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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

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  • 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

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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

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  • 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

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Text Description Product
{{User inc}} Userbox
{{User incl}} Userbox
inclThis user is an inclusionist.
{{UBX AIW}} Userbox
{{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}}
{{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

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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

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Feel free to add yourself here!

Inactive participants

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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

Arguments against article deletion

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