User talk:Flinnre

Welcome!

Hello, Flinnre! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! • Arch♦Reader 10:37, 12 May 2015 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Hey Ryan!

I like your username! See you in class tomorrow Cimone.safilian (talk) 23:32, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Which Ryan are ya?

I was the Dinosaur Comics and Ravenna, Ohio teen idol calls himself Ryan from the Canadian North, not Gosling. SingingJoseph4MusicalFilmFans (talk) 16:40, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Sweet! I am the much-less-exciting, research-assistant-by-day/grad-student-by-night Ryan who lives in Detroit. I'm not Ryan Gosling, either. But I do my best with what I have. Hope Canada is nice. Happy Thursday. Flinnre (talk) 01:23, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Introducing myself

I work with the Wiki Education Foundation, and help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment. If there's anything I can do to help with your assignment (or, for that matter, any other aspect of Wikipedia) please feel free to drop me a note. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:34, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Feedback

Hi Flinnre. Thank you for your very substantial expansion of the helper theory article. I just wanted to give you a few tips on how you could improve it further.

• The lead section is supposed to be a summary of the entire article, not an introduction. It would be helpful to move most of your current lead into a new section that explains the basics of helper theory, and then create a new, trimmed lead that serves as a summary of the article as a whole.
• Bear in mind that you are writing for non-specialists, and you should try to write in plain English as much as possible. A Wikipedia article is supposed to discuss the topic itself, not discuss the technical literature about the topic. For example, you wrote: Arnold, Calhoun, Tedeschi, and Cann (2005) explored both the positive and negative sequelae of providing psychotherapy to clients who had experienced trauma and subsequent posttraumatic growth by conducting naturalistic interviews with a small sample of clinicians (N = 21)...This finding suggests that the helper-therapy principle may operate in a clinical context whereby therapists (i.e., the helpers) benefit from engaging in the process of providing treatment to psychotherapy clients who have survived traumatic experiences.

  If you're going to discuss this, start with the findings of interest, not the people who did the work. Details of particular studies are rarely needed. Look for simpler words than sequelae, but if you can't find a way to say it in plain English that fits into the flow of the article, make sure you add a wikilink so that people can learn more about the topic with a simple click.

• Make sure that everything you say in the article can be directly tied to the source used. In the example above, there's a reference at the end of the first sentence, but none on the remainder of the paragraph. While it's currently obvious that the entire section is supported by the first reference, it's almost certain that the article will evolve over time, and the text may become separated from the source, and the connection between source and text may be lost. While the citation is appropriate at the end of the first sentence, it should also be at the end of the last block of text that the reference supports. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:24, 13 July 2015 (UTC)