User talk:Njbetz

Hi
Are you editing as part of a class project? There seem to be other editors making related edits, and I'm just trying to understand what's going on. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 17:04, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it is a class project as a part of the Association for Psychological Science Wikipedia Initiative: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/aps-wikipedia-initiative

We are all trying to edit articles in the field of affective science. Njbetz (talk) 17:12, 12 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. User:Thetmn added material similar to yours to Major depressive disorder, and I felt that I had to revert it.  The article you've added it to is a much better place, although I still incline to think the material might work better as a freestanding article, as I explained at User talk:Thetmn.  Anyway, the main thing is to maintain some level of interaction.  Regards, Looie496 (talk) 17:18, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you
I am the instructor, is there any comparable instructor training that I should be involved in? I am working alongside my University's Wikipedia ambassadors. Njbetz (talk) 14:56, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You are the instructor! First let me give you a new welcome (with lots of relevant information). I guess here are the answers. I would just like to inform you about an important difference between Wikipedia and an academic paper or essay. Wikipedia articles should not be based on WP:primary sources, but on reliable, published secondary sources (for instance, journal reviews and professional or advanced academic textbooks) and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources (such as undergraduate textbooks). WP:MEDRS describes how to identify reliable sources for medical information, which is a good guideline for many neuropsychology articles as well. With friendly regards,  Lova Falk     talk   19:14, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay after your assignment is finished! Lova Falk    talk   19:12, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

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Lova Falk    talk   15:43, 2 May 2013 (UTC)