Changing the template to whinge about another user is not going to help your cause in the slightest.
Tom On 8 July 2012 15:15, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:25 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8 July 2012 12:44, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> Telling a user that I took the effort to archive thier article is > >> considered spam? What if you are the author? Dont you have the right > >> to know? > >> > >> See this : > >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:John_doe_london&action=history > >> (cur | prev) 09:10, 8 July 2012 Mrmatiko (talk | contribs) . . > >> (4,816 bytes) (-158) . . (Undid revision 501206682 by Mdupont (talk) > >> spam) (undo) > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont#Promotional_edits > >> and my message back > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mrmatiko#Spam.3F > >> > >> I have reverted the template to not have a link to the wikia, for now. > >> I would like some support for my project and protection to contact > >> users about the deleted articles. > >> > >> thanks, > >> mike > >> > > Large scale unsolicited external linking? spam. > > Well I turned off the link in my template, but even if it was linked, > how else are you supposed to inform the user? > here is my rfc : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mdupont/SpeedyDeletionWikia > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
