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another image copyright thing that's not quite right

Hi you seem to know what you're doing with these things than me, and it might only take you a mo, so could you possibly have a think about [1] ? The tag claims it's self-made but it's not, or even if the person drew this particular one, the symbol itself is under copyright, as is explained here [2] "If anyone wants to legally use our version of the “Sigil of Baphomet,” they may ask for permission, and we have generally been quite liberal in licensing people to use this for various projects and goods—though we usually only allow its use on websites when (and where) they are mentioning the Church of Satan. Otherwise, those wishing to use a public domain version of a goat / pentagram / “Leviathan” symbol must go back to the historically published sources, or they may take the challenge to draw a fresh one." It looks a bit like their one- not the one at the top of page which has the letters filled in, but scroll down to the end near by Peter Gilmore signs it and here's a photo of it in black and red on the left. Sticky Parkin 13:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Ecomapping Article

Hello Alison, I contact you because my article was deleted because of "advertising". But this article was never intended to be read as an advertisment, It is purely an explaination of what Ecomapping is and where it started. Do you have any suggestions on how to rewrite the article in order not to breech the wikipedia advertising rules. Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aurore1985 (talk • contribs) 03:43, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Doireann

I think I've finally reached the end of the road as far as her article goes, and I am more than happy to proclaim it finished. Whenever you have a free few moments, you can start translating Doireann Ni Bhriain to Irish. :) Mike H. Fierce! 22:29, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Ignored again! :( :( :( Mike H. Fierce! 05:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not ignoring you, Mike :( I'm just crazy-busy right now and I'm just popping in here whenever I get a chance. I will work on the DNíB article in the morning!! - Alison ^❤ 06:51, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Leaving you another note; saw you were on ga and wondered when you would have time to do the translation. Mike H. Fierce! 05:02, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

checkusership

Alison, I am very interested in gaining Check-User status. I find that the Beh-nam/NisarKand/Tajik sockpuppetry drones on and on with no end in sight. I know their sockpuppets when I see them, and I would like the ability to take quicker action to verify my suspicions. You do terrific work in this regard, but maybe I can help lessen the load.

What is the process for me to take to gain Check-User status? And what advice do you have. Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 12:36, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Email arbcom and ask. Al Tally ^talk 12:42, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

All ten of them? Or arbcom-l-at-lists.wikimedia.org? Kingturtle (talk) 12:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, the list, yes. Al Tally ^talk 12:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:Vicífhoclóir & Commons

Hi Alison, thanks for the invite and offering to change my Commons username. It would be great if my username in commons was just Blathnaid, if that's possible to do. If I have single user login, I have no excuse for not contributing to Vicífhoclóir and Vicipéid :) I'm not sure if the ga-3 on my userpage is accurate anymore though; my mother is fluent and she sent me off to Irish College every summer, but my ability is rapidly declining since the only practise I get with Irish these days is occasionally watching TG4. It would hurt my pride to put ga-2 on my userpage, though! Anyway, that's a long way of saying I'll see what I can do, but I could do more harm than good on a dictionary project :p All the best, Bláthnaid 09:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

A weird unofficial request for checkuser

I know checkuser is not for fishing, but off of the RFCU page, just as a talk page message outside of public view, I would like you to consider checking this user:

Newshounddog (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Here's what happened: Newshounddog filed Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Rreagan007 alleging that Rreagan007 edited while logged out from an IP address that has recent talk page warnings. I determined that this was, in fact, correct, but that no violation of policy occurred. However, I noticed that Newshounddog's contribution history lasted a grand total of 27 minutes and was exclusively limited to filing this SSP case against Rreagan007. I honestly doubt that this is a legitimate new user. I wonder if it might be someone involved in a content dispute, but I have not found an obvious candidate. I know it's evil to wonder about such things, but still...

I have a real problem allowing any user to throw an accusation against another user without being accountable on his own username. If Newshounddog made this accusation in bad faith - certainly a possibility given the fact that Rreagan007 did not actually violate policy, and explained his actions to my satisfaction - then Newshounddog needs to be held accountable on his main account, and that main account needss to explain why it resorted to such underhanded tactics instead of just flat out making the accusation fairly. I know this is a really unusual request, but it's been bothering me for a couple of days, and I finally decided to come forward and ask. Yechiel (Shalom) 23:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

New user registration problem

Dear Alison,

Ahh! Your user profile is MUCH more user-friendly than other Admins' profiles! As a newbie, I had no idea these things varied. THANK YOU! You have earned my eternal gratitude. And Jimmy Wales just averted another lost user!

So as not to waste your time, let me get to the point. I need an Admin's help to do this.

I need to register under as many Wiki subdomains as possible under the username 'A.k.a.' I've been given this name for the regular Wikipedia site, but I just discovered that there are other subdomains that require registration as well. What a drag.

