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Soft deletion was a proposed deletion outcome for articles listed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD) and Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (PROD) which was rejected by the Wikipedia community. Rather than deleting articles completely and hiding their history from view, under soft deletion, they would be moved to another namespace. This deletion outcome could be used, for example, for an article that is a good faith contribution, is not a copyright violation or otherwise offensive, for which notability could possibly be demonstrated through the addition of new sources. While this was rejected, editors can propose to move articles to userspace or draftspace if they believe an article could be improved.