User talk:A. Daniel Knaub
Welcome!
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 CZ:Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events via the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list (do join!) and the blog. Please also join the workgroup mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. 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 have fun! Larry Sanger 11:01, 23 September 2008 (CDT)
Some ideas for contributions
Hi Daniel, welcome aboard CZ. Larry has already given you some hints as to how things work here in general, and I wish to add some more practical hints on what possibilities you have to contribute. For a start, I just took some of the keywords from the information you supplied upon registration, and display below the current state of the related CZ articles (for documentation, see Template:Rpl/Doc):
Biology: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]- Cetacean: Add brief definition or description
- Whale: Add brief definition or description
- Animal behaviour: Add brief definition or description
Evolution of cetaceans: Whales, dolphins and porpoises are descendants of land-living mammals, and remnants of their terrestrial origins can be found in the fact that they must breathe air; their fin bones look like jointed hands; and their spines movement has characteristics of a running mammal. [e]- Oceanography: The scientific study of the oceans. [e]
Biochemistry: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]- Ocean: A mass of water on the surface of the Earth that separates continents. [e]
Looking forward to fruitful collaboration, Daniel Mietchen 11:10, 23 September 2008 (CDT)