WP:WikiProject Deletion sorting

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.

This project was strongly inspired by WikiProject Stub sorting, and also by the historical discussion on deletion reform.

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

• 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.

• {{tlx|Deletionlist}} explains the manual process of adding an AfD to a deletion list

• 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 {{tlsx|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 {{tlsx|delsort|topic}} to the AfD and opens the list in a popup window

• {{tlsx|delsort||}} – used for tagging active AfD discussions.
• {{tlx|deletionlist|}} – the standard header for deletion lists. It should generally be enclosed in "<noinclude>" tags.
• {{tlx|deletionlist-country|}} – also used for countries
• {{tlx|deletionlist-USstate|}} – used for U.S. states.
• {{tlx|Topic|}} – can be used to identify and link to other central pages related to a given topic.

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• AfD Categories
• Special:Prefixindex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion - Former Wikiproject kept for historical reference.

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