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In two edits User:Fram has removed what they termed "excessive quote", and in two edits that revised what's quoted, and did more, I largely undid their deletions. I'm sorry, this is an unfinished draft. There are no issues of plagiarism or copyright violation AFAIK. Fram, you appear to want less rather than more, or what? You're not developing the article, and simply removing passages seems not constructive. What gives? --Doncram (talk,contribs) 14:50, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Excessive quoting applies everywhere, there are no exceptions for draftspace (on the contrary, "fair use" only applies to the mainspace in general). See Wikipedia:Non-free content#Text: "Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea." Not only should the quotes be brief (which wasn't the case here), they should be used for the above reasons, not to save you the trouble of describing things in your own words. There is no reason for the quote in this draft (never mind the multiple quotes in the older version). And there is no requirement that people "develop" articles where they try to uphold policies: repeatedly reverting to policy-violating versions is decidedly unconstructive though. Fram (talk) 14:55, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
