Assuming it isn't a copyvio, the SPoF's platform probably doesn't belong in the article, and should be moved to Wikisource.
Since I wrote parts of it and it is not copyrighted you should have no worries. Also being an officer of the SPF placed it for all to read. ( Comraderedoctober 21:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC))
I doubt the party was formed in 1910 after it was taken over by Schactmanites, since they wouldn't exist for another 30 years.
The SPF is the grandchild so to speak of the orginial Soc. title which here started more around 1908. The sad thing is most of history when it comes to socialism is attacked and deleted. Even my profile was deleted and I am an officer of the SPF trying to record our history here even as it evolves. When I am gone there will be no one here with the records in hand to place the truth for history. I am soon to fix this even without wikipedia's help since the socialist have continued to be not only attacked by the outside political parties but from in fighting tendencies. ( Comraderedoctober 21:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC))
Is this an article about the Socialist Party of Florida, or an article by the Socialist Party of Florida? I'm not so sure the platform should be in here; first, it makes this article nothing more than an electoral pamphlet, and second, there's really nothing else in the article. -- Deville ( Talk) 02:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
The 2010 election is way too far off in the future to start listing candidates for it. There's not really a clear line for deciding when listing such candidates becomes acceptable, but I think waiting until they start collecting ballot-access petition signatures is reasonable. - David Schaich Talk/ Cont 14:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
The Socialist Party of Florida has not voted to affiliate with the newly formed "Socialist Party of America" and remains the Florida affiliate of the Socialist Party USA One of the Socialist Party of Florida's officers who happens to control its website has undemocratically decided to modify the website to list it as a "Socialist Party of America" affiliate and then edited this Wikipedia entry to reflect this unauthorized change to the party's national affiliation. All of the changes recently made to this entry regarding its affiliation with the "Socialist Party of America" should be removed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.93.4.113 ( talk) 04:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC).
I have removed the text stating that the SPF has moved to form the SPA, as well as text listing the SPF as an affiliate of the SPA. This simply is not true. One person in the SPF has chosen to change its affiliation without the authority to do so. Chegitz guevara 13:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
The National Committee of the Socialist Party of the United States voted to temporarily suspend the charter of the Socialist Party of Florida due to the lack of elected officers in Florida. The SPF has been directed to hold a convention and elect new officers. I have therefore removed the names of the officers from the article. Chegitz guevara 20:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
On Sat., June 9, a special convention was held in Tampa. All four officers now listed were elected unanimously. Also, the title of Vice-Chair was incorrectly listed as Co-Chair. That has been fixed. Chegitz guevara 06:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Because it contains a link to my home address. I am going to ask Wikipedia to lock this article, since Atlee Yarrow, aka Comraderedoctober, cannot seem to stop himself from posting my address here. Chegitz guevara 15:08, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
The commentary added by Comraderedoctober about the "questionable" nature of the website was removed as irrelevant. Generally speaking, constitutions do not mention websites. Comraderedoctober would be hard pressed to find any U.S. government websites listed in the U.S. Constitution. The website was established by officers of the SPF. That makes it official. Chegitz guevara 14:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
It appears we are both wrong to a point, your truth; my truth; and somewhere in the middle there is the truth Chegitz guevara as I have now in hand what is legal and binding on file with the State of Florida. What I was lead to believe on Saturday, June 12, 2004 as being an adjustment in the SPF Constitution when voting took place to amend the 1998 constitution was presented wrong according to the state file on the SPF record. "Yes," the SPF is listed as an affiliate of the SP-USA as noted with the state. "No," there never was a state constitution ever filed except in part whereas Mr. M. Fredrick Holt, Secretary, March 16, 1998 filed the SP-USA Constitution (1997), from the National Convention in Milwaukee, WI. and noted in side bar "state" to Article XII - XVII. Addendum: A hand written note was enclosed and signed which reinforced the above context and is dated March 6, 1998. While this means we can settle this area once and for all, it also means that the 2004 cannot stand as it was never filed duly with the state. When the state convention is announced and the new constitution is voted into affect by a quorum it will have to filed in a timely manner with the state and posted. Make sure the state sends back a timed stamped copy for Officers records so this does not happen again, please. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Comraderedoctober ( talk • contribs) 21:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Using Comraderedoctober's measure of what makes something official or not, should we remove the listing for the 2006 candidate for governor, as Atlee Yarrow was not on the ballot, even as a possible write in candidate? I'm inclined to leave it, but as Comraderedoctober's a stickler for what the capitalist state thinks is legitimate and proper paperwork and all, we should remove it. I'll wait until others weigh in though. Chegitz guevara 15:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
As matter of fact, Atlee Yarrow was filed with the State of Florida, Florida Division of Elections as a candidate under the SPF banner and platform. All documents can be found with the state and are legally filed. Even the campaign finance records where the former State Chair Steve Sears donated to the election can be had for the price of a few copies from public information. The fact that the SP-USA wants to hide its failure to help comrades from the south is more than telling as 25% of the SP-USA membership have now filed a petition to dissolve the National Committee and to drop the National Secretary in conjunction to the loss of 1/3 of its membership over the last three years.
