Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-31/Draftspace

Having tried my hand at reviewing drafts in the last few months, I agree that AfC can be a brutal process sometimes: going through the various submissions is inevitably time-consuming (as I learned when I submitted my own drafts), and running into poorly sourced pages, or even hoaxes, just doesn't help us... Luckily enough, there are still some instances where you're able to build a constructive conversation with newer users and give them some advice to improve, so that's definitely a silver lining! Oltrepier (talk) 13:09, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Though I've only created a few small articles, I've never used the Draft space myself. I don't really see the point. I create a User space sandbox article while working and expanding, and then directly move it to mainspace. Ciridae (talk) 09:04, 2 September 2023 (UTC)


 * From my experiences it's really more a matter of principle than anything else; It saves time if you misjudge the quality of a draft so it just gets sent back to you draftspace instead of getting deleted and then reinstated and allows for people to discuss and review articles without the pressure of them being live in mainspace as you're doing it. Everyone screws up once or twice in their lives, using drafts just helps establish that assumption of good faith.Orchastrattor (talk) 00:23, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I personally use draftspace when I plan to publish an article within a month and/or assume that other editors might be intersted in developing it too. This is because when someone visits a nonexistent mainspace page with the same title as a draft, a message says "There is a draft for this article at Draft:Article name", which invites other people to improve it. I use userspace if the topic isn't new, trending or future-related and if I haven't found much sources that demonstrate notability yet. ObserveOwl (chit-chat • my doings) 15:35, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

This article seems somewhat mean to CatLover 1137, who is likely a small child or otherwise immature judging by their behaviors, and doesn't really need the callout. casualdejekyll 01:43, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

To be fair, that's an accurate description of how cats are. (In seriousness -- I have great respect for the AfC team, they do yeoman's work and I used them myself when I was just starting out.) RexSueciae (talk) 23:49, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

I’m surprised nobody mentioned how that code cutting thing looks like ChatGPT Aaron Liu (talk) 17:29, 20 September 2023 (UTC)