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Welcome to WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's use of article drafts left in retired users' subpages and in Draft space. The project seeks to organize information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
The purpose of Wikipedia is to build out mainspace with as many qualified topics as possible. There is no mandate to build a shadow Wikipedia of unqualified and unsuitable topics in Draft and Userspace preserved and maintained for perpetuity. Project Abandoned Drafts plays an important role in building Wikipedia by bringing forward material that will further Wikipedia's goals.
There are two main kinds of pages identified as "drafts" in Wikipedia. "Good Drafts" are works in progress that have potential to be future mainspace articles, or sometimes material that can be used to improve existing mainspace articles. Project participants are encouraged to identify and take action to move these "Good Drafts" forward toward mainspace. "Bad Drafts" are pages that are essentially forever unsuitable for mainspace for various reasons. "Bad Drafts" may be simply blank, vandalism, attack pages, topics with no chance of notability, duplicates of mainspace pages, WP:NOTAWEBHOST violations and other problematic pages.
Given the tens of thousands of pages considered "drafts", finding Good Drafts and making them accessible for improvement and promotion to mainspace is not easy because they are surrounded by Bad Drafts. Therefore the identification and deletion of unsuitable "drafts" is a critical part of the process of improving the encyclopedia.
Any drafts that are created by users who are deemed inactive, and which have no equivalent article in mainspace. Drafts can be in the following places:
This project also allows the donation of drafts from users who do not feel like they are up to finishing them or have lost interest in the subject of the draft.
This is a
WikiProject advice page. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more
WikiProjects on Wikipedia or its
process, as pertaining to topics within the WikiProject(s) area of interest. This page is not one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. |
Category:Stale userspace drafts contains
userspace drafts that have not been edited for over a year. It is populated through the {{
Userspace draft}}
template. Only the pages with the template will appear in this category.
{{
userspace draft}}
from the page.{{
histmerge|Draft page name}}
. If not, redirect the draft page to the article.{{
Inactive userpage blanked}}
or {{
userpage blanked}}
and notify the inactive user with {{subst:
uw-staleuserpageblanked|Page blanked}} ~~~~
or just blank the page to remove it from the maintenance category and avoid further housekeeping efforts.{{subst:
submit}}
so that an AfC reviewer can review it.{{subst:
Uw-userspace draft finish|Page name}} ~~~~
can be placed on their talk page. If the user is inactive, consider bringing the draft to the attention of associated WikiProjects, or to
WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. You may also consider improving the draft yourself.To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts:
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{{
Userspace draft}}
template to userspace drafts that don't have it. This will bring them forward to make them easier to find.Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You may wish to use the following userboxes on your userpage or elsewhere: {{ User WP Abandoned Drafts}}
Please feel free to list your own Abandoned Drafts-here (newer articles at the top, please), along with a short description of what work is necessary, and add the draft to the abandoned drafts for adoption category.
If you would like to adopt one of these articles, please feel free to move them to your own subspace and remove them from this list.
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example | ||
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A | The article is well-organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject, like
military history, or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the
A-Class criteria:
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Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer review may help. |
102nd Intelligence Wing (as of March 2010) |
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B | The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach
good article standards. More detailed criteria
The article meets the
six B-Class criteria:
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. |
KV55 (as of November 2009) |
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C | The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial
cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as
bias or
original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an
in-universe perspective.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and address cleanup issues. |
Architecture of Sweden (as of May 2009) |
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Start | An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and may require further reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and
MoS compliance non-existent; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as
notability and
BLP, and provide sources to establish
verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being
speedily deleted.
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Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. | Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. |
Real analysis (as of November 2006) |
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Stub | A very basic description of the topic. More detailed criteria
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short, but if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category.
