Kanesham

Debate Questions

Hi Kanesham, Regarding your questions, I would suggest reading this page first. It should give you a pretty good picture of how editing on WP works. I would also recommend that you do a google search for critiques of Wikipedia editing policy. You will find a wealth of interesting, well-written opinion pieces available on this subject. As far as becoming a qualified editor is concerned, just make lots of edits for a range of different things - grammar, spelling, content, style - and, over time, you will find that long-standing editors will pay attention. Also, pay attention to the practices of good editors (mods; people who have been editing for a number of years) to see why their edits don't get reverted. If you are interested in becoming an ambassador, mention it to your course instructor (Professor Clement would probably be the best point person) and he can keep you in mind for next year if INF1001 continues to be a part of this WP program. Let me know if you have any other questions... Gabby.resch (talk) 19:11, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Privacy policy

Hello! I have reviewed the edits made to privacy policy. Your edits are mostly beneficial, though I would make two small suggestions: first, the title of the article is usually bolded in the first line. Second, and more importantly, please don't use simple URLs as references. Web citations should include at minimum the URL, title, author/publisher, and date you accessed the source. If you like, you can use the {{cite web}} template for this purpose. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:48, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Kanesham, As per your request, I've consulted some of the TAs for the course. The consensus is that students should ensure the project banner is placed on the talk page - instructions to do this are on the course page - to encourage feedback from the broader WP community. Worst case, if you were to get no feedback on your edits, you could always reflect on this in your paper. That said, it is understood that I should hold off on providing comments/revisions as it could be construed as sort-of "pre-marking" the assignment. Of course, you can always contact community members who have previously edited the article, WP online ambassadors (which you appear to have done), or even WP mods. Good luck.Gabby.resch (talk) 18:21, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!

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September 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Rob Ford has been reverted.
Your edit here to Rob Ford was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p--OdJ8jIJo) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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