User talk:Simonfairfax/Archive Apr 2007

Black Triangle Image Removed
I took the images down. That isn't the website where it came from, but if it's going to cause problems then I'll remove it. I got those images from Google Images origianlly which I heard was public domain. If the admins from Whyfiles are gonna cry about them being used on Wikipedia then they should cry to Google as well. They even have images on their own site that are everywhere on the net, exp the Phoenix Lights videoimage which from a Phoenix TV newscast and the Ans Belgium photo which has appeared in the press and on televison documentaries. Whyfiles is full of crap about sole ownership of these and probably everything else on their site. SkeezerPumba 02:19, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Apparently the people at the whinefiles.com aren't satistfied. They posted there again saying the images WERE (past tense) taken from their site, even after I removed them. I emailed the owner of the page and asked what the problem is, if in fact it is they who are doing this. It may be someone posing as them, not sure. We'll see. SkeezerPumba 21:23, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I talked to the owner of the site. He not only wanted the images removed but now he says some of the text I put there was taken from his site as well, which it wasn't, but I am negotiating a compromise for all this with him. I guess he'll stop vandalizing the page, so we'll see what happens. SkeezerPumba 02:45, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nomination for Adminship
Hi, I would like to know if you are an admin, because I would like to nominate you for adminship. I would like to nominate you because you are a great user. Let me know on my talk page. --Garfield the Cat 05:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I just finished creating a RFA page. --Garfield the Cat 04:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

St Online
Hi. Thanks for your helpful edit at Star Trek Online. Do you happen to know anything about this so called new "player mount" system? I didn't find anything in searches for this term at Yahoo.com. Thanks. --Sm8900 00:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * you bet! By the way, just thought I'd call your attention to this other message which I left, above. (I know sometimes the watchlist makes it hard to realize when two messages are left at once.) Appreciate any info you have on this. thanks. --Sm8900 00:42, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * oh, fine. thanks. where do you access that tool? By the way, are you in the UK? I'm in New York City.--Sm8900 00:42, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds good! thanks for your help. Guess I have a bad habit of associating the name "Fairfax" with England. I imagine you get that reaction from others periodically. :-) Anyway, thanks for your help. Please feel free to send notes anytime. see you. --Sm8900 00:50, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Good job on David Frost (Producer). That was the man himself trying to fix a problem of misleading links (and doing it the wrong way, but with good intent). Thanks for not getting into an edit war :) - More on the talk page - Best wishes -- sannse (talk) 22:06, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

AMA Meeting Proposal
Hi! I put together a proposal for another AMA meeting that I'm hopeful you can chime in on. --Wgfinley 20:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Human Rights Survey on Wikipedia (The final post of I_sterbinski)

 * Dear all,


 * Wikipedia was recently a subject of intensive research of an huge international human right organization. A team of people from different nationalities and ages were acting on Wikipedia for 20 days, investigating previously noted anomalities of Wikipedia free editing and forming a final report, which (between the others similar reports) will later be a guide to all future moves of the organization concerning Wikipedia. Acting under an account of a real person, their privacy is to be held private. Therefore, very few private information will be revealed.
 * Also, this is a result of the lack of final position of the organization concerning Wikipedia and human rights, which was still not formed.


 * The team's final post on Wikipedia, where they explain their actions can be found on the following addresses:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:I_sterbinski
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonia#Human_Rights_Servey_on_Wikipedia_.28The_final_post_of_I_sterbinski.29


 * The team would like to thank to all the persons who took part in the correspondence with us.
 * We also want to appologise for keeping our identity secret for a longer period.


 * Best regards,
 * Aleksandar, Biljana, Asparuh, Christos, Valjon, Michael and Ana Luiza
 * I sterbinski 01:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Template/Workshop
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Regarding Association of Members' Advocates
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AMA
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AMA Coordinator Election
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ipa-N
you may be interested in

Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_August_26

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support.
Dear Simonfairfax,

Thank you very much for your kind words and supportive comments on my recent RfA. I've been shot down again, so it won't be happening this time. I hope, though, that I can hear from you again next time around - and there definitely will be a next time.

Best wishes,

-- Hex [t/c] 21:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

practical joke
You got me man. funny. :-) --Sm8900 00:37, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

User page
Hi, Simonfairfax. I hope you won't mind too much, but I've removed your practical joke notice again because, while it was pretty good the first time round, this is now an old joke which has lost nearly all of its charm and now serves primarily as an annoyance. While users are given most of the say over what goes on their user page and it is generally considered poor etiquette for others to edit them without asking, all aspects of Wikipedia rely on good faith and many users believe that this sort of thing (which technically amounts to misrepresenting the user interface) hinders productive editing and (if encountered often enough) causes bad feeling. I therefore respectfully ask that you don't reinstate the new message template and find other venues for practical joking. Sorry if this seems like a stuffy attitude, but at the end of the day we're here to build an encyclopaedia and user pages are only intended to facilitate that. Happy editing, --YFB ¿  23:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've replied on my talk page. --YFB ¿  00:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

User page
Hi, Simonfairfax. I hope you won't mind too much, but I've removed your practical joke notice again because, while it was pretty good the first time round, this is now an old joke which has lost nearly all of its charm and now serves primarily as an annoyance. While users are given most of the say over what goes on their user page and it is generally considered poor etiquette for others to edit them without asking, all aspects of Wikipedia rely on good faith and many users believe that this sort of thing (which technically amounts to misrepresenting the user interface) hinders productive editing and (if encountered often enough) causes bad feeling. I therefore respectfully ask that you don't reinstate the new message template and find other venues for practical joking. Sorry if this seems like a stuffy attitude, but at the end of the day we're here to build an encyclopaedia and user pages are only intended to facilitate that. Happy editing, --YFB ¿  23:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've replied on my talk page. --YFB ¿  00:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)