User:Tompw

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Introduction

I'm a maths graduate working in the transport sector. I'm originally from Bradford on Avon, a small town in West Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom. I currently reside in Canada.
Hobbies and interests: maths, pinnipeds, non-League football, clarinet, piano, church organ, bell ringing, field hockey, Stage lighting, Backgammon, philology.
Many of my edits relate to maths, non-League football, or Canadian elections
I also specialise in templates (see User:Tompw/templates and User:Tompw/leaguetemplates)
I have shadow accounts at meta and commons.


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Frequently visited pages

Maths: Portal:Mathematics, Portal:Geometry, Wikiproject maths, WP 1.0 stuff, Areas of mathematics, User:Tompw/Maths_cats. My masters project was entitled Curves and Singularties (PDF), and looked at n-dimensional curves in Euclidean and affine space.
Non-League Football: Wikiproject NLF, User:Tompw/leaguetemplates for a full list of league templates, User:Tompw/allclubs for templates in action. (I'm the creator and editor of popular non-League football website thePyramid.info)
History of rail transport in Great Britain series: pre-1830, 1830 - 1922, 1923 - 1947, 1948 - 1994, 1995 to date; plus List of British Rail classes
Nunavut: Portal:Nunavut.
To do type things: State highways in California, Portal:Discworld, List of NFL seasons, Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties/county lists (changes), User:Tompw/leaguetemplates ({{fb box}} format)

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General wikipedia stuff

USeful links: How to edit a page, Wikipipe tables, images, parser functions
My contribution as tompw and 217.155.46.150; articles most contributed to
Last time I checked, my edit count put me in the top 0.03% of users by number of edits. However, a hefty proportion have been related to placing templates, so that doesn't reeally mean much. To me, the edit count is like the scenry on a train journey: it may be pretty and nice, but has nothing to do with the destination.
Currently, the largest proportion of my edits is (non-League) football related, typically addding navigation boxes to club articles (I've probably edited over a thousand club articles). Other areas include maths, elections, Nunavut, physics, astronomy and railways.
Sample of major contributions: Timeline of Canadian elections, List of British Rail classes series, Areas of mathematics, History of rail transport in Great Britain series, List of Nova Scotia general elections (post-Confederation), Canadian federal election results since 1867, English football league system, Homotopy groups of spheres, List of parishes in Louisiana, 2005 Atlantic hurricane season series (although so did 1,000 other people), Clarinet, contents of User:Tompw/templates, and most of templates listed on User:Tompw/leaguetemplates
I also created the colour scheme used on WP 1.0 for denoting the importance of articles, and the current scheme used for the quality of articles: the former are used on over 750,000 articles, while the latter are used on over 2 million articles (well, their talk pages).
Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations

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Sub-pages

User:Tompw - here :-)
User:Tompw/Arbcom principles - List of Arbitration Committee principles.
User:Tompw/allclubs - all the league navigation boxes in action...
User:Tompw/bookshelf - an illustration of how big Wikipedia would be printed and bound in book form, using the live article count. Transcluded below.
User:Tompw/Canadian election timelines - archive; includes standard for election lists.
User:Tompw/featured topics and User:Tompw/featured topics2 - work for WP:FT
User:Tompw/leaguetemplates - table of navigation boxes for non-League leagues
User:Tompw/maths templates - maths related navigation boxes
User:Tompw/Maths cats - HUGE page that attempts to arrange maths categories in a nice way
User:Tompw/MSC - an attempt to correlate Mathematics Subject Classification codes with WP categories
User:Tompw/Nunuvat - material from peer review of Nunavut article, before I could spell it correctly
User:Tompw/non-League links - non-League links
User:Tompw/Oratorio - List of standard oratorio works
User:Tompw/ra - Citations templates for Railways Archive
User:Tompw/steam timeline - just-started timeline of firsts and lasts
User:Tompw/templates - general navigation boxes
User:Tompw/userboxes - Userboxes... see also below
User:Tompw/wiki-latex - possible conversion between wikimedia markup and LaTeX

Sandboxes:

