Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting

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."

[[Image:Searchtool.svg|26px|Scope]] 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 List of WikiProjects. In particular, since it is concerned with categorization, it is similar to WikiProject Categories as well as WikiProject Stub sorting. See Article Alerts for automated per-project reports that include deletions among other processes.

Nuvola apps korganizer.svg Tasks

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

Deletion lists

 * Flat list – a list of all current deletion lists, sorted alphabetically
 * Compact list – 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.
 * WikiProject Deletion sorting/Computer-readable.json – a computer-readable list used by the deletion sorting user scripts, such as User:Enterprisey/delsort.js and Twinkle. You can add a list here to make it available in the list displayed by the scripts.
 * User:SDZeroBot/AfD sorting – external list; sorted automatically using ORES topic predictions.

How to

 * 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
 * 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 to the AfD and opens the list in a popup window

Templates

 * – used for tagging active AfD discussions.
 * – the standard header for deletion lists. It should generally be enclosed in "&lt;noinclude>" tags.
 * – also used for countries
 * – used for U.S. states.
 * – can be used to identify and link to other central pages related to a given topic.

[[Image:Nuvola apps kdmconfig.png|25px]]Participants
To join the project, add your user name here.  User box  Participants may add this user box to their user pages using WikiProject Deletion sorting user box