User talk:J. Noel Chiappa

Welcome!

Welcome, new editor! We're very glad you've joined us. Please read The Editor Role. You can look at Getting Started for other helpful introductory pages. It is essential for you as an editor to join the Citizendium-Editors (broadcast) mailing list in order to stay abreast of editor-related issues, as well as the mailing list(s) that concern your particular interests. It is also important, for project-wide matters, to join the Citizendium-L (broadcast) mailing list. 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 thank you! We appreciate your willingness to share your expertise, and we hope to see your edits on Recent changes soon. Supten Sarbadhikari 02:33, 19 February 2008 (CST)

Priority claim?

Welcome (back), Noel. "I actually wrote the very first Citizendium article, in October, 2006: Hokusai!" I think the first CZ articles appeared on the Textop wiki; did your article appear there? I'm also skeptical of any such claim if you can't prove it.  :-) --Larry Sanger 15:23, 25 February 2008 (CST)

Hey, I looked at the article. I think I remember this. You could well be right! --Larry Sanger 15:28, 25 February 2008 (CST)

subpages

Hi Noel, i noticed in the forum your were wondering how the hell the metadata page work and what can/is it supposed to do. I see you have already taken a bite at improving the instructions and information, which is great. FYI, the development of the subpages template was very organic and ad hoc. The consequence is that the documentation and the template itself are a mess and need to be streamlined. You, as someone who had to try and figure it out from scratch, can appreciate this is a bad thing. I'd say feel free to jump right in and edit an inconsistencies you notice. It is a long overdue thing on my to do list. Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance. Chris Day (talk) 14:56, 3 March 2008 (CST)

why not a catagory

I didn't start the article, only added 1 line. You should put that comment on the talk page of the article. David E. Volk 22:51, 3 March 2008 (CST)

Why template space?

You asked why is the metadata in template space. Excellent question and its not the way we wanted it. For the complete historical context of the discussion see the following thread in the forum. http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1149.0.html The short answer is that the metadata can only be read correctly from the template space.

A longer explanation can be found on a test article subpage. There is a companion sub-subpage that is slightly different and it is this type of page for which the "reading the metadata in article space" problem exists. Since these pages are useful for catalogs, timelines and signed articles I decided to keep the metadata in the template rather than abandon the sub-subpage concept.

If you know a way to solve this problem I'd be interested to hear it. I think the project is still young enough that a major change (moving metadata to the article space) might be possible. Chris Day (talk) 01:32, 4 March 2008 (CST)

Hi Noel!

I see you've been working away.

Please drop by CZ:monthly write-a-thon and add yourself to the list of participants.

Otherwise, I shall be forced to add you to my choice of categories--bwah, ha, ha!

Aleta Curry 18:18, 5 March 2008 (CST)