Template:Draft article/doc

Drafts are often created to work on future articles before they are ready to be published or otherwise might not yet meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. These are generally created in the "Draft" namespace to avoid any possibility that a casual reader may stumble upon them. goes further, prominently tagging the draft article as a draft, and at the same time provides convenient links to help build the article and facilitate submission to WP:AFC. This also categorizes the page to Category:Draft articles or one of its sub-categories.

Using will place AFC submission/draft on the page, which provides even more guidance and begins the Articles for Creation process at the 'draft' stage.

Usage
Do not use this template in mainspace, as it will not display. For article being developed in mainspace, consider Under construction instead.

Default output
renders as

Minimalist output
renders as

name parameter
, where name is the name of the intended target page for the draft article, will render as

Note this will work with the 'default' output as well as with yes.

Invite others to join in
will render as

Note this parameter will work with the 'default' output as well as with yes.

Categorization
The subject parameter categorizes the article into a sub-category of Category:Draft articles as shown below. Note that if the message box is not desired and only the category is necessary, use yes.