User:JoeNMLC/Article petscan


 * ⬆ Article cleanup


 * petscan.wmflabs.org

PETSCAN introduction
While PetScan is primarily a category search/filter tool, it can also find short Orphan articles that may be candidates for Proposed deletion or Afd. In addition, Petscan is able to extract a small portion of articles from a large category (see Stub-class example below).

The next section contains various examples to produce the list of short articles.

Filter orphan articles

 * 1) After launching PetScan, change Depth to 1.
 * 2) At Categories, enter two lines
 * Orphaned articles Orphaned articles from December 2013
 * 1) At the Output tab, at the Format line, choose Plain text
 * 2) For Sort, choose by size
 * 3) Click the Categories tab
 * 4) Click the Do it! button
 * 5) At the results text, copy/paste into any notepad editor.


 * Once you obtain this list of short articles, review and pick articles that might be deletion candidates.

Filter by multiple categories

 * For a list of orphan articles without sources:
 * Depth 1
 * Page properties: Page size < 1000
 * Pass 1
 * Orphaned articles
 * Pass 2
 * Orphaned articles
 * All articles lacking sources


 * Optional:
 * Orphaned articles Orphaned articles from December 2013 Articles lacking sources from December 2013


 * Like the above section example, Output: Plain text, and Sort by size.

Filter for specific biographies

 * For a list of orphan articles about football (soccer) players:
 * Depth 4
 * Orphaned articles from September 2023 Association football players
 * Output: Plain text.

Filter for stub-class articles

 * For Stub-class articles, here is a PetScan example to create a smaller group of articles from a large category.
 * Depth: 1 Categories: Stub-Class football in France articles (Note: over 8,000 articles)
 * Page properties:
 * Namespaces - add Talk Size - Smaller or equal - 100 ( Results = 247 ) Redirects - No, No, No
 * Output: HTML or Plain text Sort: by title

Since the Stub class is set on the article's Talk page, review each article for a missing stub tag (to add) if needed; or if the article is improved, remove the stub tag and upgrade to class "Start" or higher.

Filter by biology "species" category

 * For a list of various biology articles without sources:
 * Depth 2 or 3


 * Category:Articles with 'species' microformats Category:Orphaned articles


 * Like the above section example, Output: Plain text, and Sort by Title.

More

 * Articles without sources:
 * Articles lacking sources, backlog by month
 * Resources for unreferenced articles
 * WikiProject Unreferenced articles