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Students checking in

Hello Dr. Mynlieff, I hope I'm doing. this right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RueGuled (talk • contribs) 20:07, 31 January 2020 (UTC) Hello, Dr. Mynlieff! I am testing out the talking page!Alau0624 (talk) 23:20, 22 January 2020 (UTC) Hello! Testing the talk page!--MUBISC-AR (talk) 18:59, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Dr. Mynlieff, testing the talk page --Zhuyudan77 (talk) 03:02, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello! Making sure to edit my talk page :) DrakeS (talk) 03:52, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Dr. Mynlieff, Have a great National Marquette Day! JCW23528 (talk) 03:10, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Hey Dr. Mynlieff! Just testing out the talk page! Excited for the semester to come! AshleyPT (talk) 04:48, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, testing the talk page.ThayerM12 (talk) 00:15, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, just editing the talk page. Excited for the semester! Willc22

Hello Dr. Mynlieff, I'm testing out the talk page. I'm looking forward to learning more about neurobiology this semester! Mges24 —Preceding undated comment added 22:07, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello! Looking foreward to this course! Breezyjo1223 (talk) 17:12, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, hopefully testing out the talk page correctly! Can't wait to learn about neurobio. Yoyotime (talk) 04:21, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, just testing out the talk page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lzamudio0792 (talk • contribs) 00:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, excited about the cool project! MU77 (talk) 06:29, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Good evening, Dr. Mynlieff! I am practicing my Wikipedia skills and hope that this is the correct way to leave a message on your talk page. I look froward to our semester together! MU Senior2014 (talk) 05:10, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff! Leaving a test post to learn about how Wikipedia works. Looking forward to a great semester! Marq808 (talk) 02:29, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello!!! Just leaving a message like everyone else. Muhippolover (talk) 01:18, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Leaving a test post. Zxdsqw (talk) 01:59, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Mynlieff, just finished my user page. Yes, I do work with in Dr. Fitts lab. Monibea11 (talk) 23:57, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Mynlieff, just testing out the talk page. LJ112358 (talk) 23:36, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

==Hello== Dr. Mynlieff, just wanted to get the hang of the talk page.

Hi Dr. Mynlieff! With any luck, I'm leaving a message on your talk page! Followed closely by a signature! --D23sunn (talk) 21:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff! I am just trying out the talk page. Sargento21 (talk) 18:01, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Mynlieff! Just checking out how talk pages work! I hope I can get the hang of this. -MUbrooke31 (talk) 21:56, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff! Just trying out the talk page! MKClement (talk) 00:07, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff! I hope I'm doing this right. Mchan19 (talk) 02:20, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr.Mynelieff! looking forward to start this project. --Tayaba.ahmad (talk) 17:12, 25 January 2013 (UTC)tayaba.ahmad

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, this should be an interesting assignment, using technology to learn! Noahgford (talk) 09:19, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello! Let's figure out if I'm doing this right. Alphabetfood (talk) 02:08, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Mynlieff! Just stopped by to say "hello!" --Bzastrow (talk) 00:04, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Mynlief! Just using the talk page and figuring out wikipedia. Ckbiology (talk) 21:52, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff. Just testing out the page for the neurobiology project. --Linzjay (talk) 19:44, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Mynlief! Just figuring things out on Wikipedia and checking in. Thanks --8712NeuroBio (talk) 03:15, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlief, took me hours just to say hi.Mickey0987 (talk) 04:26, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm looking forward to working on this project. It should provide great experience in research. -IJWMarq (talk) 17:32, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlief!I'm just testing out the talk page--MinnieMee (talk) 18:41, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlief, I hope I'm using this talk page right. Andersonmatt1125 (talk) 19:02, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, Just checking in. I'm looking forward to this project! Dotterson (talk) 19:41, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Category:Hi Dr. Mynlief! Trying out the talk page. Biosthmors (talk · contribs) put a colon here to prevent this category from being added. Biosthmors (talk) 17:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, just trying to figure out how to use Wikipedia. See you tomorrow! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caseymunger (talk • contribs) 22:53, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

I forgot my signature on my last post ^ Caseymunger (talk) 22:56, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Hey Dr. Mynlief just writing here cause that is what you told me to do and I want an A in the class. So please give me an A. Thanks!--Daner33 (talk) 23:30, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Success! This stuff is confusing...but we'll manage.Egreaga (talk) 00:48, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr.Mynlief just trying to figure out how to use wikipedia--Marqyank27 (talk) 01:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlief! Learning to talk Wikipedia style!--CK3501 (talk) 02:16, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, looking forward to the new project! MU77 (talk) 03:02, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Dr. Mynlieff, just dropping in to say hi!Tnasci1313 (talk) 04:23, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Dr. Mynlieff-- Saying hello! Riegern (talk) 05:01, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, just trying to figure out the talk page --Cdrellishak (talk) 06:34, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Mynlieff, this sounds like an interesting assignment MACKXIMUS (talk) 15:53, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hey Dr. Mynlieff, hope I'm doing this right! Xc stallion92 (talk) 17:05, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, practicing on the page!! MissKell (talk) 21:10, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mylieff, just testing out the talk page! Nice brain scan .gif! AleksNemo (talk) 01:43, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Mynlieff. I think I'm figuring out how all this works. Umm517 (talk) 03:35, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia! If you ever have a question about how things work here, you can copy and paste this on your user page:

