[WikiEN-l] Another notability casualty

[Charles Matthews]

George Herbert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>   
>> ....  Perhaps this contains the
>> germ of an idea: a process "Drafts for mainspace", a review debating
>> unuserfying. The "Bizarre Records" solution to our problems - "just what
>> <s>the world</s> Wikipedia needs, another <s>record label</s>
>> contentious process".
>>     
>
> Either namespace, or another independent namespace ("Drafts").
>
> User namespace makes things harder to find; which is not necessarily
> appropriate.  We want drafts to be communally findable - to encourage
> contributions, fixes, reviews, and eventual upgrades.
>
> This has floated before, in some variation, and not flown.  But
> perhaps it's time to float it again and see if it flies now.
>
>   
Right. But doing things with aliases is not exactly out of reach.

And I'm somewhat surprised, considering it all, that there isn't even an 
editorial guideline on moving drafts? Not that I would feel compelled to 
read it, but it seems an omission.

Charles