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Perth Tram Company

Hi Ali this article has appeared at AfD, I've got no problem with its being kept/deleted as the article request was for the original tram services that ran 1890-1960. Whats you thoughts on the article. Gnangarra 08:54, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot!

Hey.. Thanks a lot for your wishes!! And nevermind the delay... :-).. How ya doin??? Hope life's great! See ya around! oh.. BTW.. notice the subtle change in my signature?? he he... Thanks again! Take Care... Cheers! Jayant,18 Years, India • contribs 15:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:AlMac|(talk) just too busy in real world

My work has been ups & downs of busy, more ups than downs. Then this summer, my employer was bought out by a competitor, whose leadership told the rank & file that there would be no changes for a while, until they figured out how to combine operations in an economical way.

For example, the conglomerate has about a dozen factories in 3 nations, that originally were4 different companies, including ours, in which perhaps half of them are making stuff for the same customers. If we can consolidate what is being made for a customer in less factories, then with volume, we can lower cost for sourcing the raw materials, have our work force become more expert on those customers needs, be more responsive, more competitive, except for pricing.

The main reason we got bought out is the customers were playing us off against each other ... they ask for quotes for some new part ... then say "This other vendor quoted X ... can't you give us a better price?" Well after the bigger company heard that a few thousand times from customers, where we were named, they decided to make a bid to buy us out.

The statement that not much will change for a while, that may be true for the rank & file, but the new leadership has a parade of what appear to be new ideas to many line managers & department heads, who need help from the computer guy to implement ASAP whatever. So I have been in crisis mode for several months now. When I get home from work each day, I am exhausted.

I do all the ERP software work for a company that has approx 250 employees, does a few $ million business a year, sometimes called a mid-sized company.

Recently my boss has had me spending a lot of time reverse engineering dirty data in the accounting area, interesting but I not have a lot of experience or training there. Also he, and the auditors live and breathe Excel for data analysis, not the Data Mining Tools of the ERP, plus the company has refused to purchase good interface tools for converting data between different computer realities, meaning the process is not user friendly, meaning I am stuck with a lot of conversion efforts on an almost daily basis, to get the data they want from the dynamic systems to their Excel windows on historical data sets.

Another manager I doing a lot of recent work for, is the guy in charge of inventory accuracy, which I think is probably more important to the company than accounting accuracy, but the top managers are more interested in the accounting data than the data from which that is derived.

When I have leisure time, Wikipedia is only one of several outside interests. I still desire to contribute, but I do not see the light at the end of the tunnel at present in my day to day work, and when i do see it, probably an on-coming train. User:AlMac|(talk) 15:21, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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==WP:WA==

Thanks for generating some discussion on the objectives of the wikiproject WA. I hope you can bring your talents to the development or once it gets going. P.S. Not sure if you started tram art (above) but I failed to specify time period when I proposed it. Sorry. Will include content in new article. Fred.e 19:11, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Prefer editors work is merged rather than deleted. Will let you know when it is finished, or start it yourself (founder: George Temple-Poole, vanity! - my first article). The project will be more interesting when it is developed - Happy editing and season. Fred.e 00:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

sneaks in and treats Ali's sneakers to crumbled figgy pudding, cranberry sauce and stilton, and begins to whistle nonchalantly Happy Crumble, erm... I mean Happy Christmas Ali continues whistling nonchalantly I'm glad you're happy with the pressies, generous lot your folks looks at the Gillette Mach3 Turbo set yep, very generous :D --Alf melmac 10:49, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Awww! Thanks Alfie, even if it took you 5 min plus! /me sends over some pudding :) Thanks for an awesome year :) --Ali K 11:36, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Perth, WA

Thanks for all guys your messages! I would be most happy to participate in those projects whenever I am available. Belated Merry Christmas!--Alfeewusy 05:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice one

Your article freo town hall article is good so far. I like the little yarn attached. Made an edit there. Fred 15:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work. I like the cquote things by the way. Yet another thing I learnt from you. The 'yarn' (referred to above) was the piece of history "The death of W.J. Snook" which I thought was charming. Fred 08:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to be of service :) --Ali K 08:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Fremantle Town Hall

Great article! Well done, and happy new year! :) - Gobeirne 04:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome

You're welcome! And thank you for the barnstar!!! :D Good luck fighting off those vandals! (And don't test scripts with poo :P) Cheers, Tangotango (talk) 12:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hurrump That is hardly fair :P All your fault, thankyou very much. Smarty :P XD. --Ali K 12:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


IRC cloak request

I am Ali_K on freenode and I would like the cloak wikipedia/Ali-K. Thanks. --Ali K 08:32, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USER TALK PAGE!

