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|I used to work in the Legal and Community Advocacy department at the [[wmf:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]], though my work on this username is in my capacity as a volunteer and should be treated as such. While I was a volunteer for many years before my work with the Foundation began officially on August 17th, 2010. Unless otherwise stated, any edit to this wiki by me is an act of a regular member of the community and administrator, not a legal or official action of the Communications Team, the Legal and Community Advocacy Department or any other part of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
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*'''Certain actions on this username may be referenced with an OTRS number''': if that's the case, please do me the courtesy of checking with me before reverting or changing. |
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*'''Official''' acts by me in the line of my work will be done from my office account, [[User:Jalexander]]. |
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Photo Credit: [[:File:Lighthouse_Malarrif_at_Snæfellsnes_peninsula.jpg|Lighthouse Malarrif at Snæfellsnes peninsula]] by [[commons:User:Richard_Bartz|Wikimedia Commons user Richard Bartz]] CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
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===About me:=== |
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I'm a 20 something Wikimedian who has been on the projects for over 7 years. Before starting to work for the foundation I focused on cross-wiki vandalism and abuse as a volunteer as well as working on the [[OTRS|volunteer response team]] answering emails and phone messages sent in from the public. In the course of that work I gained the communities confidence enough to be elected as an [[WP:Administrators|Administrator]] on this wiki (before becoming too inactive) and others as well as a [[m:Global sysop|Global administrator]]. Now I diddle around (both logged in and logged out) fixing articles and fighting vandalism as I have time. |
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If you want to know more about me I've written more on my [[User:Jalexander|Other user page (staff)]] or feel free to email me! |
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==Who am I?== |
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My name is James Alexander, I'm a 24 year old student finishing up at the University of Rochester in Rochester,NY. At some point I may spend more time on this user page and try to tell you a little more about me but in the meanwhile please feel free to ask any questions or give any advice you have as I'm more then willing to listen. I'm majoring in Economics with a Legal Studies and Accounting focus and have a major interest in Intellectual Property and Business Law. When I graduate (either December 09 or May 2010, if all goes well hopefully December 09) I plan on trying to find a position as a paralegal and starting night law school with those interests in mind. |
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Outside of law I enjoy surfing and the online game World of Warcraft (Draim, Azjol-Nerub Server) |
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==What do I do here?== |
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While I've been a lurker on Wikipedia for a very long time but I very rarely seek out something to edit. When I do edit it is usually because I have stumbled across an article I feel needs information or images that I either have or think I can acquire. Because of the amazing amount of vandalism that I see everyday on the encyclopedia I recently decided to spend time working on trying to revert and warn those who are doing it especially since I think at least a portion of people who add useless information to articles do so in good faith and hopefully when warned of the problem can become better contributers then I generally am :). Because of my interest in this I do have thoughts at some point in running for an admin position (I like administrative work trying to make sure things run well for everyone else... its somewhat fun) but will likely wait until I think I have some support in doing so and most likely after I've talked to other admins about it (I.E who knows how long THAT will be). |
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===Vandalism and Reverts=== |
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If I revert someones contribution I will ALWAYS leave a comment. If you notice I do not please let me know because there is a very good chance I reverted it by accident and I want to know so that I can try and make sure it doesn't happen again. If you disagree with a change I made again please let me know and I promise to explain my reasoning and listen to your side of the story. |
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==Small Wiki Monitoring Team== |
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As anyone knows me has seen my biggest focus is anti vandal/abuse. I assume good faith almost to a fault but I will go after anyone who is blatantly trying to vandalize any project (or another website for that matter) or ever worse attack a user. In that vein I am active in the [[m:SWMT|Small Wiki Monitoring Team]] (which monitors vandalism on wikis that do not have alot of users and/or admins) as well as generic cross wiki vandalism on other sites such as commons and here. As part of this work I am a [[M:Global Rollback|Global Rollbacker]] and have access to the rollback feature and a couple extra tools on all public Wikimedia Foundation Wikis. If you have a question about anything I've done on another wiki please feel free to leave me a message here or on my [[M:User:Jamesofur|Meta Wiki user page]]. |
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==Contact Info== |
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The easiest way to get a hold of me is just to leave a message on my talk page and I'll respond on here and put a talkback tag on your page if I don't see any notes on your user pages or signature requesting otherwise. If I leave a note for you on your page I'll watch it for a couple days so that we can just continue on there. You can also reach me on my [[:En:User Talk:Jamesofur| En talk page]] or my [[Meta:User Talk:Jamesofur|Meta talk page]]. |
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== Committed Identity == |
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Latest revision as of 16:07, 23 February 2022
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I used to work in the Legal and Community Advocacy department at the Wikimedia Foundation, though my work on this username is in my capacity as a volunteer and should be treated as such. While I was a volunteer for many years before my work with the Foundation began officially on August 17th, 2010. Unless otherwise stated, any edit to this wiki by me is an act of a regular member of the community and administrator, not a legal or official action of the Communications Team, the Legal and Community Advocacy Department or any other part of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Photo Credit: Lighthouse Malarrif at Snæfellsnes peninsula by Wikimedia Commons user Richard Bartz CC-BY-SA-3.0
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Committed identity: c9278ea134c86087a1c723304ef751892f44f563bbfe90bef34d4603ac7244d88fcccf7e8dae65cc1040afcf60a80b09c9c6af2e16c0615fddcd5e19cd63e71c is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.
About me:
I'm a 20 something Wikimedian who has been on the projects for over 7 years. Before starting to work for the foundation I focused on cross-wiki vandalism and abuse as a volunteer as well as working on the volunteer response team answering emails and phone messages sent in from the public. In the course of that work I gained the communities confidence enough to be elected as an Administrator on this wiki (before becoming too inactive) and others as well as a Global administrator. Now I diddle around (both logged in and logged out) fixing articles and fighting vandalism as I have time.
If you want to know more about me I've written more on my Other user page (staff) or feel free to email me!