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I'm somewhat busy in Real Life at the moment. While I still visit Misplaced Pages 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)

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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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Testing talkpage selflinks

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

BRION

He Ais523, I made a change to this weeks BRION, but perhaps you might want to further copy edit that specific line. It's not real easy understanding that line. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Toronto Stock Exchange

Just wanted to say thanks once again for the helpful suggestion yesterday - it was much appreciated! My left hand is starting to cramp from all the cutting, pasting, and formatting, but the changeover is done now.

Only problem that I've ended up with is as a result of redirecting the original page to the new category. I had to fix some double redirects, and those redirected pages are now showing in that category too, which isn't ideal.

Again, much thanks! Mlaffs (talk) 02:19, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

That clock...

you know the clock you allowed me to use? well how can i set it to Pacific Standard Time? I tried to do so, but it doesnt work; can you tell me how to set it to UTC-8? thanks

here is the clock:

Hey its your creation! you can tweak it to the right time and other UTCs, right?

PS: Its set on UTC+2 isn't it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darth Chyrsaor (talk • contribs) 22:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:That clock...

Thank you ais523Spartan-112 (talk) 01:40, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

PS: i remembered to sign it this time!!!

Regarding linking

When you create stories related to BRION, it might be easiest to place them at User:ais523/Signpost/Name, where "Name" is a really short description (e.g. for this story, "New parser", "Parser", etc.) that can be used in the footer when I publish. I'll leave that name intact when I move the page. If you do that, you can link the stories together yourself (like you did at the bottom of the parser story), and they'll turn blue when we publish. It's not a big deal, but it should make things a bit easier for both of us. Ral315 (talk) 00:14, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Watch list notifier

Do you mind if I use it? Where did the script come from? Cheers. Earthbendingmaster 21:40, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Do you think this will eventually become part of the software, which users could turn on in their preferences? Earthbendingmaster 16:04, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Strange technical glitch

Was wondering if you knew what this was about? Dropping by here (instead of VP-tech), because I wanted to let you know that I enjoy reading your BRION reports for the Signpost! Carcharoth (talk) 05:05, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's due to the new preprocessor. The way that <includeonly> works internally changed; this was not meant to affect the way that it works with legitimate uses (when the tag is matched), but in this case there was an unmatched tag, and the new preprocessor acted as if the close tag was at the end of the page (this is consistent with other tags; some users have been known to use this method to place a <div> around their entire user talk page for styling purposes), whereas the old preprocessor rendered it literally because it was invalid markup. --ais523 15:02, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. This is why I'm careful about using emoticon tags like <sarcasm>. I'm never quite sure whether that (or a more likely example) will one day become an "unmatched tag"! Just to be safe: </sarcasm> :-) How successful was the rollout of the new preprocessor, anyway? Will there be something on that in the next BRION report? Carcharoth (talk) 01:09, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

It went pretty well. I already wrote about it here, as well as giving a more technical view of what had been fixed in that week's BRION; I probably won't write about it again unless new major issues come up, or new bugs related to it are found. --ais523 11:56, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

AutoAFD

Do you know if the AutoAFD script still works? It doesn't seem to for me (I've removed it for the moment, trying to get Twinkle to work with the Modern skin for me). It looks like you were the last one to make any changes to it, so I thought I'd ask. Thanks, Avruchtalk 16:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

stub names

I want to tell people when there is a stub, but I do not know the full list of stub names. Please can you refer to a page that I can easily find out what the stub names are so that I can help people know exactly what stubs to use. Thanks, Kes453 (talk) 15:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Ais523/watchlistnotifier.js

Hey Ais523, is there a way to make your watchlist notifier script so that it won't show edits made by yourself?--Sunny910910 01:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmm I see. Well okay. Hey I have another question, for this script you stated that it tells you when someone edits your userpage. Can you explain more about it?--Sunny910910 23:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey

Can any of these cool admins help me? I want to add one sentence to the world of Misplaced Pages. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, (based on the New York Times for goodness sake) but I can't get it on.

Fact: Circumcision decreases a man's risk of getting HIV Fact: Circmcision INcreases a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia.

The article on "circumcision" mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once.

Can any of you cool administrators stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew from deleting my ONE sentence I want to add? Thanks, 70.114.38.167 (talk) 06:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)