Humour
New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced2023-01-16
7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".
Opinion
Are we ever going to reach consensus?2022-09-30
Some Articles for Deletion just drag on.
Essay
Delete the junk!2022-08-31
Some articles aren't worth saving
Deletion report
Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion2022-01-30
More than you wanted to know about the massive NSPORTS RfC.
Deletion report
We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"2021-12-28
More hats than a rodeo: the best, worst, and gnarliest AfDs of 2021.
In the media
Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography2021-11-29
Will they deny non-fungible tokens next?
Deletion report
What we lost, what we gained2021-11-29
1,767 nominations in November... AN/Is... DRVs... The largest AfD in history, possibly ever!
In the media
Blackouts in Europe, Wikipedia and capitalists, WMF Jet Set2018-07-31
Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set: One secret cabal that watches out for conspiracy theories, and another one out to stymie venture capitalists?
Discussion report
Is an interim Executive Director inherently notable?2016-03-16
Wikipedia news sparks editing disagreements.
News and notes
Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm2015-02-25
A report from the external research firm Lafayette Practice has declared that the Wikimedia Foundation is the "largest known participatory grantmaking fund." Several concerns have been raised with the report, the phrase being used (participatory grantmaking), the now-former Wikipedia article on that phrase, and an alleged conflict of interest by WMF staff members.
Recent research
CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism2014-02-26
CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism: The monthly roundup of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee.
Arbitration report
Infoboxes: After the war2013-10-02
Editor's note: To go beyond the mere facts of cases, the "Arbitration report" invited several editors who participated in the recent Infoboxes case to comment on infoboxes: what they are, where new users can go to find out about them, specifications and protocols, best practices, and how the upcoming community discussion recommended by the Committee in the case decision should be framed.
Recent research
"Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages2013-03-25
A paper presented at last month's CSCW Conference observes that "Mass collaboration systems are often characterized as unstructured organizations lacking rule and order", yet Wikipedia has a well developed body of policies to support it as an organization.
WikiProject report
Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting2012-11-26
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.