User:Thepm

This user is very lazy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries.

Talk to me, I'm lonely

Odds and ends

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;

Contribute more third opinions
Write my blog

No more Climatic Research Unit email controversy for me

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

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

Tip of the day...

Wikimedia links and shortcuts

Internal links work for linking to other wikis, and bypasses the need to paste in URLs (which tend to be both long and cryptic and make source text harder to read). This also avoids the appearance of the external link arrow ( ).

Here are the prefixes and shortcuts for creating links to Wikipedia's sister projects:

Project	Example	Shortcut	Example
`[[wikibooks:]]`	wikibooks:	`[[b:]]`	b:
`[[commons:]]`	commons:	`[[c:]]`	c:
`[[wikidata:]]`	wikidata:	`[[d:]]`	d:
`[[meta:]]`	meta:	`[[m:]]`	m:
`[[wikinews:]]`	wikinews:	`[[n:]]`	n:
`[[phabricator:]]`	phabricator:	`[[phab:]]`	phab:
`[[wikiquote:]]`	wikiquote:	`[[q:]]`	q:
`[[wikisource:]]`	wikisource:	`[[s:]]`	s:
`[[wikispecies:]]`	wikispecies:	`[[species:]]`	species:
`[[wikiversity:]]`	wikiversity:	`[[v:]]`	v:
`[[wikivoyage:]]`	wikivoyage:	`[[voy:]]`	voy:
`[[wikipedia:]]`	[[wikipedia:]]	`[[w:]]`	w:
`[[wiktionary:]]`	wiktionary:	`[[wikt:]]`	wikt:

The long form does not work within the same project. The shortcut works everywhere.

Links to foreign-language Wikiprojects can be made by prefixing the language code: [[:de:s:]] will link to the German-language Wikisource, [[:fr:wikt:]] to the French-language Wiktionary, etc. You can use piped links ( "|" ) to avoid seeing the colons in the link.

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