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has an extreme backlog. The tags on newly created articles are visible for a month or two, in hopes that the article's creators or reviewers will tend to the issue. After a couple of months it's assumed that the WikiProject will need to take on the task, and project members use their common.css files
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to keep the templates visible. The community consensus is that this issue is insufficiently critical to merit notifying general readers of the issue for more than a couple of months, unless the article has
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template are invisible by default, but are still categorized. To override the default and make the message visible on all pages where it's placed, put the following line in your
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for that date and also hides the article message box. The "att" is an abbreviation for "attempt", as in "I attempted to de-orphan this article but failed".
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If you have made an unsuccessful attempt to de-orphan the article, please fill in this field to record the attempt. (Input: Monthname Year)
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If you have made an unsuccessful attempt to de-orphan the article, then please add the month/year of the attempt to the template, like so,
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This template places the article into "Category:All orphaned articles" as well as "Category:Orphaned articles from {{{date}}}". If the "
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is used on pages with no incoming links from other articles or lists. The template is responsible for populating sub-categories of
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If the article has no link and probably never will, but is well categorised this option can be used.(Input: Monthname Year)
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If the article has no link and probably never will, but is well categorised the incat option can be used. For example,
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will fill it in (but this will result in more edits and watchlist alerts, so adding the date right away is preferred).
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page by default. If you have correctly installed the above common.css the orphan message box is visible here.
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Several semi-automated tools and bots facilitate orphan-tagging. Some notes on tool implementation:
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as a courtesy, as the standard installation of Twinkle adds and removes this template. Thank you!
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to help with the categorisation of articles requiring links. If you leave it out, a
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The simplest way to add this template to an article is to copy and paste either
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This template should only be put on articles which meet the orphan criteria.
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to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify
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The date this template was added to the page. (Input: Monthname Year)
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is set to either the current month or the previous month (currently
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This may not work in some older browsers - if it doesn't work, use
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You may use a date parameter with this template, for example
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This template should only be put on articles which meet the
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template. Older-dated orphan templates used outside of the
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The template message is visible on all pages where the
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This template is used by the standard installation of
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template talk:Orphan/Archive 2#"Few links" template?
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Template:Orphan

orphan
link to it
introduce links
related articles
Find link tool
template sandbox
Template:Orphan
diff
test cases
view
edit
history
purge
breaking changes
Twinkle
Knowledge (XXG) talk:Twinkle
AutoWikiBrowser
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substituted
Template:Orphan file
Category:Orphaned articles
subst:
orphan criteria
will be impossible to de-orphan
date parameter
multiple issues
multiple issues
common.css

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