Template:Userspace draft/sandbox
 | This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see Help:Userspace draft § Creation. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
 | This is the template sandbox page for Template:Userspace draft (diff). See also the companion subpage for test cases. |
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This template adds pages to Category:Userspace drafts or a dated subcategory thereof.
If transcluded on a page in the article namespace, the template outputs nothing. If found in another namespace that is not the User namespace (userspace), it adds the page to Category:Misplaced userspace drafts.
This template is added automatically to userspace drafts created via the Wikipedia:Article wizard 2.0 (the discussion page is at WT:WIZ2).
This template automatically adds pages unedited for a year to Category:Stale userspace drafts.
Usage
To use, add {{Userspace draft|date=June 2026}} to the very top of a draft in userspace (not its talk page) to produce
| This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see Help:Userspace draft § Creation. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
This template should only be used in userspace. To denote articles in the mainspace that are undergoing major edits, use {{In use}}.
Minimalist output
{{Userspace draft|help=no|date=June 2026}} will produce a minimalistic output:
| This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. |
Optional parameters
|page=allows you to specify a custom page name for where the page may be located after the draft is complete. If it isn't specified, it will default to the subpage title.|newuser=nowill suppress the display of "instructional wording", but will keep the links to the tools (i.e., it suppresses less than|help=no).|afc=nowill suppress only the display of the WP:AFC instructions at the end (i.e., it suppresses less than|help=noand less than|newuser=no).|article=replace the wording "a Wikipedia article" with something else, e.g. "an essay" or "a wikiproject", to reflect the nature of a non-article draft. Using this option will also suppress features relating to the Article Creation Wizard and the submission of article drafts for review.|extra=Extra text explaining, for example, what's left to do in the article.
Example using more parameters
{{Userspace draft|help=no|date=June 2026|extra=The main thing left to do is add inline citations. If you find this draft and wish to finish the job, I'd prefer you give me the chance to finish this, but if this has been sitting for months or years and you stumble upon it, feel free to finish it.}}
| This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. The main thing left to do is add inline citations. If you find this draft and wish to finish the job, I'd prefer you give me the chance to finish this, but if this has been sitting for months or years and you stumble upon it, feel free to finish it. |
Found in mainspace?
If the template appears on a page in mainspace, check that the content is appropriate there, if so remove the tag. Possible reasons for being tagged in mainspace:
- Moved correctly from userspace
- Moved incorrectly from userspace
- Tagged incorrectly
- Tagged prior to Userfication (strictly speaking incorrectly).
Template Data
TemplateData for Userspace draft
Shows a simple draft hat at the top of a draft article in the user space.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | date | The start date of the draft
| String | required |
| Show Help | help | Setting to "no" will produce a minimal output, only notifying users that this page is a work in progress with no links.
| String | optional |
| Extra | extra | Extra text explaining, for example, what's left to do in the article.
| String | optional |
| Page | page | Allows you to specify a custom page name for where the page may be located after the draft is complete. If it isn't specified, it will default to the subpage title. | String | optional |
| Replace "Article" | article | Whether to replace the "article" from "This is not a Wikipedia article" to more accurately reflect what the draft is. Using this option will also suppress features relating to the Article Creation Wizard and the submission of article drafts for review.
| String | optional |
| Show New User Text | newuser noob | Setting to "no" will suppress the display of "instructional wording," but will keep the links to the tools.
| String | optional |
| Show AFC Info | afc | Setting to no will suppress only the display of the WP:AFC instructions at the end.
| String | suggested |
| demo | demo | no description | Unknown | optional |
Redirects
- {{Userdraft}}
- {{Userspace}}
- {{Userspacedraft}}
- {{Userwip}}
- {{UserWorkInProgress}}
- {{WorkInProgress}}
- {{UWIP}}
Userspace messages and disclaimers | |
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| User pages |
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| User talk pages |
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| Editnotices | |
| Drafts and sandboxes |
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| Blanking |
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