User:JoeNMLC/Article orphan tutorial

⬆ Article cleanup

• Article PetScan

Find short articles

• Article PROD and AfD

Article tracking

• Article Orphan Query

De-orphan list

 

• Article assessment

Helpful guidance

• Article category progress

Tracking many categories

• Article orphan tutorial (new)

Tutorial with examples

Orphan article tutorial

• What is an orphan?

• Finding an orphaned article

• Various ways to de-orphan

Further information: Wikipedia:Orphan

Helpful resources

Here a list of tools that may help with the de-orphan tasks.

• Query – Orphan articles to untag

Query 38614

• Petscan – For selected Category article list

PetScan

• Findlink – Article text within other articles

Findlink

Note that Findlink has about 5-percent hit rate.

Edward/Find link, report Find Link Tool errors

Attempted de-orphan

• For details, see: Using the att parameter

For the Orphan backlog at Category:Attempted de-orphan, most months have very few articles. Mostly because "attempted" is usually the last resort for really old articles (created many years ago).

• Alternatives may be to check an article's Talk and add missing Wikiprojects or update Wikiprojects - brings more attention to the article.
• The "Expert needed" posted on the article page is also helpful.
• Articles recently written can be "Move to draft" for improvements.
• For articles without any, or not reliable references, the PROD - Proposing an article for deletion or AfD Nominated for deletion are possible options.