User:Milton Beychok/Storage box

EPA requests

Need more identity info

Hi, XXXX:

Thank you for your request to join Citizendium -- w are looking forward to your first contributions! However, since you made your application using a free email account, we need a way to verify your identity which is key requirement for joining Citizendium.

We really ARE looking forward to your contributions to Citizendium, so please take a few additional minutes to help us verify your identity.

What do we actually need from you? Any of these will work:

(1) A paid or organizational email account that contains a portion of your real name would be acceptable, something such as BobSmith@Yale.alumni.edu., or DonMWebster@TucsonFireDepartment.org, or CharlesJones@SomeBusiness.com.

(2) Any web page that that uses the free email address you gave us and that identifies you by your full real name somewhere on that website would probably work as well.

(3) Or attach a scan or a .jpg of your student identity card or driver's license with much of the more personal information blanked out.

(4) Also, you could use the "BeenVerified" link on our application page (at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount), go through their (free) process, and send me the link to your BeenVerified page.

Please help us to verify your identity and we look forward to hearing from you in the very near future!

Milton Beychok, Editorial Personnel Administrator mbeychok@cox.net

Message 1 for Confirmed Accounts

Hello, Zachary:

I am pleased to welcome you in becoming an author in Citizendium! As an author, you will be free to participate in our Classics, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy and Religious workgroups in which you expressed an interest. Actually as author, you are free to participate in any of our workgroups.

After you have learned the ropes and actively contributed to Citizendium for 4 or 5 months, then I believe would be the time for you to request being an editor in some selected workgroup(s).

The first thing you should do after you log in with your password is to access your user page and your user talk page. Use the search box in the left-hand vertical column of any Citizendium page, and enter: "User:Zachary W. Bos" (without the quote marks). That will take you to your user page. Near the top of your user page is a "discussion" tab. Click on it and you will be at your user Talk page where you will find our automatic welcome message and perhaps some more personal welcomes.

I would strongly urge you to expand you biography on your user page so that our members can get well acquainted with you.

Welcome aboard!

Milton Beychok, Editorial Personnel Administrator, mbeychok@cox.net

Message 2 for Confirmed Accounts

Hello, Paul:

I am pleased to welcome you in becoming an active participant in Citizendium! You are being confirmed and accepted as an editor in our Astronomy and Military workgroups. You are also being confirmed and accepted as an author in those two workgroups as well as the other workgroups you indicated an interest in (Computers, Education, Engineering, History, Hobbies, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics and Politics).

After you have learned the ropes and actively participated in Citizendium for 4 or 5 months, then would be the time to request being accepted as an editor in additional workgroups.

The first thing you should do after you log in with your password is to access your user page and your user talk page. Use the search box in the left-hand vertical column of any Citizendium page, and enter: "User:Paul Shankland" (without the quote marks). That will take you to your user page. Near the top of your user page is a "discussion" tab. Click on it and you will be at your user Talk page where you will find our automatic welcome message and perhaps some more personal welcomes.

I took the liberty of expanding your biography (which will be on your user page) with material from one of the websites in your application. Of course, you are free to expand or revise that biography.

Welcome aboard and feel free to contact me for help whenever you wish!

Milton Beychok, Editorial Personnel Administrator, mbeychok@cox.net

Message for Unconfirmed Accounts

Hi, XXXX:

We need a confirmed email address from you. Are you *sure* that you have looked in your email program's spam folder, or trash folder, for our automated reply? You need to find our reply and then click on the confirm line.

Thanks,

Milton Beychok, Editorial Personnel Administrator mbeychok@cox.net

Welcome, new Editor

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 mailing list in order to stay abreast of editor-related issues. If you wish, just ask me to create a "personal sandbox" for you where you can test out editing and writing articles. If you need help to get going, it is a good idea to join our discussion forums. That's where we discuss policy, proposals or technical problems. You can ask any constable for help, too. 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 you begin actively editing and contributing to Citizendium.

Welcome, new author

Welcome to Citizendium as a new author! We're very glad you've joined us. We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably also want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at Getting Started for other helpful "startup" pages, and at CZ:Home for a complete listing of help and other community pages. If you wish, just ask me to create a "personal sandbox" for you where you can test out editing and writing articles. If you need help to get going, it is a good idea to join our discussion forums. That's where we discuss policy, proposals or technical problems. You can ask any constable for help, too. 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 you begin actively editing and contributing to Citizendium.

