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?