GuildWiki:Non-orphaned articles

=Transcluded Pages= These pages appear on other pages by transclusion; transclusion shows up in What links here, but is not considered for the orphaned pages list.

Instead of adding a page here directly, consider adding it to one of the categories that appear on the following pages, since that will also automatically create a link (there may be a slight delay).

Weapons QRs
Most of these ought to be in Category:Weapon quick references. They have no category at present.
 * Generic unique items quick reference (Eye of the North)
 * Monk collector weapons (Divine Favor enhancing)
 * Monk collector weapons (Divine Favor requiring)
 * Monk collector weapons (Healing Prayers enhancing)
 * Monk collector weapons (Healing Prayers requiring)
 * Monk collector weapons (Protection Prayers enhancing)
 * Monk collector weapons (Protection Prayers requiring)
 * Monk collector weapons (Smiting Prayers enhancing)
 * Monk collector weapons (Smiting Prayers requiring)
 * PvP weapon/foci
 * PvP weapon/melee
 * PvP weapon/ranged
 * PvP weapon/shields
 * PvP weapon/staves
 * PvP weapon/wands

Misc

 * Eye of the North hero skill trainers quick reference no section for it on QR, and no cause for one
 * Profession trainer (Factions)/Q1
 * Profession trainer (Factions)/Q1 Skills
 * Profession trainer (Factions)/Q2
 * Profession trainer (Factions)/Q2 Skills
 * Profession trainer (Factions)/Tr1
 * Profession trainer (Factions)/Tr2
 * Profession trainer (Factions)/Track down
 * Profession trainer (Nightfall)/Tr1

= A technical explanation =


 * Orphaned pages are pages that are not linked to. This is usually an indication that they're not integrated into the wiki very well, and the way to fix it is to integrate them: think about which pages could link to it, do a wiki search for the article name, whatever it takes.
 * However, there are some exceptions. For example, we endeavour to not link to disambiguation articles, but rather link directly to the intended alternative. This can leave disambiguation pages orphaned, and that is a good thing.
 * Another common exception are pages that are transcluded onto other pages; they're usually subpages. You can link to them (some of them make good QR guides), but they're useful even if they're not linked to, and there may be no need to link them.
 * We want to remove these pages from the "orphaned pages" list so that we see more clearly which pages really need editorial attention. The idea is to create a link somewhere to make the wiki software think that the page is not lonely any more. The easiest way is to collect all those links in a special article. (Another way would be to maka a link on the including page and disguise it with display:none, which is simple if you do the inclusion via template anyway, but we currently don't do that.)
 * However, what with this wiki being quite large and transclusion being used so often, this special article got rather big and unwieldy. Many pages on that big article belonged to categories that should, as a whole, never be on the "orphaned pages" list: for example, the disambiguation pages; or all pages in one of the "subpage" categories. This offered an obvious course of action: split subpages off, one for each category. For example, the subpage Non-orphaned_articles/Disambiguation has a link to every disambiguation page. What's more, this is done automatically. If you make a new disambiguation page and place it in Category:Disambiguation (which the does for you), it will automatically appear on the list (there may be a short delay if the Wiki is busy). Of course that also happens when you add an appropriate category manually.
 * To summarize: the old procedure to make a page non-orphaned is to put a link to it on Non-orphaned_articles. (That still works, too!) The new procedure is to add the page to a category that is automatically non-orphaned.
 * If you find that you want to unorphan a page, but there is no proper category for it, the you can create one - maybe it already exists. To unorphan a category, you make a subpage off Non-orphaned_articles like the others and put the same template call on it. The template will read the subpage name and automatically make a link list for the corresponding category.
 * Pages that can't be categorized, but still ought to be taken off the orphaned pages list, can still be linked to from the article (old system) - or we create a Category:non-orphaned pages and its automatic list subpage and put all of these lonely pages in there (new system).