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Is there an admin page on here giving guidelines of what is and isn't encyclopaedic content? Thanks in advance! --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 10:48, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * More 'editors' pages', since admins are editors, too. Notability, Policies and guidelines, and Verifiability are good starting points; the navigation template at the bottom can lead you to other areas you're looking for. Note that the 'New section' tab will automatically place them at the bottom, below this, as they are supposed to stay in chronologic order for clarity and consistency. Dru of Id (talk) 11:48, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Message for User:Mrmatiko

 * Hello again and thanks for a quick response! I'm not at all knowledgeable on that subject but I don't mind tracking down a source for the switch-off decision, perhaps from the conseil général (local govt) of Calais. Yes, I've got you watchlisted so there's no need to message me in future. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 19:17, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * A lot of us Wikipedians haven't got much knowledge about a lot that we write about. This can be pretty good because you tend to spend more time finding good sources than somebody who thinks they know everything about a topic. It's also pretty fun learning about something you've never come across before. If you are concerned about a change just be bold, if somebody disagrees with your edit then they will revert it (hopefully with an explanation) and you can begin discussing it on the relevant talk page. If you ever need any help there are plenty of people (as you've probably seen by now) you can ask. --Mrmatiko (talk) 10:11, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * Note to self: all new Q's for the Teahouse go up the top of the page. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 14:07, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

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If you already knew this then just ignore it, but otherwise I hope it helps. --Mrmatiko (talk) 16:00, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I didn't realise this and it'll help me in the future. I find Wikipedia's own explanations on how to do things too confusing so like to leave reminders for myself in proper English rather than wikijargon. Thanks a lot! --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 16:55, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

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Administrative divisions of Belgium
When editing a redirect that seems to be completely unrelated to a target, please look at the page history to ensure there wasn't valid revision to revert back to. Administrative divisions of Belgium was redirecting to Eritrea because of vandalism by IP at Belgium blanking and redirecting it to Eritrea. Unfortunately EmausBot had picked that up as a double redirect before the vandalism at Belgium was reverted. -- KTC (talk) 20:21, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your message, but to be completely honest, I don't understand half of this because it's quite heavily jargonised. Would you mind explaining in more simple terms please? Thank you! --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 20:27, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 * You first blanked, and then edited Administrative divisions of Belgium with the edit summary "There is no reason why the blank page 'administrative divisions of Belgium should redirect to a completely unrelated article." If you go to Administrative divisions of Belgium and click on the View history tab, you can see a history of that page. From there you can see that up until 26 April 2012‎, the page was a redirect to Belgium. At 18:36, 26 April 2012‎, EmausBot changed the redirect to point to Eritrea. EmausBot is a bot that automatically fixes double redirects. If you look at the page history of the Belgium page, you will see that at that moment, the anonymous user 85.210.191.242 in an act of vandalism had blanked the Belgium page and redirected the page to Eritrea. This caused the original redirect at Administrative divisions of Belgium to become a double redirect that EmausBot automatically "corrected" to the Eritrea page. It was in this state that you came upon the Administrative divisions of Belgium page.
 * If I didn't explain that very well, please let me know and I will try my best. -- KTC (talk) 20:54, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 * No, that second explanation was fine. I would have fixed the redirect there and then but don't know how. The next best thing seemed to be to provide a 'main article' link. Thanks a lot for you your help in coming back and translating it for me into thicko speak ;) Kind regards, --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 12:57, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

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Saw this, congratulations.

-- Mrmatiko (talk) 07:54, 16 August 2012 (UTC) 
 * Thank you so much! You've been a good 'buddy' to me (and, I suspect, other newbies) here on Wikipedia. Keep it up :) --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 07:58, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'm a bit inconsistent but I try... What will you be studying? -- Mrmatiko (talk) 08:10, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * BA French and Philosophy, a 4-year course with year 3 being spent living and working in France. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 08:13, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds like you'll be busy! Good luck. Your contributions to local articles are very much appreciated and I hope you'll still find the time to contribute when you can. -- Mrmatiko (talk) 08:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

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Nice user name. :) — Hex    (❝  ?!  ❞)   19:36, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 19:37, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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Canada — establishment or independence
Hi ThunderingTyphoons:

I've changed your sovereignty edit to independence. I just wanted to let you know I don't wish to appear obstructive, and I thank you for contributing to the search for a solution. We've had an extensive discussion, and the consensus appears to favour including the word independence in some way. The problem I see with your edit is that sovereignty, in its most basic sense, simply means self-rule. Canada was granted self-rule in 1867. NorthernFactoid (talk) 06:33, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi NorthernFactoid. I have no opinion on which word should be used, I simply changed the incorrect spelling "sovreignity" to the correct "sovereignty". I certainly didn't change "independence" to "sovereignty", or vice versa. Thanks, --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 14:28, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

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I've been looking for an admin who'd be willing to help me out. I've been blocked by AndreCarrotflower on Wikivoyage. Who the heck is LibMod, and what on earth is a doppelganger? American Ride (talk) 00:28, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ThunderingTyphoons, please see voy:pub -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 15:36, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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