User talk:Gmandler

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Gmandler! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Calaka (talk) 10:55, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
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August 2009
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Just so you know...

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September 2009
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. ukexpat (talk) 17:07, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Tips for Jean Matter Mandler article
Hi, I saw the section on this article over on the COI noticeboard. I'll echo a sentiment from there that I hope all this doesn't put you off of Wikipedia. Speaking as a COI patroller, any time we see usernames close to the name of the article, all sorts of alarm bells go off. In any case, it should soon quiet down, as you do seem to be respecting the neutrality policies very nicely. In the process of looking over the article, though, I see a couple of other items that have popped up, so I thought I'd come by and offer some tips:

Inline Citations: You mentioned on the article talk page that you had listed sources, but aren't sure how you could make them inline references. Ideally, anytime a factual statement is made that someone could possibly question, you would put a supporting cite inline. An example would be: "Mandler's early research was on animal learning, and in the 1960s she worked on textual analysis, including the development of a widely used story grammar." The inline citation would support the sentence, and would not necessarily have to be any more comprehensive. As long as it is a reliable source, it only needs to support the sentence, even if the rest of the source is dedicated to something/someone else.

Maintenance templates: I see you've been notified for removal of maintenance templates (those boxes at the top of the article listing any issues). Those really need to stay until the issues they mention are fixed. This is not to stamp a "scarlet letter" on the article, but rather to alert other users who may be able to help. Any time one of those templates goes on an article, it gets added to a browseable/searchable Category (basically a list of articles with similar issues). Others periodically go through those lists, and add citations or otherwise fix the problems on articles with which they may be familiar (just as I help out on COI issues). The Inline Citation tag can be removed once such citations are added.

Hope this helps! Arakunem Talk 18:50, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Reference errors on 17 September
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Journal of General Pschology
Template:Journal of General Pschology has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:45, 22 June 2017 (UTC)