[WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results

[Emily Monroe]

I propose that we have a "This probably belongs in the draft  
namespace." tag. I don't know how to move something from one namespace  
into another (do you do it the normal way?), and it will help with  
busy new page patrollers. If I see two or three articles that needs to  
be moved to the draft namespace, and then four or five looking like  
attack/test/spam pages, I'll probably be grateful for the ability to  
tag. More than likely, I'll just forget about the two or three  
articles needing to be moved, and it's highly unlikely, in this time  
of my life, that I'll change the way I patrol.

Emily
On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Carcharoth wrote:

> Oops! That's right, I completely forgot that! :-/
>
> Carcharoth
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Andrew
> Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Non-logged in people cant create new articles.
>>
>> ----- "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
>>> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2009 17:10:41 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain,  
>>> Ireland, Portugal
>>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Charles
>>> Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>> Carcharoth wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM, FT2<ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd be in favor of a "Draft:" namespace, which users could use  
>>>>>> for drafting
>>>>>> articles. Content to be non-spidered. That way we can tell a  
>>>>>> user to see if
>>>>>> some other user has started work on a draft already.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This would possibly help collaboration, ensure only credible  
>>>>>> articles get
>>>>>> mainspaced, yet retain "anyone can edit" and the gradual  
>>>>>> development of
>>>>>> stubs without pressure to delete.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's been suggested before. What it needs is someone to drive  
>>>>> the idea forward.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Notice that if you now try to start the page [[dummydummy]], you  
>>>> get
>>>> offered the chance to draft it at [[Special:MyPage/Dummydummy
>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyPage/Dummydummy&action=edit 
>>>> >]].
>>>> I'm not entirely clear what the preferred route is from there.  
>>>> But I
>>>> imagine suggestions for drafting as more systematically encouraged
>>>> should be grafted onto this use of special pages.
>>>
>>> I *think* that is only for people who are logged in.
>>>
>>> Carcharoth
>>>
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