I started a quiz. But I'm having way more trouble doing it on this subject that I felt I would. Can I just cancel it and start another?
Thnx..Mike from Canada (krazykritik)

Your template seems to be empty. Instead of making a new one for a new quiz, you could simply change the category to one you're more interested in and start fresh without deleting. There's nothing to worry about as you haven't submitted it for editing yet and it saves the hassle. All of this can be done from within the template itself.

Just an added note - once the quiz has been submitted to the editors, this changes. There are no consequences to changing your mind while you are initially working on a quiz, but there *are* consequences to wasting editors' time.

I have written a quiz for a Challenge with a given title, and wrote it in Celebrities. Preliminary feedback from an editor made it clear that my whole concept was not going to work. I am now researching and preparing a totally new quiz with the same title, which will go in History (I think, but of course that may change as it develops). Should I delete the original Celebrities-submitted quiz, which is currently an almost completely blank template saying that there will be questions, answers and extra info) and start again, or should I put the new quiz into this template when it is done, and change categories appropriately before submitting it?

Was the Celebrities quiz ever actually submitted to an editor? If so, write to that editor, letting him/her know what you have in mind. If the editor agrees that abandoning the original quiz is the best course, a note will be placed in your record so everyone will know what is going on, and you won't have your new History editor wondering.

If the quiz was never submitted, you can do as you wish with the template.

Thanks. It had been submitted, which was when I found out that the basic concept was not a good idea. I have contacted the editor who rejected it to ask for advice on whether to rewrite and change categories or delete and start over.

I received a rejection from two editors on a quiz that I had submitted (the first editor suggested submitting it to a different category) and I responded to both with several questions including asking whether the quiz was fixable or whether I should delete it.

I haven't deleted it due to comments such as agony's in this thread about how deleting a submitted quiz means having wasted the editors' time, but I haven't heard back in over a month. Is there a point when I should consider the lack of follow-up as being tacit approval to delete the quiz?

If you're referring to "I'll Have a Serving of Scrambled Losers", the quiz is not showing as having been submitted.
Unless you submit the quiz to the queue, editors do not know that it's ready to be looked at.

I received your note and I thought I'd replied to it that I didn't know your answer and the other editor should be able to help you.

From what I saw, it was too tough to do.

Skunkee - I know the quiz is not currently submitted. I had submitted it and received a note from an editor that it was too obscure. I sent a message through the "Reply to Player who Sent Note" asking for clarification (is it the topic or is it the way I wrote the questions), but I didn't resubmit the quiz because I didn't want to rewrite it until I receieved an answer. Are you saying that the editor wouldn't have seen my note if I didn't resubmit the quiz?

Ladymacb29 - thank you for responding here. I didn't get any notes from either editor after writing mine, which is why I eventually came to the forums with the issue. I still haven't gotten a response from the original editor.

At this point I would like to delete the quiz, but in this thread and others I've seen comments by editors saying that a quizmaker shouldn't delete a quiz after it's already been looked at by an editor. So I'm still asking how to proceed.

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Are you saying that the editor wouldn't have seen my note if I didn't resubmit the quiz?

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No, a note should get through without the quiz being resubmitted.
However I would have been inclined to follow up wth a second inquiry as there are other reasons why the note might not have reached the editor.

Julia, I'd advise you to write again to an editor in the category the quiz seems to belong in. Sad to say, editors are human too and notes can get lost in the shuffle, especially when you're receiving a lot of them. After a month, I doubt that they're going to find your original note in their mailbox!

You can also write to a couple of editors in the category, and then you might be more certain of a response -- say that you're unsure whether this quiz idea will work, so you're writing to several of the editors to ask what they think. You will probably get a better response if you provide a link to your quiz's edit page in your note, so that they can easily check it out.

Good luck!

CellarDoor
Editor (Humanities & Religion)

I wrote a quiz in the Movies category and submitted it, got back a very helpful note from an editor, but when I went to start on the corrections, realised that for cultural reasons, I am unable to make any reference to a central character in the film (he has since died, and because he is a relative, I am unable to say his name until a year after his passing.) I thought I would be OK by writing his name, but an Elder has suggested that I don't refer to him at all, which is going to make it very hard to write a decent quiz when there are so few characters.
I would like to delete the quiz for cultural reasons, but I don't want to upset anyone by doing so, especially when the Editor was so helpful.
Does anyone have any suggestions please ?

tezza, why not just wait a year?

Put it on hold. Go in and make a change, however minor, every two weeks or so. When you are free to refer to him again, finish and resubmit.

OK, thanks guys... that works for me.

Being the editor in question - I am quite happy to have you wait a year to submit!
As already suggested, just make minor changes and save. This changes the 'last worked on' date and makes sure it won't be accidentally deleted.