User talk:MU77

Hello, MU77, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Yunshui, and I am your Online Ambassador for Dr Mynlieff's Neurobiology course. My job here is to help you work within Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, to answer any questions that you have about editing here, and to act as your advocate in the (unlikely) event that you find yourself in a dispute with another user.

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Note from instructor[edit]

MU77, could you fill in your userpage with links and image?--MMBiology (talk) 00:06, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In case you need help adding an image to your userpage I've prepared a short essay here to explain the basic process. Yunshui 雲‍水 11:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Editing whilst logged out[edit]

Do make sure you're logged in when you make edits to Wikipedia. I'm not sure whether this series of changes was made by you or not (which is rather the problem!) so I'm leaving this note for all editors of that page. Yunshui 雲‍水 14:35, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help us improve the Wikipedia Education Program[edit]

Hi MU77! As a student editor on Wikipedia, you have a lot of valuable experience about what it's like to edit as a part of a classroom assignment. In order to help other students like you enjoy editing while contributing positively to Wikipedia, it's extremely helpful to hear from real student editors about their challenges, successes, and support needs. Please take a few minutes to answer these questions by clicking below. (Note that the responses are posted to a public wiki page.) Thanks!

Delivered on behalf of User:Sage Ross (WMF), 16:41, 10 April 2013 (UTC) Hey this is Stockton WhitfieldStockton Whitfield (talk) 14:48, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft so far[edit]

MU77, I have jsut been looking at User:MU77/proposal that you and Stockton Whitfield have been working on. While I cannot judge the accuracy of the content, I have a few comments on formatting and layout.

As you can see at Wikipedia:Layout and at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section, Wikipedia articles start with a lead section (sometimes miscalled "the lede"). This section does not have a section header. It looks to me as if User:MU77/proposal#History will become the lead section of this article. As such, its section header should be removed.
The first mention of the subject, normally in the first sentence of the lead section, should be in boldface.
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.
I see you have not yet added any citations to references. This is fine at this stage, but you moight want to consider what style of referencing you plan to adopt. Many 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. 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.
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").

I hope these comments are helpful. If you have any questions, please respond here and include {{U|DESiegel}} or [[User:DESiegel]]. Those will notify me of your comment and I will respond promptly. DES ^(talk) 16:52, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]