User:JoeNMLC/Article petscan

⬆ Article cleanup
Find short articles
Article tracking
Helpful guidance
Tracking many categories


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PETSCAN introduction

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While PetScan is primarily a category search/filter tool, it can also find short Orphan articles that may be candidates for Proposed deletion or Afd. In addition, Petscan is able to extract a small portion of articles from a large category (see Stub-class example below).

The next section contains various examples to produce the list of short articles.

PETSCAN example

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Filter orphan articles

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  1. After launching PetScan, change Depth to 1.
  2. At Categories, enter two lines
    Orphaned articles
    Orphaned articles from December 2013
  3. At the Output tab, at the Format line, choose Plain text
  4. For Sort, choose by size
  5. Click the Categories tab
  6. Click the Do it! button
  7. At the results text, copy/paste into any notepad editor.
Once you obtain this list of short articles, review and pick articles that might be deletion candidates.

Filter by multiple categories

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  • For a list of orphan articles without sources:
Depth 1
Page properties: Page size < 1000
Pass 1
Orphaned articles
Pass 2
Orphaned articles
All articles lacking sources
Optional:
Orphaned articles
Orphaned articles from December 2013
Articles lacking sources from December 2013
Like the above section example, Output: Plain text, and Sort by size.

Filter for specific biographies

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  • For a list of orphan articles about football (soccer) players:
Depth 4
Orphaned articles from September 2023
Association football players
Output: Plain text.

Filter for stub-class articles

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  • For Stub-class articles, here is a PetScan example to create a smaller group of articles from a large category.
Depth: 1
Categories: Stub-Class football in France articles  (Note: over 8,000 articles)
Page properties:
Namespaces - add Talk
Size - Smaller or equal - 100 ( Results = 247 )
Redirects - No, No, No
Output: HTML or Plain text
Sort: by title

Since the Stub class is set on the article's Talk page, review each article for a missing stub tag (to add) if needed; or if the article is improved, remove the stub tag and upgrade to class "Start" or higher.

Filter by biology "species" category

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  • For a list of various biology articles without sources:
Depth 2 or 3
Category:Articles with 'species' microformats
Category:Orphaned articles
Like the above section example, Output: Plain text, and Sort by Title.

More

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  • Articles without sources: