 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
All AfD outcomes from 2005 to 2020, stacked
This is the main dashboard for the Oracle for Deletion. The tables below are a usable (and sortable!) directory of the last 31 days of Articles for Deletion discussions, organized by day. The last three days are updated every 15 minutes, and the last thirty are updated every hour. If you want to see the whole month's AfDs in one big table, go to the current month's page (which is updated on a similar schedule).
- How to use the Oracle
- The table below is the table of contents for this page. Clicking on a date will send you to the section for that date.
- The table of contents can be sorted by the total number of AfDs for that day (as well as the number that are open, closed, or yet to be !voted on). It can also be sorted by the percentage of closed AfDs which closed Keep, Delete, or Merge/redirect.
- Each day's section has a separate table for open AfDs and closed AfDs. These tables have the same columns, and can be sorted by any of them:
- Name: Title of the article. Links to deletion discussion page.
- ·a·t·h⋅: Link to article, talk page, and history. PRO TIP: sorting closed AfD tables by this column will arrange discussions according to what they closed as!
- Keep %: Percentage of !votes that are "keep", "strong keep", "speedy keep", "oppose", et cetera, out of all !votes
- Page revs: Number of revisions in the page's history.
- Page eds.: Number of distinct editors in the page's history.
- Page size: Character count of the page itself.
- Page made (YYYY-MM): Year and month that the page was created.
- AfD !v #: Number of bolded !votes that could be detected in the page. This includes all variations on "keep", "delete", "speedy keep", "speedy delete", "merge", "redirect", "transwiki", "userfy", "draftify", and "move".
- AfD size: Character count of the AfD page itself. Longer pages generally mean more discussion (although source analysis tables are very large, and one of them on an AfD will impact the size substantially).
- AfD made (MM-DD): Month and day that the AfD page was created.
- AfD last (MM-DD HH:MM): Month, day, and time (in UTC) that the AfD page was created.
- Sorts: Deletion sorting categories, corresponding to emojis in the delsort icon legend below. Sorting by these is not very effective, since they are added to AfDs in random order; you can, however, find them by searching the page for whichever emoji you want.
- Cool things you can do
- The summary table at the beginning shows totals for each day in the analysis period, in addition to totals and averages across the whole analysis period. How often does an AfD really close as "Transwiki"? Now you know!
- Sorting by AfD !vote count will allow you to find and participate in nominations in need of attention. Days in the table of contents with the highest "uncommented" number are the ones with the most neglected AfDs.
- Sorting by article creation date will allow you to find the most recently-created articles (more likely to be self-promotional or related to current events) and the oldest articles (more likely to be unsourced for a long time).
- Sorting by keep percentage lets you find nominations where consensus isn't clearly decided, and an additional !vote will have a larger impact on outcomes.
- The "·(a·t·h)·" column is organized by close; you can click its column heading to sort closed AfDs by what they closed as.
- You can sort by one column, and then sort by another column, to create combinations. This is useful if, say, you would like to see a list of every AfD that closed "merge" organized by how many !votes it had, or a list of every AfD that had more than 8 !votes organized by keep !vote percentage.
- Archives and fun wacky facts
A number of helpful links can be found in the navigation box over to the right.
- Monthly archive pages include every AfD in the entire log, aggregated into one large table.
- Yearly archives include the summary table for each monthly archive, as well as overall yearly stats.
- The all-time page has a number of tables and graphs, analyzing aggregate statistics for every AfD from 2005 onward — did you know that an average of 79 nominations per day were made between 2005 and 2020, for a total of 449,950 (and only 16% of them closed keep)?
- Some wacky tables have been generated, like the thousand largest AfD pages of all time (which was derived from this SQL query). See if you can figure out any common themes!