 | Below are the pages for article cleanup tasks. |  |
- Find short articles
- Article tracking
- De-orphan list
- Helpful guidance
- Tracking many categories
- Examples: association football biographies
Orphan article tutorial
editHelpful resources
editHere a list of tools that may help with the de-orphan tasks.
- Query – Orphan articles to untag
- Petscan – For selected Category article list
- Findlink – Article text within other articles
- Note that Findlink has about 5-percent hit rate.
- Edward/Find link, report Find Link Tool errors
Attempted de-orphan
edit- 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.
Association football biographies
editThe three-step process below describes how to de-orphan multiple articles using available tools.
Step 1: Create list of football biography names
edit- First Petscan search
- Second Petscan search
Step 2: Lookup reliable source
edit- Name search at Worldfootball, BarryHugmans, etc. websites
Step 3: De-orphan biographies
edit- First: Add DOB reference (citation) to biography article.
- Second: Add biography name entry at - YYYY in association football.
- Third: Remove biography article's Orphan tag.