Wikipedia talk:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Macroeconomics

List of Prospective Articles edit

Each student should add an entry to the table below. Please edit row very carefully, and don't make syntax errors. You can just read below and copy the code for a row and edit it.

No Article name Signature (~~~~) Yes or No Instructor's signature Comments/remarks
135 Neoclassical synthesis Priyambada Seal ~~~~ Go Ahead Instructor's signature ~~~~ comments/Remarks
106 Monetary-disequilibrium theory Ananya Bhattacharya ~~~~ Yes or No Instructor's Signature ~~~~ Comments/Remarks
118 marginal propensity to consume Inderpreet Walia ~~~~ Go Ahead Instructor's Signature ~~~~ Comments/Remarks
1234 Economics
1025 Lucas island model Jyotsna Gupta ~~~~ Yes or No Instructor's Signature ~~~~ Comments/Remarks
114 Intertemporal Choice Haritha S Benjamin Yes or No Instructor's Signature Comments/Remarks
109 Theory of taxation Aritra Chakrabarty Yes or No Instructor's Siganture

Comments/Remarks

Introductory Assignment edit

  • Create a user account, if you don't yet have one. Help regarding account creation is available on the following link,
   * Account creation screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WP_tutorial_en_New_user_account.ogg 
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  • Create a sandbox and add some sample text in it to get a feel for the wiki code. Help regarding how to create a Sandbox is available on the following link,
   * Sandbox screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_starting_a_sandbox_article_on_Wikipedia.ogv
  • Make a few edits to Wikipedia articles, it can be adding a reference, fixing a typo, cleaning up a convoluted sentence, adding a sentence, etc.
   * Wiki markup basics screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boldness_and_links_tutorial.ogv 
   * References screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citing_sources_tutorial,_part_1.ogv 
   * References handout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikipediaReferencing.pdf 
   * Wiki markup basics sheet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf 
  • Leave a message on your campus ambassador's talk page to get a feel for on-wiki communication.
   * Wikipedia help page on talk pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_talk_pages
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   * Neutral Point of View video: 
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   * The "five pillars," which represent Wikipedia's core principles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars 
   * Read and be able to explain the general guidelines about notability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

Copyright issues edit

Hi there. I have just deleted the page NARROW FRAMING which appears to be part of this project. It was deleted as a blatant copyright violation as it was a cut and paste of this section from the book "Investment Planning". I can see that you have warned your students against copyright violation and plagiarism on the project page but you might want to reiterate that guidance as some at least clearly do not understand the implications. Kind regards, nancy 10:19, 1 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Further, I have just had to delete four more cut and paste copyright violations which were also duplicates of one another. They were: NARROW FRAMING, Narrow Framing, Sentbox and User:Hahaharsh. This time the text was lifted from a conference paper [1]. The editor in question has of course been warned, again. Kind regards, nancy 09:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)Reply