User talk:Actown/Archive 1

Im Running for Esperanza Advisory Council! My Statement. Questions about me running? Post them at the bottom on this talk page.
 * Thanks to all who voted for me, but I dident win. :(

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mIRC logo
Hey, I see you created a template for mIRC users. Well, that's nice, I even thought about making one myself (check my user page), but turns out we can't and shouldn't use mIRC's logo on our user pages, because the logo, as far as we know, is licensed as Fair Use, and there is some problem with that. So, I changed it to a text just like it was on my user page. ☢ Ҡieff⌇↯ 06:06, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I just submit a new prettier version of the logo. That's why I found out about your template. I'm right now editing it to comform with the fair use license.
 * Btw, try to get the habit of signing your messages with the ~ :) ☢ Ҡieff⌇↯ 06:13, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

hey actown
new user, trying to add those cool tags on the side...where do you find the list of them; and how come i can't edit your page (to grab the text for them, not to vandalize)...how do i lock my userpage like that? And again, is there a list of those sweet tags on the side? JamieJones 17:06, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!
Welcome,, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. Redwolf24 runs the spam to keep members up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee comprised of FireFox, Flcelloguy, Titoxd, and Karmafist. The next set of elections will be in February, and I would be glad to see you vote, or even consider running for a position.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Celestianpower by email or talk page or the Esperanza talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work! → Fir e  Fox  16:01, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

stop, desist and the like
leave my talk page alone.Gimmiet 04:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Very sorry i thought some one vandaled. It looked like it. --Actown e 04:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

s'ok, just thought it was getting cluttered, thought a blank page mightl ook better.Gimmiet 04:57, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You should archive it. --Actown e 04:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

i dont feel like it.Gimmiet 04:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I could do it very fast. Want me to? --Actown e 04:59, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Just so you know, Gimmiet's apparently been trying to delete critical comments on his behavior and other instructions relating to his Arbitration parole from that page for a while now - I don't think he wants to archive it, I've offered help on that previously myself. IMO you did fine in reverting the blanking. Bryan 05:26, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the welcome!
What do I see but a nice little message from you welcoming me to wiki - something I wasn't expecting. Thanks again. --Nebb 20:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Yo!
Yeah, I'm pretty much out of things to say now. - CorbinSimpson 00:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey thanks for the welcome...but why when I try to make links in my talk page to they keep on coming up as template links? Eenu 20:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

!!Happy Birthday!!
and all the best wishes from the House of Gryffindor !!

Happy birthday from me as well! &mdash;Kirill Lok s hin 02:08, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Me three! -- Essjay ·   Talk 17:23, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Enjoy your birthday! I hope it is awesome! -- Nataly a 05:34, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: &#123;{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Cel e stianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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The welcome...
Hey, thanks for that! It's really nice to see Wikipedia treats its new users well. Gwenllian 23:11, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,

--Cel es tianpower háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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Windows Userbox
Just thought I'd point out to you that the image in your second Windows Userbox appears to be dead, just showing "Image:Crystal win apps.png" in large writing. 168pin 15:13, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
I appreciate the welcome Actown. I am returning to wikipedia for a second time, this time hopefully to keep my composure. My old home page was Mmeinhart OSU80 17:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikifriend
Why do you ask... where has he gone anyway? H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 00:31, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm guessing RL is a state? H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 00:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry it's late here :P. Why am I being asked this? :P H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 00:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Right...you're on Esperanza? H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 00:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Voting for anyone in the elections? :P H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 00:46, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Good luck! H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 01:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Yo again!
Ya, no kidding. I'm getting ready to archive in day or so. You need to make more edits, man! Get involved! WikiProject_Red_Link_Recovery could use some help. So could WP:ALBUM and WikiProject Stub sorting. - Corbin Simpson 01:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Nice. I'm debating right now whether or not I should join EA. I am definitely down with being more involved. Hmm... - Corbin Simpson 01:06, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Userbox
Sweeeeetness. Oh, and check out my new sig. - Corbin   ∫   1   ɱ   p   s   ɔ   ♫  Rock on, dude! 03:42, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!!
Thanks for the supportive welcome message, Actown. --Rmatney 03:56, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Hey Actown, thanks a bunch for the nice welcome message & resources. I look forward to getting involved soon. --Charlie 21:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Out of curiosity, how do you have a custom signature like that? Are you putting Wiki-text in your nickname? --Charlie 21:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Cool Thanks a bunch! --Charlie(@CIRL 21:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Hey Actown, can I edit and write whatever I want? I've heard of people being blocked because they made edits to the articles that were non-factual, but hilarious. How do you get unblocked? How do you block other people and send them messages? from Usernane: peter anstine &mdash; (Unsigned comment by Peter_anstine.)

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Trading spaces
Hello, Actown, thank you for signing up to participate in Esperanza's trading spaces program. As you requsted to have your user page renovated by another user, Eddieh will be renovating your userpage. Please contact Eddieh on their talk page about the renovating. The renovating will be listed at Esperanza/Programs, please feel free to update the status as it changes. Enjoy!

did you know
You are on Esperanzas inactive members list? I Lov  E Plankton 17:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Monobook
You currently running admin JS, which will not work since you are not a sysop, you may want to switch to non-admin JS. Voice -of- All T 01:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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WikiProject Templates
Of course you can take this projectl, I don't own it ;-). But I would like to know what changes are you going to implement. CG 08:06, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Question
to leave a signature do I type Tom12384 04:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC); or just Tom12384 04:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)?

Tom12384 04:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind, got it!

Tom12384 04:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC) !

HAHAHA!!! I don't know if the above guy was serious or not, but he surely did make me laugh. Sandbox for the win? Thanks for leaving the message on my talk page btw :) RZ heretic 05:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

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hey, Man.
Thanks for posting on my talk page...do you do that for everyone? MasterMew 01:44, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you very much for your addition to my talk page! I noticed you'd like to learn CSS, Java, JavaScript, C, and AJAX, among other technologies. If you ever need any help with any of these, feel free to drop me a line, and I'll see what I can muster up for you. :)

Just out of curiosity... how did you know I was still a fairly new Wikipedian?

Thanks again! Cparker 04:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Accused of using a fair-use image which is not fair-use
I used this image in a template



Someone with the user "A Man in Black" keeps accusing me of using a fair-use image but that image is NOT fair use. It really isn't.

Even though im allowing users to change the image, the summary in the history says "Replacing fair-use image with free image". But the image wasn't fair use at all, it was creatd by me.

Iloveminun - I Love Minun 15:18, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Highway's RfA
 Request for Adminship 

Thank you for supporting/objecting/tropicanising me in my request for Adminship. Although I wasn't promoted to admin status, with a final vote count of 14/27/12, I am very happy with the response I received from my fellow Wikipedians. I was pleasantly suprised at the support, and was touched by it. I will also work harder on preventing disputes and boosting my edit count (which is on the up), so thank you to all your objectors. Hopefully I will re-apply soon and try again for the mop. Thanks again, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers

I read somewhere that fat people are discriminated on Wikipedia. I hope I can "break down the wall"
'I AM A BIG ,BIG BOY'!BigBoyChaz 23:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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