Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts: Difference between revisions

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Welcome to '''WikiProject Abandoned Drafts'''. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's use of article drafts left in retired users' subpages and in Draft space. The project seeks to organize information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please [[#Participants|join]] the project, inquire on the [[Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject Abandoned Drafts|talk page]] and see the [[#Open tasks|to-do list]] below.

# If you find a draft that is clearly on a non-notable topic and has no conceivable potential for an article, nominate it for deletion at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion]] if you can't speedy delete it (think U5 if the user did little else).

# For drafts on which a corresponding article already exists in the mainspace, check the histories of both the pages to see if a [[WP:history merge|history merge]] is required. If yes, tag the article with <code>{{<nowiki/>[[Template:histmerge|histmerge]]|''Draft page name''}}</code>. If not, redirect the draft page to the article.

# If you find a draft that is on a clearly notable topic, ensure the evidence of notability is cited, and, if the user is active, enquire with the creator why they are not moving it. Check first whether the topic is already covered in another article, and if so, whether it should be merged. Consider moving the page to the mainspace yourself, or tag it with <code>{{<nowiki/>subst:[[template:submit|submit]]}}</code> so that an AfC reviewer can review it.

# If you find a draft that is on a borderline notable topic, enquire with the page creator, if active, why they are not working upon it. <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>subst:[[Template:Uw-userspace draft finish|Uw-userspace draft finish]]|''Page name''}} <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code> can be placed on their talk page. If the user is inactive, consider bringing the draft to the attention of associated WikiProjects, or to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts|WikiProject Abandoned Drafts]]. You may also consider improving the draft yourself.

# {{User|AuthorAuthor}} I would like to help with some unfinished drafts, mainly related to biographies, books, music, and media. 15:42, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

#--[[User:SmartyPantsKid]] 18:03, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

# {{User|Ricky81682}} I am working through the backlog at [[:Category:Userspace drafts created via the Article Wizard]] and looking for decent stuff to adopt or move to mainspace. -- 19:15, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

# {{User|Casseb}} Help with unfinished drafts

# {{User|DGG}}-- I have for the last year been regularly screening everything in AfC G13 eligible-soon except those dealing with athletes or entertainers, but I concentrate on academics. If I think they have possibilities, most I just improve a little in the hope of further fixes later. But I will look at and fix and move to mainspace any draft on a clearly notable academic (as a rough screen, someone who holds a professorship) --notify me on my usertalk page. I will also look at deleted drafts, and undelete them if they have possibilities--you can ask me for that also. ˜ '''[[User:DGG| DGG]]''' ([[User talk:DGG| talk ]]) 02:09, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

# {{User|Fayenatic london}} – I check backlinks after category page moves, including user pages, and make use of abandoned work that I stumble across in this way. – [[User:Fayenatic london|Fayenatic]] [[User talk:Fayenatic london|'''<span style="color:#FF0000;">L</span>'''ondon]] 11:06, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

 

== Articles ==

*[[Draft:Alaric Bond]] - an English novelist and author of The Fighting Sail series of nautical fiction books. Mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars_in_fiction. Was moved back to draftspace as needs more work. As above, I haven't necessarily completely given up on it, but not sure I can do much more now (going on a WikiBreak) or find the time or better sources. Also donating it here in case someone else wants to take a go at it. -- [[User:HistoricalAccountings|HistoricalAccountings]] ([[User talk:HistoricalAccountings|talk]]) 23:42, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

*[[User:Piranha249/sandbox/NHL playoff results]] and [[User:Piranha249/sandbox/Major League Baseball postseason results]]: Started these drafts (based on [[NFL playoff results]]) several years ago and never went back to them. Would love to see someone build beyond what I had worked on to this point. –[[User:Piranha249|Piranha]][[User talk:Piranha249|249]] 01:17, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

*[[Draft:Ranu Mondal]]: Needs better style of writing [[User:Rocky 734|Rocky 734]] ([[User talk:Rocky 734|talk]]) 09:09, 25 December 2019 (UTC)