User talk:DeanS

Just tell me how could we protect better the Mormon articles? --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 12:31, 1 July 2008 (EDT)

What do you mean by "protect better" Joaquín? This is a wiki and we try to avoid protecting the articles. --DeanS^talk 13:23, 1 July 2008 (EDT)

OK, I will do my best to patroll them. At present I am out of home. Just keep doing your wonderfull work. --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 13:31, 1 July 2008 (EDT)

Joaquín, Thanks for Patrolling the articles and dealing with JimmyP. As I mentioned on the church talk page, he needs to explain in detail why he has a problem with that link. --DeanS^talk 13:27, 23 August 2008 (EDT)

I am out of town. I will be back untill August 6th. Thanks for your help. --User:Joaquín Martínez, talk 14:16, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Good to hear from you Joaquín. I hope you have a great vacation! --DeanS^talk 17:26, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Hi DeanS, what a great article 'Breaking Speaker Pelosi's News Blackout'. I love the strategy, proud of my GOP 'ers, it is so patriotic!--jp 00:50, 5 August 2008 (EDT)

Thanks Jpatt! Now if only President Bush would make Congress come back in session to deal with this issue. They don't deserve a five-week vacation. --DeanS^talk 02:11, 5 August 2008 (EDT)

Thanks, Bro!

I thought your guys are gonna ignore me again, but Nah, I got wrong ideas. Thank you, May the Lord bless you! [1] I wish I was brave enough to do that! But only I'm could is to support them to do so, "sigh".--TagoPagdaluhong 11:36, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

Your welcome Tago. I think the pic is a nice addition as well. --DeanS^talk 11:39, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

I must say, that picture is much better view then the source had.--TagoPagdaluhong 11:50, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

I agree. I followed the pic to its source and was rewarded with this version. --DeanS^talk 11:58, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

Welcome

Thanks for the welcome! This website is actually a god-send, a perfect oppurtunity to actually make use of my summer holidays. Hey by the way, I was wondering what CP's policy on science articles are, as this will probably be the aspect I'll be contributing to quite a lot. Thanks again- Jl2000

Just start editing and you'll find out soon enough ;-) --DeanS^talk 15:21, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

I researched this person's edits and found much of the material to be false. There was also information on that other site which made it very clear that he was just another of their parodists. Jinxmchue 15:58, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

Interesting. They're supposed to be on a boycott of CP right now. ;-) --DeanS^talk 16:29, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

Christian solidarity

Hi, Dean. I like your Image:Beijing arrests.jpg but I couldn't edit the caption. Can you crop the image and put the caption in the image link? --Ed Poor ^Talk 09:30, 9 August 2008 (EDT)

Hi Ed. How about this cropped image? The caption is in the image info. Image:Beijing arrests2.jpg --DeanS^talk 13:24, 9 August 2008 (EDT)

Thanks and a request or two.

Thanks for pointing me at that list of admins. Two things - Conservapedia:User rights is full of broken links but is locked - can you or someone else fix these? Also can you unlock Rape for me as well - the current wording includes the phrase "seducing a child" - as seduction as a concept can suggest an element of consent I'd like to rephrase the article. Thanks in advance. DefenderofTrue 21:39, 14 August 2008 (EDT)

Pre-screening of News stories

Just curious - why the "No article prescreening" policy, and why delete what I thought were constructive comments, instead of responding to them on the page? --DinsdaleP 20:44, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

The reason there will be no article pre-screening by you (or other liberals) is because myself or another admin will be prescreening the articles.

I deleted your comments because those project pages are only for project members, and I'm not going to have nonmembers influencing the project. --DeanS^talk 20:58, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

Okay, all that makes sense, but if you read my post, I wasn't suggesting that I pre-screen, because I know non-conservatives like me aren't welcome on the sub-project. I had the sense that there was no pre-screening by anyone, and your edit-comment seemed to bear that out. Thanks for clarifying.

Also, can I ask a blunt but serious question? Do you ever find that the labels of "liberal" and "conservative" are taken wayyy too seriously here, resulting in an all-or-none, black-and-white division between the two perspectives? I never post here to make trouble, only to offer a viewpoint that's usually more nuanced than the black-hat/white-hat exchanges that often take place. I hate labels myself, because in my case I'm libertarian on most social issues, conservative on fiscal ones, and still trying to figure out the spiritual - "Unitarian/Universalist" is probably closer than "Agnostic", but neither one is a strong enough fit to apply to myself.

