User talk:Simon Overduin

Welcome!

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. 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! Larry Sanger 15:24, 30 November 2007 (CST)

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Welcome, new editor! We're very glad you've joined us. Here are pointers for a quick start. Also, when you get a chance, please read The Editor Role. You can look at Getting Started and our help system for other introductory pages. It is also important, for project-wide matters, to join the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list. Announcements are also available via Twitter. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any administrator for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and thank you! We appreciate your willingness to share your expertise, and we hope to see your edits on Recent changes soon. --Larry Sanger 16:57, 30 November 2007 (CST)

politeness

It would be polite of you when you reverted my edit about moving the TOC to either give an explanation of your edit or at least a notice on the Summary at the top of the "Save page" button about what you're doing. I think you will find that most CZ articles do NOT have large amounts of white space in them if it can be avoided. Hayford Peirce 13:16, 25 December 2007 (CST)

Hi, Simon. It's one of these vexed questions about how to carry on a discussion between two members: do they alternate pages back and forth, or do they have it on a single page of one of the members, or in the discussion page of the article in question? There's no rule about it, and I think everyone does it one way one time, then another way the next time....

As to whether you'll be edited as soon as you write something, that again depends. In many cases, no. In some cases, someone like me will be looking at the "Recent changes" link in the column on the left, see something new, wonder what it's about, and will go to take a look. And, if he/she sees something worth an edit, will do it immediately. Or -- maybe not. I myself will do it immediately, before I forget about it. Others may wait a while.

Where can you do your writing without being edited during the process? There's the so-called "sandbox", I guess, which I've never used but that many others do use. Sometimes I've just put an ongoing article into the discussion page of my own user page and left it there while I work on it. Then when it's finished, I delete it from there and paste it into the real article's page. Certainly no one else with fiddle around with it while it's in your discussion page....

Hope this is of help, and have a great Holiday season! Hayford Peirce 14:10, 25 December 2007 (CST)

Hi Simon, and welcome to CZ. You can also draft things in your own private Sandbox or Draft space. You just create it by making the link and clicking on it. Like this: User:Simon Overduin/Draftspace. Stephen Ewen 22:36, 25 December 2007 (CST)

Conventions

Hey, Simon:

Good to have you aboard. You'll notice I made a mess of your contributions to Buddhism, Siddartha Gautama, Four Noble Truths, and Eightfold Path. All was done in good faith, and with the intention of administering to certain conventions that surround CZ articles.

1. It is conventional to start an article with the title of the article in bold.
2. Use the subpages template at the top of every new article (except redriects) to keep from having to add the Category: tags at the end, and also to being the article into the greater editorial rotation, as well as building it into the infrastructure of the whole project.
3. CZ:Naming conventions policy notes that we use the colloquial when naming articles, then set-up redirects to what might be the more "proper" name (e.g., Buddha versus Siddhartha Gautama.

Blessings... --Michael J. Formica 13:44, 26 December 2007 (CST)

Saw your conversation with Simon...my solution to the preview thing is to create a page called Article/Sandbox, then put a link to it in the See also section... (e.g., Road rage, Road rage#See also) --Michael J. Formica 13:56, 26 December 2007 (CST)

Simon: You're quite welcome. Listen, I could use your help on Enlightenment. I moved the original content to The Enlightenment, where it is more appropriate. I put some filler in, so the page wasn't blank, but it's lame, lame, lame... Blessings... --Michael J. Formica 08:53, 27 December 2007 (CST)

PS - any ideas on why the system hasn't generated a Table of Contents for your Talk page?