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I hate having to bump a second time but I have received no answer despite this having 5 thumbs ups... If there's a better place where I can ask this please let me know.
We don't have many rules re: sandboxes. This Is a Wiki, so I'm thinking someone found what seemed to be an abandoned sandbox page for this work and decided to launch it.
You can always message the troper directly. When my work page's draft got unilaterally launched, there was a warning through the new work pages thread. Other than that, understand that sandboxes are technically public, though having them under your username can discourage edits further.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Sandbox regulations/etiquette are fairly loose, so I think that this is one of those situations where it's probably best to try and talk things over with the other person first, if only just to make sure that everyone is on the same page or to clarify what assumptions everyone was working under.
I assume that because it was under the work title, they assumed it was free to edit and use. Many times, that's the case.
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I see! Thank you guys, I'll take message the troper directly about it.
Is it considered okay if someone creates a work page by copying the content of a sandbox that a completely different user was working on?
I just saw that Literature.Demian was created by someone else using the contents I had written on Sandbox.Demian. I hadn't worked on the sandbox in a few months because I wanted to reread the book in order to write a good work's description (right now both the sandbox and Literature/ pages have almost no description).
I'm not upset about this, I'm rather kind of confused of what to do in this case.
I get if the user who created the page was tired of waiting for it to be an actual article, so I'm wondering if it's seen negatively if someone takes months on moving a sandbox to the correct namespace.
I'm curious about these things regarding sandbox etiquette.