User talk:Cmiddlebrooks

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Nice work![edit]

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Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. Cmiddlebrooks (talk) 03:09, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Negativity bias DYK[edit]

Hello, Cmiddlebrooks,

The first reviewer on the above DYK nomination seems to have overlooked one detail, and that is Eligibility criteria item 1d on the DYK page. To quote: "Articles that have been worked on exclusively in a user or user talk subpage or at articles for creation or in the Draft namespace and then moved (or in some cases pasted) to the article mainspace are considered new as of the date they reach the mainspace." Under that rule, your DYK nomination is still eligible if you did indeed import it from a workspace. And even if you didn't technically transfer it in, I think the DYK may still slide through because of the enormous amount of work you accomplished. I am going to mention that in a comment to the nomination.

Georgejdorner (talk) 16:57, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! As I noted on the DYK page, I did technically import from Word and not the workspace. I was told by someone more familiar with Wikipedia that I should only be using a separate sandbox page like I had started doing if I was starting a completely new article, so I stopped using it and just worked exclusively in Word. That may have been the wrong choice, but too late now :) Anyway, thanks again for your input!

Cmiddlebrooks (talk) 18:25, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article guidelines[edit]

Hi. A Wikipedia editor, SandyGeorgia, has very helpfully offered some useful guidelines for editing, which are in response to editing by students in your class. All of these may not apply specifically to articles that you have edited, but many of them are likely to be very helpful tools for improving your contributions. Please look over these at Education_Program_talk:University_of_California,_Los_Angeles_(UCLA)/Psychology_220A_(Fall,_2014)#Some_suggestions. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:59, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I saw that, thanks. I'm not sure how "helpful" it was considering that one of the articles she's complaining about was actually granted Good Article status the other day... There's a lot of inconsistency on Wikipedia in terms of what some reviewers will take and what others won't, and an odd preference for inaccuracies and plagiarism so long as no journal articles are cited. For instance, SandyGeorgia has stated that most of our work should be reverted, but the "work" that was there prior to my edits was unintelligible and rife with information that the author had simply made up. Anyone unfamiliar with psychology (likely most of the Wikipedia readers) would not have known this, however, and would have walked away woefully misinformed. It's odd and I believe this does a great disservice to anyone actually interested in learning something about psychological phenomena. Cmiddlebrooks (talk) 17:08, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Negativity bias[edit]

On 15 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Negativity bias, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that people tend to exhibit a negativity bias, such that negative experiences have a greater impact than positive experiences on psychological states and processes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Negativity bias. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 20:30, 15 January 2015 (UTC)