Comraderedoctober 06:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
The address stated as being in Ft. Lauderdale is not correct with the State of Florida records or website. [User:Comraderedoctober|Comraderedoctober]] 08:41, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Comraderedoctober 16:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Comraderedoctober deleted the discussion page, so I restored it from the archive. Chegitz guevara 03:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Actually I don't know how that happened, but the page was easy enough to restore. It does not stand to reason that I would delete willfully something that can be restored and is well known in the Leftist community. Comraderedoctober 16:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Per the warning at the top of the page, I have removed OT discussion from this page. Chegitz guevara 17:35, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
I added a section on the current political activity of the party, cuz I thought the article was pretty empty, and it explains what the party does. I also added in where the party was active. Chegitz guevara 13:36, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I made the section more accurate and removed unnecessary discussion of the history of the Socialist Party of America and Socialist Party of the United States Chegitz guevara 13:37, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I rewrote the intro to make it more accurate to reflect the fact that the Socialist Party of Florida is not a separate party from the Socialist Party of the United States of America, but was the expression of the SP USA in Florida. Chegitz guevara 13:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I removed the "external link" to the Direct Action Tendency, because it was neither an external link nor did it have a destination that provided any information on the DAT. Chegitz guevara 14:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I reordered the links to a more logical order, added links for the locals websites, and removed stuff that weren't links. I also removed the links to the various SPUSA tendencies, as none are active in the SPFL, and that's more information about the national party than the state party. Chegitz guevara 14:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I reordered some of the candidates, added new elections going back to 1904 and up to 1920. I also updated the links. We still need state legislative results. The 1908 article from the New York Times, states that one or two (I don't remember which) Socialists were elected to the legislature. I'd like to add ranking also, because it looks like in some races, the Socialists came in 2nd before the Republicans. Chegitz guevara 22:02, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to remove Atlee Yarrow's 2006 Campaign for governor, as it wasn't a legitimate campaign. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.149.4.254 ( talk • contribs) 17:09, 30 April 2008 -- I lost the password to my old account. I made the previous comment. Chegitz ( talk) 17:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 19:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Added new Party logo Chegitz ( talk) 22:04, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia deleted the carnation logo, even though permission had been granted. I am looking for another version of the carnation to upload. Chegitz ( talk) 23:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
One of the Wikipedia administrators apparently doesn't want the logos of the SPFL displayed, as they have now all been removed. Chegitz ( talk) 19:07, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
The Jacksonville poster did a bit of vandalism to the page. I rolled it back to the last known good edit.
Removed link to fake SPFL web site. Chegitz ( talk) 21:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Removed non-topic discussion. Chegitz ( talk) 18:15, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Removed more OT "discussion" from the Jacksonville poster. Chegitz ( talk) 05:42, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Removed yet more OT discussion by Atlee. Chegitz ( talk) 14:03, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Removed yet more OT discussion. Personal attacks are against Wiki Policy. Chegitz ( talk) 13:36, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Restored information on Party leaders and Party offices.
The Chair, Brian Moore, was suspended, Feb 9, 2010. He has been removed from the infobox. Chegitz ( talk) 04:29, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Assuming it isn't a copyvio, the SPoF's platform probably doesn't belong in the article, and should be moved to Wikisource.
