User talk:Lionel Jaffe

Welcome to Wikipedia, Lionel!
Well done, you're already a Wikipedian! :) Proteins (talk) 20:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm delighted you wrote to me, and I'll be equally glad to help you write an article about calcium waves. I have to meet with one of my grad students in a few minutes, though, so I'll have to be brief for the moment.

You'll notice the red link above for calcium waves. If you click on that link, your page will be created and you can begin editing. You'll notice right away that the article title is singular, "calcium wave", rather than plural, "calcium waves", which is customary for Wikipedia. Blue links correspond to articles that exist already on Wikipedia; hence, once you create your article, the link will turn blue.

You can add text by typing into the box and clicking "Save page" at the bottom. Typically, you'll want to give an edit summary, a short description of the change you've made; it's rather helpful in remembering what you did when, and allows you to explain to fellow editors what your ideas or motivations were in making the edit.

New sections and subsections are added by enclosing the text in two or more equal signs, as you'll see if you click on "edit this page" while on this page. Images, references and tables are harder to craft, but we can cover those when I get back. In the meantime, I leave you with a tutorial I've written with User:TimVickers and others describing editing on Wikipedia. I was thinking of using it at the ASCB workshop, so if you had any pointers for us to improve it, clearing up ambiguities or confusing parts or whatever, we'd very much appreciate your advice on how to make it better. Thanks! Proteins (talk) 20:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)