Tagging AWB First off I use WP AWB for a lot of this tagging I m not sure how familiar you are with it but here are a couple of simple approaches Generate a list from Category recursive user defined level Choose a small number two or three Convert to talk pages More Prepend Skip If exists Start Alternately Generate a list from Category recursive Filter Removing all pages not containing X i e keep all pages with Vermont in the title Convert to talk pages More Prepend Skip If exists Start These methods are neither perfect nor exhaustive but as you can see you can get some good work out of it Let me know if there s more I can do to help you TCM