User:AtticusX

AtticusX

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This user listens to World Music.

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This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality, free education.

This user is straight but not narrow.

This user is proud to be a nerd, although he prefers not to brag and often go(es) incognito without a pocket protector.

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Hi, I'm AtticusX.

Most of my edits are copyedits (cleaning up typos and grammatical mistakes and so on), but sometimes I'll find reliable sources on a topic I'm keen on and I'll spend a while converting those sources into new Wikipedia content.

My interests are varied and include: themed entertainment, classical and world music, circus and other performing arts, and geographical locations.

One of my pet peeves is advertising or brand promotion.

I think Wikipedia's pretty nifty as a means of sharing knowledge and promoting self-directed learning.

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Barnstars received

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For taking the time to ask about an edit and showing me a better to go about accomplishing what I wanted to. Vedant (talk) 17:51, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Because without people like you, we'd be swimming in a sea of repeating characters and "Lol" Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 17:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Former projects

October 2009

Information from Integrated Development Plans => South Africa municipality articles
Improve interlinkage between town/settlements and municipalities

List of South African municipalities

Category:Municipalities of South Africa

Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Municipalities task force

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South Africa/Municipalities task force

November 2009

/Template:Infobox stage production

/Template:Infobox stage production/doc

/Sandbox

Wikipedia:WikiProject Circus/Assessment

January 2010

List of political parties by country

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Wikimedia links and shortcuts

Internal links work for linking to other wikis, and bypasses the need to paste in URLs (which tend to be both long and cryptic and make source text harder to read). This also avoids the appearance of the external link arrow ( ).

Here are the prefixes and shortcuts for creating links to Wikipedia's sister projects:

Project	Example	Shortcut	Example
`[[wikibooks:]]`	wikibooks:	`[[b:]]`	b:
`[[commons:]]`	commons:	`[[c:]]`	c:
`[[wikidata:]]`	wikidata:	`[[d:]]`	d:
`[[meta:]]`	meta:	`[[m:]]`	m:
`[[wikinews:]]`	wikinews:	`[[n:]]`	n:
`[[phabricator:]]`	phabricator:	`[[phab:]]`	phab:
`[[wikiquote:]]`	wikiquote:	`[[q:]]`	q:
`[[wikisource:]]`	wikisource:	`[[s:]]`	s:
`[[wikispecies:]]`	wikispecies:	`[[species:]]`	species:
`[[wikiversity:]]`	wikiversity:	`[[v:]]`	v:
`[[wikivoyage:]]`	wikivoyage:	`[[voy:]]`	voy:
`[[wikipedia:]]`	[[wikipedia:]]	`[[w:]]`	w:
`[[wiktionary:]]`	wiktionary:	`[[wikt:]]`	wikt:

The long form does not work within the same project. The shortcut works everywhere.

Links to foreign-language Wikiprojects can be made by prefixing the language code: [[:de:s:]] will link to the German-language Wikisource, [[:fr:wikt:]] to the French-language Wiktionary, etc. You can use piped links ( "|" ) to avoid seeing the colons in the link.

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