AfD

alternative AFD

1. GermangovernmentAlternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland), a right-wing German political party.

   The country’s mainstream conservatives, as polls predicted, won the largest share of votes in Sunday’s election according to official preliminary results and will be looking to form the next government, while the AfD came in second.

   2025 February 24, Sophie Tanno, Nadine Schmidt, “Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2025

plural AfDs · alternative AFD

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of articles for deletion, a process on the English Wikipedia for deleting articles through discussion.

   After 7 days, AfD discussions are reviewed by an uninvolved user or administrator who attempts to determine the consensus.

   2012, J. Schneider, A. Passant, S. Decker, “Deletion discussions in Wikipedia”, in Cliff Lampe, editor, WikiSym '12 (conference proceedings), New York: ACM, →ISBN

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   When you nominate an article for deletion using the AfD process, you get to a point in the process where you have to give a reason.

   2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 374

   Anyone can discuss AfD nominations by simply going to the main AfD page and adding a signed comment with his or her opinion about whether to keep or delete the article being discussed

   2008, P. Ayers, C. Matthews, B. Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 223

   Intra-organizational social capital was measured with the variable Experienced Participant Early Intervention. This variable was created through the identification of the most active participants in the AfDs and whether they contributed within the first 48 hours of the deliberation.

   2022 November 16, Elisabeth Joyce, Pinar Oztoruk, Jacqueline C. Pike, “Effective Organizing on the Fly: Social Capital in Temporary Organizations”, in Journal of Computer Information Systems, volume 63, number 5, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1213-1227