Wikipedia:Managing drafts

This is to be a guideline referred to directly from the policy Editing policy.

Drafting is the process of building an article on a topic in preparation for moving it to mainspace.
 * Information on drafts is collated at the information page Drafts

Definition of a Draft: ???
 * Things are are not drafts are not covered by this guideline.

Drafts may be drafted in: (spinout drafting that sometimes occurs on mainspace talk subpages is superseded by draftspace)
 * 1) Mainspace (if they begin already meeting WP:STUB within 10 minutes)
 * 2) DraftSpace
 * 3) UserSpace

Deletion:
 * Mainspace drafts may be CSD-ed, AFD-ed, PRODed.
 * DraftSpace and UserSpace drafts may not be CSD0ed under the A* criteria, but by new D* criteria, enumerated below, subject to agreement and adoption at WP:CSD.
 * D criteria, intiially based on the A criteria, but written differently.

Time limits and auto-processing
 * DraftSpace has time limits (the G13 process).
 * UserSpace time limits to be discussed.
 * If there is to be a time limit, on reaching the time limit, the page is tobe automatically moved to Draftspace, and there the DraftSpace time limit clock begins.