User talk:Stewart in Oz

In the article on Ciguatera there were some additions that I felt could be included. There are some "hotspots" on the East Coast of Queensland where at certain times of the year there are some fish that should be avoided. One of these areas is Platypus Bay on Fraser Island. There is also a specialist unit in Townsville that deals with the frequently occuring incidences of this problem. From when my wife was infected, I read that the treatment is an Infusion of Manitol preferably within 6 hours of the first symptoms. Sadly this happened when some fish were brought back from Platypus Bay to where we live near Brisbane where the condition is unknown and was not diagnosed by the local doctors. The resulting Manitol infusion may have done little to mitigate the problem which gradually ameliorated over time and fortunately has not reappeared. In the section of the article you say the name and incidence was reported in the 1800. I read that a much earlier event gave rise to the diseas when ?Cortez's men fell ill through eating a locally found sea snail called a 'cigua'. The injunction to try it on a cat is usually accompnied by the injunction to use the neighbour's cat, not your own. Stewart in Oz (talk) 11:53, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: The Lighthorsemen (film)
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, The Lighthorsemen (film). While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Please review Wikipedia's no original research policy, also. Dl2000 (talk) 01:59, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. I've just reverted an example of this. If true (about "under the guns"), that's interesting, but the *properly referenced* information belongs in a footnote probably rather than in the body. Don't be discouraged by these reverts - post stuff like this at the bottom of the "talk" page (the "Discussion" tab at the top of an article). That often starts a bit of a discussion - and ends in an agreed form of the info being posted to the article. Snori (talk) 08:59, 22 December 2011 (UTC)