Wikimedia process collaboration
Welcome to WikiProject Deletion sorting. 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 the advertising and soliciting meatpuppets policy which states:
Do not recruit meatpuppets. It is considered highly inappropriate to advertise Wikipedia articles to your friends, family members, or communities of people who agree with you for the purpose of coming to Wikipedia and supporting your side of a debate. If you feel that a debate is ignoring your voice, then the appropriate action is to remain civil, seek comments and involvement from other Wikipedians, or pursue dispute resolution. These are well-tested processes, designed to avoid the problem of exchanging bias in one direction for bias in another.
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 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. See Article Alerts for automated per-project reports that include deletions among other processes.
Tasks
- Maintain and clean up the existing lists.
- Make better tools.
- Have this page in other languages
Resources
Deletion lists
How to
{{Deletionlist}} explains the manual process of adding an AfD to a deletion list
Scripts and tools
- User:Enterprisey/delsort – Enterprisey's deletion sorting script. Adds a link to unobtrusively prompt the user for a category, then automatically add a notice to the discussion and list the discussion. (No list editing required!)
- Deltab – Adds a tab when editing AfD's that adds a specific
{{subst:delsort}} - WP:FWDS – Fox Wilson's Deletion Sorting script
- Twinkle — Can add categories to AfDs upon nomination
- AutoWikiBrowser
- User:Pb30/Delsort tab (discontinued) – Adds a tab when editing AfD's that prompts user for a deletion list, then adds
{{subst:delsort|topic}} to the AfD and opens the list in a popup window
Templates
{{subst:delsort|<topic>|<signature>}} – used for tagging active AfD discussions.{{deletionlist|<topic>}} – 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
To join the project, add your user name here.
- Mariano 14:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Rob 20:32, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- Lquilter (talk) 23:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Also making it official. --Fabrictramp (talk) 22:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Tavix (talk) 00:05, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Arbitrarily0 (talk) 12:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- J04n(talk page) 14:27, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Muboshgu (talk) 18:04, 29 December 2009 (UTC) - I've been participating at this for a while now, didn't see the member list until now.[reply]
- I wrote yet another delsort.js. User:Fox Wilson/delsort.js Deletion sorting is a good idea. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 18:47, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Mediran (t • c) 07:33, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- TCN7JM 03:56, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Engr. Smitty Werben
- samee talk 09:25, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- HagennosTalk 14:22, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Nat965 (talk)
- ZI Jony (talk) 18:48, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- AmericanAir88 (talk) 15:51, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Kpgjhpjm 03:48, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 17:28, 22 July 2018 (UTC) - Have been delsorting for a long time but just officially added my name to the list of participants.[reply]
- MarioJump83! 06:18, 17 January 2021 (UTC) I have been AfD patrolling for a while now, but expect me to intensify that kind of activity in the coming weeks.[reply]
- Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 23:40, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Em-em talk 13:50, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Utkarsh Nayan Gupta (talk) 02:04, 29 May 2021 (IST)
- Curbon7 (talk) 02:13, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- hueman1 (talk • contributions) 15:18, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Isabelle0934 (talk) 20:01, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Sennecaster (Chat) 13:50, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Justiyaya 15:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Shadow311 (talk) 16:14, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Users who have not made any contributions to Wikipedia for over six months are listed below.
- Urthogie 09:22, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- --Jaranda wat's sup 03:34, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeago 06:38, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Kimchi.sg 10:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Silensor 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- -- Lost(talk) 06:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Tinucherian (talk) 04:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Wisdom89 (T / C) 21:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Cgingold (talk) 19:37, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- WilliamH (talk) 22:04, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- RayAYang (talk) 17:43, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Cdmajavatalk 02:18, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- VG, making this endeavor of mine "official". VG ☎ 03:15, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- TwentiethApril1986 (want to talk?) 00:43, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- raven1977 (talk) 21:36, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- ApprenticeFan (talk) I'm started to join last October 2008. 06:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC) - I've been doing this on and off usually and I'm busy playing computer games[reply]
- PeterSymonds (talk) 12:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Gongshow Talk 17:06, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- -- RP459 Talk/Contributions 08:02, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- --Giants27 T/C 14:08, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- KuyaBriBriTalk 14:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC) – been doing this on and off, might as well "officially" join[reply]
- TexasAndroid (talk) 13:27, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- –Juliancolton | Talk 17:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Theleftorium 20:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- --Cybercobra (talk) 04:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Regards, MacMedtalkstalk 03:51, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- OSbornarfcontributionatoration 03:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- ArcAngel (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- — frankie (talk) 16:35, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Red Baboon (talk) 03:28, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- --LlamaAl (talk) 17:42, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Beerest355 Talk 01:04, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Ross HillTalk to me! 02:44, 26 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- -Fimatic (talk | contribs) 05:34, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Deadbeef 07:25, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]- --ceradon (talk • contribs) 04:06, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- MT TrainTalk 09:19, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- NevaK^talk 06:57, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Dom from Paris (talk) 09:59, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- CoolSkittle (talk) 13:02, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- December200 (talk) 16:49, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Flori4nK t • c 14:56, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply] - Roller26 (talk) 19:46, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
See also
