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This template is meant to be substed on the talk pages of users who you've seen de-orphaning, but haven't yet added themselves to the participant list of WikiProject Orphanage. To welcome users who've recently added themselves to the list, you can use Template:Welcome de-orphaner.

[edit] Hello, Fellow de-orphaner!

I noticed you've been helping out trying to de-orphan the vast number of orphaned articles out there, and I'd like to say that we really appreciate your help. You might want to consider adding your name to the list of participants in WikiProject Orphanage, the WikiProject concerned with de-orphaning articles.

Here are some things you might want to do to get even more involved:

1. Read the WikiProject Orphanage page, especially the section marked "Criteria". The page contains a lot of good advice on-deorphaning, as well as the standard procedures we are using to de-orphan articles.
2. Look at {{orphan}},{{do-attempt}}, and {{articleissues}} closely and make sure you know how to use them correctly. (It's not difficult, but it is easy to screw up. Trust me, I have.)
3. Keep de-orphaning! Category:Orphaned articles contains all orphaned articles organized by month. Right now we're just trying to keep up with all the new orphans being created, so please start with the current monthly category. Once those are cleared out, we can start working on the backlog in reverse-chronological order.

You may have already known all of this, in which case sorry for the spam! Either way, Let me know if there's any way I can help you contribute more to the project. Thanks again!