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Introduction

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Petscan can produce a selected list of orphan articles. The list can be filtered by topics, such as geography, history, sports, science, time, etc. Minimum depth setting is one, however that number may need to be increased to receive more results.

Petscan
Setting Value Comment
Depth 2, 3, or 4 Higher depth for more results
Categories Astronomy
Orphaned articles
Minimum of two
Categories Association football
Orphaned articles
United Kingdom
Three categories

Examples

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Orphan list for a specify country

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Petscan - Country
Setting Value Comment
Depth 2 Higher depth for more results
Categories Canada
Orphaned articles
Any country
Categories Africa
Orphaned articles
A continent

Orphan list for time

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Petscan - Time
Setting Value Comment
Depth 4 Higher or lower depth
Categories Science
Orphaned articles from August 2022
A specific category
Categories January
Orphaned articles
A month

Additional functions

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At the top Petscan toolbar, click on "Output" tab.

  • Output plain text
At "Format" line, click "Plain text" button.
Instead of camping at the Petscan results, plain text can be copy/paste into a text editor (Notepad) for off-line update of Orphan articles.
  • Sort sequence
At "Sort" line, click "default sort" button.
Optional for article order.

Find shortest articles

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Many short articles are candidates for Proposed deletion or AfD. Petscan can produce a list using single or multiple categories. For "Output" click on "size" button to Sort smallest articles first.

Petscan - Find short articles
Setting Value Comment
Depth 1
Categories Orphaned articles
Orphaned articles from February 2011
A month
Categories American people stubs Stub articles

Wikicode

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WP:PetscanExample link

[https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&depth=4&categories=Sports%0D%0AOrphaned%20articles%0D%0ASouth%20Africa&ns%5B0%5D=1&search_max_results=500&interface_language=en&active_tab=&doit= Example link]

Predefined Petscan request

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The most basic way to create a frequently used request is to

  1. Generate the request with satisfactory results
  2. Copy the request's entire URL
  3. Paste into "External links" format at the desired location (User, Talk).
For Example: [full-URL-here Petscan-request-name] • Need to use both single ([ and ]) brackets, one space after URL and before request-name