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I, Merovingian, hereby establish the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians (AIW).

The motto of the AIW is Conservata veritate, which translates to, "with truth preserved." This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result. Membership is not limited, though its pretty clear that inclusionists here are generally Wikiliberal. All AIW members are considered equal and none is more equal than others. All you have to do to become a member is list your name here. Also go to Category:Inclusionist_Wikipedians to add your name there. If you feel like expressing your inclusionist feelings, you can do so at /Blurbs.

Wikimedian philosophy

Community: Anti-wiki; Conflict-driven view; False community; Wikiculture; Wikifaith
The Wiki process: The wiki way; Darwikinism; Power structure; Wikianarchism; Wikibureaucracy; Wikidemocratism; WikiDemocracy; Wikidespotism; Wikifederalism; Wikihierarchism; Wikimeritocracy; Wikindividualism; Wikioligarchism; Wikiplutocracy; Wikirepublicanism; Wikiscepticism; Wikitechnocracy
Collaboration: Antifactionalism; Factionalism
Social: Exopedianism; Mesopedianism; Metapedianism
Overall content structure: Transclusionism; Antitransclusionism; Categorism; Structurism
Encyclopedia standards: Deletionism; Delusionism; Exclusionism; Inclusionism; Precisionism; Precision-Skeptics
Notability: Essentialism; Incrementalism
Article length: Mergism; Separatism
Measuring accuracy: Eventualism; Immediatism
Miscellaneous: Antiovertranswikism; Mediawikianism; Post-Deletionism; Transwikism; Wikidynamism; Wikisecessionism; Redirectionism

How depressing. I found the information I was looking for, only to discover that someone is trying to delete it. — Mark Richards

The inclusionist Wikipedians of the world should know that now there is a place to voice our opinions and further our agenda of building the world's largest and most complete professional encyclopedia. This association is established on the idea that Wiki is not paper, expressed by the following excerpt from What Wikipedia is not:

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

Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, and thus has few size limits. It can include organized and structured links, can be more timely, etc. It also means that the style and length of writing appropriate for paper is not necessarily appropriate here (as said in this email from our beloved BDFL.)

The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,

Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit

Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,

Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

— Omar Khayyám

Headings marked with an * (asterisk) are active and in need of attention

Goals

Support inclusionist causes and policies and prominently evangelize the inclusionism doctrine to others
Outpace and coordinate against rampant deletionism
Find and fix all useful stubs
Promote and encourage the proliferation of the Phil Nova Experience.

* Localwiki coordination

There should be a harbor on each wiki. Is there any support here for Wikipedia:Wikiproject Inclusion? If there is a policy against a en:Wikipedia:Inclusion association, then maybe an en:Wikipedia:Wikiproject Inclusion or some other centralized discussion place would work. en:Inclusionism already directs here. -en:User:Stevertigo

Wiki(pedia) Recycle Bin

This is a goal candidate. It can be implemented by AIW activists or others who think it is a good idea.

Usually articles deleted (after a conversation, a vote or by speedy deletion) are not deleted because they take lots of disk space. They are deleted because they are not encyclopedic, not (yet) famous or just because with them being in Wikipedia it is harder to find some other (more important) articles.

Inclusionists usually want to keep the information and improve the articles instead of deleting them. We could address this conflict a little by creating a Wiki Recycle bin, an external Wiki where all the threatened articles would go. Then we could create a script to actively follow VfD and speedy deletion candidates. A piece of computer software that would automatically copy any content to the wiki recycling plant.

If the disk space is not an issue, then it would never have to be deleted from there. It could be categorised and maybe even improved by volunteers, just like in any other wikiproject. If it got improved enough, it could then be returned to Wikipedia; if not, maybe some part of it might still be someday useful to someone. It would of course contain also lots of true rubbish, but it wouldn't make any promises not to.

Now I'm left with this strange feeling of déjà vu. Where have I seen lots of rubbish before? Oh yeah... the Internet. The ultimate proof that a pile of rubbish may contain some useful information.