The reason I need to ask an Admin for help with registration is that there is a user named 'Aka'. I'm being stubborn about my own username because I want to standardize it across as many forums as I can -- so far, many many! Would you mind lending a hand with the process?

You can email me at alsoknownas at live dot com to get in touch. I'd prefer you erase my email address after you respond, so it's not harvested.

The most immediate need I had was to upload my first image to a Wikipedia talk page. That sent me to the Wikimedia Commons site... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin

...which is apparently an entirely separate subdomain that doesn't recognize my login at wikipedia.org.

Are there any other related domains where an account ought also to be created?

Thanks a million, Alison.

--A.k.a. (talk) 23:12, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/L.L.King

Hi Alison, as the original checkuser would you mind reviewing this case again? The original IP for LL King was included in the 1st case, so if that can be confirmed as User:MichaelQSchmidt, that will confirm that L.L.King is MQS. I appreciate your help in the matter. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 20:26, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Feel better

Best wishes from moi and the gang! El_C 06:02, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

How did you make your signature do that?

For some reason (while I was reviewing WP:RFCU), your username turns my cursor into a HELP cursor, not a HYPERLINK cursor. How do you do that? 64.136.26.230 (talk) 07:09, 27 June 2008 (UTC) PS Nice site architecture!

Thanks! I did it like this:

[[User:Alison|<span style="color:#FF823D;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;cursor:help">'''A<font color="#FF7C0A">l<font color="#FFB550">is</font>o</font>n'''</span>]] ^{[[User talk:Alison|❤]]}

... the magic bit is the "cursor:help" style element :) - Alison ^❤ 23:33, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Userpage of User:Calvin 1998

Is this userpage acceptable? There are somepersonal info in it. Goodvac (talk) 21:43, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

No, it's not acceptable, IMO. I've sorted it out and left a note. Thanks for bringing it to my attention - Alison ^❤ 22:35, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser

Hi Alison, sorry to bother you but admin Khoikhoi wrongly blocked User:Intellibeing as being sockpuppet of Nisarkand so can you please check to confirm and unblock that user. Also, please have a quick look at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Beh-nam because admin Kingturtle forgets to add his request to the list everytime. User:RobertJohnstone is another undetected sock of Beh-nam. Finally, User:Inshalla claims he is not sockpuppet of banned User:Anoshirawan so can you reveal to him that it is him. He used IP to revert Ahmad Shah Durrani that is assigned to Verizon Inc., which covers East Coast USA, and telling Kingturtle that he is Canadian. [3] Admin Thatcher explained that Anoshirawan is in USA. [4] I hope you don't block me as you did last week for reporting these things to you, and I'm not editing Wikipedia anymore.--119.30.67.6 (talk) 08:13, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Kenworth article copyvio notice.

Hey Alison,

I normally don't leave messages on the talk pages of WikiAdmins, but I feel compelled to do so in this case.

On June 17th, I had been left a rather terse (and what I took as rude) message left on my talk page by User:WikiDon in regards to a copyright concern on the Kenworth page, in regards to the text featured here at the Pacific History section of a website titled GilligCoaches.NET. The copyright concern notice also went up on the Kenworth page itself that day, and was listed two days later on Wikipedia:Copyright problems under the June 19 heading. To help illustrate the problem, I'm posting the text in full that I posted on WP:CP, and you're invited to read the dialog between me and WikiDon as well, if you wish.

The copyright concerns with the Kenworth article stems from a section that was formerly titled "Kenworth's Involvement in the Transit and School Bus industry." The contents of the entire section were of my own writings, which I had published on the world wide web on my website GilligCoaches.NET. The writings in the Kenworth article were a condensed and derivative version of the text featured on the Pacific History section of my website. Upon completion of the writing of the section in the Kenworth article itself, I then uploaded and expanded the text for my own website. Immediately afterwards, I placed a marker on the bottom of the page, reading as follows: " I've authored a condensed and derivative form of this text for the Kenworth article on Wikipedia " (with a backlink to the Kenworth article on Wikipedia) as a courtesy, and to avoid this issue in the first place. User:WikiDon, without even giving that notice on the "Pacific History" page a glance, posted a rather disrespectful remark on my Talk Page also without ever investigating my user page itself - which makes a rather blatant and obvious reference to GilligCoaches.NET and what my hobbies are. While I appreciate the fact that someone would look after my own writings and perceive them to be in violation, they in fact were not in violation at anytime. Furthermore, WikiDon failed to investigate the manner properly, instead outright accusing me of copyright infringement without any knowledge and proper investigation of the situation beforehand. For those in doubt, here's the Network Solutions WHOIS lookup on GilligCoaches.NET as proof that GilligCoaches.NET, and the writings in question on the Kenworth article (section now titled "Bus industry") are of my own, and are technically one in the same. With sincere regards, Steven A. Rosenow.

