User talk:Tompw

Image:GBR_rail_passenegers_by_year.gif dataset

Hello Tompw. I was looking your graph of passenger numbers over time. Do you still have the spreadsheet with the numbers in so that it can be regenerated in a vector format. The spreadsheet is also the "source code" of the graph and should allow easy re-creation when more years of data become available. (Soon it looks like passenger numbers may exceed those in the 1950s blip! Many thanks. —Sladen (talk) 14:08, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I put the dataset on the image page. Journeys for 2007/07 (labelled as 2007) were the highest since 1946... there was a big jump of 7.6%, taking things well above the 1950s bump. I also have data for passenger-km if you think that would be useful graph to have. (The data for that only goes back to 1946... 2006/7 saw 46.5bn, the hoghest since 1946's record of 47.0). Tompw (talk) (review) 19:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Formula One

Thanks for your work on automating the transition of selected articles and pictures!-- Diniz (talk) 17:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:FCDW/March 31, 2008

Tom, that article is ready for publication, was written by someone else, and your changes aren't improving it. Did MER-C ask you to work on it? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:07, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, I'm worried that he mentioned that he's offline, and you're introducing a lot of typos, significant changes, and grammatical errors. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Portals

I've added Algebra and Topology to Portal:Contents/Portals. Nice work on those :) -- Quiddity (talk) 20:19, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Maths portals

I responded on my talk page. I also created Portal:Number theory and Portal:Discrete mathematics. I transferred some selected articles from topology to discrete mathematics. Since the number of portals grow, we'll have to modify Portal:Mathematics/RelatedPortals, maybe this way ? Cenarium^Talk 13:31, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem with overlaps, it also depends on the number of selectable articles in topology. You can work on number theory too. I'm not very experienced in templates, I created Portal:Number theory/Topics based on Portal:Set theory/Topics, and I'd like to link List of number theory topics. I think that Portal:Mathematics/RelatedPortals is nice like this. I'm not sure that the tab-based system can be implemented in a portal. Cenarium^Talk 14:59, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I changed the background colour of Portal:Category theory/box-header. I'd like to keep blue-based colours for category theory. Change the colours of Number Theory and Discrete as you like. Cenarium^Talk 17:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I changed the colours of category theory. Yeah, I like category theory and logic, but topology and algebra also, mathematical physics is interesting. I'm not specialized yet. Cenarium^Talk 18:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

Hey, Tompw. I don't know whether you are much into projects outside of Wikipedia, but I'd like to hear your input on the formation of meta:Wikimedia Canada before we end up locking the bylaws for submission in a few weeks. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 06:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Tompw/bookshelf

Kudos to you for User:Tompw/bookshelf ... truly excellent magic. But you don't appear to consider the size implications of images, nor do you have a note noting this. I'm sure you've thought about the image issue, but tell me: we can presumably make an assumption or stipulation about the print size of images, but do we have a clue about the average number of images per article? And is it worth the candle to go in this direction & recalculate the size including images? --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of acquisitions by Cisco Systems

I have addressed to your concerns. Gary King (talk) 17:50, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Featured list criteria

Could do with an experienced head here. Two editors trying their best don't make a community. I'd appreciate if you could participate and help formulate our new criteria. Colin°^Talk 22:29, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of National Football League team season lists

I have nominated National Football League team season lists, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Football League team season lists. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Buc (talk) 20:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:LOTD

List of Newfoundland and Labrador general elections was selected as a WP:LOTD for one day in June and will be the LOTD during the month. Let me know before May 23rd if you have any date preferences.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

A Featured List contest

Grettings. FL directors Scorpion0422 and The Rambling Man have decided to run a contest for FL contributors. We are trying to get some interest in the process and get some FLs for the under-represented topics. If you would like to learn more about this contest, you can find such information here. If you are uninterested in it, then you could still help out by reviewing FLCs submitted by the entrants. Thanks for the time, Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:LOTD/WP:LOTM

Congratulations Canadian federal election results since 1867 has been selected as a July WP:LOTD. As one of the leading vote-getters, it will appear in the WP:LOTD template for two days as a LOTD. If you have any preference on a days during July let me know before June 24th. If you have any other lists that you feel should be nominated next month please ad them at User:TonyTheTiger/List of the Day/Nominees/200808.

