Hi SSA,
I would be glad to serve your students as an online ambassador. I don't see any Mount Allison courses listed on the Present Courses page of the Canada Education Program. Which courses are you teaching?
Neelix ( talk) 02:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Grant,
What's the best way to get in touch with you? Would like to speak with you asap about your interest in the Canadian arm of the Education Program.
Best,
Jonathan (Education Program Advisor for Canada) -- Jaobar ( talk) 08:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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wiki falafel from the back of the class ... learning how to use this website ! Koko1088 ( talk) 20:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC) |
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wikilove from the back of the class Ncjones61 ( talk) 20:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC) |
What have you told students about our policy and guidelines on copyright of texts? Have you asked them to read Wikipedia:Copy-paste and Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. I've just reverted a student here [1]. Note that they also signed their edits. I'm not sure how you want to handle this, but we probably need to check the contributions of all your students. Sorry about this, as it sounds like a great project, but we can't let copyvio creep into our articles. Dougweller ( talk) 20:56, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
With reference to this edit and this edit from a Mount Allison University IP that disrupted a deletion discussion about an article written by one of your students, maybe you could explain to your students that it is not helpful to vandalize pages just because the Wikipedia community decides their article may not be appropriate for inclusion on Wikipedia. Thanks. BabelStone ( talk) 12:40, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Sage Ross reminded me that there's still a need for Online Ambassadors for courses, so I was flicking through the one's running this semester and thought I'd check with you - did you still need an OA for the next course offering? If so, I'm happy to help out. - Bilby ( talk) 19:37, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've helped out on Wikipedia's ambassador program last year, and would be pleased to help you with your article-writing assignments. How big is your class size? I'm actually a current Canadian undergraduate student, and yet have been editing the wikiverse since 2006. Everyone at my school seems to know about my Wikipedia interests. Since I have an interest in the interplay between environment and human society, participating as an OA will likely benefit my own studies as well. For starters, an article I wrote a while back on a relevant topic is Tambora (culture). Please remember that I may take a few days to respond. In the meantime, I have added myself as the second ambassador. Thank you for contacting me and I hope that your students have a positive experience contributing to Wikipedia! Best wishes, ~ AH1 ( discuss!) 01:08, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Just checking in. How is your class doing so far? Will any of your students need feedback on articles? ~ AH1 ( discuss!) 15:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the help the other day!
Cheers! Beaujayna ( talk) 14:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC) |
I've just reverted some blatant copyright violations from Polar ice packs and Talk:Polar ice packs which were added by one of your students. I've advised them of this on their talk ( User talk:Jimbo0619) and would assume you have their talk pages watchlisted. But in case you haven't, thought I'd leave you a note as well. Thanks, Vsmith ( talk) 23:27, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I am in your Environment and Society class. I just wanted to give you a heads up when you are going to check the peer reviews. The person that reviewed mine and Notlock's article posted their review on our talk page, not the articles. AdnaloyMTA ( talk) 14:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Grant, a problem has arisen with your students on Speciesism. One has added NPOV violations to the article (not borderline violations, but gross; see diff). In addition the material is about animal rights and veganism, not speciesism, and at least some of it seems to be unsourced.
I left the edits in place for a few days out of consideration for the education program, them removed them with an explanation once the first peer review was over. I have now been reverted and told off by another of your students, who is telling the first student what a great job she did. [2]
Also, in looking through that course, I see that copyright violations have been added to another article. I'm unsure what to do about this, as I don't want to be responsible for getting a student into trouble, but on the other hand it's difficult to have to sit watching this material be added to the encyclopaedia. If you could advise, and in general sort out the students' input (would user subpages not make more sense?) that would be appreciated. See Talk:Speciesism#Peer_Review for the exchange. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 21:08, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Grant, just letting you know that your course has been mentioned in this discussion. SlimVirgin (talk) 04:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Sub -
I've detected another case of what seems to be outright straight up cut and paste plagiarism by one of your students. In this edit, your student Esorayrus cut and paste a large section of text from this website directly in to the article. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 09:14, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Sub -
Unfortunately, in reviewing the work of your students, I've come across another instance of outright no-doubts about it plagiarism.
In this edit User:Jemacleod, one of your students, copies text wholesales from this source. The student later added a footnote citing this source, but that doesn't make it any less a copyright violation. In the same edit, the student also directly cut and paste content from this source in to the article. Both of these are clearly instances of plagiarism - no attempt at paraphrasing was even made (not that that would have excused the problem.) Later edits by non-students changed some of the wording, but they were still closely paraphrased enough as to constitute a copyright violation, so I've had to blanket revert the entire article - and the original edits by Jemacleod, as demonstrated by the diffs and links I've posted, were definitely outright plagiarism. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 04:54, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
It's not a problem of anywhere the same magnitude, but your students seem to have made an article most duplicating other WP content -- see my comments at
WT:Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? (It's actually the online ambassador who has the primary responsibility for checking that the students avoid such duplication, & that their good work is not futile--I've left a note for him.)-
DGG (
talk )
01:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
-- ¿3fam ily6 contribs 21:39, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
Hi SSA,
I would be glad to serve your students as an online ambassador. I don't see any Mount Allison courses listed on the Present Courses page of the Canada Education Program. Which courses are you teaching?