— Werdna talk 12:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sunset Coast

Thanks for that - some have had the afd button fingers itching over that article - I never heard of that expression in common use - and Ive been around a bit... SatuSuro 09:26, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had nothing to do withit -but it has gone to afd. No one has answered the reason- but they simply try to hijack the afd on the wing of notability. Sorry - I have a terrible tendency to send cryptic messages - or ones with ambiguity. SatuSuro 03:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Tricky -if you look at the comment in the afd - it started from a lift from a website - probable plagiarism - I watcched it for ages and couldtn make up my mind - to edit or to agree with the afd - but if my mate whos editing now does his bit - it will be so diff it will just get confusing... :P SatuSuro 03:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies - I am an older text/book oriented editor - I find most web based info quite spurious - if we ever meet again in issues around perth or wa articles - thats where I come from! (an old friend is a lecturer at UWA and If I ever started on about his problems with students accessing web based rather than text ifno I'd never get off...) SatuSuro 03:43, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Very generous offer - I have inherited a very large ephemera and book collection of materials relating to western australia - and have also been a very long term battye and state reccords office user - but you never know - it is appreciated that you should offer, I will keep it in mind! SatuSuro 04:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC) As for brackets - my imac keyboard speed leaves me with manny repeats in talk messages and I have given up worrying! :) SatuSuro 04:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ali K from Craigower:

I really got into a knot this morning. The response below was written with user "sopoforic" in mind,who responded to my cry for help, and as I was editing you also responded. I then had an "edit conflict" to deal with. I have not got a clue as to whether this is the best way. I simply deleted me edit to "sopoforic".

Thanks for such a speedy response. No there is only one Joyce Holms Scottish crime writer. The problem arose thus: I have a fairly long article on this writer but before I was prepared to submit it (since this is a first for me) I, foolishly, as it turns out, attempted to enter the name Joyce Holms, and only that, on the list of writers. This was blocked. I then found the page "Articles for Creation" (2007-01-08) and since I clearly need help I place the long article there. As far as I can see it is still there No.41 on that day. That page gave me the impression that all on it were waiting to be examined and helped (hopefully) on their way. This may be the case? I hope this clarifies my problem. Thanks again. Craigower 07:30, 15 January 2007 (GMT)

HEEEERE

Muahaha! — Werdna talk 08:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

:O SPAMMER! !ADMIN. --Ali K 08:36, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


From Craigower

Thanks again, I await with bated breath. (Craigower 10:10, 15 January 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Freo town hall

Your little gem of article still has tiny flaw. I probably could have explained the problem better.

  • The architects have a close connection to the Town Hall
  • A google search shows this to be true.
  • The opening occurred on June 22, 1887.
  • The architects were around in the 1990s.

I believe they were responsible for the architectural assessment included in the article space. They may have contributed to more recent (internal) alterations to the building. This is what I meant by unlikely. Hope to see more interesting pages. Fred 11:12, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did not want to change it, again, without resolving our discussion. I am still not sure if you see what I see.
  • Architects working ten years ago would not be the same persons who designed the building, over one hundred years earlier. (Pardon my bold emphasis.)
Am I missing something?
Kind regards, Fred 14:00, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ref? I met one of them! This is not of course an adequate reference.
The company Considine and Griffiths dissolved at the beginning of this year. Geoff Considine can be reached at Considine Architects in Subiaco on 9381 1744; Phil Griffiths, a conservation expert, is at 9381 1666. The 'white pages' is also not a good reference. The Molyneux report on the heritage of perth will support this. I could go on, but the onus is on editors to produce a verifiable reference supporting the edit.
Let me know if you want some suggestions for similar articles. And, yes, I realise the article does not belong to you, you just did all the work. Yours Faithfully Fred 11:21, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More suggestions.

Glad you saw the funny side. :)

Suggestions. The heritage of the same period, gold boom and federation, has public buildings that the present day suburbs are built around. Especially some of the suburbs in your major contribs. Guildford has preserved their distict and they have a very helpful information centre and heritage walks. Cinemas and theatres, like Regal, were very important in early twentieth century. One of the most interesting buildings is Perth Observatory, before this was built there was no accurate time in Perth.

