User talk:David Lehavi

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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!

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Kind Regards, Robert Tito | Talk 21:14, 14 February 2007 (CST)

To add a page to the mathematics workgroup, put [[Category:Mathematics Workgroup]] at the bottom. -- ZachPruckowski (Talk) 01:18, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Feedback

Hi David,

Thanks for your message and welcome to Citizendium, I'm happy you want to contribute here. I'm flattered you chose me to ask for feedback.

Broadly speaking I think I would advise three things....

• Try to scale the article so that it has bits that will matter to all of the following three groups: people with very little background knowledge; people with some knowledge and technical skills but who are not virtuosos; and highly technical, knowledgeable people who need a serious reference up to the highest level. You don't have to cater for them in order, just make sure the article is structured so that technical bits are skippable for those who don't need/understand them.
• The intro has to be the most universally accessible part of the whole article. You can and should include the key technical definition but cater as much as possible to those with the minimum level of knowledge. Don't dumb down---be open and honest with your reader about when you are giving them a friendly approximation rather than the real thing, and always provide the precise material to go with it.
• Write prose that you personally find attractive and friendly, as well as correct, and where you can provide graphics to help ease the visualisation of ideas.

Hope that helps! Keep in touch, —Joseph Rushton Wakeling 18:32, 19 February 2007 (CST)