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Orphan articles edit

For any Category, another useful searching option is to click on "Show SDs" button, then do a browser search for values such as:

  1. "biol" for "biology" or "molecular bio..."
  2. "energ" or "power"
  3. "footballer"
  4. "scien" (for Science topic)

These are just a few phrases to locate articles of interest.

Work list edit

Monthly - Orphan articles edit

Orphan, new Category edit

There are three parts: Random page button; Orphan notice; Topic filter. 

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{{Notice| • '''Please help an [[WP:Orphan|orphan article]] by adding links to it in related articles and lists. Once it has an incoming link from at least one article or list, the orphan tag can be removed (disambiguation pages, redirects and draft articles do not count). Three or more incoming links are ideal.'''<br/>• To filter orphan articles, see the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/Petscan|Petscan tool]]''.<br/>• To find an orphan article's title, the ''[http://edwardbetts.com/find_link/2EARfm Find link tool]''.
{{For|articles editors have attempted to de-orphan|:Category:Attempted de-orphan}}}}
{{Filter category by topic}}

Orphan, Progress edit

If previous month is a larger (over 1,000) number of articles, add Progress section, after Topic Filter.

Here is a recent wikitable example: 

==Progress==
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
!colspan=2 | As of 31 July 2023, there are 1,112 articles in this category. Select "show" for previous progress.
|-
! As of date
! Articles in category
|-
| 30 September 2023
| -
|-
| 31 July 20223
| 1,112
|}

Long stub articles edit

Long pages in categories that end in "stubs":

Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs
Edit Summary: rm stub; Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs; Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement; [[WP:STIM|you can help!]]

Popular pages, after Bot Processing edit

  • Check for WikiProject skipped or not processed. Now difficult as Inactive wikiproject may be mixed in with process ones.
Check bot processing (Starts at 2nd of each month) Note – The wikitable includes Inactive WikiProjects, and those are not processed.
Bot list of WikiProjects (config)
  • Related:
{{WikiProject banner shell}} (talk)

Reliable sources edit

  • Newspapers.com ?

This article is on Watchlist, and has Talk discussion section.

Not reliable sources edit

  • Geographic.org
  • Geolysis.com
  • Geonames.org - user-generated and not reliable
    • Example: Senek <ref>{{cite web|title=Senek, Kazakhstan - P PPL 608391|url=http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_44.545_50.246.html|publisher=[[GeoNames]]|accessdate=September 11, 2016}}</ref>
  • Geoview.info
  • Google Maps 
    <ref name="GM">{{cite map|title=[[Google Maps]]|publisher=Google}}</ref>
  • Places-in-the-world.com
  • And many more...

Stub articles edit

WP Stub improvement userbox edit

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Unreferenced articles edit

Greetings, Last week at Category:Articles lacking sources from June 2008, for the first dozen or so articles, I added a "Notice" tag (being Bold). Today, I fine-tuned it a bit into a transcluded "Ambox", just the first 3 articles. With the four criteria more visible, hoping it helps both beginners and a call-to-action for more advanced editors. Asking for feedback and discussion here. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 14:40, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Here is the wikilink Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Criteria
JoeNMLC (talk) 14:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
  • The four criteria seem to be better suited for articles tagged for notability issues. Citations just have to be reliable. Primary, nonindependent and passing mentions are all usable (within wp:primary).
Obviously, sources that satisfy all criteria are preferred, but we don’t want people avoiding adding an otherwise fine reference just because it doesn’t have sigcov or something. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 14:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
  • You're conflating notability and verifiability here. Citations in an article are there to verify the content of the article: they have to be to reliable sources, but need not meet your three other criteria. "Significant coverage in independent, secondary reliable sources" is how we judge notability, but that's not something readers need to worry about. If sources showing notability need to be presented somewhere, the talk page is probably best. But in the vast majority of cases that doesn't come up until notability is challenged at WP:AFD.
This seems to be a common enough mistake that we ought to have an essay explaining it... – Joe (talk) 15:11, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
And just to add, if what you're concerned about is notability, there are already a range of tags for that. {{GNG}} is probably the closest to your wording. – Joe (talk) 10:20, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
@Joe - Thanks. The template docs for the GNG has specific guidelines & that is helpful. JoeNMLC (talk) 12:03, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
  • I don't think this addition to the existing maintenance tag is necessary or helpful. The second sentence of the unreferenced tag is 'Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.' with the link to the 'Referencing for Beginners' essay so I think this is a total non-issue that is just creating more work. Why do you feel this is necessary? Also having multiple maintenance tags removes the automatic search links to Google, Books, Scholar, JSTOR, etc. which I find very convenient so as an experienced editor, it is making my work 1% more difficult. Also+also agree with the above notes about notability and verification from Joe and ARN123. Kazamzam (talk) 20:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
  • I agree with Kazamzam. We already have tags that cover these various issues. I understand the desire to have more refined tags that cover more subjects but I think this ultimately is overly confusing for readers and editors. Also consider that we track various types of issues by categories and a tag like this muddies that approach. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 16:16, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
  •   Thank you, everyone! - For clarity & explaining why "not" to do what I attempted. Today, I did "undo self" for those June 2008 unref. articles. Going forward, I'm adding parts of this discussion to my "Article cleanup" notes. So as not to forget. Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 12:20, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
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