AtticusX

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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.

Quick links edit

Barnstars received edit

		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 edit

October 2009 edit

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 edit

/Template:Infobox stage production

/Template:Infobox stage production/doc

/Sandbox

Wikipedia:WikiProject Circus/Assessment

January 2010 edit

List of political parties by country

Tip of the Day edit

Tip of the moment...

Create links faster using tricks

1. Magic pipe trick: Synonymous article titles may be clarified with terms in parentheses, like this: [[Self (psychology)]]. But when you want to include such a link in the body of an article, this would look rather awkward. So all you have to do is use the "magic pipe trick", like this: [[Self (psychology)|]]. Notice the pipe ("|") character stuck in there at the end of the link? That makes the link look like this: Self, without having to type the name of the link after the pipe! This trick also works with namespaces, so that [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day|]] (again notice the pipe character) displays like this: Tip of the day.

2. Plural trick: While editing, you will often need to make a link to a plural. For example, suppose you wanted to link "Fred Foo was famous for his study of puddles" to puddle; you could link it like so: [[puddle|puddles]]. However, you can save time by instead writing [[puddle]]s. This also works for adjectives ([[Japan]]ese), verbs ([[dance]]d), and any other suffixes or prefixes, like [[bring]]ing. It does not, however, work for some irregular verbs. For example, [[try]]ied does not work; you have to use [[try|tried]]. Nor does it work with apostrophes needed outside the wikilink like: [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s.

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