User talk:Marika Herskovic

Welcome!

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 for other helpful introductory pages. It is essential for you as an editor to join the Citizendium-Editors (broadcast) mailing list in order to stay abreast of editor-related issues, as well as the mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. It is also important, for project-wide matters, to join the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forums is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any constable for help, too. Me, for instance! 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. Roger Lohmann 14:09, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

An article you might want to look at.

Hi! It's good to see a visual arts person here. I wonder if you might have a look at the article on Waldo Peirce. Judging by your profile, it seems like you are just the person we need to review that article for approval. You might want to scan our approval standards to get an idea of what we aim for. This is a particularly good article for a new member to get started on, actually, because Peirce's nephew is a frequent contributor here: Hayford Peirce. Feel free to stop by my talk page if you have any questions. --Joe Quick 15:43, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Marika, thanks for your quick response. I think maybe I wasn't as clear as I should have been.

We use the words "author" and "editor" a little differently at Citizendium. An "author" is anyone who contributes to an article and anyone may act as an "author" for any article. "Editor" means a subject area expert who guides the development and eventual "approval" of articles. "Approval" here means that an "editor" has reviewed the article for content and accuracy and has signed off on it based on the approval standards I mentioned above.

I noticed that you've been confirmed as a visual arts "editor" and was hoping that you could oversee the approval process for the Waldo Peirce article. The process works somewhat like peer-review. You don't need to know the work of this particular artist in order to oversee approval, but we do need someone who is experienced with the visual arts field as a whole who can judge the overall quality of the article in terms of what should be present in an article about an artist and how material should be presented. I don't mean to pressure you, but I think you'd be a good person to fill that role. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to help you through the process. --Joe Quick 17:39, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

reference formatting

I usually just type in the reference information between <ref> and </ref> using the standard format for whatever field I'm writing in. A lot of people prefer to use a template though; you can find the appropriate templates here: Template:Citation. Whichever method you choose, just make sure you add <references /> at the bottom of the article so that the footnotes show up there.

I just had a look for the article you mentioned starting but I don't see anything. Did you mean you started off-line somewhere? --Joe Quick 20:25, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Joe! Thank you for your help. I am just putting the article together. I'll let you know when it is done. Maybe you would like to have a look at it. Best, (Marika Herskovic 22:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC))

I hadn't noticed Joe had responded, but here's some other views:

copied on Joe's page Marika, perhaps we could benefit one another, and CZ, with an actual case study. I'd welcome some review of articles on pastel and charcoal (art), where I do have some inline citations that might be good examples. Your thoughts would be welcome on both using and citing specific commercial information; it's an interesting line to explain that different manufacturers' products have different properties, and when an example is useful without implying endorsement.

Did anyone mention that you can create a "sandbox" for testing, in your user space? You can have many of them, but the most basic way of creating would be to type User: Marika Herskovic/Sandbox in the search box, and hit GO. This will ask you to create the page, to which you can go directly once it has been saved. You can substitute anything for "Sandbox".

While the full citation mechanisms can be complex, as Joes says, the most basic way to do an inline citation (please look at this in page, not edit, mode, as I am using some escape sequences) is:

<ref> reference information</ref>

I usually use templates.

This will create an inline footnote. The contents of the citation will appear when you put:

<references /> This will give single-column format

or

{{reflist|2}}, where 2 can be changed to the number of columns of endnotes you want displayed. Howard C. Berkowitz 22:30, 2 April 2009 (UTC)