15 June 2008 (UTC)