--Easyas12c 00:25, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to correct spelling of this section. Please use talk-page for discussion.

Language divisions

Language divisions are AIW sister groups for projects in languages other than English.

fi.AIW is the AIW language division for Wikimedia projects in Finnish.
ko.AIW is the Korean language division.

* Votes needing immediate attention

Votes for Deletion and Votes for Undeletion pages that AIW members ought to investigate (its a good idea to check the VfD often). The idea is that these are votes which AIW members should be aware of, so we can read the articles and discussions and then weigh in appropriately. Anyone may add to this list. Please include a very brief description of who/what the article is about (though the presence of this summary does not mean that AIW members should fail to read the article itself). If you choose to vote on any of these issues, please provide a reason along with your vote.

A list of all VfD listings is updated hourly and available at en:User:AllyUnion/AFD_List. This might be useful if you are on a slow connection. View recent changes to VFD discussions here.

* Speedy deletion

en:Wikipedia:Proposal to expand WP:CSD Template:Aiw no consensus (voting has begun despite technical problems)
- This proposal reflects both deletionist and inclusionist points of view.

Articles

For completed votes, see Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians/results.

Hi everyone. I've been working on the List of ethnic slurs article for months, obtaining sources for the terms. Now they want to delete it. Please help.--Primetime 09:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC) Template:AIW in progress[reply]

Myson of Chen. The wisest man in the world according to the Oracle of Delphi, but he wasn't smart enough to stay off AFD. --BRIAN0918 22:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Template:AIW in progress[reply]

Hi guys. I have tried to expand the articles regarding conspiracies so that it includes events, groups and terms, but they are meet with great resistans, even if they are notable and verifiable. I have made a list of them on my guild, and the guild itself got AFD'd. Here is a list of the articles:
--User:Striver 13:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

~~Steak and Blowjob Day - a famous parody holiday (second nomination) --Easyas12c 23:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)~~ Template:Aiw kept[reply]

w:User:Flameviper12/Randomness (Speech) - I made this to comment on the kind of randomness in speech (I LIKE CHEESE), but I need help to wikify it? Please?

The Garment District (store) Store in Cambridge, Ma
Hootenanny (store) - store in Massachusetts
All Asia Cafe - Cafe in Cambridge Massachusetts
Diesel Cafe - Popular cafe in Massachusetts near tufts university
Pu Pu Hot Pot - Chinese Restaurant

All nominated by the same person -_- 207.172.73.141 04:51, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The following have been nominated en-masse today as part of what appears to be an orchestrated or semi-orchestrated campaign to target specific micronations and the individuals supporting them:

Hutt River Province Principality - World's best known micronation after Sealand.
Principality of Marlborough - Micronation that received major national media coverage and popular support in Australia. A subject of university study.
Empire of Atlantium - FOURTH AFD for this article. Micronation has extensive international media coverage. Nomination seems tied to vendetta against Gene Poole.
Gay & Lesbian Kingdom... - FOURTH AFD for this article. Last one barely a month ago. Micronation has notable international media coverage.
Principality of Freedonia - libertarian group whose activities led to rioting and several deaths in Somaliland.
Sovereign State of Aeterna Lucina - Australian micronation involved in numerous court cases relating to immigration fraud. Major national media coverage.

--202.171.182.138 03:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Prinsessakerho, an award winning Finnish exclusive club with artists, musicians and porn stars as members. Started as a VfD, but was changed to speedy very soon. Can we somehow request undeletion or atleast have a fair VfD? --Easyas12c 02:52, 21 January 2006 (UTC) Template:Aiw deleted[reply]
- Created an undeletion request --Easyas12c 21:27, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