Since I wrote parts of it and it is not copyrighted you should have no worries. Also being an officer of the SPF placed it for all to read. ( Comraderedoctober 21:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC))
I doubt the party was formed in 1910 after it was taken over by Schactmanites, since they wouldn't exist for another 30 years.
The SPF is the grandchild so to speak of the orginial Soc. title which here started more around 1908. The sad thing is most of history when it comes to socialism is attacked and deleted. Even my profile was deleted and I am an officer of the SPF trying to record our history here even as it evolves. When I am gone there will be no one here with the records in hand to place the truth for history. I am soon to fix this even without wikipedia's help since the socialist have continued to be not only attacked by the outside political parties but from in fighting tendencies. ( Comraderedoctober 21:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC))
Is this an article about the Socialist Party of Florida, or an article by the Socialist Party of Florida? I'm not so sure the platform should be in here; first, it makes this article nothing more than an electoral pamphlet, and second, there's really nothing else in the article. -- Deville ( Talk) 02:52, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
The 2010 election is way too far off in the future to start listing candidates for it. There's not really a clear line for deciding when listing such candidates becomes acceptable, but I think waiting until they start collecting ballot-access petition signatures is reasonable. - David Schaich Talk/ Cont 14:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
The Socialist Party of Florida has not voted to affiliate with the newly formed "Socialist Party of America" and remains the Florida affiliate of the Socialist Party USA One of the Socialist Party of Florida's officers who happens to control its website has undemocratically decided to modify the website to list it as a "Socialist Party of America" affiliate and then edited this Wikipedia entry to reflect this unauthorized change to the party's national affiliation. All of the changes recently made to this entry regarding its affiliation with the "Socialist Party of America" should be removed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.93.4.113 ( talk) 04:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC).
I have removed the text stating that the SPF has moved to form the SPA, as well as text listing the SPF as an affiliate of the SPA. This simply is not true. One person in the SPF has chosen to change its affiliation without the authority to do so. Chegitz guevara 13:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
The National Committee of the Socialist Party of the United States voted to temporarily suspend the charter of the Socialist Party of Florida due to the lack of elected officers in Florida. The SPF has been directed to hold a convention and elect new officers. I have therefore removed the names of the officers from the article. Chegitz guevara 20:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
On Sat., June 9, a special convention was held in Tampa. All four officers now listed were elected unanimously. Also, the title of Vice-Chair was incorrectly listed as Co-Chair. That has been fixed. Chegitz guevara 06:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Because it contains a link to my home address. I am going to ask Wikipedia to lock this article, since Atlee Yarrow, aka Comraderedoctober, cannot seem to stop himself from posting my address here. Chegitz guevara 15:08, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
The commentary added by Comraderedoctober about the "questionable" nature of the website was removed as irrelevant. Generally speaking, constitutions do not mention websites. Comraderedoctober would be hard pressed to find any U.S. government websites listed in the U.S. Constitution. The website was established by officers of the SPF. That makes it official. Chegitz guevara 14:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
It appears we are both wrong to a point, your truth; my truth; and somewhere in the middle there is the truth Chegitz guevara as I have now in hand what is legal and binding on file with the State of Florida. What I was lead to believe on Saturday, June 12, 2004 as being an adjustment in the SPF Constitution when voting took place to amend the 1998 constitution was presented wrong according to the state file on the SPF record. "Yes," the SPF is listed as an affiliate of the SP-USA as noted with the state. "No," there never was a state constitution ever filed except in part whereas Mr. M. Fredrick Holt, Secretary, March 16, 1998 filed the SP-USA Constitution (1997), from the National Convention in Milwaukee, WI. and noted in side bar "state" to Article XII - XVII. Addendum: A hand written note was enclosed and signed which reinforced the above context and is dated March 6, 1998. While this means we can settle this area once and for all, it also means that the 2004 cannot stand as it was never filed duly with the state. When the state convention is announced and the new constitution is voted into affect by a quorum it will have to filed in a timely manner with the state and posted. Make sure the state sends back a timed stamped copy for Officers records so this does not happen again, please. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Comraderedoctober ( talk • contribs) 21:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Using Comraderedoctober's measure of what makes something official or not, should we remove the listing for the 2006 candidate for governor, as Atlee Yarrow was not on the ballot, even as a possible write in candidate? I'm inclined to leave it, but as Comraderedoctober's a stickler for what the capitalist state thinks is legitimate and proper paperwork and all, we should remove it. I'll wait until others weigh in though. Chegitz guevara 15:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
As matter of fact, Atlee Yarrow was filed with the State of Florida, Florida Division of Elections as a candidate under the SPF banner and platform. All documents can be found with the state and are legally filed. Even the campaign finance records where the former State Chair Steve Sears donated to the election can be had for the price of a few copies from public information. The fact that the SP-USA wants to hide its failure to help comrades from the south is more than telling as 25% of the SP-USA membership have now filed a petition to dissolve the National Committee and to drop the National Secretary in conjunction to the loss of 1/3 of its membership over the last three years.
