Talk:Rough Draft (Essay)

Title of article
This should be renamed Rough draft, as it applies to more than essays. Any piece of writing may have a rough draft. And the present article on a novel called Rough Draft should be moved to Rough Draft (novel). I will do this in 24 hours unless anyone objects! SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 09:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Inappropriate tone, and copyright violation?
I am concerned: (a) that the article is too much of a set of instructions (a how-to item) and not enough of an encyclopaedia article about the topic; and (b) that the text has been plagiarised from elsewhere. For the opening two sentences, for example, see How to Write a Rough Draft on the eHow website (www.ehow.com/how_2855_write-rough-draft.html - I can't provide a proper link because WP's spam filter forbids it!). At the very least, it needs a total rewrite. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 09:57, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't see any other blatant copyright violations, but I did find some other sources on the net that closely match the wording. I am not an expert though.  ZabMilenko How am I driving? 13:36, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Redirect
I've redirected this page to Draft document, which is itself a soft redirect to Wiktionary. We are not a dictionary here, and this article has little to no scope outside of an explanation of the term. Parsecboy (talk) 11:24, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Aha! Yes, I hadn't spotted that possibility. Good move, as the article here was pretty hopeless and needed a lot of work. Though I fancy a reasonable article could at some stage be written. SNALWIBMA ( talk</b> - <b style="color:#2F4F4F;">contribs</b> ) 11:27, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Unless something can be written that is more than a simple definition (no matter how long it is), then there shouldn't be an article about the concept of a rough draft on en.wiki. The Wiktionary entry is more than sufficient for that. Parsecboy (talk) 12:13, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It may be worth nothing that there was an actual article at the Draft document location (seen here). Parsecboy (talk) 12:14, 15 June 2009 (UTC)