How you can help include more editors on wikipedia:
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- Join the Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron and then help save new editors articles.
- Add Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#Current discussions to your watchlist and start commenting on Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion, using the policies listed in User:Ikip/Del to help you, and to raise awareness of these inclusionist policies. Watch prominent inclusionists arguments carefully in AfDs, keep a list of good debates, and learn from them.
- Become familiar with the policies and procedures which support inclusionism: User:Ikip/Del
- Communication, retention, and expansion
- Add the Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron template to your talk page.
- Mention Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron when talking to any editor for the first time.
- Consider creating a monthly WP:newsletter, which would go to all Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron Wikipedia:Article_Rescue_Squadron/Members#All_Members and inclusionist members Category:Inclusionist Wikipedians. (Maybe it is best to have two separate newsletters, as many ARS members do not see themselves as inclusionists)
- Familiarize yourself with current Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron templates, then develop more templates to reward wikipedians for their article saving and debate efforts, and raise awareness of Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
- Direct approach
- Join the current debate at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion
- Join the debates at WP:Notability articles, particularly Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) which is not a policy, but only a proposed policy. Notify me if this article has the {{policy}} tag added (I don't maintain a watchlist).
- Watchlist all of the notability fork pages, and debate for these articles to become essays or historic. (Notability articles are the number one reason that articles are deleted).
- Become familiar with the most prominent inclusionist editors contributions, listed here User:Ikip#Inclusionists, particularly User:DGG, the most prominent and most respected inclusionist editor. Introduce yourself to these editors, and ask how you can help.
- Become familiar with the policies and procedures which support inclusionism: User:Ikip/Del
- Research
- Help me develop User:Ikip#Sausage, a page which undercuts many of the notability policies, by showing there was little or no consensus in the creation of these policies.
- Help me develop User:Ikip/AfD on average day, a page which I am creating in an attempt to show that most articles put up for deletion were created by new users, that the majority of those articles deleted could have been salvaged and were notable, and were improperly closed.
- Help me find and add more policy information and quotes from Jim Wales to User:Ikip/Del
- Help me find more scholarly research and media articles which are critical of deletionists and notability guidelines.
- Help me find good AfD debates, where an article was saved, adding these debates too User:Ikip/Del. See User:davidwr's excellent idea here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Excellent_Article_for_deletion_debates.
- (more later) travb (talk) 02:18, 19 January 2009 (UTC)