User:Hb1290/CLG Wiki:Drafts
From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum
The draft namespace can be used as a place to create and develop new articles until they are ready to enter mainspace. Any editor is free to make a draft. However, editors below (TBD) edits are not allowed to create new pages in main space and must create their articles via the draft system.
Guidelines
Creating drafts
- Drafts that haven't been edited for (timeframe TBD) can be marked for deletion. The draft's author should be notified of this.
- If a draft is deleted an author can request an admin to restore it at any time should they wish to resume working on it.
Publishing to mainspace
- When you think your article is ready to move to mainspace, inexperienced editors should not do so themselves, Instead, they should place
{{request to publish}}. Another editor can then review your article and decide if its ready to move to mainspace. This step is optional for autoconfirmed editors. - Articles can be reviewed by any experienced editor, not just an admin.
- When an article is approved for publishing, the article's author should be notified as a courtesy.
- When publishing, draft redirects to mainspace should be cleaned up. Such redirects can be listed for speedy deletion as uncontroversial cleanup
Draftifying articles
- Do not draftify an existing page without reason (it's considered disruptive). Please ensure you notify someone when draftifying an article they made. You can do this using
{{subst:article moved to draft space}} - As with publishing, redirects to draft space resulting from draftifying articles should be marked for speedy deletion as uncontroversial cleanup.
