User talk:OwlofDoom

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Hullo, and welcome to Wikipedia. I was impressed by your quality pic of Manchester Town Hall. Contributing pics is a very worthwhile occupation on WP, that's what I do myself. I only contribute illustrations, with brief excursions into modifying text if I see horrid bits of writing while I'm placing a pic. Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone 19:26, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome! Now I feel like I'm not such a small fish in the vast ocean of Wikipedia. Can I ask you how you found me, though? I've been wading through here and it seems like there are literally hundreds of changes to the content every hour - it must be very difficult to spot new things... -- OwlofDoom 19:46, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
You'll find a lot of people inveterately haunt "recent changes" - it's the only way to spot lots of anon vandalism. When one sees somewith with a red user: or talk: page, it's almost certain they're new, so some kind soul will usually pop by and say hi. Also, lots of people have gazillions of things in their watchlist, so if you do something on an article they've edited they'll frequently check it out.
You might find these links helpful in editing pages or creating new ones: How to edit a page, Tutorial, Naming conventions, Manual of Style. You should probably read our policies at some point too.
But don't feel you have to read every policy document before you do anything. Dive in, be bold in editing, and if you do anything wrong, someone will be quick to correct it and let you know (hopefully, politely!)


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Here are some tasks you can do:

If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!
You may have already noticed that you can sign your name using three tildes, like this: ~~~. If you use four, you can add a datestamp too, as I've done below. This is mostly useful, and is considered good wikiquette, on talk pages. But be aware that the actual wikipedia articles should never be signed - they belong to the community, rather than the individual who created them.
So, welcome from me too. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:00, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Adrian again. Finding your Manchester pic was automatic. Here's how ......
To set an article to be permanently watched for changes you can click the "Watch this Page" link that you'll find somewhere on each page. (I have a Watch List of about 800 articles so that I can watch for anyone messing with my pics). To see your Watch List click on "My watchlist" (this link is on every page somewhere) and you can look over it and examine any article whose change might interest you.
One of the pages I watch is Wikipedia:Help desk which is where you went to ask if pics were a useful contribution. When I scanned my Watchlist this evening (I actually have my watchlist as a desktop icon that calls up Special:Watchlist) I spotted a change to the Help Desk that sounded interesting, clicked on the item, saw the Manchester pic being praised and saw your Username. So I only had to click on your Username, then on "Discuss this page" then on Edit and start typing. Incidentally, I live in Bristol,
Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 20:46, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
Thanks again, Finlay and Adrian. I seem to be too late for the old "reading helpfiles isn't totally necessary" thing, as I'm one of these people who tends to read everything before even signing up. Well, I'd better get back to poking around and tweaking things, then. Maybe even adding a couple more pictures, here and there. -- OwlofDoom 07:43, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Prince Philip article

Nice catch, I didn't get into a detail reading of the King consort article I just noticed that the Queen consort refers to women married to kings and thus can't apply to Prince Philip. Cheers Nought 21:16, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Indeed. That's what I figured you'd done. :) -- OwlofDoom 07:20, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for moving Irn Bru to Irn-Bru!

Well done for the not inconsiderable amount of work you did by moving Irn Bru to its correct home at Irn-Bru. I was meaning to get round to it myself, but you pipped me at the post! It was a small, but niggling, error on the otherwise reliable Wikipedia... Best wishes, Cal T 20:05, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for thanking me! Such a task was easy with the appropriate caffeine boost from the nectar itself. -- OwlofDoom 23:31, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)