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==Welcome!==
Greetings. Feel free to add a comment to any existing subject or make a [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=User_talk:David_Hoffman&action=edit&section=new new comment] on my talk page. I would prefer if you add comments at the ''bottom'' of any given thread. As a matter of courtesy to me, please do not delete any old comments. To modify your own, just <s>strikethrough</s> and append new thoughts.<ref>Of course, feel free to make minor edits of your comments. Please leave it to me to re-arrange, name, and archive sections, too. Thanks!</ref>
{{awelcome}}  -- [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 13:44, 10 May 2007 (CDT)


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You can discuss specific articles here, especially for personal rather than content concerns. Otherwise, let's discuss it on the applicable talk page.


-- [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 13:44, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
You also are invited to [[Special:Emailuser/David Hoffman|send me an email]] as you wish.


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You should stop importing and start improving. ''Then'' import more.  ;-) [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 18:56, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
==Welcome!==
:Steve -- yes, I understand this approach. Perhaps you could comment on my "strategy." But don't worry, I'll only import a few more sections that I think are part of the major core. [[User:David Hoffman|David Hoffman]] 18:56, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
{{awelcome}} -- [[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 13:44, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
 
::See [[CZ:Article_Deletion_Policy]], first point. To change policy, do feel free to start a discussion at http://forum.citizendium.org/ . ---[[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]] 18:59, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
 
::: Sure, that's fair (and I noticed something along those lines before). I've started to make revisions to what I've imported, sometimes quite drastic ones. But I trust you and the others to know what's best for CZ. I don't think I'm trying to change a policy, am I? Well, that's not my intent. Maybe I should vet with you, or a veteran who could "adopt" me, before I import more. [[User:David Hoffman|David Hoffman]] 19:03, 10 May 2007 (CDT)
 
Just ''don't'' import more, David -work on what you've got. What's happened again and again is that somebody becomes a new citizen, they import loads of stuff from wikipeida, meaning to eventually change it, or thinking some one else will, but nobody does and then somebody ends up having to go through the wiki and delete it all a couple of weeks from now. It is policy here that we are NOT a mirror of Wikipedia, and so articles that are substantially the same WILL be deleted. Work on what you have already imported,and when you have,and they are now legitimate CZ articles they will not be deleted, ''then'' import more (if you want). But wait- I have a "jewish question" for you (very very bad joke which is actually a query prompted in the most respectful way) which perhaps you can answer first - I don't know if you know the traditional Jewish law- but for [[Natural Family Planning]] I wanted to go through how the very orthodox rules for touching between husband and wife increase the chances of pregnancy in that culture, but I have forgotten exactly how it works- I think its 7 days after last visible blood- and then mikvah? I also do not know the history of that tradition, how it started, which passages in which books are referred to? I'd like to include this in a scholarly fashion for that article. In any event, no "sin of Onan" means high sperm count, timing of togetherness after abstinence means likely intercourse at time of ovulation, and I would like to refer to this all properly. Can you help? [[User:Nancy Sculerati|Nancy Sculerati]] 19:23, 10 May 2007 (CDT)

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Greetings. Feel free to add a comment to any existing subject or make a new comment on my talk page. I would prefer if you add comments at the bottom of any given thread. As a matter of courtesy to me, please do not delete any old comments. To modify your own, just strikethrough and append new thoughts.[1]

You can discuss specific articles here, especially for personal rather than content concerns. Otherwise, let's discuss it on the applicable talk page.

You also are invited to send me an email as you wish.

  1. Of course, feel free to make minor edits of your comments. Please leave it to me to re-arrange, name, and archive sections, too. Thanks!


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