==How does X work?==

{{Help me}}

Your question. ~~~~

As you can see here, I used this feature already today. One can also always ask questions at the WP:Help desk or WP:Teahouse. I've talked with Yunshui (talk · contribs) briefly, who is your online ambassador already, and they said more ambassador support for the class would be a good thing. I helped with a Georgia Tech Neuroscience class last semester (User:Biosthmors/Intro Neuro), and this semester I'm working with Education Program:Saint Louis University/Signal Transduction (SP13). I see that many articles your class plans to edit are disease based:

• User:Isetem13/Distal spinal muscular atrophy type 1 outline (article at Distal spinal muscular atrophy type 1)
• User:ThrowTheBar2/SK Channel Outline (article SK channel)
• User:Andersonmatt1125/Spastic Quadriplegia Outline (article Spastic quadriplegia)
• User:Bzastrow/Tumefactive Multiple sclerosis (article Tumefactive multiple sclerosis, which was an assignment article last semester from Georgia Tech: User:Biosthmors/Intro Neuro)
• User:IJWMarq/"ADCA" outline (article Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, created last semester by a student in the same Georgia Tech class and cerebellar ataxia also exists)
• User:MACKXIMUS/Alternating hemiplegia (article Alternating hemiplegia)
• User:Sammyt21/"electroneuromyography" outline (currently redirects to Electromyography)
• User:Alphabetfood/"Grinker myelinopathy"‎ (article Grinker myelinopathy)
• User:CK3501/High Functioning Autism outline (article High-functioning autism)

I volunteer here to help make sure Wikipedia has as many editors as possible adding high-quality health, science, and medical information. You can see some of my work at deep vein thrombosis, an article I've gotten up to GA status (see also this peer review, for example). Are you aware of WP:MEDRS, and how I used that guideline to help guide my edits at deep vein thrombosis, for example? I'd like to help make sure your classroom experience is a great experience. Professor Potter said my help last semester helped make things the most successful they've been since he started using Wikipedia in the classroom years ago. Are you interested in getting more help for your students? I'm thinking of signing up as another online ambassador for your class, but I'd like to talk first. Could you please post at my talk page or email me so we could potentially video chat about the possibility? (I had a video chat classroom session last week with the classroom I'm helping this semester, FYI.) Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 17:52, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Edits to Distal spinal muscular atrophy type 1

Hello, Just dropping you a line that two of your students, Isetem13 and 8712NeuroBio, recently uploaded a new version of Distal spinal muscular atrophy type 1. It is fantastic that they took up to improve neurology-related articles, and it is clear that they did lots of research on the topic. Unfortunately, their text does not fully follow the Medicine project guidelines and has quite a few other issues which in my opinion do not qualify it yet as a production-ready article. I listed some of the issues on Talk:Distal spinal muscular atrophy type 1 and informed both editors on the above a few days ago, but received no reaction or response from them. In this situation, given that the new version of the article, although richer in details, is less reliable, I am tempted to revert all the changes and propose to continue working on the draft. Thank you to relay this to the authors and/or take any reaction you feel appropriate. Regards, kashmiri 13:46, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Kashmiri, I apologoize for any protocol breaches on the part of my students. This is the first time I have ever done this in a class (or even edited Wikipedia myself). I already have a pile of lists on how to instruct the students a bit differently next year. We have had Yunshui helping as our formal online ambassador alone with Biosthmors informally. The four students responsible for the Distal spinal muscular atrophy type 1 are currently working on it to bring it up to standards. --MMBiology (talk) 02:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks MMBiology, writing things out on a Wikipedia page actually seems to help in learning it, in a weird analyzing the article and figuring out how you can contribute sort of way... (ThrowTheBar2 (talk) 18:53, 27 March 2013 (UTC))

A class project you appear to be in charge of

Hi I'm one of the regular reviewers at WP:Articles for creation. I came across Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxia which I believe is ready for mainspace, but I'm not sure what I should so with the "Peer edit" content below the end of the article content. Can you help me with it? I will temporarily "store" it in a section of my sandbox.

