User talk:Ms976312

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Hello, Ms976312, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Past-tensing Native Americans, over-generalisations about over 500 different cultures
Regarding your edits on Gender roles among the indigenous peoples of North America, Take it to the article talk page before you edit any more. These generalizations are way too broad, and past-tensing of living communities is offensive. You additions need to be usable, and not need a total rewrite by other editors. Engage on the talk page with experienced Wikipedians before proceeding with this. - Co rb ie V    ☊ ☼ 18:27, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * , Ms976312 is a new user and student enrolled in the Wiki Education Program. Can we isolate particular edits or work with the text to improve tense usage to avoid reverting all of her contributions? Thanks Matthewvetter (talk) 17:00, 4 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Matt, looking over your talk page I see this has come up before, so I'm going to copy this there as well. My priority is the 'pedia, not test edits by students. I've usually cut students more slack, but if the edits aren't improvements, the student status of the editor is not a reason to keep them in the articles. Recently the Indigenous articles have been hit by quite a few edits that show a lack of understanding of the subject matter. In many cases it is clear that the student editor didn't even read the article they are trying to change. There have been many copyvios. As I said above, it is not our job to rewrite this stuff. Either the students learn to function like any Wikipedian or they don't edit. The 'pedia is more important than their course grade. - Co rb ie V    ☊ ☼ 17:14, 4 April 2016 (UTC)