User talk:Barry R. Smith

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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 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. Jitse Niesen 08:34, 27 March 2008 (CDT)

Hi Barry -

I don't think we've met in real life. At any rate - welcome, and let us work together on the number theory pages! Harald Helfgott 08:29, 8 May 2008 (CDT)

Your testimony

Please let us have it! --Larry Sanger 20:58, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

prime number

Paul Wormer suggested I notify you of the error: Fermat primes are 2↑2↑n+1, not 2↑n+1. Peter Jackson 14:15, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Addition: I suggested this because you're math editor and because prime number is approved and cannot be corrected without intervention of a math editor. --Paul Wormer 14:20, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

And you're the number theory specialist. Peter Jackson 18:04, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Returning to Citizendium: an update on the project and how to get involved

Hello - some time ago you became part of the Citizendium project, but we haven't seen you around for a while. Perhaps you'd like to update your public biography or check on the progress of any pages you've edited so far.

Citizendium now has 17,903 articles, with 0 approved by specialist Editors such as yourself, but our contributor numbers require a boost. We have an initiative called 'Eduzendium' that brings in students enrolled on university courses to write articles for credit, but we still need more Editors across the community to write, discuss and approve material. There are some developed Mathematics articles that could be improved and approved, and some high-priority Natural Sciences articles that we don't have yet. You can also create new articles via this guide, and contribute to some Mathematics pages that have been recently edited - or to any others on Citizendium, since you're a general Author as well as a specialist Editor. You may like to contribute to discussions in the forums, and might consider running for an elected position on the Management and Editorial Councils that oversee the project.

If you have any questions, let me know via my Talk page or by leaving a message below this one. Thank you for signing up and reading this update; I hope that you will look in on our community soon. John Stephenson 16:09, 30 October 2011 (UTC)