User talk:Carl Jantzen

Welcome

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!

A good place to find information about various collaborative groups is to follow this link to CZ:Workgroups. Of course, please feel free to ask myself (via my talk page) or others about how to proceed or if you have other questions.

Also, as a start, I have put a copy of the bio from your email on your "User" page.

Best regards,

Dan Nachbar 20:34, 8 July 2007 (CDT)

Perl page not 'content that originally appeared on Wikipedia'

Hi Carl, I don't agree. When I wrote this page, the CZ article was only a few sentences long, basically a stub, probably culled from WP. But at the time I lived in China and had no access to WP.

I thought about the first sentence a while, but there is not much to change, except perhaps to move it away from the top. It is basically a first sentence like "A Hawk is a bird". Anything after that (except following the thoughts of the original stub for another sentence, but with a different emphasis) is totally new.

So, any similarities between the CZ and WP Perl articles, except stating the facts that it is an interpreter language and it was conceived by Larry Wall, are coincidental. That is much too much work to have it classified as a derivative of the WP original. Which I have looked at in the meantime. Too long for my taste.

new article of the week

Hey Carl, glad you think Kingdom of Oriel is worth nominating but I must confess that it is not my own work, and is largely copied from wikipedia. The reason I have done this is because wiki has actually done a pretty good job on a very obscure and rough topic, something I only know about because I hail from the region and therefore took an interest in. What I would like to point you towards is Edward I, which unlike Oriel is my own work and it still needs some fine tuning and polishing, notably in the Civil war and Crusade parts. Though I am sure there are better articles out there somewhere! Denis Cavanagh 09:47, 8 August 2007 (CDT)