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Um, may I ask what you meant by this edit? JoshuaZ 04:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really in the know around here, but I believe I saw an advertisement on the top of all pages for a short while a little more than a month ago. Since (again, to my knowledge, please correct me if I am in the wrong!) there has been no assurance from the Foundation that more advertisements will not be used in the future, I don't think the Wikipedia article belongs in the "no advertisements" category. I guess you could keep adding and removing the category depending on the current state of the website, but it was my impression (as a very limited contributor) that it's the philosophy of the thing that's important - i.e. an "advertising-free website" should never have any advertisements.

Thanks for taking the time to talk about it, and sorry for all the trouble! Alsandair 04:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what you saw that you thought was an advertisement but I can assure you that there has never been an advertisement. Things that might have looked at a glance as advertisements could be someone overly frilly userpage tricks (especially those that involve Java) or a new messages bar at the top of the page. However, Wikipedia has never had advertising. If it did, you would notice a blow-up by many users. JoshuaZ 05:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, it definitely was an advertisement, and it was at the top of every page. For some airline company or something I think. Alsandair 05:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, that's very strange. The only thing I could think of is that someone temporarily hacked the server and we didn't notice or there was some sort of adware on the computer you were using. JoshuaZ 05:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's a mystery I guess! I have switched browsers since then, so it could have been adware. I certainly hope it was not a hack on your servers! Thanks again, and sorry for taking your time. Alsandair 05:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see someone else is explaining it to you. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 05:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but thanks for checking all the same! Alsandair 05:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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	::::::I see someone else is explaining it to you. [[User:SlimVirgin\|SlimVirgin]] <sup><font color="Purple">[[User_talk:SlimVirgin\|(talk)]]</font></sup> 05:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)		::::::I see someone else is explaining it to you. [[User:SlimVirgin\|SlimVirgin]] <sup><font color="Purple">[[User_talk:SlimVirgin\|(talk)]]</font></sup> 05:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

			::::::: Yes, but thanks for checking all the same! [[User:Alsandair\|Alsandair]] 05:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)