User talk:Wildcat707

Don't forget to add your sandbox!Tatompki (talk) 17:34, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Uh, I hope I'm doing this right? Hi Nick! :) Jessilucas (talk) 16:37, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Nick, just posting a link to my userpage for the last part of the assignment this week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jessilucas I found a few articles on corumination and some others that relate to it. Jessilucas (talk) 18:27, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey Nick, check out my page, I posted a few topics that I am interested in investigating. -Helena- Hfrueh (talk) 23:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I am Alex. I am in your Abnormal Psych class. Just stopping by to say hey. Aspadoni206 (talk) 19:20, 04 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello Group! We need to all agree on a topic, And looking at the topics we all talked about when we met, I worry that there is already too much information about them. However I talked to professor Tompkins and she suggested that we could do ours on Co-rumination/Rumination. I'm currently working with her on a research project about the topic, so we could have a little leg up on the research and whatnot. I've been looking at the co-rumination page and it's pretty scarce. I added some info from one article I read, but I'm sure we can find some more info. Let me know what you guys think! Jessilucas (talk) 17:00, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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Edit Problems
Hi Nick, The page you linked to on my talk page didn't show that you made an edit (see the history) nor does it show you made an edit in reviewing your contributions. Perhaps you made a change in your sandbox and forgot to move it over?Tatompki (talk) 04:37, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Feedback - Week 4 Assignments
Nice job of making an edit, providing an edit summary and linking to 2 of your colleagues pages (don't forget to do so for all members and to post to mine so that I know that you've completed the assignment). In terms of topics, all of these are fairly well-developed (you may want to consider Talk:Bipolar II disorder which seems less well-developed. In general, you will be best served selecting a more narrow topic that is poorly developed here but well-established in terms of the scholarly literature.  Here is some general advice from the handout in this week's recommended readings on choosing an article:

Advice for choosing articles to work on
 * Choose a term that is well established in the discipline, but only weakly represented on Wikipedia. The best choice is a topic where a lot of literature is available, but isn't covered extensively on Wikipedia.
 * Scope: Look for topics that are specific and narrow enough to be manageable, but broad enough that sufficient sources exist to write a solid, sizable article.
 * Gravitate toward "stub" and "start" class articles. These articles have only 1-2 paragraphs of information and are in need of expansion.
 * Before creating a new article, spend 15-20 minutes searching related topics on Wikipedia to make sure your topic isn't already covered. Often, an article may already exist under another name or be a subsection of a broader article.

What to avoid for student projects Tatompki (talk) 20:48, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Trying to improve articles on very broad topics (e.g. Law) or articles that are already of high quality on Wikipedia
 * Trying to improve articles on topics that are highly controversial, e.g. Global Warming, Abortion, Scientology, etc. (Start a sub-article instead.)
 * Working on something only sparsely covered by literature
 * Starting articles with titles that imply an essay-like approach, e.g. “The Effects That The Recent Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis has had on the US and Global Economics” instead of “Subprime mortgage crisis” — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tatompki (talk • contribs) 20:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

==Feedback - Week 5 Assignments= It seems like you are getting the hang of editing (but please, please, please don't forget edit summaries as it is so much easier for others to track what you did and why), linking and starting to learn referencing. On this later point, you will want to cite your references in such a way that it numbers your citation and adds it to the reference list. Making edits in your sandbox before moving them over to the article itself is also a good idea so that you can make small edits, see what it looks like and make further edits without it showing up on the history of the article itself (without edit summaries I was struggling to figure out what changes you were making the several times you edited the page). Also, in the sandbox you can use the "cite" tool in your toolbar and then choose from template, either a website, book, newspaper or journal and by plugging in the information it will cite it cleanly for you. Make sure to take a look at the readings and videos for this week if you'd like more guidance and/or come in and we'll play with it too. Hopefully your group is narrowing in on a topic? Tatompki (talk) 05:56, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

P.S. Our librarian forwarded me a documentary that views bipolar in a very different way (more as neurodiversity than psychopathology)... check out the trailer if you are interested: http://www.crookedbeautythefilm.com/