A personal welcome

I just want to extend my warm welcome to you as an Astronomy and Military editor as well as an author in a number of different workgroups. If I can be of any help to you, please let me know. Milton Beychok 02:40, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Example of an alert message

== Image:Russian Blue 001.gif was uploaded from Commons without correct real name of author ==

The subject image was uploaded from Wikimedia Commons, using the pseudonym "Russkis" as the author. As can be seen here, the pseudonym of the original creator is MGA7. Looking at his user page discloses that he lives in Denmark and his first forename (given name) is Michael ... but his surname is not disclosed. I have posted a message on his user talk page here, asking him if he would give me his real surname and I am awaiting a response. If he should fail to respond or responds negatively, then regretfully the image will need to be removed from Citizendium. Milton Beychok 06:08, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

• CZ:Approval Process explains how the article approval process works
• constables@citizendium.org
• Name = ~~~   Name and time = ~~~~   Time = ~~~~~
• CZ:Templates lists all of the available templates
• 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

• Indented blockquote:

<blockquote><p style="margin-left: 1%; margin-right: 8%; font-size: 1.0em;"> ........ </p></blockquote>

• Speedy deletion template: {{Speedydelete|Reason|~~~~}}

Character Codes for Copy and Paste

ℝ <&#8477>  ℜ   ℛ   ℚ   ℙ   ℘   ℗   №   ℕ   ℔   ℓ   ℒ   ℑ   ℐ   ℏ   ℎ   ℍ   ℌ   ℋ   ℊ   ℉   ℈   ℇ   ℆   ℅   ℄   ℃   ℂ   ℁   ℀   ℏ   ∲ ∮ ∫ ½ ¼ ¾

Archiving a Talk page

• In search box, search for User talk:Milton Beychok/Archive X (Use the Go button, not the Search button.)
• 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

See Edit page for how these are done.

Wiki Class Table

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

Wiki Class Table w/clearance Column1 heading Column2 heading Row1 Item1 Row1 Item 2 Row2 Item1 Row2 Item 2

Provide space around images or tables

{| border="0" width="330" align="right"
|
|Image or Table here
|}

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;"
|-
|width="65"|'''Author'''||
|-
|'''Language'''||
|-
|'''Publisher'''||
|-
|'''Date'''||
|-
|'''Cover type'''||
|-
|'''Pages'''||
|-
|'''ISBN'''||
|}

Table for Multiple Images

{| border="0" align="center"
|
|Image 1
|Image 2
|}

Side-by-side tables with variable spacing between tables

This could easily be adapted for three or more side-by-side tables. Look at Edit page to see how this is done.

Caption For Both Tables (if wanted)

Caption Header Header AAA BBB CCC DDD

Caption Header Header EEE FFF GGG HHH

Citing Journal Articles

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

Citing Books

{{cite book| author=|title=|edition=|publisher=|year=|pages=|id=ISBN XXXX }}

Template for lining up = signs for list of equation parameters

{|border="0" cellpadding="2"
|-
|align=right|where:
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|}

Fair Use rationale

The image is used to identify the International Organization for Standards. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey. The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image. The logo is of a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution. Because it is a logo there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.

Raising or lowering baseline of LaTeX math characters

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

Explanation of colors in Related Articles subpages

Blue links are links to articles that are existing in Citizendium. Red links are links to articles not yet written, and need to be written. Black links are links to lemma articles (definition only articles), and need to be expanded to full articles. (In some cases, Blue links are links to redirects and are so noted).

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

As a fellow Chemical Engineer, I want to offer you a warm welcome! Please visit the Category:Chemical Engineering Subgroup to see all of the Chemical Engineering articles that we already have. I am going to take the libery of making you a member of that subgroup. If you need any help at any time, please contact me on my Talk page at here.

I have also 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 18:56, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

[[User:XXX XXX/My sandbox|'''My sandbox''']]

Accessing Metadata templates

Template:Article name/Metadata (Best to use the small search box in Navigation column)

Transclusion tags

CZ:Markup tags for partial transclusion of selected text in an article

Google search box for CZ

• Access user's Java Script (.js) file: User:Milton Beychok/monobook.js
• Then enter the coding just below:

importScript("User:Milton Beychok/searchbox.js")

// from [[User:Henrik/sandbox/google-search]] at Wikipedia (please include this line)
function install_search( )

{
document.getElementById('searchBody').innerHTML+='<div>'+
'<FORM method=get action="http://www.google.com/search">'+
'<input type=hidden name="ie" value="UTF-8" /><input type=hidden name="oe" value="UTF-8" />'+
'<INPUT id="searchInput" name="q" type="text" accesskey="f" value="" />'+
'<input type="hidden" name="domains" value="en.citizendium.org" />'+
'<input type=radio name=sitesearch value="">Web'+
'<input type=radio name=sitesearch value="en.citizendium.org" checked />CZ'+
'<INPUT type="submit" name="btnG" VALUE="Google Search"  /></FORM></div>';
}
addOnloadHook(install_search);

• Be sure to copy the above coding from this page (do not copy it from the edit page).
• Follow the instruction in your Java Script (.js) file about clearing your cache after you add the above coding.

List-defined references

The Sun is pretty big, but the Moon is not so big. The Sun is also quite hot.

References