User talk:Ro Thorpe

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Thanks for your corrections to Atmospheric science

Hi, Ro: I really appreciate your help. Milton Beychok 02:24, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Appreciation appreciated, thanks for the note. Ro Thorpe 13:25, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ro, Thanks for editing Sirius. If I think Sirius needs it I'll clarify absolute visual magnitude's relationship to luminosity. I'm really grateful for you catching that.

My better half is urging me to crank out short contributions for the practice and to complete some articles CZ has listed as being wanted. At times I'm dictating information while shaving as she types. She's urging me to embrace the Zeitgeist of crowdsourcing improving CZ articles. I'm withholding judgement for now on the wisdom of working that way.

I do have a serious question for you. I'm wondering who my audience is. I'm currently picturing an college audience but college audiences vary considerably. At times I have to explain what atoms are to business and management students in class. I'd like basic cultural information to be very accessible when I write. This has the additional advantage of allowing me to write very short article during my breaks.

What's the background of the ideas that have been floated regarding the audience for articles? I'm supposing some people advocate getting simpler articles done more quickly while other think it's best to write slowly but with more depth than what can usually be found on the internet. Am I correct in assuming this? Also, what's your opinion?

Sincerely, Gary Leonard Cameron 23:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on Sirius

I just learned how to use the + to make a new topic so my note is out of order above this new topic. Yours, Gary Leonard Cameron 23:30, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Rationale

Not sure you got this. Point is it's ration-ahl, not ration-aily. Leave it to you to put it in your code. Peter Jackson 08:21, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

I overdid the French, as your 'ration-ahl' reminds me, but I omitted any Latin because there is more than one standard: at my school, for example, it was 'rátìón-àlè'. Ro Thorpe 13:37, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

The actual classical Latin pronunciation would have been (roughly) Ratty O'Nally. Church Latin Ratsy O'Nally. But there are rules for the pronunciation of Latin words adopted into English. However, I only mentioned this as you didn't seem to understand, which you do now. Peter Jackson 09:18, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Indeed, thanks. Ro Thorpe 13:33, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Comments at RationalWiki

There might be a case for moving a lot of stuff to Addenda. Peter Jackson 14:59, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, which comments exactly? And what Addenda? Ro Thorpe 23:49, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

The comments you replied to over there recently. Addenda are one of the types of subpage here, where you can put the less readable stuff. Peter Jackson 09:53, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

You mean the word lists? I have long felt they distract from the meaty pages, the 'CZ cluster' ones, which unfortunately were put on the bottom row of the grid (which itself is headed 'list'). So, if you know how to handle that, let's do it. Ro Thorpe 12:31, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

I do this sort of thing so rarely that I can never remember from one time to the next what to do. I think you have to edit the metadata template. Peter Jackson 13:34, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Do you understand the markup at English spellings/Catalogs/Masterlist? The metadata template doesn't mention it. Ro Thorpe 16:34, 12 May 2013 (UTC)