Write the document as it is, not as a draft
This is a recommendation, not a requirement. Use it whenever you are about to write "draft", "work in progress" or a status line at the top of a document.
The recommendation
Do not mark a document as a draft unless that is the point. Every document in Oddlynew is work in progress by nature: it keeps changing as the work changes, and every change is kept in its version history. Write what the document is and what it says, not that it might change.
Why it helps
A "draft" label tells the reader nothing they could not assume, and it ages badly: it stays on documents long after they became the reference everyone uses, and readers learn to ignore it. It also invites a second, "final" copy that splits the knowledge in two. Version history already answers the questions a draft label pretends to answer: what changed, when, and what it said before.
When to say it
Say it when the status changes what the reader should do:
a proposal that has not been decided and must not be acted on yet;
an outline that is deliberately incomplete and asks for contributions;
a document whose claims have not been checked, where the reader should verify before relying on it.
Then say exactly that ("not yet decided", "sources not yet checked against the originals") rather than "draft", so the reader knows what is missing.
Related
Reshaping a document before refining it is described in Shape the document before refining it.