Dodger67, you are correct that this article is part of a class project. I would direct you to the course page but unfortunately there is a glitch in Wikipedia software that gives an error when you try to go to the page. Wikipedia is working on it. In the meantime, this is my first time doing this (with or without a class) so I am learning all the protocols and etiquette along with my students. My students are required to review a number of their classmates as part of the assignment (and the authors are required to respond to these "reviews"). I have a total of 40 students working on improving 10 stubs. If possible, it would be great if you could just copy the reviews onto the talk page for the newly created article so that the authors can respond to the reviews. MMBiology (talk) 18:19, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

A separate but related issue, that you might be able to help with, is that the "group" of articles about Ataxia contain a lot of overlap and repetition. I believe some judicious merging/splitting/editing would help to sort the information more coherently. The affected articles are Ataxia, Cerebellar ataxia, Spinocerebellar ataxia and the newly promoted Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxia. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:38, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

I agree that there is probably some overlap. My students' page is specifically about an inherited form and does link back to the ataxia and the spinocerebellar ataxia pages. I will be grading the final articles as they exist on April 26th and I think that working on merging or editing in reference to these pages may be beyond the scope of my assignment. MMBiology (talk) 18:19, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

I have moved the "Peer edit" commentary to the talk page as you requested and added a note for other editors about preserving it unchanged until you are done with it. I hope the edits that I (and other editors) have done and probably still will do to the article will not negatively impact the student's grade. Once an article is in mainspace it is available for anyone to edit. WP:WikiProject Medicine might be able to assist you with more specialised help if you need it. The only real medical knowlege I have is a consequence of my own lifetime experience of Myelomeningocele. Good luck with the project. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:49, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

I am aware that others may edit once the article in in mainspace so I will be checking the history when I do the grading. We will see how well this goes when I grade. However, most of the topics were stubs identified by the Society for Neuroscience so that they are not likely to attract too many edits. MMBiology (talk) 20:14, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, MMBiology. You have new messages at Yunshui's talk page.
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Yunshui 雲‍水 08:41, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Additional volunteer

Hello. I have offered to be an additional online volunteer ("Ambassador") for your course BIOL3501. Is there any specific assistance that i can offer you nor your students at this time? DES ^(talk) 00:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

DES, that would be great. Yunshui is listed but he is doing a couple of other courses so he is busy. Today was the first day of class so the students are just starting to play around. They aren't likely to need too much help until they get more serious with their articles. Hopefully I will be more help the second time around. Thanks for helping out. --MMBiology (talk) 02:41, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

My pleasure. I will be glad to offer any assistance wanted. Please give the students User talk:DESiegel as a place that they can ask for any help that they might want. DES ^(talk) 14:19, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Check-ins

Hi Dr. Mynlieff! Trying out the talk page! MKClement (talk) 00:06, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff, I'm excited for this project. It looks like it is going to be fun!HawksHockey21 (talk) 03:52, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Just checking in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ngakona (talk • contribs) 07:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr. Mynlieff just trying out the talk page.--Tgmarquette (talk) 04:41, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Testing the time and date. MMBiology (talk) 02:24, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Just trying out the features of the Talk Page here on Wikipedia. Verdagj (talk) 05:36, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Student feedback

I will leave them feedback on their talk pages. I can also drop you a note by email when I'm done with all of them. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:29, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

As Phakomatosis is not a single disease but a family of different diseases I agree it would be best to have a section that provides an overview of each rather than the other layout. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:55, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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Links in titles

Hello again MMBiology. I have noticed that another editor reverted one of your edits, about a linking title. Please note that there are alternatives like Template:Main, which can be used at the beginning of a section to point to a relevant main article. Thanks, —░]PaleoNeonate█ ⏎ ?ERROR░ 04:38, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I didn't realize headings shouldn't have links but it was easy enough to fix it - which is what Jytdog could have done in the same amount of time it took him to revert. Oh, well, I fixed them. MMBiology (talk) 18:41, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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Responding to talk page query

Hi MMBiology, I saw your questions on my talk page. Firstly, I want to say that my colleague Helaine will be reaching out to you via email, but it is no longer our expectation that students editing health or psychology topics have all work reviewed by a Wikipedia expert. Our trainings and ability to intervene early with student issues has improved, so this is no longer necessary. Students may ask for help with specific issues, of course, but they should receive most feedback from each other.

Regarding your question about autobiographies, I would say that using them depends on the content you are trying to verify. If someone said in an interview that they were born on July 1, 1960, I'd say that's pretty straight-forward to use. I agree that for awards someone has won, you would certainly want to use an independent source, not an autobiography, CV, or staff profile on a university website.

Regarding images, students should review our training about uploading media here. Because you do not own these images, you cannot upload them. Think of uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons as "donating" them. You cannot donate something that is not yours. What you can try to do is contact the person whose photograph you want. They can ask someone who has photographed them in the past to upload an image to Wikimedia Commons. Importantly, the subject of the photograph cannot donate a photograph of themselves unless they also took the picture. Photographers generally own the rights to the images they take, not the subjects. A great deal of biographies and other kinds of Wikipedia articles lack images of any kind because there aren't any available that are compatible with Wikipedia licensing requirements. Unfortunately, students should be aware of the possibility that they won't be able to add images of any kind. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:47, 25 February 2020 (UTC)