User talk:Gfoley4/Archives/2011/September

Pre-RFC straw poll
There is a brief straw poll to see if conducting a RFC on the question of coordinates in road articles is worthwhile at WT:RJL. Your input would be appreciated. --Rschen7754 08:22, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

AIV
Hi there I was looking for the reason a request for intervention was not answered but all I could find was this. Can you please elaborate? Thanks. --Muhandes (talk) 21:48, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The reason that particular one was declined is that they haven't edited in a day—a block may be seen as punishment—which is not what blocks are intended for. — G FOLEY   F OUR!  — 21:53, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I may agree in the general case, but does this apply here? The IP was already blocked once, this is second abuse. Right after the block was removed (within 24 hrs I think, or slightly more) he continues the same thing. No one catches him vandalizing for 24 hours (not a week or two), so we now leave him to continue do the same thing? This is not punishment, this is preventing a previously warned and blocked vandal, who does not care, from continuing to vandalize.--Muhandes (talk) 22:22, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for handling this one. Cheers! --Muhandes (talk) 22:56, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry to bother you again with this one, but the editor has repeated the same edits just as the previous block ended. Rather than go again to AIV I thought I'll contact you directly. --Muhandes (talk) 19:58, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. --Muhandes (talk) 20:16, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

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wikipedia-en-help
Hey there! Sorry about the confusion on the IRC channel. Evidently there was a wind storm last night and the power kept going off and on. I had the preferences set to automatically reconnect if disconnected unexpectedly. I have removed the setting to automatically reconnect, so hopefully this won't happen again. I am requesting a lift on the ban for that channel. Appreciate your help and again, sorry about all the annoying nickspam! Cind.  amuse  (Cindy) 16:08, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've unbanned you. If this happens again, join for a faster response. (There are always other ops around) —  G FOLEY   F OUR!  — 22:24, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate
Greetings,

My name is John-Paul and I am a student with the University of Alberta specializing in Communications and Technology.

I would like to include your Wikipedia user page in a study I am doing about how people present themselves online. I am interested in whether people see themselves in different ways, online and offline. One of the things I am looking at is how contributors to Wikipedia present themselves to each other through their user pages. Would you consider letting me include your user page in my study?

With your consent, I will read and analyze your user page, and ask you five short questions about it that will take about ten to fifteen minutes to answer. I am looking at about twenty user pages belonging to twenty different people. I will be looking at all user pages together, looking for common threads in the way people introduce themselves to other Wikipedians.

I hope that my research will help answer questions about how people collaborate, work together, and share knowledge. If you are open to participating in this study, please reply to this message, on your User Talk page or on mine. I will provide you with a complete description of my research, which you can use to decide if you want to participate.

Thank-you,

John-Paul Mcvea

University of Alberta

jmcvea@ualberta.ca

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 21:46, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll do it. — G FOLEY   F OUR!  — 21:37, 23 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much. Please watch for a short questionnaire, five questions, which I will post below.  Please complete the questionnaire to be included in my study.  Thanks again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnpaulmcvea (talk • contribs) 20:24, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Please publish the info about Pat Varsallona
Hello,

I am the administrator of the NEW JERSEY SOCCER ASSOCIATION (soccernjsa.com) and have full rights to all the pictures and information's. Please publish the information about Pat Varsallona (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Varsalona) that I submitted... and you rejected (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement (TW))

regards NJSA Admin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsslweb (talk • contribs) 03:21, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
 * When I go to that website, I see "Copyright © 2010 New Jersey Soccer Association. All Rights Reserved." at the bottom. This is a problem. Wikipedia is released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. Please see our guideline on exactly this. Cheers, — G FOLEY   F OUR!  — 03:27, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Gina Yashere vandalism
I corrected it, but just want you to be aware that this user:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/94.12.102.30

Has been vandalizing the article for Gina Yashere. I corrected the vandalism but I wanted to let an administrator know about this all the same since this article has been vandalized in the past, thanks.75.80.79.246 (talk) 04:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm now watching the page. — G FOLEY   F OUR!  — 03:18, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study
Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study, entitled “Online Self-presentation among Wikipedians.” I appreciate it.

As I indicated in my last message, here are five short questions about your user page that I would like you to answer. These will help me to understand your motivations for creating a user page such as yours. Please be as brief or as thorough as you like.

5 QUESTIONS

1. Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?

2. In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times?

3. What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?

4. Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?

5. Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate?

Please indicate your answers to these questions on your talk page, or on mine. Please respond by October 1st so that I have time to properly read your responses. If you like, you can email your answers to me instead (jmcvea@ualberta.ca).

Thank you again : )

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 20:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

ADDITONAL INFORMATION

Background

•	I am asking you to participate in a research project that is part of my MA degree.

•	I am asking you because you have created a user page in Wikipedia that other people can use to learn about you.

Purpose

•	My research is about how people present themselves online.

•	I will look at how people present themselves when presenting themselves to the Wikipedia community.

Study Procedures

•	With your consent, I will analyze the language of your user page and gather basic statistics such as the count of words, the frequency of words, the number of sections, and so on.

•	I will also read the text of your user page, looking for elements in common with ads posted by other people. I will note whether you include a picture, or links to other content on the internet.

•	I ask you to answer my five questions, above. This will take about ten to fifteen minutes to complete. I will ask you to answer the questions within a week, and send your answers to me.

•	Throughout my research, I will adhere to the University of Alberta Standards for the Protection of Human Research Participants, which you can view at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/gfcpolicymanual/policymanualsection66.cfm

Benefits

•	There is no direct benefit to you for participating in this research. You may, however, find it interesting to read my perspective on how you present yourself online.

•	I hope that the information I get from doing this study will help understand how technology affects the way people come together into a society.

•	There is no reward or compensation for participating in this research.

Risk

•	There is no direct risk for participating in this research.

Voluntary Participation

•	You are under no obligation to participate in this study. Participation is completely voluntary.

•	You can opt out of this study at any time before October 10, 2011, with no penalty. You can ask to have me withdraw any data that I have collected about you. Even if you agree to be in the study, you can change your mind and withdraw.

•	If you decline to continue or you wish to withdraw from the study, your information will be removed from the study at your request.

Confidentiality

•	This research will be used to support a project that is part of my MA degree.

•	A summary of my research will be available on the University of Alberta website.

•	Your personally identifiable information will be deleted and digitally shredded as soon as I have finished gathering data about you.

•	Data will be kept confidential. Only I will have access to the computer file containing the data. It will be password protected. It will not be sent by email or stored online.

•	I will always handle my data in compliance with University of Alberta standards.

•	If you would like to receive a copy of my final report, please ask.

Further Information

•	If you have any further questions regarding this study, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Stanley Varnhagen, my research advisor for this project. If you have concerns about this study, you may contact the University of Alberta Research Ethics Committee at 780-492-2615. This office has no affiliation with the study investigators.

INDICATING CONSENT

By answering these questions, you indicate your agreement with the following statements:

•	That you understand that you have been asked to be in a research study.

•	That you have read and received a copy of the Information Sheet, attached below (“Additional Information”).

•	That you understand the benefits and risks involved in taking part in this research study.

•	That you have had an opportunity to ask questions and discuss this study.

•	That you understand that you are free to refuse to participate, or to withdraw from the study at any time, without consequence, and that your information will be withdrawn at your request.

•	That the issue of confidentiality been explained to you and that you understand who will have access to your information (see “Additional Information”).

•	That you agree to participate.

Thank-you again!

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