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Historical overall counter?
[edit]I swear I thought there was a tracker that existed, but I'm not finding it on the WikiProject page. I've been working to remove the tags from quite a few articles, and I was curious where the overall project was at. I understand we have the counter categories, but I think it'd be helpful to have the information by month or whatever period listed somewhere, just so that we can see the overall progress made and possible trends. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Category:Orphaned articles has something like that, although it didn't update for October for some reason. --Here2rewrite (talk) 18:04, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for and remembered! Can't help but think we should be linking that from the WikiProject page for curious folks. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:12, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- It's a ways down, but Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage#Progress links to the category to link graphs. Happy editing, Perfect4th (talk) 20:31, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for and remembered! Can't help but think we should be linking that from the WikiProject page for curious folks. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:12, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
De-orphan request: Hagir S. Elsheikh
[edit]Hello editors of WikiProject Orphanage,
The article Hagir S. Elsheikh is currently tagged as an orphan. To improve its connectivity and visibility, I’d like to request your assistance in adding internal links from other suitable articles. I’m the subject of the article and will not edit these other pages myself, to avoid any conflict-of-interest.
Here are some relevant candidates where a brief mention and link to Hagir S. Elsheikh would be appropriate:
- Central Penn College — Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, May 2025 commencement speaker.[1]
- Harrisburg Area Community College — Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, 2019.[2]
- Grand Canyon University — Inducted into the College of Nursing Hall of Fame, 2019.[3]
- YWCA (specifically, YWCA Greater Harrisburg) — Recipient of the Carolyne L. Smith Legacy Award, 2024.[4]
- Sudanese Americans — Could be listed under “Notable Sudanese Americans.”
- List of women’s rights activists — If such a list exists, her name could be fittingly included.
Thank you very much for helping integrate this article into the wider Wikipedia network! TMiyah (talk) 21:33, 7 September 2025 (UTC) TMiyah (talk) 21:33, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
- Hi there @TMiyah:, the articles you list are typically too general/large-scale to include any lists of awardees. You would be better off adding Elsheikh to an alumni section of one of her alma maters (with a citation). Ideally, though, the source needs to be from a publication unaffiliated with the school, and I'm not seeing that on the Elsheikh article as it stands. – Aza24 (talk) 21:55, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
References
- ↑ https://www.centralpenn.edu/news/local-activist-entrepreneur-to-inspire-central-penn-graduates-at-may-2-commencement-in-harrisburg/
- ↑ https://www.hacc.edu/Alumni/AlumniAssociation/AlumniAwards/DistinguishedAlumni.cfm
- ↑ https://news.gcu.edu/gcu-news/gcu-hall-of-famer-survived-and-then-thrived/
- ↑ https://harrisburgmagazine.com/ywca-tribute-to-women-of-excellence-2/
Single-year NBA season pages
[edit]This comment is a mirror of one I just made on Wikipedia talk:Special:LonelyPages since I'm not sure which spot is best (or both). Is there any reason to keep these little pages? They are essentially disambiguation pages with only two entries apiece. Other sports (such as the NHL) whose playing seasons cross years do not have such pages and don't appear to suffer for it. Disambiguating between each pair of articles is unnecessary due to the presence of Template:Infobox sports season which has prominent direct links to preceding and following seasons. Therefore, the pages 1967 NBA season through 2024 NBA season ought to be either deleted outright, or at least turned into redirects to the earlier relevant season (this in order to correspond to the title of that season's league championship: e.g. 1986 NBA season would redirect to 1985–86 NBA season, because that is the season in which the 1986 NBA Finals were contested). But mass deletion would also be a good solution here. Is there a preference for which method should be used to de-orphan these? ZenSwashbuckler 16:45, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
- Was going to offer an opinion, but seeing you went ahead to AFD. Seems like a good call. (For TP history: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1960 NBA season). Aza24 (talk) 21:50, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Lists of orphans by date and size
[edit]I made a few database reports for finding orphans, which might be helpful or interesting:
Also lists of orphaned articles created via Articles for Creation: newest, oldest, least recently updated. Dreamyshade (talk) 03:16, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Queries that could be easily turned into reports:
- A query of articles with 0 inbound links but not tagged as orphans (excluding interwiki redirects and set index articles) with 12,326 results.
- A query of articles tagged as orphans with 2+ inbound links (excluding inbound links from disambiguation pages) with 1990 results.
- There's also the existing report at Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphans with incoming links (articles tagged as orphans that have 3+ incoming links from mainspace articles).
- I also took the newest 2300 untagged orphans and sorted them by pageview counts. Dreamyshade (talk) 07:49, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- I adjusted the existing report for "Orphans with incoming links" to list 2+ instead of 3+, so that the list can be longer. I also made this report: Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphans not tagged as orphans. Dreamyshade (talk) 07:34, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
New tools for de-orphaning
[edit]The Find Link and Missing Link tools aren't working consistently in my experience, but the following are alternatives for de-orphaning:
- Find Link Fast - made by User:Audiodude using the same strategy as Find Link (searching for articles that mention an article title but don't link to it). This has "batch mode", where you can input a list of up to 500 article titles to search.
- Link Rec - made by Wikimedia Research using a different strategy: "We identify recommendations by looking up the corresponding article in other Wikipedia languages."
Dreamyshade (talk) 02:50, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
- I also forked Link Rec into Link Rec Next which includes some performance and UX optimizations. audiodude (talk) 02:51, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
- And there's also Linkdata which is my attempt to calculate Orphans once per month via db dumps and make the data radically available to everyone. This is more for the data science-y folks out there. There are example .ipynb that you can copy to PAWS, but the real goal is that the data is just radically available via DuckDB live streaming, download, toolforge, etc so it can be calculated once and used in many different ways.audiodude (talk) 03:40, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
List of unreviewed orphaned articles
[edit]There are currently about 3,600 orphaned articles in the New Pages Patrol queue (they have not yet been marked "reviewed" by a new page reviewer), and I made an auto-updating list of them: https://projo.toolforge.org/review?orphan=1
You can also sort by viewcount: https://projo.toolforge.org/review?orphan=1&sort=views
These are good targets for de-orphaning because they need more editor attention in general, and linking to them from existing articles may help that happen. Dreamyshade (talk) 04:00, 4 November 2026 (UTC)