Wikipedia:Managing drafts
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This is to be a guideline referred to directly from the policy Wikipedia:Editing policy.
Drafting is the process of building an article on a topic in preparation for moving it to mainspace.
- Information on drafts is collated at the information page Wikipedia:Drafts
Definition of a Draft: ???
- Things are are not drafts are not covered by this guideline.
Drafts may be drafted in:
- Mainspace (if they begin already meeting WP:STUB within 10 minutes)
- DraftSpace
- UserSpace
(spinout drafting that sometimes occurs on mainspace talk subpages is superseded by draftspace)
Deletion:
- Mainspace drafts may be CSD-ed, AFD-ed, PRODed.
- DraftSpace and UserSpace drafts may not be CSD0ed under the A* criteria, but by new D* criteria, enumerated below, subject to agreement and adoption at WP:CSD.
- D criteria, intiially based on the A criteria, but written differently.
Time limits and auto-processing
- DraftSpace has time limits (the G13 process).
- UserSpace time limits to be discussed.
- If there is to be a time limit, on reaching the time limit, the page is tobe automatically moved to Draftspace, and there the DraftSpace time limit clock begins.