User talk:Ais523

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Notice I'm somewhat busy in Real Life at the moment. While I still visit Wikipedia from time to time to write Signpost articles and perform various other administrative tasks, I'm not as active as previously. This is temporary, and things should be back to normal within a month or so. --ais523 13:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Notice Sorry, it's been well over a month, and I'm still at a reduced activity level. Still intended to be temporary, but I'm still busy and it may not end up that way... Please treat me as being on semiwikibreak indefinitely, until things improve. --ais523 15:59, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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Normally I will answer on your talk page, unless you request otherwise; I will normally check both pages. If you are editing whilst not logged in, I will reply both on my talk page and yours to increase the chance that you see the message (talk messages to IPs sometimes get lost). I will keep most comments posted on the page, but I reserve the right to refactor comments, archive comments, and trap excessively long signatures in modified AfD closing boxes. I may also use {{RPA}} when appropriate. --ais523

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[edit] Testing talkpage selflinks

This is a message I sent to myself as a test. --ais523 17:21, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

adding a timestamp here to help out the archivebot: 16:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spam links (2)

Dear Sir,

I have received a message from you informing me of the deletion of 'spam links' inserted by me and am very distressed by being termed as such. I think it only proper to clarify my actions as well as know how I can add links without running foul of Wikipedia policy which I can assure you I respect as much as anybody. My goal is to to make quality content available free for use, very much in line with your 'copyleft policy' of which I stronly advocate. I also intend to upload content onto Wikipedia in the near future.

Mine is a personal website on themes on India and "Paintings on Stamps'(Art and Philately being my passion). It is my endevour to make my site an educational reference site, and therefore have taken care to add content from really authentic sources.

You must be aware than content on India and Philately is still very scarce on the internet and needs to be seen in that context. I request you to see my site in detail and then decide if it is unique, different and detailed enough to merit a link. I have added links when I have felt that it genuinly adds value and information from another angle on the page thay are placed on

I do agree that the links that I have added are from my personal site which also bring in more persons to read my contents but that is not the only reason nor the primary one.Although the site has Ads from Google, Amazon, let me assure you the income is very secondary and anyway hardly covers my hosting cost.

While I respect your policy not to make Wikipedia a collection of links and endorse it, I think it would be a mistake to 'throw the baby out with the bath tub'. There must be a way to add genuine links after due scrutiny by experienced editors (as in the case of DMOZ). Please do tell me how I can do so without running foul with Wikipedia policy.

Please get the spam tag off even if it means removing all my links, which I have done without fully understanding Wikipedia policy

I shall be grateful for your time and advice on the matter.

With kind regards,

ID:Vstata

[edit] User:Shalom/Drafts and archives/IP block exemption

This is a draft for the Wikipedia Signpost. Please make sure there aren't any technical mistakes, and cross-reference it to your weekly technology report. Thanks. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 05:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Watchlist.js

Hi Ais, I've been using your watchlist add-on for a couple days and I was wondering if you could expand it slightly to provide more info?

Current: article changed: "edit description". (watchlist)
Proposed: user changed article "edit description" about time ago. (watchlist)

time being some kind of reverse duration so 5m or 1h or 1d.

So an example would be... "xytram" changed wikipedia "edit example" about 5m ago. (watchlist)

I know your busy, so just an idea. Happy wikiing! »xytram« talk 10:46, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-02/Technology report#June 2's technology report

In the new features section, you wrote "Logging in now logs a user in on all wikis (rather than all wikis on the same domain) if that user has a single-user-login global account." It turns out that this is not the case. If you take a look at the bug 14407 report, it turns out 32 wikis on *.wikimedia.org (including wikispecies but excluding meta and commons) are not automatically logged in. Users still have to login separately. OhanaUnitedTalk page 02:50, 8 June 2008 (UTC)