Talk:Main Page/Archive 1

There was a problem creating new pages earlier today/yesterday depending on your locale.

This seems to be resolved now. --Peter Hitchmough 08:39, 23 October 2006 (CDT)

I would like to discuss the heading "health sciences" on the main page. I clicked it, and was flummoxed. As far as I know, there is no such thing as "Health Science"as described. There is health care- that includes traditional medicine and such, but that's not science. Health Care deserves an article but I am too ignorant to know how to change the heading. I posted my confusion here instead of editing the article and discussing it there because I did not want to inadvertantly add it to CZ (which I maintain would be better called Z for Zendium and still could be the Citizens' Compendium, by the way.) Help! Nancy Sculerati

Just to make you happy :-) I just registered zendium.org (it appears the .com and .net variants are Danish tooth products--that's plausible). Maybe we will go with your variant, eventually anyway...

Presumably there are important enough differences between the topics "health care," a set of practices, and "health sciences" (or "medicine"), an area of study and research, to warrant different articles. Or did you mean to deny that? I mean, I will not gainsay you if you do wish to deny it. The list of topics on the front page is a list of disciplines, and "health care" per se doesn't name a discipline.

--Larry Sanger 16:52, 30 October 2006 (CST) (I signed this way by using four tildes in a row: ~~~~

P.S. Dr. Sculerati, please see medicine as well.

My proposal is to post in help section of the page the most actual info, covering technical problems during initial registration at least to get-off some load from tech team, replying on similar questions.

http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Main_Page&diff=100001136&oldid=100001131

What's about necessity of registering user name in form of real "First name Last name" ? It's hard to find this somewhere BEFORE attempt of account registration IMHO. Anatoliy Kostrzhytskyy 05:06, 3 November 2006 (CST)

Thanks for pointing that (the real names requirement) out. I don't know where else we can mention that, except maybe in the invitation letters? It was discussed to death on the forum (and talked about on the mailing list in late September). We formulated the policy to help foster a different sort of community, to help make this all the more real. --ZachPruckowski 12:00, 3 November 2006 (CST)

It is mentioned in the invitation letters, and the statement of fundamental policies too.  :-) --Larry Sanger 13:34, 4 November 2006 (CST)

Dear Colleagues,

I was about to write a short piece about Cultural Policy/Strategy but I realise I cannot do so until I am 'au fait' with the technical side of things. Perhaps Larry it would be helpful if new recruits such as myself are emailed an attachment containing a 'tutorial'? Best wishes, aladin.

P.S. Perhaps this can be emailed - I am not sure how to receive or send messages! aladin