Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage

This page is about the WikiProject. For the "Orphan article" how-to information page, see WP:Orphan.

For WikiProject Adoption, fostering, orphan care and displacement, see WP:AFOD.

"WP:DO" redirects here. For pages on what to do, see WP:DOS.

Welcome to WikiProject Orphanage!

WikiProject Orphanage is dedicated to clearing up the immense backlog of orphaned articles. There are thousands of articles and images on Wikipedia with few or no incoming links to them. The value of this project should not be underestimated as the wikilink is one of the important characteristics of a wiki and is indeed what provides Wikipedia with its ease of quick information retrieval. Plus, if you are new to Wikipedia, de-orphaning articles is a great way to learn a wide variety of useful skills. De-orphaning, when done correctly, will allow you to learn how to navigate within Wikipedia, how to format wikilinks, and how to utilize cleanup tags.

Goals and scope

Special pages (maintenance)	Information
Broken redirects
Dead-end pages	Dead-end pages
Dormant pages	Forgotten articles
Double redirects	Double redirects
Lonely pages	Orphaned articles
Long pages
New pages	New pages patrol
New pages feed	Page curation
Protected pages	Protection policy
Short pages
Uncategorized pages	Categorization
Uncategorized categories
Uncategorized templates
Unused categories
Unused files (images)
Unused templates
Without interwiki links
Most interwiki links
Wanted pages
Most-wanted articles
See also: Maintenance departments

There are 54,447 articles tagged as orphans out of a total 7,068,674 articles on Wikipedia. This is 0.77% of the total articles, and an incredible amount to work on, so we need your help.

While it may seem simple at first, not every article can be de-orphaned, and de-orphaning can be a difficult task, so this project aims to educate and make it easier. But please remember that de-orphaning is about maintaining and improving the quality of individual articles by integrating them with others in a relevant and meaningful way; it's not about keeping score. The value of de-orphaning is not determined by the number of incoming links you added or how many orphan tags you removed, but rather by the quality of integration. Therefore, the primary goal of the Orphanage is to improve Wikipedia by building the web in a way that enhances the quality of all affected articles.

Note that this project deals primarily with articles rather than images. For orphaned images, see Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files.

Our current aim is to clear the backlog of orphaned articles on Wikipedia, so that all articles can be found by a series of links from the Main Page. Note that an article with categories can be found in this way because it can be reached from other articles that share the category; however, categories currently are not counted in the definition of orphan. The project also aims to make the process of de-orphaning easier. Through collaborating with other projects, providing information, and above all helping editors to cooperate, the Orphanage will make the task of de-orphaning a little less daunting. If you have any ideas or suggestions on how to help us improve in our goal, please feel free to leave a message on the talk page.

What can we all do to help?

Surely you're wondering what you can do to help our cause. With the current backlog all the help that is offered is welcomed. De-orphaning an article is a good way to start.

Suggestions for how to de-orphan

Suggestions for how to de-orphan an article provides information regarding how to find articles that can be linked to orphans and add them. There is also a host of other relevant information in the main article.

Participants

To add yourself to the list of participants, edit this section and add your username to the bottom of the Active list using this format:

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/table|Your Username|Active}}
To receive Backlog drive notifications on your talkpage please add your name here. If you would like a userbox, to proclaim your project participation on your user page, it can be found in the template section below.

