User:Supah Cole/sandbox

Hi Ian,

I was told that in order to reach out to you, I was supposed to leave a message in my sandbox. I'm not sure if you'll see this, but I'm a bit at my wits' end here.

I'm a part of a college course (Literary & Critical Studies II, Pratt Institute) and one of our projects for the year is to write a professional Wikipedia article of our own or contribute to an existing one, complete with reliable sources, professional writing prose, and everything. I wrote, for this class, an article about The Scattering, a new wave rock album by the band Cutting Crew in 1989. I'll link to it here: The Scattering (album). All was going well, and for a week or more I thought my project was done and complete.

However, as of late, some fellow Wikipedia editors have gotten a hold of the article and have decided to change it, jettisoning a considerable portion of information and rewording whatever text they have decided to keep. It's considerably shorter than it initially was. I respect these people, I recognize they're doing their best to shape it into the article they want, it might even flow better with their revisions - but I'd like for them to kindly back away, if at all possible. I don't want to directly message them myself - my Professor says I don't have to, I think that's a little outside the parameters of what is expected of this assignment anyways, and I don't really want to engage with internet strangers. Especially not when my best argument is "I'm working on this for a class assignment, can you please step away until XX/XX Date?" In addition to being unprofessional and rude, that was advised against in the training capstones.

Please let me know what I should do about them. This is turning into a bit of a stressful thing for me.

Thanks!