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It is confusing that WP:Orphan directs to Wikipedia:Orphan, while WP:ORPHAN directs to Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage . Why can't they both direct to the same page? -- Jameboy ( talk) 17:06, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Another editor introduced a policy that "Neither soft nor hard redirects should normally be tagged as orphans."
Before making this into policy, I'd like to get a consensus about whether this even makes sense. I believe it's moot, because an orphan redirect page should be... deleted, shouldn't it? What's the point of a redirect that nothing leads to? -- Lockley ( talk) 23:31, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
I have created several pages in the category "Disused trilobite generic names": Arionellus, Conocephalites, Entomolithus, Entomostracites, Trilobites (genus), and Trilobus. Although there is some information there (on why it is no longer used), the pages are meant to shuttle visitors away to the article with the currently accepted name. I intended these pages to function like a combined disambiguation and redirect page. I know an orphan tag bothers me, and I always try to make an edit so that I can take it away. But I also think in this case these pages should actually remain orphans as the natural thing to do is linking back from the very pages these "Disused trilobite generic names" link to. Any views on this? - Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 23:24, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
If an article only links to user page/s or user talk page/s, does it count as an orphan? -- Annonymus User 1000 ( talk) 07:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
I need your help in setting the criteria for the script to make it as useful as possible, please see Criteria clarifications... on the WikiProject talk page. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( e • t • c) 18:03, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Both the orphan template and this page say that an orphan is an article with no links to it, but WP:NPP#Collaborate_with_article_creators says that an article with fewer than three links to it should be tagged as an orphan. I've been following the second one and tagging articles with one or two links to them as orphans. This has led to some confusion. One of these conflicting definitions should be changed. KSFT 17:09, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Good evening, what do I do if the required references, but in my case, about school, where Google only details and information about it, there is not anything more interesting. What to do?-- L.ukas lt 13 --TalkLukaslt13
Please see Template_talk:Orphan#No, or few. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:44, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
The target of the WP:ORPHAN shortcut has an open discussion about it at: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orphanage#WP:ORPHAN — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:47, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
I'm finding a number of articles that are not actually orphans in Category:Orphaned articles from February 2009. If I remember correctly, there's a tool somewhere that can clear these out. Does anyone remember what I'm thinking about? I'll try and look a little harder later and may answer my own question here. ~ Kvng ( talk) 22:14, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Where the Edward Betts tool gives nothing, a method for deorphaning for biographies can be to check they are included on the notable alumni list of their colleges, high schools or universities. Also can check if they are on the list of notable residents of the town/village/ city they grew up in or live in now.Thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 23:47, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
Are categorized articles, even without any other links to it, orphans? Wetit🐷 0 12:16, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of entries being added to "See Also" section by this project, where the connection between the orphan article and the article isn't obvious to me as a reader -- the topic of the orphaned article is not mentioned at all. I presume these entries are being created because the article is the target of an outbound link of the orphan article, but Wikipedia links are not automatically symmetric. I think some consideration should be given to the relevance of the orphan to the article before adding it to the "see also" and there should be some brief annotation when a link's relevance is not immediately apparent, as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#"See also" section. I appreciate the desire to de-orphan articles but I think it should not be axiomatic that another article must be found to link to them without some actual good reason to do so. Otherwise it's just spam. Kerry ( talk) 04:55, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
Do incoming links from hatnotes count toward the non-orphan status of an article? Or do they not count for the same reason links on disambiguation pages don't? Largoplazo ( talk) 17:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
{{
about}}
hatnote: This article is about the pirate, for the engineer, see..., which was a minidab. I see your point, but I wonder how much of an issue this is. I suppose the wording could be clarified with something like "Any article in mainspace that is linked only in a hatnote, when the relationship is due to similarity in name only".
