User talk:ScottThornbury

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Welcome, Scott
I am aware of your work with Dogme and am glad you have joined the active community of Wikipedia. I should point out, however, that it is considered bad form to start an article on yourself or anything closely connected (one's own corporation, for example). So the Dogme ELT article may be criticised by other editors on these grounds. Personally, I'm glad you started it, or at any rate glad that it now exists. But I would suggest that, to fit in with the Wikipedia ethos, you sit back and let it grow, and not edit it yourself unless glaring factual errors creep in. On the other hand, your eyes on TEFL and English language learning and teaching will be most welcome and Wiki-appropriate! Good luck with finding your feet here! If I can help, post a message to my talk page. BrainyBabe 17:54, 9 November 2006 (UTC)


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Please see this policy: Wikipedia:Editors who may have a conflict of interest – Chris53516 (Talk) 18:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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 * Why did you change the references? Do these references even discuss the material in the page, or are they just additional studies? Did you even use these references in writing the article? – Chris53516 (Talk) 17:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The references were chosen because they are both leading textboooks in the field, and their mentions of Dogme validate it as a signifcant development in the field. ScottThornbury 18:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * According to Webster, a reference is "a source of information (as a book or passage) to which a reader or consulter is referred". If you did not use those in writing the article, they are not references, but additional material for people to read. – Chris53516 (Talk) 18:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

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Dogme ELT Deletion Review
Hi Scott,

Can you give me the rundown on what this article is saying, possibly scan it for me if you have the time? here Malangthon 04:54, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Thom, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you on this (it's now early April) but I haven't been checking Wikipedia much since the Dogme entry was axed. The ELT Journal article titled Dogme is in fact not so much about Dogme per se as about the implications of a dogme-style approach to the teaching of global issues _ it is a summmarised version of an online discussion (in which I was the guest "speaker"), run by the IATEFL Global Issues Special Interest Group. If you are still interested I can scan you a copy (or maybe let you access the article online using my ELT J membership log in - if I can locate it. Hope this helps. ScottThornbury 16:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)