6witha5wing

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Hello, 6witha5wing, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Strawberry Fields Forever, have removed content without an explanation. If you'd like to experiment with the wiki's syntax, please do so in the sandbox rather than in articles.

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Help me!

Please help me with... I started creating a page - spent a good deal time on it! - and Wikipedia froze up. Upon returning, I don't see it. Was it saved somewhere, or do I start all over from scratch? 6witha5wing (talk) 21:23, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry to say that if you never clicked on the "Publish" button, your draft never made it to Wikipedia's servers. There's no sign that you ever did this step, so, no, your draft is not saved anywhere on Wikipedia. As far as I know, there may be a way to retrieve your work-in-progress on your own device in a browser cache, but I'm afraid that may be false hope.

In future, do not hesitate to click on the "Publish" button to save your work. This does not submit your draft for review (that's a separate step) and it does not make the page visible in the main encyclopedia. It is "published" in the sense that someone who knows where to look can find it again on Wikipedia's servers; you and anyone else can see its location by looking at your list of contributions. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

To add to the above, it's extremely rare for Wikipedia to crash so badly that your work is lost without any hope of recovery; usually if there are server issues (which are rare in the first place) you can't publish your article when you want to, but you can still return to what you wrote (via the browser's "back" button if necessary) and copy-paste it into a local text file so you can publish it later when the server issues have been resolved. That hope of recovery needs taking the proper steps, though - if you close the browser window, for example, you may well have lost that option. Huon (talk) 21:43, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Stanley Steemer Variations (by Mia) (April 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Sulfurboy was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:The Stanley Steemer Variations (by Mia) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:The Stanley Steemer Variations (by Mia), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Sulfurboy (talk) 04:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, 6witha5wing! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Sulfurboy (talk) 04:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, 6witha5wing. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:45, 23 April 2020 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).

Your draft article, Draft:The Stanley Steemer Variations (by Mia)

Hello, 6witha5wing. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Stanley Steemer Variations".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 06:27, 10 December 2020 (UTC)