Essay on editing Wikipedia
This page describes the phenomenon of Drafts namespace, which supersedes Articles for creation.
- All contributors who submit to Drafts or review them are affected.
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- Article and drafts namespaces.
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- Drafts are a class of Wikipedia articles which do not pass inclusion criteria in their current shape, and are subject to less aggressive deletion criteria.
- Drafts are reviewed before being published.
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- IP contributors don't create articles directly. The output is considered messy to process.
- Non-notable articles are not included, even if put neutrally. (2 could solve 1.)
- Less of human approach is in place, with introducing the new Decline and Approve article classes and templates.
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- When creating a new article.
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- Reviewing drafts is the process designed to provide feedback to new contributors.
- Such process is thought to be more “editor engaging” than deletion on sight. (This is true.)
- Isolation from main namespace is considered necessary due to large flow of COI submissions.
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- Work without drafts could be more simple, merely requiring not lying in an article, were the inclusion criteria expanded.
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- Using JS scripts and templates to satisfy the template syntax needs.
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