Active members

Active members

Name Status Amwyll Rwden (talk • contribs) ? Ainlina (talk • contribs) Active Correogsk (talk • contribs) Active Manishearth (talk • contribs) Writing de-orphaning app (Student) Lamro (talk • contribs) Active ErikTheBikeMan (talk • contribs) Active Arbitrarily0 (talk • contribs) Active Mavromatis (talk • contribs) Semi-Active Sultec (talk • contribs) Active Jtle515 (talk • contribs) Active when I get around to it Mjquin_id (talk • contribs) Active when I have time Cae prince (talk • contribs) Active whenever I can spare time OlEnglish (talk • contribs) Active Daiyusha (talk • contribs) Active AncientToaster (talk • contribs) Active when I remember Dylanfromthenorth (talk • contribs) Active but new to it chrisjj (talk • contribs) Active Watercleave (talk • contribs) Active Jminthorne (talk • contribs) Active Miyagawa (talk • contribs) Active Tech12 (talk • contribs) Active when I can Georgejdorner (talk • contribs) Active in field of World War I aviation Blacktav (talk • contribs) Actively wanting to learn Blackash (talk • contribs) Active slaporte (talk • contribs) Active RAFIAMAN (talk • contribs) Active Molestash (talk • contribs) Active Sadads (talk • contribs) Active, particularly in novels. Also removing unneeded tags using AWB otr500 (talk • contribs) Active MaynardClark (talk • contribs) Semi-Active Adhirk (talk • contribs) Active whenever I'm in office Kwamikagami (talk • contribs) Scan the new lists for language articles: let me know if there's a search term I should add to the AWB filter. Cwmhiraeth (talk • contribs) Active lezelmaz (talk • contribs) Active Breawycker (talk • contribs) Active when I can Mgumn (talk • contribs) Active, but very, very new Jonathandeamer (talk • contribs) Newly active as of February 2012 Adamkriesberg (talk • contribs) Active, Feb 2012 Tosk_Albanian (talk • contribs) V. active DJB3.14 (talk • contribs) Active Mfbjr (talk • contribs) Active, new jamesmcmahon0 (talk • contribs) Active andrewman327 (talk • contribs) Active Cypherquest (talk • contribs) Active CaitlinStewart (talk • contribs) Active Molly-in-md (talk • contribs) Active Laurenthian (talk • contribs) Active Kvng (talk • contribs) Active Jonathan Tessier (talk • contribs) Active Danielh32 (talk • contribs) Active: main activity is adding movies to actor's filmography gbawden (talk • contribs) Active SpiritedMichelle (talk • contribs) Active Gilded Snail (talk • contribs) Active dnllnd (talk • contribs) Sporadically active Lucasstar1 (talk • contribs) Active, and new. Lakun.patra (talk • contribs) Active Coolabahapple (talk • contribs) Active Knope7 (talk • contribs) Active TheEditor867 (talk • contribs) Active Green daemon (talk • contribs) Active Gimubrc (talk • contribs) Active, new user, new member ShuffleboardJerk (talk • contribs) Very Active Laatu (talk • contribs) Active, but new to de-orphaning :) Eno Lirpa (talk • contribs) Active F1lover22 (talk • contribs) Semi-Active (I Have Exams) Pianoman320 (talk • contribs) Active BlackcurrantTea (talk • contribs) Sporadically active, concentrating on the Feb 2009 backlog Info2Learn (talk • contribs) Whenever I get the chance! Pufferfyshe (talk • contribs) Active, at least a little bit AmericanAir88 (talk • contribs) Active SpiritPrince (talk • contribs) Active when I can