Wikipedia:Drafts in 5W

This page describes the phenomenon of Drafts namespace, which supersedes Articles for creation.

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Who?

 * 1) All contributors who submit to Drafts or review them are affected.
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Where?

 * 1) Article and drafts namespaces.
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What?

 * 1) Drafts are a class of Wikipedia articles which do not pass inclusion criteria in their current shape, and are subject to less aggressive deletion criteria.
 * 2) Drafts are reviewed before being published.
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What not?

 * 1) IP contributors don't create articles directly. The output is considered messy to process.
 * 2) Non-notable articles are not included, even if put neutrally. (2 could solve 1.)
 * 3) Less of human approach is in place, with introducing the new Decline and Approve article classes and templates.
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When?

 * 1) When creating a new article.
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Why?

 * 1) Reviewing drafts is the process designed to provide feedback to new contributors.
 * 2) Such process is thought to be more “editor engaging” than deletion on sight. (This is true.)
 * 3) Isolation from main namespace is considered necessary due to large flow of COI submissions.
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Why not?

 * 1) Work without drafts could be more simple, merely requiring not lying in an article, were the inclusion criteria expanded.
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How?

 * 1) Using JS scripts and templates to satisfy the template syntax needs.
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