But these are starting points, and can extend in all directions. Have a good look round our project (WP:WA) and dig through the lists or categories. The other editors there are very helpful. Keep a look out in the real world too. You have a 'good eye' for subjects. I will drop back with some pages to start soon.

Here is a quick and satisfying one for you. Change "Fremantle Town Hall" at List of historic buildings in Perth, Western Australia to a wiki-link. One of my favourite things is linking articles to each other. Regards Fred 15:06, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fwd to Ali K: 

Hi Fred,

 If you wanted to talk to Phil Griffiths, I’m sure that he’d be 
very happy to, and you could mention my name also.  Phil’s a nice
bloke and would be able to give you heaps of info about the TH.

I'm sure he could help you bring the article up to G/A quality if you phoned or faxed him for interesting facts. ... is the part I forgot to add!

No, I am very sorry, Ali ...

... that was me half asleep. I know you know! I can see why you thought I was battering you with this. This was laziness and sloppiness on my part. I dragged this from the e.mail I got from expert. I was checking that I wasn't being stupid, yet again. Thought you may want to use phone number that isn't there anyway! I added the omitted comment underneath now.

Please accept my apologies. I hope I am not spoiling your enjoyment of wikipedia. Fred 11:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Penguins

Saw your Penguin island update - I do have some non-penguin photos of the island but cannot upload for a while... unfortunately SatuSuro 10:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Satusuro and I send each other numerous emails every week. This is about topics that arise on wikipedia but are not about articles on it. We share gossip about WA history, for example, things that would be inappropriate to put in a public. It also keeps conversations between only two editors from cluttering up the talk pages, which are for the whole community. Wikipedia is a strange space that takes a little getting used to, I still am. Just FYI Fred 12:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You final caught me I've been to Penguin Is. at least a dozen times(probably heaps more) all between 1989 and 1994, I've never taken a camera there. Sorry no pictures from there, though I do have some Perth zoo shots of penguins that I could lie about :P Gnangarra 13:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This user (Ali K) knowlingly provides false information

Ali K provides false information on Jane Turner's page. I tried to change the year of birth to 1961 which is correct ( according to IMDB) and Ali K changed it to 1967 which is incorrect. No real harm done however in future i suggest that Ali K finds reliable references when putting in information and makes sure to check her facts when removing other people's edits. I had to change the year of birth back to 1961 even after Ali K was provided with a lot of evidence she still refused to admit that she was wrong. Why was this Ali K? Thank You. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jane 01 (talk • contribs) 23:47, 19 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

A website linked to on the Jane Turner article specifies 1967. Please do not, on my talk page, say I "knowingly provide false information". This talk page is a way to get in contact with me, not to prove to other people that I am knowingly using false info with information that you think is correct. I was simply just using what was on hand. I am waiting a reply from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Please sign your comments in future using --~~~~ --Ali K 00:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WPPA

Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas might be something you might find helpful at a wikipedia wide basis (if you didnt know about it) SatuSuro 02:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wetlands etc

Your new article creations are just great. I had hoped that to see more of this sort of thing. There are so many ways to expand and link these articles. Did you notice the recently created article Dryandra Woodland? I like your style. Fred 04:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Good on you. It needed to be said. Fred 11:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Aquinas College comments

Trinity college article offers only the most very basic of information.

  • It is as enjoyable to read as a bus time table.
  • It contains information that could only be useful to a new student, who has lost his handouts.
  • My proposed changes, sell the page to the school to use as their website.

Anyone interested in reading (not editing) the page would not read very far before leaving. Pack all the information into sentences, then edit it down further. Two or three sections at most. Look forward to your edit. Fredraysay

Inappropriate

You do realise that the TC article is not going to EVER get FA. and the Aquinas one is more than on its way to GA standard. Smbarnzy 10:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uhhh. Okay then. That was kind of random, and, to be honest, a little delayed. --Ali K 11:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You should!

