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I aim to restrict my replies to this talk page....
My hope is to preserve the context of each discussion rather than having them fragmented on mutliple talk pages. So please check back here for replies to messages you leave, thanks. Please sign comments with four tildes ~~~~ This makes it a lot easier to follow the ebb and flow of a discussion with multiple users. Indents are also useful to help track the sequence of replies and can be achieved using colons such as : or ::. Chris Day (Talk) 23:32, 13 November 2006 (CST)
- For the benefit of newcomers, I mention that this can easily done by putting the page on one's watchlist, or setting the preferences to do so automatically.DavidGoodman
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Naming policy white paper
Hi Chris, Earlier, when I was having technical problems editing CZ pages, I left you a private message on the forum. Just wondering if you had seen it. --Jaap Winius 15:33, 2 April 2007 (CDT)
Macromolecular Chemistry
Chris, this article really needed a Chemistry editor that was not involved in writing for approval. At this point, we have a second Chemistry editor-who is also involved in writing. So approval is going to take a third. Let's all work together, maybe we can recruit more Chemistry editors for the workgroup. Nancy Sculerati 11:04, 3 April 2007 (CDT)
Chemisty
Chris, after I approved, we later determined that both macromolecular chemistry and physical chemistry (and there is one more) needed two more chemistry editors to be approved (Nancy and Gareth didn't count), so we had to back track until others come along. Steve actually did the reversion. I'll see what happened to the talk pages and see what I can do to restore them. --Matt Innis (Talk) 13:44, 3 April 2007 (CDT)
- OK, that makes sense, in that case we need to restore the talk page histories and delete the draft articles. It certainly confused me and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Chris Day (Talk) 13:51, 3 April 2007 (CDT)
- Also, Nancy's message above now makes more sense. Chris Day (Talk) 13:52, 3 April 2007 (CDT)
- See me on Steve's page --Matt Innis (Talk) 14:12, 3 April 2007 (CDT)
- Also, Nancy's message above now makes more sense. Chris Day (Talk) 13:52, 3 April 2007 (CDT)
Looks good, huh:)
I like it to :) Thanks to you! --Matt Innis (Talk) 14:29, 3 April 2007 (CDT)
Too lonely, I need HELP !!!!
Lonely, I need HELP !!! Economics is a vast topic, it is "too much sand for my little truck..." J. R. Campos 08:30, 4 April 2007 (CDT)
- That's exactly what I was thinking! Unfortunately, however, I am next to useless on the topic. Hopefully more people will migrate from wikipedia once they see there is a chance to do some real work here. Assuming there are good people in wikipedia? Certainly for the sciences there are some very good contributors. Chris Day (Talk) 09:11, 4 April 2007 (CDT)
Hey Chris
Anyway to make an Article for Deletion tag can show up on the Workgroup Box for the workgroup responsible for that article. Maybe along with the checklisted articles (or something better). That way, when someone places it in the category articles for deletion, the editors can take a look and see if it should be deleted. What do you think? --Matt Innis (Talk) 22:39, 5 April 2007 (CDT)
- Hey Matt, which of these template categories Category:Speedy_Deletion_Requests or Category:Articles_for_deletion are you thinking of? Not sure if it is possible but will think about it. Chris Day (Talk) 23:17, 5 April 2007 (CDT)
- Category:Articles_for deletion. You can doit, I no u can:) --Matt Innis (Talk) 15:36, 6 April 2007 (CDT)
Thanks
Thanks for letting me know. I'll keep my opinion of it to myself... --Peter J. King Talk 11:57, 7 April 2007 (CDT)
- Thanks Peter! --Mike Johnson 14:01, 7 April 2007 (CDT)
I will keep an eye on this person Chris, as soon as my maintenance is done I will check his application and see what the status is. Robert Tito | Talk 19:36, 7 April 2007 (CDT)
- Thanks for looking into it. Chris Day (Talk) 19:43, 7 April 2007 (CDT) no prob at all, the account has not be made yet, but without applic I cant procedd and on this disk I run from I dont have the correct software running, within 4 hours the account is done - if all is in order that is. Robert Tito | Talk
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the answer please and comment. Rob
Finally an author.
