User talk:William C. Aird
Welcome!
Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at CZ:Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events via the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list (do join!) and the blog. Please also join the workgroup mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forums is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any constable for help, too. Me, for instance! Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun! Ruth Ifcher 21:43, 27 September 2008 (CDT)
Some ideas for contributions
Hi William, welcome aboard CZ. Ruth has already given you some hints as to how things work here in general, and I wish to add some more practical hints on what possibilities you have to contribute. For a start, I just took some of the keywords from the information you supplied upon registration, and display below the current state of related CZ articles (for documentation, see Template:Rpl/Doc):
Health: The default state of an organism under optimal conditions, a state characterized by the absence of disease and by the slowest natural rate of senescing. [e]
Medicine: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]- Postdoc: Add brief definition or description
- Hospital: Add brief definition or description
- Molecular medicine: Add brief definition or description
- Vasculature: Add brief definition or description
- Blood: The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (i.e., blood vessels). Whole blood includes plasma and blood cells. [e]
- Endothelium: Add brief definition or description
- Gene: The functional unit of heredity. [e]
- Cell biology: The study of the components of biological cells and their interactions. [e]
- Signaling pathway: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific journal: A publication venue for original research and scholarly review articles — for more than three centuries on paper and now increasingly online. [e]
- Research peer review: Evaluation by experts of the quality and pertinence of research or research proposals of other experts in the same field. [e]
- Toronto, Ontario: the most populous city in Canada, capital of the province of Ontario, and situated perhaps sixty miles northwest of Buffalo, New York as the crow files. [e]
Finally, in case you assign homework to students, please consider doing so via Eduzendium articles.
Looking forward to fruitful collaborative editing, Daniel Mietchen 07:41, 28 September 2008 (CDT)
could probably apply to be an editor
Hello, I noticed you are physician and you probably could apply to be an editor. Tom Kelly 22:56, 28 September 2008 (CDT)