User talk:David Hochfelder

Welcome!

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. David E. Volk 02:22, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

Welcome to Citizendium! We have another historian, Russell Jones, with an interest in the history of technology. I'm sure he'd be open to helping you out with getting started on any articles you might be interested in working on. Have fun. --Joe Quick 05:14, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello David! What a surprise and welcome. We also have a History of Technology Subgroup. Russell D. Jones 18:26, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Welcome as well! I'm also an Engineering Editor (also Military and Computers), with historical interests as well.

Russell, I never noticed the subgroup. Military would be interested as well.

Was Alfred Vail, by any chance, an ancestor of Theodore Vail? Howard C. Berkowitz 22:12, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello Howard! Theodore Vail was Alfred Vail's nephew. Theodore Vail had an interest in geneaology and hired H. Ward Righter to write a very long bio of Alfred Vail (unpublished but in the Morris County Public Library, Morristown, NJ). Theodore apparently wanted Righter to prove that Vail invented Morse code and did pretty much everything else in inventing the telegraph except coming up with the original idea. Thanks,Dave Hochfelder

I'm not sure where it would fit into priorities, but I'd be interested in working on Theodore Vail, his role in technical standards/interoperability/monopoly, and the Kingsbury Compromise.

One of the great mysteries is why AT&T didn't rename itself AT after the Compromise. Howard C. Berkowitz 15:44, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Physics

David, I have removed your editorship in physics because it was mistakingly given to you. David E. Volk 13:55, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Not a problem, David, though I'd like to contribute in the field of history of physics. Dave Hochfelder

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 16,405 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 Engineering and History articles that could be improved and approved, and some high-priority Humanities and Applied Sciences articles that we don't have yet. You can also create new articles via this guide, and contribute to some Engineering or History pages that have been recently edited here and here - 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 14:46, 30 October 2011 (UTC)