User talk:Catherine Feeley
Welcome, Catherine - as both editor and author. I am pasting two separate "welcome templates" below-each gives some useful information (we hope):
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Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start, and see Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. 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 user or the editors for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun!
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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.
I have added you, as editor, to the Classics Workgroup. You are invited to add yourself, as author, to any workgroup that interests you. Best regards, Nancy Sculerati 14:14, 11 April 2007 (CDT)
Articles ready for approval
Hi Catherine, to my mind the following articles are ready to be nominated for approval:
If they seem fine to you, you can add the approval template. Best wishes, —Arne Eickenberg 17:57, 3 July 2007 (CDT)
One additional article ready for approval
Arnê Sithonis can also be nominated. Cheers, —Arne Eickenberg 09:31, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
And another one
(^_^) Arne (name). —Arne Eickenberg 10:33, 5 July 2007 (CDT)
Glad to see you!
Good to see your name pop up after your email! If you need anything, just let me know. Take a quick look at CZ:Approval Process before editing too much content in case you want to do an individual editor approval. In that case, you might want to leave your suggestions and let someone else make the actual changes. Any questions, just ask. --Matt Innis (Talk) 14:42, 16 July 2007 (CDT)
I just responded to your email. Which article do you want to start with? --Matt Innis (Talk) 15:49, 16 July 2007 (CDT)
Hi, thanks for helping me! I was hoping to start the approval process on the article entitled "Gaius Iulius Caesar (name)". I did make a couple of edits (a Latin typo and a minor change in a sentence) but I don't think that disqualifies me to approve it (maybe I'm wrong?). So how do find the article's talk page, and then how do I use the approval template? - c.f.
Okay, in CZ:Approval Process you've already seen the Who may approve section. You noticed that there was the individual and group methods for approval. I agree that you still qualify to make an individual nomination for approval, so now you are ready to put the ToApprove template (or tag) on the top of the article talk (discussion) page. Here is how I do it:
- Under the next section of CZ:Approval Process is the When and how to use the ToApprove template. I copy the whole section with my mouse (including the instructions just below it).
- Now go to Gaius Iulius Caesar (name). Check on the discussion tab, that will bring you to the "talk" page. Click on the edit button and paste the text that we copied to the top of the page. It should look like this:
{{ToApprove |url = |now = |editor= |editor2= |editor3= |editor4= |group= |group2= |group3= |date = }} To prepare the template, simply copy the above code and paste it to the top of the article's talk page. Then make the following replacements:
url = the location in the page history where the version-to-approve lives. The sysop will paste this and only this version into the main page
now = the date and time when the template is added. Use 19:57, 16 July 2007 (CDT) (five tildes) to let the computer generate it automatically.
editor = the username of the person who did the approval (or who nominated the article on behalf of a group of people)
editor2 = second editor (optional but must use before editor3 if only two editors approved)
editor3 = third editor (optional but must use before editor4 if only three editors approved)
editor4 = fourth editor (optional)
group = must be an existing workgroup
group2 = second workgroup (optional but must use before group3 if only two workgroups)
group3 = third workgroup (optional)
date = format yyyymmdd
If you have made all the correct replacements, then all the links in the template should appear blue. None should appear red.
- I will watch for you to do that before we go any further.
- Catherine here. I think I've figured it out - the main problem was that I didn't realize the "edit" page was also called the "talk" page. The date at the end doesn't look right, but maybe it's supposed to be like that?
Close! On the right track! Actually, though, the discussion page is called the 'talk' page :-) Notice where I moved the ToApprove template; that is the discussion page. This is where everyone discusses changes to the article. After you get there, then you click the 'edit' button to edit the discussion page and tell them what you think or, in this case add the ToApprove template. You will see the template that you filled out at the top. See it? There are a couple things that need explaining, yet, but let me make sure you found it first. --Matt Innis (Talk) 15:44, 17 July 2007 (CDT)
OK, I see where you have relocated the approval template (maybe in the "approval process" instructions you could add that the "talk" page is also called the "discussion" page? - just for literal people like myself?). So, what next?
- I added (discussion) to the Approval Process. Now after "group=" we have to place the Workgroup that you represent that is approving the article. In this case, it is Classics (leave off the word 'workgroup'). Also, take out the word "format" from the date. I'll let you do that, then we have one more part and we will be finished! --Matt Innis (Talk) 11:14, 18 July 2007 (CDT)
All righty - I've done that. - Catherine.
- Okay, then all that is left is for me to put in the version number at the top so that when anyone makes changes, you don't have to accept them. From this time on, you can choose to incorporate any new changes in your approval by updating the date that you approve it. Make sense? --Matt Innis (Talk) 23:00, 18 July 2007 (CDT)
- PS. I see that there are two edits that Arne made since the date you nominated. If you agree with them, all you have to do is update the 'now=' time with the five tildes again and it will change the time. The important day is on 2007/07/24 when I come to do the final approval. So just keep an eye out for changes that you want to include. If someone makes one that you do not like, make sure and discuss it on the talk page - if they don't change it then you can change the date or remove the ToApprove tag. --Matt Innis (Talk) 23:12, 18 July 2007 (CDT)
Thanks, I'll do that, but first: I don't remember how to get to the page that allows me to edit the "discussion" page. I log in, go to the "Gaius Iulius Caesar (name)" page, click on the "discussion" page, and then see a nice green box that I created. However, I don't remember how I got the text version of that box that I was able to edit. - c.f.