Template talk:Orphan

Template creation
Created this because there are so many pages that are never linked to. It's hard to find them because nothing links to them. PurpleKiwi 05:15, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * IMHO this is just a lazy template, basically the same meaning as the stub template and unnecessary. -- G R Y P H O N  t c 05:32, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It's different than the Stub template. (but copied from it) The Stub tag is for articles that are too short. This one is for articles that are never seen. Some articles never get linked to and aren't in any categories. PurpleKiwi 22:04, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * If you are bothering to make an edit to add this template you should just be fixing the category instead and some articles won't have a lot of links naturally. There are already tools for this. -- G R Y P H O N  t c 05:00, 15 October 2010 (CDT)
 * Wow! I didn't know that! Should I get rid of this? PurpleKiwi 17:06, 17 October 2010 (CDT)
 * But with the "Short pages" thing, we don't need the Stub category either. PurpleKiwi 17:15, 17 October 2010 (CDT)

Template usefulness
This template actually is useful. Having a category to search easily for any page that isn't linked anywhere is really useful. I updated the template to reflect this, and also now it applies not only to articles, but also to any possible page that isn't linked to.

Also, the Special:LonelyPages page lists any page that hasn't links to it. However this template is useful because lists pages that need to be linked, unlike the special page. Thejoaqui777 (talk) 14:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC) (Edited 15:37, 3 March 2021 (UTC))