Melissa Scaletti
| This user is a student editor in New_England_College/Global_Issues_(Spring_2018) . |
Welcome! edit
Hello, Melissa Scaletti, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:35, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure! edit
- Hi Melissa Scaletti! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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| Mission 1 | Mission 2 | Mission 3 | Mission 4 | Mission 5 | Mission 6 | Mission 7 |
| Say Hello to the World | An Invitation to Earth | Small Changes, Big Impact | The Neutral Point of View | The Veil of Verifiability | The Civility Code | Looking Good Together |
Evaluating Sources edit
How do we define good? ~ Good sources are sources that are neutral and not one sided, and it provides true information. What are some good sources? ~Books, news sources, ect Types or sources that should be excluded from Wikipedia: ~ buzz feed, magazines, opinion based articles. Why does it matter who edits Wikipedia? ~ It matters because people can put false information into an article to make it look like true information. How do you think Wiki Ed Foundation partnerships have changed who authors Wikipedia pages? ~ The changed on who can author so they don't have people putting fake information into the articles.
Article issues edit
Your additions to the European Confederation of Police article include passages copied verbatim or nearly verbatim from a non-free source. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. For copyright reasons, your entire contribution was deleted. Please review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module before proceeding further. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:28, 23 April 2018 (UTC)