Wikipedia:WikiProject Inclusion

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

• 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.

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.

• 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

Text	Description	Product
{{User inc}}	Userbox	This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.
{{User incl}}	Userbox	incl This 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	This 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.
{{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}} This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. {{User incl}} incl This 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.

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.

Feel free to add yourself here!

• Just another anonymous Wikipedian / Talk to me 16:25, 13 July 2021 (UTC) Improve and expand[reply]
• User:Johndvandevert 6:54, 24 June 2021 (EST)
• User:Prometheusmetheus (talk) 17:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Hello world 6 (talk) 10:44, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• User:CyclePat --Pat 04:28, 1 December 2005 (UTC) (do check my other categories)[reply]
• User:Rogue 9 Wikipedia is not paper. People need to figure this out.
• Ganeshk
• Agne27 01:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC) - a worthwhile contribution to improve Wikipedia[reply]
• Abeg92 16:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC). Absolutely.[reply]
• Kevin Murray
• Snowolf^(talk) on 17:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• DGG 23:13, 12 February 2007 (UTC) - (also a member of WikiProject Deletion, & consider the 2 compatible)[reply]
• Devin Murphy 18:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• DCmacnut<> 14:00, 28 August 2008 (UTC) I consider myself an inclusionist, especially for Wikipedia's in other languages.[reply]
• Lova Falk (talk) 13:58, 14 September 2008 (UTC) improve and expand instead of delete![reply]
• Nutiketaiel (talk) 14:24, 16 October 2008 (UTC) - Wikipedia has unlimited space; we should start using more of it. Everything is notable to someone.[reply]
• Twfowler
• Cycl^opia - ^talk 19:23, 4 October 2009 (UTC) - WP is not paper, and notability is almost always a POV concept. Oh, and "encyclopedic" is the most abused word ever. Sometimes deletion is meaningful, but much more often not. I patrol AfDs (2-3 a day usually), with an eye on BLPs which are usually slashed by overzealous application of BLP policies.[reply]
• Sternenmeer (talk) 01:22, 20 October 2009 (UTC) ‒ WP is really not Paper. In fact, the Paper Age is ending before our very eyes. The deletionists overzealously stick too much to old pre-digital principles dictated by former scarcety of information that no longer exists anymore, not outside our minds anyway ... Enraged by the current ridiculous deletionism storm in the German Wikipedia (see fefe & netzpolitik) I pledge to improve or flag content rather than delete it. I'll also probably like never propose an article's deletion, cause if it really validly should be deleted, someone else will propose it anyway while I'm off adding valuable content somewhere else :D :D :D. I pledge to enrich and grow WP best I can :).[reply]
• Oneiros (talk) 22:07, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Tom Danson (talk) 20:13, 26 March 2010 (UTC) CONSERVATA VERITATE! WIKIPEDIA IS NOT PAPER![reply]
• Guy Macon Wikipedia in not paper, and notability is too often a codeword for knowing how to get the mass media to pay attention to something.
• J 1982 (talk) 13:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC) Do you miss the old days back in 1994 when only the paper encyclopedia was around? If you were even born back then![reply]
• Jonathan Bowen (talk) 09:57, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• User:Ne0Freedom: as long as it is verifiable, Quotations don't need to be NPOV. All History books are written by those triumphant in wars, and therefore POV. --Ne0 (talk) 21:22, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Smartcom5 ^(Talk ?) 16:26, 25 January 2013 (UTC) Dunno why i wasn't still listed here, since i've got the template on my userpage from the very beginning. Anyway, here i am![reply]
• Universal Life (talk) 20:03, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• User:Knight of Gloucestershire Knight of Gloucestershire (talk) 17:47, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Toby Bartels (talk) 22:21, 4 September 2013 (UTC): There's still hope! Wikipedia is not paper. The only standard for notability should be verifiability.[reply]
• allixpeeke (talk) 07:30, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• The Obento Musubi (talk · contribs)
• Ariel Pontes (talk) 08:17, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Illegitimate Barrister, 12:27, 12 December 2015 (UTC) Inclusionism! Tolerance, not bigotry.[reply]
• Mitar (talk) 22:36, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Hazarasp (talk) 11:59, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Thewellman (talk) 23:20, 26 June 2017 (UTC) I'm not usually a joiner, but these goals deserve all the support I can offer.[reply]
•  — Myk Streja ^(when?) 02:06, 13 July 2017 (UTC) Venerable is not the same as verifiable or reliable. Just because a source is "new" does not mean it can't be used or relied upon.[reply]
• StrayBolt (talk) 23:09, 5 April 2018 (UTC) - "It is a difficult task…"[reply]
• User:PseudoSkull - I believe highly in the philosophy of inclusionism. Moderation between deletionism and inclusionism would sound like a good idea to me, except even within this it takes away from the very primary purposes of Wikipedia. Include as much as possible, and delete as little as possible. Delete only the unverifiable/untrue and the nonsense. PseudoSkull (talk) 23:19, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• The Unbeholden (talk) 10:46, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• --PATH SLOPU ^(Talk) 14:36, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• — pythoncoder  (talk | contribs) 02:14, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Hammelsmith (talk) 03:54, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• --Sm8900 (talk) 13:30, 10 May 2020 (UTC) happy to help.[reply]
• Carter (talk) 20:41, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Ayvind-Bjarnason (talk) 22:47, 8 May 2021 (UTC) Why hello there[reply]
• AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 13:06, 20 November 2021 (UTC) Let's expand our ranks; I also would like to share an essay I wrote on ideas of Inclusionism, checkout: Keep it, don't remove![reply]
• Dswitz10734 (talk) 19:53, 2 January 2022 (UTC) I'm sick of the deletionism here.[reply]
• DarthVetter (talk) 23:20, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• applsdev (talk) 11:35, 22 December 2022 (UTC+4)
• Demt1298 (talk) 15:33, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Fadesga (talk) 18:52, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Explodicator7331 (talk) 15:02, 7 March 2023 (UTC). I mean, I already get miffed when I see an AfD request.[reply]
• Blitzfan51 speak to the manager Let's save some articles! 16:42, 31 March 2023
• Ayenaee (talk) 22:01, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Ansony89 (talk) 19:23, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• TARDIS (talk) 18:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inactive participants

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.

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