User talk:Alexxx1

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G'day?
There's something intimidating about your talk page with all this stuff above? I do hope this is your talk page cant see no pointers? You and I both jumped on the 60.... etc person putting ad links on fremantle, I in turn had tried one of the local admins to have a look and I had sent test1 and test2, so it'll be a bit of overkill perhaps. ohwell g'day and I'll get outw your way. vcxlor 08:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC) Methinks this jerk is a paid "placement" ploything, you good at blocking? I thought one of me admin mates was online but e's silent. I reckon this ignoring our comments deserves the old .303 between the cursors!!vcxlor 09:21, 14 December 2005 (UTC) I think your last one did it, but they're as obvious as anything - vcxlor 09:31, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
Thanks for reverting the recently vandalised Arncliffe article. I noticed that you hadn't quite gone back far enough in the page history so I just fixed that up. Cheers and keep up the great work! --Alexxx1 06:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, me bad. I'll make a point of checking the page history more carefully in future... Dan100 (Talk) 08:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Help with Five Dock
Hi Alexxx1, I really like what you're doing with Five Dock, and the other suburbs of the inner west! I last read Five Dock around 3 months ago, but it's been updated and expanded so much that I really need to read again :-) For the "edit" tags appearing in the Notable Citizens section, I think that they are due to the photos from the landmarks section above it "pushing" the edit tags down the page, until they break out in a bunch in the wrong section (basically IMHO the way images are handled by the Wikipedia is not ideal, and if there are lots of them close together along the side of the page, I've found it tends to cause flow issues like this). The usual fix for this is to add a &lt;br clear="all" /&gt; tag, which causes the flow to reset itself. However, the downside is that it can cause there to be extra blank lines or blank areas, so it's a bit of case of trial and error to get the best compromise. See what you think of it now, and indeed whether it has even fixed the problem. I'm guessing that you're on maybe 1024x768 resolution, or thereabouts - the way images get placed will vary a bit depending on what resolution you're using, so see if the current layout works for you (and of course revert it if it doesn't). Hope this helps! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:30, 12 January 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: 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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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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Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1
Point regarding your comments on the Dec 2005 Cronulla Riots In the discussion page of this article you make the following comment:

"Here is one example. At roughly the same time as the media was in uproar about gang rapes being committed by people of Middle Eastern origin (from memory, about 2-3 years ago), there was a particularly horrific rape that took place in Newington. However, this did not attract anywhere close to the same level of media attention, days of front-page headlines and inflammatory radio talkback as other similar crimes. I can only conclude that this was because the perpetrators happened to be white."

I have a few comments to make regarding this:


 * 1) 1 The ring leader of the Newington home-invasion / rape was Aboriginal.
 * 2) 2 Gang rapes involving white offenders have received media coverage proportional to the Skaf gang rapes; the rape-murders of Anita Cobby, Jenine Balding and Leigh Leigh are case in points.
 * 3) 3 I suspect (with good reason) that the reason the Newington crime did not receive the same level of media coverage was that the ring leader still had to face a number of trials for other crimes and therefore the media might have been subject to suppression orders.

Adopting a stance that a particular racial group receives special "treatment" by the media is no different to the redneck who generalises that all Muslims are terrorists. Generalisations based on race are always easy to defeat.
 * previous unsigned comment by Tdw77 23:11, 30 March 2006

Reply
Thanks for your comments on my talk page. I appreciate what you're saying although I believe we have different perspectives on this issue. I made these arguments in response to people who were basically trying to blame the Cronulla race riots on public anger over rapes committed by Middle Eastern men.

I think (I hope anyway) that if you look at my words carefully, you'll see that I wasn't actually making a generalisation based on race. I was making a generalisation about the way the media deals with race.

This is not splitting hairs. It's a crucial distinction. The media is not a mirror that reflects the world back to us. The media contains a great deal of bias. For example, when people talk about a newspaper being right-wing or left-wing, they are acknowledging an inherent bias, based on their observations or studies of the way they frame issues, report on particular topics, use images and captions and so forth. So why is so difficult to believe that it's at least possible that the media could also be racially biased, just as it is sometimes politically biased?

I don't want to get really bogged down in arguments over the rapes in Newington. But I've got a few points in relation to the 3 points that you made -

1. Thanks for informing me that the ringleader was an indigenous Australian and correcting that inaccuracy. I wasn't aware of that and it is an interesting fact. However, in correcting me, you seem to missing my actual point - that the Newington case did not involve middle eastern men.

2. Now, I don't want to sound too critical but I'm really not sure why you're comparing the coverage of rape with the coverage of combined rape and murder. This only supports the point I was trying to make. If you're making the claim that my observations about the media are incorrect, you should find cases involving the same crime, not far more serious crimes.

3. I'm not so sure! And I'm not convinced the many others who made the same observations are wrong, as this quote shows,
 * "A couple of weeks ago there was a home rape in Newington but they [the media] didn't mention their religion and ethnicity but only bring it up when they were Lebanese or Muslim. In this case the race card wasn't used." -Comments from Consultations with NSW secondary students at three government schools, Sydney, August 2003 - See HREOC website

As I said, we probably don't agree about some of these things but I hope that clarifies my position for you.

--Alexxx1 (talk/contribs) 08:53, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

New Guard
Cheers for that, I just wasn't sure whether someone was just using the article to rip on an legitimate organisation or whether they were actually some fascist loonies. Nice work on the Sydney geo articles! michael talk 15:16, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * no worries! --Alexxx1 (talk/contribs) 06:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard
Congratulations on a fair-sized and NPOV article. Andjam 07:54, 18 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)

A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Undeletion of Sydney Bus Route article
Hi Alexxx1, you recently contributed to the deletion review about the Sydney bus routes. We're requesting an undeletion here and I'd appreciate your help in getting this decision overturned. I don't think there was a consensus on deletion. (JROBBO 06:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC))


 * Hi Alexxx1 again - the article still got deletion endorsed, even though we had a clear consensus this time. Can you please vote at the new deletion review (listed under August 21) and make sure you include the word Overturn as a vote. (JROBBO 04:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC))

Lower North Shore (Sydney)
Hi Alex. Do you have references for what is in the Lower and Upper North Shore and what is not? --WikiCats 09:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Since Lower North Shore is an informal term I doubt that there are any references. --WikiCats 09:38, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Reliable Sources
Hi I noticed you made some edits at The Westfield Group. Company press releases are not the best source for material regarding that company - secondary sources are much more preferred. Whilst they may often be the same thing, the press release will hopefully be checked a little bit before being actually publised - so if you can find alternate references for the same information that would be fantastic.

I will be periodically removing primary references from the Westfield Group article - if the information presented is in fact notable I should be able to easily find an alternate source.Garrie 01:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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