User talk:Arno Schmitt

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

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start, and see Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. 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 user or the editors for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun! Robert Tito 09:02, 3 February 2007 (CST)

biography on user page

until the user page is filled out, registration is for "read only". Please remedy this. Thanks. NancyNancy Sculerati MD 06:09, 4 February 2007 (CST)

Welcome back

Hi Arno. Welcome back to CZ. I just wanted to remind you of a few of our guidelines here. FIrst, you need to have a slightly more substantial biography. This helps other users to have some idea about your expertise and experience as you collaborate with them here. Since you're active again, we'd like to see that up before you make more edits. Secondly, its great to see you jumping in to articles. However, please try to keep your comments constructive to improve articles. Thanks. -- Sarah Tuttle 10:13, 14 November 2007 (CST)

signing your edits

Hi Arno, could you please sign your edits on talk pages. Do this by using four tildes ~~~~ after your posts (but only on the talk pages). That will give your name, date and time that you made the post. Thanks, Matt Innis (Talk) 13:53, 14 November 2007 (CST)

Thanks to you! Arno Schmitt 14:17, 14 November 2007 (CST)

Expand bio, please

Hey, it'd be great to know a bit more about you - education, particular research areas, publications, etc. Stephen Ewen 02:19, 15 November 2007 (CST)

By the way, you might wish to stop by Anthropology and CZ:Anthropology Workgroup. Stephen Ewen 02:23, 15 November 2007 (CST)

I will do that for sure. Arno Schmitt 02:50, 15 November 2007 (CST)

One more thing. Let me know if you want help getting {{Cite quran}} to work. Stephen Ewen 02:32, 15 November 2007 (CST)

Please do it. I just discovered that someone has used a non-existing template. For me, How to do templates, will come later. Arno Schmitt 02:50, 15 November 2007 (CST)

Let me try this a different way. You must expand your bio to about 50 words. This is a requirement of all Citizendium contributors. Note that http://en.citizendium.org/robots.txt prevents search engines from crawling CZ pages where your name may appear. Stephen Ewen 15:44, 15 November 2007 (CST)

Dear Ewen, could you please do something about in Qurʾān-Quotes in "Jesus in Islam". Arno Schmitt 02:30, 16 November 2007 (CST)

I have it on my list of stuff to do. Thanks for the bio. Stephen Ewen 03:02, 16 November 2007 (CST)

Thanks for the future fixing of the template. Arno Schmitt 03:10, 16 November 2007 (CST)

Major content changes to developed articles

Hello Arno, just a quick note. I have reverted your changes to the article "United Kingdom" for reasons given on its Talk page. I should explain that,m unlike WP, you will find articles in various stages of development and should bear this in mind when changing things. Some articles, like this one, are fairly polished and have been created [or at least partially vetted] by experts; others are more immature; whilst yet others may be even non-existent. When editing articles in the developed category, it is wise to consult on the Talk page unless you are a world authority in the specific area.

I do not want to discourage you from making contributions to CZ, obviously, but we do try to control quality of articles here. The clearest expression of that is with the Approvals process, but there is also some continuous scrutiny of others. Please do feel free to criticise content, even of Approved articles, but the best place as I have mentioned, is on the Talk page, at least initially. Many thanks. --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 04:18, 16 November 2007 (CST)

Martin, you are overspeaking here, are you not? Arno is as free to edit developed articles as any other person, editor or author. If there is some debate about added content, then that should be taken to talk and brought to resolution. Stephen Ewen 05:09, 16 November 2007 (CST)