So if you want to create sub-projects for the true-believers only, go for it. I've just observed that while this is Conservapedia and not Neutralapedia, the "feel" of the place has become more polarized and combative, with less tolerance for dissent or even respectful disagreement, and a corresponding drop in the number and quality of contributors.

As I said though, good luck with the news project, and I'll post my comments on the Main:Talk page. --DinsdaleP 21:17, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

Dinsdale, You said, "I wasn't suggesting that I pre-screen". What is this? "... I'd be glad to participate in article screening..."

No, I don't find the labels are taken too seriously here. I have a problem with liberals and their way of thinking. Liberal viewpoints are wrong.

I find very little of the "respectful disagreement" from liberals; mostly I see great examples of Liberal Style, vandalism, parody, troublemaking, obscenity, etc.

Your comments here are respectful; therefore I have responded in kind. --DeanS^talk 21:39, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

Thanks for the courteous response. As for my statement on volunteering, the complete statement was "I'd be glad to participate in article screening but I don't qualify to be on this sub-project." Hey, I'd love night-editing rights, too, but I'm about as qualified to get that, too ;-) --DinsdaleP 22:05, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

LOL --DeanS^talk 22:21, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

Didn't mean to step on toes

I'm just a huge fan of Cherone's and his ability to not alienate people when discussing Christianity and why abortion is wrong. So, I'd rather stick his "line in the sand" in there, if you don't mind. He has stated that anyone who really wants to be taken seriously in this debate at least needs to recognize that a woman has a right to live, if / when a baby directly threatens that. It's a position, being a woman wanting children, I happen to share. :-) If you really think it's liberal bias, let me know or a third party know, and we can "let the majority vote" (as it were).--MHayes 22:43, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

Btw, I DO mind. There is NO majority vote when an administrator removes liberal bias. --DeanS^talk 22:59, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

I guess I don't understand what "liberal bias" is in this case, then. Are you asserting that Cherone is a liberal? I really have no idea his political preference, just what he has said about abortion. --MHayes 23:01, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

No, I'm not saying that Cherone is a liberal. See my comments at Talk:Extreme --DeanS^talk 23:16, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

Wikinews

DeanS, Wikinews, my spelling error on the Ayers story. Unrepentent should be unrepentant.-- jp 10:31, 21 August 2008 (EDT)

Could you add int link for Stephanie Tubbs Jones? Tanks in advance!-- jp 12:43, 21 August 2008 (EDT)

Thanks Jp. This mistake has been corrected.

The wikilink was added here. --DeanS^talk 12:53, 21 August 2008 (EDT)

Thank you!

For stepping in. Whoever that person was, he was doing bad things to my blood pressure :) --KotomiT^{Hajimemashite!} 10:07, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

You're welcome Jessica. He was an imposter and was dealt with accordingly. --DeanS^talk 10:10, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

I got really annoyed... --DiEb 10:32, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

No wonder you were annoyed. I'm sorry this happened to you. We have enemies of this site, and they don't care who gets hurt or how much damage/disruption they cause. This incident reminds me of homicide bombers. All they care about is themselves and how much damage they can cause.

Be on the alert for imposters. You can check their contributions like this. JasonH's contribs started today. Also JasonH created his account today. Since we know the real Jinxmchue has been editing for a while, that would also be a clue that JasonH was an imposter. Finally, he used this obvious deceitful [[User:JasonH|Jinxmchue]] signature. --DeanS^talk 10:59, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

Thank You for the Unblock

I appreciate being restored given that my comments aren't mainstream here, and I appreciate the benefit of the doubt. --DinsdaleP 19:52, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

Phillip explained why I was wrong, and I wanted to fix my mistake. Even though I don't agree with your views, I won't block you for expressing them. --DeanS^talk 19:58, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

Wikinews Project

Mr. DeanS,

Why exactly do you think I'm a liberal? I've tried to make it clear that I am anything but.

