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Inclusionist Wikipedians Association

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
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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

  1. Support inclusionist causes and policies and prominently evangelize the inclusionism doctrine to others
  2. Outpace and coordinate against rampant deletionism
  3. Find and fix all useful stubs
  4. 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

unencyclopedic, nonnotable, nonneutral, other

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.

* 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

Articles

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



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?

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:

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

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

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

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

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.
  1. --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)
  1. --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.
  2. --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

The Extreme Article Inclusion League

Voice your enthusiasm for this extreme sport!

  1. 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]
  2. 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

  1. Canadianism-Articles may look sloppy now, however, give them time and they will be a a feature article!
  2. Larix 01:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC) - Like above, inspired by the cfd-discussion on 'wikipedians by politics'[reply]
  3. 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]
  4. 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]
  5. Serapindal ??:??, 15 March 2006 (UTC) - What everyone else said.


Keywords/Phrases to be used while voting Keep

  • Allow for organic expansion

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