The reason I'm posting this, is that it appears that the issue is being turned away by a blind eye on WP:CP and it's dragging the integrity of the Kenworth article (which I have been working on rewriting to bring into compliance with WP:MOS) down the drain. Had WikiDon properly investigated all avenues before going on the attack if you will, this wouldn't have developed into the major "shitstorm" that it has grown into (excuse the language). I'm not sure what to do at this point, so I thought I'd try taking the step a bit further. Feel free to contact me on the issue, and I would like to see this resolved.

Sincerely, Srosenow 98 (talk) 10:50, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey, just following up with you on the KW article copyvio notice discussion I posted here. I was wondering if you had a chance to take a look at it. Nobody seems to be giving it any attention over at WP:COPYVIO, despite me making a case for why it should never have went up in the first place on both the June 19 entry for it there and the Kenworth article's talk page.

Thanks in advance. Srosenow 98 (talk) 17:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Is it possible to get a rollback right? I'm not in a big need for it, and would probably not use it much, but sometimes this feature is very usefull. Regards Nsaa (talk) 14:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Added a request at Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback#User:Nsaa Nsaa (talk) 20:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Vintagekits indefinitely blocked

This has just sparked my attention. This discussion at ANI appears to be related. Just thought I'd let you know. D.M.N. (talk) 14:41, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Ban proposal

See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User_VintageKits_breaking_terms_of_probation.3F — Rlevse • Talk • 14:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Behnam

Hi Alison, Behnam has a new, admitted, sock, RodneySmithJr, thought I'd let you know. However, he has not been a beligerant [sic] pain in the butt as usual, so I'm not sure exactly how you'll want to handle it. Carl.bunderson (talk) 19:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Stop...?

I've replied on my talk page, but am bringing it up here as I don't know what you're on about. If you'd like to e-mail feel free. Counter-revolutionary (talk) 20:03, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Any chance of an explanation? Thanks, Counter-revolutionary (talk) 08:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Nick Corsellis

[5] I would like this acount checkusered please. I know who it is, I would like it officially confirmed. I shall be using the evidence I have anyway, but it may save an awful lot of drama if it is confirmed first by you or another check user. Thanks Giano (talk) 21:08, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

• It's a generic British Telecom IP address with no other users on it. Thatcher 21:11, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I rather thought it might be, Thanks. There is no way that accont belongs to Nick Corsellis QC. It needs to be overseen etc immediatly. Giano (talk) 21:43, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, Corsellis isn't a QC for one thing (I don't think) Counter-revolutionary (talk) 21:52, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I have asked one of the bureaucrats to change the name of the account, and will delete the edits. Risker (talk) 21:51, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Only one of the three edits can be deleted due to size of userpage history; I'll email oversight. Risker (talk) 21:57, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

otrs

Hi Alison, did you get the email with the otrs request from me ? Mion (talk) 22:21, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Have a nice wikibreak Alison, otrs is handled Cheers Mion (talk) 20:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay, Mion. I never actually did get that email, for whatever reasons. Really sorry, but glad you got sorted now - Alison ^❤ 08:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so very much

Your kind words at this terrible time mean more to me than I could say, and probably more than you realize. It is people like you who make me see that we at Wikipedia are more than a group of anonymous editors. We are a family. Thank you for being part of my internet family. Your generosity of spirit will never be forgotten. Jeffpw (talk) 07:48, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh great one

Can you take a look at the ips listed here and identify whether these actually are open proxies? First one I look at (the one with only deleted contribs) didnt look like it but I could be wrong. Viridae^Talk 08:31, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Viridae, while it's not a checkuser job, I did the usual proxy checks here; looked in the usual places, portscanned them, etc and checked some databases and, to be honest, I'm not seeing any of these as being proxies - open or otherwise. I ran nmap on every one of them and they came back clean - Alison ^❤ 06:29, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

And another thing - indef block for an open proxy?? That's kinda harsh - I never do that myself, as they're apt to change - Alison ^❤ 06:31, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Ali - I wasn't quite sure I was looking at the right stuff. I have an inkling how i might tentatively determine an open proxy, but wasn't sure. Will take it up with Ryulong. Viridae^Talk 08:34, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Ronosen

Dear Alison, the user is now posting my personal info off wiki again, and not only that, admitted to stalking me. Can you please protect his user page and oversight his edits immediately? Thanks. --Ragib (talk) 05:02, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Amish‎ GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Amish‎ and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are several issues that need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left this message on your talk page since you have significantly edited the article (based on using this article history tool). Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix with the assistance of multiple editors. I have also left messages on the talk pages of a few other editors and several related WikiProjects to spread the workload around some. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 08:30, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

...for oversighting the edits you did... you know which ones, I assume? I really appreciate it! Nousernamesleft (talk) 17:34, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Glad to help ;) - Alison ^❤ 19:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Snowed under!!

