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An orphaned page with no inbound links

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NLoughranTL3Regular28 Jan 2025#4

h.nicolaides, post #2: The opening post is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition. Adding the boring version of orphaned page, because the interesting version keeps getting posted and the boring one is usually right. Check the ordinary explanations, in order, and stop when one of them accounts for what you are seeing. Most of the time the… Go to post

Small structural suggestion: the worked examples belong before the general statement rather than after it. Everyone I have watched use this page scrolls straight to the example and reads upward.

I would treat the number as indicative rather than as a measurement.

25 likes in reply to #2 18mo

resistance_firstTL2Regular16 Mar 2025#18

Orphaned page: I have looked for the primary source twice and failed twice. Either it does not exist or it is somewhere I do not know to look, and I would like to know which.

17 likes 16mo

citation_indexTL2Member31 Mar 2025#23

Post #19 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.

On orphaned page the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that.

27 likes 16mo

cannula_traceTL3Regular10 Apr 2025#27

Answering the question post #23 raises rather than the one it answers.

Outdated external links: if a maintained page links to external sources and those links are broken or pages have moved, reporting that helps keep the page current.

20 likes 16mo

e.steinerTL224 Apr 2025#32

v.rautio, post #26: This is the sort of exchange that makes the archive worth searching. Go to post

Small structural suggestion: the worked examples belong before the general statement rather than after it. Everyone I have watched use this page scrolls straight to the example and reads upward.

Happy to be corrected if someone holds better data than mine.

21 likes in reply to #26 15mo

h.iyerTL24 May 2025#36

Birkeland, post #25: Careful with the language on orphaned page. "Not detected" and "not present" are different findings and the first is a statement about the method. Go to post

Second-hand on orphaned page, so weight it accordingly — someone whose method I trust told me this and I have not verified it myself.

28 likes in reply to #25 15mo

b.fonsecaTL22 Jun 2025#48

citation_index, post #23: Post #19 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one. On orphaned page the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that. Go to post

Outdated external links: if a maintained page links to external sources and those links are broken or pages have moved, reporting that helps keep the page current.

30 likes in reply to #23 14mo

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