Wikipedia:Workpages
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A workpage is a
A "sandbox" or "dumping ground" page associated with a specific article is useful in cases where an article is already reasonably developed (say, better than "Start") and as such can suffer deterioration by addition of sub-standard material. Such material can contain useful references or quotes that could, with some effort, be worked into the article to its benefit, but may make the article less useful to the reader when added inexpertly, or in the context of dubious editorializing.
There is a de facto tradition of keeping such material around for easy reference, in
It is also common practice to place material removed from the live article to the
It might be a good idea to standardize this by giving such pages a standard location, either at something like [[Talk:{{{PAGENAME}}}/dumping-ground]], or even at a dedicated Dump: namespace.
Examples of existing dumping-ground pages:
- Talk:Caucasian race/Dumping ground
- Talk:Hungarian prehistory/Dumping ground
- Talk:Norfolk State University/Notes
Temp pages and forks in userspace (see also Category:Wikipedia workpages):
- User:Jclemens/Acharya S(user copy of deleted article)
- User:Moreschi/ROAE (draft page later moved into article namespace)
- User:B-RAM CPPF/Sandbox
- Talk:Katana/Draft
See also
- Wikipedia:Drafts
- {{Workpage}}
- WP:SUBP
- WP:TALK
- WP:USER
- WP:SAND