Milesjolly1997 (talk • contribs) Active StraussInTheHouse (talk • contribs) Active Tt 225 (talk • contribs) Active, doing some of the 2009 backlog Mcampany (talk • contribs) Active Nat965 (talk • contribs) Active when I can Oronsay (talk • contribs) Active Jmfcomo (talk • contribs) Semi-Active, maybe? Jmertel23 (talk • contribs) Active Narky Blert (talk • contribs) Active? Maybe. I spend most of my time fixing bad links to WP:DAB pages (current backlog 8,213) – but have de-orphaned a few pages, and have taken a few {{orphan}} tags off when there was a link or two in. It's a WikiGnomish sort of thing Greyjoy (talk • contribs) Active Robincantin (talk • contribs) Active Teratix (talk • contribs) Active Atlantic306 (talk • contribs) Active Geekdiva (talk • contribs) Active when my real-life limitations allow (new as of 12/18) SamCordes (talk • contribs) Active James Hyett (talk • contribs) Active DannyS712 (talk • contribs) semi-Active rollidan (talk • contribs) Semi-active (I'm a student) Sam Sailor (talk • contribs) Active Bsoyka (talk • contribs) Semi-Active (Student) OliverEastwood (talk • contribs) Active Chialynn (talk • contribs) Active Robincantin (talk • contribs) Active I've been doing a few every day. Azrkhan (talk • contribs) Active VFF0347 (talk • contribs) Active - New to the Project as of Sept 2019, I will try to de-orphan several (3-5) each week here at the outset. The Lord of Math (talk • contribs) Active SoftHiss (talk • contribs) Active Joined 3/5/2020. Epluribusunumyall (talk • contribs) Active Also a student, but will try to be active as much as possible during quarantine The war moose (talk • contribs) Active Brad Thomas Hanks (talk • contribs) Active I-Bin-A-Bibi (talk • contribs) Active VersaceSpace (talk • contribs) Active when I can be (stop adding me to the inactive section) Sideriver84 (talk • contribs) Semi-Active TsunamiPrincess (talk • contribs) Active I am here to help, as often as I can. Midknight1342 (talk • contribs) Active I'm here to help the best I can! Dr. Moist Vanilla (talk • contribs) Active I'm here a few times a week, will try to come here as much as I can as I am a student. SparklingSnail (talk • contribs) Active Smoresmores (talk • contribs) Active RedPurpleX (talk • contribs) Active AryaHedgehog (talk • contribs) Active New! DevSpenpai (talk • contribs) Active Herravondure (talk • contribs) Active Lyricalcarpenter (talk • contribs) Active (New!) A.a.m.tm (talk • contribs) Active when possible Perfect4th (talk • contribs) Active Panthermail (talk • contribs) Active, I am a student but i will do my best to clear the backlog! Demt1298 (talk • contribs) Active evrik (talk • contribs) Activish Ruud Buitelaar (talk • contribs) Active BrendaJaneF (talk • contribs) Active, Just started (July 2022) my attempts at linking articles so I might be a bit slow. AiGenly (talk • contribs) Active Morscho (talk • contribs) Active, I will try to be as active as possible Contrawwftw (talk • contribs) Active 2006toyotacorrola (talk • contribs) Active Scatterleaf (talk • contribs) Active, new Wikiwow1102 (talk • contribs) Active LonelySchoolbag143 (talk • contribs) Active, I will try to de-orphan as much as possible! Knowpanther (talk • contribs) Have lots of work!!! Switchpanel (talk • contribs) Active Ernsanchez00 (talk • contribs) Just started (February 2023), I'm not too sure how to de-orphan the article. KatProsodi (talk • contribs) Active Persent101 (talk • contribs) Active Anxietykazoo (talk • contribs) Active manumaker08 (talk • contribs) semi-Active YourLeastFavorite (talk • contribs) Just trying this out to see what I can do Looklook look at me (talk • contribs) Active whenever I can be Leafy46 (talk • contribs) Active, will help out where I can Fortunaa (talk • contribs) Active Tableguy28 (talk • contribs) Active Millows (talk • contribs) Active TrademarkedTarantula (talk • contribs) Active Turtlecrown (talk • contribs) Active: targeting articles beginning 'Sa-' using All category list (Oct 2023); just started using Quarry for 'Sa-' false orphans GraziePrego (talk • contribs) Active JohnLaurensAnthonyRamos333 (talk • contribs) Active Disc the Band (talk • contribs) Active Orange sticker (talk • contribs) Active Apothewiki (talk • contribs) Semi-Active Cl3phact0 (talk • contribs) Active Masterhatch (talk • contribs) Active SmileySnail (talk • contribs) Active Flux55 (talk • contribs) Active Rublamb (talk • contribs) Active TofuTomaso (talk • contribs) Active, started February 2024 GoldenBootWizard276 (talk • contribs) Semi-active EsperPike (talk • contribs) Active, new to Wiki editing Wolvescantread (talk • contribs) Newly active with thanks to this video![1] Roastedbeanz1 (talk • contribs) I'll get to it when I get to it. GoldRingChip (talk • contribs) Active… joined 2024 April 9 SafariScribe (talk • contribs) Active Koibuprofen (talk • contribs) Active, new to wp PolarClimates (talk • contribs) Kind of active GreenGalaxio (talk • contribs) Somewhat active Highresheadphones (talk • contribs) Somewhat active Svampesky (talk • contribs) Active. I just joined Wikipedia. I'll contribute as I familiarise myself with MoS and policy, before I start editing article content. Bikermaus (talk • contribs) Somewhat active Titan1655 (talk • contribs) Semi-active (student) Bunnypranav (talk • contribs) Active Atakes Ris (talk • contribs) Active-ish, school be in a bit HDixon91 (talk • contribs) Active Obviousalchemist (talk • contribs) Active 1AmNobody24 (talk • contribs) Active Embladc (talk • contribs) Active Knitsey (talk • contribs) Active Bis-Serjetà? (talk • contribs) Active when possible - in orphans relating to Saints and Orthodox Christianity, also thanks to this video[2] That Tired Tarantula (talk • contribs) Active Sallyrenee (talk • contribs) Active, in binges Melodydove (talk • contribs) Active, aspiring daily de-orphaner! Doomhope (talk • contribs) Active as of Jan 2025 Abolishedtemple (talk • contribs) Active, still familiarising myself with wikipedia. DeemDeem52 (talk • contribs) Active, in sporadic bursts Reverosie (talk • contribs) Active Reedyfrog (talk • contribs) Fairly active Sksatsuma (talk • contribs) Active Opm581 (talk • contribs) Active; joined June 20, 2025 Ev0308 (talk • contribs) Active Bntlyprce (talk • contribs) Active Abolishedtemple (talk • contribs) Active XlosVSM (talk • contribs) Active GrinningIodize (talk • contribs) Active, but only on easily de-orphaned pages Harold Foppele (talk • contribs) Active Dess Holliday (talk • contribs) Active Lagtrainzzz (talk • contribs) New, active as of Aug. 25, 2025 Oddbard (talk • contribs) Active NV1982 (talk • contribs) Active

