User talk:Drann

Welcome[edit]

Nice article in Chronicle of Higher Education, thank you! Here's the standard Welcome message :-) - David Gerard 20:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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Nice work[edit]

Those are great articles you wrote. Nice work on Ala Gertner and excellent news in The Chronicle Review. I'm happy you enjoy writing articles for Wikipedia and also happy you weren't rebutted by the overwhelming buttons/tutorials/informations/policies Wikipedia has. All the best for you next article. Lincher 17:10, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto - make that great work! I hope you don't mind that I linked Ala Gertner to the Chronicle article. I also hope that this complies with Wikipedia rules, but if it doesn't I'm sure somebody will delete it with a polite explanation. Smallbones 14:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and feel free to contribute content in whatever way is easier for you, and just let somebody know so we can set an army of editors out to wikify it into a nice format. The same would go for other types of content such as audio and video. I read your Chronicle article with interest (it's been a long time since this site was new and unfamiliar to me) and would like to encourage you to contribute more content under a free license. What isn't noted quite as often in press coverage of Wikipedia is the power of the free license to make sure that information will always be free for others to use and improve. Many children or adults in developing countries can't travel to western museums, they need cheap ways to access information. We also need to do whatever we can to support experts such as yourself in contributing, so let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Finally, on a pseicifc note, it appears clear that you are fully familiar with the sources listed as 'further reading' for Ala Gertner. If that's the case and you can vouch that those sources verify the material in the article, we can designate them as references to make that clear. Additionally footnoting important facts to their best source can help in our goal of demonstrating verifiability as laid out in our verifiability policy. You can use any format you like including Harvard referencing. - Taxman ^Talk 16:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also read the Chronicle article and am glad you found Wikipedia a comfortable place in which to work. I found the article by following a link from the French-language Wikipedia's Bistro, where users talk about working on Wikipedia.

I would love to translate the article on Gertner (and eventually, your mother) into French and Spanish. I will be away for a couple of months or so, though, so it may take a while. Please continue writing for Wikipedia whenever you can. I'm sure you still have a lot of information and stories to share. Happy editing! Marialadouce | parlami 01:37, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bio[edit]

I came to the Ann Kirchner article in order to add a reference just published in the CHE, and I see it needs some further work that I shall take care of, perhaps with some assistance. Please don't think I'm presuming to correct your style, which would be ludicrous indeed--but I'm rather experienced here in looking at articles on academics and helping with some of the aspects that we try to standardize. What is needed is what we call "Wikification": that's mainly adding links to other Wikipedia articles, adding specific references, removing the occasional duplication that comes from communal editing, rewriting anything which seems too close to the web site, and avoiding the repeated use of the full name. All of this is in what we call rather pompously our "Manual of Style"--the name was intended as a joke originally, but that's what it now has actually become. I've started in working on it by adding the links, and taking care of some incidental copyediting. Most of the routine facts of a biography can be referenced from the CV, and I will add what I think is the necessary. I may ask you a few queries as I go along.

As you probably know, we discourage people from working on the own bios--only a few can do it with the necessary objectivity. (With academics, the problem is as frequently over-modesty as over-expansiveness.) But I don't think anyone will see it as a problem here. If they should, I'm one of the administrators, and I'll do any necessary facilitating. DGG ( talk ) 23:46, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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