User talk:Brian/Archive 2

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Happy Crimbo!
Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. , in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! Dr. McCrimbo 23:23, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Wiki: Representatives
Hi, my name is Wikizach, and I am starting a new Wiki-organization. I think you would be a great help to make it as big as all the others. Make up your own mind, but please visit it's page:

To become a member:

Thank You,

Wikizach

Wikizach 21:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

New Zealand Portal
Thanks for your offer. Feel free to add your name to the list of maintainers at Portal/Directory.

If I'm away and unable to update the selected article/picture, I'll call on you. If you'd like to take over the primary responsibility for these features, post on the portal talk page with ideas for how you'd do things differently.

What I'd like someone to assist with immediately is keeping Portal:New Zealand/News and Current events in Australia and New Zealand up to date. Ideally, several news events should be posted each week, with links to updated articles. It is acceptable to post news without having an updated article. I'd also appreciate it if, whenever you come across a new article written about New Zealand in the last few months, you add it to New articles (New Zealand) and consider if a DYK line can be created from it and added to Portal:New Zealand/Did you know list. If this list grows to more than a handful of entries, we might update the portal page DYK more often.

I see that there is now a Featured portals page with criteria for becoming a featured portal. I have not looked at the criteria, but our portal probably isn't too far away. You might like to review the criteria and consider what we would need to do to become featured.

These are some ideas that came to mind as I was answering your post. Feel free to take up any or none of them. It was great to see your enthusiasm.-gadfium 01:54, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Great, thanks for the latest news story. We can expand the section to four news stories if it's being updated reasonably frequently. Next time you add a story, don't drop the old one off the end. If the portal page needs balancing, add an extra DYK in from the reservoir of DYK stories linked to on the portal talk page.-gadfium 08:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

AMA
Hello, you are receiving this message because your name is on the list of members of the Association of Members' Advocates. There is a poll being held at Wikipedia talk:Association of Members' Advocates for approval of a proposal for the revitalisation of the association. You are eligible to vote and your vote and input are welcome. Izehar 22:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Inquiry
In the ArbCom elections, you opposed my candidacy with the comment "Did not like the users conduct on the userbox debate". May I inquire what specific conduct of mine you did not approve of? Kelly Martin (talk) 19:04, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * What in particular about "the way [I] handled the userbox matter with the mass deletes" did you not like? Please be specific; I would like to know.  Kelly Martin (talk) 22:02, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:User-AmE-0
As I'm sure you know, user templates are opinions shared by several members of Wikipedia. They are templates employed on individual user pages only, and do not claim to represent the official shared position of the Wikipedia collective. Still, some self-appointed dictators feel it is their responsibility to control individual expression on user pages. Template:User-AmE-0, for example, was deleted by User:Kelly Martin; after being recreated, it was tagged for deletion by User:DreamGuy and its category removed by User:Carbonite. There are but a few people who want to control personal expression on user pages at Wikipedia and hundreds of us who do not want these few to succeed. In standing together to revert tyranny, despotism and censorship of individual expression on our personal pages, we can easily overcome these dictator-wanna-bees. Wikipedia can be for the people. Please help us oppose those in the Arbitration Committee Elections who would turn Wikipedia into a dictatorship of controlled articles and user pages: Kelly Martin, Jpgordon, Fred Bauder, James F., Jayjg, and Mindspillage.

If you feel passionately about this, you can join us in alerting other users of these individual tags, that their personal expression on their user pages is being censored by people like User: Carbonite. To help, just go to any of the templates that User:Carbonite has tried to change, and alert the people in those categories that they are not alone in their outrage and opposition. --لæmäļ al diη 21:56, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Out of curiousity....
what answers tilted you weakly onto the "no" side? --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 22:25, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. You might want to consider that when I answered, this was the form of the "User Bill of Rights", and it was basically rubbish; the current form is entirely different, and is actually quite reasonable (rather than being a legalistic structure devised by someone with a history of seeming more interested in disputation than in creating anm encylopedia.) --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 22:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
Brian, Hope you have a great birthday.-- Dakota ~  ε  00:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Ditto. Happy Birthday! I hope you have a fine wikibreak. --TantalumT e lluride 21:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry I missed the day, I've been away from my office (and hence my automated reminders for Esperanza dates). Happy belated Birthday! Essjay Talk • Contact 07:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)