User talk:Tony1/Advanced editing exercises
Kudos
This is an awesome job, Tony. Can I help at all? For example, I'd like to add "date linking" to one of the examples. :) --Elonka 20:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks Elonka; however, I'm looking for constructive criticism. Does the colour-coding system work? Is Exercise 2c too big (seven issues, plus an eighth) for a single chunk? Is the formatting and structure of the exercises OK? Tony (talk) 00:39, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Exercise 2 - final note
I hesitate to criticise, but "this" is duplicated. Also, is "just" needed? Thus far, I have found the page and exercises useful. Thanks. Finavon (talk) 20:11, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
- Please do criticise! Fixed. Tony (talk) 01:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Example 3b
Nice work. Still, something seems to have been lost from Example 3b; I can't tell exactly what was intended. Only two of the errors are colored in the "where the issues are" section, and I'm not sure from the formatting of "the solution" exactly how it addresses the issues. I'm tempted to fix it myself, but I'm sure you already know what you intended, so I'll leave it for you.
There also seems to be some dangling test below example 4—another example or two in the making?--atakdoug (talk) 00:50, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Example 3a
Isn't steam locomotive also a double adjective (defining technology), which should therefore be hyphenated? I'd say it's a similar situation to post-war. Waltham, The Duke of 19:37, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
- You could hyphenate it, or you mght not: it's one of those borderline case. Certainly American writers are less likely to hyphenate a borderline case. TONY (talk) 01:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- True. But clarity is always to be gained from such hyphenations, isn't it? Waltham, The Duke of 04:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)