User:Tompw/sandbox - colour schems for the maths portals
User:Tompw/sandbox2 - experiment for maths portals header (now abandoned)
User:Tompw/sandbox3 - Draft table for future additions to List of Nunavut general elections. (Previous version got moved to Timeline of Canadian elections)
User:Tompw/sandbox4 - Testing implementation for {{BS-any}} and Fatal train collisions in the UK not preventable by ATP
User:Tompw/sandbox5 - demo for changes to {{Infobox U.S. County}}
User:Tompw/sandbox6 - used when I was perfecting the Did You Know box on Portal:Mathematics
User:Tompw/sandbox6 - blank
User:Tompw/sandbox7 - prospective US Counties FT box and List of provinces of Churches in the Anglican Communion
User:Tompw/sandbox8 - for lists of the form BC • AB • SK • MB • ON • QC • NB • NS • PEI • NL • YU • NT • NU
- User:Tompw/sandbox8a - for when the word "The" is needed (as in "stuff in the Yukon")
User:Tompw/sandbox9 - test for implementation of User:Tompw/sandbox2
User:Tompw/sandbox10 - Set of historical maps
User:Tompw/sandbox11 - Canada rail map
User:Tompw/sandbox12 - Colour test following introduction of {{C-class}}

Books:

User:Tompw/Books/Formula 1 Drivers - 2013-07-06. 4298 pages, 5 volumes, $263.
User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics - 2013-07-06. (Too large! Error message from MediaWiki)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (0-9) - 2013-08-09. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (A) - 2013-08-09. 4139 pages, 4 volumes, $263
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (B) - 2013-08-09. 4061 pages, 4 volumes, $258
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (C) - 2013-08-09. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (D) - 2013-08-09. 3801 pages, 4 volumes, $282
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (E) - 2013-08-10. 3241 pages, 3 volumes, $207
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (F) - 2013-08-10. 3350 pages, 3 volumes, $214
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (G) - 2013-08-10. 3590 pages, 4 volumes, $229
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (H) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (I) - 2013-08-10. 2686 pages, 3 volumes, $173
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (J) - 2013-08-10. 608 pages, 1 volume, $43
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (K) - 2013-08-10. 1423 pages, 2 volumes, $94
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (L) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (M) - 2013-07-06. 5703 pages, 6 volumes, $348
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (N) - 2013-08-10. 2327 pages, 3 volumes, $150
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (O) - 2013-08-10. 1500 pages, 2 volumes, $99
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (P) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Q) - 2013-08-10. 1057 pages, 1 volume, $71
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (R) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (S) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (T) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (U) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (V) - 2013-08-10. 1080 pages, 1 volume, $72
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (W) - 2013-08-10. 1355 pages, 2 volumes, $90
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (X) - 2013-08-10. 37 pages, 1 volume, $11
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Y) - 2013-08-10. 132 pages, 1 volume, $13
- User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Z) - 2013-08-10. 336 pages, 1 volume, $26
User:Tompw/Books/Topology - 2013-08-09. 67 pages, 1 volume, $47.
User:Tompw/Books/Topology - 2013-08-09. 67 pages, 1 volume, $47.
User:Tompw/Books/History of rail transport in Great Britain

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Wikimedia News

Meta:
- meta:Wikimedia News (numerical milestones)
- meta:Goings-on (summary info)
- meta:Wikizine (weekly newsletter)
Wikipedia:
- Signpost (English)
- fr:Wikipédia:Wikimag (French)
- de | pl | ja | nl | it | pt | es | he
Wikisource: s:en:Wikisource:News
Wikinews:
- n:en:Wikinews:Wikinews Bulletin
- n:en:Template:Wn news
Wikiversity: v:en:Wikiversity:News

Community Portals:

wikt:en:Wiktionary:Community Portal (Wiktionary)
q:en:Wikiquote:Community portal (Wikiquote)
Commons:Community Portal

meta:Complete list of Wikimedia projects

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		The Society Barnstar
For making fourteen featured lists within little over a month and thereby comprehensively covering the complete history of Canadian elections, I hereby award you this barnstar in social sciences. --Arctic Gnome 18:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

		Railroad Barnstar
For your stalwart work on articles about British railway history. Gwernol 15:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
For creating {{county7}}. Your hard work is appreciated. Crzy cheetah 18:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)]]

The size of Wikipedia (live)

Use {{User:Tompw/bookshelf}}

3452 volumes
18 stacks

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Userboxes

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This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

This user helped promote List of Saskatchewan general elections to featured list status.

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