Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Categorization (section)

== Categorizing draft pages <span class="anchor" id="DRAFTNOCAT"></span><span class="anchor" id="Draft"></span><span class="anchor" id="DRAFT"></span> ==
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{{see also|Category:Wikipedia drafts}}
Drafts, no matter whether in the [[Wikipedia:Drafts|draft namespace]] or [[Wikipedia:Userspace|your userspace]], are not articles, and thus do not belong in content categories such as [[:Category:Living people|Living people]] or [[:Category:Biologists|Biologists]]. If you copy an article from mainspace to draftspace or your userspace and it already contains categories, then disable those categories. This can be done in any of the following four ways (but only the first two ways are recommended, as a disadvantage of the last two ways is that the categories would not be linked on the page):
* Wrapping them in {{tl|Draft categories}}:
:<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
{{Draft categories|
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Biologists]]
}}</syntaxhighlight>
* Inserting a colon character to [[Wikipedia:How to link to a category|link to each category]] (e.g. change <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>[[Category:Biologists]]</syntaxhighlight> to <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>[[:Category:Biologists]]</syntaxhighlight>)
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hidden text|Commenting]] ({{tag|!--}}) them out (e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><!--[[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Biologists]]--></syntaxhighlight> etc.).
* Wrapping them in {{tag|nowiki}} tags (e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline><nowiki>[[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Biologists]]</nowiki></syntaxhighlight> etc.).

After you move the draft into article space, remove the leading colons (or uncomment out the categories or remove the {{tag|nowiki}} tags) to re-enable the categories. If using the draft categories template, the categories will automatically work as normal in mainspace, but the template should be removed. The same system may be used in a new draft to list the categories it may have when moved to mainspace. 

Two scripts are available to help with these tasks: [[User:DannyS712/Draft no cat]] and [[User:DannyS712/Draft re cat]].