MB 21:56, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Your input is requested @ WP:AWB/Tasks#AWB Request 2. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 16:26, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi all,there is a discussion taking place at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2018_November_30#Template:Orphan proposing deletion of the Orphan template. The same notice is posted over at WP:DO also. Thanks -- Xaiver0510 ( talk) 03:46, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I tried to find Patricia Locke in the pages that appear thru this link and many of them do not contain her name. To name a few: Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth and Victoria Woodhull. In this last one it found the word "blocked" ...
This is frequent with other Wiki entries too.
Is this a software probelm or I misundersand the concept of "What Links here" ?
Thx Hexagone59 ( talk) 15:01, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
linksto
keyword to find the articles that link to
Patricia Locke, and then a slow regular expression to check that the article contains the exact text [[Patricia Locke
. --
John of Reading (
talk) 17:54, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Anyone wants to update the project page? or fervently targets the category having the most articles now to de-orphan! -- Xaiver0510 ( talk) 01:49, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Since there is a bot to make an article an orphan if there are no links to it, shouldn’t there be one to remove the orphan tag if someone links to it in an article? People probably link to orphan articles all the time without knowing because they probably don’t check everything that they link to. It would help the backlog a lot because I’m sure there are plenty of articles that are in the orphan category but actually are linked somewhere. Twooeight ( talk) 23:22, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
The page Office of the MTA Inspector General is not an orphan, it is linked to 2 other places, but the orphan tag is still up. How would I fix this, or can someone help? Thanks! Dblu9494 ( talk) 15:40, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Done ~ Kvng ( talk) 02:22, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you!! Much appreciated! Dblu9494 ( talk) 17:06, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Should George A. Lovejoy (Washington politician) be de-orphaned? 2 of the incoming links are via hatnotes while one is a disambiguation page. Will hatnote links constitute incoming links and hence deorphaning it? Thanks -- Justanothersgwikieditor ( talk) 03:31, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
For articles with Orphan tag not visible, add the "Multiple issues" tag combined with "Update" tag. For example, this contrasts the older, original orphan tag with current update.
{{Multiple issues
{{Orphan|date=December 2010}}
{{Update|date=August 2021}}
}}
Today, I added above section to the project page and thought to share here. I'm not sure how effective this will be, but hoping for some backlog reduction. JoeNMLC ( talk) 15:54, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Recently I did the "Move to draft" on a couple articles. Wondering if the "Various ways" section can mention something about sending article to Draft? Not sure of exact words but this may be a valid option, especially for bare-bones articles that need a lot of expansion/improvement. May not apply to newly created articles, instead some of those back to 2010, 2011, etc. years backlog. JoeNMLC ( talk) 16:00, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi - Found an article ( Dirk Hoogendam ), that for "What links here" has an entry for "August 8" calendar date. At that page, it contains a line with wikilink in "Deaths" section. For difficult to de-orphan articles, can they include a link on "Births" or "Deaths" section? If yes & doing this is Okay, can this idea be included into "Adding links"? JoeNMLC ( talk) 13:58, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
There is a problem when Wikidata references articles: while the reference shows up in templates (for example and in my case the rector of a university) but it does not generate a backlink-capable link to the article, so editors think the article is not referenced while it is referenced by both Wikidata (internally) and all templates using the data from Wikidata.
Maybe the solution is to fix up templates but I am not sure they would generate backlinable links anyway. The "best" solution would be to include Wikidata referred articles as "non-orphans". -- grin ✎ 14:36, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Currently the article count now is 99 for September 2021, only category that has only 2 digits. Can we try to push to de-orphan the 99 articles to remove this category? Thanks! -- Justanothersgwikieditor ( talk) 10:20, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Celebrating for yesterday, de-orphaning completed for March 2011 articles! On project page, added hilight button for current and early articles, and Purge button to show fresh numbers. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 15:21, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Added a wikilink to Indices. "Check to see if there are any Lists or Indices of whatever subject the orphaned article is about..." JoeNMLC ( talk) 18:07, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Category:Orphaned articles from March 2022 might have a lot of non-orphaned articles as there are 350+ articles out of 1300+ (roughly a quarter) which has 1 or more incoming link. Noted that the likely 200+ articles are tagged orphans by AWB on the old settings of requiring 3 incoming links. This will be a quick fix to reduce the number of orphaned articles. Justanothersgwikieditor ( talk) 08:01, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Lately I've been thinking about how to make de-orphaning easier for both new and returning members, and new wikipedia editors who may be interested. So here's my proposal.
