User talk:Gnomon

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Hello there Gnomon, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice work in the music section and with starting the Eru Ilúvatar article. Cheers! --maveric149

Hi Gnomon! Thanks for the great Wikipedia article at h2g2, and for popping by to contribute here. I've been thinking about a Wikipedia:Guide for h2g2 researchers (as well as a Wikipedia:Guide for Everything2 noders, but you wouldn't care about that... :) but haven't got it off the ground yet. If you have a few spare minutes, feel free to start it. :) -- Stephen Gilbert 16:14 Jan 22, 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] Ireland

Hi there!

If you are interested in Irish topics and articles, you may wish to visit the Irish wikipedians' notice board. Great to see someone add to some of the Irish articles here!

Also, if you know information about any other towns other than Rosslare, you may wish to check out the List of towns in the Republic of Ireland to see the articles which exist or aren't started yet (we have a list with the short articles on the talk page), or check out Category:Towns of Ireland.

zoney ♣ talk 10:45, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

SUCK MY WANKER

[edit] Delete this

Instead of writing "delete this" in an article you create by accident, you better put {{Delete}} - that template allows to find such articles much easier, even if they don't show in the list of new pages anymore. But the one you marked earlier is gone already now... andy 11:32, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks Andy. I couldn't find any "delete" button.

There isn't one oneless you are a wikipedia administrator. Thue | talk 14:45, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming articles

To rename an article you can use the "move" button at the top of the page (near the "edit this page" button). Moving creates a redirect from the old name, which may be appropriate, but if not you should mark the redirect for deletion using the {{delete}} template. Thue | talk 14:45, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Maya numbers

Thanks for your work on Mesoamerican topics. However some of what you added to Maya numerals seemed wrong to me. Discussion at Talk:Maya numerals. Thanks, -- Infrogmation 15:19, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing old versions of a page

I think you must have accidentally edited an old version of the Tempest Prognosticator article, since your typo fix actually removed a substantial amount of content. There is a pinkish warning banner that appears near the top of the page if you do start to edit old version. —Celithemis 09:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry about that!