~~List of Louisiana Baptist University people~~ This list of alumni and people associated with LBU is similar to other university lists.Lists of people by university affiliation There are 60 lists of people, from a variety of schools, on the list. In short, the LBU list of people has lots of notable alumni and people on it, it's informative, and helpful. Currently, there are 7 votes to keep, 17 to delete, and about 5 to merge with the w:Louisiana Baptist University entry. --Jason Gastrich 02:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)Template:Aiw deleted[reply]

~~Mike Randall~~ ~~is the president of a regionally accredited university. He is also a notable editor and scholar. However, there are more votes to delete than to keep.~~ --Jason Gastrich 02:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)Template:Aiw kept[reply]

~~Ron Moseley~~ ~~is a notable author and the president of a university. However, there are more votes to delete than to keep.~~ --Jason Gastrich 02:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)Template:Aiw kept[reply]

Literary punk genres' this entire listing, they're putting up for deleting every sub-genre of Cyberpunk: including Dieselpunk, Stonepunk, Mannerpunk, Nazipunk, Bronzepunk, Ironpunk, Middlepunk, Splatterpunk, Spacepunk, Clockpunk, Sandalpunk etc... out of pure insolence and ignorance. Piecraft 17:05, 23 December Friday 2005 (UTC)

Chuckie Mullins (should more properly be spelled Chucky -- I've suggested that in my vote). College football player who died from injuries received during a game. Has been the subject of a documentary film and numerous articles; the College Charity Bowl was founded to pay his medical bills. Article (which does need a lot of work) is up for deletion as a non-notable memorial; currently six votes to delete, one to keep. Perodicticus 11:43, 14 January 2006 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept[reply]

Eduard Einstein Schizophrenic son of Albert Einstein; subject of at least one biography; frequently cited example of an individual with scizophrenia. The deletionists are in full swing, with the only justification being that Eduard is not notable enought to justify an entry, despite the fact that he is famous. 69.180.51.7 22:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept[reply]

GH avisualagency a verifiable art and design collective with numerous sources cited. vote has been overrun by deletionists and corrupt administators who have hostiley ganged up on all the keep voters, mislabeling them all as sockpuppets without presenting proof, ie) tracing any of the IPs. vote has now been wrongly protected by deletionist admin Brookie to lock out further keep votes. this is totally unfair and wrong. please help! Inspectorpanther 00:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw deleted[reply]

21 Society University of Virginia secret society. Was originally listed as unverifiable; numerous sources were cited, but people continue to vote "delete" with no other justification given besides "NN". It's an interesting, verifiable, non-vanity, NPOV article and I don't see how keeping it would be bad for Wikipedia. - AdelaMae 21:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept[reply]

Lunch Money an award winning card game in VfD. --User:Easyas12c 23:08, 19 December 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept[reply]

Literary punk genres this entire listing, and category is not up for deletion, but it could be a group of editors from the Dark City article who have no previous understanding or knowledge of the literary genre of punk are attemtping to remove certain genres from the list which have notability. Please help and share your support by sharing comments and opinions on the talk page. Thanks in advance, and any help is appreciated - let's make Wikipedia better by keeping relevant articles and not deleting them just because it doesn't fall into the ideals of certain opponenets. Piecraft 16:40, 16 Friday 2005 (UTC)

AfD: Obscurami this article I started is up for deletion before I or anyone else had the time to devote further time in expanding and adding further sources. If you believe it is relevant then please support it - otherwise allow it to burn. Piecraft 12:17, 3 Saturday 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw deleted

VfD: Category:Dieselpunk this entire category, relevant in archiving elements which refer to the Dieselpunk genre is up for deletion for no true reason other than a member thinking it is a "bizarre collection of articles" - please do the right thing and help support keep this category in. It is as neccessary as Steampunk. Thanks. Piecraft 03:20, 3 Saturday 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept

w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grassroots coverage of Natalee Holloway Coverage of the blog coverage is up for deletion. One of the Association of Inclusionists voted to delete. 209.178.162.12 08:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)Template:Aiw deleted[reply]
w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Inclusion is up for deletion! --Brian0918 19:07, 6 November 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept[reply]
w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural references in Pokémon 3 Article up for deletion for third time in less than two months (after being kept the first two times). Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:00, 1 November 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw no consensus[reply]
My first note here: w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Margaret Turnbull (2nd nomination) Verifiable, notable. But a tortured history: 2-1 AfD (which somehow went delete); 9-6 undelete and now a close vote on second AfD. 195.229.241.181 00:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept[reply]
~~All of the Final Fantasy VI character articles are up for deletion. w:Terra_Branford. They can all be accessed from that page.PiccoloNamek 10:33, 15 October 2005 (UTC)~~ Template:Aiw no consensus[reply]
w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Christopher_Burke_Gibson(January 22, 1954 - July 26, 2005) was an American sub-cultural phenomenon: raconteur, genius, modern day rhapsode, writer, skilled craftsman and autodidact. --Daniel Lotspeich 09:56, 11 October 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw deleted[reply]
~~w:DoYouDo This one was labeled "spam" by several users due to irregular behavior by an anon. It is merely informational, rather than promotional. 205.217.105.2 16:32, 29 September 2005 (UTC)~~ Template:Aiw kept[reply]
w:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gallery_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_screenshots is up for deletion]. It shows the history of the advancement of video game graphics over time and are useful as a source of images for graphics for video game articles. --69.159.26.181 20:07, 23 September 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw deleted[reply]

