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* I'm a maths graduate working in the transport sector. I'm originally from [[Bradford on Avon]], a small town in [[West Wiltshire|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 [[Mathematics|maths]], non-League football, or [[Template:Canelections|Canadian elections]]
* I also specialise in templates (see [[User:Tompw/templates]] and [[User:Tompw/leaguetemplates]])
* I have shadow accounts at [[:meta:User:tompw|meta]] and [[commons:User:tompw|commons]].
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* '''Maths''': [[Portal:Mathematics]], [[Portal:Geometry]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics|Wikiproject maths]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/Wikipedia_1.0|WP 1.0 stuff]], [[Areas of mathematics]], [[User:Tompw/Maths_cats]]. M
* '''Non-League Football''':  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-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 [http://www.thepyramid.info thePyramid.info]) 
*'''[[History of rail transport in Great Britain]]''' series: [[History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830|pre-1830]], [[History of rail transport in Great Britain 1830 - 1922|1830 - 1922]], [[History of rail transport in Great Britain 1923 - 1947|1923 - 1947]], [[History of rail transport in Great Britain 1948 - 1994|1948 - 1994]], [[History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date|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]] ([[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties/county lists|changes]]), [[User:Tompw/leaguetemplates]] (<nowiki>{{fb box}}</nowiki> format)
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* USeful links: [[How to edit a page]], [[Help:Table|Wikipipe tables]], [[Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax|images]], [[meta:ParserFunctions|parser functions]]
* My contribution as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=tompw tompw] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=217.155.46.150 217.155.46.150]; [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=tompw&site=en.wikipedia.org 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/Wikipedia_1.0&diff=prev&oldid=48436697 created] the colour scheme used on [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects|WP 1.0]] for denoting the [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Release_Version_Criteria#Importance%20of%20topic|importance]] of articles, and the current scheme used for the [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment|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]]
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* [[User:Tompw]] - here :-)
* [[User:Tompw/Arbcom principles]] - List of Arbitration Committee principles.
* [[User:Tompw/allclubs]] - all the league navigation boxes in action...
* [[User:Tompw/bookshelf]] - an illustration of how big Wikipedia would be printed and bound in book form, using the live article count. Transcluded below.
* [[User:Tompw/Canadian election timelines]] - archive; includes standard for election lists.
* [[User:Tompw/featured topics]] and [[User:Tompw/featured topics2]] - work for [[WP:FT]]
* [[User:Tompw/leaguetemplates]] - table of navigation boxes for non-League leagues
* [[User:Tompw/maths templates]] - maths related navigation boxes
* [[User:Tompw/Maths cats]] - HUGE page that attempts to arrange maths categories in a nice way
* [[User:Tompw/MSC]] - an attempt to correlate Mathematics Subject Classification codes with WP categories
* ''[[User:Tompw/Nunuvat]] - material from peer review of [[Nunavut]] article, before I could spell it correctly''
* [[User:Tompw/non-League links]] - non-League links
* [[User:Tompw/Oratorio]] - List of standard [[oratorio]] works
* [[User:Tompw/ra]] - Citations templates for Railways Archive
* [[User:Tompw/steam timeline]] - just-started timeline of firsts and lasts
* [[User:Tompw/templates]] - general navigation boxes
* [[User:Tompw/userboxes]] - Userboxes... see also below
* [[User:Tompw/wiki-latex]] - possible conversion between wikimedia markup and [[LaTeX]]

''Sandboxes'':
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox]] - colour schems for the maths portals
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox2]] - experiment for maths portals header (now abandoned)
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox3]] - Draft table for future additions to [[List of Nunavut general elections]]. (Previous version got moved to [[Timeline of Canadian elections]])
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox4]] - Testing implementation for {{tl|BS-any}} and Fatal train collisions in the UK not preventable by ATP
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox5]] - demo for changes to {{tl|Infobox U.S. County}}
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox6]] - used when I was perfecting the Did You Know box on [[Portal:Mathematics]]
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox6]] - blank
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox7]] - prospective [[WP:COUNTYLISTS|US Counties FT box]] and List of provinces of Churches in the [[Anglican Communion]]
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox8]] - for lists of the form {{User:Tompw/sandbox8| | }}
** [[User:Tompw/sandbox8a]] - for when the word "The" is needed (as in "stuff in the Yukon")
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox9]] - test for implementation of [[User:Tompw/sandbox2]]
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox10]] - Set of historical maps
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox11]] - Canada rail map
* [[User:Tompw/sandbox12]] - Colour test following introduction of {{tl|C-class}}

''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, $263
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (B)]] - 2013-08-09. 4061 pages, 4 volumes, $258
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (C)]] - 2013-08-09. (Error message from PediaPress)
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (D)]] - 2013-08-09. 3801 pages, 4 volumes, $282
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (E)]] - 2013-08-10. 3241 pages, 3 volumes, $207
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (F)]] - 2013-08-10. 3350 pages, 3 volumes, $214
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (G)]] - 2013-08-10. 3590 pages, 4 volumes, $229
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (H)]] - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (I)]] - 2013-08-10. 2686 pages, 3 volumes, $173
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (J)]] - 2013-08-10. 608 pages, 1 volume, $43
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (K)]] - 2013-08-10. 1423 pages, 2 volumes, $94
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (L)]] - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (M)]] - 2013-07-06. 5703 pages, 6 volumes, $348
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (N)]] - 2013-08-10. 2327 pages, 3 volumes, $150
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (O)]] - 2013-08-10. 1500 pages, 2 volumes, $99
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (P)]] - 2013-08-10. (Error message from PediaPress)
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Q)]] - 2013-08-10. 1057 pages, 1 volume, $71
** [[User: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, $72
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (W)]] - 2013-08-10. 1355 pages, 2 volumes, $90
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (X)]] - 2013-08-10. 37 pages, 1 volume, $11
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Y)]] - 2013-08-10. 132 pages, 1 volume, $13
** [[User:Tompw/Books/Mathematics (Z)]] - 2013-08-10. 336 pages, 1 volume, $26
* [[User: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]]
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" colspan="3"| 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.<br>--[[User:Arctic.gnome|Arctic Gnome]] 18:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC) 
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" colspan="3"| For your stalwart work on articles about British railway history. [[User:Gwernol|Gwernol]] 15:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" colspan="3"|  For creating {{tl|county7}}. Your hard work is appreciated.  <span style="background:Orange;">[[User:Crzycheetah|Crzy]][[User_talk:Crzycheetah|cheetah]]</span> 18:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)]]
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