User talk:Mashford
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[edit] 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 [http://example.com] which then looks like this: [1]. 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)
[edit] Cleanup / browser
Hello, it seems you accidentally blanked most of Wikipedia: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)
[edit] Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
[edit] Gustav Leijohhufved
This article, which you started, is being voted for deletion.
You are welcome to respond at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gustav Leijohhufved.
--Fred-Chess 14:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks Fred. Will comment anon. Mashford
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Rosicrucian. 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)
[edit] 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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[edit] Pink Floyd template
The Pink Floyd template is for the talk page only. And it is already on most of the articles you've edited today. If you notice Pink FLoyd talk pages that do not have the project template then go ahead and put it in. Please retrace back and remove the template from the main articles. Anger22 16:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Whoops, only talk pages.. My bad. Will fix anon. --Mashford 16:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Dominica
Regarding this edit, Dominica is a member of the Commonwealth[2] Guettarda 12:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Aha. Thought that was a little curious. So presumably this [[3]] 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
