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: Thanks! As long as I've been a registered user on Wikipedia, I ought to know this. The trouble was that until I came here or to [[CreationWiki]], I never had occasion to look up anyone's contributions.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 09:44, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
: Thanks! As long as I've been a registered user on Wikipedia, I ought to know this. The trouble was that until I came here or to [[CreationWiki]], I never had occasion to look up anyone's contributions.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 09:44, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
::You're quite welcome! :) I'm one of those weird people who try pushing every button and poking every menu whenever they get somewhere. It helps in such cases, but it's probably why people will never let me into missile launch facilities. ;) --[[User:Sid 3050|Sid 3050]] 09:56, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
::You're quite welcome! :) I'm one of those weird people who try pushing every button and poking every menu whenever they get somewhere. It helps in such cases, but it's probably why people will never let me into missile launch facilities. ;) --[[User:Sid 3050|Sid 3050]] 09:56, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
== Debate Topics Falling Into Main Namespace ==
Since you're the current king of the hill on the sysop page and brought up this topic, here's a fairly important addition: The problem is not just that the debates are currently bleeding into the mainspace, but also that they will become inaccessible if we create a "Debate"/"Debate talk" namespace set right now. Check out [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces this link] for reference (just under the first blue-border box).
The explanation (from what I gather) is: Right now, we got an article with the full name "Debate:Blah". If we then create "Debate" as a namespace, calling "Debate:Blah" will actually show "Blah in the Debate namespace" instead of "Debate:Blah in the Main namespace" - two quite different things.
So a sysop will have to [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=move&user=&page=&limit=100&offset=0 revert those moves] ''before'' the new namespace is being created. Good news is that there's a "revert" link next to each move. Bad news is that there are many things that have to be reverted.
Maybe a joint effort of sysops can crunch down this problem without requiring one poor guy to do it all? --[[User:Sid 3050|Sid 3050]] 13:09, 9 April 2007 (EDT)