User talk:Theresa M. Dorman

Hello, and welcome to Knowino! Thanks for your contributions, and we welcome any feedback you might have.

Just a couple of things:


 * 1) Your account name ("Td.software") is the name of a company. All accounts should be used by a single person only. You'll have to choose another account name that doesn't have the potential to confuse others in the community: if you provide another name (either your own real name or a pseudonym), I can rename your account for you.
 * 2) Information Technology is currently not written in an encyclopedic style. I'm not going to delete it right now, but it will require some work to introduce the topic of information technology in a concise, lucid, and comprehensive manner.

Cheers!—Tom Larsen (talk) 23:35, 23 February 2011 (EST)


 * Welcome, Theresa! Hope you do not feel discouraged. We strive to be as permissive as possible. In other wikis every author is forced to follow the averaged opinion of the majority. Here, if you do not agree with others (be they reviewers, administrators, bureaucrats, founding fathers or even the Pope), you can maintain your version (unless it is a patent nonsense etc), since "we allow multiple articles, written from different approaches, on individual topics" (Knowino:About).


 * You can write to my talk page whenever you want; but if you just want to reply to my message, do it here. (Do not worry, I'll get a signal via my watchlist.)


 * In every case, after writing a message, sign it by four tildas: ~.


 * You call Thomas "Thomas"; you may call me "Boris"; and likewise I would be happier calling you "Theresa" rather than "dear Td.software". Why not be just "Theresa Dorman"?


 * Your email address need not appear on the wiki. Of course, if you want, you may publish it; but beware of spammers.


 * You can also create your homepage here (something like this, or otherwise).


 * --Boris Tsirelson 10:42, 24 February 2011 (EST)

Hi Boris,

Thanks for the feedback and help.

You can call me Terri or Theresa (whichever you're comfortable with, as I'm comfortable with either).

I will go back and sign my post.

Also, Thomas had removed anything that referenced outside web sites/pages. Is that bad form? If so, what's the proper way to reference? (Note: My opinion on this is that a Wiki can't be everything and that, many times, it becomes powerful and effective to point readers to more appropriate and qualified topic sources. I would think this is the perfect time to use links and references to other sites.)

Thanks again for your help.

Td.software 13:16, 24 February 2011 (EST) - Terri


 * "You can call me Terri or Theresa" – nice, but I also mean that you could ask Thomas to rename you from "Td.software" to "Theresa Dorman"; then your signature will be "Theresa Dorman", and any user not (yet) knowing you personally as close as I do now :-)  will probably call you "Theresa".
 * "Thomas had removed anything that referenced outside" – not quite so; note that now the "Information technology" page has a blue tab "Links" (on top, after "Article", "Discussion" and "Bibliography"); clicking on it you come to the "Links:Information technology" page, containing two of your five links. The last your link "The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology" leads to something more general than IT. (Did you mean to give there a link to a single page of the encyclopedia?) About "Answers.com" and "Learning Framework" I really do not know; let us wait for Thomas, probably he has something to say, why he did not like these two links.
 * --Boris Tsirelson 13:51, 24 February 2011 (EST)


 * Also, about these tabs "Article", "Discussion" and "Bibliography": you can click on "Discussion" (red for now) and start writing notes/questions/opinions there; it is the best place for discussing that article (rather than your account and other general matters). --Boris Tsirelson 14:00, 24 February 2011 (EST)

Hi,


 * Thanks for the info and, again, for the help.


 * As far as changing my account, you and/or Thomas can feel free to change it to "Theresa.M.Dorman"

Thanks

208.54.87.52 14:23, 24 February 2011 (EST) - Terri


 * Well, now you are "Theresa M. Dorman"; please register! (And note the two spaces and one dot.) --Boris Tsirelson 14:52, 24 February 2011 (EST)


 * Boris, thanks for helping, and Theresa, no problems! I removed the link to "The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology" because I saw it as too general—if you could link to a particular article in the MCGH Encyclopedia about information technology, that would be better. I didn't see why there were multiple links to the IF4IT's website, hence why I removed some of the links to it and left one; I've now added more specific links to the glossary and learning framework on Links:Information technology. And I wasn't sure about the Answers.com link, because the site mirrors a lot of content from other sources and it might be more pertinent to link directly to those sources; I've re-added the link for the time being.—Tom Larsen (talk) 19:26, 24 February 2011 (EST)

Thomas and Boris,

Thanks for your help. I will put any topic related issues in the Discussion pages for those topics, rather than on our Talk pages, so that others can contribute to the conversations.

10:00, 25 February 2011 (EST) Theresa