Wikipedia:Deletion Sorting Deletion Issue

Deletion Sorting Deletion Issues

There are, as of 27 September 2021, four Deletion Sorting topics that have been nominated for deletion at Miscellany for Deletion. Although Deletion Sorting lists are pages in Wikipedia project space that are maintained by processes that are partly automated, MFD is a very suboptimal forum to discuss Deletion Sorting. The listing of articles that have been nominated for deletion at Articles for Deletion can be done by selecting the categories from a choice list, either in the process of nominating the article via Twinkle, or via the Delsort gadget. The Deletion Sorting lists that are being nominated for deletion have been almost unused because they do not appear in the choice lists for deletion sorting. They presumably had to be added to those lists manually, either by editors who submit AFDs manually without using Twinkle, or by adding them manually after using Twinkle. Editors who sometimes nominate Articles for Deletion (including the editors at MFD) would benefit from greater transparency into the choice lists for deletion sorting. Where are these lists defined? Can additions to and subtractions from these lists be proposed by RFC?

It appears that the four pages that are being nominated for deletion were created by four different editors, and evidently not by any systematic process. Since they were not added to the choice lists, of course they would be seldom or never used.

These four list pages, and others, are almost unused because they are not displayed in the choice lists. There should be more visibility into these choice lists.