<note>This article is just an expression of an opinion Full Metal Lion developed over his time on the Island. It is not an official policy or endorsed by any moderator or admin.^1)2)3)4)5)6)</note> (Not to be confused with inclusionism, the philosophy that the wiki should have lots of pages on many topics)

Enclusionism is a doctrine guideline conjecture play on words philosophyn opinion that states that if an Islandy resource⁷⁾ can be hosted on the Improbable Island servers, then it probably should be. For the average player trying to manage resources, this translates to putting lots of things into the Enquirer, especially the Wiki of Lies or the Gallery of Shame.⁸⁾

The core reasoning behind enclusionism is that things which are not hosted on the Island's servers tend to be lost with time. The Island has been around since 2008, which makes it old in Internet years. The Island has outlasted a surprisingly large amount of websites. Of course, you have the cases where a player sets up a website to host some Island-related resources and the domain name lapses⁹⁾ after a couple of years as the player loses interest^10)11)12), but the Island also outlasted userscripts.org, which was a real website that had millions of visits per month.¹³⁾

Even if a website doesn't stop existing, it might delete or move the data, or the Island community might forget where to find it¹⁴⁾¹⁵⁾ It's hard to tell whether the Island will outlast a given website or vice versa, but we have pretty good odds on the prediction that the Island will not outlast itself,¹⁶⁾ ergo the Island's servers are a good place to store things to prevent them from being lost.

One must be smart in the application of this principle, though. For instance, not all parts of the server are created equal: it's easier to find things in the wiki than the forum; the bio of a character is probably not a great place to put permanent, publicly interesting information not about that character; and /dev/null is not a good place to store things at all. Keeping a copy of encluded information on your own hard drive may also prove to be useful!

Furthermore, enclusion should usually be nondestructive. If you'll examine the examples below, you'll find that the ones that were encluded from somewhere else have a link to that original place. One should try to get the permission of the person who created the resource one is encluding, if possible.¹⁷⁾ However, if the unencluded resource can be locked, with directions to edit the version on the wiki, this might reduce redundancy. Additionally, if every agrees that the old resource can be destroyed safely after enclusion, and there are no very important links pointing to the old resource, then destroying the unencluded resource could save some space on a hard drive somewhere, or reduce redundancy. Backups are important, but they don't usually have to be public.

Obvious examples of this philosophy in practice can be found at the wiki pages Loaders, Titan Hunting, the Greasemonkey namespace and Lions. More subtle examples can be found in, say, the text color list.

• https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1pJs8YYgalcDIRcxo70yYOVXLC02CcbEjHPrqpqkzQsc seems like a good candidate for something that could be encluded, someone should go talk to the makers…
• Maybe also the Dwelling-owner's guide
• Aren't videos impossible to put in the Gallery? If not, Aer's player made some good ones…
  • Well, I tried the “embed video” option. Twice. It didn't work, but at least it got the urls of the videos in there. That's almost like a victory. Sort of.
• There are a bunch of externally hosted scripts on the greasemonkey page that should be made into pages in the greasemonkey namespace a la ii-truancy-meter
• Find the audio CJCM¹⁸⁾ made for I Fought In the Morning¹⁹⁾ and put it in the gallery
• There are a couple of blogs from Way Back When that we should get on the wiki, like http://disgruntled-birdjoker.blogspot.com/ and http://usaimpcom.blogspot.com/ (we may have missed our chance with http://maniak.cu.cc²⁰⁾, but IIRC it wasn't really too Islandy)²¹⁾
• Possibly, Islandy player websites like Rosemoo's and Rentoraa's, depending on the wishes of the creators.
• Your logs, though you should probably keep the colored version in storage somewhere if you care about colors
• The spreadsheet at the bottom of clan buffs
• A couple things in https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9PkUdingtHEcUFWeDVzaXFPTDg&usp=sharing
• http://stelio.net/stiki/Games:Stones²²⁾

There are some resources which shouldn't be moved onto the wiki or on the gallery, usually because it would be too much effort or the Enquirer can't support all of the features that that resource needs. Examples:

• Pretty colors
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uKV7Nwc97oWEnX3ZqG_7TD5NOp96ps2VBnKuSMl8J0g
• A public spreadsheet that actually does spreadsheet things instead of just being a table²³⁾
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NYoJMe0ao-PRHCnqXf7vBO5EWEtJueZZsSoLWVnvHtA/edit
  • many things in https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9PkUdingtHEcUFWeDVzaXFPTDg&usp=sharing²⁴⁾
• People's private things²⁵⁾
• Things that would be more bother than they're worth (most of those spreadsheets)^26)27)28)29)
• Things that will introduce unwanted redundancy. (If you enclude a document, make sure no one is going to improve the old unencluded document afterwards, or someone will have to integrate their changes into the encluded document later, which is a real hassle³⁰⁾)