Comraderedoctober 06:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
The address stated as being in Ft. Lauderdale is not correct with the State of Florida records or website. [User:Comraderedoctober|Comraderedoctober]] 08:41, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Comraderedoctober 16:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Comraderedoctober deleted the discussion page, so I restored it from the archive. Chegitz guevara 03:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Actually I don't know how that happened, but the page was easy enough to restore. It does not stand to reason that I would delete willfully something that can be restored and is well known in the Leftist community. Comraderedoctober 16:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Per the warning at the top of the page, I have removed OT discussion from this page. Chegitz guevara 17:35, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
I added a section on the current political activity of the party, cuz I thought the article was pretty empty, and it explains what the party does. I also added in where the party was active. Chegitz guevara 13:36, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I made the section more accurate and removed unnecessary discussion of the history of the Socialist Party of America and Socialist Party of the United States Chegitz guevara 13:37, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I rewrote the intro to make it more accurate to reflect the fact that the Socialist Party of Florida is not a separate party from the Socialist Party of the United States of America, but was the expression of the SP USA in Florida. Chegitz guevara 13:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I removed the "external link" to the Direct Action Tendency, because it was neither an external link nor did it have a destination that provided any information on the DAT. Chegitz guevara 14:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I reordered the links to a more logical order, added links for the locals websites, and removed stuff that weren't links. I also removed the links to the various SPUSA tendencies, as none are active in the SPFL, and that's more information about the national party than the state party. Chegitz guevara 14:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I reordered some of the candidates, added new elections going back to 1904 and up to 1920. I also updated the links. We still need state legislative results. The 1908 article from the New York Times, states that one or two (I don't remember which) Socialists were elected to the legislature. I'd like to add ranking also, because it looks like in some races, the Socialists came in 2nd before the Republicans. Chegitz guevara 22:02, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to remove Atlee Yarrow's 2006 Campaign for governor, as it wasn't a legitimate campaign. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.149.4.254 ( talk • contribs) 17:09, 30 April 2008 -- I lost the password to my old account. I made the previous comment. Chegitz ( talk) 17:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Image:Carnation.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot ( talk) 19:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Added new Party logo Chegitz ( talk) 22:04, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia deleted the carnation logo, even though permission had been granted. I am looking for another version of the carnation to upload. Chegitz ( talk) 23:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
One of the Wikipedia administrators apparently doesn't want the logos of the SPFL displayed, as they have now all been removed. Chegitz ( talk) 19:07, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
The Jacksonville poster did a bit of vandalism to the page. I rolled it back to the last known good edit.
Removed link to fake SPFL web site. Chegitz ( talk) 21:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Removed non-topic discussion. Chegitz ( talk) 18:15, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Removed more OT "discussion" from the Jacksonville poster. Chegitz ( talk) 05:42, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Removed yet more OT discussion by Atlee. Chegitz ( talk) 14:03, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Removed yet more OT discussion. Personal attacks are against Wiki Policy. Chegitz ( talk) 13:36, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Restored information on Party leaders and Party offices.
The Chair, Brian Moore, was suspended, Feb 9, 2010. He has been removed from the infobox. Chegitz ( talk) 04:29, 10 February 2010 (UTC)