User:JoeNMLC/Article petscan

⬆ Article cleanup

Below are the pages for article cleanup tasks.

Article PetScan

Find short articles

Article PROD and AfD

Article tracking

Article assessment

Helpful guidance

Article category progress

Tracking many categories

Launch PetScan

petscan.wmflabs.org

PETSCAN introduction

While PetScan is primarily a category search/filter tool, it can also find short Orphan articles that may be candidates for Proposed deletion or Afd. In addition, Petscan is able to extract a small portion of articles from a large category (see Stub-class example below).

The next section contains various examples to produce the list of short articles.

PetScan Documentation

PETSCAN example

Filter orphan articles

After launching PetScan, change Depth to 1.
At Categories, enter two lines
Orphaned articles
Orphaned articles from December 2013
At the Output tab, at the Format line, choose Plain text
For Sort, choose by size
Click the Categories tab
Click the Do it! button
At the results text, copy/paste into any notepad editor.

Once you obtain this list of short articles, review and pick articles that might be deletion candidates.

Filter by multiple categories

For a list of orphan articles without sources:

Depth 1

Page properties: Page size < 1000

Pass 1

Orphaned articles

Pass 2

Orphaned articles

All articles lacking sources

Optional:

Orphaned articles
Orphaned articles from December 2013
Articles lacking sources from December 2013

Like the above section example, Output: Plain text, and Sort by size.

Filter for specific biographies

For a list of orphan articles about football (soccer) players:

Depth 4

Orphaned articles from September 2023
Association football players

Output: Plain text.

Filter for stub-class articles

For Stub-class articles, here is a PetScan example to create a smaller group of articles from a large category.

Depth: 1
Categories: Stub-Class football in France articles (Note: over 8,000 articles)

Page properties:

Namespaces - add Talk
Size - Smaller or equal - 100 ( Results = 247 )
Redirects - No, No, No

Output: HTML or Plain text
Sort: by title

Since the Stub class is set on the article's Talk page, review each article for a missing stub tag (to add) if needed; or if the article is improved, remove the stub tag and upgrade to class "Start" or higher.

Filter by biology "species" category

For a list of various biology articles without sources:

Depth 2 or 3

Category:Articles with 'species' microformats
Category:Orphaned articles

Like the above section example, Output: Plain text, and Sort by Title.

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Articles without sources: