Template:Draft article

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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.

Usage

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

Default output

{{Draft article}} renders as

Minimalist output

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

Intended target page

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

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

Invite others to join in

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

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

Suppress "Submit for review" and "Publish now" buttons

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

Suppress "Publish now" button

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

Categorization

The |subject= parameter categorizes the article into a sub-category of Category:Draft articles as shown below. Note that if the message box is not desired and only the category is necessary, use |catonly=yes.

subject=	Category	Example topics
agriculture food drink agriculture, food, and drink	Category:Drafts about agriculture, food, and drink	Agriculture, food, and drink
art architecture art and architecture	Category:Drafts about art and architecture	Art and architecture
engineering technology engineering and technology	Category:Drafts about engineering and technology	Engineering and technology · Transport
film films	Category:Draft articles on films	Film
geography places geography and places	Category:Draft articles on geographical topics	Geography · Places
history	Category:Drafts about history	World history · Royalty, nobility, and heraldry
language literature language and literature	Category:Drafts about language and literature	Language and literature
media drama media and drama	Category:Draft articles on media	Media and drama
music	Category:Drafts about music	Albums · Songs · Other music drafts
natural sciences	Category:Drafts about natural sciences	Biology and medicine · Chemistry and materials science · Earth sciences · Physics and astronomy
philosophy religion philosophy and religion	Category:Drafts about philosophy and religion	Philosophy and religion
social sciences society social sciences and society	Category:Drafts about social sciences and society	Culture, sociology, and psychology · Education · Economics and business · Law · Magazines and print journalism · Politics and government
sports recreation sports and recreation	Category:Drafts about sports and recreation	Sports and recreation
television tv	Category:Draft articles on television	Television
video games	Category:Draft articles on video games	Video games
warfare	Category:Drafts about warfare	Warfare

See also

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

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Draft article/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.