User talk:Tim Westbrook
Welcome!
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your article
Hi Tim,
Glad to see you at work! But please read my comments on the discussion page of the article before you go any further. Thanks! Constable Hayford Peirce 20:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
This article
This article is a restoration of several articles largely written by me, but significantly and constantly modified and damaged in WP. It is now not possible to maintain a quality version in WP. Tim Westbrook 00:35, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
- So what else is new about WP, hehe? Welcome to Citizendium! Hayford Peirce 01:41, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Tim, are you listening to me?
I asked you to do some things on the discussion page of this article. Before you do any more editing, would you please address the concerns I raised? Thanks. Constable Hayford Peirce 03:52, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Formatting your articles, etc.
Hi, Tim, I can understand that too many discussions etc. don't leave time for the true business of creation, but in the long run it will be easier for all of us if you can follow our conventions right from the start -- that way we won't have to have any discussions at all! One problem at the moment is that our various History editors seem to be taking vacations at the moment and I, the lowly Constable, am left to guide you through some of this stuff.
- Any time you make an edit to an article, at the very bottom of the edit box, under a couple of lines of boilerplate are three boxes: This is a minor edit, Watch this page, and Content is from Wikipedia. If you're bringing the material in from WP please check the WP box and DON'T FORGET TO SAVE.
- Any time you create a new article with material from WP, even though you've checked the box mentioned above, please click on the Talk tab and then, on the blank screen that you'll find there, put in the WPauthor template that we discussed yesterday. Please take a look at another one that I did myself: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Tommy_Hambledon You will note that you see my own name and date within that box. You can insert your own name there, which is a favor to readers, by typing four tildes ~~~~ after you've written your own little text.
- In any articles that you create, please remove any images that are clearly not in the public domain or that don't show up on the page that you have just created.
- Later, when you've got the hang of this, I'd like to show you how to fill out the "metadata" and subpage stuff, so that the various categories of Workshops and so forth show up at the bottom of the screen. It's easy enough to do and only takes about 30 seconds once you get the hang of it.
All the best, Hayford Peirce 17:03, 16 May 2009 (UTC)