User:FinFangFoom

FinFangFoom

This user's entire personality can be summed up in a few userboxes.

This user comes from the U.S. state of Georgia.

UGA

This user attends or attended the University of Georgia.
Go Dawgs!

This user has arranged for organ donation; have you?

This user enjoys chess.

xyzzy

This user has spent too much time in the Colossal Cave.

Politics

This user believes that George W. Bush's edits to the constitution need to be reverted.

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

This user believes that Georgia's old state flag was racist.

Everything Else

This user is male.

This user is a Leo.

This user contributes using Firefox.

This user is a Stark.
Winter is Coming

This user participates in
WikiProject
Children's literature.

This user enjoys reading the newspaper.

Coke

This user believes Pepsi is no match for Coke. Not even close.

~~Pepsi~~

This user has visited one or more of the United States' National Parks.

This user is in a place called Vertigo and they know donde está.

This user is aware of how silly this huge table looks on their user page, but acknowledges that its real purpose is twofold: statistics and standardization.

Welcome To My Page

Thanks for visiting my User talk page! Please feel free to leave me messages regarding any aspect of my editing on Wikipedia (click here to say something). My only request is that you sign your comments using four tildes (~~~~), which will automatically add your name and the date. (It helps so I know who said what, and when, and it will make it much easier for me to address your issue and reply to you.)

I hope that both of us can contribute positively to this project! Thanks for dropping by! --FinFangFoom, from the golf cart capitol of the world Peachtree City, Georgia

Some Semi-Useful Links

My contributions as FinFangFoom

If this link is blue, then I'm in trouble

Using footnotes the way the Wikigods intended

Metawiki cite

The awesome Wiki Notes to Citation Converter

Where Have I Been?

My International Travels

Spent years:

Months to Weeks:

Days to Hours:
To go some day:	and probably some others...

My Travels In The United States

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Days:
Changed Planes:
To go some day:	and probably some others...

Show Us Yer Tips!

Tip of the day...

Redirects

A redirect is a page that has the sole purpose to automatically redirect readers to a differently named page; to take the reader where they really wanted to go. Redirects allow a topic to have more than one title. Redirects are used for synonyms, abbreviations (initialisms), acronyms, accented terms (diacritics), misspellings, typos, nicknames (pseudonyms), scientific names, etc.

To create a redirect for the term "Oof":

Type Oof in the search box, press ↵ Enter
Click on the redlink for Oof that it presents
In the edit window that appears, type #REDIRECT [[Foo]] on the first line to make it lead to the article Foo
Redirects should be organized in to categories too. Each redirect can have up to seven redirect categories. Categories go on the third line of the redirect. (Note: Plant has a subcategory within the category of scientific name; enter plant after a pipe).

Here are two examples of a redirect category using a category template:

{{R from birth name}}
{{R from scientific name|plant}}

Preview your new redirect before saving it. Make sure:

There is a big right-facing arrow to the left of the bolded name of your target page name.
That your target page is bolded in blue (if it is red, go back and double check your target name in the edit window).
That your redirect category has rendered properly and that the boilerplate it presents makes sense.

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