User talk:Biol373.cwru

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you have been adding material to several neuroscience articles. Please be aware that Wikipedia has guidelines for page formatting and referencing, and that there are editors, including me, who can point you in the right direction. Please see the discussion at WT:WikiProject Neuroscience. Thanks. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:03, 19 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Please take care to format articles correctly. Briefly, links should not be formatted like link as that would direct to the project page Link and not the encyclopedia article Link. Use this format: Link Subtitles should be in Sentence case, Not Capitalised Like This. Please use citation templates, e.g., see WP:CITING. Fences  &amp;  Windows  20:15, 19 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I will take this into account for the future. My course is currently run as a Wiki, and I will update the editing tools to be current with those in use on Wikipedia next time I offer the course (which will be next Fall). Thanks very much for the helpful suggestions--Biol373.cwru (talk) 20:28, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Username
From the edit summaries it appears that this account is used by multiple editors. This is against Wikipedia policy, as it prevents correct attribution. Please create different accounts for each single editor. Thanks. I will also be posting a "welcome" template here, with links to the most important WP policies and guidelines, hope that helps. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:21, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It is, BTW, fine if the account is being used by only one person (e.g., the professor for the course) who is getting permission from the original authors - there is a guide at Requesting copyright permission on this, including a form to email (Declaration of consent for all enquiries). Allens (talk) 20:12, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I provided the students with an "opt out" email at the end of the semester - anyone who did not want their work posted could contact me, and I would not post it. We also told students throughout the semester that any content that they created for a Wikipedia article - text or figures - had to be done under a Creative Commons license, so that it could be freely shared with others. I did, however, want to give the students some credit when I initially posted the articles, since I didn't write them myself, which is the reason I cited their names in the comments at the time of uploading. I also did not choose to post articles that I thought would require major effort for others to edit in order to bring them up to encyclopedia standards.--Biol373.cwru (talk) 20:32, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Friendly suggestions
First, thanks so much for having your students work with wikipedia to improve important articles. We greatly need more quality input from editors to improve our coverage of many topics and we need teachers who are willing to take on this difficult challenge. I really appreciate your efforts in trying to improve wikipedia.

Second, I noticed that there seemed to be some issues because of the differences in the software that your students to create the draft articles and the wikipedia software once the articles were uploaded. In the future, you may want your students to create the draft articles in wikipedia on username space to sidestep this problem. This is how most people work on draft articles before they upload them to the actual article. You can create username pages by simply putting a "/name" after your user name in a wiki link (for example User:Biol373.cwru/draft article). Then you click on that red link and create the article. That will have the advantage of you actually working on the wikipedia system so that all the formatting can get reviewed (and you can have editor input) before you upload it to the real article.

Lastly, you may want to contact user:jbmurray for input on how best to do a successful wikipedia project that integrates wikipedia with classroom assignments. He has been the most successful by far in getting his students to submit excellent content through a class assignment (he even wrote an essay about his experience here - User:Jbmurray/Madness and a project page for one of his classes is here - WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem).

Thanks again for your contributions and feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers. Remember (talk) 13:38, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Formatting references
Hi, I saw some of the discussions about the formatting of references needing adaptation. Here are a few tips to minimize the work. First, there are two templates that might help you: and. All you need to have is the PMID (from PubMed) or the doi and put that where I put the xxx. A bot will then do the rest. Another way to do this is to use the template, but only fill in the doi or PMID fields. Then run Citationbot and the bot will fill in all the rest. Hope this helps a bit. Happy editing! --Guillaume2303 (talk) 14:22, 20 December 2011 (UTC)