--JosephG 23:52, 22 August 2008 (EDT)

Joseph, I don't think you're a liberal. I thought I explained the reason clearly in the email. --DeanS^talk 00:36, 23 August 2008 (EDT)

I see you have had great success with wanted pages via Wikinews. Since you have run out of new topics, I thought to suggest adding some words from Special:Wantedpages. Just to keep the pac motivated.-- jp 15:43, 11 September 2008 (EDT)

Jp, even though that is an interesting suggestion, I prefer to link to items on the news section; since this is a news project. If you want to suggest items, look at the news articles and see where the wikilinks are missing. Sometimes it's because the poster didn't bother to use existing wikilinks; other times it's because the article hasn't been created yet. It's quite challenging to go through the news articles and find these wikilinks. --DeanS^talk 16:14, 11 September 2008 (EDT)

No problem. Before I submit a news item, I wikilink almost every word then use the preview to see which is or isn't listed. If you like, I can immediately add words that don't appear to the wanted section. -- jp 16:45, 11 September 2008 (EDT)

Outdated news item

The main page has a news item that says: "According to RealClearPolitics, for the first time in the 2008 Presidential race, John McCain overtakes Barack Obama in the Electoral College poll 274 to 264." You may want to remove that from the main page since it is no longer accurate, and the link provided leads to a page showing Obama leading McCain 273 to 265 (that is what is how right now, anyway). KimEide 13:54, 25 August 2008 (EDT)

Done. Thanks for the alert. --DeanS^talk 14:22, 25 August 2008 (EDT)

IP's ban

(Not sure if this is proper procedure, but I'm still fairly new).

I disagree with your ban of Impm; there was no 'edit war' that could be perceived based on his recent (see five minutes ago) edits of the Barack Obama article. Jirby 14:45, 25 August 2008 (EDT)

Jirby, MYOB or you will be blocked. --DeanS^talk 14:50, 25 August 2008 (EDT)

Wow, they're really obsessed with me

How many people have created accounts referencing me? Quite a few, it seems. At least 3, to my recollection, including today's "Lowjinx." Jinxmchue 00:02, 27 August 2008 (EDT)

They're obsessed alright; with you, all of the Conservapedia sysops and Conservapedia itself. They are also obsessed with vandalism, parody, deceit, and every other element of the Liberal Style.

I prefer to call them "possessed". They are possessed of a lying and evil spirit. They're sowing wickedness, and will reap wickedness at the judgment day.

--DeanStalk 01:01, 27 August 2008 (EDT)

A little less talk, please. --Ed Poor ^Talk 07:28, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

Good, steady work

Dean, thank you for your longstanding, careful attention to the main page. No one keeps up with current events as well as you do.

I also like your "wiki gnome" work, like this minor copy edit. --Ed Poor ^Talk 07:29, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

You're welcome Ed. --DeanS^talk 10:53, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

False quotes in News story on Obama speech

I wasn't sure if you saw my comments about the false statements in the headline about the Obama speech. Do you consider the headline correct in it's current form? --DinsdaleP 13:24, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

Yes, I read your comments. I would like Chippeterson to respond to you and provide a link for reference. --DeanS^talk 13:59, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

Understandable, but here's a link to the transcript of the speech, which clearly shows the headline is false and misleading. Chippeterson should respond, but only a sysop has the ability to edit news postings on the main page, and as the link shows, it's wrong. --DinsdaleP 14:10, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

Bear in mind that The New York Times is the leading liberal news source, so their "factual" claims must often be given close scrutiny. They have even misreported science news, e.g., publishing the assertion about open water at the North Pole (which was later shown to be historically inaccurate) just in time to influence public policy on global warming.

