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Hi IDidThisForSchool! (excellent username btw) Great to see that you've gotten started on Wikipedia! Your work here will make a visible contribution to information on developmental psychology that the whole world can access. Any questions, just ask. --Mozucat (talk) 21:41, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome Mozucat! My group is currently working on editing the neurotransmitter page. It seems to already contain a lot of information, so it looks like we may be focusing on cleaning the page up and updating any information that may need revising. I'm sure that we'll be in touch as the semester progresses. Take care and talk soon!--IDidThisForSchool (talk) 14:40, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Linking to users

I notice that you link to people's usernames in your responses. That's good, but the actual link has to go to User:Username, not just Username, for it to work. You can make it display without the "User:" part by using [[User:Username|Username]] or {{u|Username}}. Both result in: Username. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 18:43, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback, Anon126!--IDidThisForSchool (talk) 12:19, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Neurotransmitter Edits -- Update

Yo -- @Ve-hunter-511:, @Exotic necii:, @Arista2014:, @Ziggapedia92:! I've ben doing some full-out reorg of the page. I realized from the table of contents that the information was a bit 'all over the shop' and had nothing but sections. I edited the contents to include subsections where appropriate and added some new info, along with some minor edits. Check it out.--IDidThisForSchool (talk) 20:51, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IDidThisForSchool! Welcome to Wikipedia! It appears that you are here to participate in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we highly encourage you to go through our training page that's specifically created and catered for students such as yourself:

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--Tryptofish (talk) 00:02, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Tryptofish: -- thank you for the advice! The course page was indeed setup by our professor, and I will make sure to let other members know that we are working on our page as part of an academic assignment. Again, thank you, and see you around!--IDidThisForSchool (talk) 19:11, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, your edit at Neurotransmitter included a too-long quotation. Please keep quotations short. I've paraphrased it to avoid a copyright violation.LeadSongDog come howl! 18:47, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi LeadSong Dog. Thank you for your feedback. However, we were informed that we could in fact add quotations as long as we ensured to enclose them within quotation marks, as well as the appropriate references. The paraphrase looks good, but we weren't informed on any limit on quotation lengths. Again, thanks for the feedback and please let us know if there is anything else. --IDidThisForSchool (talk) 14:24, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As a U.S. based organization WP is bound by that country's copyright laws. The Fair Use doctrine allows limited quotation from sources under certain constraints. WP:Quotation gives some guidance on using WP:NONFREE sources in Wikipedia. LeadSongDog come howl! 05:09, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]