User talk:Mashford

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Calculus
Hi, do you have a source you can cite for the information you added to that article? I think that bit is almost entirely unknown to western students, so it could really use a citation to support it. Keep up the good work. - Taxman 20:46, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
 * That Scientific American articel would be a great source, but the URL you put in does not go to the article for me. Typically an inline link like that is entered with like  which then looks like this: . But no worries. I can fix the formatting for you, or you can look at the how to edit page. So far, wikipedia is horrendous overall for citing sources, so it is something we need to work more on. That's why I asked for the source. - Taxman 21:49, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi, see my note on Talk:Calculus - Taxman 14:54, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

Cleanup / browser
Hello, it seems you accidentally blanked most of Cleanup when editing it. The way the page was cut off, maybe your browser doesn't properly support editing pages that large? Anyway, no problem, I've fixed it. Rvollmert 20:52, 2004 Aug 20 (UTC)
 * Holy crap, my bad.. My apologies for any screwups this might have caused. I agree that this was a browser issue. Thanks for the notification and the revert. Mashford 01:43, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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Gustav Leijohhufved
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--Fred-Chess 14:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks Fred. Will comment anon. Mashford

B&LE redirect
The information that was in Bessemer and Lake Erie (which your user page says you created) is all contained in the more complete Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, so I've made the former a redirect to the latter. slambo 15:13, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Groovy. Thanks. Mashford 13:29, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Rosicrucian article
Dear user Mashford, as I have seen editions of yours at the article Rosicrucian, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Featured_article_candidates. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Your change to Saarland
"affluent" is also a noun, meaning a tributary stream. Check out these dictionaries: AHD, Encarta, Merriam-Websters. Anyway, it's admittedly jargon, 'tributary' is also fine, if not better. :-) -- H005 15:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well OK then. I put in the link since tributary already had a dandy article. Thanks! --Mashford 11:53, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

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 * Whoops, only talk pages.. My bad. Will fix anon. --Mashford 16:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Small correction
A minor point-- "My Position on Wikipedia: I am an administrator since December 2005" should be I have been an administrator... Grammar sticks to me since I teach English. Am sure you get it. Yours, Mashford 13:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note Mashford. Much appreciated. Cheers. --  Szvest   -  Wiki me up ®  16:42, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * By the way Mashford, how is it going for you in Rabat? --  Szvest   -  Wiki me up ®  09:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It is going well here thanks FayssalF. Rabat is warm and sunny for Xmas as normal. And chez vous?Mashford 18:40, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Dominica
Regarding this edit, Dominica is a member of the Commonwealth Guettarda 12:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Aha. Thought that was a little curious. So presumably this [] should be corrected? --Mashford 15:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * What about it? It says that Dominica is a member of the Commonwealth.  Guettarda 16:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * "Unlike other former British colonies in the region, Dominica was never a Commonwealth realm..." Maybe some resolution is in order? Mashford 19:15, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Commonwealth realms are countries which maintained the Queen as head of state after independence. This is unrelated to members of the Commonwealth (Mozambique, for example, was never even part of the British Empire, while Pakistan was a republic from the time of independence).  Both Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana are republics, although they maintained the Queen as head of state for a few years after independence.  Guettarda 21:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * So Commonwealth realms are a separate group from Commonweath members? I get it, but it strikes me as hopelessly arbitrary and hair-splitting. I am sticking with Morocco, which is a perfectly ordinary constitutional monarchy. Mashford 23:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
For reverting all that crud off of Islamofascism. The unsigned comment above, and its vituperative ilk, are contributions of an unhappy Dutchman, without whose partisan and groundless contributions the Wiki is a better place. After all, the mere fact that the term is present here implies that its use is still under some civil discussion. My objections to it have already been noted. --Mashford 17:24, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for you as well. I tried to explain to them what's wrong w/ their rant but that went in vain. I got worse than i had expected. So i just pushed my button and blocked the filth comming out from there.
 * I am sorry for not replying to your question above around Xmas time. I just haven't noticed it till now. Casablanca is ok now after the bastards stormed last week. -- FayssalF  - Wiki me up®  17:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

A Question
What are the parentheses that appeared on the watchlist page a couple months ago? The numbers go up when link are added, and down when text is deleted. ??? --Mashford 04:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * In green → number of characters added after the last edit.
 * In red    → number of characters removed after the last edit. --  FayssalF  - Wiki me up®  11:23, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

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WP:AR1
It appears that the bot that formerly worked on cleaning up the blue links at WP:AR1 has gone on a wikibreak, so I am doing some of that work. Bearian 15:39, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Sweet. I dig it. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Yours, Mashford

Albigensian Crusade
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Fixed! Mashford (talk) 21:47, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

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Tunisian Arabic
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Intelligence
This was entitled intelligent network in 2005. You don't happen to know what it was supposed to be about, do you? Uncle G (talk) 12:38, 4 June 2019 (UTC) Or indeed what this one was supposed to be about? Uncle G (talk) 16:05, 5 June 2019 (UTC)