Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/Orphaned Articles

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

These orphaned articles were detected in the database dump of June 26, 2004. (Some of the orphaned articles that were detected at that time have since been linked from other articles and removed from this list.) It includes articles that are not linked from other articles in the article namespace. Disambiguation pages should already be removed.

Once

pages have been adopted (by the creation of a link from one or several other articles),
pages have been deleted (links already red or question marked),
pages have been made redirects,
pages have been marked disambiguation pages, usually with {{disambig}}
pages are listed on Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles and marked as such, or have already been merged (redirected),
temp pages have been moved out of the article namespace,

these pages can be removed from this list. After an update, they won't appear here.

There is cached version of the initial function at Special:Lonelypages. It includes disambiguation pages and other excluded here.

How to update

See /How to update

Excluded entries

CDPs, towns and villages, are listed on /CDPs and towns

Main list

Continued at #/M-Z