Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts
Wikipedia:Abandoned Drafts
The resulting WikiProject was created at Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts
As I discussed here, this Wikiproject would be a method of organizing userspace drafts that has been abandoned by their owners. Because it is unhelpful to just end up deleting these partial creations, this Wikiproject would work toward having users adopt abandoned drafts to work on themselves so that they may one day be submitted to the mainspace.
The scope of this project would primarily be userspace drafts belonging to retired users, as these would have little to no likelihood of being worked on in the future and probably eventually deleted. When userspace drafts belonging to retired users are found, they would be linked to from the project in order to allow easy access to users that are looking to adopt a draft.
Beyond that, this Wikiproject would also accept submitted drafts from active users who feel they don't have the time to finish a draft or have lost interest in finishing it and would end up abandoning it in due time anyways. Such users could follow a submission process that would likely involve just linking to their draft in the proper section and they would be put into the pool of abandoned drafts.
This is what i've thought of as an alternative to outright deletion of drafts that have been sitting around for a long time and have no likelihood of being finished because of a missing user. Instead of losing this valuable content to deletion, this Wikiproject will be able to give other users the opportunity of finishing up the articles in progress.
Note: This Wikiproject will only be dealing with drafts of articles and not drafts of other processes, such as essays or other such inter-Wiki type pages. SilverserenC 05:18, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Please specify whether or not you would join the project.