Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script/Rewrite: Difference between revisions

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The previous script checked for [[Wikipedia:Orphan|orphans]] and added [[Template:Orphan]] as necessary. That would be a good enhancement to the new script; "orphan" is a useful maintenance category that draws attention to articles that need more integration into the encyclopedia, and the template gives one-click access to [[User:Edward/Find_link| a script]] to find links from other articles. [[User:Jodi.a.schneider|Jodi.a.schneider]] ([[User talk:Jodi.a.schneider|talk]]) 17:08, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

:That's a good idea, as long as the script does not suggest that the reviewer de-orphan the page. The reviewers have enough to do already, and each new expectation (such as adding Wikiprojects, wikidata and categories), while desirable in the long run, slows down the reviewing and makes the backlog larger. —[[User:Anne Delong|Anne Delong]] ([[User talk:Anne Delong|talk]]) 17:29, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

::I just want it to place [[Template:Orphan]] on the accepted page (as it used to). Anybody can come along and de-orphan. -- and when I click through the recent articles accepted, as(As a reader, it's easy to run Edwardbot if it's a one-click operation; we don't need reviewers to do this ahead of time).[[User:Jodi.a.schneider|Jodi.a.schneider]] ([[User talk:Jodi.a.schneider|talk]]) 21:44, 21 September 2014 (UTC)