User:Davidovic/WikiProject Deorphan

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The Orphanage is dedicated to clearing the immense backlog of orphaned articles. While it may seem simple at first, de-orphaning is a difficult task, and this project aims to make it easier.

Building the web is a big part of editing Wikipedia, so join in the project and give those articles a home!

Goals and scope
The Orphanage aims to clear the backlog of orphaned articles on Wikipedia. In addition to this, however, the project also aims to make the process of de-orphaning easier. Through collaborating with other projects, providing information, and above all helping editors to cooperate, the Orphanage will make the task of de-orphaning a little less daunting.

There were, on last count, over 24,000 orphaned articles on Wikipedia. This is over 1% of the total articles, and an incredible amount to work on, so we need your help. While de-orphaning an article is a simple idea, it is often a difficult task, so the more editors we have to help, the better.

Adding an article from the list
Although a bot regularly checks articles to see if they are orphaned, you can help too. When reading an article, you can check what other pages link to it by clicking "What links here" in the toolbox. You will then be provided with a list of pages that link to that article. Following the criteria below, you can add a template to the page, marking it as either an orphan or as lonely.

Criteria:
When counting the number of links to an article, count only the links that come from other articles, this excludes links from: Deorphaning a page isn't just about removing it from the backlog, it is about building the web, and integrating the page into Wikipedia. Ideally, every page should be accesible through a chain of article links from the main page.
 * An article is orphaned if two or less other articles link to it. The   template should be added to the top of the article.
 * An article is lonely if between three and six (inclusive) other articles link to it. The   template should be added to the top of the article.
 * User pages, eg. User:Example
 * Wikipedia pages, eg. Wikipedia:About
 * Images, eg. Image:Example.jpg
 * Templates, eg. Template:Orphan
 * Help pages, eg. Help:Contents
 * Categories, eg. Category:All orphaned pages
 * Portals, eg. Portal:Arts
 * Any list articles, eg. List of XYZ
 * Any talk page, including (but not limited to): User talk, article talk, Wikipedia talk, image talk, template talk, help talk etc.

Templates

 *   - A template to be put directly on the article if it has two or less links from other articles.
 *   - A template to be put directly on the article if it has three to six links (inclusive) from other articles.
 *   - The to-do list template for this project.
 *   - The userbox for this project.
 *   - A template to be placed on the talk pages of articles that fall within the scope of WikiProject Orphanage.
 *   - A banner to be put on member's user pages.
 *   - A template indicating that someone has tried to deorphan this page and failed. To be put directly on the article.

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