Page not submitted as a draft, but rather moved to mainspace?

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How come this page did not go through the normal process of drafting? I see from the history that it was created from a user page and then moved to mainspace? Radlrb (talk) 04:59, 24 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Articles do not need to be worked on in the draftspace. Any registered user can create any article in mainspace at any time. One does not need to go through the draft process or even work on a draft in their userspace. I thought every user knew what Help:Your first article says—that AfC is there if you so desire, not that you need to use it. It's one of the most basic and first things users can access upon registering on Wikipedia. Ss112 00:34, 13 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

I learned that as autoconfirmed and extends confirmed users, were able to move drafts directly into mainspace, from scratch if desired. My apologies, thank you for creating the page, even though I already had a draft in progress. Maybe next time, make sure to see if drafts are being worked on, and contribute directly to these too, that way both individual’s contributions are included. Regards. Radlrb (talk) 11:01, 24 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Radlrb, as I have just stated at your talk page, because I worked on the article in my userspace and then moved it over the article, I did not see a notice at the top of the article saying there was a draft in progress. If I had seen it, I would have contributed to the draft and moved it over the other user's redirect myself. Ss112 00:34, 13 May 2022 (UTC)Reply