Two questions:
1. What is the gender balance of long term editors who started editing
in a WEP class? I have second-hand information that it is over 40%
female.
2. What is the WEP guidance on lengthy quotations? Do we encourage
students who, say, don't have the time or confidence in their ability
to summarize a passage they think would be a substantial improvement,
to insert it as a properly cited and quoted excerpt, or just not make
the edit?
I talked to a college professor who has never heard of the WEP but has
interesting guidance on plagiarism which doesn't really assume that
improvements are preferred even when they are lengthy quotations. How
can we get teachers to understand that as long as they are clearly
quoted and cited, other editors will come along and summarize the
salient points of important source passages later?