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Hey Cactus,

Sorry for not including the relevant credits in those pages I updated the other day. Still re-finding my WikiLegs... Love the WikiStress Meter #5 though!

--Lucanos 09:03, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Floating TOC

As a new user, I have landed in this discussion quite by chance when editing Tony Blair to attempt to make the article more readable. I was unaware of the controversy regarding floating TOC's, and simply reverted another users TOCright to TOCleft - this gave, IMHO, a much improved and more accessible layout. Anyway, I am of the opinion that the 'default' plain TOC should be used most of the time unless the layout becomes less than optimum due to the size of intro or TOC length. In these situations I think a floated TOC is acceptable, but personally I would think left is usually preferable.

Link on clinical depression

62.163.46.157 (talk · contribs), as you can see from his contributions, came to Wikipedia solely to insert external links, just to draw attention to his site or to make money from advertising. I remove these links without discussion. The Wikipedia policy for external links is being violated on a large scale, and especially health-related articles are frequently inundated with poor links. JFW | T@lk 20:46, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Odalrune2.jpg

I posted it on Image for deletion instead because the speedy deletion policy states that "This does not include pictures that are merely similar, such as JPEG versions of PNG images." This is because of the advantages and disadvantages of each image file format; not everything can clearly be transferred. For instance, PNG's format is more suited for diagrams while JPEG is better for photographs. Thus, as a general policy, we do not speedy them right away. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I put a link to Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload#Why you should not save diagrams as JPEG onto the policy page. But we probably need to reword it a little more. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:54, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: David Cooper (footballer)

The current text of the article is dense and confusing, so I've taken a copy of it to my sandbox for a major re-write. I'm still working on trimming down the existing text. Once that's done I will research additional information (including the Pele thing, which I remember from somewhere too) to build it back up again.

I would also like to support your campaign to name major London landmarks after Scottish footballers. ;-) --GraemeL ^(talk) 12:31, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List of Guantanamo Bay detainees discussion

I am relieved that other people appreciate the idea of documenting the confinement of the detainees.

But I have to tell you -- you said the list existed long before I started adding to it? That isn't correct. I started it about, two weeks ago, when I created eight or nine articles about individual Guantanamo detainees, and five of them were suggested for deletion. Half a dozen people suggested that they weren't notable to merit individual article, and that they should all merely be listed in a list of Guantanamo Bay detainees.

About hidden agendas... I won't presume to say that Joauquin has a hidden agenda. But catch this comment: So discuss their treatment (in a neutral way) in the article about the prison, but an article about each one of these non-notable people is only America-bashing. -- Geo Swan 22:02, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My agenda is to be la voz de la gente. Joaquin Murietta 16:20, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct Geo, I didn't check the history properly and made an incorrect assumption. This doesn't change my view that the copy-vio notification is in bad faith. What bothers me about this is that Joaquin Murietta intimated that he would investigate his concerns about sources and return to discuss these. This pre-emptive copy-vio notification seems to me just to be a 'legal' method of achieving partial page blanking and imposition of a particular POV. Seems to me that you were just expending a great deal of energy to verify the list, and you did a fantastic job IMO.

As for the link you provide, well I recall that Zoe cited anti-Americanism in her listing of the main article on AfD. I reject that POV completely and did so in the AfD voting, as did others. --Cactus.man ✍ 07:55, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Democracy article

The Democracy article experienced 3 edits almost at the exact same time, including my revert. Not sure what the purpose was of your telling me about correcting the missed vandalism was about, but thanks.--MONGO 10:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the support

Friendly admin. Hmmm. Yeah. I know a guy. I am glad you like the map tool. I do like it, but it has its limits. I generate the maps, but use irfanview (a free download) for the captions. I came across some recommended guidelines for maps generated for the wikipedia. It listed some recommended colours, which this tool can't do. :-(

Thanks for the support. :-) -- Geo Swan 16:53, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help improving the Carolyn Wood article

Thanks for your help and advice in improving the Carolyn Wood article.

