User talk:DeanS

Archive: 01 02

Happy New Year, Dean!

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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right!--Oprah Winfrey

”

--₮K^/Talk! 23:23, 31 December 2008 (EST)

Thanks Terry. Happy New Year to you as well. --DeanS^talk 01:04, 1 January 2009 (EST)

Images

Dean, I saw you protected Image:20080919-2 p091908jb-0025-1-515h.jpg (amongst others). Couldn't we have a a policy of having descriptive file names for images? That image name is not only too long but tells us nothing about the image. If I had been fortunate enough to have merited sysop rights then sorting out the image library would have been my first pet project. I can only hope that some keen adminstrator will try and clean it up. BrianCo 10:54, 1 January 2009 (EST)

I like your idea BrianCo. Why don't you propose your idea on Andy's talk page. --DeanS^talk 10:57, 1 January 2009 (EST)

upload file not working?

the "upload file" command says some sort of "internal error" do you know what's up? RJJensen 03:01, 6 January 2009 (EST)

• Sit tight, the proper authorities have been notified. We regret any inconvenience. ;-) --₮K_{/Administrator}^/Talk 03:07, 6 January 2009 (EST)

Thanks Terry. --DeanS^talk 03:09, 6 January 2009 (EST)

It isn't me, Dean...I am running my new bot, Sheriff-bot. TK will be back later. --₮K_{/Administrator}^/Talk 03:12, 6 January 2009 (EST)

Ok. You can tell me about this Sheriff-bot offline. --DeanS^talk 03:15, 6 January 2009 (EST)

Thank you!

for helping out with Fiji! --KotomiT^{ohayougozaimasu} 08:50, 6 January 2009 (EST)

You're welcome Kotomi. Thanks for your contributions to Conservpedia. --DeanS^talk 09:25, 6 January 2009 (EST)

Wikiproject:News Wanted Pages

Let's add the medal people can earn on the page as incentive. Plus, I will attack some more of those words tomorrow^Thursday to try and generate interest.--Jpatt 01:36, 7 January 2009 (EST)

We could ask Rod Weathers to generate a medal like the others he made. I created a couple of articles tonight. It's good if we're leading the way in creating these articles. --DeanS^talk 01:41, 7 January 2009 (EST)

Dean, thanks much for your tremendously insightful news posting a few minutes ago. It topped another day of insights on this site.--Andy Schlafly 23:31, 8 January 2009 (EST)

Andy, that insightful post came from Jpatt, one of our new admins. I just made a few small corrections to the news items. --DeanS^talk 00:03, 9 January 2009 (EST)

Please block

Please could you block the blasphemous vandal DanielP? Thanks--CPalmer 11:13, 9 January 2009 (EST)

Done. Thanks for the alert. --DeanS^talk 11:16, 9 January 2009 (EST)

No problem - thanks for the swift response. I think AlbertW has reverted most of the vandalism.--CPalmer 11:17, 9 January 2009 (EST)

Great block

Great block, Dean. No one has to block all the sub-accounts that were just created. The vandal simply wasted his time. You've blocked his IP for those accounts also with your first block.--Andy Schlafly 11:51, 9 January 2009 (EST)

Thanks Andy. --DeanS^talk 11:53, 9 January 2009 (EST)

I don't know that I agree, Andy. The accounts could be used by different IPs and I found that one of the socks, TimL, made an edit almost three hours after DavidJ's IP was blocked. He then got blocked by Dean. So I took the initiative now to block all those socks, just to be safe. -Foxtrot 11:52, 10 January 2009 (EST)

Thanks, Foxtrot!--Andy Schlafly 11:55, 10 January 2009 (EST)

Glad to be of service :-) -Foxtrot 12:13, 10 January 2009 (EST)

Governors

Thanks for adding on to Washington. Originally I was sticking with just the state governors and not the territorial ones, but I suppose more information is better! WesleyS^Hello! 18:24, 10 January 2009 (EST)

I first saw the list and noticed Gregoire wasn't on there. Then I saw the full list on the state website and decided to fill in the blanks. --DeanS^talk 18:27, 10 January 2009 (EST)

Looks like I found a severely dated source, huh? I'll check more carefully. Thanks again! WesleyS^Hello! 18:31, 10 January 2009 (EST)

Mainpage picture size, My apologies, no offense intended

DeanS,

I did not notice that you had reversed my edits as far as the picture sizes to the main page. I was somewhat tired when I was doing the editing. My apologies.

