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UMS_NAME

UMS_NAME (an artistic interpretation)

Hi, my name is UMS_NAME, and I'm currently at UMS_AFFILIATION. I learned about OpenWetWare from UMS_REFERRAL, and I've joined because UMS_REASON. You can email me through OpenWetWare.

Welcome UMS_NAME!

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Personal/Lab Info

We have gone ahead and filled in some information you provided us in your membership application at the top of this page. Please take a moment to embellish this and tell the community a little more about you. Put links to your lab pages, your projects and your interests. If you run out of ideas, take a look at some of the other User pages. For example, check out User:Julius_B._Lucks, User:Jason_R._Kelly and User:Reshma_P._Shetty.

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Don't forget to remove these instructions from this page when you are done!

DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PAGE FOR THE SC (not included in actual page)

  • Jason R. Kelly:I think the stuff about them personally should be higher up the page (at top probably) so they immediately see that this is a page about them (they might not notice it in the current version if they don't bother to read all the front material).
    • Julius B. Lucks 18:18, 11 October 2007 (CDT): Take a look at the current version.
      • Jason R. Kelly 18:27, 11 October 2007 (CDT): Cool, this looks great overall by the way. We might consider encouraging people to put up their photos (and to learn how to upload a file in the process, by having something like this):
        UMS_NAME (an artistic interpretation)
        • Julius B. Lucks 18:32, 11 October 2007 (CDT): I like this idea - implementing.
  • Jason R. Kelly 18:30, 11 October 2007 (CDT):Might be good to make a page with "good example userpage" instead of directing them to the whole list of usernames, which might be overwhelming / not be great examples ;) Could just put a couple of simple userpages in there (e.g. people who don't have too much stuff).
    • Julius B. Lucks 18:32, 11 October 2007 (CDT): That's a good idea too. I didn't want to be a show off though! I'll add mine since it is full of stuff, and is updated regularly. Add others too.
  • Reshma 18:44, 11 October 2007 (CDT): Looks great!
  • Reshma 11:19, 13 October 2007 (CDT): I just added a line for sending emails through OpenWetWare. Hopefully it should work?