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Show date of tagging next to message

The template should show the date of tagging next to the draft message, like this:

This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. ({{{date}}})

It would make it easier for maintenance and categorization along with adding the category "Userspace drafts made in {{{date}}}". Tali64^2, always top quality. (talk) 20:35, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Error in wrong namespaces

The template is supposed to add Category:Misplaced userspace drafts in most namespaces, e.g. at Draft:Track (moving medium), but it appears it never does after this edit by Headbomb. Since then the switch on the namespace has ended earlier, the #default with the category has belonged to something else, and the template adds a userspace draft category without displaying anything. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:36, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think that I fixed this problem. Ruslik_Zero 18:11, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Editors being confused. — The Earwig (talk) 00:42, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ruslik0, your comment here (which I've split into its own section) has absolutely nothing to do with the template in question, which is why I removed it. It isn't "editing someone else's message", it's removing completely unnecessary posts, which is perfectly acceptable. Primefac (talk) 13:12, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

But you removed it? Ruslik_Zero 20:40, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And by the way my comment should be in the section above. :) Ruslik_Zero 20:43, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain, because I am completely lost, how a random statement about some random school pertains to a namespace detection issue, and that it "fixed this problem". Primefac (talk) 23:52, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 26 July 2023

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Description of suggested change: If |page= is filled out with future article title, {{find sources}} as used within this template when |help= is set to 'yes' should use page parameter's value. Not all drafts are placed in conveniently named subpages, and this {{Userspace draft}} template is as likely to appear in /sandbox user subpages.

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–Vipz (talk) 23:19, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please make your requested changes to the template's sandbox first; see WP:TESTCASES. I think this will work, but if you are up for modifying the /sandbox page to show on the testcases page how it would work, please do so. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:39, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95: thank you for informing me to test these changes in the sandbox and testcases. I did so in Special:Diff/1167339408 and Special:Diff/1167340050 where I also pinged you. –Vipz (talk) 05:05, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done after correcting the new testcase and adding another one. The new and old testcases appeared to be working properly. Another template editor is welcome to revert or discuss this change if it broke anything. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:54, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Jonesey95, it appears to me you did not implement the proposed change to the main template. Cheers for correcting it and thank you for assistance. –Vipz (talk) 02:32, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done For real. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 13:43, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Vipz, sorry about that; I've been gone for a week, so I can't reconstruct or remember exactly what happened here. I blew it, obviously. Thanks for the friendly ping, and thanks to Pppery for covering for me. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:11, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning of date parameter

Does |date= mean the date on which the draft was created, last edited, or tagged? Paradoctor (talk) 04:08, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Creation, I believe, or if it was moved to the draft space, the date that occurred. Primefac (talk) 16:45, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, then I did ok so far. I also had the case in userspace where a page is used for multiple differents drafts, serially or concurrently. I'll use the incept date of the current draft, or the incept date of oldest of the currents drafts, then. Thanks! Paradoctor (talk) 02:23, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]