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 .
edit Frequently visited pages
Maths : Portal:Mathematics , Portal:Geometry , Wikiproject maths , WP 1.0 stuff , Areas of mathematics , User:Tompw/Maths_cats . MNon-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 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)
edit 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
Sandboxes :
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, $263User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (B) - 2013-08-09. 4061 pages, 4 volumes, $258User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (C) - 2013-08-09. (Error message from PediaPress)User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (D) - 2013-08-09. 3801 pages, 4 volumes, $282User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (E) - 2013-08-10. 3241 pages, 3 volumes, $207User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (F) - 2013-08-10. 3350 pages, 3 volumes, $214User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (G) - 2013-08-10. 3590 pages, 4 volumes, $229User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (H) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (I) - 2013-08-10. 2686 pages, 3 volumes, $173User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (J) - 2013-08-10. 608 pages, 1 volume, $43User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (K) - 2013-08-10. 1423 pages, 2 volumes, $94User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (L) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (M) - 2013-07-06. 5703 pages, 6 volumes, $348User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (N) - 2013-08-10. 2327 pages, 3 volumes, $150User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (O) - 2013-08-10. 1500 pages, 2 volumes, $99User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (P) - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Q) - 2013-08-10. 1057 pages, 1 volume, $71User: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, $72User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (W) - 2013-08-10. 1355 pages, 2 volumes, $90User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (X) - 2013-08-10. 37 pages, 1 volume, $11User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Y) - 2013-08-10. 132 pages, 1 volume, $13User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Z) - 2013-08-10. 336 pages, 1 volume, $26User: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
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
