Talk:Exchange students' challenges

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Igorsemenov1993.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 20:58, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

Wikipedia already has an extensive article on International students, including a section about the challenges they face. This current article's title is misleading, because it is not about exchange students (who travel to a foreign country briefly, generally for a single semester, specifically for the purpose of experiencing that foreign culture), but is rather about international students (who travel to a foreign country for an entire educational experience, be it college or graduate school, specifically for the purpose of gaining a better or more affordable education). Because the article is more focused on international students, and because that article already exists, there does not appear to be a need for an entire stand-alone article for this purpose.

Pinging @Igorsemenov1993: (the article's author), @Adam (Wiki Ed): (the course Wikipedia mentor) and @KSDark: (the course instructor). WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:38, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping, WikiDan61. I'll take a closer look but I'm thinking a merge may be in order. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:26, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The following comment was made on my user talk page. I am transcluding it here so the discussion can occur in a centralized location.
Do you think it is really necessary to merge my page with an existed article? That would be grade and I want to make a huge contribution, but on the other hand it is always better to have a separate or isolated and specific article about a particular subject so people can take exactly what they need and write that in their papers. There are many article on Wiki, very long and sometimes it is hard to find what you need, so I want to make mine accessible and concise like "come and go" kinds of things. Don't you agree? Please answer you opinion is highly valued. Thank youIgorsemenov1993 (talk) 17:56, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Igorsemonov1993: Since your article covers a topic that is already covered elsewhere at Wikipedia, it constitutes a content fork, which is highly discouraged. The availability of content that "people can take... and write that in their papers" is not a concern of Wikipedia. (Such direct copying from Wikipedia to a student's school assignment would constitute plagiarism anyway; we should not be encouraging that.) The challenges faced by international students should be discussed in the article about international students. If the material is too extensive, then perhaps a subarticle as you have written might be appropriate, with a summary at the main article (International students) and a link to this subarticle. However, in this case, I don't think the material is too extensive, as the only truly material contribution that is made in this article is the quoting of the statistics from one particular study. The rest of your article rather largely duplicates the material already discussed at international students, but in an inappropriate tone. For example: we don't use the second person ("you") when writing Wikipedia articles. An article should not say "In your college courses, you'll likely be graded in many ways"; rather it should say "College courses are graded on the basis of many criteria." Oh, and by the by (and I'll address this in the article separately), you've copied the "six problems" section verbatim from this US News and World Reports article. That's a copyright violation and is absolutely disallowed. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 20:05, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Adam (Wiki Ed): @KSDark: Given that one copyright violation has already been identified, and that other sections of the article are written in English far superior to the command of English demonstrated by IgorSemonov in his comments above, and the use (in the "Cultural Problems" section) of a citation style different than the rest of the article, citing articles that the author has provided no citations for, I fear that the rest of the article may well be a cut and paste copy of text that Mr Semonov has found in his sources, again violating Wikipedia's copyright rules. This issue alone is sufficient to delete the existing text and merge to the suggested article. @KSDark: I suggest you review this matter carefully with your class to let them know that this type of copying is not allowed at Wikipedia. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 20:20, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WikiDan, Adam (Wiki Ed), there doesn't seem to be any room for doubt here – please see below for the sources I have identified from which content was taken. Redirected as proposed. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:41, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-163679008/challenges-for-international-students-in-higher-education, http://www.immi.se/intercultural/nr13/petraki.htm, http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/08/28/6-challenges-for-international-students-in-college and probably http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2648.1981.tb03240.x/pdf. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)

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