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Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to create a workable system for Deletion sorting, which has evolved into a complementary way of organizing deletion discussions (e.g. they are organized into topical lists in addition to their normal organization by date alone).
To help this project, please add new AFD discussions to one of the current list of deletion categories.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices. It must be noted that WikiProject Deletion sorting pages may not be used in violation of advertising and soliciting meatpuppets which states:
- It is considered highly inappropriate or unacceptable to advertise Wikipedia articles that are being debated in order to attract users with known views and bias in order to strengthen one side of a debate. It is also considered highly inappropriate to ask friends or family members to create accounts for the purpose of giving additional support. Advertising or soliciting meatpuppet activity is not an acceptable practice on Wikipedia.
Scope
This project involves transcluding AFD discussions in category specific pages, that makes it easier for people find a topic they have knowledge and interest in. In the past, and still in most cases presently, these discussions are organized solely by date. At one time this level of structure was adequate, because there were sufficiently few deletions that a person could review most of them on a daily basis while still contributing as a Wikipedian. However, Articles for deletion has grown far beyond human scale, with a throughput now approaching 1,000 pages per week and rising quickly. This has the effect of separating deletion debates from the healthy process of encyclopedia-building. It is hoped that a workable system for categorized deletion, which will bring deletion debates to the attention of editors active in relevant topical areas, will alleviate these problems.
Inspiration
This project was strongly inspired by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting, and also by the historical discussion on deletion reform.
Similar WikiProjects
This project is similar to others concerned with improving Wikipedia's internal practices, such as those listed at Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects#Wikipedia. In particular, since it is concerned with categorization, it is similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories as well as Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting.
List changes
Notices
Tasks
- Maintain and clean up the existing lists.
- Make better tools.
Resources
Deletion Lists
- Flat, a list of all current deletion lists, sorted alphabetically
- Compact, a list of all current deletion lists, sorted by topic
- See this page for a complete list of lists, including those which have been merged or abandoned.
Scripts and Tools
Templates
- {{subst:delsort|<topic>}} is used for tagging active AfD discussions.
- {{deletionlist|<topic>}} is the standard header for deletion lists. It should generally be enclosed in "<noinclude>" tags.
- {{Topic|<topic>}} can be used to identify and link to other central pages related to a given topic.
Participants
- Uncle Ed (initial creator of this page)
- Mariano 14:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
- Urthogie 09:22, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- Rob 20:32, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- --Jaranda wat's sup 03:34, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
- utcursch | talk
- Yeago 06:38, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- Kimchi.sg 10:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
- Silensor 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- the wub "?!" 11:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- the wubbot 21:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- -- Lost(talk) 06:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 20:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
- Fairness And Accuracy For All 20:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- DGG 05:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- AQu01rius (talk · contribs)
- Sa.vakilian07:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- Lenoxus (talk · contribs)
- Pb30 12:44, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
- John Vandenberg 09:43, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
- ColtsScore 02:34, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
- Boricuaeddie (talk · contribs) 17:41, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- Bduke 02:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
- Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 23:42, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
- Tbo 157talk 12:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- concentrating on PROD nominations for the time being
- Gavin Collins 08:18, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- Camaron1 | Chris 10:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)*--A. B. (talk) 19:03, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Littleteddy (talk) 12:16, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- re-signing My focus is on WikiProject notification of pending deletions via AFD and PROD processes. Where such activity overlaps with the Deletion sorting infrastructure, I utilize it. My "desktop" for this activity is located here. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:02, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
- Lquilter (talk) 23:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- Tinucherian (talk) 04:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
- Wisdom89 (T / C) 21:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- Cgingold (talk) 19:37, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- I've been doing this for a long time on my own, so why not make it official?
- Paulbrock (talk) 14:54, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- Also making it official. --Fabrictramp (talk) 22:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- WilliamH (talk) 22:04, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
- RayAYang (talk) 17:43, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
- Tavix (talk) 00:05, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
- Cdmajavatalk 02:18, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
- VG, making this endeavor of mine "official". VG ☎ 03:15, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
- TwentiethApril1986 (want to talk?) 00:43, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
- raven1977 (talk) 21:36, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
- ApprenticeFan (talk) I'm started to join last October 2008. 06:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
See also
