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Subjects edit
It's a very bad idea to assign your student, or allow them to select, articles to work on that are about controversial subjects, such as Death of Adolf Hitler and Hitler Youth. One student already posted an inappropriate comment on Talk:Death of Adolf Hitler, which has been removed. We at Wikipedia have a problem with neo-Nazis and other alt-right people editing articles about Hitler, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, etc., so these articles are watched 'very' closely, and anything which is added which is not supported by the best possible reliable sources is almost automatically removed. The same goes for copy-editing: these articles have been gone over with a fine-toothed comb by numerous veteran editors, who are unlikely to look favorably on people making edits which do not significantly improve the writing.
My suggestion is that you have the students who have chosen these articles make another choice, otherwise I believe that they are heading into problems. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:12, 26 February 2018 (UTC)