User talk:Gareth Leng

Could you please add [[Category:CZ Live]] to any pages you edit (or have edited) that you wish to keep as live Citizendium pages as opposed to pages that were simply tests? I've tagged the few I've edited, but you've done the most editing to date. This way we can work out which pages we intend to keep on Citizendium, and which pages were merely pages that were edited for testing purposes? From the looks of it, you aim to keep all of those changes (and I'm impressed by the quality of some of the improvements), but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks :-) --ZachPruckowski 13:14, 27 October 2006 (CDT)

Hi Gareth, from a fellow editor interested in overlapping subjects

I was thrilled to see that you did some editing on Biology. I'm doing my best to add articles to the Live list, and do not do so without making contributions - but all of the articles need so much work. I have been contacted by some editors who have implied to me that it is expected that we have our own turf, imply I should stay away from articles they are writing or planning to write, and I am not comfortable with that. I love the interactions between interested and knowlegeable people on a wiki. So, please- if you see my name all over the history of an article, it's a particular invitation to join in (not of course, that you actually need one.) Nancy Sculerati MD 13:48, 2 November 2006 (CST)

reply from my talk page

Gareth, I'm a novice at the wiki format. I'm answering you here because I think this is the way to do it - if not, please instruct me. I'm happy to go over the article and play with the language until it sounds right to my ear. But that's how I do it, if I have to justify every word as opposed to its near synonym, or worry that if I change the language so that it all subjectively flows to my ear I must have objective evidence to support each change, I get stuck. I just write in an intuitive way and I get into it where I lose track of everything else but just the writing. Given this situation, how can I help the article? I ask that question sincerely. Nancy.

Thank you, Gareth.I'm going to take a break and then go back to Biology. I'm going to forget everything bu the writing when I do, and I don't promise it will be a better article - but I will try to make it the best Bio article I've read. Nancy Sculerati MD 11:12, 10 November 2006 (CST)

Gareth, I've done some preliminar work on Biology. I added some comments about the text and needed images right in the body of the text. Perhaps you would be kind enough to look at that, and change anything you like. Probably moving those comments would avoid offense, since they really belong in Discussion, but they seemed to make the point best in a draft form of the article. Will work more tonight and hope to finish tonight or tomorrow. Nancy Sculerati MD 14:39, 10 November 2006 (CST)

Slow progress in biology, but progress. Could you kindly read biology talk page (discussion) and respond? Thanks, Nancy