User talk:AlastairIrvine

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Wikipedians supporting Taiwan Independence
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Recovery Time (culinary)
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Your contributed article, Recovery Time (culinary)
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About notes you left on IEEE Computer Society page
Hi, I'm a new-ish editor, and I made significant changes to the IEEE Computer Society page to try to make it more accurate, direct, and in accord with Wikipedia guidelines. I'm employed by the CS, so I put a COI note on my User page. I added references and tried to clarify some confusion about when the CS was formed, its relation to IEEE, and its major activities. I also removed a massive list of links that someone had added. Every other month I meet with a "social networking" group to review our presence on various Web media, and I would like to be able to report if I'm on track for getting the notes removed from the CS site, and if not, can you explain how I should proceed? 23:47, 2 August 2010 (UTC)Cecilialw —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cecilialw (talk • contribs)

Just a quick followup here -- it doesn't seem appropriate for the IEEE CS page, but maybe I'm wrong? Anyway, I appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Right now I'm trying to focus on "neutral POV" and getting rid of the flags on the IEEE CS page. I'll review the "no original research" Wikipedia document and add further references in accordance with your style guidelines. I thought I might try to help on the Computing and Computer Science wikiProjects as a way of practicing and contributing as a disinterested party. Meanwhile, thanks again for the feedback and help. Cecilialw 00:16, 6 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cecilialw (talk • contribs)

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference
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Perth meetup
There is a meetup happening this weekend in Perth, if you're interested. (You're in Category:Wikipedians in Perth.) &mdash; Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 07:47, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello!!!
Hi, this is Jobin, a new wikipedia user. I came to understand that you have an interest in Computer and related topics. I am working on a few articles related to Programming in C. Therefore, I kindly request you to help me on these topics
 * inttypes.h
 * tgmath.h

You may also drop your valuable suggestions on other related articles on my talk page.

Jobin (talk) 14:55, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

MOTD Needs You!
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Proposed deletion of Nour Hatem Zahra


The article Nour Hatem Zahra has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Only notable for one incident, does not pass WP:NOTABLE.

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Mass Assignment Vulnerability
Alistair, I noticed your request for more work on the Mass Assignment Vulnerability article. Are you still interested in this effort? I am new to Ruby on Rails programming, but I am aware of issue and the new Rails default to whitelist attributes. What kinds of research do you expect to be done on this topic? Is it ok to just paraphrase the write-ups in the "References" section, or should there be more details from other published sources?

I'll go ahead and start working on it, but your input and review are much appreciated. Icesword2 (talk) 04:52, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

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Dorothy Mengering
Deleting this article, Dave's Mom, within days after Mother's day, would be controversial, not only at WP, but possibly in the real world. Please take this to WP:AfD instead, and make sure to inform the Foundation. It would possibly create terrible publicity for us, if this article weas deleted without a debate. Bearian (talk) 17:50, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Representation of People Ordinance


The article Representation of People Ordinance has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Article abandoned since 2013 - no references - one sentence referring to something? Searched around and cannot find what this article is even referring to."

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Proposed deletion of Medea Jonestown


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Speedy deletion nomination of Medea Jonestown


Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing hoaxes, such as Medea Jonestown, is considered to be vandalism and is prohibited. If you are interested in how accurate Wikipedia is, a more constructive test method would be to try to find inaccurate statements that are already in Wikipedia—and then to correct them if possible. If you would like to make test edits, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges.

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March 2024
Please do not create, maintain or restore hoaxes on Wikipedia, as you did at Medea Jonestown. If you are interested to know how accurate Wikipedia is, a more constructive test method would be to try to find inaccurate statements already in Wikipedia – and, if possible, correct them. Please do not disrupt Wikipedia. Continued disruption will be met with sanctions, which could include a block from editing. Feel free to take a look at the five pillars of Wikipedia to learn more about this project and how you can contribute constructively. Thank you. Jfire (talk) 06:20, 3 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi. Please provide evidence that the article I created was a hoax.  As a long-standing Wikipedia editor, I can assure you that I had no intent to disrupt Wikipedia.  Thanks. AlastairIrvine (talk) 14:20, 17 March 2024 (UTC)