Wikipedia:Extreme article deletion

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This page contains material which is kept because it is considered humorous. It is not intended, nor should it be used, for any remotely serious purpose.

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This page is satire, and we must point this out to the humor-impaired as it does not represent any official or unofficial Wikipedia policy, past, present or future.

Extreme article deletion is an extreme sport in Wikipedia. The goal is to reduce the number of articles in Wikipedia as much as possible, with inventive and original AfD candidates.

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) POV", "fancruft", "non-notable", "is a secondary school", "vanity", and "no hits on Google, which means it doesn't exist"; generic concerns about server space. Every deletion proposal with these reasons earns one point.

Additional points are awarded for original proposals, or when the article is deleted despite proof of encyclopedic suitability. Blatant deletion of a valid encyclopedic article gives points based on how long the article remains deleted before being recreated; deleting and protecting (known as salting) such a page acts as a bonus multiplier. If an article is only changed into a redirect instead of deleted, only half a point is awarded.

Extreme article deletion has been in progress since 2003 on the German Wikipedia. On 1 April every year, the overall standings of the German deletion champions are assembled; other Wikipedias will follow.