Template:Draft article/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Draft article. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 10,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Drafts are often created to work on future articles before they are ready to be published or otherwise might not yet meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. These are located in either the "Draft" namespace or a user sandbox to avoid any possibility that a casual reader may stumble upon them; those areas are also excluded from search engine indexing. {{Draft article}} goes further, prominently tagging the draft article as a draft, and at the same time provides convenient links to help build the article and facilitate publication either directly or via the articles for creation process. This also categorizes the page to Category:Draft articles or one of its sub-categories.

Using {{subst:AfC draft|username}} will place {{AfC submission/draft}} on the page, which provides even more guidance and begins the Articles for Creation process at the 'draft' stage.

Do not use this template in mainspace, as it will not display. For article being developed in mainspace, consider {{Under construction}} instead.

{{Draft article}} renders as

This is a draft article. It is a work in progress open to editing by anyone. Please ensure core content policies are met before publishing it as a live Wikipedia article. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs · Public logs. Last edited by Mclay1 (talk | contribs) 2 months ago. (Update) Finished drafting? Submit for review or Publish now

{{Draft article|brief=yes}} renders as

This is a draft article. It is a work in progress open to editing by anyone. Please ensure core content policies are met before publishing it as a live Wikipedia article. Last edited by Mclay1 (talk | contribs) 2 months ago. (Update)

{{Draft article|name|brief=yes}}, where name is the name of the intended target page for the draft article, will render as

This is a draft article. It is a work in progress open to editing by anyone. Please ensure core content policies are met before publishing it as a live Wikipedia article at name. Last edited by Mclay1 (talk | contribs) 2 months ago. (Update)

Note this will work with the 'default' output as well as with |brief=yes.

{{Draft article|join-in=yes|brief=yes}} will render as

This is a draft article. It is a work in progress open to editing by anyone. Please ensure core content policies are met before publishing it as a live Wikipedia article. Last edited by Mclay1 (talk | contribs) 2 months ago. (Update)

Note this parameter will work with the 'default' output as well as with |brief=yes.

{{Draft article|noafc=yes}} will render as

This is a draft article. It is a work in progress open to editing by anyone. Please ensure core content policies are met before publishing it as a live Wikipedia article. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs · Public logs. Last edited by Mclay1 (talk | contribs) 2 months ago. (Update)

{{Draft article|nomove=yes}} will render as

This is a draft article. It is a work in progress open to editing by anyone. Please ensure core content policies are met before publishing it as a live Wikipedia article. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs · Public logs. Last edited by Mclay1 (talk | contribs) 2 months ago. (Update) Finished drafting? Submit for review

The |subject= parameter categorizes the article into a subcategory of Category:Draft articles as shown below. Some subjects will be categorized in more specific subcategories of the main topics below. Note that if the message box is not desired and only the category is necessary, use |catonly=yes.

• {{Link to draft}}
• {{Draft RfC}}
• {{Draft topics}}
• Category:Draft-Class pages