User talk:Shamira Gelbman

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Great Depression in South Africa

I found your addition to the Great Depression/Addendum subpage admirably clear and very interesting. If you could find time to develop it into a separate article, I guess that would be generally welcome. Nick Gardner 07:10, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll see what I can do once I've gotten my bearings around here a bit more - I'm still very new to Citizendium (and relatively new to wiki collaboration) Shamira Gelbman 01:18, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

In the meantime, may I suggest that you insert references to the sources of the information that you have added (this has not always been the practice for previous contributions to this topic, but I am trying to bring them into line with the proposed guidelines on the matter - that have been generally adopted for economics articles). Nick Gardner 11:52, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do...it was all pretty much off the top of my head. In the meantime, can you link me to the proposed guidelines you mentioned? I was trying to get a better sense of the expectations for citations here the other day and was having a hard time finding information.

New Deal (American English and British English)

Thank you for your contributions to the article on the New Deal -I'm sure you know more about it than I do.

However, you have made a minor mistake in correcting the spelling. Being new to Citizendium you are probably unaware of the convention that the originating author chooses whether the atticle is to be in American English or British English, and the choice is duly recorded on the talk page. If you look you will see that indicated as "BE" for the New deal article, meaning that it is wrritten in British English. So, for example, the spelling "program" is incorrect - it should be programme.

This doesn't bother me in the least, but there are pedants around who might object to your spelling changes. I leave it to you to undo your spelling changes if you feel like it.

Nick Gardner 06:51, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Afterthought: - You may prefer to change the spelling to American English throughout. I am sure nobody will mind. But the pedants will want consistency. Nick Gardner 08:14, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

I was actually a bit confused about that when I started editing the article -- there were already some inconsistencies and when I checked there didn't seem to be a language variant selected (it still looks that way, but that could just be me not knowing what I'm doing). Shamira Gelbman 17:22, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

You are quite right and I was wrong. I have now selected the BE variant because that's the way most of it is now drafted (although the original, before I rewrote it was in American English). Please do as you think fit and change to American if you think that's more appropriate, Nick Gardner 23:07, 16 February 2009 (UTC)