User talk:Margaret Maddox

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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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We are really happy to have you here. Settling in can be done on your own, or with some mentorship. If you have questions, I'll try to help where I can. You might try checking Special:Recentchanges and the CZ:Notice_Board, that's how many of us follow what's going on. You can find me on my talk page (discussion tab on my user page). Nancy Sculerati 09:32, 2 April 2007 (CDT)

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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.

Congratulations on overcoming my many fumbles in welcoming you to CZ, Mary...er, I mean Margaret. As you are certainly qualified to edit, please do so. I have added you to the Literature and Education workgroups as Editor. We editors try to stick to things we know about, as best we can, and so-although I am an editor in Health sciences and Biology, I try to approve and guide only where I have actual expertise. Of course, we are nothing if not pragmatic here on CZ, and so a level of general expertise is certainly acceptable in an editor in a workgroup that lacks editors who are especially focused on some area within the discipline. Since a number of biology editors have been here from the pilot, you might look at discussion pages of such articles as Biology (check the archive) and Life to get an idea of some of the interactions between editors, at least in that workgroup. Anyway, welcome, again- this time as Editor, and although I will try to be of assistance, you have already experienced that my help is not always straightforward in terms of benefit. (I do try, though) Nancy Sculerati 12:20, 5 April 2007 (CDT)

Many thanks for Literature comments

Dear Margaret,

Just a brief note on your Talk page to thank you for your most perceptive comments on the Literature entry -- you read with a keen eye, and each of your revisions will greatly strengthen the fibre of the article.

I see on your homepage that you are working on film treatments of Joan of Arc's story. I started out as a medievalist, with some work on women mystics (Hadewijch of Antwerp, Margery Kempe, Christinia Mirabilis), and have long been a fan of Dreyer's film of Joan -- wondered what you thought of it. I am delighted to know that such a worthy and thoughtful person as yourself is among us as an Editor. Cheers, Russell Potter 19:47, 3 May 2007 (CDT)