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Below are exercises which workshop participants may copy to a sandbox
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If you are new to Wikipedia, start from the first exercise. If you have some experience, skip the parts with which you already
==Save an edit==
Per [[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing]] ''go to a sandbox'' and type several lines of text, write an edit summary, preview your work, and save it.
==Apply bold and italics==
Per [[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting]] use '''three apostrophes for bold''' and ''two apostrophes'' for italics. Use five for '''''bold italics''''', though that is seldom used. ''Copy the exercise below to a sandbox.''
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This whole sentence should be bold. This whole sentence should have italics. Leave this part alone but put the last four words in bold. Now put the first three words of this sentence in italics. Make this whole sentence bold and italics.
==Create section headers==
Per [[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting]].
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*Colonial period
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==Wikipedia article links==
See [[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links]] and the video. ''First copy the exercise below to a sandbox.'' Properly format all the important subjects in the sentences below so they link to the appropriate event, person, organization, entity, etc. which has a Wikipedia article - and Wikipedia does have an article on almost everything! You can search either words or phrases you are in doubt about or don't bother to link it if you are in doubt. Someone will come along and link it at some point.
If you see a phrase below in (parenthesis) this is the ''name of an article'' which goes ''before'' the appropriate phrase in a [[WP:piped link]]. Over time you will learn how to find the name of relevant articles to create such piped links. See the relevant paragraphs in the [[History of the United States]] article to check what you missed.
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==Wikipedia category links==
Per [[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links]], at the bottom of every article is a list of category links which shows what categories the article is in. So at the bottom of an article on [[Bird]] you will find the following categories listed: Birds - Animals - Biological pest control - Dinosaurs .
==External links==
[[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources]] shows how to make external links which are both for citing sources and any "External links" section of an article. ''Copy this
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*[http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ Cornell Lab of Ornithology]
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==Citing sources==
[[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources]] has a lot of information about formatting references to create footnotes.
: <nowiki><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/article_name.html</nowiki> Article in ''The New York Times''<nowiki>]</ref></nowiki>
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Don't forget your Wikilinks to famous people, books, periodicals, etc. But do NOT try to put them ''inside'' your external links. Format the references also. In general book, movie and album titles are italicized and articles have quotation marks around their titles; so make those formatting changes too. Some editors italicize publication names, others do not. Adding ISBN to book numbers is helpful but not required.
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You should now be in an editing screen in a sandbox looking at this model:
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Per [[Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages]], look at the following talk pages as examples of how editors communicate. Note editors don't always follow formatting rules for talk pages. [[Talk:Talk:History of the United States]] - [[Talk:Bird]] -[[Talk:Elizabeth Taylor]]
Then ''copy the conversation below to a sandbox'' and format it, including using astericks (*) for bullet points and number signs for numbered lists (#)
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I think this article about this wealthy family is very confusing. What can we do about it? [Signed User:#1]
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OK, you caught me. I just read a couple articles and got confused myself. Sounds like you read a lot more about this family. Let's do it!! [Signed User:#3]
==Article clean up==
''Copy the whole article below to a sandbox.'' Correct sections, wikilinks, external links, spelling, grammar, references, vandalism, etc. Note that when the same reference is used more than once, we create a "Ref name" link so that each time the reference is used it will go back to the same footnote. To keep it easy, we have left in the original "ref name" in this example from the Wikipedia article '''[[Mr. Big (police procedure)]]'''. Compare your version to the "Mr. Big" article, noticing that the references may be done differently in that article.
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'''Mr. Big ---- also known as '''the Canadian technique''' ---- is a covert investigationable techniques used by undercover copper investigators in some parts of Canada and Australia to solve cases for which confessions are considered necessary for successful prosecution of which. In this method, police officers pose as members of a criminal gang in order to gain the confidence of the suspect, enlisting the suspect's participation in an escalating series of fictional crimes. Once the suspect's trust has been gained, the police persuade the suspect to confess to the earlier, real crime.<ref name= mulr7>Melbourne University Law Review July 2007 Suppreshing Evidence of Police Methods - Part One by Sharon Rodrick http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MULR/2007/7.html</ref><ref name="theage-truelies">Ian Munro True Lies ''[[The Age]]'' September 8, 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/07/1094530606368.html</ref>
History
The technique was developed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (‘RCMP’) in Vancouver, Canada in the early 1990s for "Cold case (criminology)" i.e., you know, cold case homicide investigations.<ref name= mulr7/> In British Columbia, the technique has been used over 180 times, and, in 80% of the cases, it resulted in either a confession or the elimination of the suspect from suspicion by those sneaky coppers.REFERENCE:Brian Hutchinson CMP Turns to "Mr Big" to Nab Criminals: Shootings, Assaults Staged in Elaborate Stings National Post - 18 December 2004 Since 1990, police in Victoria Australia have also used the technique on over 20 cases, and have successfully obtained murder confessions in several.(This article was a big helP: Lawyers Warn Against Police Stings Ian Munro September 9, 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/07/1094530612495.html It was in The Age.) In Australia, police have applied to the courts, unsuccessfully, to suppress the publication of the details of these tactics.<ref name="mulr7"/>
Description
While the details of this here technique vary from case to case, the methodocity is for an undercover police unit to pose as members of a fictitious gang into which the suspect is inductaped.<ref name="mulr7"/> The suspect is invited to participate in a series of escalating criminal activities (all of which are faked by the police), including robberies, control of prostitution, and standing guard during gang's baaaadd-ass activities. In addition, the "gang members" build a personal relationship with the suspect, through drinking together and other social activities. The goal is to win the confidancees of the suspect.<ref name = theage-truelies/> Eventually, the suspect is told that the police have a renewed interest in the original crime, and that the suspect needs to give the gang further details. The suspect is told that the boss (the so-called "Mr. Big") may have the ability to influence that police investigation, but only if the person admits all of the details of their earlier crime. They are also told that if they aren't completely clear about any past crimes, the gang may not be willing to continue to work with him, as he may be a liability - in otherwords you know who has got to get offed.<ref name="mulr7"/>
Criticism
Defense lawyers and criminal specialists have argued that the method is flawed for several reasons. In particular, they assert that the method may produce unreliable confessions. Len Hartnett, a lawwyer for a Lorenzo Fatava, who was in part convicted in part by using a confession obtained from this type of operation, argued that the police officers encourage confessions, "telegraph what they want to hear," and act as an authority figure to the suspect who is in a relatively powerless position.<ref name =" theage-truelies"/> Prosecutors have countered by stating that a confession alone would never be considered sufficient evidence to prosecute a criminal in these cases, and that additional evidence would be necessary.(This all comes from this here article RCMP's 'Mr. Big' stings challenged which I seen printed in http://www.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=45d97927-464c-4301-89a8-d62cadecb414&k=88657 from August 24, 2010 in the North Shore News. Check it out!!)
''Mr. Big'' Documentary-really cool
{{Main|Mr. Big (film)}}
In 2007, Tiffany Burns directed a documentarial entitled ''Mr. Big'' that examined this here method. The movie includes interviews with targets of the operation, there families (Burns herself is the sister of [[Sebastian Burns]], who was convicted of murder in part due to being caught by a Mr. Big operation), and RCMP videos of various aspects of Mr. Big operations. Check it out.
External links to check out
*http://www.mrbigthemovie.com Website for Mr. Big documentary which is reall educashunal and check it out.
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