Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger)/Schedule/15

I have taken two other decals at UC Berkeley during my enrollment here and I must say that this one has topped the other two in terms of applicable knowledge and learned skills. I had never made an edit to a Wikipedia article before and, after taking this class, I now confidently feel as if I can be a valuable contributor to the organization and I plan on continuing to edit articles from this point forward. I signed up for the class hoping to learn about piracy and I did, however I also I ended up learning much more about how to be a good Wikipedia editor. It was incredibly easy to get in contact with an online ambassador and he (“Alan the Roving Ambassador”) was very helpful in getting me acquainted with Wikipedia policies and procedures. I don’t know what happened to the groups we formed, but I chose to edit the articles on Mitch Bainwol, chairman and CEO of the RIAA, and Cary Sherman, President of the RIAA, because I felt they were each relevant to the class and they were both stubs at the beginning of the semester. As much as I wanted to badmouth each of them and add a subtle little detail that might attack their reputations in some way, I chose to remain neutral on every aspect and tried to maintain an unbiased tone when adding information. I learned more about these two figures, why people see them as “evil” and how one could consider them to be just two people doing their jobs as well as they can. In the end, this class was very insightful on the use of Wikipedia and the effect of piracy on the entertainment industry and I would recommend it to anyone interested in either or both of the two topics. Gunheim (talk) 21:48, 27 April 2011 (UTC)