Forum:Wanted pages, deleted pages and User Talk: IP

Hello all,

We've recently went through a bunch of rename/deletion on rappelz wiki. What happens now is that the Wanted Pages special page is filled with pages that were deleted. Looking at what links to these delete wanted pages, one can see that it is mainly from user talk pages that have contributed to the page. Most of these talk pages are from unregistered users (IP addresses).

(On the Wanted pages special page, Template:Rocky Mountain Anatema/misc is a deleted page.)

My goal is to have the pages listed in Wanted Pages to be real pages, and not deleted ones. What is the suggested way to deal with that? Updating that manually is not an available solution (there were at least 800 pages, with 1 to 11 editors).

Thanks! Hunter789 16:43, July 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * There may be a wat to help you.
 * See this page. This is a contents of XML file I got after using Special:Export for 2 pages from your wikia.
 * As I can see, Coreanus treasure contains the title and ... contains the article contents. So in theory one can make a XML file and import into the wikia thus creating the articles.


 * But I can think of 2 problems: Getting the id`s for the pages` revisions & titles:


 * Coreanus treasure
 * 17868
 * 55168 
 * I don`t know where to get those. Unless this will be figured out, I am afraid that the only solution is creating the articles manually.
 * Teyandee 13:47, July 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * I don`t know where to get those. Unless this will be figured out, I am afraid that the only solution is creating the articles manually.
 * Teyandee 13:47, July 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your input, Teyandee! However maybe I have expressed what I wanted to do the wrong way. Instead of recreating the pages, I'd like to remove the links from the anonymous user's pages to the pages that have been deleted.


 * E.g. on the Wanted Pages special page, there is a link to Template:Rocky Mountain Anatema/misc. That page existed before but has been removed because of changes in the wiki (that's what we want). Taking a look at what what links there, we see 11 User talk: [IP Address] pages. These were automatically created when the users edited the page. I'd like to remove the links from these user talk pages. I'm sure it could be done manually, but would there be a faster, more automatic way?


 * Thanks, Hunter789 18:20, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * You could do this with AWB fairly easily. Set up find and replace for every page you want to delink, and then build a list of "What Links Here (All NS)" (or Special:Allpages, and have it skip on no replace) with all the pages you want to delink, then run the bot --  Random Time  18:25, July 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok, that way I'd still have to find all the pages that have been deleted and that need to be unlinked, but making the list of editors in AWB would speed up the process. There doesn't seem to be a way to fetch the content of WantedPages via the API but oh well, that's a start, thanks a lot! Hunter789 18:36, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Try the HTML scraper --  Random Time  18:39, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Oh, well it's seems quite complex to use. I'll try to figure out how that works (advanced regex), or I'll just manually create the list. Again, thanks a lot! Hunter789 19:13, July 10, 2011 (UTC)