User talk:Greg Woodhouse

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Welcome

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

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Kind Regards, Robert Tito |  Talk  15:58, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Etiquette

I hope I didn't violate CZ ettiquete there. I came over from WP not so long ago, where if I write anything, it ends up being modified faster than I can blink! (Well, okay, that's an exaggeration.) Greg Woodhouse 09:11, 3 April 2007 (CDT)

Hi, do not worry about breaking etiquette here by editing pages, I think being bold is aslo a principle on the Citizendium. If two people disagree, they should of course use the talk page, but about your changes on the divisor page, I finally agree with them, as I told to Richard L. Peterson, so there is not any problem. --Sébastien Moulin (talk me) 09:35, 4 April 2007 (CDT)

another welcome, as editor

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.

best, Nancy Sculerati 15:10, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

NPOV and such

Hey just a reminder that on CZ they're trying to shy away from NPOV and whatnot... basically all the crazy myriad of acronyms on Wikipedia. Also I get the impression on here "compelling articles that grip the reader" take precedence over "beating someone with the NPOV stick" :) Taking a look at your edit on OSI model it does promote a more balanced approach to the situation --Eric M Gearhart 13:53, 9 April 2007 (CDT)

Yes, I suppose you're right about that. I used the acronymn in the summary for reasons of space, but the question of whether or not the principle is valid is a different one. In my opinion, "dispassionate" would be better. Neutrality, carried to its logical extreme, can lead to some dilemmas of its own. Greg Woodhouse 14:05, 9 April 2007 (CDT)

Indeed when constables find such initialisms, they replace it (for the particular one talked about here) with a template producing

— (The Constabulary has removed an initialism here. Please use plain English instead, for example, "unbiased" or "neutral" ) —.

Hopefully, doing that will really help prevent the matter here. The reasons for this policy are here and also here

Stephen Ewen 03:29, 18 April 2007 (CDT)

Tux

Tux has been nominated for approval. Can I count on you for a signature? :) --Joshua David Williams

Approval Life

The reason for recording editor approval was to avoid future quibbles about whether to process was legal since almost every Biology editor had touched the page. We dont want to reverse the approval after such a long process. Editor recording was not a required process (as yet).David Tribe 18:26, 10 April 2007 (CDT)

Tux

Greg, if you agree the page is good for approval please read all talks about it (as well as my remarks about it not being a single stand-alone article but linked to the Linux pages for abvious reasons then you can add your name before pr after mine, seperated by a comma. It means 2 or more editors find the article approve-worthy. Robert Tito |  Talk  18:38, 10 April 2007 (CDT)

Reply from my talk page

Hi Greg, I see David and Rob are here as well. The current procedures are still as stated in the CZ:Approval Process, but do keep an eye on them and be sure to take part in the "about to be formed" editorial council that I hope you have been getting emails from Larry about. Basically, if an editor writes an article, he/she cannot approve it himself, he will need at least another editor who has not worked on the article to approve it. If that editor makes changes, it will require another editor to approve as well. After that it only requires that the three agree to approve. When a constable (me) comes to the page to perform the mechanics, he will be looking for signs that there are three agreeing editors, or one that had nothing to do with writing it. Notice that there can be ten authors, but we're only talking about editors. Also note that currently it only takes one editor to stop the process or remove the approved tag.

Hope that helps. I expect that as we proceed, there will be need to adapt some of the rules. Any input you might have would be appreciated. The best place for it now is on the forums, but do plan on participating in the editorial council when it forms.

Does that help? --Matt Innis (Talk) 18:45, 10 April 2007 (CDT)

Greg, also see this on my talk page.[1]--Matt Innis (Talk) 20:16, 10 April 2007 (CDT)

complex, prime et al.

Hi, thanks for the message. Let's keep an eye on Gamma function too (I guess it is one of best developed articles). And who knows how it will end up :-) --AlekStos 11:07, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

Approval process for Linux article

What does it mean that an article gets "approved"? I hope it doesn't mean that we're not supposed to change it much. I don't see that Linux article as being in any kind of final form, or even near it. I just started authoring here very recently, so perhaps I am bringing a new perspective and that's possibly disappointing to those who've been working in here longer than me. I'm not sure why people feel in such a hurry to seek approval. It must scratch some sort of itch that I don't have.Pat Palmer 21:14, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

Editing checklist

Did I miss-interpret this page then? --Joshua David Williams 23:04, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

Good question. I guess it depends on the meaning of "updating or correcting". I didn't interpret normal status changes this way, but you're probably right. Greg Woodhouse 23:17, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

Underlinked

To be honest, I'm not a 100% sure of what that means, so I just leave it the way it was in the article I pasted the template from and hope that someone will fix it if it's wrong. --Joshua David Williams 10:54, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

I think I understand it now. Thanks for bringing it up :) --Joshua David Williams 10:56, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

Byte

Can you think of anything else that should be done to the Byte article? I was thinking that the "Gulliver's Travels" reference should go in the Endianness article. Do you agree? --Joshua David Williams 21:56, 14 April 2007 (CDT)

Complex analysis

I notice you have deleted essentially everything I wrote about complex analysis in the complex number article. That's fine, as I really think it belongs in another article, and put it in there at the request of someone else, anyway. I do wonder, though, if you are still making modifications, or should I just remove the section "What about calculus?" It really serves no purpose there, anyway. Greg Woodhouse 15:12, 16 April 2007 (CDT)

I had not realized I'd done that; I'm now wondering if it's a software glitch. I was attempting to do only the things I mentioned in my edit summary. I'll go back and take another look. Michael Hardy 15:29, 16 April 2007 (CDT)

trying to recruit PhD-level (but not necessary to have PhD) editors

I was referring to recruitment of editors with degrees and other field specialists. -Tom Kelly (Talk) 20:39, 20 April 2007 (CDT)