Template:Uw-draftfirst
Thank you for your recent contributions. Getting started on Wikipedia and creating new articles can be tricky; you might like to try creating a draft of your article in the Wikipedia draftspace or within your userspace first. Creating a draft allows you the time and space to fix any issues, make updates, and add or expand content, and with less risk of having things deleted. You can even ask for feedback on your work if you need help. Make sure that you read through the Wikipedia help pages available to you, including Your First Article and the Tutorial. You might also like to try using the Article Wizard, which has an option to create a draft version. Thank you.
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Usage
{{subst:Uw-draftfirst}}{{subst:Uw-draftfirst|Article}}references a specific article{{subst:Uw-draftfirst|Article|Additional text}}adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you"{{subst:Uw-draftfirst||Additional text}}or{{subst:Uw-draftfirst|2=Additional text}}also adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you", but doesn't link a page as specified by the article.
Please remember to substitute the template using {{subst:Uw-draftfirst}} rather than {{Uw-draftfirst}}.
To customize your message, parameters are available; one to add the article name, and one to add additional text at the end of the message. If your param value contains an equal sign (as urls often do), then be sure to explicitly specify the positional parameter by number; i.e., use |1= or |2= followed by the value; e.g., |1=XYZ=Repainting, or |2=https://www.bbc.com/search?q=Kent+weather.
Notes
- Please refer to the index of message templates before using any template on user talk pages to warn a user. Applying the best template available for your purpose may help reduce confusion from the message you are sending.
- Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.[2026; 2025; 2024] (Patience; this may take a while.)
- This standardized template conforms to guidelines by the user warnings project. You may discuss the visual appearance of these standardized templates (e.g. the image in the top-left corner) at the user warning talk page.
- This documentation is generated by the {{Single notice}} template, and used by numerous single-level user warnings or notice templates. It is located at Template:Single notice/inner(edit talk links history).
See also
- {{uw-afcaddition}}, your draft has been added to Afc
- {{Uw-articletodraft}}, your article was moved to draft
- {{Uw-draft-link}}, no links to drafts from mainspace
- {{Uw-draftmoved}}, your user draft was moved to draft space
- {{Uw-draftnocat}}, drafts may not contain content categories
- {{Uw-userspace draft finish}}, don't abandon your draft
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