Timeline of Canadian elections has also been selected and will appear once. Any date preference should be stated before the 24th for this one as well.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:57, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

History of rail transport in Great Britain

Hi, I notice you haven't made many edits in the last week, though there have been some. I've placed the History of rail transport in Great Britain GA nomination on hold. Peanut4 (talk) 22:11, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Template:Featured topic box

Hi, I am using Template:Featured topic box in Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal/MindstormsKid (in the bottom hidden part). However, it seems that the < br clear="all" > is messing it up. Can you help me fix it? Thanks! ≈ MindstormsKid 02:07, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

FT Box

I want the top to align with the tops of the other boxes (F Portal and F List). It seems that the < br clear="all" > is messing it up...

Sorry for the late reply. ≈ MindstormsKid 14:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey, can I get some feedback here?

Thanks, rst20xx (talk) 20:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

County Lists

Chris is fine. Why haven't some of the mostly complete lists, like Iowa, been nominated? Le comte de monte christo (talk) 11:24, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Cricket history

Template:Cricket history has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. BlackJack | ^{talk page} 15:15, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:12TeamBracket2

A tag has been placed on Template:12TeamBracket2 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:58, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

editprotected request on {{Template:Infobox U.S. County}}

Just wanted to let you know your request is done. Great idea btw. Cheers. Thingg^⊕⊗ 04:01, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Canadian election timelines featured topic

Due to a change in the featured topic criteria, the Canadian election timelines featured topic has 3 months to satisfy criterion 3.c. by getting a peer review done for the audited article in the topic: List of Nunavut general elections. Rreagan007 (talk) 04:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

List of Formula One Grands Prix

Thanks, but i think maybe similar info is already in these articles? Will (talk) 17:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Re:Congressional districts of Arkansas

Arkansas' is not grammatically correct. 1) An apostrophe has no pronunciation, so "Arkansas' districts" is pronounced the same as "Arkansaw districts." (Arkansaw to reflect the odd pronunciation of the name). That is wrong. To be pronounced "Arkansaw's districts" there must be an additional s. There is no difference what letter the noun ends with. Follow the very simple rule of possessives: when making any singular noun possessive, add an apostrophe-s; when making a plural noun that already end in s possessive, simply add an apostrophe. For irregular plurals that do not end in s, add an apostrophe-s. These are singular nouns and should always add an apostrophe-s. It is better to write Mr. Jones's (Joneses) rather than Mr. Jones' (Jones); the latter is still accepted because it phonetically makes sense as the s in the word is already pronounced, unlike Arkansas, but the the former is better because it is more clear. 2) The only times that you may leave off the s are for Biblical or Classical names such as Jesus' and Moses'. The only exceptions are historical, which I disagree with but is generally accepted. 3) To be correctly consistent with with other articles. We have Texas's 1st congressional district and Kansas's congressional districts, which both need the additional s because the final s is pronounced differently, and because of the rule of possessives. 5) Per WP:MOS, please do not change widely accepted, pre-set styles without a reason. 6) Per WP:MOS, including the extra s is correct. In short, they are correct with the additional s, although they are often incorrectly accepted without it, and there is no need to move an established name. Thanks for understanding and happy editing, Reywas92^Talk 23:50, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Massachusetts's is correct, but because the s is pronounced, unlike Texas and the others, Massachusetts' is considered acceptable. Thanks, Reywas92^Talk 15:44, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Congressional districts in county infoboxes

