I just wrote an article and I spent a lot of time on it. How is it that another user had the time to edit my article within 8 seconds of me publishing it? The person’s name appears on the article as if he/she wrote the article and I did all the work. That’s not fair. How can I stop this from happening again? Are there trolls on this site who are are taking credit for anyone work?
wikiHow is a wiki, meaning anyone can edit articles, whether they have an account or not. All of us use collaboration to improve the quality of the site and work towards a common goal of building a how-to manual for every task. No one owns articles because by publishing your work, you’re allowing your article to be edited by the community
Also, all edits go through a system of quality control called Recent Changes Patrol. Volunteers review every edit to see if they’re consistent with our guidelines. Your article was probably edited by a patroller moments after you published it.
Lojjik
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It’s not stealing. No one owns any articles they submit to wikiHow (everything automatically becomes Creative Commons licensed). It will show the list of people who have made edits to the article in chronological order, excluding anons.
If you check your article’s history, scroll to the very bottom, you’ll see that your name is there at the very end (chronologically, the very first). That should be enough to prove that you wrote it. It stays there forever (or till the article is deleted). Credit on wH is due where it is. Nobody’s stealing your work. Your article is also shown on your own user page.
