Talk:The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

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Contents 1 Mass hysteria 2 Actual Assailant paragraph 3 Actual physical condition 4 But which is it? 5 Copyright Violation 6 Table talk

[edit] Mass hysteria

Please Please please, not the old "Mass Hysteria" excuse. the Skeptical Inquiror uses this to the Nth degree for just about everything and its wearing thin, very thin. Industry Pollution or an actual Criminal I will believe, but not Mass Hysteria. Magnum Serpentine 14:30, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Actual Assailant paragraph

It should be clearer up front that Scott Maruna wrote a book on this subject. The information on Farley Llewellyn seems closer to slander than factual information. In every article I've read about the Mad Gasser, his name does come up - but I've never seen any documentation regarding him. 74.136.9.70 02:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Actual physical condition

Nowhere on the page do you discuss Hypnagogia, the actual physical condition that is described by the "victims" of the gasser. Most people experience this condition at least once in their lives and it is often brought on by sleep disruption, stress, and or being over-tired. E Warnke

[edit] But which is it?

I'm not sure what distinction this parenthetical hopes to make...:

The attacks (or "attacks," according to some observers) began on August 31, 1944.

(as of 16:56, 18 October 2006)

... so I'm deleting it. 75.22.27.213 20:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Violation

Large sections of this article appear to be near word for word copies of a chapter from Jerome Clark's Unexplained.

This needs sorting out as copyright violation need to be trodden on swiftly.

perfectblue 16:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm on it! Totnesmartin 19:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Totnesmartin 21:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Table talk

That new table needs to be wider - there's a narrow column of text down the right hand side. It looks terrible! Totnesmartin 18:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

That's actually caused by your web browser, I've checked it in Firefox and it looks perfectly OK, it only looks as you describe when I view it in an older copy of Internet explorer.

I thought the page would depend on the page and not the make of browser. Shows how much I know about computers. Totnesmartin 16:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

It kinda does depend on the page. The problem is that different browsers interprit the code differently. The problem her I think was that there was an empty variable at the top of the table. Firefox interpreted this as being a value of 0 and said that everything was OK, but the version of IE that was being used didn't know quite how to cope with things and instead of closing the table and starting a new paragraph (which was what firefox does), it continued on and dragged the text up to meet the start of the table. I could have written the code differently, but I wasn't paying attention or something, when it looked right to me I left it. No harm done though as it's fixed now.

perfectblue 16:57, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll fix it to the oldest standard of IE that I have, but if that doesn't work for your version, I'm afraid that you'll have to edit it yourself.

perfectblue 18:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Fixed

perfectblue 19:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)