User talk:Tony1

Real-life workload: 10

• 1 = no work pressure
• 5 = middling
• > 5 = please don't expect much
• 10 = frenzied

I'm in hospital early March for elective surgery and then on strong pain-killers for three months; aargh ...  :-(

• Watchlisters: user page and talk page watchlisted by 323 editors (January 2012)
• Estimated yearly hits on my userspace (by extrapolating from the new-look traffic stats page, adjusted upwards for the six days of counter outage, 25–31 December):
  • Total (yearly hits, est.): 51,608
  • User talk page: 15,127
  • User page: 9,103
  • User contribs: 6,334 (now that's spooky)
  • Redundancy exercises: removing fluff from your writing: 4,760
  • How to improve your writing: 3,231
  • Advanced editing exercises: 2,670 (renovating now: damn, it needs cleaning up)
  • Beginners' guide to the manual of style: 2,344 (desperately needs updating)
  • The six other tutorial pages: each less than 2,000.

... Unit symbols: spacing Values and unit symbols are separated by a space (preferably a non-breaking space): Correct: 5 min, 3 lb, 90 ºC Incorrect: 5min, 3lb, 90ºC Only angular and coordinate degrees, and the percent sign, are unspaced: 90º (a right-angle), 76% Read more ... Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}.

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An RfC on the Arbitration Committee and how to deal with good-editing sockpuppets. RfC on the conflict of interest guideline, as requested by the Arbitration Committee. RfC on adding a more prominent link to Special:MyContributions for IP editors RfC about allowing watchlisting of user contributions Binding community discussion on the Abortion article titles, as requested by the Arbitration Committee. RfC on the proposed cessation of selective delete (other than history merge fixes) and resulting changes to deletion policies, including the removal of a Revision Deletion criterion. Note: inactive discussions, closed or not, should be archived.
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Pre-automated archives (4 August 2005 – 25 June 2008)

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Please note that I don't normally (1) copy-edit articles or (2) review articles that are not already candidates for promotion to featured status.

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Current listening obsession: BWV11, last movement: Wann soll es doch geschehen (JS Bach). Here's the Harnoncourt version, which is great in many ways, but the flutes needed separate miking—they're drowned out in the tutti passages.

Self-help writing tutorials: Advice on how to improve your prose Exercises in weeding out fluff from article text Advanced editing exercises Beginners' guide to the Manual of Style Copy-editing essentials, part of the Military History Academy Build your linking skills Using hyphens and dashes Exercises in avoiding the "noun plus -ing" construction Exercises in paragraphing and sentence structure How to find good copy-editors edit Move Request See Talk:Women in development approach Barnstar The Original Barnstar This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation. Nomination of Central Provident Fund (South Africa) for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Central Provident Fund (South Africa) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Central Provident Fund (South Africa) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Overlinking I know you were part of a page that collected examples of horrible overlinking, so I figure I'd share this with you. Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 01:54, 24 February 2012 (UTC) Sven, thanks, I look forward to looking (much later today, in a break between clients). :-) Tony (talk) 03:10, 24 February 2012 (UTC) Dash script You popped up on my watchlist having run a script to fix emdashes to endashes. As someone who has no idea how this is done, I wonder if I could ask a favour: could you run the script on Category:Electoral districts of New South Wales and Category:Former electoral districts of New South Wales? Both have a lot of emdashes that should be endashes. There's absolutely no rush. Frickeg (talk) 00:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC) heads up Tony, are you aware of this discussion? Your name is being bandied about: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation/Workshop Milkunderwood (talk) 05:28, 25 February 2012 (UTC) Thanks, MUW. I'm so tired from RL overwork that I haven't the strength to contribute. I feel I'm being neglectful, but I'm not sure I can be of use there. I'll be in a better state mid-week, I hope. Tony (talk) 13:35, 25 February 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 27 February 2012 News and notes: Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming Recent research: Gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative Discussion report: Focus on admin conduct and editor retention WikiProject report: Just don't call it "sci-fi": WikiProject Science Fiction Featured content: By plane, by ship, and by stagecoach: Featured content goes trekking this week Arbitration report: Final decision in TimidGuy ban appeal, one case remains open Technology report: 1.19 deployment stress, Meta debates whether to enforce SUL Read this Signpost in full Single-page Unsubscribe EdwardsBot (talk) 02:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)