40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists

You can use https://petscan.wmflabs.org/ to find intersections in the Wikipedia category system. The categories are at the bottom of an article; there is also a meta category “Articles for deletion”.

Intersecting “LGBT rights activists” with “Articles for deletion” currently gives one result, Tres Watson.

Going further up with greater search depth will start to give you false positives, since it will also descend from the “Articles for deletion” category into other, unrelated meta categories. Depth 3 on Human rights activists is still usable and yields Monique Villa, Yedha Lee, and Kim Kyong-hwan.

This will only work when the article has been categorized, though; especially for new articles this may not be the case, so one could resort to simply browsing Category:Articles_for_deletion

There is also a whole category of WikiProjects relevant for countering systemic bias!

In terms of specific policy changes, I didn’t see really much in this thread, but continuing the discussion from Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance, I really like this one:

I wouldn’t know how to sell it, though. The most likely reply to be expected would be something like “we already have too few admins with experience to keep the spammers at bay, we certainly are not going to rotate them out for no good reason”.

There appears to have been an attempt to make admins recallable once, but it failed to reach a consensus,

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