User talk:AlisonW

Greetings, BTW, oh-one-whose-other-account-I-know. ;-)

James F. (talk) 03:41, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Welcome

Hey there, AlisonW. Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian and decide to stay! Here are a few good links for newcomers (or "oldcomers" for reference):

The Five Pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Editing tutorial The meaning of "NPOV"

Picture tutorial How to write a great article Naming conventions Manual of Style

By the way, you should sign and date your comments on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. Three tildes (~~~) produces just your name. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!

Great, just what we need around this place... more people who were mysteriously made sysop. :) Cheers.[1]

I had seen you were never officially welcomed, so in order to not make you feel left out, I did my best. And if what James says above is true, I'll be on the lookout for any suspicious sock activity. ;-) See you around. --You Know Who ^{(Dark Mark)} 21:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

LOL! As I've been around for a few years you've just made me feel young and n00b again! Basically I do my 'official' work under this, my real name, and the slight status change will improve my effectiveness while doing that work rather than have to 'call out' to someone else to part-assist. It is very much a "special case" though and you needn't worry about my socks, tights or any other clothing ;-P --AlisonW 21:37, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, yeah, yeah... like we'll buy that. Lemme guess, TINC? ;-) I just thought it was odd that the chair of the UK Chapter wasn't an admin. Just one of those things, I guess. And don't worry about feeling n00bish... Jimbo was just "officially welcomed" about a week ago. Thanks for all you do around here, by the way. I assume you don't get to contribute as a regular editor too much, but know that we appreciate your work nonetheless. See you around. --You Know Who ^{(Dark Mark)} 23:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Slang

I'm only removing them until someone finds a reliable source - a single one in the whole of the internet the article documents! - for them. It is not true that all 1.1million articles would be nothing but links off site; that would imply that none of them contained any other information whatsoever. It is not at all clear where the dividing line is. I mean, I found a source for LOL with a few seconds looking. I don't really want to go and find a source for ZOMGWTFBBQ, on the other hand. The relevant policies put the burden of proof firmly on the adding editor. If they can't, or won't, find any proof, then really that's just a bit tough. The article is a magnet for junk, cruft, things that aren't related to the internet, things that aren't slang, things that aren't internet slang and all sorts of other things. It's not just vandalism I'm removing: it's anything that doesn't belong. -Splash - tk 22:03, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Also, for those terms that actually do have some sensible currency, finding decent cites is easy: [2]. -Splash - tk 22:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for restoring the congratulatory material from User talk:BradPatrick I seem to have accidentally deleted. I had left him a legal note, then seen he didn't want legal stuff on his user page, so I deleted my note -- and apparently other stuff with it somehow. --A. B. 00:45, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

User page

User page#Ownership and editing of pages in the user space

Carefully selected quotes:

• " ... However, pages in user space still do belong to the community: ..."
• " Other users may edit pages in your user space ... "
• " In general it is considered polite to avoid substantially editing another's user page without their permission. Some users are fine with their user pages being edited ... "

Sorry if I offended you. Stephen B Streater 18:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Apology accepted. I have always read that second listitem as referring to talkpages and not what a user writes about themselves (unless there exists a clear and immediate legal problem). If someone wishes to suggest that a change to a users own page would be appropriate then the talk page is there explicitly for the purpose. In this particular case the use of lower case and upper case in those places was specific and intentional. --AlisonW 19:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Lovely Election Candidates 2006

Hi. I considered speedying this myself, but held off, because there is a Kingdom of Lovely, it's a real thing (however Micronation and silly it may be). I added the hangon and told the user that notability and verifiability stuff needed adding. Please advise (I don't live in the UK so I don't know Lovely as well as UK people do) if you have a problem with my userifying this for the editor if he or she asks. You can reply here if you like. ++Lar: t/c 21:27, 14 June 2006 (UTC)