User talk:Marjan Addink

Welcome!

Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at CZ:Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events via the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list (do join!) and the blog. Please also join the workgroup mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. 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 have fun! D. Matt Innis 09:10, 23 September 2008 (CDT)

Some ideas for contributions

Hello Marjan, welcome aboard CZ. Matt 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 the related CZ articles (for documentation, see Template:Rpl/Doc):

• Dolphin: Add brief definition or description
• Whale: Add brief definition or description
•  Evolution of cetaceans: Whales, dolphins and porpoises are descendants of land-living mammals, and remnants of their terrestrial origins can be found in the fact that they must breathe air; their fin bones look like jointed hands; and their spines movement has characteristics of a running mammal. ^[e]
• Harbour porpoise: Add brief definition or description
•  Species: A fundamental unit of biological classification - a set of individual organisms that produce fertile offspring. ^[e]
•  Steady-state economy: An economic concept that takes into account the needs of future generations and the limitedness of natural resources. ^[e]
•  Biodiversity: The study of the range of life forms in a given ecosystem. ^[e]
•  Pollutant: Any substance introduced into the environment that adversely affects the usefulness of a natural resource or the health of humans, animals, or ecosystems. ^[e]
• Environment: 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 Environment (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  The Netherlands: Constitutional monarchy (population c. 16.6 million; capital Amsterdam) located at the delta of three major rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, and Schelde) in north-western Europe; situated between Germany and Belgium, and bordering the North Sea to the north and west; founding member of the European Union. ^[e]
• Dutch: Add brief definition or description
•  Coast: A piece of land adjacent to a non-inland body of water. ^[e]

Groetjes, Daniel Mietchen 10:44, 23 September 2008 (CDT)