The page is a recent creation by an inexperienced editor. The topic is not a new topic likely to be of interest to multiple people (such as current affairs topics). The topic appears unimportant, is possibly not worth the effort of fixing, and no great loss if deleted due to expiring in draftspace. or it meets any speedy deletion criterion. or it would have very little chance of survival at AfD 2a-iii. The page is obviously unready for mainspace, for example:Ģa-i. for example, the topic is plausibly notable (if not, it should be speedy-deleted under A7 or nominated at AfD do not draftify junk).ĭoes not meet the required standard 2a. or when the author clearly has a conflict of interest (per WP:COIEDIT).the article does not contain copyright violations.there is no evidence of active improvement, and.the article does not meet the required standard, and.the topic has some potential merit, and.As part of the review of new pages, an unreviewed page may be moved to draft if: Below are a set of best practices to follow when draftifying an article in these circumstances. The community has also allowed for new articles to be moved to draft space as an alternative to deletion. See also: Wikipedia:New pages patrol § Drafts (Optionally) add the template template.If there is a technical barrier to the move, such as when the creation of an article may be protected, seek an admin's assistance. Autoconfirmed rights are required for moving drafts to article mainspace page.
Users who have VisualEditor enabled will be able to use VisualEditor just like on articles. Drafts in the namespace have "Draft:" before their normal title, and also have an associated draft talk page. There is a draft for this article at Draft:Example.Īnyone, including users who are not logged in, may create and edit drafts. The warning is also invoked by Template:Editnotices/Namespace/Main for existing mainspace pages. Some drafts are sorted by subtopic under Category:Draft articles.Īs the draft namespace is a common location for incubating articles (unlike user space), users are notified through Template:New page DYM when visiting a non-existent article whose title does exist in draft space, to prevent unnecessary creation of duplicates on current events, and to help editors discover abandoned drafts to take over and save time rather than starting from scratch: You may also view recent Draft changes to the namespace, newly created drafts, visit a random draft, or see Wikipedia:AfC sorting. The list of all Draft pages is at Special:AllPages or Special:PrefixIndex. Anyone may search and view drafts on Wikipedia directly using Wikipedia's built-in search engine: simply choose "Advanced", then tick "Draft" and/or "Draft talk" on the list of options (i.e.
1.5.6 Tools for moving articles to draft space.1.5.5 Draftifying during deletion discussions.1.5.3 Requirements for draftifying editors.1.5.1 As a result of a deletion discussion.