Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists

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Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist

I, Ashibaka, hereby establish the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They [A]re Deletionist (AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD).

The motto of the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD is Est omnino difficile iudicare inclusionis meritum cuiusdam rei in encyclopædia cum ratio sciendi quid populi referat incerta sit, sed nihilominus aliquid encyclopædiam dedecet, which translates to, "it is generally difficult to judge the worthiness of a particular topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia considering that there is no certain way to know what interests people, but some topics nevertheless are not fit for an encyclopedia." This motto reflects the desire of these Wikipedians to be reluctant, but not entirely unwilling, to remove articles from Wikipedia.

IT IS MY FIRM BELIEF THAT IT IS A MISTAKE TO HOLD FIRM BELIEFS.

Membership is not limited. All you have to do to become a member is list your name here. If you feel like expressing your wishy-washy feelings, you can do so at /Blurbs. (Not anymore because it has been couped by Deletionists!)

The current General Secretary is Everyone. All members are the Secretary, so nominations are unnecessary. Matters that concern the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD as a group necessitate a vote.

Oh goodie, I'm the General Secretary! :) --Everyone 06:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Goals

I have always felt that these should be everyone's common goals:

  1. Judge not, lest ye be judged.
  2. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
  3. Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Template

Keeping up to date with the latest news in the Wikipolitical world, I have discovered the existence of w:Template:Inclusionist. I would not want our movement to be left out of this new and exciting realm of template-making, so therefore I have created w:Template:AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD. I encourage, but do not command, our members to use this interesting-looking template on their user pages. Good day! Ashibaka 19:21, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The template has been speedy-deleted without reason! I encourage members of this society to comment at w:Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion. Thryduulf 20:11, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In languages:

Now with the whole userbox movement underway, I couldn't bear to leave AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD without a userbox, so I made w:Template:User AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD! Ccool2ax 14:46, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Members

Our full member list is available here as it is too long for our main page because we don't need 400+ members cluttering up the page.

Heretics

Positions

Current Positions

  • An election for General Secretary was closed on 5 Dec 2005. The result was Everyone shall remain Secretary. This position will last for five years.
  • Magadan was appointed the Official Guy Who Translates Things into German (Germanes Awendende). This position will last forever probably.
  • Greeves is the official Treasurer after voting closed on January 1, 2007. This position will last for 5 years. As the Treasurer, Greeves is responsible for keeping track of our ¤0 (whatever currency you wish) of funds. Like the General Secretary, this position will also last for five years.

Current Elections