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| Hi Redthoreau, I've mostly changed back your indenting changes on this talk page. I think you may have misconstrued the flow of the discussion. Timing and topics are important considerations, indentation is important to preserve the dialogue. | |||
| In particular, please don't duplicate my signature when refactoring. In my opinion, the only person qualified to place my distinctive mark (user name and UTC date with associated links) is myself. You are free to add notes signed by yourself when refactoring. A good method is to add a note using the <nowiki><small></nowiki> tag along the lines of "<small>comment by ] refactored by ] on 01 Aug 2008</small>". Simply duplicating my own signature distorts the record, I hope you can avoid that in the future. Regards! ] (]) 05:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC) | |||
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| Thanks for finding a free image for Fidel Castro, and for your tireless efforts in replacing the previous infobox image. I agree, it does look much better now! Here's a little token of my appreciation. Happy editing! JeffBillman (talk) 06:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC) |
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Thanks ever so much for The Che 'Beret'star! Much appreciated. I will continue to work away at these articles as more details come out about the films.--J.D. (talk) 15:05, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Guerrilla (film)
Hey bro. Someone removed the poster on this film I helped edit. Is this person correct about this, the poster is no longer applicable because it's changed somehow? Let's find A poster for this article.... Best -- Luigibob (talk) 17:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- I know that at one time that was the poster for the film ... but that was 2 years ago ... and listed the film as coming out in 2007. I will locate you a promotional photo released by the film to be used. Redthoreau (talk) RT 17:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Che
Hey, I left a response on the Che article, but I feel it came off sounding a little callous, which was not my intention, I admire the extraordinary work you have done on the article and have decided to make it my new pet project, so I will spend the next while trying to improve the article to get it to GA or even, hopefully FA status, with your help of course. ;) Taifarious1 06:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback! I'll comb over the article tonight, but you all have done justice to my hero! :D Jmole (talk) 23:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Apparently "timing" is everything q & a
"You violated 3RR. Blnguyen did not. He made four reverts in a 30 hour period. You made four within 24 hours ..."
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Redthoreau (talk) RT 15:44, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Fidel Castro
Hi Redthoreau, I've mostly changed back your indenting changes on this talk page. I think you may have misconstrued the flow of the discussion. Timing and topics are important considerations, indentation is important to preserve the dialogue.
In particular, please don't duplicate my signature when refactoring. In my opinion, the only person qualified to place my distinctive mark (user name and UTC date with associated links) is myself. You are free to add notes signed by yourself when refactoring. A good method is to add a note using the <small> tag along the lines of "comment by Franamax refactored by Redthoreau on 01 Aug 2008". Simply duplicating my own signature distorts the record, I hope you can avoid that in the future. Regards! Franamax (talk) 05:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)