~~w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nerd Boy The most popular ASCII art comic up for deletion? OMGWTFBBQ! w:User:Grue 217.67.124.2 05:25, 22 September 2005 (UTC)~~Template:Aiw kept --Daniel Lotspeich 09:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
~~VfD: Salad Fingers theories - Perhaps one of the most analysed in-depth article which serves no harm but benefit being unfairly voted for deletion despite large support~~ Template:Aiw kept--80.2.175.184 15:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
~~VfD: Black Pullet - an extremely important grimoire relevant to the occult! This was put up for deletion for no good reason.~~ Piecraft 14:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept listed as a copyvio as well. - I have added a new revised version of this article please check it and support the continuation of keeping this relevant article upheld, thanks. Piecraft 21:38, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
~~VfD: Hen that lays golden eggs - a notable cryptid in fairy tales and the occult is up for the chop without a decent reason.~~ Piecraft 06:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC) Template:Aiw kept[reply]
~~VfD: Kuopion Lyseon lukio: One of the highest ranked schools in the nation of Finland! Up for deletion, of course.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sen'jin Very notable Warcraft character up for deletion~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~List of HTML decimal character references (2nd VFD attempt). This was first VFDd and kept, and a week later, it's already being VFDd again. --Brian0918 16:38, 13 August 2005 (UTC)~~ Template:Aiw kept[reply]
commons:List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm. Vital importance. This list and others like it are being pushed off of the entire Wikimedia project. It started at Wikipedia, where they were VFDd in favor of moving to Wikisource/Commons. Now they are being VFDd off Wikisource (they don't really belong there, since they are not original source texts), with people there saying they should be on WP/Commons, and it is also being VFDd on Commons, where people don't realize that Commons accepts texts (says so right on the Main Page). This will set a precedent for any lists created by users. Template:Aiw deleted
~~w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Defense of the Ancients Notable Warcraft custom map~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Aeon of Strife Notable Warcraft custom map~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~w:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Hero Siege Notable Warcraft custom map~~ Template:Aiw no consensus
~~VfD:Sexy Miss Lizz a.k.a. Queen of Farts, An erotic actress specialised in amateur fart pornography.~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~en:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Members of MPA 2005 List of politicians~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~VfD:Amber Rose (porn star) The erotic actress staring in the movie Amber, The Lesbian Queefer.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~WS VfD: List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm: Deleted from Wikipedia; people said to move it to Wikisource. Now it's being VfD'd on Wikisource.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD:Amber, The Lesbian Queefer An original "pornographic" queefing movie~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD:David Madden Second Jeopardy contestant ever to win 9 consecutive games.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD:Comunleng 2 Sent back to VfD after passing a month ago.~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~VfD:Office_Etiquette - Usefull knowledge. So far no good reason to delete, but in majority right now.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD:Fate of Io - Slightly notable game for being a pioneering open-source project and has a somewhat unique community. Delection on grounds of "non notability".~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~VfU:Topological geometrodynamics - obscure physics topic deleted over a majority of anonymous keep votes by researchers.~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~vfD: Disney DVD~~ Template:Aiw redirected
I do not know where else to post this but I created a page (Wikipedia:Checkers) that I can understand would need to be deleted; however, the page was blanked out without even being sent through to VfD. THAT is what I have a problem with! Also, Chess is here in the Dep't of Fun and who complains?? 70.152.128.107 20:38, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- It shouldn't have been deleted. Send me a reminder at w:User talk:Brian0918 and I'll restore it. --Brian0918 22:14, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
~~vfD: Tristan Louis Minor figure in the early fight against regulation of the Internet in the United States.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~en:Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jeffrey W. Parker Notable Fauquier County Circuit Court judge and former law partner of U.S. Senator and possible 2008 Presidential candidate George Felix Allen.~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~en:Assumption by Russia of the Soviet Union's seat in the United Nations Good beginning to a new article on an oft-overlooked legal question that could well affect future successions.~~ Template:Aiw kept
en:Protocol Amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936 An important treaty; vfd'ed because RickK thought the name was too long, and wrongly accused the creator of sockpuppetry. Template:Aiw kept
en:List of incidents that have been considered great blunders A wonderfully useful article and the subject of a number of books and documentaries. Viciously attacked by ~~deletionists~~ people unaware of the intricacies of the NPOV policy. It does have a few supporters, but our voices are being drowned out. Please help save this article! Template:Aiw kept
~~en:Criticism of the Iraq War~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD: Oh My Gods!~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD: 100 Greatest Cartoons RickK is also claiming that a list of names of cartoons can be copyrighted. -Brian0918~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~en:Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Radio KoL One of the most unique radiostations is listed for deletion. -Grue.~~ Template:Aiw merged
en:Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/FlashGet. This is useful download manager software whose article is trying to be deleted. Please help!
~~Wikipedia:How to wash your car Maybe they're right with saying that Wikipedia is not a place for how-to's. I hope not...~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD: Ivan Cherevko: Completely correct article, low Google count. Speedied at first, now VfDed.~~ Template:Aiw deleted
- Comment - As an inclusionist who voted to delete, I ask you to review the article before voting to keep. Matthewcieplak - 128.125.240.137 10:25, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
~~VfD: F11~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~VfD: Fake news~~ Template:Aiw merged
~~VfD: Eyuboglu High School: A distinguished school in Turkey which offers the International Baccalaureate.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD: Robert Frost Middle School: A well written article for a noteworthy middle school under attack by deletionists.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD: Hagen Kleinert: A highly notable German physics professor~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD: Jason Kottke: And another famous individual, highly notable within his field of blogging~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD: paniq: A distinguished demoscene musician out of Germany.~~ Template:Aiw kept
~~VfD:East Leyden High School: And another attempt at censoring another noteworthy highschool.~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~VfD:Horace Mann Elementary School: Yet another school being thrown into the fire by the deletionists.~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~VfD:Terman Middle School: A controversially re-erected middle school, up for deletion.~~ Template:Aiw no consensus
~~VfD:Alexander Graham Bell School: Yet another public school, up for deletion.~~ Template:Aiw deleted (despite rewrite)
~~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Anti-Censorship Yet another censorship attempt.~~ Template:Aiw deleted
~~VfD: Claims of hate speach or hate acts against holocaust deniers Although official policy says, don't delete even if POV. Can be merged.~~ Template:Aiw deleted (decision was to merge, but there was no unique, verifiable content to merge)
~~VfD: Norway Model United Nations Society~~ Template:Aiw merged
~~VfU: André Nilsen - chairman of the Oxford Council on Good Governance~~ Template:AIW still deleted
~~VfU: User:IndigoGenius/Micronation - user subpage deleted by VfD~~
~~VfD: Tossed Salad: Yet another example of someone trying to "sanitize" Wikipedia.~~ Template:Aiw disambig (as of 2004 Dec 11)

Comment: It appears that the concensus was to disambiguate and redirect although this was not done by Pcb21. Someone may want to address this.

