Rough Drafts?

[Jeffrey Greer]

I am new here and would like to start writing articles. Is is possible to begin with a rough draft linked to my user page? Once it is polished, it could be transferred to its proper location.

Is there a more proper way to utilize drafts?

Thank you,
Jeff

[Zachary Pruckowski]

If the article you want to start doesn't exist, then just go ahead and start your rough draft right under the article's title.  Hopefully others will come and help you with the article.

If you want to start a rewrite of an article that already exists, then you should probably talk to the people working on that article.

If you want to make a rough draft, you can do so in your "userspace".  that's a series of pages you can create that are based off of your main userpage.  So you could just make a link to the desired article title like so: [[User:WHOEVER/ARTICLETITLE]]  Then just click it, and start the article there.

[Stephen Ewen]

That's of course very good advise. Let me add that if you begin in namespace (begin making a regular article, not in your userspace), make sure your start is 50 words or more or it is otherwise subject to deletion.