Secondly, I did not notice that the picture sizes I chose were making the right and left columns unequal in width. For various reasons, I do agree with you that right and left columns on the main page should be somewhat equal in width. Therefore, I made the pictures smaller. conservative 05:35, 11 January 2009 (EST)

Thank you Conservative. --DeanS^talk 06:28, 11 January 2009 (EST)

With Apologies

Sorry about the atom article. The formatting seems weird, but I only made it worse. Sorry. I'm a wiki noob.--DReynolds 16:20, 13 January 2009 (EST)

No problem. I recommend using the "Show preview" button before saving. ;-) --DeanS^talk 16:42, 13 January 2009 (EST)

Plane crash story

Sorry to bother with this, but could someone add a link on this news story to the pilot himself- Chesley Sullenberger. AddisonDM 21:04, 15 January 2009 (EST)

Done. Thanks for creating the article and the suggestion. Btw, as an admin, you can edit the Main page yourself if you want to. ;-) --DeanS^talk 10:29, 16 January 2009 (EST)

I have been watching this story on our news-stations here. Amazing! Truly miraculous that the pilot bought it down safely and nobody died. --KotomiT^nandeyanen? 10:36, 16 January 2009 (EST)

Exactly. Chesley Sullenberger is a true hero. --DeanS^talk 10:42, 16 January 2009 (EST)

Thanks! The page is now at 90 views! Also,I know I can edit the main page, but I could not find where to edit the actual news stories. AddisonDM 13:57, 16 January 2009 (EST)

Try these new instructions: Editing the "In the News" section. --DeanS^talk 14:38, 16 January 2009 (EST)

Help

A lot of my rosters got deleted and havn't been restored. Could I get some help or at very least an explanation? --JY23 11:41, 28 January 2009 (EST)

In this section of Main page talk, Andy explains the problem. If you can give me an example, I will see what I can do. --DeanS^talk 12:00, 28 January 2009 (EST)

Well, at my sports project, I was up to Malaga CF on the rosters. When I logged back on one day, it was stuck on Stoke City (in an entirely different league). JY23 14:24, 28 January 2009 (EST)

Religion

A big thank you for deleting that essay. It was horrible from start to finish.--Jpatt 01:27, 2 February 2009 (EST)

You're welcome Jp. We don't need to accept every Essay on Conservapedia. This one was unacceptable. --DeanS^talk 13:44, 2 February 2009 (EST)

Algebra Terms

Thanks for deleting the redundant category. It had been cluttering the math pages for a while now! -Foxtrot 07:15, 5 February 2009 (EST)

You're welcome. Something still doesn't seem right though. I'm wondering if we even need the Algebra terms page since the Algebra index is on each of the terms pages. --DeanS^talk 07:24, 5 February 2009 (EST)

Probably not. There's also a geometry terms page, which can equally be deleted since there's already a Category:Geometry Terms Category:Geometry terms which uses Geometry index (and doesn't follow the MoS for categories). Continuing this line of reasoning, are these sorts of indices much more useful than categories? They seem somewhat redundant. -Foxtrot 07:31, 5 February 2009 (EST)

I think the indices are better than a category of terms for each subject. If you look at Category:Navigation box, you will see there are many different indices, Template:Algebra Index, Template:American Index, Template:Ancient Index, etc. Some of them don't have a subject terms page; they just have individual terms pages (i.e. Ancient Terms, Chemistry Terms, etc.) We should have some further discussions on this subject. --DeanS^talk 07:52, 5 February 2009 (EST)

Featured article

Thank you Dean! Joaquin --JMR10 13:15, 5 February 2009 (EST)

You're welcome. Anytime ;-) --DeanS^talk 13:25, 5 February 2009 (EST)

News link

Dean, thanks for linking my Examples of Moronic Vandalism essay! That's cool. AddisonDM 18:45, 7 February 2009 (EST)