Template:Orphan subpage: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:13, 1 April 2008

If you are in the process of starting a new cluster then:

The following links will be useful:

However, if you found this page by following another link here, you may have found an orphaned subpage or metadata page.

What next?

If this is a subpage:

a) with content:

Someone may have created subpage content without an article.
A page may have been moved to a new location and this page may have been accidently left behind.
- The former article might have existed at "Orphan subpage".
- Or possibly at [[Template:Orphan subpage/Metadata]], taken from the pagename in the metadata page.
- Or it was created as a stand alone subpage and never had an associated article or metadata page.
Consider if there is a home to merge the data too or consider starting a cluster around this content.

b) without content:

If it is a metadata page:

See what links to it to get an idea of what other pages got lost when the article was deleted:
If there is significant content on the other subpages then preserve this page.
Probably OK to delete if no other content since any page move would have required a new metadata page.

If the article name includes a backslash:

A backslash (/) in a title is not compatible with the CZ subpages format.
Make this page into a redirect to a more appropriate name. For an example, see GNU/Linux.

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 -->{{#ifexist:Template:{{BASEPAGENAME}}/Metadata||
-:::** Or possibly at [[{{{{BASEPAGENAME}}/Metadata|info=pagename}}]],  taken from the pagename in the [[Template:{{BASEPAGENAME}}/Metadata|metadata page]]. }}<!--
+:::** Or possibly at [[{{{{BASEPAGENAME}}/Metadata|info=pagename}}]],  taken from the pagename in the [[Template:{{BASEPAGENAME}}/Metadata|metadata page]]. }}
--->:::** Or it was created as a stand alone subpage and never had an associated article or metadata page.
+:::** Or it was created as a stand alone subpage and never had an associated article or metadata page.
 :::*Consider if there is [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/{{PAGENAMEE}} a home to merge] the data too or consider starting a cluster around this content.
 :::'''b) without content:'''