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Re:Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale by fixermark on Monday May 05, 2014 @04:27PM (#7700977)
Having your feelings hurt and appreciating (and overcoming) the sense of wasted time and effort is actually valuable experience for someone who is focused on academia (which one could infer, as the student in question was involved in an Honors Conversion).

A Wikipedia edit reversal is frustrating, but not as frustrating as a thesis pursuit or academic journal publication rejection. The takeaway I get from this story is actually that Wikipedia could serve as a lower-cost learning experience for budding young academics; the student got a real taste of having their input considered and rejected by a semi-anonymous stranger in a position of editorial power, which is a valuable (and hard) lesson to acquire at a young age.

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Re:Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale by niels_olson on Monday May 05, 2014 @05:26PM (#7701384)
> Wikipedia could serve as a lower-cost learning experience for budding young academics; the student got a real taste of having their input considered and rejected by a semi-anonymous stranger in a position of editorial power, which is a valuable (and hard) lesson to acquire at a young age.

This should be standard Welcoming Committee text.

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