User:TransporterMan/Templates/Draftpage

I noticed that you have recently created an article which has been proposed for speedy deletion. Things can move very fast here at Wikipedia. To have more time to develop your article without having to fight a simultaneous battle to keep it from being deleted, consider developing it in a drafting page set up as a subpage of your user page instead of creating it a "real" article. If you would like some instructions on how to do that, click "Show" at the end of the next line. How to Use A Drafting Page for Article Creation If you want to be able to draft an article without being bothered by other users trying to improve or delete your page, do it in a drafting page set up as a subpage of your user page. Here's how: Edit your user page (not the article page, the article talk page, or your user talk page). Somewhere on your user page create a link to your drafting page like this: [[/<articlename>]|Draft of <articlename>]] Replace <articlename>, including the brackets, with the name of your article. You don't have to include "Draft of" after the | if you don't want to do so, but it can be a useful reminder. Save your user page. You will now find a red link on your user page which says "Draft of <articlename>". Click on it. A page that will come up which says, "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name" and has a link that says, "Start the <articlename> article." Click that link. Start editing your article in the editing page that comes up. Do not add category links to your draft unless you put nowiki tags around each one to deactivate it (for example:<nowiki>[[Category:Widgets]]</nowiki>); putting live category links on a draft article violates Wikipedia policy. When you're finished, save it. You've created your drafting page and you can go back and edit it as often as you like. Your article will not be indexed in Wikipedia's article index so long as it is kept as a drafting page, so when you think that it's ready for scrutiny by other editors, you can create a new article page and simply copy the code from your drafting page into its edit form. Once you've done that, please delete your drafting page by adding a {{db-userreq}} tag at the very top, saving it, and then deleting the drafting page link off of your user page. A word of warning: just because a drafting page is in your user space doesn't mean that you can put text, images, or other material on it which is, or may be, a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy, which is unsourced negative information about a living person, or which attacks, defames, or threatens a living person. That kind of stuff can be deleted immediately, without warning, anywhere it is found and can get you in trouble with the community, too. Finally a couple of words of friendly advice: First, I've tried several times to write a better introduction to editing than can be found at the Article Wizard and Your First Article and I can't. Don't be tempted to skip past sections of either one. Read them all, they're full of solid gold information, and take them to heart. Second, if you've not done so already, you need to immediately read the Notability, Verifiability, No original research, and What Wikipedia is not policies from beginning to end. Without a working knowledge of those policies it can be very frustrating to try to write an article that won't be deleted or heavily edited. Finally, if you are thinking that your article will be safe here because there are other articles just like it already on Wikipedia, don't bet on it. Those other articles may be just as much at risk of deletion as yours may be, but no one has happened to notice or bother with them yet. Best wishes, thanks again, and good luck with your drafting. — {{{2}}}

Syntax: {{User:TransporterMan/Templates/Draftpage|#|~~~~}}
Where # is the % of left indent (with no % sign, just a number) and the 4 tildes are never anything except 4 tildes.

If anyone would like to use this, please feel free, but please either subst the template or copy the code to your own user page, don't just transclude from here because I may not keep this here forever.