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

Spent years:

Months:

Weeks:

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

Show Us Yer Tips!

Tip of the day...

Displaying one page within another = Transclusion

Including the contents of a template page on a different page (by surrounding the page name with double braces, i.e. "{{}}" and leaving out the "Template:" prefix) is called transclusion.

This allows the other page to be automatically updated whenever the template page is updated.

Besides templates, pages in the following namespaces can be transcluded:

Category:
Help:
Portal:
User:
Wikipedia:

The only difference between transcluding these and templates is that you must include the prefix (followed by a colon) with the page's name inside the double braces.

Images also can be transcluded, but this is done using double square brackets instead of braces.

Here are some examples of transclusion:

{{Pic of the day}} · {{Help:Contents}} · [[Image:Wikipedia-logo.png]]

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