Talk:Paper mill (essays)

Should be merged with Essay Mill?
Yes. The content is basically the same, and the terms are synonyms. Novalis 01:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

older stuff
Hello, I own the copyright to this article, and it is posted on presss releases also.

The page is on Paper Mills - therefore it should contain links to the same.

Degree Essays UK is the largest UK one and there are many others, I suggest that they are all added.

^^^May I delete this stuff? Expo377 03:24, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Please read What Wikipedia is not. Wikipedia is not a link farm, nor is it a legitimate forum for you to promote your website. This article should not have any links to specific paper mills, at all, even as "examples". That would imply that we endorse certain sites. Rhobite 20:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Like all the others of his kind, Barclay Littlewood, owner of degree-essays.com, should be arrested for academic fraud and corrupting Britain's youth.

I have updated the section on Turnitin to accurately reflect what that service can and can not do. There is usually a misconception about whether Turnitin can catch a "custom written" paper. As a matching text tool Turnitin can not identify the "true author", only if it finds matching text in its database. So Turnitin can only effectively catch "custom written" essays from cheat sites if they are submitted more than once. Of course, with common sense, a teacher should be able to tell the difference between a paper written by a student and a paper written by an online company, but this human judgement is beyond the scope of Turnitin\'s text-matching ability. Cutter20 19:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately many teachers don't have the time or the motivation to scrutinize papers, so I'm sure custom-written papers do go unnoticed from time to time. Turnitin sounds like it works well for detecting bonehead plagiarism, such as cutting and pasting from web sites or submitting friends' papers. Rhobite 19:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I would not reccomend linking to any actual paper mill websites. There are hundreds if not thousands of these on the web and they are all pretty much the same. I do not see the value in linking to Cheat House if the article does not specifically mention why Cheat House is a notable example of paper mills or elaborate on what it does. Cutter20 17:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Removed links for Valedictorian Essays as well as Cheat House. Valedictorian Essays is claiming that they are more likely to provide "A" papers. Since this is supposed to be an informational page about paper mills and not a place to promote particular cheat sites I have removed these advertisements. Cutter20 17:11, 15 February 2006 (UTC)