User talk:Alan MB

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Toluca

Hello, there. I'm not sure Toluca is better off at Toluca de Lerdo -- most Mexican cities are officially "de" someone-or-other, and placing articles at those locations strikes me as somewhat pompous and inappropriate. See Wikipedia:Use common names. However, if you do want to move pages, please use the "move this page" link in the sidebar instead of cutting-and-pasting the content from one article to another: cut and paste moves destroy the article's history, which is unfortunate. Oh, and when you move a page (using either method), check the "What links here" function to make sure there are no double redirects, which the system can't handle very well. Regards, –Hajor 4 July 2005 16:40 (UTC)

...unless it's needed to disambiguate. Are there any other Tolucas we need to distinguish the EdoMex one? There's an arch. site in Querétaro, but I can't remember if that's Toluca or Toluquilla. –Hajor

Sorry, I had no idea of the existence of that particular function. My bad. Anyhow, the history of that particular article was not very long to begin with. I believe there are more places called Toluca, that is why I thought the full name would be more appropiate. Anyway, I should have started that discussion on the talk page first, again, my bad. –Alan MB

That's OK. I undid the c&p move, then moved it with the move button. So the full history is now at Toluca de Lerdo, along with the article. Cheers, –Hajor 5 July 2005 13:04 (UTC)

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"Order

Hi Alan, please stop imposing an arbitrary order into the infoboxes of the Mexican Presidents. Mexican presidents can't be ordered as there are several episodes in Mexican history where there have been two different presidents or no president at all. Cheers All-Bran 06:57, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree completely, but I did not put the order that is currently present into the infoboxes. I did put some ordering a couple of years ago, but became convinced it was not correct by another user, who promptly removed the ordering from displaying in the Infobox template. Recently, however, some user enabled it back, and he even put another numbering order (which I also think is inaccurate). I would like to remove the ordering from the template again, but I don't know where it should be discussed first. Cheers, Alan MB 07:12, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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