User:Milton Beychok/Storage box

Miscellaneous

• CZ:Approval Process explains how the article approval process works
• constables@citizendium.org
• All policies
• CZ:Templates lists all of the available templates
• Renaming articles : First move all subpages (including definitions), then revise and move Metadata template, then finally nove Main Article and Talk page.
• Commenting out part of an Edit page: <!-- Comments inside this tag will not show -->
• Unsigned template: {{Subst:Unsignedshort|name|time}}

Example: ...said Milton Beychok (talk) 12:15, 23 September 2008

Archiving a Talk page

• In search box, search for User talk:Milton Beychok\Archive X
• When notified that such a page does'nt exist, click on "You can create this page"
• When you get to the blank Edit page of the new Archive page, enter {{archive box|auto=long}} and save the page.
• Then copy and paste the current Talk page contents into the new archive and save the page. Finally, delete the content of the current Talk page (except for the current time template).

Wiki class table

Wiki Class Table
(Caption)

Column1 heading	Column2 heading
Row1 Item1	Row1 Item 2
Row2 Item1	Row2 Item 2

Table for use in book articles

Author	Name or names
Language	English or ?
Publisher	Name
Date	Date (X Edition)
Cover type	Hardback or Soft cover
Pages	XXX
ISBN	XXXX...

Just copy and paste this code into the article, and fill in the table:

{|align=right cellpadding=2 width=200 style="border:1px solid #000000;font-size:85%;background:#EEEEEE;"
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|width="65"|'''Author'''||
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|'''Language'''||
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|'''Publisher'''||
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|'''Date'''||
|-
|'''Cover type'''||
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|'''Pages'''||
|-
|'''ISBN'''||
|}

Citing Journal Articles

{{cite journal| author=|title=|journal=|volume=|issue=| pages=|date=|id=|url=}}

Template for lining up = signs

{|border="0" cellpadding="2"
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|align=right|where:
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|align=right|
|align=left|=
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|align=right|
|align=left|=
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|align=right|
|align=left|=
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|align=right|
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Raising or lowering baseline of LaTeX math characters

<font style="vertical-align:±xx%;"><math> ... </math></font>

Recruitment letter

Dear colleagues,

The on-line encyclopedia "Citizendium" at http://en.citizendium.org needs your help. It is a non-profit volunteer project to build a free online information resource. It is like Wikipedia but with more input from professionals like yourselves.

Prospective authors and/or editors in Citizendium are asked to use their real names (anonymous names are not used) and to submit brief professional biographies when they register to participate. Many of the current particpants are university professors and other professionals.

New members may select to be authors or editors (or both) in their fields of expertise. All articles created in the Citizendium encyclopedia are open to be freely read by anyone, but they may only be edited or revised by the registered members. As a result, articles in the Citizendium receive much more expert attention than do articles in Wikipedia.

Articles deemed to be of high quality by the members are denoted as "Approved" articles. Articles which have not yet been approved are considered to be draft articles.

The atmosphere in Citizendium is very much more collegial than in Wikipedia and there simply is none of the vandalism of articles that plagues Wikipedia where anyone is allowed to revise articles. The primary emphasis in Citizendium is to collaborate in the development and review of articles by discussion rather than by unilaterally making significant revisions.

Visit us and look at the Chemical Engineering articles at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Chemical_Engineering_Subgroup. We need more engineering authors as well as more engineering editors to provide expert guidance in developing new articles and improving some of the current articles.

Please consider joining Citizendium, if only to check out the atmosphere. If you join us, your work will be respected because our community will have confidence in your expertise.

We look forward to seeing you on Citizendium ... and we need your help!!

If you are retired and looking for a way to give back some of your knowledge and experience, Citizendium is a wonderful way to do so.

Regards, Milton Beychok

Sandbox notice

I have taken the liberty of creating a personal sandbox page for you. To access your sandbox, just click on the link labeled My sandbox in the upper, left-hand corner of your User page. Once you get there, you can click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page and you can:

• Practice writing articles in the Wiki markup language.
• If you already know the Wiki markup language, you can draft any articles you want to write and keep changing them until you are completely satisfied with them ... and then you can create a new article by cutting and pasting the sandbox article into the new one.
• You can invite other Citizens to visit your sandbox, review a prospective article that you wrote in sandbox, and ask for their comments/critique before you proceed to cut and paste it into a new article.

Don't know what the Wiki markup language is? Click ==>CZ:How to edit an article    Another excellent way to learn the Wiki markup coding is to click on the "Edit" tab at the top of any article and see how the markup coding was used there.

Enjoy! Milton Beychok 16:33, 24 September 2008 (CDT)

My sandbox