Marqyank27

Hello, Marqyank27, 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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Note from instructor

Marqyank27, don't forget to add an image to your userpage. Also, could you please email me directly with your real name so I know who this is?--MMBiology (talk) 00:01, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

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 11:02, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Reflist

Hi Marqyank27. The references in your sandbox were all correctly formatted - however, they won't display properly without the appropriate {{Reflist}} template. I've added one for you - have a look at this diff to see what I did. Yunshui 雲‍水 09:33, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Page numbers

Hi, I've found the Alternating hemiplegia article because I was talking with Yunshui, your course ambassador. Looks like a lot of good work, and since I don't know the subject at all, I only have one comment: like when you're writing academic papers, you should include page numbers when you're writing a Wikipedia article. Could you try to add them for the chunk you wrote? There are two easy ways to do this: you could add the page number inside the citation (the bit inside the <ref> and </ref> tags), or you could append it to the citation by putting {{rp|xx}} (with xx being the page number) after the </ref> tag. The first way is easier, but the second way (which puts :xx after the little [1], [2], etc. in the text) lets you reuse the same citation when you're citing different pages; you can see how it works by looking at how it's used at William Culbertson House.

Again — this isn't a complaint, and you don't have to do it; this is just a suggestion for improving what's already good work. Nyttend (talk) 20:31, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

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