Loreleiewalker

Welcome

Hello, Loreleiewalker and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. We encourage you to read our instructions for students. Your instructor or professor may wish to participate in either the School and University WikiProject or the Global Education Program. The Global Education Program is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and offers official online and classroom support through the Ambassador Program.

Here are some other pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Helpme}} before the question.

Before you create an article, make sure you understand what kind of articles are accepted here. Remember: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and while many topics are encyclopedic, some things are not.

It is highly recommended that you place this text: {{Educational assignment}} on the talk page of any articles you are working on as part of your Wikipedia-related course assignment. This will let other editors know this article is a subject of an educational assignment and should be treated accordingly.

We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:46, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Man, I have like a buffalo in a china shop on this site. I have updated the page with my interpretation of what the center does for reference for others. It is not showing when I search wiki...

April 2012

Hello Loreleiewalker. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article The Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 19:10, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Review of CGHE piece

Hi Lorelei, I am signed up to review your section for this class project. I understand you were trying to create a page on CGHE, but might I suggest that instead, you tweak the paragraph that was added to the NHGRI page to talk more generally about the CEER program. I like that you added the list of the other CEERS, and a short intro to what they are. I think that perhaps it would make sense to restructure that paragraph to focus on a short explanation of the ELSI program, the development of the CEER concept, and then a short blurb on each existing CEER, perhaps linking to their websites. As it stands now, it looks like CGHE is the primary or only CEER, and maybe that's why it sounds partial to the wiki bots and curators. It wouldn't have to be extensive, but a note on the ELSI program in general and the CEERs specifically would be great, and link to the ELSI wikipedia page too.

-Kate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katephg (talk • contribs) 01:02, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Lorelei,

Looks like you did a ton of work! I'm not sure that I have anything to add to Kate's useful comments. --Taryn0h (talk) 04:27, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 05:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)