View source for User talk:Richard Van Noorden

==Welcome!==
{{Getting Started}}
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== Welcome! I created a sandbox for you. ==

Richard, 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]] &nbsp; &nbsp;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! [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 17:31, 3 October 2008 (CDT)

== Some ideas for contributions ==

Hello Richard,
welcome aboard CZ. Matt and Milton have already given you some hints as to how things work here in general, and I wish to add some more practical hints on what possibilities you have to contribute. Since you are a journalist, you could perhaps help to make the rather technical aspects of some science-related articles more accessible. For a start, I display below the current state of CZ articles that may be of interest to you (for icon documentation, see [[Template:Rpl/Doc]]):
{{rpl|Biology}}
{{rpl|Chemistry}} 
{{rpl|Physics}}
{{rpl|Fossil}}
{{rpl|Biochemistry}}
{{rpl|Organic chemistry}}
{{rpl|Physical chemistry}}
{{rpl|Medicine}}
{{rpl|Biophysics}}
{{rpl|Brain}}
{{rpl|Brain development}}
{{rpl|Brain evolution}}
{{rpl|Music psychology}}
{{rpl|Magnetic resonance imaging}}
{{rpl|Spherical harmonics}}

Of course, you can also start new articles (e.g. in the sandbox Milton created for you, or directly on the article's page). We still have lots of rather general topics not covered, e.g.:
{{rpl|Geology}}
{{rpl|Music education}}
{{rpl|Magnetic resonance spectroscopy}}

Looking forward to fruitful collaborative editing, [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 04:43, 5 October 2008 (CDT)