MU Senior2014

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Hello, MU Senior2014, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Hello. I am a designated online Wikipedia online volunteer for the Neurobiology (Spring 2014) ‎class in which you have enrolled. Please feel free to ask me any questions you might have about how to use or edit Wikipedia. I can be reached by posting at User talk:DESiegel. You could also post any questions at the Help desk, which is a page for anyone with a question about how to edit Wikipedia. DES ^(talk) 00:11, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Sand box edits

I see you have been editing your sandbox, which is a good thing. A couple of points.

1. It is a good idea to fill in the Edit summary at the bottom of an edit form. For sandbox edits it really doesn't matter, but for edits to articles it can help explain the purpose of an edit, and avoid confusion on the part of other editors. See the linked page for more detail.
2. Using footnote (refs). These are a method, perhaps the most common method, to cite a source in a Wikipedia article. To use them, place <ref>Citation content here</ref> in the article, and then place {{reflist}} in a "Notes" or "References" section after the body of the article. This will list all the citations in the Notes section, but will not list any cites that occur after the reflist. See Referencing for beginners for more detail. DES ^(talk) 21:20, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Existing articles

Hi MUSenior2014. To answer a question you posed at User:Sargento21/proposal (specifically: Can we use the already existing 'LBA stub' for this section? Are we allowed to do that?): The short answer is yes, the longer answer is rather more complicated...
As you've notices, we already have an article on Ligand binding assays. However, we also have an article on Ligand binding assay (singular), with different sources and content. These two pages have been proposed for merging for about a year, but (due to the merge not being requested properly) nothing has been done about this.
You guys have an opportunity to rectify this here. What I would suggest you do is incorporate the content and especially the sources of both these article into your draft. When the page is ready to go "live", I can move it for you to Ligand binding assay, delete Ligand binding assays and merge the histories of all three pages to preserve attribution of the content. What we'll end up with is one article formed from your draft, with the work of the previous writers preserved in its history. Bit of a fiddly thing to do, but much better than creating yet another new page about ligand binding assays... Yunshui 雲‍水 20:28, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, User:Yunshui. Thank you so much for taking the time to provide such helpful feedback! I apologize for just now getting back to you -- our group will be meeting on Monday morning, in which case I will show them your suggestions and let you know if we have any further questions. Additionally, I do have a question for you about references at the bottom of our page User:Sargento21/proposal. When I was attempting to reference one article multiple times, it turned out to reference it if it was a different article each time. Being said, how do I avoid this in the future? Thank you very much for your help and I look forward to any and all help that you may have. MU Senior2014 (talk) 04:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

No worries; it's what I'm here for. As regards citing the same source more than once, here's the secret:

1. The first time you cite a source, use the code <ref name="unique reference identifier"> instead of the opening <ref> tag. For example, the first reference in your draft would be <ref name="CeretoMassagué">{{cite journal|last=Cereto-Massagué|first=Adrià|coauthors=María José Ojeda, Robbie P. Joosten, Cristina Valls, Miquel Mulero, M. Josepa Salvado, Anna Arola-Arnal, Lluís Arola, Santiago Garcia-Vallvé, and Gerard Pujadas.|title=The good, the bad and the dubious: VHELIBS, a validation helper for ligands and binding sites|journal=Journal of Cheminformatics|date=201|volume=5|issue=36|page=1-9|doi=doi:10.1186/1758-2946-5-36|url=http://www.jcheminf.com/content/5/1/36}}</ref>
2. In every other instance of the reference, use the code <ref name="unique reference identifier"/> (note the / - it's important!). You don't need anything else (no details of the reference, no closing tag). Anywhere you place the code <ref name="CeretoMassagué"/> in the text, it will generate a citation to the Journal of Cheminfomatics source.

Hope that helps! Yunshui 雲‍水 07:55, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, MU Senior2014. You have new messages at Yunshui's talk page.
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Yunshui 雲‍水 11:07, 24 March 2014 (UTC)