Epaltauf13

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Proposed deletion of Medieval Witchcraft

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Please read WP:POVFORK

Hi. I'm afraid that you can't just make a new article on an existing subject because you don't like the existing one. This is against the policy WP:POVFORK. You can work on improving the existing article if you like but there is no scope to own your own article on Wikipedia. It all belongs to everybody. It is better this way because, if the existing coverage is poor then we want it replaced so that everybody sees the improved content, not just a few people who find their way to a second article on the subject.

I am not entirely clear on how what you are writing is related to this course you are doing. It may be that you need to be able to own your own content free of our interference for your coursework. If so, you should be looking to host that somewhere else, not on Wikipedia. Maybe get a blog which you can administer for yourselves and work on together without us Wikipedians getting in the way? There are plenty of places that will let you do that for free. e.g. wordpress.com. Of course, that wouldn't mean that you can't edit Wikipedia as well. You could still edit Wikipedia following our rules and edit your own thing following your own rules to get the best of both worlds. --DanielRigal (talk) 01:50, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Help

Hi. So for my class we were supposed to choose a topic that our class covers and write a wikipedia article covering it, or if there is an existing wikipedia article to edit and revise it with the updated course material. My friend Katie and I chose Medieval Witchcraft, which is different from European Witchcraft. We are not covering basically any of the same information as the old article on wikipedia that needs revision because a lot of the things mentioned in that article have nothing to do with my class/ nothing to do with Medieval witchcraft. There was a very very short section (2-3 sentences) on witchcraft in the middle ages, so these pages will be starkly different as we are covering much much more and far different material that does not exist anywhere else on wikipedia. I guess my mistake was uploading what I had so far without finishing the article or including citations, I just wanted it to be saved somewhere but from now on I will write the entire article in a word document and then will upload the article when it is complete with citations. I hope this clears up any confusion, let me know if there are any more issues with this article. Epaltauf13 (talk) 01:57, 7 November 2015 (UTC)Eliza

This is not a definitive answer but I'll say two things that might help a bit:

1. I do sympathise with the situation you are in. It is a bit unfair to be told to go and edit Wikipedia as a part of some coursework because a lot of the outcome is not under your control. I have seen this happen before and I appreciate that it might feel a bit like being thrown to the wolves.
2. If you want to draft something there is a way to do that on Wikipedia without it being treated as an article before you are ready. Please read Wikipedia:Your first article and look for the parts telling you how to make drafts. Of course, you don't have to do it this way, but it might be better than editing in Word from the point of view of getting the Wiki markup right and collaborative working. --DanielRigal (talk) 02:24, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Oh and one more thing, although you probably already know this: If you need to get the content that I removed back to use as a start to your draft then you will find that it is still accessible in the article History. --DanielRigal (talk) 02:27, 7 November 2015 (UTC)