User talk:Thatsomaven

Welcome!
Hello, Thatsomaven, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! DES (talk) 17:43, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I am a designated Wikipedia online volunteer for the Neurobiology (Spring 2014) ‎class in which you have enrolled. Please feel free to ask me any questions you might have about how to use or edit Wikipedia. I can be reached by posting at User talk:DESiegel. You could also post any questions at the Help desk, which is a page for anyone with a question about how to edit Wikipedia. DES (talk) 17:43, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Hellos
Hi Maeve! I really like your hair. --Mchan19 (talk) 00:25, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Maeve! I'm so glad that I've gotten to get to know you better over the past year and I'm glad that we have this class together. Sydval612 (talk) 02:37, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Maeve! I look forward to seeing your work this semester! Johnsep12 (talk) 15:01, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Maeven! Glad we have a class together this semester! Lambchop22 (talk) 15:41, 24 January 2014 (UTC)Lambchops22

Posting talk page messages
A small but I hope helpful point about talk page conventions. When pointing on a talk page to start a new thread or discussion topic, it is usual to post in a new section. You can do this by manually entering a section header, or by clicking the "new section" tab at the top of a talk page. This tab may show just a plus sign (underlined so it looks like a plus/minus sign) or it may show "new section" depending on which skin you choose and how your preferences are set. That will open up a form with a 1-line box for the thread topic/subject/headline, and a regular edit box below that.

To enter a section heading manually, surround the Topic with double equals signs, like this:

(Lower level headers can be added with three, four, or more equals signs, but those are not too often needed on talk pages. They are in articles, however.)

I hope this is helpful. DES (talk) 17:41, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Your draft article
, I have been looking at User:Thatsomaven/draft proposal that you and have been working on. While I cannot judge the accuracy of the content, I have a few comments on formatting and layout. I hope these comments are helpful. If you have any questions, please respond here and include   or  User:DESiegel . Those will notify me of your comment and I will respond promptly. DES (talk) 17:20, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) As you can see at Layout and at Manual of Style/Lead section, Wikipedia articles start with a lead section (sometimes miscalled "the lede"). This section does not have a section header. You have a lead section, but it needs to summarize the article a bit more thoroughly.
 * 2) The first mention of the subject, normally in the first sentence of the lead section, should be in boldface.
 * 3) I see that you have not yet included any wiki-links. This is fine at this stage, but it might be a good idea to gt into the habit of adding these as you compose or do a first-pass review of your text.
 * 4) I see you have already added citations to references. This is very good, but you might want to consider what style of referencing you plan to adopt. Your citations are currently bare URLs, with no metadata such as author, title, date, or publication cited. Many editors prefer the citation templates such as cite journal and the "CS1" style that they produce. Others prefer a "shortened footnotes" style or a "Harvard" or "parenthetical" style. And there are other styles in use as well. Wikipedia does not require the use of any particular reference style, but it does specify that citation style should be consistent in an article, and that citations should provide sufficient metadata. The style will determine what bibliographic metadata you must specify for each reference citation, so it may be a good idea to pick a style early.
 * 5) Please to not use the &lt;big&gt; tag to produce section headers. Instead use wiki-markup so make section headers so that they will be listed in the article's table of contents (TOC). This is done by placing paired equals signs around the header, which should be alone on its line. (example: &#0061;&#0061;Section header&#0061;&#0061;) See section for more details.
 * 6) Citations are not normally added to section headers. Instead they are placed at the ends of sentences or paragraphs, or just after the fact or quote that is supported by the citation. See Referencing for Beginners, Help:Footnotes, and WP:CITE for more details.
 * 7) Please do not use the &lt;br&gt; tag to produce line breaks when a blank line will do the same job and leave the wikitext clearer. Only in tables and other places with very limited space where blank lines cannot be uses is &lt;br&gt; a good idea.
 * 8) I added userspace draft to the page. It marks the page as a work in progress, and prevents Google and other robots-compliant search engines from indexing it. It wiull be removed when the page is ready to be moved into the main article space (often called "mainspace").

Talkback
DES (talk) 00:51, 21 February 2014 (UTC)