Inactive list

These former members haven't been seen around in a while or are unfortunately no longer involved with WikiProject Orphanage. We hope they'll come back and move themselves to the active list!

Inactive list

Name Status Aervanath (talk • contribs) Inactive Pico del Teide (talk • contribs) Inactive Joanna Ingles (talk • contribs) Inactive Tadramgo (talk • contribs) Inactive Sassf (talk • contribs) Inactive leujohn (talk • contribs) Inactive Jagordon (talk • contribs) Inactive Raven1977 (talk • contribs) Inactive Qsung (talk • contribs) Inactive RockManQ (talk • contribs) Inactive Bharathprime (talk • contribs) Inactive mynameinc (talk • contribs) Inactive CaveatLector (talk • contribs) Inactive m9999 (talk • contribs) Inactive freenaulij (talk • contribs) 2007 December 14 JetLover (talk • contribs) 2008 May 1 Lights (talk • contribs) 2008 July 11 Lex Kitten (talk • contribs) 2008 February 25 gs44631 (talk • contribs) 2008 March 22 kodmkl (talk • contribs) 2008 July 31 leobold1 (talk • contribs) 2008 June 9 Fattyjwoods (talk • contribs) 2008 July 12 LadyEditor (talk • contribs) 2008 May 26 Karces (talk • contribs) 2008 July 10 Cookiecutter43 (talk • contribs) 2008 August 5 Fbu08 (talk • contribs) 2008 September 9 Ericloyd (talk • contribs) 2008 September 16 Vrefron (talk • contribs) 2008 September 17 Zane McFate (talk • contribs) 2008 October 8 Mrammaraskar (talk • contribs) 2008 October 11 Marie_eileen (talk • contribs) 2008 October 24 Aviationalyours (talk • contribs) 2008 November 2 Hairlossmatters (talk • contribs) 2008 November 3 Foolestroupe (talk • contribs) 2008 November 3 Hunting dog (talk • contribs) 2008 November 7 Avocado (talk • contribs) 2008 November 28 Unscented (talk • contribs) 2008 December 17 Bonatto (talk • contribs) 2008 December 13 Oddbodz (talk • contribs) Inactive Jim Cartar (talk • contribs) Inactive Rtewqq (talk • contribs) Inactive I'll try to help as much as I can – last edit in 2016 Seraphim (talk • contribs) Inactive – last edit in 2014 Adam Schwing (talk • contribs) Inactive – last edit in 2010 SkyWalker (talk • contribs) Inactive Puddingpie (talk • contribs) Inactive Penguin0267 (talk • contribs) Inactive Hippie Metalhead (talk • contribs) Inactive Danielspencer91 (talk • contribs) Inactive (I'm a Student!) Syed (talk • contribs) Inactive Annelid (talk • contribs) Inactive Pinkygirl91 (talk • contribs) Inactive ssaa08 (talk • contribs) Inactive Aditya (talk • contribs) Inactive PiFanatic (talk • contribs) Inactive Sgc21896 (talk • contribs) Inactive Leif edling (talk • contribs) Inactive Josemanimala (talk • contribs) Inactive Annalise (talk • contribs) Inactive SaltedCracker (talk • contribs) Inactive Avalik (talk • contribs) Inactive Adamuu (talk • contribs) Inactive Postcard Cathy (talk • contribs) Inactive wingedcheetah (talk • contribs) Inactive Sebwite (talk • contribs) Inactive, specializing in adding navboxes to pages Unionhawk (talk • contribs) Inactive Flipper24 (talk • contribs) Inactive Scoreed (talk • contribs) Inactive, new shraktu (talk • contribs) Inactive Carlton Bankz (talk • contribs) Inactive, new Aboriginal Noise (talk • contribs) Inactive, did this at another website Lonefolf (talk • contribs) Inactive Deepak D'Souza (talk • contribs) Inactive Rambler24 (talk • contribs) Inactive Biglovinb (talk • contribs) Inactive Wackofnotrade (talk • contribs) Inactive Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) Inactive Fletch79 (talk • contribs) Inactive royalsabri (talk • contribs) Inactive Kamots (talk • contribs) Inactive scoutHawk_01 (talk • contribs) Inactive Dan Tromedlov (talk • contribs) Inactive Majestic27 (talk • contribs) Inactive CheeseDeluxe (talk • contribs) Inactive Mattg82 (talk • contribs) Inactive Youre dreaming eh? 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Progress

Orphaned articles

(refresh)

