Talk:Quit lit (academia)

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multiple uses[edit]

The term quit lit has multiple uses. The article was created for a supposed field of people writing about quitting academia. No references for this term as established were made.

The term quit lit also refers to a field of literature on self-help books on controlling alcohol use. This is supported by several citations (WSJ, NYT) and a dictionary definition (Collin's).

I've made edits to respectfully show both uses.

The original author (Czar) of the article removed these without discussion, despite that there were no citations present after many years for the academia use. Any search or the above mentioned reference show the alcohol related use. Bquast (talk) Bquast (talk) 01:51, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Czar Bquast (talk) 01:56, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First, per WP:BRD, once your edits were contested, you should not have restored them—that's edit warring. Please undo your edits.

The prior version cites four articles repeatedly using the phrase "quit lit" to describe a genre of academic writing. It's abundantly clear that the're general references.

The version you're looking to establish is not the same concept. Create a separate article if you're looking to establish it, but I don't think the four sources you cited will pass muster at WP:Articles for Deletion for the reasons I described in the edit summary. czar 02:09, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You did not contest my edits, you simply deleted them in a way that prevented me from being notified.Bquast (talk) Bquast (talk) 02:13, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Further, it is a mischaracterization to call it "academic writing". It is not academic at all. It is people writing autobiographically about why they left academia. Bquast (talk) 02:20, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Undoing an edit is the standard way of contesting it on Wikipedia—see Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle for more background. The information you're adding is about a different type of quit lit (alcohol) (or another descriptor) than the quit lit (academia) that was previously the subject of the article. They are two different topics by the same name with no overlap. czar 12:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]