User:JoeNMLC/Article orphan tutorial


 * ⬆ Article cleanup

Orphan article tutorial

 * What is an orphan?


 * Finding an orphaned article


 * Various ways to de-orphan

Helpful resources
Here 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
 * Edward/Find link, report Find Link Tool errors

Attempted de-orphan

 * 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
The three-step process below describes how to de-orphan multiple articles using available tools.

Step 1: Create list of football biography names

 * First Petscan search


 * Second Petscan search

Step 2: Lookup reliable source

 * Name search at Worldfootball, BarryHugmans, etc. websites

Step 3: De-orphan biographies

 * 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.