Wikipedia:WikiProject Inclusion

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Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.

"I get frustrated by people using the Google 'test' as authoritative; if the web already knew it all there would be less need for Wikipedia!" — Pcb21.

Wikiproject Inclusion is dedicated to promoting inclusion on Wikipedia. It is the project page for the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. Please join us.

Goals[edit]


  • To continuously improve Wikipedia and make it the most comprehensive source of reliable encyclopedic information available on the planet.
  • Support Wikipedia's premise to comprise the sum of all human knowledge, freely accessible to all humans.


How to help[edit]

Alert the WP:Article Rescue Squadron regarding any article at AfD worth saving

There are several ways to help:

  1. Notify your comrades on the talk page when interesting discussions, rescues, or deletions are occurring.
  2. Read to understand Inclusionism and Deletionism and how they interplay on Wikipedia.
  3. Declare your opinions on your user page using the templates below.
  4. Argue for Inclusion at relevant Village pump discussions.
  5. Join the Article Rescue Squadron and improve its articles tagged for rescue.
  6. Tackle the front lines of article deletion at AfD. You can monitor the entire current feed or concentrate on deletion debates in a particular area:
    1. Category:AfD debates uses the category function built into the AfD template. It has less specific categories but should theoretically pull from all deletion debates.
    2. Wikiproject Deletion sorting manually places AfDs into a plethora of categories; help them categorize or monitor one of the categories they create.

Resources[edit]

  • Try to fix problems – The Wikipedia policy of trying to correct problems in articles through editing improvements, expansion and adding reliable sources is often more appropriate than a complete deletion or merging of articles.


Templates[edit]

Text Description Product
{{User inc}} Userbox
Association of Inclusionist WikipediansThis user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.
{{User incl}} Userbox
inclThis user is an inclusionist.
{{UBX AIW}} Userbox
This user is a member of Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians
{{User Inclusionist}} Userbox
This user is an inclusionist.
{{User:Pythoncoder/incl}} Userbox
Association of Inclusionist WikipediansThis user is a proud member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.
{{Inclusionist}} Banner
This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.

The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

AIW
{{Join inclusionists}} Invitation

Greetings, you are invited to join WikiProject Inclusion, the project page for the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.

To join the project, add your name to the list here.

To indicate your membership of the project, you may care to include one of the following templates on your userpage

WikiProject Inclusion

Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians

{{User inc}}
Association of Inclusionist WikipediansThis user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.
{{User incl}}
inclThis user is an inclusionist.
{{inclusionist}}
This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.

The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

AIW

Pledge[edit]

We the undersigned have formed this local WikiProject —based on the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians —to better organize action to support the principle article and material inclusion and to counter exclusion and deletion.

  • We hold the view that the process of deletion carries a "systemic bias" or "process bias" by which the process itself becomes a haven for those who wish to use it —emphasizing deletion rather than offering reasonable alternatives for keeping or redirection. (Alternate project title: Countering Process Bias. See also Countering Systemic Bias)
  • We campaign for the proper use of the Wikipedia:Cleanup process as it was instituted as a mainstream buffer before deletion is used.
  • We seek to institute a review process for Wikipedia articles and templates, which will act in a similar way as Cleanup does for main articles.
  • We also seek to begin a consolidation of the deletion processes, whereby these can be collectively tracked and responded to.

Participants[edit]

Feel free to add yourself here!


Inactive participants[edit]

This is a list of participants who haven't edited Wikipedia for a year. If you find your name on this list, feel free to move it back to the list of active participants when you return to editing.

