Per suggestion, I've archived what had been here until recently. A lot of prior material can be found at the imaginatively titled article User talk:Mandsford/Archive.
Even more can be found at [1]. Last year, I had cut out all but the highlights and lowlights of the first two years of the talk page, but didn't archive them.
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