Category talk:Uncategorized AfC requests

Tracking lost submissions

1. Go to the web address: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apprefix=Articles_for_creation&aplimit=500&apnamespace=5&apfilterredir=nonredirects&format=xml
2. Copy-paste entire page into MS Word (or another suitable program)
3. Add &apfrom=<last subpage name> to the web address. For me this resulted in: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apprefix=Articles_for_creation/Submissions&aplimit=500&apnamespace=5&apfilterredir=nonredirects&format=xml&apfrom=Articles_for_creation/Submissions/Agatha_Kryst
4. Copy-paste entire page into MS Word
5. Replace the subpage name in the previous address with the one from the bottom of the new list
6. Copy-paste entire page into MS Word
7. Repeat previous two steps until you reach the bottom of the list
8. In MS Word, Ctrl-F, click the replace tab, Find: title=" Replace with: [[
9. In MS Word, Ctrl-F, click the replace tab, Find: " /> Replace with: ]]
10. Copy-paste entire document into notepad, save with unicode, not ANSI, encoding
11. Open AWB and go to Tools>List comparer
12. Create list 1 from the text file you just saved. Create list 2 from Category:Declined AfC submissions (Wow, was I confused before I figured out you deleted the old cat)
13. Unique in list 1 contains potential lost submissions, save this as a new text file (By the way, Unique in list 2 also contains the wtf pages that somehow didn't show up in the API search. Perusing this is worthwhile if it can be useful to tweak the search criteria)
14. Clear the current lists, and create the new list 1 from the newly saved text file, and list 2 from Category:Pending Afc requests
15. Once again, unique in list 1 contains the potential lost submissions, and unique in list 2 is worth perusing. Save list 1 as a new text file
16. The list is small enough at this point that I just go in and remove the false positives, which include a slew of talk pages for ancient archives, as well as Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Submissions/
17. Make your list from the final, heavily pruned list of lost submissions, and run AWB on them using Someguy1221's patented AFC tracking script.