Inactive participants list
  • A Guy into Books (talk) 13:30, 18 August 2017 (UTC) I just do not agree with how easily people delete perfectly good articles just because they cant find a dozen references on google.[reply]
  • Ayoopdog Ayoopdog (talk) 13:27, 14 June 2014 (UTC), I am sick of Wikipedia being run by pro-delelitionists who remove heaps of budding articles.[reply]
  • Badbilltucker 16:32, 7 August 2006 (UTC) - Good idea I am happy to support.[reply]
  • Bunty.Gill 17:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC) - There is always a right piece of information. It only needs to be found.[reply]
  • Butnotthehippo 03:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Charles Douglas 08:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC) - I'm finding out rather quickly how intolerant of the truth some people can be.[reply]
  • Dendodge: I'm all for it! Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge). (talk) 22:47, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • DiverScout DiverScout (talk) 00:08, 13 November 2008 (UTC) - Why do some editors act as if they're hosting Wikipedia on their own PC? Deletion is the recourse of those who know not how to research.[reply]
  • Dfrg.msc 22:42, 17 February 2007 (UTC) Edits = Efforts. Effort should never be wasted.[reply]
  • Doh5678 (talk) 15:47, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Draeco (talk) 10:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • User:Ephilei yay
  • — Ewald (talk|email|contrib) 20:16, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Feynman1918 Talk 23:55, 3 August 2014 (UTC). I am an inclusionist because the notability policy is primarily a policy on verifiability.[reply]
  • Flaviusvulso (talk) 08:20, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Fleerz I support this 100%! If we can out-collaborate the deletionists, our philosophy will win out. Fleerz (talk) 22:42, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • ForgottenHistory (talk) 19:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • GLPeterson (talk) 02:00, 2 November 2016 (UTC) I agree. Wikipedia is not paper. Edits = Efforts; effort should never be wasted. Improve and expand instead of delete! Everything is notable to someone. The only standard for notability should be verifiability.[reply]
  • Guitardude3600 i need help keeping my articles up
  • Hipocrite - «Talk» 15:42, 3 November 2005 (UTC) In protest of out of process deletion.[reply]
  • Inclusionist (talk) 17:39, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • JDG 07:57, 3 July 2007 (UTC) - Wikipedia's highest calling is to be a Compendium of Everything. High time to resist those who resist this.[reply]
  • User:Jeffledwin --Jeffledwin (talk) 22:17, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Kappa 15:23, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • User:Kasaalan
  • Kurt Weber
  • Lerner Salva veritate!
  • Madeleined2 (talk) 22:58, 7 November 2012 (UTC) Who says what's notable and what's not? For example, lots of Americans would consider Tintin non-notable, and one guy tried to stop an article from being created even though its subject had won lots of awards.[reply]
  • maggie4695
  • Mark Chung (talk) 03:26, 29 December 2008 (UTC) Supporting a deletionist to delete an incomplete article = supporting someone to kill a sick baby. If you say "What use is this new article?" I ask "Of what use is a new-born baby? Please ask a deletionist to kill a sick baby before deleting articles. If all Wikipedians are deletionists, Wikipedia won't exist. It will be deleted. Ironically, they didn't delete their own page. Funny.[reply]
  • Mojo-chan (talk) 15:34, 18 October 2008 (UTC) Deletion should be the last resort on Wikipedia, not the first[reply]
  • User:Moris Juldagen je suis totalement d'accord,from Wikipedia French
  • Nabeth. I am clearly an inclusionist (which does not mean I accept hasty contribution, but rather that that I associate notable content with useful content, even when this content is not very important, and like to give the space for concept to develop / incubate). --Nabeth (talk) 13:49, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Netkinetic (t/c/@) 20:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 02:51, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • --Photomaltese (talk) 22:33, 6 June 2014 (UTC) I am a inclusioniste because Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, knowledge can be shared, they do not have to go through an academic and vertical system.[reply]
  • PrussianOwl (talk) 00:11, 26 May 2020 (UTC) - Wikipedia has a deletionist bias, and I think we're losing too much good content to that.[reply]
  • RockManQ (talk) 03:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC) I used to be a deletionist, then I actually started to create and write articles. I saw how much hard work people put in to article writing. Call me a reformed deletionist (Granted I still have some deletionist tendencies and will still delete hoaxs, vanity pieces, not violations, etc...)[reply]
  • Rotbier
  • ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 8 July 2005 00:56 (UTC)
  • Scepia
  • SF007. If "crap" is popular and gets media attention, it is usually kept, on the other hand, valuable coverage of important projects or organizations gets deleted simply due to a narrow interpretation of "notability", regardless of the value of the subject --SF007 (talk) 22:59, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Simetrical
  • Smeelgova 05:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC). I second the view of User:Charles Douglas above.[reply]
  • --SomeDudeWithAUserName (talk with me!) 21:44, 13 July 2011 (UTC) Expect for articles that are vandalizing Wikipedia, CONSERVATA VERITATE![reply]
  • Stalin.P҉G 20:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ste|vertigo 16:31, 7 June 2006 (UTC) - Stubbed this project, glad to see it alive.[reply]
  • Striver 15:18, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Split Infinity
  • T L Miles 17:28, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanos6 01:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Everything is notable.[reply]
  • The Watchtower (talk) 09:58, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Turnsteam (talk) 10:14, 10 September 2008 (UTC) me too :)[reply]
  • UBI-et-ORBI (talk) 23:03, 22 August 2015 (UTC) I am firmly in support of the application of editorial tools (especially collegial community discussion), solid work towards article improvement, and the adaptation of policy to reflect these precepts. Deletion should always be the absolute last course of action, when overwhelming consensus deems an Article either frivolous or irredeemable.[reply]
  • Jeff Ogden (talk) 01:52, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wl219 08:11, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • xela20 13:10, 17 September 2008, Never underestimate the power of mankind to create, and its power to destroy. I'm happy to help.
  • Yiba (talk) 03:15, 27 February 2014 (UTC): Judgement on notability cannot be made without establishing a point of view. NPOV is a core policy that needs preservation of minor view points to ensure neutrality.[reply]
  • Zadernet 05:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • User:ɱ
  • 98.154.26.247 (talk) 00:00, 28 June 2009 (UTC). Anyone skeptical of the contributions because I'm an IP can see here for my efforts.[reply]
  • 盛世 (talk) 07:43, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against article deletion[edit]

Main article: m:Inclusionism § Arguments against deletion

Related WikiProjects[edit]

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