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Contents 1 "list of public elementary schools in NYC" 2 YOU SUCK 3 Page move 4 AfD Progressive Bloggers 5 Cypress College 6 Hello 7 The ultimate, ultimate challenge 8 Thanks and revert question 9 Did you know 10 Images 11 Math expressions 12 USACE pictures -- thanks (plus date change) 13 river drop 14 Thanks for the pictures 15 Fender's blue butterfly 16 Duplication of coordinates

[edit] "list of public elementary schools in NYC"

Hi Dan, I'm new to this--can you tell me why you removed "PS 116M" and its link from the "see also" section at the end of this article? I saw 2 other schools listed there, and so added mine (I am the tech teacher there). Was that wrong? Is "see also" only for internal links? Thanks, Kathleen —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.202.53.100 (talk) 02:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

Re List of public elementary schools in New York City

I removed it because it was just an external link, pasted in at the very bottom of the page, with no apparent relevance to anything else. The proper way to to that would be to paste it in after the relevant school in the list. Your last edit was nearly correct. Normally we don’t like to make the primary name in a list to be an external link. It would be better to do it like this:

*PS 116 Mary Lindley Murray [http://www.ps116.org/]

Copy the above line and paste it into the line where you have the link now.

While we are on the subject, I think the names of all the schools should be converted to title case instead of all upper case.

Also, please remember to sign your posts on a user page by putting four tildes ~~~~ at the end of the message. Thanks.

Hope this helps. Feel free to write again anytime. ●DanMS 03:00, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll add my thanks for your formatting on this page. btw there's a rumour that the regions are to be abolished in the NYC schools hierarchy, and perhaps replaced with some other unit of organisation, so any further effort invested in that part of the work might be short-lived. I imagine we can rearrange the records for each school easily, so that would still be worthwhile. Thanks again. AndrewHowse 22:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Re NYC schools and William Sherman in particular: the exterior of the school has a sign that reads "William T Sherman" but I couldn't find a dedication plaque or similar. I also read that Gen Sherman spent the last years of his life in NYC, so there's at least a tenuous connection. AndrewHowse 22:42, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, it seems pretty certain that William Tecumseh Sherman is the eponym of the school. I wasn’t sure, but your discovery seems to nail it—unless we discover some other William T. Sherman who was prominent in the history of New York or New England. By the way, I have finished adding all the elementary schools from the NYC schools website, and I think I have done all that I have an interest in doing. Feel free to add anything else that you like. ●DanMS 22:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Roger wilco. Thanks for all your gruntwork. I'll see what else I can glean locally and update the page from time to time. AndrewHowse 01:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

hi dan, thanks a lot for your information about Torpedo tube on wikipedia. i need more information about torpedo launcher mechanism for surface ship, i would be appriciated to you to send me more information. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hrezvany (talk • contribs) 14:46, 10 February 2007.

• I wish I had more information for you about surface-ship torpedo tube launchers, but I don’t know much about them. I served on submarines in the U.S. Navy but never worked with surface torpedo launchers. You will have to search Yahoo! or Google for that. Regards, ●DanMS 16:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YOU SUCK

Why do you keep reverting these masterpieces that I am writing? Being a schoon is very important to the town history of Cedar Falls and I really don't understand why some technical student in California has nothing better to do than revert my edits. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.167.191.244 (talk) 01:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Page move

Long time ago, you left a comment at Talk:Neil Werrett. I agree the page should be moved, but newly created accounts can not move pages. Would you take care of it? // Konvalj 01:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

• I moved the article. However, the short text needs so be rephrased to that the subject is the trust rather than Werrett. ●DanMS 02:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Done - and thanks! Would you care to move another one as well? New Chronology (Glasgow) => Glasgow Chronology. See talk. // Konvalj 02:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I moved New Chronology (Glasgow) to Glasgow Chronology. Now here is a job you can do: Go to What links here for the old page and update all of the linked pages so that they link to the new page. There are only a dozen or so to be updated. ●DanMS 02:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Progressive Bloggers

You have edited the article Progressive Bloggers. This article is currently being considered for deletion under the wp:afd process. You may contribute to this discussion by commenting here. Thank you.Edivorce 23:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cypress College

Hi Dan,

Thank you for the edit on the Cypress College page. Yes, the $12 million is correct for the annual financial aid number per the dean of student support services. Thanks for the catch! $12 vs. $12 million is pretty huge.