Although liberals refer to the NY Times as the "newspaper of record", conservatives don't give it as much credence. (They have the legal write to print opinion as fact, you know; see First Amendment.) --Ed Poor ^Talk 09:36, 30 August 2008 (EDT)

It's not "the" transcript (as in the only one possible); you left out "as recorded by CQ Transcriptions". Part of the strategy of liberal news media is to pick their sources carefully to give the impression they want. If you do a little research, you can find where a Boston Globe editor declared this quite openly. Would you like that as a writing assignment? --Ed Poor ^Talk 09:40, 30 August 2008 (EDT)

Republican Convention Headline

Last phrase should read "Democratic Vice Presidential nominee", not "Democrat Vice Presidential nominee." Thanks --Jareddr 12:40, 3 September 2008 (EDT)

Fixed. Thanks for the correction. --DeanS^talk 13:21, 3 September 2008 (EDT)

RIP Bill Melendez

Thanks for that news, sad as it is. An unsung hero and icon of American culture whose legacy will live forever in our hearts. Jinxmchue 00:24, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

Thanks Jinx. The article was submitted by Benp and I just posted it. Can you start an article for Bill Melendez? --DeanS^talk 00:29, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

I'll have to see how soon I can get to it. Going to bed now. Have some yard work to do in the morning and work work from the afternoon through tomorrow morning. Jinxmchue 01:21, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

No problem Jinx. Thanks for your contributions. --DeanS^talk 01:31, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

Sysop Q

How does one become a sysop? I've only been here a few days. JY23

See Conservapedia:Administrators/Promotion. Sysops are selected as needed from the best of the best contributors, there is no popularity contest to determine promotion. --DeanS^talk 18:17, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

Re: New article request process

Didn't know about the process ([2]) Sorry, Nerd 16:19, 5 September 2008 (EDT)

That's fine. I usually just do it myself, and after you tried to do it, I realized I needed to write a process. --DeanS^talk 16:32, 5 September 2008 (EDT)

Cool. Nerd 16:37, 5 September 2008 (EDT)

Pictures

DeanS, could you upload these photo's for me for the John McCain and Joe Biden articles, thanks.

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/89ddfcef-3a43-49a6-99c4-b7f41986b56c_mn.jpeg

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/john-mccain-4.jpg Chippeterson 8 September 2008

Here you go: Biden on Meet the Press and McCain on Meet the Press. --DeanS^talk 23:32, 8 September 2008 (EDT)

I appreciate it. Chippeterson9 September 2008

Other Pictures

Also DeanS, there are some articles with no pictures at all and could really use them. I was hoping you could upload these.

http://www.moderate-america.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/colin_powell-277x300.jpg

http://www.gcva.us/dpts/vote/TimKainePic.jpg

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/pix/ray_nagin_cp_8482804.jpg

http://www.fantasycongress.com/public/img/senators/graham_lindsey_SC.jpg Chippeterson 9 September 2008

Here you go: Colin Powell, Tim Kaine, Ray Nagin and Lindsey Graham. --DeanS^talk 02:52, 10 September 2008 (EDT)

Chippeterson, I deleted the Ray Nagin photo from Conservapedia and reverted the article because it could have been an AP photo and we're not allowed to use AP photos. The cbc.ca site uses a lot of AP photos and I wasn't able to determine if this was an AP photo. I don't mind uploading pics for you, I just need you to double-check the source and ensure they're non-AP photos before I can upload in the future. --DeanS^talk 13:42, 10 September 2008 (EDT)

I'll be more careful from now on DeanS. How about this one of Nagin from answers.com. http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/7/74/225px-Nagin2June2006.jpg Chippeterson 10 September 2008

Chippeterson, thanks for understanding. Here's the pic for Ray Nagin. --DeanS^talk 18:28, 10 September 2008 (EDT)

Betty Ford

I just wrote an article on Betty Ford and it could use her picture. Could you upload this. Thanks. http://z.about.com/d/womenshistory/1/7/q/A/betty_ford.jpg

Here you go: Betty Ford. --DeanS^talk 22:07, 10 September 2008 (EDT)

Night Edits

DeanS, i think somebody left the spicket on. Can you close new user signup til daylight hours? Thanks -- jp 01:16, 11 September 2008 (EDT)

I noticed that too and already took care of it. Thanks for the reminder. --DeanS^talk 01:25, 11 September 2008 (EDT)

Yesterday it was turned off around 2. I thought it was just later now than it used to be. HelpJazz 01:33, 11 September 2008 (EDT)

It varies. I'm not going to go into details, but you can email Andy if you have further questions. --DeanS^talk 01:36, 11 September 2008 (EDT)

Naw, I understand. HelpJazz 01:37, 11 September 2008 (EDT)