~~en:Kent Middle School A middle school in California. Might turn into a precedent-setting keep? Dbenbenn 04:18, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)~~ Template:Aiw merged
~~VfD: Dead This Year, Dead Career, or Allegedly Queer: This is from a nationally-known (USA) radio show.~~ Template:Aiw kept
Walmarting
w:Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Types of Vandalism This is a good article and has legitimate descritions, in-depth, of different types of vandalism. Its link has been removed from Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Vandalism multiple times although it has all the vandalism types listed in the aforementioned page. I do not understand why my page must die! Thanks, MfD'd in Michigan

Proposed Policies and Guidelines Requiring Deserving Immediate Attention

Wikipedia:User Bill of Rights

Wikipedia:User Bill of Rights is a proposed policy / guideline that has been supported by Wikipedians who are concerned that the long term neutrality of Wikipedia depends upon input from minority viewpoints. Continued input from minority viewpoints, in turn can be assured only if the actions of admins and ArbCom are applied fairly and with an even hand. Although the proposed policy / guideline is under active discussion [1], [2], there have been attempts to close the discussion on the grounds that "there is not a snowball's chance in hell" [3] that such a proposed policy / guideline will be accepted. One editor was sanctioned [4] for an allegedly "disruptive" edit, of removing a "rejected" template while discussion was ongoing [5]. Your input on this matter would be greatly appreciated. (The current version of the proposal appearing on the page is a semi-blanked version which was semi-blanked by opponents of the proposal.)[6] --BostonMA 14:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Templates

~~en:template:user dzl and accompanying category en:category:user dzl. currently nominated for deletion. They keep telling me to userfy. listed for deletion here.~~ see talk. thankz. Template:Aiw deleted

Policy discussions

Meta deletion policy

Please cast your inclusionist vote in this permanent poll in Meta talk:Deletion policy. Iasson 13:16, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Let's Delete Deletionism section to /dev/null

Deletion policy

Policy consensus - discussions about changes to deletion policy
- Lists of schools Template:Aiw in progress
- Lists of words Template:Aiw in progress
- Using Wikipedia for a student project Template:Aiw in progress
- Brand name products Template:Aiw in progress
- Roads and streets Template:Aiw in progress
- Area codes Template:Aiw in progress
- ~~Local politicians~~ Template:Aiw no consensus
- ~~Minor characters~~
- ~~Middle-earth items~~

Policy

Wikipedia:Preliminary_Deletion
VFD: High schools: Deletionists tracking votes on schools
en:Wikipedia:Viewing deleted articles: A proposal to allow logged in users to use a tool to see deleted articles. Template:Aiw failed or not?

Why the proposal to allow logged in users to use a tool to see deleted articles has been rejected?

Moved to /comments

Inclusionism and Copyrighted texts

"There are some things that are copyright" (Thryduulf Copyrighted), so we are not allowed by international laws to edit them. For those things, the rampant inclusionist wikipedians can use the "wikicache" template, then lock-protect the page (or in case they have not administrator priviledges they can sent copyrighted texts to article's history which fortunately is not GFDL yet).

Wikipedians deserve to read copyrighted texts, the way googlepedians or yahoopedians are doing, they also deserve to discuss those texts, and vote for them.

Knowledge is Power

Facts for Inclusionists to be used in the righteous struggle.