Hi all. Just a general note to all these people up here ^^^^ that I'm still a bit off-form due to illness and am swamped with work, both on and off-wiki, so .... I'll deal with the above when I get a chance. I'm not ignorning anyone (esp. not you, Sticky Parkin!!) but am just like, busy! If folks can maybe take a few requests to another admin, I'd be really grateful right now but if it definitely needs me to deal with it, that's okay too.

I'm also have this silly notion of bringing the Beatrix Potter article up to GA/FA status. It's a personal labour-of-love, and the concept of actually adding content instead of mopping floors is really appealing to me right now!

Just to let you all know. I'm kinda not so productive right this moment :) - Alison ^❤ 19:02, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

PS: El C - you are awesome and made me spill my tea!! :) - Alison ^❤ 19:05, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Brilliant, Alison - let me know if I can give you hand with Beatrix Potter along the way. In the interim, if there is an admin action that I can assist with, please anyone feel free to contact me. Risker (talk) 19:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Risker! And I'm really sorry, too, 'coz I owe you emails. Quite a few :) Thanks for being understanding, and for taking the heat off right now. BTW - you've been awesome on your handling of some of the hotter "Troubles" cases right now - Alison ^❤ 19:12, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

And me too, I never even got a response to that part finished thing I sent you. And I agree, Risker has been a voice of treason lately from the bits I've seen. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 20:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Well thank you both. From my perspective, I think I now know what happens to the socks my dryer eats on a regular basis. They all sign up on Wikipedia and comment on "the Troubles". Risker (talk) 21:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Don't mention Beatrix Potter - my ex girlfriends parents own the world of beatrix potter - /me shudders ;-) Ryan Postlethwaite 19:10, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Tsk, Ryan. You're such a dude :) :) - Alison ^❤ 19:12, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

My ex-galfriend lives in British Columbia (while I'm in PEI); when we parted, we really parted. GoodDay (talk) 21:11, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Hkelkar

Is it possible to get a range block here a la User:NisarKand? 23 CheckUser requests and 300 sock puppets as of yesterdays batch is enough I'd say. Dance With The Devil (talk) 21:46, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Charades and a bal masqué

Much as I enjoy playing games, I prefer to do it during the carnival season. How much longer is this [6] masquerade to be allowed to continue? Is someone in authority planning to sort it, or are they all hoping my patience will expire and I will sort it? I think it's about time this went public, don't you? Giano (talk) 10:30, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

• The imposter account referred to above and User:Counter-revolutionary edit from the same ISP, and on the date in question edited from similar but not identical IP addresses. They also share another feature that is unusual among users of that ISP. Alison pointed out in an email to me that Counter-revolutionary had recently edited an article related to the imposter user name; the article seems to be Christopher 'Crip' McWilliams although I do not understand the connection myself, being thoroughly (for better or worse) American (my last Irish ancestor emigrated in 1842). Without stronger technical evidence, I am not sure that direct action can be taken against Counter-revolutionary. You could try reporting the matter to WP:AE and see if one of the patrolling admins would consider a sanction under the Troubles Arbcom remedy. I do think the time is long past to be coy about such matters, and I disagree with Alison's decision to pursue the matter as obliquely as she did (sorry, Allie). Thatcher 15:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

• What a wise ancestor you had Thatcher, just think, you could have been perched up on a roof today, in all weathers, thatching for ungrateful and revolting peasants. However, I digress, I think we all know what is going on here; I certainly do. I hate to say it - but do we need to actually say it aloud? - Some things are best left unsaid. Can't these accounts not be just vaporised and blocked for the benefit of all, rather like a Wiki MI5. The choice is the Arbcom's: we can be public or we can be discrete. The final result will be the same. What is best for Wikipedia? Giano (talk) 18:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

As another American just passing by, I find the apparently Irish/British/European phrase "I don't know what you are on about" quite strange. I've seen it several times by editors from "across the pond". Can someone explain it to me? Is it short for "I don't know what you are going on about"? Sorry for butting in on your page Alison. Tex (talk) 15:55, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Tex, that is absolutely correct! - Alison ^❤ 18:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

And Thatcher is absolutely right also, and on a number of levels. I should not have been coy and oblique when I made that comment on C-R's talk page. Rather, I should have stated the facts clearly, in deference to both CR and the community. It was unhelpful and I apologize.

To the case in hand, both CR and the impostor-troll share a reasonably narrow range of highly dynamic IP addresses. Prior to the edits by the troll having been deleted & oversighted, this tool neatly showed the related editing times and lack of overlap. What Thatcher also points to (the "unique feature") is also quite correct. As a checkuser case, while not "confirmed", is highly  Likely that they are one and the same. However, in this case, it would be inappropriate for me to apply any sanction and I would rather an uninvolved admin made a decision here - Alison ^❤ 18:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)