I have sent the following directly to Mr. Crawford in response to his
inquiry.
Ec
Hi John:
I've read your desparate plea to have a question about a particular
article answered, but the name of the article was not specified.
Courtesy of Google, I read an article on your
site a week or so ago.
I have a query about that article, but do not understand from your
site instructions how to raise it with you.
The usual place to raise questions about a specific article is on its
"Talk" page. For access to this click on "Discuss this page" in the
side bar. If no other comments have been previously made about this
article you will receive an edit box where you can write your question
and follow that by clicking on the "Save page" button below the box..
Where their have been previous discussion you will receive a page
(with a yellow background) showing all those discussions. To add your
comments click on "Edit this page" wherever it conveniently appears at
the top or bottom of the page or in the side bar. This will give you
the edit box with all the previous discussion. Scroll to the bottom of
the edit box, put four hyphens at the beginning of the line
immediately below, and after a carriage return begin you questions or
comments. When you finish your comments click on the "Save page" as
before. The purpose of the 4 hyphens is to draw a line across the page
to separate your comments from the previous ones.
Any subsequent response will be from a person interested in that
topic. If your query is about making an obvious correction to the, go
directly to "Edit this page" from the article itself, and make your
changes right there. Extreme caution is advised if the subject matter
is of a controversial nature. Using the Israel/Palestine dispute as an
example you can be assured that there are supporters of each side who
will be quick to revert any change that in their opinion appears to
unduly favour their opponents.
I am not a member ? do I need to be if I wish to
read the articles on
your site, or raise queries about them?
Not at all! Even a "non-member" may read, query or edit almost any
article. Your edits will be identified by your URL number. Any edit
that is so identified tends to be scrutinized more carefully to insure
that it is in good faith. This has proved an effective technique for
weeding out cranks and vandals. If you intend to stick around it would
be advisable to open an account with a name (or pseudonym) of your
choice. Your subsequent reappearances as a trustworthy contributor can
then be recognized by the regulars.
I have already emailed you, but do not really
understand the reply
which I received ? copy of both below.
The response that you received appears to be an automatic one. If
there was no problem, which I suspect to be the case, your letter
would have been forwarded to the mailing list without further ado. The
list is only very lightly moderated as a means of keeping spam from
the list. The role of the moderator is simply to make sure that you
are a real person. Once you have been so recognized, all of your
future postings will go directly to the list without his intervention.
I hope this answers your questions adequately.
Ray (Eclecticology)