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Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. |
Geodia gibberosa (as of July 2009) |
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List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. |
List of aikidoka (as of June 2007) |
Feel free to use the following userboxes on your userpage or elsewhere: {{ User WP Abandoned Drafts}}
This user is a participant in WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. |
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This is a
WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
|
Welcome to WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's use of article drafts left in retired users' subpages and in Draft space. The project seeks to organize information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
The purpose of Wikipedia is to build out mainspace with as many qualified topics as possible. There is no mandate to build a shadow Wikipedia of unqualified and unsuitable topics in Draft and Userspace preserved and maintained for perpetuity. Project Abandoned Drafts plays an important role in building Wikipedia by bringing forward material that will further Wikipedia's goals.
There are two main kinds of pages identified as "drafts" in Wikipedia. "Good Drafts" are works in progress that have potential to be future mainspace articles, or sometimes material that can be used to improve existing mainspace articles. Project participants are encouraged to identify and take action to move these "Good Drafts" forward toward mainspace. "Bad Drafts" are pages that are essentially forever unsuitable for mainspace for various reasons. "Bad Drafts" may be simply blank, vandalism, attack pages, topics with no chance of notability, duplicates of mainspace pages, WP:NOTAWEBHOST violations and other problematic pages.
Given the tens of thousands of pages considered "drafts", finding Good Drafts and making them accessible for improvement and promotion to mainspace is not easy because they are surrounded by Bad Drafts. Therefore the identification and deletion of unsuitable "drafts" is a critical part of the process of improving the encyclopedia.
Any drafts that are created by users who are deemed inactive, and which have no equivalent article in mainspace. Drafts can be in the following places:
This project also allows the donation of drafts from users who do not feel like they are up to finishing them or have lost interest in the subject of the draft.
This is a
WikiProject advice page. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more
WikiProjects on Wikipedia or its
process, as pertaining to topics within the WikiProject(s) area of interest. This page is not one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. |
Category:Stale userspace drafts contains
userspace drafts that have not been edited for over a year. It is populated through the {{
Userspace draft}}
template. Only the pages with the template will appear in this category.
{{
userspace draft}}
from the page.{{
histmerge|Draft page name}}
. If not, redirect the draft page to the article.{{
Inactive userpage blanked}}
or {{
userpage blanked}}
and notify the inactive user with {{subst:
uw-staleuserpageblanked|Page blanked}} ~~~~
or just blank the page to remove it from the maintenance category and avoid further housekeeping efforts.{{subst:
submit}}
so that an AfC reviewer can review it.{{subst:
Uw-userspace draft finish|Page name}} ~~~~
can be placed on their talk page. If the user is inactive, consider bringing the draft to the attention of associated WikiProjects, or to
WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. You may also consider improving the draft yourself.To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts:
|
{{
Userspace draft}}
template to userspace drafts that don't have it. This will bring them forward to make them easier to find.Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You may wish to use the following userboxes on your userpage or elsewhere: {{ User WP Abandoned Drafts}}
Please feel free to list your own Abandoned Drafts-here (newer articles at the top, please), along with a short description of what work is necessary, and add the draft to the abandoned drafts for adoption category.
If you would like to adopt one of these articles, please feel free to move them to your own subspace and remove them from this list.
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | The article is well-organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject, like
military history, or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the
A-Class criteria:
|
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer review may help. |
102nd Intelligence Wing (as of March 2010) |
||
B | The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach
good article standards. More detailed criteria
The article meets the
six B-Class criteria:
|
Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. |
KV55 (as of November 2009) |
||
C | The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial
cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as
bias or
original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an
in-universe perspective.
|
Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and address cleanup issues. |
Architecture of Sweden (as of May 2009) |
||
Start | An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and may require further reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and
MoS compliance non-existent; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as
notability and
BLP, and provide sources to establish
verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being
speedily deleted.
|
Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. | Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. |
Real analysis (as of November 2006) |
||
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. More detailed criteria
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short, but if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category.
|
Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. |
Geodia gibberosa (as of July 2009) |
||
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. |
List of aikidoka (as of June 2007) |
Feel free to use the following userboxes on your userpage or elsewhere: {{ User WP Abandoned Drafts}}
This user is a participant in WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. |
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