Category talk:Uncategorized AfC requests

Tracking lost submissions

 * 1) Go to the web address: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apprefix=Articles_for_creation&aplimit=500&apnamespace=5&apfilterredir=nonredirects&format=xml
 * 2) Copy-paste entire page into MS Word (or another suitable program)
 * 3) Add &apfrom=  to the web address. For me this resulted in: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apprefix=Articles_for_creation/Submissions&aplimit=500&apnamespace=5&apfilterredir=nonredirects&format=xml&apfrom=Articles_for_creation/Submissions/Agatha_Kryst
 * 4) Copy-paste entire page into MS Word
 * 5) Replace the subpage name in the previous address with the one from the bottom of the new list
 * 6) Copy-paste entire page into MS Word
 * 7) Repeat previous two steps until you reach the bottom of the list
 * 8) In MS Word, Ctrl-F, click the replace tab, Find: title=" Replace with: [[
 * 9) In MS Word, Ctrl-F, click the replace tab, Find: " /> Replace with: ]]
 * 10) Copy-paste entire document into notepad, save with unicode, not ANSI, encoding
 * 11) Open AWB and go to Tools>List comparer
 * 12) Create list 1 from the text file you just saved. Create list 2 from Category:Declined AfC submissions (Wow, was I confused before I figured out you deleted the old cat)
 * 13) Unique in list 1 contains potential lost submissions, save this as a new text file (By the way, Unique in list 2 also contains the wtf pages that somehow didn't show up in the API search. Perusing this is worthwhile if it can be useful to tweak the search criteria)
 * 14) Clear the current lists, and create the new list 1 from the newly saved text file, and list 2 from Category:Pending Afc requests
 * 15) Once again, unique in list 1 contains the potential lost submissions, and unique in list 2 is worth perusing. Save list 1 as a new text file
 * 16) The list is small enough at this point that I just go in and remove the false positives, which include a slew of talk pages for ancient archives, as well as Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Submissions/
 * 17) Make your list from the final, heavily pruned list of lost submissions, and run AWB on them using Someguy1221's patented AFC tracking script.