1. Possibly insert BEFORE "4 Suggestions for how to de-orphan an article". And change 4 to read "Details for how to de-orphan an article".
2. Add the following sections.
For the de-orphaning process, it is a matter of adding a wikilink of that orphan article into another article. The main concern is where to place that wikilink.
Instead of dropping the orphan wikilink into the "See also" section (which can be done occasionally), consider using the Further template. It has an optional "topic=" parameter to even out or clarify the wikillink. "Further" can be placed into almost any article section, for example: History, Geography, Education, etc. "Further" can have multiple wikilinks to be included which is also helpful.
{{Index footer|state=expanded}}
to your userpage for search and drill-down by topic.If any of the above is of value, it can be moved onto the article page. But before that, any feedback is welcome here. JoeNMLC ( talk) 21:34, 26 January 2023 (UTC) JoeNMLC ( talk) 21:34, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Today, I added Category:All orphaned articles, then indented under that Category:Orphaned articles and indented Category:Attempted de-orphan. Within Category:All orphaned articles is a helpful Filter category by topic section.
As an experiment, I added that Filter category by topic template to Category:Orphaned articles from January 2023 and would appreciate any feedback if that is helpful. And I did add into categories with over 1,000 backlog. JoeNMLC ( talk) 00:36, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
Today I created subpage
Petscan documentation, then added Wikilink in "Step 1: Finding an orphaned article" section. Feel free to Edit as needed. Regards,
JoeNMLC (
talk) 01:17, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Today, I updated the Project page at "Step 1: Finding an orphaned article" to include New pages feed. JoeNMLC ( talk) 14:11, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
Yesterday, there were c. 940 articles and now today 1,070 articles backlog for this month. Overnite = 110 additions. As noted in above section Category - Orphaned articles from March 2022, articles are tagged orphans by AWB on the old settings of requiring 3 incoming links. Please check AWB settings to require 1 incoming link instead. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 15:56, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
Greetings @ User:Justanothersgwikieditor and @ PMC - Recently, for my Article cleanup sub-pages, I created another one specifically for Orphan query tracking. Each time I run Query, it saves that request and now I see 28 of them. My queston is: will those remain "forever", or expire & system will delete? Or is there something I can/should do to remove? Not a big concern, just curious & looking for advice. JoeNMLC ( talk) 14:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Being approximately mid-month, I clicked on "Show SDs" (short description) button. There are over 80 articles about India. Any editors interested in the topic are welcome to help with de-orphaning these articles. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 00:24, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello Hope you don't mind me asking this here, but would you mind taking a look at this article, I translated it from a persian article. could you please give me your review on this and how to remove from Orphaned tag. Regards. Balash-Vologases ( talk) 17:44, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I posted details here about a new template that can be used to invite participants to WP Orphanage. Cheers! JoeNMLC ( talk) 21:04, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
The redirect Wikipedia:LITTLEORPHAN has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 19 § Wikipedia:LITTLEORPHAN until a consensus is reached. Jay 💬 12:16, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
This diff was recently used as basis to remove the orphan tag from AFL Tables, with the link coming from a reflist. This scenario is not outright called out in the policy, but it feels to me that linking from a reflist doesn't meet the policy intent and should carry similar deorphaning weight as linking from a hatnote. Thoughts? (I raise this because I don't see any way to deorphan this particular article without it being from a reflist, since the orphan article is about a reference database). Aspirex ( talk) 13:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Orphan page. |
|
Archives: 1 |
This project page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||
|
1.1
Prior to 10 August 2006 (UTC) |
It is confusing that WP:Orphan directs to Wikipedia:Orphan, while WP:ORPHAN directs to Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage . Why can't they both direct to the same page? -- Jameboy ( talk) 17:06, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Another editor introduced a policy that "Neither soft nor hard redirects should normally be tagged as orphans."
Before making this into policy, I'd like to get a consensus about whether this even makes sense. I believe it's moot, because an orphan redirect page should be... deleted, shouldn't it? What's the point of a redirect that nothing leads to? -- Lockley ( talk) 23:31, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
I have created several pages in the category "Disused trilobite generic names": Arionellus, Conocephalites, Entomolithus, Entomostracites, Trilobites (genus), and Trilobus. Although there is some information there (on why it is no longer used), the pages are meant to shuttle visitors away to the article with the currently accepted name. I intended these pages to function like a combined disambiguation and redirect page. I know an orphan tag bothers me, and I always try to make an edit so that I can take it away. But I also think in this case these pages should actually remain orphans as the natural thing to do is linking back from the very pages these "Disused trilobite generic names" link to. Any views on this? - Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 23:24, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
If an article only links to user page/s or user talk page/s, does it count as an orphan? -- Annonymus User 1000 ( talk) 07:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
I need your help in setting the criteria for the script to make it as useful as possible, please see Criteria clarifications... on the WikiProject talk page. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( e • t • c) 18:03, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Both the orphan template and this page say that an orphan is an article with no links to it, but WP:NPP#Collaborate_with_article_creators says that an article with fewer than three links to it should be tagged as an orphan. I've been following the second one and tagging articles with one or two links to them as orphans. This has led to some confusion. One of these conflicting definitions should be changed. KSFT 17:09, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Good evening, what do I do if the required references, but in my case, about school, where Google only details and information about it, there is not anything more interesting. What to do?-- L.ukas lt 13 --TalkLukaslt13
Please see Template_talk:Orphan#No, or few. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:44, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
The target of the WP:ORPHAN shortcut has an open discussion about it at: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orphanage#WP:ORPHAN — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:47, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
I'm finding a number of articles that are not actually orphans in Category:Orphaned articles from February 2009. If I remember correctly, there's a tool somewhere that can clear these out. Does anyone remember what I'm thinking about? I'll try and look a little harder later and may answer my own question here. ~ Kvng ( talk) 22:14, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Where the Edward Betts tool gives nothing, a method for deorphaning for biographies can be to check they are included on the notable alumni list of their colleges, high schools or universities. Also can check if they are on the list of notable residents of the town/village/ city they grew up in or live in now.Thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 23:47, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
Are categorized articles, even without any other links to it, orphans? Wetit🐷 0 12:16, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of entries being added to "See Also" section by this project, where the connection between the orphan article and the article isn't obvious to me as a reader -- the topic of the orphaned article is not mentioned at all. I presume these entries are being created because the article is the target of an outbound link of the orphan article, but Wikipedia links are not automatically symmetric. I think some consideration should be given to the relevance of the orphan to the article before adding it to the "see also" and there should be some brief annotation when a link's relevance is not immediately apparent, as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#"See also" section. I appreciate the desire to de-orphan articles but I think it should not be axiomatic that another article must be found to link to them without some actual good reason to do so. Otherwise it's just spam. Kerry ( talk) 04:55, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
Do incoming links from hatnotes count toward the non-orphan status of an article? Or do they not count for the same reason links on disambiguation pages don't? Largoplazo ( talk) 17:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
{{
about}}
hatnote: This article is about the pirate, for the engineer, see..., which was a minidab. I see your point, but I wonder how much of an issue this is. I suppose the wording could be clarified with something like "Any article in mainspace that is linked only in a hatnote, when the relationship is due to similarity in name only".
