Welcome to my user page edit

Hello. I am a Wikipedia user, and interested in adding new material and editing existing material. Been registered for a few years now. This is my user page. I find Wikipedia incredibly useful and after some years of using it and seeing it grow, I got inspired to join the many others who are contributing to it. As I am new to this, I am keeping personal information to the bare minimum until I learn my way around. I like the name DonToto so I am keeping it.

[20 March 2016] Well it's been a few years since I wrote the note above. I still like keeping a low profile. I have come to one conclusion so far - some people have an axe to grind. You can tell by some of the edits that get reverted. (:>)

Job edit

Self-employed in the IT (Information Technology) industry, in Toronto, Canada.

Interests edit

Computer science, movies, biography, history, which is what I mainly use Wikipedia for. Actually I use Wikipedia for a lot of reference work.

Family edit

I have one.

Tip of the day edit

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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Page stats tool edit

"Wikipedia page stats tool".