User talk:DaisySaunders

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Hello, DaisySaunders, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Binksternet (talk) 17:06, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi[edit]

Its good to see a new psychology contributor, there just arent enough of us and the quality of many of the psychology articles are not very good. I find the subject fascinating - see User:Penbat.--Penbat (talk) 21:44, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And a warm welcome from me too.--Expsychobabbler (talk) 22:23, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed: a fine new editor is always welcome. :D

Binksternet (talk) 23:07, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello all, thanks for the welcome, I'm glad to have people I can bounce questions off of, especially in regard to code, which is hard for me to get used to--I'm not a huge tekkie. I'm not even sure if I'm adding this correctly, but I guess I'll find out when I hit enter . . . Okay, let's see . . . four tildes, right?DaisySaunders (talk) 00:25, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hooray, it worked! I love psychology, and would love to go on for my doctorate as soon as my kids get through college. (I'm 50 now . . . with one daughter graduated and working on an NIH grant in Baltimore, one freshman daughter in HS, and one third-grader, so guess when that's going to happen?) Maybe I'll need to revise that plan though, because currently one can only go so far in the U.S. with a Master's. An LPCC at the max. Binksternet, 67,000 edits?! Wow, I will have to get a whole lot faster. It takes me forever because I'm looking through my granny glasses at the code and trying to work it out in courier type, which is the only type worse than Times Roman in my book. Or maybe this IS Times Roman. Penbat, you must be British--am I right? We share a lot of interests. I've been interested in bystander behavior in regard to bullying as well as other forms of violence. I've also had occasion to speak with a lot of folks who have been damaged by family bullying. And Expsychobabbler, you too a Brit? Do I take it you're a retired psych? Or am I trying too hard to analyse your user name? :) (I do hope you noticed the British spelling there). Great to meet you allDaisySaunders (talk) 00:42, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Over-generalization[edit]

Hi. Thank you for contributing!

After seeing your edits to Argosy University, I want to alert you to one of the finer points of Wikipedia editing, specifically the need to be careful not to over-generalize about the statements/opinions of sources. Words like "some say" or "some have said" are tempting, but when we write words like that it's often an indication that we are trying to over-generalize. This is discussed at some length at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch.

In the case of the Argosy article, the opinions were about for-profit education in general and weren't particularly specific to Argosy, so I don't think they belonged in the article. (I removed them, but of course they are still in the article history.) Regardless, when describing someone's point of view, it's important to be specific about whose opinion it is and what they said. --Orlady (talk) 23:05, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]