Subtotals

November 2015	131
December 2015	340
January 2016	170
February 2016	60
March 2016	246
April 2016	344
May 2016	339
June 2016	356
July 2016	342
August 2016	472
September 2016	423
October 2016	284
November 2016	219
December 2016	196
January 2017	567
February 2017	580
March 2017	598
April 2017	308
May 2017	446
June 2017	419
July 2017	135
August 2017	337
September 2017	272
October 2017	224
November 2017	78
December 2017	133
January 2018	176
February 2018	242
March 2018	270
April 2018	137
May 2018	46
June 2018	494
July 2018	133
August 2018	161
September 2018	492
October 2018	198
November 2018	145
December 2018	406
January 2019	444
February 2019	350
March 2019	464
April 2019	122
May 2019	203
June 2019	287
July 2019	226
August 2019	197
September 2019	165
October 2019	545
November 2019	305
December 2019	128
January 2020	206
March 2020	190
April 2020	311
May 2020	442
June 2020	246
July 2020	227
August 2020	176
September 2020	257
October 2020	363
November 2020	270
December 2020	200
January 2021	687
February 2021	393
March 2021	349
April 2021	354
May 2021	324
June 2021	231
July 2021	319
August 2021	237
October 2021	328
November 2021	610
December 2021	863
January 2022	859
February 2022	595
March 2022	488
April 2022	1,137
May 2022	419
June 2022	429
July 2022	390
August 2022	395
September 2022	472
October 2022	590
November 2022	959
December 2022	531
January 2023	495
February 2023	255
March 2023	434
April 2023	437
May 2023	356
June 2023	454
July 2023	547
August 2023	1,184
September 2023	1,329
October 2023	410
November 2023	441
December 2023	495
January 2024	657
February 2024	1,228
March 2024	946
April 2024	413
May 2024	463
June 2024	2,143
July 2024	371
August 2024	1,857
September 2024	380
October 2024	522
November 2024	541
December 2024	1,765
January 2025	1,569
February 2025	482
March 2025	516
April 2025	435
May 2025	667
June 2025	722
July 2025	671
August 2025	751
September 2025	998
October 2025	285
Undated articles	5

All articles

54,426

A progress graph and monthly summary of tagged orphans is at Category:Orphaned articles.

Note that the bot addbot started tagging orphans in February 2009, which accounted for the large number of orphans tagged that month.

For in-depth details, see the Wikipedia:Orphan information page.

Templates

See also: Category: WikiProject Orphanage templates

• {{Orphan}} – a template to be put directly on the article if it satisfies the orphan criteria. Currently recommended for use only if an article has zero incoming links.
  • {{Orphan|date=October 2025|incat=October 2025}} – if the article has no link and probably never will, but is well categorised.
  • {{Orphan|date=October 2025|att=October 2025}} – once you have unsuccessfully attempted to de-orphan the article. Leave "date" as the date on the original orphan template (if one exists), and set "att" to equal the month and year you attempted to de-orphan the article.
• {{Orphaned essay}} – for essays that are found to be orphaned.
• {{subst:Welcome de-orphaner}} – a welcoming template to encourage new project members.
• {{subst:Welcome de-orphaner2}} – a slightly different welcoming template, to invite de-orphaners to the project.
• {{WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|WikiProject name}} - add link to orphaned articles by subject.

• This user is a member of WikiProject Orphanage. You can help!

  – {{User Wikipedia Orphan}} – the userbox for this project.

• orp	This user is working to reduce the orphaned pages backlog

  – Custom userbox

• {{WikiProject Orphanage topicon}} topicon for this project.

Description	Template	Example
Add link to orphaned articles by subject.	{{WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|Physics}}	Orphaned articles in Physics
Add link to orphaned articles by subject. Within todo list	{{tasks |cleanup={{WikiProject cleanup list|France}} |geocoord= {{WikiProject cleanup group|All articles needing coordinates|France}} |orphans= {{WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|France}} |photo= [[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in France]] }}	Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : clean-up listing for France Geographical coordinates : All articles needing coordinates in France Orphans : Orphaned articles in France Photo : Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in France

Categories

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

See also

• Help:Drawing attention to new pages
• Wikipedia:Build the web
• Wikipedia:Integrate
• Wikipedia:Walled garden
• WikiProject Abandoned Articles
• WikiProject Council/Proposals/Navbox

WikiProject orphan lists

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Orphaned articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Orphaned articles

Obsolete orphan lists

These are kept for historical purposes only, they are no longer used:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/Articles orphaned without redirects - List of orphans from a 2003 database dump
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/Orphaned Articles - List of articles from a 2004 database dump

References

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4

External links

• Monitor readership on any Wikipedia page