User:Tony1

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I’m a professional editor and research consultant. My doctoral dissertation was in the psychology of music reading, including the roles of eye movement and working memory.

I assist researchers and academics in their preparation of competitive grant applications for research funding. Most of my clients are staff at the University of Sydney who are applying for funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. This typically involves the negotiation of text in the areas of engineering, chemistry, physics, biology and information technology, although some of my work brings me into contact with a much broader spectrum of research.

I’m a keen advocate of Michael Halliday’s systemic functional grammar, as embodied in MAK Halliday, Introduction to functional grammar, 2nd ed, Arnold, London, 1995; traditional grammar sucks. With respect to formatting, I’m a minimalist—there are generally far too many dots and upper-case letters in text, and trivial links are one of the scourges of Wikipedia.

The Encephalon Cross
For commendable contributions to the featured medical article Asthma.

The Original Reviewer's Award for Tony, in appreciation of his outstanding efforts in striving to maintain the quality of articles going though FAC. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 12:53, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I enjoy the teamwork aspect of working on Wikipedian text, and I’m interested that the NPOV thing works so well. I like the way in which the project brings anglophones into a relatively homogenous international community to share their wonderful language.

Featured articles

I encourage contributors to significantly improve the quality of FACs, particularly the standard of their prose; for this purpose, I tend to hang around the FAC and FAR/C rooms. Where I feel motivated, I lend a hand to improve nominated articles on the list; however, sometimes I just take a sample from the candidate article and critique it to show the authors why they should already have arranged for a thorough copy-edit. I’ve written a guide for the improvement of writing and editing skills in relation to Criterion 1a of the featured article criteria (‘compelling, even brilliant’ prose); the guide is accompanied by exercises in identifying and eliminating redundancy in prose, and in achieving paragraphing, sentence construction and listing, and many other aspects of writing and editing. I like other people to improve my prose, by the way.

Composer articles

I =Nichalp «Talk»=, award Tony this Barnstar for his great work copyediting the Bhutan article. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:51, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Enjoy this Barnstar of Diligence for raising standards across the board. Keep at it.

I want to promote the inclusion of information about musical style in composer articles, which is something of a black hole at the moment, even in FAs; there’s a tendency to regard biography as sufficient. To assist contributors, I’ve written a draft of guidelines for explaining musical style in these articles.

Eye movement in music reading

After all this time, I've finally started up an article by this name. Work in progress.

Patrick White

I run a Yahoo group for lovers of the work of Patrick White (1912–90), one of the great novelists of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation runs an excellent online resource packed with text, images and audio streams of his voice here.

		The Original Barnstar
		A bit random, but I want to award you with a barnstar for your contributions in User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a, which—ironically—I thought should be something like the "featured guide" if there was such thing. :D —Jared Hunt August 20, 2006, 16:14 (UTC)

I hereby award Tony1 the Barnstar of Diligence for his excellent copyediting of the Encyclopædia Britannica article. Keep up the good work! --NauticaShades 10:18, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

This user is a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers.