User talk:Henry A. Padleckas/Archive 1

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Welcome!! Welcome!! Welcome!!

Hi, Henry ... I 've been waiting a long time for another Chemical Engineer to become active on CZ. There are others who have joined but are not very active .. .as I hope you will be. I responded to you on my talk page and I want to repeat what I said there: we could sure use your WP articles on "Vapor-liquid equilibrium" and "Chemical plant" and I would be most happy to help you get them into the format of CZ articles. It would also be your chance to rid them of incorrect revisions that some WP people may have made in them.

I will add your name as a member of our Chemical Engineering subgroup. All of our articles are designated as being in one or more Workgroups (similar to WP's categories) and one or more Subgroups if relevant.

Once you have your bearings here, its a very good idea to join the Forums (see the left-hand vertical panel) and to read them at least once a day to keep up with what is going on here ... and offer your comments as well.

Also, if you visit my user page at User:Milton Beychok you will find links in the upper section to my Image Galleries 1, 2 and 3 ... which has copies of about 130 images I have uploaded. You may find some of them useful in articles you may write. I drew many of them and the others have been uploaded from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and other places. Just so you know, if you upload images into CZ from Commons or Flickr, you must obtain the real name of whoever created those images and, of course, they must have the appropriate licensing. Pseudonyms are not good enough. Milton Beychok 22:35, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Milt, thank you for the welcome. :-) Of the articles I've [mostly] written or started for Wikipedia, "Chemical plant" is my favorite one. Your galleries of images are very impressive too. I noticed that you redid the multi-component tall distillation tower diagram I originally made for Wikipedia's "Continuous distillation" article. I had similarly expanded my diagram to include the condensate pumps and what-not and saved it on a flash drive, which I unfortunately cannot find. :-( I want want to fix up the VLE article a bit before I transfer it here. Henry A. Padleckas 22:56, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

One other thing I forgot to mention above. It is a good idea to create a personal sandbox or two. In that way, when you port an article here from WP, you can work on it in your sandbox until you think it is ready to move into the CZ article namespace. You can also ask me or anyone else to review it in your sandbox before you move it into the namespace. Some of us at CZ frown upon porting articles from Wiki into the namespace unless they have been thoroughly reviewed/revised/re-formatted/etc. Milton Beychok 06:54, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

I think I'll do that with "Chemical plant". This "policy" of discouraging stubs is unfortunate for CZ because it does not allow articles to be created as stubs, then grow by true wiki style as was often (but not always) the case in Wikipedia. It was one of the things that allowed Wikipedia to grow so rapidly in its earlier days. Henry A. Padleckas 14:12, 21 November 2009 (UTC)