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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 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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))

This user is a member of WikiProject Deletion sorting.

List of participants

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

• Mariano 14:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Rob 20:32, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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

• Sa.vakilian07:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• John Vandenberg 09:43, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Bduke 02:52, 9 July 2007 (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]

• 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]

• œ^™ 12:28, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 15:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• I Jethrobot (talk) 04:30, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• The Bushranger _{One ping only} 03:03, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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

• TheChampionMan1234 04:49, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Rhododendrites 00:06, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Ascii002Talk Contribs GuestBook 13:51, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Mr. Guye --Mr. Guye (talk) 23:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• APerson (talk!) 14:54, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Sam Sailor ^Talk! 17:20, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• sst✈ 16:04, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• —UY Scuti ^Talk 16:18, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 16:32, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• /wiae /tlk 16:43, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Joseph2302 (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• GabeIglesia (talk · contribs · email)
• KCVelaga (talk · contribs) Regards, KC Velaga ✉ 06:40, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• —MRD2014 (talk · contribs) 14:34, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• --Ibrahim.ID ✪ 15:34, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• 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. J947 ^{(c · m)} 01:44, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• ^{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]
• 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]

• ~Ruyaba~ {talk} 00:01, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:22, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• 94rain ^Talk 08:09, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Shellwood (talk) 23:27, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• User:Lightburst 9 November 2019
• ―Susmuffin ^Talk 21:19, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• 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)

• 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]

• Qwv (talk) 15:33, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• SanemAyhan07 (talk) 11:52, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Hey man im josh (talk) 17:32, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Jamespatrickdevera (talk) 06:43, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 19:16, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)  23:15, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• —A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 13:45, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Vanderwaalforces (talk) 13:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Inactive participants

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]

• 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]

• 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]
• 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]
• Theleftorium 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]

• - 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]

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

• ★☆ 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]

• --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]

• — kikichugirl ^oh hello! 03:20, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• ― Padenton|✉   01:10, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• -- 1Wiki8Q5G7FviTHBac3dx8HhdNYwDVstR (talk) 07:39, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Human3015^TALK  07:33, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Musa Talk  19:02, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• AnkitSihag (talk) 23:35, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Nordic Dragon 13:33, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 04:46, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• User:Shawn in Montreal Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:56, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• - TheMagnificentist 18:27, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• --MassiveYR ♠ 20:18, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• CThomas³ (talk) 07:06, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• MT Train^Talk 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]

• --PATH SLOPU ^(Talk)
• DBigXrayᗙ
• --___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 17:13, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Icewhiz (talk) 11:30, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• SharabSalam (talk) 05:23, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• December200 (talk) 16:49, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• - Flori4nK ^{t • c} 14:56, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Roller26 (talk) 19:46, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• User:Sardar Nadir Ali
• ♧Aflaq Peer ^Talk 22:33, 18 February 2021(UTC)
• User:HACKER KASH
• User:Kashmorwiki, 7 April 2021
• User:Applus2021, 12 May 2021
• Ahatd (talk) 15:11, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Mic.Jonsson 17:42, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Amadeus²² 🙋 🔔 17:03, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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