Wikipedia:Extreme article deletion
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Extreme article deletion is an extreme sport of Wikipedia. The goal is to reduce the number of articles in Wikipedia as much as possible, with inventive and original AfD candidates and rationales. With enough purging, eventually Wikipedia can be the perfect size, just like Citizendium.
Points are awarded to each player for the reasons they give to justify article deletion. Standard arguments include "unencyclopedic", "too short", "no significance", "irreparably (not my)
Blatant deletion of a valid encyclopedic article gives points based on how long the article remains deleted before being recreated; deleting and protecting against re-creation (known as
If an article is only changed into a redirect, this may not score as highly as a deletion, except in certain cases, where more points are awarded. For conversions to a redirect instead of deletion, scoring is as follows:
Achievement | Score |
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Page is redirected to something relevant and informative | ½ point |
Page is redirected to something in the same category, but too general to be of any use to whoever would have looked up the deleted article | ¾ point |
Page is redirected to something completely irrelevant. | 1 point |
Page is redirected to something that has been vandalized. | 2 points |
Combinations are possible: getting the article on