Neelix ( talk) 02:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Grant,
What's the best way to get in touch with you? Would like to speak with you asap about your interest in the Canadian arm of the Education Program.
Best,
Jonathan (Education Program Advisor for Canada) -- Jaobar ( talk) 08:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
![]() |
wiki falafel from the back of the class ... learning how to use this website ! Koko1088 ( talk) 20:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC) |
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wikilove from the back of the class Ncjones61 ( talk) 20:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC) |
What have you told students about our policy and guidelines on copyright of texts? Have you asked them to read Wikipedia:Copy-paste and Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. I've just reverted a student here [1]. Note that they also signed their edits. I'm not sure how you want to handle this, but we probably need to check the contributions of all your students. Sorry about this, as it sounds like a great project, but we can't let copyvio creep into our articles. Dougweller ( talk) 20:56, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
With reference to this edit and this edit from a Mount Allison University IP that disrupted a deletion discussion about an article written by one of your students, maybe you could explain to your students that it is not helpful to vandalize pages just because the Wikipedia community decides their article may not be appropriate for inclusion on Wikipedia. Thanks. BabelStone ( talk) 12:40, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Sage Ross reminded me that there's still a need for Online Ambassadors for courses, so I was flicking through the one's running this semester and thought I'd check with you - did you still need an OA for the next course offering? If so, I'm happy to help out. - Bilby ( talk) 19:37, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've helped out on Wikipedia's ambassador program last year, and would be pleased to help you with your article-writing assignments. How big is your class size? I'm actually a current Canadian undergraduate student, and yet have been editing the wikiverse since 2006. Everyone at my school seems to know about my Wikipedia interests. Since I have an interest in the interplay between environment and human society, participating as an OA will likely benefit my own studies as well. For starters, an article I wrote a while back on a relevant topic is Tambora (culture). Please remember that I may take a few days to respond. In the meantime, I have added myself as the second ambassador. Thank you for contacting me and I hope that your students have a positive experience contributing to Wikipedia! Best wishes, ~ AH1 ( discuss!) 01:08, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Just checking in. How is your class doing so far? Will any of your students need feedback on articles? ~ AH1 ( discuss!) 15:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
![]() |
Thanks for the help the other day!
Cheers! Beaujayna ( talk) 14:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC) |
I've just reverted some blatant copyright violations from Polar ice packs and Talk:Polar ice packs which were added by one of your students. I've advised them of this on their talk ( User talk:Jimbo0619) and would assume you have their talk pages watchlisted. But in case you haven't, thought I'd leave you a note as well. Thanks, Vsmith ( talk) 23:27, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I am in your Environment and Society class. I just wanted to give you a heads up when you are going to check the peer reviews. The person that reviewed mine and Notlock's article posted their review on our talk page, not the articles. AdnaloyMTA ( talk) 14:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Grant, a problem has arisen with your students on Speciesism. One has added NPOV violations to the article (not borderline violations, but gross; see diff). In addition the material is about animal rights and veganism, not speciesism, and at least some of it seems to be unsourced.
I left the edits in place for a few days out of consideration for the education program, them removed them with an explanation once the first peer review was over. I have now been reverted and told off by another of your students, who is telling the first student what a great job she did. [2]
Also, in looking through that course, I see that copyright violations have been added to another article. I'm unsure what to do about this, as I don't want to be responsible for getting a student into trouble, but on the other hand it's difficult to have to sit watching this material be added to the encyclopaedia. If you could advise, and in general sort out the students' input (would user subpages not make more sense?) that would be appreciated. See Talk:Speciesism#Peer_Review for the exchange. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 21:08, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Grant, just letting you know that your course has been mentioned in this discussion. SlimVirgin (talk) 04:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Sub -
I've detected another case of what seems to be outright straight up cut and paste plagiarism by one of your students. In this edit, your student Esorayrus cut and paste a large section of text from this website directly in to the article. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 09:14, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Sub -
Unfortunately, in reviewing the work of your students, I've come across another instance of outright no-doubts about it plagiarism.
In this edit User:Jemacleod, one of your students, copies text wholesales from this source. The student later added a footnote citing this source, but that doesn't make it any less a copyright violation. In the same edit, the student also directly cut and paste content from this source in to the article. Both of these are clearly instances of plagiarism - no attempt at paraphrasing was even made (not that that would have excused the problem.) Later edits by non-students changed some of the wording, but they were still closely paraphrased enough as to constitute a copyright violation, so I've had to blanket revert the entire article - and the original edits by Jemacleod, as demonstrated by the diffs and links I've posted, were definitely outright plagiarism. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 04:54, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
It's not a problem of anywhere the same magnitude, but your students seem to have made an article most duplicating other WP content -- see my comments at
WT:Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? (It's actually the online ambassador who has the primary responsibility for checking that the students avoid such duplication, & that their good work is not futile--I've left a note for him.)-
DGG (
talk )
01:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
-- ¿3fam ily6 contribs 21:39, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!