Unlike other Wikipedians I don't archive Talk pages since old contents are automatically archived anyway - if you want to access previous comments use the "Older versions" function. But I keep a log of the removals:

• Removed all comments prior to Jan 2003. --Eloquence 04:42 Jan 1, 2003 (UTC)
• Removed all comments prior to Feb 2003. --Eloquence 10:19 Feb 3, 2003 (UTC)
• Removed all comments prior to March 2003. --Eloquence 21:19 Mar 3, 2003 (UTC)

Except for this one regarding PETA:

[1] wrote in The The Physiologist that PETA used a "cleverly edited" video and so "grossly distorted" the truth. There are several claims of dishonesty in the article.

Don't know how to integrate it, though. Maybe you can find a way. Arthur 22:22 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

I see you have integrated it. Still need to read the article, will try to write a proper summary. --Eloquence 10:19 Feb 3, 2003 (UTC)

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El - Daniel Alston AKA fonzy WAS the one that got wiktionary up and running. He suggestted the idea then someone said it had alreayd been suggested. Talk begain on it again and fonzy said look enough talk ltes use wiktionary.wikipedia.org as a tempoary address and LETS get this thing up and runinng and it did. - jacklat

If someone tells me "write that article you've been meaning to write", and I do it, did he "get the article written"? Fonzy contributed to the creation of Wiktionary, which is great, but he should either be mentioned together with all the others, esp. Brion, or not at all. --Eloquence 21:19 Mar 3, 2003 (UTC)

I am getting a little tired of 172's work on Mugabe. Removing statements that do not meet his POV requirements and now plagiarizing materials from another source are hardly in the spirit of Wikipedia. I originally enetered the fray because of his insistence on removing materials that he did not like. I am not looking forward to going back and forth all day on this, when I could be contributing in more useful ways. Danny

I agree. I'll give it one more go and if he doesn't start behaving reasonably I'll drop Jimbo a mail. --Eloquence 17:37 Mar 29, 2003 (UTC)

I’m not using my computer so I couldn’t access any of the pieces that I had written on Mugabe earlier for more formal work. Notice that my IP address right now does not begin with “172.” I chose the user name “172” to match the first three letters of the IP address of my home computer.

The wording in the article is changed enough to be legit, though. I’ll submit my own work on Mugabe at some point when I’m home. In the mean time this suffices, although I like my own work better.

It’s probably obvious from the work that I’ve always submitted that de-colonization and the Age of Imperialism are in my areas of expertise historically. Regardless, I didn’t feel like writing a long explanation on a talk page since I’m already reading and evaluating many documents as it is and I’m quite busy.

-172