User talk:Eric R. Scerri

Welcome!

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 (broadcast) mailing list in order to stay abreast of editor-related issues, as well as the mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. It is also important, for project-wide matters, to join the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forums is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any constable for help, too. Me, for instance! 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 your edits on Recent changes soon. Supten Sarbadhikari 03:18, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Some ideas for contributions

Hi Eric welcome aboard CZ. Supten has 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. For a start, I just took some of the keywords from the information you supplied upon registration, and display below the current state of related CZ articles (for icon documentation, see Template:Rpl/Doc):

•  Chemistry: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. ^[e]
•  Philosophy: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. ^[e]
• Periodic Table of Elements: A tabular method of displaying the chemical elements. ^[e]
•  Elements: In one sense, refers to species or types of atoms, each species/type distinguished by the number of protons in the nuclei of the atoms belonging to the species/type, each species/type having a unique number of nuclear protons; in another sense, refers to substances, or pieces of matter, each composed of multiple atoms solely of a single species/type. ^[e]
•  Academic journal: A regularly-published, peer-reviewed publication that publishes scholarship relating to an academic discipline. ^[e]
•  Open access: The free, immediate online access to the results of research, coupled with the right to use those results in new and innovative ways. ^[e]
•  Scientific method: The concept of systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. ^[e]
•  Philosophy of science: Philosophical study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. ^[e]
• History of science: Add brief definition or description
• Science education: Add brief definition or description
• Los Angeles: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Los Angeles (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• California: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See California (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.

In order to find articles dealing with similar topics, it's also worth looking at the Related Article subpages of such an article.

Finally, in case you are involved in homework assignments, please consider doing so via Eduzendium articles.

Looking forward to fruitful collaborative editing, Daniel Mietchen 11:19, 24 October 2008 (UTC)