Wikipedia talk:Special:LonelyPages

message: What's it? Please, someone explain.
--Riceonroute66 16:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No incoming links from other pages. Click on "What links here" in the right sidebar to see incoming links. --W.marsh 17:11, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: @Riceonroute66 184.54.101.68 (talk) 12:30, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is Abraham Licoln 

message: I just unorphaned a page and didn't know if I should put up a notice here or if these things got weeded out by bots...  The page was the one on antisexualism.  I put a link on the page for hedonism.
Dismas
try deorphanized :) Courtland
:No - try "deorphanised", British spellings are always superior, everyone knows that... ;-) Manning 07:21, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
::True, but "deorphaned" is neutral for everyone ;-) SalaSkan 12:52, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unorphaned - (Is that a word?) 

message: I found something on the list that wasn't actually orphaned.  Does it automatically get removed from the list, or what?-LtNOWIS 21:11, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok long time no answer I'll give it a shot... This Special page is based on a snapshot of Wikipedia (the time and date is given on the page). I don't think there's much of a pattern to when it gets done. If an article is listed here and an editor deorphanises it, it will remain on the list till the next snapshot. Check the 'What Links Here' to check the articles current status. Suncloud 13:20, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something listed as an orphan really isn't - what will happen? 

message: I tried to follow Special::Lonelypages to the end.
It stopped after #1000, with almost nothing but the As listed.
Bug or feature? --Alvestrand 08:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Same prob here. Not even out of the A's. What's the deal? Marskell 11:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limited to 1000 entries? 

message: It would be very helpful if the script that generated the page could also place a link beside each entry that initiates a search for the entry within Wikipedia.  For example:
Abdullah Gegic   Wikipedia search
Abraham Moss     Wikipedia search
Also, the compilation script doesn't seem to exclude entries that have been deleted, i.e. Aaron warters
--Hooperbloob 03:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure if it could be added to the special page, but I'm sure someone could create a page rather easilly with such links, similar to what they do with pages like Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics (10) etc. --W.marsh 03:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If someone wants to do this, I recommend the  template. --Alvestrand 22:55, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can do that in 3 minutes... hold on.... I will be useing a regex statement. so give me time to optimize the statement first. Eagle talk 07:14, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Eeeeck, I forgot it was a special page... let me make the regex, and figure out what to do next. Who or what is updating this page... is there a editable version of this?? Eagle talk 07:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah... I was thinking someone could just output it in their userspace, perhaps. You can use AWB to get a list of all the items on this page easilly. There is a list at Wikipedia:Orphaned Articles but it's highly out of date. --W.marsh 13:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search links 

message: It seems like many of the pages are deleted already. Should I remove them from the list, or strikethrough? Thanks cøøkiə Ξ (talk) 02:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wish you could, but it's a special page, not modifiable. It was regenerated on June 14 and June 17, so I was hoping it's on a 3-day cycle, but it's been 4 days now.... --Alvestrand 06:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted pages? 

message: Is there any way the list could not include pages with the  tag? --Fang Aili talk 17:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've started outlinking them the same way as with the disambig pages. If there's just a reference to them SOMEWHERE in Wikipedia, they presumably will disappear at the next twice-weekly regeneration. --Alvestrand 20:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  deletedpage tag 

message: The disambiguation pages on the list irritated me, because they didn't seem to belong there - nobody SHOULD link to a disambig page.
So rather than grumbling some more, I created User:Alvestrand/Disambig pages with no links. This is enough to get them removed from Special:Lonelypages the next time the list is regenerated - and allows people to work on the REAL orphaned pages.
It helped - for the first time I can remember, the end of the 1000-entry list is now in the B's rather than the A's! --Alvestrand 05:45, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It almost made it to the D's when myself and a few others were manually de-orphaning articles a while back (November/December 2005). But it was a bit too much to handle... I've been looking at different approaches ever since. Adding a template to each page requesting links be created seems to distribute the work out a bit, to people who otherwise wouldn't even realize the article was an orphan. --W.marsh 14:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Link to project devoted to keeping disambig pages off Special:Lonelypages: Wikipedia:Links_to_disambiguating_pages.     Carolfrog 08:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This seems absolutely ideal for a bot: do a sweep of the category of disambiguation pages, add them all to WP:LDP, and then either monitor edits or (less work) new pages for disambiguation templates at the bottom of articles. (Alternatively, if not too much work, just rebuild WP:LDP periodically - say, once per week.  -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 02:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  As I recall to this (there actually was an ancient discussion on this subject), the main obstacle is that some dab pages actually belong on Wikipedia:Multiple-place names, others on Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name. I guess in late 2007 this might seem like a silly concern, since who really uses those lists... but it was a big deal in 2005 and earlier. I think one of the first disputes I ever got into on Wikipedia was someone very angry at me for adding a placename to WP:LDP. The community seems to value these lists a lot less nowadays... if they could be merged and automated, I think that'd be great. --W.marsh 04:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hooray - outlinking the disambig pages helped! 