I was cheered by your approach, so thank you. I have left numerous comments with 'the boys' but did not receive a reply or any indication they had read it. This was on the talk page and their own if they missed it. Have a look in the Archive on the talk page for their (unintentionally) hilarious comments. I've tried a different track lately. You should just go ahead. Unless you are awarding them their F/A they probably will not listen to your helpful suggestions. No harm in trying. Your award is in this edit's summary. Regards, Fred

Just saying I agree broadly with your comments. They're enthusiastic but if they're *ever* to get past B-class they're going to have to take a step back and see this the way a Wikipedian with no knowledge or care of Perth, the Public Schools Association or whatever will see it. The problem isn't so much one of content but of perspective. If this is at some point addressed the will and enthusiasm is there within that group of people to see it succeed. Unfortunately this could take a while. Orderinchaos78 15:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fremantle Town Hall

Nice work, I hope you don't mind that I gave it a light copyedit. Did you mean £ or $? I changed to £, so if I'm wrong, please revert them back. Cheers —Moondyne 13:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was converted from pounds to dollars :) --Ali K 23:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry! —Moondyne 23:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would have made the same assumption too.--Ali K 04:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have made that assumption. :| Fred

Hamersley

Hi :) Thanks for that - just working on Hamersley to get it to FA standard and hopefully nominate it around 1 Feb. I've spent a few weeks reading up and researching at the SRO and State Library to get the documentary side of it up to scratch, as no books have (yet) been written about it. So if you see anything that could be done better in the sections that have been worked on (haven't yet got to a few), and especially on the graphics front, let me know :) Orderinchaos78 08:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re pics btw - did you mean this one? Orderinchaos78 05:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Haha that's cool :) Was more a clarity issue than anything else as I wasn't sure if I'd missed something I should have seen. If I were you, I'd blame the heat - this weekend's been bloody ridiculous. Orderinchaos78 06:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Far too polite he is - words that do not even get into wiktionary come to mind in view of this heat - and I've lived in Darwin and Yogyakarta!SatuSuro 07:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sports Trainer

Ali K,

You have removed valuable and required information from article: Sports Trainer.

Could you please not remove valuable and required information from the Sports Trainer article, i am the creator, and an expert in this field and all information added is relevant and correct and 'notable', Do NOT remove information from that article again. Thank You, (Bradles 02 23:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC))[reply]

The article does not make sense and is written from the point of view of an Australian, whereas it should be written in neutral POV. --Ali K 23:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I would suggest ignoring this person as firstly they were blocked for "hoaxing" and secondly they don't own the article, I dont think one can be an "expert" in a generic article anyway (wouldnt every sports trainer in the country have a similar claim?) Your edits look good to me :) DanielT5 23:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Don't blame ya :) And thanks for the welcome!! DanielT5 09:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Emails

Dear Ali, If you have been sent hate mail, there are people around who take that very seriously. Get somebody to see to it. Don't respond yourself, here is why

Best regards, as I have said before, I like your style. Don't want you to be discouraged from contributing by drongoes - Fred 09:49, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for the support, but its fine :) I would never get discouraged by drongoes, and it is nice to know you are stalking me :P As for the reduction in edits, my study needs me, and I need it to make a decent career for myself! Thanks again, Fred. --Ali K 11:00, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Multiple Edits

Does it really matter though? im not too concerned, and so long as im working the articles, and doing everything well, does it really matter? thanks for the tip anyway, will keep it in mind Smbarnzy 11:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hi, Ali. I just noticed you editing FireFox's talk page (I have it on watchlist for some reason). I've just sent you an email. Will (Speak to Me/Breathe)(Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash) 15:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied to your reply. Will (Speak to Me/Breathe)(Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash) 22:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No commentary needed, I am able to check my inbox. --Ali K 06:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please be civil, I was just telling you in case you were on wiki and not gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc. Will (Speak to Me/Breathe)(Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash) 16:06, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
... I wasn't being uncivil... --Ali K 21:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, okay. I tend to assume the worst, sorry, it's just that, to me, that message seemed a bit... snobbish. Sorry about that. Will (Speak to Me/Breathe)(Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash) 12:16, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What a nice way to aplogise to someone. Dont even bother next time. --Ali K 12:23, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm saying that, because your message appeared snobbish to me, I asked you to be civil, and because it wasn't meant to be uncivil, I apologised. But I better stop before I dig a deeper hole. Will (Speak to Me/Breathe)(Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash) 13:40, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pokes back...

Of course I remember :) How are you keeping?? — FireFox 18:35, 26 February 2007

I'm not too bad myself thank you. Yeah I know about the issues thing... but everything seems to be going surprisingly well(-ish) for me at the moment, so I'm happy :) — FireFox 21:30, 26 February 2007
Nice to hear from you too :) — FireFox 21:56, 26 February 2007

Hi

Hey!!! --Spook (my talk | my contribs) 04:23, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think i remembered how to sign --Spook (my talk | my contribs) 04:23, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If you're reading this, get back to your homework! --Spook (my talk | my contribs) 04:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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