User:Anton Sweeney

~ Welcome to my userpage ~ Today is Sunday, March 23, 2025 Communication Constabulary business constables@citizendium.org My CZ talk page Click here Bio Anton Sweeney is a thirtysomething-year-old citizen of Ireland, living in Dublin. Education: Leaving Certificate; and Diploma in Information Systems from Trinity College, Dublin. He has worked in IT since 1997 and currently holds the role of Enterprise Network Manager in a large organisation. He will shortly be moving to a new, similar position in a smaller startup. He is also a director of a national voluntary organisation. Interests include online games (World of Warcraft), reading, music and gaming (role-playing, boardgames, etc.) - the latter including charity events and fundraising. He will now stop writing about himself in the third person. Joined I joined Citizendium on 24th April, 2007. I became a Constable on 29th July, 2007. Areas of interest Various - see Author Categories below. I'll be working on articles relating to Ireland (the country and the island), adoption, I.T., and my hobbies, which are mainly gaming related. And poking my nose in elsewhere :-) Articles created/currently working on Ireland (disambiguation page) Ireland (state) Republic of Ireland (redirect page to Ireland (state)) 30th Dáil Dáil Éireann (WP import, not yet CZ Live) Teachta Dála (stub) Ireland (island) Dublin Provinces of Ireland World of Warcraft Trading Card Game (created on the first Write-a-Thon day) Plan to eventually work on Adoption World of Warcraft (Beaten on this one. Still, it'll encourage me to get articles started/put them in mainspace rather than sitting on Sandbox versions or ones in my head :P ) Phishing Role-playing games (Beaten on this too - its been here a while, at Role-playing game) Live action roleplaying games Useful links 'n' stuff Web citation: <ref>{{cite web |url=http:// |title= |accessdate=yyyy-mm-dd |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> Journal citation: <ref>{{Citation | last1 = surname | first1 = forename | author1-link = forename surname | last2 = ditto | first2 = ditto | author2-link = ditto | last3 = ditto | first3 = ditto | author3-link = ditto | title = Article name | journal = Name of Journal | volume = nn | issue = n | pages = 50–57 | date = [[yyyy-mm-dd]] | year = yyyy | url = http://example.com/something.pdf | id = ISSN 0343-6993 }}</ref> Workgroups Workgroups are no longer used for group communications, but they still are used to group articles into fields of interest. Each article is assigned to 1-3 Workgroups via the article's Metadata. Computers Workgroup Computers article All articles (1,094) To Approve (0) Editors: active (3) / inactive (77) and Authors: active (815) / inactive (0) Workgroup Discussion Recent changes Citable Articles (12) Subgroups (10) Checklist-generated categories: Underlinked (402) Cat Check (313) Cleanup (0) Subpage categories: Definitions (899) Related Articles (889 to check 391) Bibliography (160) External Links (295) Gallery (9) Video (18)  Missing subpage categories: Definitions (167) Related Articles (44) Bibliography (161) External Links (142) Article statuses: 39 Developed (status=1) 520 Developing (status=2) 498 Stub (status=3) 0 External (status=4) 49 Advanced (status 0-1) 569 Nonstub (status 0-2) 1,067 Internal (status 0-3) Workgroups are no longer used for group communications, but they still are used to group articles into fields of interest. Each article is assigned to 1-3 Workgroups via the article's Metadata. Games Workgroup Games article All articles (175) To Approve (0) Editors: active (0) / inactive (9) and Authors: active (209) / inactive (0) Workgroup Discussion Recent changes Citable Articles (3) Subgroups (1) Checklist-generated categories: Underlinked (89) Cat Check (45) Cleanup (0) Subpage categories: Definitions (147) Related Articles (137 to check 60) Bibliography (23) External Links (56) Gallery (0) Video (3)  Missing subpage categories: Definitions (25) Related Articles (12) Bibliography (25) External Links (22) Article statuses: 10 Developed (status=1) 87 Developing (status=2) 67 Stub (status=3) 0 External (status=4) 13 Advanced (status 0-1) 100 Nonstub (status 0-2) 167 Internal (status 0-3)

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Geography Workgroup
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Missing subpage categories: Definitions (145) Related Articles (59) Bibliography (140) External Links (130) Article statuses: 31 Developed (status=1) 441 Developing (status=2) 1,002 Stub (status=3) 1 External (status=4) 32 Advanced (status 0-1) 473 Nonstub (status 0-2) 1,475 Internal (status 0-3)

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History Workgroup
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Userpage design blatantly ripped off from Stephen Ewen