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Talk to me! Am I right? Wrong? Any suggestions? --TerryH 18:24, 5 March 2007 (EST)

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Administrative Office

The door is always open. Please place questions, suggestions, complaints, et cetera, here.--TerryH^Talk 13:50, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

I think you're right and glad you ain't left. --Ed Poor 15:56, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

Templates

Terry,

Instead of typing out <nowiki>{{Essay}}</nowiki>, you can instead type {{tl|Essay}}. This is less effort and produces a similar result, except that it includes a link to the template: {{Essay}}.

Philip J. Rayment 23:18, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

Exterrestrial Life

Extraterrestrial life is an excellent article. If you are interested in pursuing this topic more, I recommend that you read Alien Intrusion. I'm certain that you will enjoy it. Philip J. Rayment 05:45, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

Provenance of Biblical criticism article

Due to the similarity of Biblical criticism and CreationWiki's article, I think you should add a note to the talk page detailing its provenance.

Something along the lines of "This is a dual submission of a work of sole authorship. I am the same person as User:Temlakos on CreationWiki and this article is based on this version of the CreationWiki article, which is entirely my work." Dpbsmith 14:21, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

OK, but instead of using the Talk page, I left it at the bottom of the article itself, in its own section.--TerryH^Talk 15:03, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

Shuvuuia

Was this animal (listed here) a dinosaur or just a flightless bird? I can't tell...Scorpion^{Tell me what you think} 10:34, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

Nor can I, because someone has scrubbed the page completely.--TerryH^Talk 10:35, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

Sorry, I put a capital "D" in "Dinosaur". That's what's so irritating; you capitalize one letter and it won't direct you to the page!!! I've changed the link; you can follow it again. It's a small "d". Scorpion^{Tell me what you think} 14:32, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

Found it. The abstract makes that animal just another flightless bird. BTW, I repaired the reference to make it look more professional.--TerryH^Talk 16:25, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

Mike Riddle claims it was a dinosaur. Scorpion^{Tell me what you think} 17:37, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

Alvarezsaurids (Shuvuuia and its allies) are either a lineage of birds or are a lineage phylogenetically close to them.

It couldn't be any clearer.--TerryH^Talk 17:41, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

Why do all theropods have hollow bones then? That would almost certainly relate them to birds. Scorpion^{Tell me what you think} 14:46, 22 April 2007 (EDT)

Thank you

thank you for rewriting my pathetic article on sherlock holmes. But did holmes really "love" irene adler?Bohdan

Dr. Watson seemed to think he did. Holmes himself was far too reticent to declare this openly.

Which is a tribute to Conan Doyle's iron point-of-view discipline: you never get inside the head of Sherlock Holmes.

I especially wanted to set the copyright record straight, to show where matters currently stand. A lot of authors have tried to incorporate Sherlock Holmes into their stories, and those who do, need to know that somebody still owns some rights to that character. The "Copyright" reference tells whom to contact, and how.--TerryH^Talk 09:16, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

Proposed Block Policy....your question

• It is as simple as the carrot and the stick.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to impose administrative sanctions on others without at times seeming to be arbitrary or arrogant. A person will see such actions as they do, and "facts" will not change their mind. To be limited in one's response to undesirable actions, is to tie one hand behind your back from the start. I say this because as it is now worded, so much is totally subjective, and it doesn't preclude the type of Sysop reversals of another's actions we have been seeing. "Third Party" Sysop means what? The "YEC" Sysop faction? The "Liberal" faction? Conflict resolution is also subjective. When a Sysop's actions are reversed, that erodes their authority and leads users to "shop" for like-minded Sysops. This undermines the project as a whole. You can always reach me via IM or email here, if you would like to have a dialog. --Sysop-TK _/MyTalk 19:12, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

Evo2

Hey TerryH, I saw this a while back, and I want to assure that I wasn't actually being sarcastic. I sometimes forget that text doesn't carry the same inflections as spoken word. I do really think it is a bad idea, since the only thing worse for the community than having sub-par articles (Theory of evolution) is having two sub-pwar articles (what Evo2 would be, completely pro-evo, for a long time). Just wanted to clarify that. Thanks! --Hojimachong^talk 17:51, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

You're welcome, and I accept your clarification.--TerryH^Talk 17:54, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

RE Private

OK, Now what? --CPAdmin1 23:09, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

An idea

An idea to build more internet traffic to conservapedia

Wikipedia gives the top 1,000 articles for its website as can be seen here: http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/%7Eleon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwiki&ns=articles&limit=1000&month=04%2F2007&mode=view

I think we might be able to drive more http://www.google.com and other traffic to Conservapedia if we make the following articles at Conservapedia better based on the first 100 or so most popular articles at Wikipedia:

- United States

- Columbine High School massacre

- World War II

- Global warming

- World War I

- Adolf Hitler

- Battle of Thermopylae

- Canada

- William Shakespeare

- The Holocaust

- Abraham Lincoln

- Jesus

- Vietnam War

- China

What do you think about starting a Conservapedia improvement drive for these articles? Clearly this are serious subjects that people are interested in based on Wikipedia statistics. Therefore, I believe from a strategic point of view in regards to creating internet traffic to Conservapedia it makes a lot of sense to start a improvement drive in regards to these Conservapedia articles. Conservative 22:56, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

Link correction

Thanks for correcting the link. [1] --Ed Poor 17:17, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

You're welcome.--TerryH^Talk 17:19, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

Thanks

for blocking Alfa papa. Wow, those vandals sure work quickly! --Wikinterpreter^talk?

You're welcome. Have you finished rolling back the messes he made?--TerryH^Talk 17:23, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

Just about. That should be all, although Icewedge and co are going to be with us for a looong time, I imagine. Oh, and he's trying to take us hostage, along the lines of 'de-sysop conservative or else'. --Wikinterpreter^talk?

Here is something I put on the main page

Getting Web Traffic to Conservapedia - Article Creation/Improvement Drive Conservative 21:25, 29 April 2007 (EDT)conservative

Help Requested

I've been editing the article on Geocentric theory but my work is repeatedly being deleted and reverted, and I and my views have been insulted several times on the discussion page there. Please could you give me some advice and assistance. Thanks Mmeelliissssaa 09:21, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

Vietnam War

I disagree with this. The U.S. objectives were not met in the Korean War, and we most certainly did not win the War of 1812, both of which occurred before Vietnam. GodlessLiberal 19:45, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Ann Coulter

Why do you object to including actual quotes by Ann Coulter in an article about her? --PF Fox 19:46, 4 May 2007 (EDT)