Talk:Winfield Scott Edgerly

Article Ownership and the collaborative effort of Wikipedia
It has been a long standing policy on Wikipedia that articles are not "Owned" by individual editors or even a group of editors. Anyone can edit articles, per Ownership of content. Even the creator of an article cannot supersede basic Wikipedia guidelines simply because that editor created the article. Once an article has been created, Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone, because No one, no matter how skilled, or how high standing in the community, has the right to act as though they are the owner of a particular page. ''If you create or edit an article, others can make changes, and you cannot prevent them from doing so. In addition, you should not undo their edits without good reason.'' This would include any claims to Primary Authorship.-- JOJ Hutton  00:56, 15 April 2016 (UTC)