Alex Roshuk
{{Short description|American jurist (1956–2014)}}
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Alex Roshuk (July 14, 1956 – November 9, 2014) was an American attorney who was the first legal advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation. He was also an electrician and worked in the entertainment industry as a director and editor.
Roshuk was born in New York City and went to Catholic school.
He practiced law in New York beginning in 1998 and from 2003 to 2005 was the first legal advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation. Roshuk wrote a 1,300-word summary of arbitration and mediation modes of legal dispute resolution that became the basis for the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. He was also a participant in the Association of Arbitrators of the New York City Civil Court.
He directed several educational television documentaries in Italian and a short film entitled {{Interlanguage link|The Wizard of Malta|fr}} in 1981. He also founded The Standby Program, a nonprofit organization for postproduction.
Roshuk was also an electrical engineer and entertained children as "Brooklyn Santa" from 1966 until at least 2012.
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{{cite web|title=NYFA Artists – Alex Roshuk|publisher=New York Foundation for the Arts|url=http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_detail.asp?pid=2312|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130704120529/http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_detail.asp?pid=2312|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 July 2013|accessdate=1 August 2012}}
{{cite web|title=Santa Claus 2.0: Building drones to replace Rudolph|author=Ben Johnson|date=December 24, 2012|publisher=Marketplace|url=http://www.marketplace.org/2012/12/24/tech/santa-claus-20-building-drones-replace-rudolph|access-date=2016-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115133441/http://www.marketplace.org/2012/12/24/tech/santa-claus-20-building-drones-replace-rudolph|archive-date=2016-11-15|url-status=live}}
{{cite journal|title=Wikitruth Through Wikiorder|first1=David A.|last1=Hoffman|first2=Salil K.|last2=Mehra|journal=Emory Law Journal|volume=59|issue=1|date=March 5, 2009|ssrn=1354424|url=http://law.emory.edu/elj/content/volume-59/issue-1/articles/wikitruth-through-wikiorder.html|access-date=2016-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014204628/http://law.emory.edu/elj/content/volume-59/issue-1/articles/wikitruth-through-wikiorder.html|archive-date=2016-10-14|url-status=live}}
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External links
- [https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/alex-roshuk-1244619 Alex Roshuk] at Justia
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- {{Cite web |url=http://www.roshuklaw.com/ |title=Law office of Alex T. Roshuk, Brooklyn NY |access-date=November 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221120208/http://www.roshuklaw.com/ |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}
- [http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1040&ProjectElementID=3594 Roshuk, Alexis T.] at Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges (Governor General of Canada)
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Category:American electrical engineers
Category:Film directors from New York City
Category:New York (state) lawyers
Category:Wikimedia Foundation staff members
Category:Engineers from New York City
Category:20th-century American lawyers
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