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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 meatpuppetry policy which states:

Do not recruit 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, remain civil, and seek comments 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:WikiProject Council/Directory/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

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.
Wikipedia: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

{{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.
- {{deletionlist-country|<country>}} – also used for countries
- {{deletionlist-USstate|<state>}} – used for U.S. states.
{{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.

User box
Participants may add this user box to their
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This user is a member of
WikiProject Deletion sorting.

List of participants

Uncle Ed (initial creator of this page)
GSS-1987 (talk · contribs)

2005

2006

utcursch | talk
the wub "?!" 11:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
--Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 20:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2007

2008

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]

2009

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]

2010

Fridae'§Doom | Talk to me 12:26, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Marcus Qwertyus 22:53, 20 October 2010 (UTC) - very addictive.[reply]
Jclemens (talk) 02:57, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2011

2012

Northamerica1000 07:09, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
-- Cheers, Riley Huntley 05:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013

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]
T C N7JM 03:56, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014

2015

2016

2017

Jupitus Smart 12:40, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:21, 10 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
L3X1 Become a New Page Patroller! (distænt write)
Done it for a while anyway. J 947 ^{^{^{(c · m)}}} 01:44, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018

^{Engr. Smitty Werben}
samee ^talk 09:25, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hagennos^Talk 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]
Kpgj hpjm 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]

2020

Tayi Arajakate (talk) 03:19, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I implemented the delsort functionality in Twinkle and created User:SDZeroBot/AfD sorting. I love coding and sorting :D SD0001 (talk) 12:14, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
– Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 19:34, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Pi (Talk to me!) 13:25, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 18:14, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- ~Styyx ^{Hi! ^-^} 16:12, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
-Em-mustapha 10:13, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Kamilalibhat (talk · contribs) 9:17, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

2021

Mario Jump 83! 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]

2022

Justi yaya 15:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2024

Shadow311 (talk) 16:14, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Disinformationmaiden (talk) 21:48, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:48, 22 December 2024 (UTC) — a long-overdue addition; I've been doing this off-and-on for years, and firmly on for well over a year[reply]

2025

2026

Dan arndt (talk) 08:33, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
🦅White-tailed eagle^{Talk to the eagle}Stalking eagle 23:25, 21 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
BhikhariInformer‬ 📮 ^{(Ping me or else I won't see it)} 02:39, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Kodning 🌸 (talk) 21:46, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
AristocrSirr22 (talk) 07:34, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Inactive participants

Users who have not made any contributions to Wikipedia for over six months are listed below.

2005

Urthogie 09:22, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

2006

2007

DGG 05:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Alex Shih (talk · contribs)
Lenoxus (talk · contribs)
Pb30 12:44, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
ColtsScore 02:34, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 23:42, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Tbo ¹⁵⁷talk 12:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
concentrating on PROD nominations for the time being
the wubbot 21:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2008

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]
Cdmajava talk 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]

2009

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]
KuyaBriBri^Talk 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]
The leftorium 20:00, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
--Cybercobra (talk) 04:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Regards, MacMed^talk _stalk 03:51, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OSborn^arf_{contributionatoration} 03:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
ArcAngel (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2010

- EdoDodo ^talk 07:17, 11 January 2010 (UTC) - already been helping out occasionally.[reply]
NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 18:28, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2011

— frankie (talk) 16:35, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Red Baboon (talk) 03:28, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2012

★☆ 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.[reply]
— Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 02:52, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 21:58, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Anbu121 (talk me) 21:37, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting

Scope

Inspiration

Similar WikiProjects

Tasks

Resources

Deletion lists

How to

Scripts and tools

Templates

Participants

List of participants

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2012

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2014

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2021

2022

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Inactive participants

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