User:Nifboy/AWB

The step-by-step guide to cleaning out the assessed redirects and deleted pages, using AWB:


 * 1) Make sure "Follow redirects" is unchecked in the options menu (see right).
 * 2) Make a list using the "Category (recursive)" option. Use a category such as Category:Video game articles by quality, which has the categories assessment banners add to talk pages.
 * 3) * (optional) If your project already actively uses Redirect-Class, you may want to filter those out so you don't have to deal with them later.
 * 4) Convert the list from talk pages to main-space pages, under the "list" menu.
 * 5) Filter out all the non-main-space pages (such as categories) and duplicates (if any).
 * 6) Turn off anything AWB normally does, general fixes and whatnot. The first pass is just to check for redirects and nonexistence.
 * 7) Under the "Skip" tab in the middle, check "Page is redirect", "No changes are made" and "Non-existent pages".
 * 8) Start AWB. AWB should skip every single page in the list. This can take a while for large projects.
 * 9) Now look at your "Logs" tab, which has a list of skipped articles and why they were skipped.
 * 10) Right-click one of the articles skipped for "no change", and select the option to "Filter Exclude Skip Reason: No Change". Everything remaining in the log was skipped because it is a redirect or the page doesn't exist.
 * 11) Hit the "add all to list" button, then save the list.
 * 12) Double-check your (now much shorter) list for false positives, such as the magic word being commented out or randomly inserted into the article.