This template adds pages to Category:Userspace drafts or a dated subcategory thereof.
If this template is found in a page in the Main namespace, it outputs nothing to the resulting page. If this template is found in a page in a namespace that is not the User namespace, 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).
Note: when used in User, User talk or Wikipedia talk namespaces, this template automatically includes __NOINDEX__.
This template automatically adds the page to Category:Stale userspace drafts, if it has not been edited for more than a year.
To use, add {{Userspace draft|date=July 2024}} to the very top of a draft article in userspace (not its talk page) to produce
This template should only be used in userspace. To denote articles in the mainspace that are undergoing major edits, use {{In use}}.
{{Userspace draft|help=no|date=July 2024}} will produce a minimalistic output
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|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=no will suppress the display of "instructional wording", but will keep the links to the tools (i.e., it suppresses less than |help=no).|afc=no will suppress only the display of the WP:AFC instructions at the end (i.e., it suppresses less than |help=no and 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.{{Userspace draft|help=no|date=July 2024|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.}}
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: