User:Magioladitis/AWB and orphans

WP:AWB has a feature to tag/untag articles with orphan tags. Editors are advised to read instructions on current consensus on orphans before enabling the feature.

The feature is part of Auto-tagger.

Definition

• Orphans are articles with no mainspace incoming links to themselves or their redirects.
  • These links should not be redirects nor disambiguation pages.
  • Articles that are themselves redirects, soft redirects, dabs, set index articles aren't considered orphans.

AWB

• Orphan tagging is optimised for en and ru wikis.
  • In ru.wiki adds linkless to isolated articles if article has 0 incoming links.
• It's strongly recommended to enable "Restrict orphan tagging to linkless pages" on the options menu. This reflects current consensus in en.wiki and it's always the case for other wikis.
  • This restriction is enabled by default.
• Auto-tagger won't tags redirects, soft redirects, dabs, set index articles and it will untag them if they are tagged already.
• Auto-tagger excludes from point counting redirects and non-mainspace pages.
• Auto-tagger will tag as an orphan an article that has 0 incoming links to itself or its redirects that there are not redirects.

Known issues

• Incoming links from disambiguation pages aren't excluded from page counting. This results in pages with many links from dab pages to be untagged.
  • This doesn't seem to be a big issue though since the definition is quite loose at the moment.