Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orphanage

message: At WP:Orphan article, I updated Step 1 - Finding an orphaned article with details here. Also, I discovered within :Category:All orphaned articles at the TOC, going to "Lj" then (previous page) to display many "List of ..." articles. There are over 600 of these to de-orphan and may be easier for new WP members. JoeNMLC (talk) 00:47, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: For the Petscan tool, I created subpage Petscan documentation, then added Wikilink at Step 2: Finding related articles section. While Petscan can filter any category, it is particularly helpful for De-Orphaning. JoeNMLC (talk) 15:26, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent updates 

message: Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a  parameter to , which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to , and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass  a new  parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:34, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project-independent quality assessments 

message: As many will know this bot was set up a few years ago to produce an automated report on articles tagged as orphans that actually have inbound links. It runs this routine every few days. I’ve been using its reports for several years and it has never once made a mistake. Given the slow work of deorphaning what do other editors think about seeking consensus for the bot to actually remove the orphan tags each time it does a run, rather than just adding the article to a report? Mccapra (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be in favour of the bot removing orphan tags in articles with valid inbound links. Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 01:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Seconded. Perfect4th (talk) 02:16, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

text: I'm impressed but a little bit skeptical that it has never made a mistake but I have never used this report so what do I know. I do support the proposal however because even if occasional mistakes are made, they would not be of great consequence. ~Kvng (talk) 14:44, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: ok when I say “never” I mean “I have repeatedly gone through its output reports and never once found an actual orphan mislabelled as not an orphan”. It’s true that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen but I’ve never found an instance of it. And I guess if it removed the tag from a genuine orphan another bot would come along and reinstate it anyway. So actually if there is consensus to automate the orphan tag removal we’d need to make sure all the bots agreed in a common definition otherwise we’d just have bots edit warring as they removed and re-added the tag. Mccapra (talk) 00:41, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:DannyS712 bot]]