User talk:Tomtomn00/Archives/1

Signature

I was looking at a formatting problem at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback, and I think it is caused by your signature - it starts with a "div" and a "font", and ends with "/div" and "/div". This is going to cause formatting problems on every page that you sign. I have fixed it.

Please also look at Wikipedia:Signatures. Your signature contravenes the instructions in the "Transclusion of templates" section on that page. This needs fixing for the reasons explained there. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:02, 12 October 2011 (UTC) revised 06:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Your goals

Your userpage says "I am trying to get my edit-count larger so I can try to get a higher level of rights."

That's not how it works, Tom. You're assigned higher levels of rights on the basis that you're considered to need them, and to show that you can be trusted with them. Simply 'having a high edit-count' is not a criterion. DS (talk) 14:00, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

User:DragonflySixtyseven, most levels of rights do require a certain number of edits, because last time I saw Administrator was 2500+.

Here's an analogy. To be eligible to be President of the United States, you must be at least 35 years old. But being 35 doesn't mean you have a significantly increased chance of becoming President, and carefully counting how many days left until your 35th birthday so you can get elected... that's just stupid. Yes, the analogy is flawed - "President of the United States" is much more important than "Wikipedia admin", for one thing, and you can't artificially increase your age the way you can increase your edit count. But I hope you get the point. Don't edit to increase your edit count. Edit because it needs to be done. Edit because it bothers you that a detail is wrong or that a sentence is badly worded. Edit because you see a way that a page can be made better. That's the only real point. DS (talk) 18:04, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Ronan Parke BGT.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Ronan Parke BGT.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

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Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Denniss (talk) 16:15, 22 October 2011 (UTC)