Would you car to take a look at the Jeffrey Waruch article, and the recent {AfD} applied to it?

JM said it should be merged. But the tag they applied to it was {AfD} not {mergeto}.

I have an email address registered with the wikipedia. Feel free to use it to contact me. -- Geo Swan 15:48, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings from Aztlan!

Cactus-Person

I have dragged this over here so you can see it tambien. It is my gift to Geoswan. I have edited it just for you.

First, let me accept User:Geoswan's apology, placed on my talk page. He has made several accusations in anger, perhaps he is very young? Such conduct does not further his advocacy of the movement to free the detainees in Guantanamo.

Second, I customarily do not use the phrase "Gitmo", which I consider to be a symbol of Anglo and Scottish-American domination. (Tom Jefferson played the fiddle, he learned from the generation of Scots who preceded the Revolution). So I would ask you, User:Cactus Man to refrain from using that unattractive, overly-gutteral nickname. "Guantanamo" is svelte, linguistically-appropriate, and, of course, the actual name. Please reconsider your use of the phrase "Gitmo" as well as the socio-economic implications of nicknames imposed by your Anglo society on ours.

Third, I have rewritten several of the Guantanamo articles to eliminate the obvious POV problems and to correct what can only be described as glaring grammatical errors and generally terrible, horrible, no good, very bad writing.

With respect to the copyvio, Geoswan has spent more time karping about it than it would take to fix a table that was obviously lifted from the newspaper. So I gave him a source with original documents in .pdf I have other sources too. They are all online. Most are public domain. Why not improve the article?

And, as I said to Geo, if you are going to use Wikipedia to agitprop, then do it with class.

Con safos

Joaquin Murietta Stamping Out Oppression, One Palabra at a Time

PS Have you any interest in the Duke of Atholl?

I am not Cuban

5 la voz de la gente Joaquin, thank you for your interesting message on my talk page. You may believe you are the voice of the people, but you are mistaken. You are merely pushing your own POV by gaming the WP system through bad faith AfD nominations. By all means express your views on article talk pages, and by discussion we can all reach concensus. I am still of the opinion that your AfD was a 'back door' suppression of valid information that did not accord with your POV and was wholly inappropriate.

a. not true. Joaquin Murietta 22:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As to the points made in your message, my response, in your order, is:

First: any apology you wish to issue should be sent to User:Geo Swan, not me.

Declined. Joaquin Murietta 22:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Second: I do not use the phrase "Gitmo" either, never have, and never will.

Good for you. Joaquin Murietta 22:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly is the subject of the Anglo and Scottish-American domination that you speak of? What has Thomas Jefferson's alleged fiddle playing prowess got to do with the Guantanamo Bay detainees? Which society is "ours" that you refer to that has been imposed upon by "my" Anglo society? I can only assume you are referring to Cuba.

ROFL Joaquin Murietta 22:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Third: You are free to edit articles as you see fit. As with all edits, this will be open to review and alteration by other editors. As regards the alleged copy-vio, well we both know that was a bad faith nomination, come on now Joaquin, let's move on and edit articles properly and discuss differences responsibly.

No way, it was a copyvio. And I posted it in good faith. Joaquin Murietta 22:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As for accusations of engaging in Agitprop, I suggest you drop a line to User:Randy2063 who is on the same wavelength.

the word wavelength reminds me of people who wear tinfoil hats. Joaquin Murietta 22:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Finally, I am not a fan of any of the the particular incarnations of the Dukes of Atholl, nor am I an expert on fiddlers.

then I can only assume you are English, in view of the last remark.Joaquin Murietta 22:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck. --Cactus.man ✍ 17:28, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Apologies for my lack of research, but could you please post a map of Aztlán so that we can all understand where you are from - USA or Mexico? Regards. --Cactus.man ✍ 20:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Lack of Research is your middle name. ~

Kindest possible regards from Aztlan Joaquin Murietta