User talk:Ro Thorpe/Archive 2

Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events 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 have fun! Aleksander Stos 01:38, 5 October 2007 (CDT)

Re: thanks et al.

Since you tried I'll give you an approximation: it's something like un-j (accent on "un") -- but please keep it strictly confidential, I don't want my test to be too easy ;-) Aleksander Stos 11:39, 5 October 2007 (CDT) PS. I enjoy some differences too (on occasions I still edit enwiki/frwiki).

1. Just like this :)

2. Your infobox is pretty cool. I deleted something a few months ago as there was no working template, I guess. (I put the wikitext on the talk for possible future re-use.) It was famous Big Cleanup operation, we suppressed many unsupported links. Cheers, Aleksander Stos 03:03, 6 October 2007 (CDT)

User:Robert

Your link from Wikipedia doesn't work properly because you forgot to replace the space between your names with an underscore. It should be [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Robert_Thorpe] but you have [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Robert Thorpe] so the software thinks that you're just naming the link to "Thorpe". I almost just changed it there but I figured an anonymous IP channging your userpage would be a little suspicious. :-) --Joe Quick (Talk) 15:42, 9 October 2007 (CDT)

Re:Plural

I hope I haven't made the wrong impression--just that it's a benefit of the project to create its own article rather than to be a fork of WP. I'm not implying that there is any kind of ownership here, we encourage everyone to contribute. You're entirely welcome to develop the article as you see fit as well; I personally have a preference of not using material from WP. --Robert W King 18:18, 12 October 2007 (CDT)

Hey

Thanks for the greeting! I removed the comment, but what's happening again? I'm confused, sorry. Also thanks for revising the Jefferson Airplane article, it's one of 60s greatest bands. Yi Zhe Wu 14:22, 14 October 2007 (CDT)

Abba

Hi Robert, thanks for your note re ABBA-- will dig a bit and look into it. Feel free to edit accordingly if you have not done so. You can always leave a note on the article talk page too (later - just noticed you already did) if you think someone else might see things differently of course. Sorry for my long absence on CZ - work, work, etc, etc... Your note perhaps makes some sense given the ubiquitous extent to which ABBA / Abba was around in pop culture back then (I grew up in Australia where it was unbelievable to witness).

I guess the best approach might be to follow the most generally accepted approach in media that is out there from the time, and now too. If now is different to then I suppose we should go with what is most 'done' in reporting now as opposed to then. The whole topic makes me think back to those very different times quite nostalgically. Anyway, as with all at The Citizendium, 'rewrite away'. My editor expertise derives from the area of gay marketing not from music, so the points you made about name vs acronym could well hold sway. --Ian Johnson 09:51, 22 October 2007 (CDT)

Just checked the official site and they seem to go with ABBA rather than Abba, so I guess the all caps version is the current best option. Was good to revisit that site in any case. --Ian Johnson 10:03, 22 October 2007 (CDT)

Spelling pronunciation

Personally, I *hate* those international symbols since they're incomprehensible to me and look, I think, awful. On the other hand, they are, I suppose, useful to those who can understand them. In Wikipedia, for instance, we have this:

• Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920? – April 6, 1992), IPA: /ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪˌmɑv/, originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [1]) was a Russian-born American author and

It looks awful to me but is, I guess, helpful. So I suppose that you should probably go ahead and add your stuff wherever you think it will be helpful. But telling people how to correctly pronounce salmon, often, February, and library is a fool's errand, hehe.... Hayford Peirce 13:32, 25 October 2007 (CDT)