User blog comment:Spookyboo/Artistic and Grammar Changes to Stories/@comment-4715955-20170919213748

Never change the story without consulting the author first. I mainly say this because I've had so many "helpful" people fix the poor grammar in my dialogue because it never occurs to them that maybe people in real life don't actually use proper grammar when they speak. Or revise entire passages because they thought they knew how to tell the story better than me.

The idea of drastically changing someone else's work, like changing from third to first person, makes me gawk frankly. Doesn't matter if the person signed their name or not, you don't rewrite people's work for them. You post a comment and suggest changes. If there's a typo that clearly isn't a stylistic choice, you can probably fix it, but you have to know what you're doing.

I know it's a wiki and things should be transparent, but a general article on a worldly subject is different from a short story. Most wikis are meant to educate. I feel like this wiki's purpose is to act as a hub for horror-related works and authors, not for everyone to rewrite each other's work on a whim.