Marcposner 21:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

OKay..thanks for that!!//..wil rem tht in future!

cya u`l hear more of me! :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Govind029 (talk • contribs) 12:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC) (UTC)

[edit] The ultimate, ultimate challenge

And ultimately, the redirect was also deleted. Thanks for letting me know, I forgot to check. --Coredesat 05:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks and revert question

First of all, thank you for all your excellent work. Wikipedia is truely a better place as a result of your efforts. I hope you don't mind my asking, but I am curious why it appears you sometimes don't post warnings to users whose edits you revert. I just did my very first vandalism revert, so I am hardly an expert in the acceptable protocol. I would be interested in hearing your views! Thanks, Riick 07:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words. I suppose the most honest answer to your question is that I am too lazy to always make the effort of posting a warning. Second, I am not at all sure that it does any good, especially with anonymous IPs. People who are intent on vandalizing are probably going to continue no matter what other editors say. Actually, the main effect of posting messages is so that other editors can keep track of how many times a vandal has been warned, and if a vandal has been given the fourth warning and continues vandalizing, he can be blocked. By Wikipedia policy, a user is not supposed to be blocked in most cases until he has received the level 4 warning and continues in his errant ways. There are exceptions, however, such as what is called a {{blatantvandal}}. A user could be given that warning when it is discovered that he has vandalized many pages but has not yet been given a warning. ●DanMS • Talk 00:48, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Dan- This is helpful information. I also appreciate your getting back to me so quickly. Happy editing! Riick 06:58, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know

On 16 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 00:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images

FWIW, per the Image MOS, images should be stacked left/right in a staggered fashion, not "stacked" or aligned in a row. -- Stbalbach 00:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know specifically what article you are referring to. It is true that the MOS provides that guidance, but that does not always work very well, especially when the article is short, or when there is an infobox on the right side at the top. Sometimes you have to rearrange things to make the page lay out properly. ●DanMS • Talk 01:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:MOS#Images - either its changed since I last looked or don't remember it. In any case I agree in that article it's pretty tight so the right side stack makes sense. Just saw your edit comment about aligning images and wanted to make sure you knew about staggering, as I have seen some who think all images are supposed to be along the right hand side. Sounds like you know about staggering. -- Stbalbach 01:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Usually when I write “aligned images” in an edit summary, what I mean is that I set various-sized thumbs to the same size. I think it is rather ugly when there are several thumbnails of different sizes next to each other. Also, sometimes you find pages where there are left and right images at the same level, with the text squeezed in between horizontally. That doesn’t work very well either. Actually my personal preference is for stacked images, but I won’t inflict my own preferences on Wikipedia unnecessarily. ●DanMS • Talk 01:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Math expressions

{{#expr:1/5.28}} See m:Help:Calculation 199.46.200.232 19:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] USACE pictures -- thanks (plus date change)

Hi DanMS, thanks for your recent uploads of USACE pictures to Commons. I thought I'd mention over here on Wikipedia that I changed the dates on a couple of them (Williamson, W.Va., & the Winfield Lock and Dam) because the listed dates on the USACE source pages seemed to contradict the captions on those same pages. (And in the case of the Williamson picture, the picture itself -- it's dated March but the hills are covered in summer greenery.) Maybe the listed dates are merely upload dates? Or the dates they were added to the database? Or maybe just in error? Anyway, I just wanted to explain why I changed them. Thanks! --Malepheasant 02:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I do suspect that many of the dates are wrong. I found one that was very clearly no good at all. It was a picture of the Lady Washington that claimed a date of January 1988 in Seattle, but the people clearly seem to be enjoying a nice summer day! I found another one purportedly taken in Denver in January but again it clearly seemed to be summer or springtime. The dates could very well be the upload dates to the USACE library—I just couldn’t say. Many of the USACE dates seem highly suspect. But I don’t know what else to do. I have been putting notations in the picture descriptions where the date obviously could not be as indicated. You can look at my gallery on commons:User:DanMS and make any corrections as you see fit. Also I have quite a few pictures on Wikipedia that I uploaded before I (recently) switched to uploading on Commons. See my gallery. ●DanMS • Talk 03:02, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, and regarding your note about the other picture you noted -- I was just noticing the same thing. "West Williamson" is still part of Williamson, but since the first picture shows the central business district, that one's probably still preferable. Thanks again! --Malepheasant 03:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] river drop

you cannot subst templates like these, unfortunately. However, as you'll see argued at Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance, you don't need to worry about performance issues if you want to transclude your template.

Just so you know, I can add your template's functionality to {{convert}}. Your coding appears to just divide by a number and then round.. both of which {{convert}} can do. One thing you can never ever do is {{subst:convert}}. Check out a page's markup after doing that! hah! -- drumguy8800 C T 20:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the pictures

Just wanted to drop a note and say thanks for all the recent images of Kentucky lakes you've been uploading. It's appreciated! Acdixon 14:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fender's blue butterfly

Answered on my talk page. Pro bug catcher (talk • contribs). 14:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Duplication of coordinates

On several recent edits you have added geolinks to articles where the coordinates template already exists. This overwrites the previous coordinates in the upper right of the page so neither is intelligible. I am removing the Minnesota ones but the problem may be more widespread, as I see at least one in Michigan also. Kablammo 04:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I didn't see it down there, stuck all the way at the bottom underneath the nav templates. It is supposed to be in the upper-right corner. ●DanMS • Talk 05:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

The location surprised me also when I first added a few coor templates. I undid a bunch of the duplicates (leaving other changes); I'm not sure I got them all as I only looked at the city ones for the past two weeks or so. Regards, Kablammo 10:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Another user has started an inquiry/discussion on the problem of the overlapping template text at the right upper margin at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Duplication of title coordinates. Regards, Kablammo 12:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)