Wikipedia talk:Canada Education Program/Courses/Environment and Society - Fall 2012 (Grant Aylesworth)

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This is a place where you can ask questions, talk about problems, and discuss the Wikipedia assignment with classmates and other Wikipedians. It is a general page for the course, and you can discuss editing, research, anything you want related to the course.--Sub specie aeternitatis (talk) 19:40, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Online Ambassador
I'm happy to announce we now have an Online Ambassador for the course, and their username is Bilby.Sub specie aeternitatis (talk) 16:55, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * And we now have a second Online Ambassador - links to both are on our main course page. Sub specie aeternitatis (talk) 01:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Awards
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Plagiarism and Copy Vio
Hello all, please be aware of Wikipedia policies on plagiarism and copyright violation. It is, in fact, your responsibility to be aware of these policies and they have been discussed at class meetings. If you violate these policies your edits will be reverted, usually quickly. You must attribute all information in your edits to properly cited sources. This includes anything you post on Talk Pages. If you are found to repeatedly plagiarize or violate copyright you may get a zero on this assignment. If you have any doubts or concerns about these policies please check with me or one of our online ambassadors before you make the edits. Thanks Sub specie aeternitatis (talk) 18:04, 11 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't know whether it's appropriate for me to post here; if it isn't, please feel free to move this comment. In looking through some of the articles on this course's list (which were on my watchlist), I see at least one instance of a student having added pretty extensive copyright violations, and in several others I see close paraphrasing. I'd like to add to Grant's point above that it isn't enough to add a footnote after a sentence. If you copy a source's material word for word, or very close to that, it is plagiarism and a copyright violation unless you make clear in the text that it's someone else's work, even if you cite the source in a footnote. See WP:PLAGIARISM and WP:COPYVIO. Wikipedians are asked to read sources, form an understanding of them, then express that understanding in their own words. If you do stick closely to a source's words, whether or not you're quoting, you should use in-text attribution (for example, Smith argued that X). I hope this helps. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:52, 23 November 2012 (UTC)