User talk:Andersonmatt1125

Hello, Andersonmatt1125, 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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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. Once again, if you need help with any aspect of Wikipedia, please just ask; it's what I'm here for. Enjoy your course! Yunshui 雲‍水 09:30, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note from instructor

Andersonmatt1125, where is your userpage with links and image?--MMBiology (talk) 23:52, 30 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 11:04, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A quick note on lists

Hi Andersonmatt125. Having looked at your draft page, I thought you might be able to use a quick bit of advice on formatting.

To create a numerical list on Wikipedia, use the hash symbol. Writing this:

# First point # Second point ## Subpoint of second point ### Sub-subpoint ### Second sub-subpoint # Third point

will render in the text as this:

First point
Second point
1. Subpoint of second point
  1. Sub-subpoint
  2. Second sub-subpoint
Third point

If you want to create a bulleted list, use asterisks instead of hash marks:

* One * Two * Three

appears as:

One
Two
Three

Hope this information is helpful, feel free to ask me for clarification if you need it. Yunshui 雲‍水 09:27, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thank you so much! We had copied and pasted from a word document, so we had formatting issues. This is going to help a lot. Andersonmatt1125 (talk) 01:33, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, Wikipedia formatting can be a pain in the cojones until you get used to it (which you will - I now write most of my emails and letters in wikimarkup, and then get very frustrated when my email client and word processor don't know what I'm on about). You might find the cheatsheet helpful; it gives you a quick and easy list of the most common formatting effects on Wikipedia and how to achieve them. Yunshui 雲‍水 09:27, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

Hi Andersonmatt1125. Good work on your draft; it's starting to come together nicely. I thought you might be interested to know of a useful tool for reformatting your references (bare URLs are not terribly popular). Once you've place all the references in the draft, you can go to the Reflinks utility, type in the full page title (User:Andersonmatt1125/Spastic Quadriplegia Outline) and set it running; Reflinks will then automatically format all of your references, merge any duplicates and edit the article to set them in the correct places. It's a handy, one-click (well, about three clicks, technically) way to convert naked URLs into properly formatted citations, without having to type them all up by hand. Hope that's useful. Yunshui 雲‍水 08:28, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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