message: I'm not quite sure what's wrong with the page, but I've mentioned it to Tim Starling (a developer) so hopefully the page will again list orphan articles before too long. --W.marsh 13:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  We broke it 

message: A bug is filed here. -- Shunpiker 03:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikimedia bug: Lonelypages limited to 1,000 

message: Orphan articles belonging to categories created by users, such as a number of entries in :Category:African_Footballer_of_the_Year, should be tagged as such or not listed at all.  This goes for categories implied by use of user-created templates as well.  Of course it does not apply to articles that belong to "administrative" categories like "articles needing cleanup."  The reason:  The article may exist to "complete the set," deleting it or creating links for the sake of creating links will hurt, not help.
This does not apply to "isolated categories," where neither the category nor any of its members are linked from anywhere else.  These should remain on the orphan list.  
Note:  The :Category:African_Footballer_of_the_Year is a poor example, this whole category needs reorganization.  I do think my point is clear though - items in categories should not automatically be assumed to be orphans.  davidwr 22:06, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphans without categories should not be listed or should be marked 

message: does the program prevent pages that have been made into redirects from appearing here--they do appear in OrphanPages?DGG (talk) 00:56, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Only articles appear here. --W.marsh 01:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: redirects

message: Hi, I'm currently doing some clean-up work, and I've come across 'The talking asshole' which is a pointless redirect with no incoming links, can somebody delete it?
:Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. If you believe a redirect is unnecessary or inappropriate for a specific article, you may nominate it at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. Cheers, - Mtmelendez (Talk) 14:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi, I'm new to editing the wikis can somebody help? 

message: Took me a while - it seems quite obscure to find, but 
:Category:Orphaned articles seems a more useful way to find Lonely Pages than the Special:LonelyPages which as has been mentioned above only seems to let you get to 'B'.
I don't know if a link to that could be put in the special page blurb to make that easier to find? -Hunting dog (talk) 15:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: it seems the special pages in general need some updating, the CAT:ORPHAN page is helpful Shoombooly (talk) 21:19, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

text: "Many of these articles may already have been de-orphaned, or already tagged with an  template.  WikiProject Orphanage recommends that aspiring de-orphaners start in :Category:Orphaned articles."
Thank you.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 22:25, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done I played around with it a little, but it still says the important things. Happy‑melon 17:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Easier way to find Orphaned Pages 

message: I've noticed that several articles on the list aren't orphans. How can they be deleted? Kivar2 (talk) 18:49, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I expect you mean "How can they be removed from the list?", not deleted.  I am under the impression that the list is updated automatically every few days or so.  —EncMstr (talk) 18:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is correct.  There's no other way to edit the page, and none is really necessary, since the problem fixes itself.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 22:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Most of the dab pages that are (were) not being not picked up here (using  etc.) are now no longer lonely., so if this page was updated we could do stuff with it. Rich Farmbrough, 15:58 14 October 2008 (UTC).
:Yay we had an update in September 2008.  Rich Farmbrough, 12:38 28 April 2009 (UTC).
::We need another update, especially one which eliminates disambiguation pages and deleted pages from the list. It has been a year since the last update, making this list highly inaccurate. --DThomsen8 (talk) 22:48, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dab pages - update needed

message: The page says it hasn't been updated since January 27, 2013.  That's almost 11 months ago.  How can we get it updated? --Alexbook (talk) 01:46, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update needed 

message: :Note, this has been cross-posted.
Hello all de-orphaners. Last month  wrote a patch and I pushed it for puppet SWAT deployment. This thing makes the page Special:LonelyPages update once monthly (on the 15th). This will help us find new articles which are orphans, but not marked as such with a template yet. I'm currently going through this month's query and tagging them as much as I can with AWB. This will unfortunately do that the monthly categories will be larger than usual perhaps....Anyways, happy editing! (t) Josve05a (c) 21:32, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special:LonelyPages is now updated regurally again