Jump to content

User:Thepm

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This user is very lazy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries.
Talk to me, I'm lonely

Odds and ends

[edit]

Some random facts about me

  • I used to live in Sydney, Australia, but moved to Tokyo, Japan in early 2012.
  • My postcode used to be 2000
  • I finished my MBA in 2009.
  • I am sporadically working toward an Masters in Business Law.
    • I am not a lawyer.
  • I work for a software company in a field related to cars and money.
    • I cannot fix your computer.
    • I don't know much about cars.
  • In my youth, I was a keen cricketer and footballer.
    • I was not especially good at either sport.
    • These days I confine myself to observing the games and providing unsolicited advice.

Articles I'd like to improve;

Articles I'd like to steer away from;

  • Anything to do with climate change.

Key weakness;

  • Reading the talk pages of the climate change articles.

Things I'd like to do more of;

As of 2 May 2011, I've taken Climatic Research Unit email controversy of my watchlist, so I wont know what's going on there any longer. I've lost hope that anything good can come of that article. You can still read about some of my adventures there if you are so inclined, but to be honest I got bored with documenting them.

Boxes and things

[edit]

This is my Sandpit. You can have a play too if you like.

List building

There are three basic steps to building a topic list for Wikipedia: the first is to search Wikipedia to make sure it doesn't already have a list on the subject. The second step is to hunt down every word you can find on the subject, from your own memory, books, web directories, dictionaries, etc. Surround each term with double square brackets, and save the page.

Because Wikipedia has become so extensive, don't be surprised if most or even all of the links turn out blue (those are live links, each leading to an article on Wikipedia). Dead-end links are red, but don't remove them, because they show what articles Wikipedia is missing — anyone can click on a red link to create an article on that topic. The third step is checking each live article in the list for links to related topics. When you find one, add it to the list.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
This user comes from Sydney.
This user is an atheist.
Icon This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years and 12 days.