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)

Ireland

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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)

Delete this

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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)

Renaming articles

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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)

Maya numbers

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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)

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Editing old versions of a page

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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)Reply

Oops! Sorry about that!

GA reassessment of Recorder

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I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found a lot of concerns with the referencing and the licensing of images which you can see at Talk:Recorder/GA1. Consequently I have de-listed the article. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 02:01, 18 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

h2g2 article in peer review

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Hi there Gnomon :-)

I'm trying to get wikipedia's article on h2g2 improved with a view to eventually getting it Featured Article status. That way, it might even appear for a day on the front page of wikipedia.

While it's not a particularly important project, any comments would be welcome on the review page.

Thanks, AlexAshman (talk) 15:02, 20 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Galileo Galilei

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You can leave the pages of the book in talk:Galileo Galilei, I will insert in the ciatation. Thank you!--Tranletuhan (talk) 06:21, 28 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Klein bottle

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You added the sentance The name 'Klein bottle' seems to have arisen from a mistranslation of the German term 'fläche' which means 'surface'. This was mistaken for the word 'flasche' which means bottle. Nevertheless, the name is appropriate. back in 2005. Do you have any reference for this? The assertion is highly disputed. --Trigamma (talk) 17:37, 21 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Renamed

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