Hi, Tompw. Over at Template talk:Infobox U.S. County#Congressional District, you told me to come find you if you hadn't worked on adding districts 4 through 18 to the box template (or made your unspecified tweaks do districts 1 through 3). I'm in no hurry on my portion of this project (adding the districts to specific counties' infoboxes—I've done only CT, HI, RI, and some of GA so far), but I thought I'd send you a reminder. :) Thanks for your efforts on this! Qqqqqq (talk) 23:01, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

HEEEELP

Hi, Tompw. i`m mohamed salim an editor in Arabic Wikipedia and i`m an expert in aviation. i need ur help in Template:Random portal component. the template was copied to arabic wiki from a while , but no body use it cuz it don`t work. when i write the tempelate on the portal , and press preview it show that there is an extra [ . i check the template but there was no extra [ .

the template in arabic wiki is ar:قالب:مكون بوابة عشوائية and u can try it on the aviation portal in selected pic section.

selected pic means in arabic صورة مختارة , the pages i think u need are :

• the pic gallary : ar:بوابة:طيران/صورة مختارة/أرشيف
• the aviation portal : ar:بوابة:طيران

if u help that would be nice from u !!

thx --محــ سالم ــمد نشوان (talk) 11:06, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

broken image link

this link http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/certificate/reprint.php?insertedIDreprint=41436 appears to be broken —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.107.188.38 (talk) 21:21, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

FAQ for Template:Major UK railway stations

Hi, I've noticed you've contributed to Template talk:Major UK railway stations and would like to ask you if you'd like to get involved with creating an FAQ for the page. It's currently in My Sandbox 2. Do you think anything can be added, or is inaccurate so should be removed or reworded? I'd welcome your feedback on my Talk Page rather than direct edits to the template. Many thanks Welshleprechaun (talk) 01:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Please go to Template talk:Major UK railway stations for a "discussion" on it being renamed. Hammersfan 03/02/09, 13.01 GMT

Error in User:Tompw/bookshelf?

Hi, I think I found a small error on your bookshelf page. When volumes is n*200+x for 100<x<199, then mistakenly one stack200 is shown too much. This results from the statement:

( {{/volumes}}/200 round 0 )

295 for example results in 1, while 301 results in 2. In the latter case the template is not supposed to give 2, because two stack200's are too much. The problem is, that round will not always round down, but up (depending on if the number is >0.5 or <0.5). I suggest the following fix: Replace the string above by:

( ({{/volumes}}-100)/200 round 0 )

This fixes the problem. See as examples broken, fixed, diff. Thanks, --Church of emacs (Talk) 13:12, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Formula One/Constructors

Can I ask why this big block of links is really necessary on the portal? It takes up a lot of room on my screen, and frankly seems a little redundant. It also puts the columns fairly out of whack. Apterygial 22:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

four color theorem

You made a comment a long time ago, that four color theorem ought to be nominated for FA. Unfortunately, the standards are way higher now, so I don't know if you would still think that, but would you be interested in helping it through a nomination?

There's also currently an A-class review underway: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/A-class_rating/Four_color_theorem. --C S (talk) 03:15, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Translated graphs

Hello there Tompw,

The French-language Wikipedia articles concerning election results in Canada lack something comparable to the good graphs you have done in English. I propose to help you translate them all into French. I see three ways to proceed: 1) we could translate the captions, giving us a pair of images in each case, 2) we could "bilingualize" the captions or 3) we could take the captions out. I would advise the third option, since the captions can easily be placed outside the image (and in fact they are in every single case at the moment) and this option would require the least amount of effort on your part. Also, if you do not have the time right now, I could take your Excel sheets and do it myself. I do not have Ms Excel, but most likely OpenOffice Calc will allow me to do something close if not identical.

