Template:Preloaddraft/doc

Usage
This template is for creating a draft with preloaded text defined at some other page. It may be useful for redlink lists for editathons which often have a high proportion of inexperienced editors creating new pages (see example in action at WP:Meetup/SCAR_2016). Having an appropriate skeleton draft text preloaded onto the new page can help make formatting easier.

Any time the formal parameter  appears in the text of page with text to be preloaded, it is replaced with name of the draft to create.

If the page already exists
simply links to that page "Example"

If a draft for the page already exists
will link to the existing "Draft:Exampledraft" page

If a draft for the page doesn't yet exist
will create the page "Draft:Alex_Redlink" with preloaded text from "Template:Preloaddraft/draft_template_example". Any time the formal parameter  appears in the text of the preloaded text (Template:Preloaddraft/draft_template_example), it is replaced with the name of the draft page ("Alex Redlink"). Articles are added to Category:Created via preloaddraft to track them.

If another page of the same name, or disambiguation page already exists
will still create a new page with the occupation in brackets if the  parameter is used

If page is "INSERT NAME HERE"
will not include anything so that the template wikimarkup can be included invisibly at the bottom of lists.

Limitations
There is currently a limitation of 250 copies of this template per page. After that number, subsequent occurrences of the template default to red links.

Current draft templates

 * Draft template example
 * Full list of available draft templates