User talk:Hajo Krol

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! Larry Sanger 17:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Some ideas for contributions

Hi Hajo, welcome aboard CZ. Larry 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):

•  Holland: The western part of the Netherlands bordering the North Sea, divided into the provinces Noord Holland and Zuid Holland. ^[e]
•  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]
•  Groningen: Capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands, the largest city in the north of the Netherlands. ^[e]
• School: 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 School (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• High school: Add brief definition or description
•  Medical school: A higher education institution awarding academic degrees in medicine and related fields. ^[e]
•  Medicine: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
• Degree: Add brief definition or description
•  Chemistry: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. ^[e]
•  Field hockey: An outdoor sport that involves the players using a curved stick to move a ball about the field and attempting to score by hitting the ball into the opposing team's goal. ^[e]
• Football: 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 Football (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  Soccer: Add brief definition or description
•  Dutch language: West-Germanic language spoken by roughly 20 million people in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, and the Netherlands Antilles. ^[e]
•  English language: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. ^[e]
• Foreign language: A language which is associated with another country or culture and is rarely or never used in a speaker's own community; usually taught in classrooms or through self-study, for practical purposes such as travel or doing business, or for pleasure. ^[e]
• Piano: Add brief definition or description
• Tutor: Add brief definition or description

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 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)