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 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 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

• /Bibliographies created -- 02:31, 15 December 2011
• /Aviation created -- 19:33, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
• Moved /Fictional characters to /Fictional elements and broadened scope to include fictional locations, events, artifacts etc. -- 00:33, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
• /Actors and actresses moved to /Actors and filmmakers per talk -- 14:27, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
• /Bosnia created -- 30 November 2008
• /Spirituality created -- 09:45, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
• /Paranormal created -- 11:50, November 5, 2008 (UTC)
• /Disambiguations created -- 21:13, 12 September 2008

Tasks

1. Maintain and clean up the existing lists.
2. Make better tools.
3. Have this page on other languages

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

• User:John Vandenberg/Deletion sorting tool - (Requires Twinkle) Adds a 'delsort' tab when editing an AfD. The tab opens Compact list and adds the {{subst:delsort|<topic>}} to the AfD and adds the AfD to the deletion list.
• 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
• Deltab - Adds a tab when editing AfD's that adds a specific {{subst:delsort}}
• AutoWikiBrowser

Templates

• {{subst:delsort|<topic>|<signature>}} is used for tagging active AfD discussions.
• {{deletionlist|<topic>}} is the standard header for deletion lists. It should generally be enclosed in "<noinclude>" tags.
  • {{deletionlist-country|<country>}} is also used for countries
  • {{deletionlist-USstate|<state>}} is used for U.S. states.
• {{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)
• --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) - I've been doing this on and off usually and I'm busy playing computer games
• PeterSymonds (talk) 12:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
• Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 12:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
• --Giants27 ^T/C 14:08, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
• Jack Merridew 11:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
• KuyaBriBri^Talk 14:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC) – been doing this on and off, might as well "officially" join
• TexasAndroid (talk) 13:27, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• Theleftorium 20:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
• --Cybercobra (talk) 04:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
• Regards, MacMed^talk_stalk 03:51, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
• Tyciol (talk) 18:04, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
• J04n(talk page) 14:27, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
• 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.
• ArcAngel (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
• - EdoDodo ^talk 07:17, 11 January 2010 (UTC) - already been helping out occasionally.
•  Gongshow ^Talk 17:06, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
• -- RP459 ^Talk/_{Contributions} 08:02, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
• NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 18:28, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
• --DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 16:27, 29 June 2010 (UTC) I have also been doing this occasionally but did not know about this participant list. Contact me on my Talk page if help is needed.
• Fridae'§Doom | Talk to me 12:26, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
• Marcus Qwertyus 22:53, 20 October 2010 (UTC) - very addictive.
• Jclemens (talk) 02:57, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
• OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 03:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
• œ^™ 12:28, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
• Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 15:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
• I Jethrobot (talk) 04:30, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
• Red Baboon (talk) 03:28, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
• — frankie (talk) 16:35, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
• The Bushranger _{One ping only} 03:03, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
• meco (talk) 15:38, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
• ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 15:27, 4 July 2012 (UTC) - Been participating since February forgot to add my name. I generally use my alternative account to delsort now DUCKISPEANUTBUTTER.
• Northamerica1000 07:09, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
• — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 02:52, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

See also

• AfD Categories