User talk:ItsMartholomew

February 2016
There have recently been numerous user talk pages made by new editors, all containing stuff headed by a heading beginning "Wiki Exercise". A Wikipedia talk page is for messages and discussions among Wikipedia editors about matters relating to contributing to the encyclopaedia: it is not a general-purpose personal web space for other purposes, such as posting content unrelated to work for the encyclopaedia, or "exercises". It seems that at least tow classes or seminars, in at least two Scottish cities have been taking place, and encouraging participants to edit talk pages in this way. Perhaps you can invite whoever is running the class to contact me, or at least to stop getting students to do this sort of thing. While teaching students how to edit Wikipedia is a good idea, if it is done by someone who does not actually know what is acceptable and what is not acceptable under Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, it may do more harm than good, as it produces a lot of people who have been given erroneous ideas about how to edit. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:53, 12 February 2016 (UTC)