Alexa Rankings - Alexa is an internet service that measures website traffic. Alexa rankings that indicate low traffic are frequently used by deletionists to erase entries that are connected to a website in some way. What deletionists don't tell you is that Alexa can only measure traffic generated by people who use both Windows and Internet Explorer to view websites. Firefox does not include the Alexa spyware (called a toolbar) that is necessary to count traffic (verify here). Websites with high numbers of Firefox users will therefore generate lower Alexa rankings. As Firefox becomes more popular, Alexa rankings will become even more unreliable.

Members

See /Members for the full list (100 +several honorary)

Member Quotes

See /Quotes

Subgroups

Subgroups that fit into the 'inclusionist' framework and mindset.

Inclusionist Wikipedians Against Censorship

/Censorship One of the worst kinds of deletionism is that of censorship. Trying to delete an article because a person believes that it is 'not encyclopedic' or 'notable', although perhaps misguided, seem to be valid. However, trying to censor information and surpress the complete and NPOV coverage of an article for no reason other than disagreement or dislike of the information seems to be an intollerable act of vandalism and destruction against the ideals of Wikipedia.

These list of people are for UPHOLDING the policies of Wikipedia, including the Wikipedia_is_not_censored which states in its entirity:

Wikipedia is not censored

Wikipedia may contain objectionable content. Anyone reading Wikipedia can edit an article and the changes are displayed instantaneously without any checking to ensure appropriateness, so Wikipedia cannot guarantee that you or your child will see or read nothing objectionable. While obviously inappropriate content (such as inappropriate links to shock sites) is usually removed immediately, some articles may include objectionable text, images, or links, provided they do not violate any of our existing policies (especially Neutral point of view), nor the law of the state of Florida in the United States, where the servers are hosted.

--ShaunMacPherson 03:31, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC) Please let me know if any censorship or censoring of images is occuring. I'd be extremely interested in countering it with every effort.

Hey Shaun, In articles like Transvestism, Cross-dressing, Shemale, and Transvestite people have been trying to put up non-nude pictures and others keep taking them down. You said you would fight it with every effort, so see the history pages and fight to get those pictures back in and keep them up! 209.119.51.126 19:08, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)

--Piecraft 03:55, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC) I hereby join Shaun with his mission to denounce all forms of censorship and wish to support his campaign. Please feel free to let me know as well if there are article's being unnecessarily censored.
--Canadianism- I do support your policy, however will not be very active in searching out articles that are being threatened with this problem. I do invite your subgroup's members to join the Association of Antiexclusionist and Wikiliberal Wikipedians.

Current censorship issues

Village Pump policy

The Extreme Article Inclusion League

Voice your enthusiasm for this extreme sport!

Canadianism 00:26, 17 October 2005 (UTC)- I support extreme inclusionism, not as a sport, but actually really support article inclusionism. I support Antievolutionist to be undeleted. I would also support Ana Lita to become undeleted. I extremely support inclusionism![reply]
Larix 01:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC) - inspired by the discussion on deleting the 'wikipedians by politics'-category.[reply]

School Inclusion

See /Schools

Inclusionist Wikipedians for Eventualism

I, Canadianism, hereby establish the Inclusionist Wikipedians for Eventualism. Rather than focus on Wikipedia's immediate value or the immediate condition for an article, we will support eventual value, when cleaned up or expanded.

Members

Canadianism-Articles may look sloppy now, however, give them time and they will be a a feature article!
Larix 01:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC) - Like above, inspired by the cfd-discussion on 'wikipedians by politics'[reply]
66.183.181.159 11:30, 14 January 2006 (UTC) - We should hold on to anything that has informative value...maybe it needs to be moved, or rephrased, or what have you...but censorship is bad[reply]
201.246.230.86 19:52, 15 January 2006 (UTC) - I agree...all sides should have an opportunity to present (a high amount) facts without fearing arbitrary removal, justified by "immediate value".[reply]
Serapindal ??:??, 15 March 2006 (UTC) - What everyone else said.

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