User talk:Geo Swan/archive/2014-05

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A request

It would be good if you could encourage Andy Worthington to plea to Cageprisoners on behalf of the Nigerian girls. It's essential that the girls have some actual Islamists on their side. Worthington is in a spot where he could work on making that happen. And you've done more than enough for the cause that he should listen to you.

Cageprisoners owes Worthington, and yourself as well. Guantanamo released a lot of detainees still classified as enemy combatants. That wouldn't have happened without a lot of non-Muslims creating pressure. There could still have been 300 to 400 detainees there. The key was in getting the peers and near-peers.

Boko Haram will not be swayed by liberal activists or even ordinary Muslims. This requires pressure by some who share their ideology. Their allies need to tell them that slavery is wrong, or at least counter-productive. I'm not saying that Cageprisoners is big enough, but they could make a break in the wall that could then bring in others.

-- Randy2063 (talk) 06:53, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. I just noticed you haven't been around for a while. I modified the above message and sent it directly to Worthington.

I hope you're doing well.

-- Randy2063 (talk) 14:02, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On Paul Dirksen

Hi! I found this: User:Geo Swan/userified/2012-12-18/Paul Dirksen. May I add sourcing to it? Or you can if you like.

Here's some:

Helliwell, John. "A Victory for Computer Literacy in Waterloo." PC Mag. Ziff Davis, Inc., April 2, 1985. Vol. 4, No. 7. ISSN 0888-8507. Start p. 205. Cited: 206-207.
Alkema, Harold and Kenneth McLaughlin. "Unbundling Computing at The University of Waterloo" (Archive). University of Waterloo. 2007.

WhisperToMe (talk) 16:49, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fell free to edit this as freely as you would an article in article space. But, if you think it ready to be moved back to article space, let's discuss it first. I didn't do much work on the Dicksen article. But I did most of the work or Wes Graham, Watbol and Watiac. Did you attend Waterloo? Geo Swan (talk) 01:25, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I never attended a Waterloo event. I'll go ahead and add some refs WhisperToMe (talk) 05:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

File:Spirit Of Algoma.jpg

The Wiki [1] says: built in 2013. But I found here that it is 1916. Any idea what the right year is? --Stunteltje (talk) 11:05, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The photo of the tug was taken in 2005, so the 2013 vessel must be a different vessel. I have a vague recollection that someone suggested the older tug be turned into a museum vessel. Personally, I'd like to see the Radium Yellowknife turned into a museum ship. She is only 65 years old, but she did proceed through the Northwest Passage on her own power. Geo Swan (talk) 13:56, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Here is some more information, from 2005. The new owners said the decayed plywood superstructure was recent, and the only portion of the vessel that could be proven to be authentic was the old steam engine. Geo Swan (talk) 22:14, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Sharon Allen

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Fireboat 20

Hi Geo Swan, The article that you created (Fireboat 20) doesn't seem to be suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia. There is nothing notable about the boat, and given that the LBFD doesn't even have a page it's hard to imagine why this boat should. I'd be happy to hear your side before I nominate it for deletion. Zeus^u|c 05:37, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"Michael Dunlavey" / "Michael Dunlavey"

Hi Geo Swan! For a moment (by which I mean, for about 10 minutes) I was a little confused there. I deleted "Michael Dunlavey" (with the quotes in the article title):

(del/undel) 10:07, 8 April 2014 Shirt58 (talk | contribs | block) deleted page "Michael Dunlavey" (R3: Recently created, implausible redirect) (view/restore)
(del/undel) 09:29, 8 April 2014 Geo Swan (talk | contribs | block) moved page "Michael Dunlavey" to Michael E. Dunlavey (redirect) (revert)

Apologies if that caused any bother. Do you want to re-create it a re-direct? It's fine by me, but I'm not sure why you might want to. Pete AU aka

Quotes in the title? Yipes! I should have requested WP:CSD#G7 myself. Geo Swan (talk) 15:13, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]