User talk:Jcw

This is a meritocracy, and you deserve blocking privileges. They have just been awarded to you. Congratulations!--Andy Schlafly 09:55, 7 June 2011 (EDT)

Thanks Andy, much appreciated. I'll endeavor to use the privileges responsibly and to the benefit of CP. If I have questions about blocking policy or anti-vandal tactics, is it alright to ask publicly on your talk page, or is there a better venue? Thanks again. Jcw 12:50, 7 June 2011 (EDT)

Wow, your new privileges were just in time! Great effort a little while ago.

I'll mark your talk page here as "watched" and you can ask any questions about blocking here, or on my talk page. Looks like you already know what you need, however!--Andy Schlafly 13:51, 7 June 2011 (EDT)

Indeed, the vandals never seem to be far away... One question occurs at once: from the username policy, I'd assume that anyone with a clearly incorrect username should be gently blocked and invited to re-join. Is that something I can legitimately do, or should I leave it to the admins? Jcw 13:57, 7 June 2011 (EDT)

Please do block inappropriate user names, even before any edits. Note that it is necessary to unblock the option boxes in those cases in order to allow re-registering under an appropriate name.--Andy Schlafly 14:22, 7 June 2011 (EDT)

Ah yes, I'll be careful of that. Thanks for all the help. Jcw 14:29, 7 June 2011 (EDT)

Freyja

I won't put up with edit warring over my talk page. If you want to have this sort of discussion on here, you have to be civil and respectful. Jcw 08:21, 8 June 2011 (EDT)

Genuine thanks for being even handed and deleting the whole thread, rather than selectively deleting individual contributions. Freyja

I suppose I can't be upset at your using a sock to post that... I look forward to an interesting discussion elsewhere - perhaps on your talk page, or a CP debate page? Jcw 08:44, 8 June 2011 (EDT)

Question

Hello there, I'm new here on Conservapedia. However it seems I cannot create new pages. Is there any way I am able to do so? Or is it a restriction to protect the wiki from vandals creating nonsense pages? TomFowdy 10:33, 8 June 2011 (EDT)

When an entry does not exist, there is a link to click for it in order to create it. You should be able to do this.--Andy Schlafly 10:35, 8 June 2011 (EDT)

A minor point

First, congrats! And thanks for sorting out the A.D.s at Otho. Now for the minor point: virtually all of you edits are marked as minor. That's very humble, but not right :-) Please have a look at Help:Editing etiquette#Minor Edit box.

AugustO 11:01, 8 June 2011 (EDT)

Ah yes, a good point - I set the software to mark all edits as 'minor' when I first started contributing, and back then it was true. Thanks for pointing it out. Jcw 12:05, 8 June 2011 (EDT)

Alert block

Jcw, your alert block earlier was superb. I should have promoted you to this sooner: SkipCaptcha. Now you won't have to enter captcha characters any more.--Andy Schlafly 18:15, 13 June 2011 (EDT)

Thanks Andy, that'll be useful - reverting blanked pages usually involves a captcha, so skipping it will make fixing vandalism twice as fast. Speaking of which, have you considered a tool to allow banning a vandal and reverting all his edits at once? Of course it would only be applicable to the run-of-the-mill drive-by vandals who blank a few pages then get banned, but it could save a lot of time spent reverting. Jcw 18:37, 13 June 2011 (EDT)

I think MediaWiki has an extension called Nuke something or other that does that type of reverting. conservative

thanks, removed reference to website

Thanks, I removed reference to the website in question. conservative 13:11, 19 June 2011 (EDT)

No problem. Glad to be a help. Jcw 13:15, 19 June 2011 (EDT)

N3hima blocked

Good catch, I think they are trying to check whether the sysops read all the posts. Thank God you were alert :) --Leo-from-UK 19:32, 23 June 2011 (EDT)

Thanks. That's actually the first remotely intelligent attempt at vandalism I've seen - I'd almost stopped paying attention by the time it came to the vandalism. I think if the user had had a more reasonable name I might not have noticed at all. Silly vandal! Jcw 21:04, 23 June 2011 (EDT)

Conservative words count

You appear to have inadvertently reverted my change to the word count on Conservative Words. I added "left wing" to the 1800s. That is why the count was changed. --BertramB 21:15, 23 June 2011 (EDT)

Ah yes, my mistake. However, you seem to be adding some dubious words to the list - 'vacuous' seems awfully like parody to me. Please come and discuss your additions on the talk page. Jcw 21:37, 23 June 2011 (EDT)

I confess I am a little concerned and even put out by your reaction to my editing. And by the reaction of Aschlafly. Between you, you have remove all of my additions to the article. At least in your case you gave some sort of reason(which I address below) but Aschlafly gave no reason at all other than an assertion that the edits didn't meet the "particularly high quality level" required. So I am left to ponder how my entry of "vacuous - Empty, void or free. A common characteristic of liberal argument" falls below the particularly high standard set by entries such as "blather - nonsensical or insignificant babble, as in "liberal blather is common on the lamestream media"". Or how my entry of the word "morals - A person's moral qualities" falls below the particularly high standard set by entries such as "fat farm - a place where obese people -- such as self-centered atheists -- might go to try to lose weight". Perhaps you could explain the difference to me? I have an interest in etymology and am very interested in editing the page so it would be of great assistance to know how these things are judged. --BertramB 00:04, 24 June 2011 (EDT)