MB 21:56, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Your input is requested @ WP:AWB/Tasks#AWB Request 2. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 16:26, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi all,there is a discussion taking place at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2018_November_30#Template:Orphan proposing deletion of the Orphan template. The same notice is posted over at WP:DO also. Thanks -- Xaiver0510 ( talk) 03:46, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I tried to find Patricia Locke in the pages that appear thru this link and many of them do not contain her name. To name a few: Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth and Victoria Woodhull. In this last one it found the word "blocked" ...
This is frequent with other Wiki entries too.
Is this a software probelm or I misundersand the concept of "What Links here" ?
Thx Hexagone59 ( talk) 15:01, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
linksto
keyword to find the articles that link to
Patricia Locke, and then a slow regular expression to check that the article contains the exact text [[Patricia Locke
. --
John of Reading (
talk) 17:54, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Anyone wants to update the project page? or fervently targets the category having the most articles now to de-orphan! -- Xaiver0510 ( talk) 01:49, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Since there is a bot to make an article an orphan if there are no links to it, shouldn’t there be one to remove the orphan tag if someone links to it in an article? People probably link to orphan articles all the time without knowing because they probably don’t check everything that they link to. It would help the backlog a lot because I’m sure there are plenty of articles that are in the orphan category but actually are linked somewhere. Twooeight ( talk) 23:22, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
The page Office of the MTA Inspector General is not an orphan, it is linked to 2 other places, but the orphan tag is still up. How would I fix this, or can someone help? Thanks! Dblu9494 ( talk) 15:40, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Done ~ Kvng ( talk) 02:22, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you!! Much appreciated! Dblu9494 ( talk) 17:06, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Should George A. Lovejoy (Washington politician) be de-orphaned? 2 of the incoming links are via hatnotes while one is a disambiguation page. Will hatnote links constitute incoming links and hence deorphaning it? Thanks -- Justanothersgwikieditor ( talk) 03:31, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
For articles with Orphan tag not visible, add the "Multiple issues" tag combined with "Update" tag. For example, this contrasts the older, original orphan tag with current update.
{{Multiple issues
{{Orphan|date=December 2010}}
{{Update|date=August 2021}}
}}
Today, I added above section to the project page and thought to share here. I'm not sure how effective this will be, but hoping for some backlog reduction. JoeNMLC ( talk) 15:54, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Recently I did the "Move to draft" on a couple articles. Wondering if the "Various ways" section can mention something about sending article to Draft? Not sure of exact words but this may be a valid option, especially for bare-bones articles that need a lot of expansion/improvement. May not apply to newly created articles, instead some of those back to 2010, 2011, etc. years backlog. JoeNMLC ( talk) 16:00, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi - Found an article ( Dirk Hoogendam ), that for "What links here" has an entry for "August 8" calendar date. At that page, it contains a line with wikilink in "Deaths" section. For difficult to de-orphan articles, can they include a link on "Births" or "Deaths" section? If yes & doing this is Okay, can this idea be included into "Adding links"? JoeNMLC ( talk) 13:58, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
There is a problem when Wikidata references articles: while the reference shows up in templates (for example and in my case the rector of a university) but it does not generate a backlink-capable link to the article, so editors think the article is not referenced while it is referenced by both Wikidata (internally) and all templates using the data from Wikidata.
Maybe the solution is to fix up templates but I am not sure they would generate backlinable links anyway. The "best" solution would be to include Wikidata referred articles as "non-orphans". -- grin ✎ 14:36, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Currently the article count now is 99 for September 2021, only category that has only 2 digits. Can we try to push to de-orphan the 99 articles to remove this category? Thanks! -- Justanothersgwikieditor ( talk) 10:20, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Celebrating for yesterday, de-orphaning completed for March 2011 articles! On project page, added hilight button for current and early articles, and Purge button to show fresh numbers. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 15:21, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Added a wikilink to Indices. "Check to see if there are any Lists or Indices of whatever subject the orphaned article is about..." JoeNMLC ( talk) 18:07, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Category:Orphaned articles from March 2022 might have a lot of non-orphaned articles as there are 350+ articles out of 1300+ (roughly a quarter) which has 1 or more incoming link. Noted that the likely 200+ articles are tagged orphans by AWB on the old settings of requiring 3 incoming links. This will be a quick fix to reduce the number of orphaned articles. Justanothersgwikieditor ( talk) 08:01, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Lately I've been thinking about how to make de-orphaning easier for both new and returning members, and new wikipedia editors who may be interested. So here's my proposal.
