User talk:Poxie

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[edit] Tom Y. Chan

I have to tell you, i'm impressed. (And not just with your edgy username, which succeeds in being memorably punchy, without being disgusting!) You've been at this less than a week, and you've just demonstrated enough savvy to see both the need for explaining why he's not on the wrong page at List of people by name: Tom-Toq, and an effective means of doing it without disturbing readers. (IIRC, Jiang had to tell me "That's what wiki-comments are for", OWTTE.) I'm guessing you started studying how others edit, and reading discussions, before you first clicked the edit tab yourself. I suppose overdoing that could be one of the traps of WP, but IMO it bodes well for your career here. Edit on, Poxie!.
--Jerzy•t 17:04, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
_ _ Great! If you haven't saturated on self-training yet, you may want to look at a couple of arguably advanced topics: Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (usually, and hopefully soon again, more smooth-working than since the latest "improvement") and Help:preferences#Raw signatures (but try not to be seduced by the overdone examples you've probably already noted, even if you don't go my minimalist route.)
_ _ BTW, your instinct to look for the suitable hdg was sound, and perhaps encouraged by my abortive attempts to make sense out of what is for me a futile struggle with my talk page -- especially if you missed the fact that that section was a year old, not weeks old. But what i've found useful in editing others' talk pages (as opposed to non-user talk pages) is to add a new section at the bottom (using the + tab next to "edit this page"), unless i've edited there before on a closely related subject. In this case, i looked at the bottom as always, and elsewhere within the same screenful, then hit the history tab (to see your summary) & decided searching for "Poxie" was the quickest way to get to it.
--Jerzy•t 19:34, 26 February 2007 (UTC)