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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:01, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You have an overdue training assignment.

Please complete the assigned training modules. --ProfJRL (talk) 16:07, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you for your edits to Optic tectum! Tom (LT) (talk) 00:58, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Anatomy Wikiproject!

Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Anatomy! We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of anatomy articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are involved in editing anatomy articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, here are a few relevant things:

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Use of sources

Thank you for your edits to optic tectum. This may seem counterintuitive a a university student, where I am guessing you feel that using specific scientific journal articles sounds knowledgeable, but it is better if you are talking about a general fact to use a recent, general source, such as a textbiij (see our policy WP:MEDRS for more). This demonstrates that it's widely accepted piece of information, not something arising as speculation from some random researchers decades ago

I refer specifically to here:

The optic tectum projects through the reticular formation and interacts with motor neurons in the brain stem.^[1] These connections are important for the recognition and reaction to various sized objects, which is facilitated by excitatory optic nerve transmitters like L-glutamate.^[2]

^ Precht, W. (1974). "Tectal influences on cat ocular motoneurons". Brain Research. 20(1): 27–40.
^ Beart, Phillip (1976). "An evaluation of L-glutamate as the transmitter released from optic nerve terminals of the pigeon". Brain Research. 110(1): 99–114.

Yours, --Tom (LT) (talk) 01:01, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Precht, W. (1974). "Tectal influences on cat ocular motoneurons". Brain Research. 20(1): 27–40.

[2] Beart, Phillip (1976). "An evaluation of L-glutamate as the transmitter released from optic nerve terminals of the pigeon". Brain Research. 110(1): 99–114.

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