1. Possibly insert BEFORE "4 Suggestions for how to de-orphan an article". And change 4 to read "Details for how to de-orphan an article".
2. Add the following sections.
For the de-orphaning process, it is a matter of adding a wikilink of that orphan article into another article. The main concern is where to place that wikilink.
Instead of dropping the orphan wikilink into the "See also" section (which can be done occasionally), consider using the Further template. It has an optional "topic=" parameter to even out or clarify the wikillink. "Further" can be placed into almost any article section, for example: History, Geography, Education, etc. "Further" can have multiple wikilinks to be included which is also helpful.
{{Index footer|state=expanded}}
to your userpage for search and drill-down by topic.If any of the above is of value, it can be moved onto the article page. But before that, any feedback is welcome here. JoeNMLC ( talk) 21:34, 26 January 2023 (UTC) JoeNMLC ( talk) 21:34, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Today, I added Category:All orphaned articles, then indented under that Category:Orphaned articles and indented Category:Attempted de-orphan. Within Category:All orphaned articles is a helpful Filter category by topic section.
As an experiment, I added that Filter category by topic template to Category:Orphaned articles from January 2023 and would appreciate any feedback if that is helpful. And I did add into categories with over 1,000 backlog. JoeNMLC ( talk) 00:36, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
Today I created subpage
Petscan documentation, then added Wikilink in "Step 1: Finding an orphaned article" section. Feel free to Edit as needed. Regards,
JoeNMLC (
talk) 01:17, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Today, I updated the Project page at "Step 1: Finding an orphaned article" to include New pages feed. JoeNMLC ( talk) 14:11, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
Yesterday, there were c. 940 articles and now today 1,070 articles backlog for this month. Overnite = 110 additions. As noted in above section Category - Orphaned articles from March 2022, articles are tagged orphans by AWB on the old settings of requiring 3 incoming links. Please check AWB settings to require 1 incoming link instead. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 15:56, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
Greetings @ User:Justanothersgwikieditor and @ PMC - Recently, for my Article cleanup sub-pages, I created another one specifically for Orphan query tracking. Each time I run Query, it saves that request and now I see 28 of them. My queston is: will those remain "forever", or expire & system will delete? Or is there something I can/should do to remove? Not a big concern, just curious & looking for advice. JoeNMLC ( talk) 14:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Being approximately mid-month, I clicked on "Show SDs" (short description) button. There are over 80 articles about India. Any editors interested in the topic are welcome to help with de-orphaning these articles. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 00:24, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello Hope you don't mind me asking this here, but would you mind taking a look at this article, I translated it from a persian article. could you please give me your review on this and how to remove from Orphaned tag. Regards. Balash-Vologases ( talk) 17:44, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I posted details here about a new template that can be used to invite participants to WP Orphanage. Cheers! JoeNMLC ( talk) 21:04, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
The redirect Wikipedia:LITTLEORPHAN has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 19 § Wikipedia:LITTLEORPHAN until a consensus is reached. Jay 💬 12:16, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
This diff was recently used as basis to remove the orphan tag from AFL Tables, with the link coming from a reflist. This scenario is not outright called out in the policy, but it feels to me that linking from a reflist doesn't meet the policy intent and should carry similar deorphaning weight as linking from a hatnote. Thoughts? (I raise this because I don't see any way to deorphan this particular article without it being from a reflist, since the orphan article is about a reference database). Aspirex ( talk) 13:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC)