User talk:Tompagenet

Hello, Tompagenet. Welcome to Wikipedia.

A few tips for you to start going. (I'll send more if I see that I can help you :-)


 * Just edit stuff off the cuff for a while. We like that!
 * When you have time, check out Welcome, newcomers + the links in there.
 * You can sign your stuff on talk pages with ~ It will convert to your username + the time. "anon" is fine too.
 * If puzzled, put a question on Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my talk page if it's a very general question.
 * Most of all, have fun but take our work seriously!

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 23:15 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Regarding the edit you made to Extortion, please see Legal_advice. The disclaimer you deleted is encouraged on such pages. Angela 19:44, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Sysop status granted
Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! You have volunteered for boring housekeeping activities which normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban signed in users. What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban anonymous vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Votes for deletion for more than a week, protect pages when asked to by other members, and help keep the few protected pages there are, among them the precious Main Page, up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. You will find more information at Administrators, please take a look before experimenting with your new powers. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun!&mdash;Eloquence 02:45, Aug 19, 2003 (UTC)

It had to be done.Ark30inf

"What is the point in this page - it is, and as far as I can see always will be, a purely dictionary-definition page" -- Tompagenet, April 10, 2003

Well, look again! Does this look like a dictionary-definition page to you? Wiwaxia 09:11, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Stalin non-quotation
Please see the talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Famous_non-quotation for my comments about this. One Salient Oversight 23:25, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Category:UK Wikipedians
Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 21:11 (UTC)

Visual Basic Classic wikibook
I see you have contributed to the BASIC programming language article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 11:01, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Templeton Prize reference system
When I first gave the reference (Dawkins 2006:19) I was using the standard Harvard referencing system as layed out in Citing sources. I reverted it to the Harvard system, but removed the page number, since I don't believe it is really necessary. Feel free to add it again if you think it is important, or use any other referencing system layed out in Citing sources.

The above relates to Templeton Prize Tompagenet 14:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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VTech page

 * hello there! nooo, believe me i never find it arrogant to congratulate others for their work, much appreciated, friend. i'm really impressed with that page in general, it certainly shows that this whole rigorous group effort thing can indeed be done accurately & well. cheers again. tomasz.  17:09, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Ken Korda at AFD
Hey, you left an odd note about the Ken Korda article at the A W Neill Middle School AFD. Were you trying to nominate the Korda article for deletion? If there's some significance to the middle school article that I missed, my apologies. GlassCobra 21:51, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see what happened. I fixed the problem; whenever you nominate an article for deletion, make sure you follow all the instructions at Template:AfD footer, okay? Thanks! GlassCobra 21:58, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem! GlassCobra 13:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

New DLR Pictures
Do you have any pictures of the new DLR Rolling stocks for use at this article Docklands Light Railway rolling stock? If you do, can you please replace this image Image:NewDLR.jpg. Thanks,  Tyw7, formerly Troop350    (Talk  ●  Contributions) 11:52, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Docklands Light Railway rolling stock
Do you want to help me improve the Docklands Light Railway rolling stock article? Please respond on my talk page. -- Tyw7 (Talk • Contributions) 11:27, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

August 2010
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Signpost Interview

 * Brought to you by Simply south...... eating shoes for 5 years So much for ER 18:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

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