Regarding your comment on my talk page: Yeah, I know I may have seemed a bit impatient while waiting. Mostly it was a certain sense of insecurity. Some part of me figured, as I've mentioned before, that with my utter lack of credentials and notable works, I might not be "up to snuff" for Citizendium. Now that I'm in, well, I'm hoping to kick back and write a few articles in the next little while. I look forward to working with you in future, soon as I write a biography that's up to standard, anyway.
Yes, I find it confusing
Re your comment at Template talk:checklist: yes, I find it confusing how you've redirected your user page to your talk page. I was under the impression that each user was required to put their biography on their user page; maybe I'm wrong about that. In any case, I tried a number of times to find your biography and didn't find it. One thing that adds to the confusion is that your last name is sometimes spelled with a capital letter, sometimes lowercase. So of course I assumed I'd typed the wrong one and tried the other one. After a number of tries I gave up. I didn't find your publications list. I wasn't looking for a publications list; I was looking for a user page and/or a biography. I suppose your publications list serves as your biography. If it were posted on your user page, that would be obvious. If the link from your talk page were labelled "my biography" it would be obvious to users who noticed that link. Your explanation that you find it easier to maintain one page rather than two doesn't hold water, since your publications list is on a separate page anyway: why not make that your user page? I think it's less confusing if everybody follows the same format. Especially since you're an editor, readers will be wanting to see your biography (or user page or publications list) to see who is giving authority to various articles, so it's better to have that information easily available in a standard place, in my opinion. Also probably better not to direct readers to your talk page, which will contain all sorts of stuff that doesn't really need to be read by people who are just looking up information in the articles and not participating in writing them. Anyway, that's my opinion. --Catherine Woodgold 10:32, 8 April 2007 (CDT)
- I'd have to say I agree.. the "norm" is a Bio page at User:, and the talk page is strictly for discussions I'd think. Wasn't this one of the things you agreed to when you joined, that you would create a bio? --Eric M Gearhart 11:50, 8 April 2007 (CDT)
Check it
Chris, check your user page and talk page and make sure they work the way they aresupposed to. The redirects from user to user talk may be confusing, so make sure that's the way you want them. --Matt Innis (Talk) 12:52, 8 April 2007 (CDT)
- Matt this looks good. So I still log in as Chris day? One thing I was hoping was to actually have a new User I.D. so that my edits will show up in the histories as Chris Day too. Or is that not possible? I'd be fine just starting a new account too. Which ever is easier. Thanks for the help. Chris Day (Talk) 13:01, 8 April 2007 (CDT)
Okay, Chris, check you email for the password to your new user page and let me know if it works right. --Matt Innis (Talk) 17:23, 8 April 2007 (CDT)
After I'm sure you can get in under Chris Day, I'll block the Chris day account. Then we should be set. --Matt Innis (Talk) 17:49, 8 April 2007 (CDT)
Sounds great. Will I get an e-mail with intructions for creating passwords etc.? I'm sorry for wasting your time on this Matt. Chris Day (Talk) 19:36, 8 April 2007 (CDT)
Hey, no problem Chris, after all you do for me!!!! You can change your password under preferences at the top. Did you get the email with the new password? --Matt Innis (Talk) 08:41, 9 April 2007 (CDT)
- Excellent, I'm in. Can you hold off blocking the old account so I can transfer my watchlist etc. I'll let you know when I'm done. Thanks. Chris Day (talk) 09:36, 9 April 2007 (CDT)
You bet, just leave me a note on my talk. Have Fun!!! --Matt Innis (Talk) 11:10, 9 April 2007 (CDT)
Okay, I'll put a block on User:Chris day but will leave the redirects in place so all your previous edits on other talk pages won't show red and will redirect here. One day, we can delete the pages when you feel it won't affect anything too much. Let me know if anything goes wrong when I block:) --Matt Innis (Talk) 12:30, 9 April 2007 (CDT)
self-organization in life
chris, david tribe and i tried to straighten out the first sections of Life this morning, there were edit conflicts and restorations and ensuing confusion, last night between me , Rob, and Anthony- all of us trying to work more or less at the same time. Anthony did major restoration last night, late, and then David, and finally me and David then me. David will (tonight) make sure that the chemists' corrections all got incorporated, and I think that things are reasonably readable and accurate now, but in going through the article, I come to real trouble in self -organization -having to do with genomes and computers. It's not something I understand well enough to do a good job on,however, I do think you could. Currently I think it's wrong. Could you look at the talk page please? Nancy Sculerati 13:50, 8 April 2007 (CDT)