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Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. I just saw your comment at Dissociative identity disorder‎. This is a collaborative effort and, as in all such endeavours, it's important to familiarise yourself with the group norms. As you, or your student, will be working on a sometimes highly contested article, it is especially important in this case.

A good grasp of

should ensure a smooth entry to the project. The atmosphere on the article is presently quite good but, if you run into a dispute that can't be resolved via civil argument, familiarise yourself with

Wikipedia:Dispute resolution

Best of luck. --Anthonyhcole (talk)

PS. This advice may come in handy when editing particularly contentious content:

Wikipedia:Assume good faith

--Anthonyhcole (talk) 06:39, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all of the great links AnthonyCole, I have been spending the last couple of days trying to learn as much as I can on the collaborative editing processes of Wikipedia, and I appreciate all of the documents I can get! Jlfosternz (talk) 06:44, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, Jeffrey. You might want to replace the @ on your user page email address with {{@}}. It will appear like this

and will prevent web crawlers from harvesting it for spammers. Any queries of any kind, please ask at my talk page. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 10:51, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Jeff, you appear to meet our criteria for being an expert. Experts sometimes run into trouble (even TomCloyd, whom I consider irksome, had definite expertise that could have been extremely helpful had he not mightily shot his foot off). I can't give any real advice on this since I'm not an expert, but two valuable resources for you might be Jmh649 (talk · contribs) or TimVickers (talk · contribs). Both are also definite experts and both are also extremely well-respected editors and admins. If you've ever a question on how your expertise can interact with your editing, I'd suggest dropping either a line (feel free to mention I pointed you their way, they both know me). My only advice in this regard is to use your access to reliable sources and in-depth understanding of the literature the same way you would if you were writing a review article - back everything up with a source.

Of course, you may want to coordinate for your students rather than edit, which is also fine. Just make sure there are no group accounts. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 10:46, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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