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[[File:Under construction icon-blue.svg|right|thumb|150px|What's a userspace draft?]]

A '''userspace draft''' is a draft, in a Wikipedia user's userspace, of material which will ultimately go into Wikipedia. To create your own userspace, you need to [[WP:SIGNUP|create a user account]], and to create pages in your userspace, you need to be [[Special:UserLogin|logged in]].

''Explanation:''

* Every registered user account on Wikipedia has theirits own "userspace" - for instance, [[User:Example/Lipsum]] is a page in [[User:Example]]'s userspace.
* Userspace is part of Wikipedia, and its use is governed by community rules ([[WP:Userspace#Ownership and editing of pages in the user space|Ownership and editing of pages in the user space]]), but is not part of the encyclopedia. (The encyclopedia part of Wikipedia is called "[[Wikipedia:Main namespace|mainspace]]" - eg [[Lorem ipsum]] is a page in mainspace.)

* Drafts are typically done on a "[[WP:USERSUBPAGE|user subpage]]" (eg [[User:Example/Lipsum]]).