I do need to get some glasses and stop multi-tasking. I started reading one link, but got Australia and Austria mixed up. ooops
All 3 plus Lonely Planet mention that 10% tip/service charge is normally added to a restaurant bill. I wouldn't tip 10% in that situation just round up to the nearest dollar amount. I have never said tip over the tip/service charge!
What if you get into a restaurant that didn't add the 10% service charge? A rare happening, but can happen. In one of the 3 links a gentleman says expect to tip 10%. The other 2 links (now that I read Austria and not Australia) only mentions expecting the 10% tip to already be there not what happens when it isn't. Wiki mentions tipping 10% without mentioning the service charge probably already being there. Lonely Planet says tip 10% if not already included.
To the OP and anyone else who travels to Austria. Do as you want. Personally, I look to see if there is already a service charge or tip, which is almost always there (in large cities could be 99.9% of all restaurants already add this), and if it is already there, I just round up, but in the rare chance it isn't there, I tip 10%.
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I think you are confused.
There are two written sources in thus thread that state tips should be 10%. An online Wiki and an extract from a Lonely Planet. Whether one should trust either is debatable - I expect that we would have to agree to disagree on this one.
The other 3 links you refer to (did you read them?) state that tipping is performed by rounding up - a practice that usually leads to a tip of much less than 10%. This is backed up by the experiences of others in this thread and I will add my name to this particular list.