Thanks! -- Mathieugp (talk) 16:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to reply to me. The interim measure you are proposing sounds good! Whenever you have time! -- Mathieugp (talk) 00:20, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

List of counties in Alabama

Thanks for noticing. The only weak point right now is the referencing in the lead. There are a lot of statements about history that aren't quite fully covered by the sparse in-line citations included. Would be happy to have either you or me nominate it (don't really care so long as it gets FL) but would like to take care of that first. Say a day or two to find the sources? Geraldk (talk) 16:29, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, got to the referencing sooner than I thought. Go ahead and nominate it whenever you are ready. Geraldk (talk) 20:36, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Presto card

Hi there,

Regarding your question on File:PRESTO card.png;

I welcome any suggestions on how to better update the permissions for this file. I work for PRESTO and have been asked to update the Wikipedia page on it. I am very new to working with Wikipedia and greatly appreciate any suggestions. I would like to make the page as accurate as possible.

The image in question is the property of PRESTO and is free to be published. However, it is not available online; only in our files here at the office. Please let me know of any suggestions you may have.

PRESTO card (talk) 14:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

St Catherines and Niagara Falls station.

When you edit the rail templates, you need to reverse the order for VIA Corridor and Amtrak Maple Leafs line or the template will not display correctly. SYSS Mouse (talk) 21:41, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Another Tompw/bookshelf question: Sanity check

I brought up an issue with the sanity check at User talk:Tompw/bookshelf. I thought I'd let you know in case you haven't seen it. Rl (talk) 13:01, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Pacific Surfliner template

Hello, Tompw. You have new messages at Template talk:Pacific Surfliner.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Template:Infobox GB station

You might wish to note my recent edits and comment here. Regards. Adambro (talk) 14:13, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

On a related issue regarding Category:British railway stations opened in 1829 as an example, it might be better to use the format Category:Railway stations in the United Kingdom opened in 1829 for consistency with Category:Railway stations in the United Kingdom. British railway stations is a bit awkward and doesn't really fit nicely within the existing category structure. In the fomat Category:Railway stations in the United Kingdom opened in 1829, each category could go in a new Category:Railway stations in the United Kingdom by year of establishment (for consistency with Category:Railway stations by year of establishment) and Category:Railway stations opened in 1829.

I would welcome your thoughts on this, and I'd be happy to work with you to change this if you agreed. Adambro (talk) 14:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Replied on template talk page Tompw (talk) (review) 15:00, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Editor review

If you want one i would advise that you start a new one as this was was archived years ago! With current editing patterns and changes to yourself and to Wikipedia, it may be good to look at how you are doing now rather than how you were doing up until 2 1/2 years ago.

On a separate note, do you know what i going to happen with the infobox? Simply south (talk) 23:39, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Countyrow template

As the creator of the {{Countyrow}} template, I thought you might be able to help out. A reviewer at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of counties in Florida/archive2 has pointed out a couple of things that could be improved with it. I was unable to figure out how to make these changes, and was wondering if you could take a look. Thanks, Jujutacular ^T · C 21:41, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

OK, I'll make thchnages, but before Friday. Tompw (talk) (review) 02:17, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Arsenikk took care of the changes, thank you anyway. Jujutacular ^T · C 19:52, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

FTRC

I have Canadian election timelines up for FTRC here. GamerPro64 (talk) 21:25, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:County7

Template:County7 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 01:28, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:English football league system cells

Template:English football league system cells has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Jameboy (talk) 11:52, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured topic removal candidates/Canadian election timelines/archive1

Your input is needed here on where to proceed with this now that the FLC has failed. I know you haven't been editing much but get to this quickly if you can. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 02:44, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

List of Nunavut general elections

I think the best way of expanding the lead would be to offer some interesting facts on those who have been elected. Things like the total number of people elected, legislators who have won multiple terms, and the two men who have won in all three elections would all be nice additions. They would provide a nice summary of what is actually in the list, not to mention that you could probably get another paragraph out of them. If there is anything noteworthy about any of the elections in particular, it would also be a good candidate to be discussed in the lead. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 21:53, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

