User talk:Alison/Archive 41

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Ballybeg3.jpg
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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Ballybeg4.jpg
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Re: your recent edit..
Are you telling me, and the whole world that you haven't received your ArbCom draft notice yet? Or are you trying to avoid it? :D *grins* SirFozzie (talk) 00:39, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Bwahaha!! I'm far too old for conscription, Foz. Nice try, though - now get back to work!! :) - A l is o n  ❤ 00:46, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes Ma'am! Yes Ma'am! Pedalin as fast as I can, Ma'am! ;) SirFozzie (talk) 00:56, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

You are being discussed on the Administrative Noticeboards.
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding reason for discussion. The thread is Wikipedia User:McYel responds to User:Alison, User:Crazycomputers, and admins.The discussion is about the User:McYel. Thank you. --McYel (talk) 01:51, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've replied over there. I could do a video response, but I suck at YouTube - A l is o n  ❤ 02:16, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for understanding the fact that those items on my user page actually did belong to me.

--McYel (talk) 02:55, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Smart Telecom saga continues...
FYI, at the suggestion of User:NuclearWarfare over at my talk page, I've filed an abuse response report on this contiiiiiinuing saaaaaaga. Feel free to add or tweak the heck out of it if I've messed up the format, or omitted key information. Smartiger (talk) 15:05, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

User page protection
Can you please unprotect my user page? The protection isn't needed anymore. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 16:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 15:10, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Child protection
I notice your interest in child protection and would be interested to hear your thoughts on an issue that I came across recently. I was involved in mediation of a dispute on the Monty Hall problem page. Note that this mediation ended some time ago. During the mediation, the mediator at one time suggested that he wanted to start private mediation with individual editors and wanted to contact me off-wiki by phone, IRC, or Skype to help with the mediation process. I declined to accept this although I was put under some pressure by the mediator and other editors to do so. My reasons for doing this are given in full here [] and discussed at some length later on in that page.

One of my reasons for not complying was child protection. For the most part, Wikipedia is a relatively safe place for the vulnerable but you can see clear child protection issues arising when editors can be put under pressure to speak privately to another person. I was staggered by the mediation committee's lack of understanding of this subject.

In the end I changed the mediation policy to state that private mediation can be declined without giving a reason. There was some resistance to this to start with but my latest additions are still in place. Whether this is because they have become accepted as a consensus view or because no one notices or cares I do not know.

As the policy is fine now, I am not asking for any action by you but I would be interested to hear your views on the subject. Martin Hogbin (talk) 13:33, 25 July 2010 (UTC)


 * One of the mediators AKG has now confirmed that he supports my policy changes, so the situation would seem to be resolved. I would still be interested to hear you opinion on the subject though. Martin Hogbin (talk) 12:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Martin. My personal opinion on this is that no editor should be forced into off-wiki mediation for any reason. It's a breach of privacy and is worrying, especially in the case where minors are involved. Children should, IMO, be actively discouraged from contact with adults by phone, etc. It's a disaster waiting to happen and impacts their privacy and safety. In short; yes, I agree with you - A l is o n  ❤ 05:34, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Something's fishy
Please confirm that User:AliceMushroomsDwinlol is your alternate account. Otherwise, I will recommend it for blocking as an evasion of block sanctions on the account User:Mickey Darwin. — Duncan What I Do / What I Say 10:05, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's obviously not Alison. -- B s a d o w s k i 1   10:06, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * This would be Mickey Darwin or GEORGIEGIBBONS again. Color me shocked, I say!! :-D - A l is o n  ❤ 05:31, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Pedobear.png
Please add to MediaWiki:Bad image list. Kthnxbye.  Jolly  Ω   Janner  13:38, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ ;) - A l is o n  ❤ 04:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)