List of Nunavut general elections

Hello there. I've noticed that you need this article to get to FL status. Is there anything that I can do to help you out? It would be a shame to see this FT go down just because of this one article you know?--White Shadows ^{There goes another day} 00:30, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok so I've expanded the lead a bit but I have an idea. Why not take the notes at the bottom and add yhem to the lead instead? That would make the lead long enough to make it a FL candidate.--White Shadows ^{I ran away from you} 16:17, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I think that it's ready for another FLC!--White Shadows ^{Nobody said it was easy} 16:23, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Like I said, feel free to ping me if you're up for it :)--White Shadows ^{Your guess is as good as mine} 22:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Presto card updates

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Nomination for deletion of Template:West Midlands Two

Template:West Midlands Two has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — This, that, and the other (talk) 09:31, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

meta.wikimedia/Wikipedia_as_books

Hi, i really appreciate your bookshelf template, but i think there is something wrong on meta.wikimedia/Wikipedia_as_books. The text above the person says 5718 volumes in 29 stacks. Next to him are only 2200 volumes in 11 stacks. This is quite a difference, or did I get something wrong? Thanks Jahobr (talk) 15:08, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

FLRC

I have nominated Wilco discography for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Afro (Talk) 05:48, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Reading to Plymouth Line

After several years of discussion the consensus was to split the Reading to Plymouth Line article into three articles - Bristol to Exeter line, Reading to Taunton line, and Exeter to Plymouth line. The split has now been done, though fairly crudely as I am not an expert on the subject. It will need an expert eye to look at it and smooth out the edges. SilkTork *^YES! 15:23, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of Alberta general elections/archive1

Nergaal (talk) 04:38, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

File:Canada_federal_elections.PNG update for 2011?

Hey, do you think you could update the File:Canada_federal_elections.PNG to reflect the 2011 election reesults?

Also, if you do, would you consider somehow differentiating the old Conservative/PC party from the current Conservatives in the colour scheme? They're not the same party. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 01:57, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

FYI, featured portal drive

Hi there, Tompw, you'd previously successfully gotten and nominated one of the portals linked from the top-right of the Main Page to Featured Portal quality status rating, so I'm notifying you about this featured portal drive, please see: Wikipedia_talk:Portal#Main_Page_Featured_Portal_drive. Your help/contribution would be most appreciated! Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 08:29, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

File:Wikigrow2.GIF listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Wikigrow2.GIF, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 (talk) 02:18, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Missing stack in User:Tompw/bookshelf, Wikipedia:Size in volumes etc.

I believe the number of stacks in the various "how big is Wiki in printed books" graphics is missing a stack. It's currently 1634 volumes, which should be eight full stacks, plus a partial ninth stack. It's displaying seven full stacks plus a partial eighth. I believe the problem is with the calculation in User:Tompw/bookshelf/stacks. It's currently:

{{ #expr:  {{User:Tompw/bookshelf/volumes}}/200 round 0}}

It should probably be something like

{{ #expr:  ceil({{User:Tompw/bookshelf/volumes}}/200)}}

(I think I did the conversion of braces correctly, but if the above has ended up with a missing or extra brace, I apologize in advance.)

The round function is not what you'd really want. Round would convert 300-499 books (1.500 to 2.495 stacks) to 2, and 500-699 books (2.500 to 3.495 stacks) to 3. Ceil will get the next highest integer. Thus 1.005 through 2.000 (201-400 books) would get 2, but 2.005 through 3.000 (401-600 books) would get 3.

Likewise, the calculation in User:Tompw/bookshelf/volumes, should probably be changed from:

{{#expr:({{NUMBEROFARTICLES:R}}/(500*2*2*80*50/(6*562)) round 0) + 1}}

{{#expr:ceil({{NUMBEROFARTICLES:R}}/(500*2*2*80*50/(6*562)))}}

Although that's only going to be off a book at worst.

I haven't quite traced through how the partial stack gets drawn, so I'm not sure if there's an impact there or not.

Rwessel (talk) 21:14, 16 February 2012 (UTC)