User talk:Joe Roe#Your question to me

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Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to {{Noping|MPGuy2824}}), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to {{no ping|John B123}} for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

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Backlog:File:Everlasting Fireworks looped.gif Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome Joe Roe! I'm glad that you are joining the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/February 2024|

drive]]! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

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style="border: 5px solid #ABCDEF ;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | |rowspan="2" | |style="padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | File:WiR Pride June 2022.pngWomen in Red | June 2025, Vol 11, Issue 6, Nos. 326, 327, 339, 340 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ | Alphabet run K & L Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Who are the most overlooked and interesting Women in Red? We've no idea, but we're putting together our list of the 100 most interesting ex-Women in Red. We are creating the list to celebrate 10 years of Women in Red and we hope to present it at Wikimania. We are ignoring the obvious, so do you have a name or subject we should consider? Can you suggest a DYK style hook? If you are shy about editing that page, you are welcome to add ideas and comments on the talk page. The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July, 2025 Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via [https://humaniki.wmcloud.org/search Humaniki tool]. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,492 articles during this period! :* 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women) :* 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% (2,061,363 bios; 414,126 women) Tip of the month: Every language Wikipedia has its own policies regarding notability and reliable sources. Before translating an article from one language Wikipedia into English Wikipedia, research the subject and verify that the translated article will meet English Wikipedia's policy requirements. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: [https://instagram.com/wikiwomeninred Instagram] | [https://www.pinterest.com/wikiwomeninred/boards/ Pinterest]

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style="background:#ccf; border:2px #007fff solid; border-radius:20px; text-align:center;"|The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter
style="border:solid 1px gray;"| {| style="width:100%; border:1px gray solid; background:#ccf;" | style="vertical-align:middle; width:55%; border:0; background:#ccf; padding:1em;"| File:White Rose Badge of York.svg The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 206 – June 2025 | style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:right; width:45%; border:0; background:#ccf; padding:1em;"| 30px May issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here
style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"| ; Project News Welcome to the two hundred and sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter. Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WikiProject Yorkshire has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 20,467 last month to 20,632 on 30 May 2025). In the area of GAs WikiProject Yorkshire at 233 is ahead of WikiProject Greater Manchester who have 91. WikiProject Yorkshire also has the lead in FAs at 96 while WikiProject Greater Manchester has 64 out of a total number of 5,215 articles. {{classicon|FA}}Currently we have seventy nine Yorkshire featured articles: George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop of York) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity • Abe Waddington • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball • The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished • The Wrestlers (Etty) • Bootham Crescent • History of York City F.C. (1922–1980) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. (1980–present) • William Sterndale Bennett • Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed • The World Before the Flood • Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' • North Eastern Railway War Memorial • York City War Memorial • Northern England • Albert Pierrepoint • RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor • Keldholme Priory election dispute • 2018 World Snooker Championship • 2019 World Snooker Championship • Capture of Wakefield • 2017 World Snooker Championship • 2017 EFL Championship play-off Final • 1985 World Snooker Championship • Cardiff City F.C. 2–1 Leeds United F.C. (2002) • 1986 World Snooker Championship • 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final • 2020 World Snooker Championship • 1984 World Snooker Championship • 1925 FA Cup Final • 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final • Acamptonectes • 1997 Football League First Division play-off Final • 1987 World Snooker Championship • 1989 World Snooker Championship • 2014 World Snooker Championship • 1983 World Snooker Championship • 1988 World Snooker Championship • 2015 World Snooker Championship • 2002 World Snooker Championship • 2021 World Snooker Championship • 1982 World Snooker Championship • 2016 World Snooker Championship • 2022 World Snooker Championship • 1981 World Snooker Championship • 1980 World Snooker Championship • Ian Carmichael •2023 World Snooker Championship • 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning • Dracula {{classicon|FA}} There are also seventeen featured lists: York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent • List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances) • List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) • Kate Rusby discography Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. ; Article Activity {{icon|GAN}} 2023 EFL League One play-off final nominated for GA on 4 May {{icon|GA}} 2023 EFL League One play-off final promoted to GA on 8 May {{icon|NOFA}} One Direction not promoted to FA on 18 May {{icon|DYK}} 2023 EFL League One play-off final appeared in DYK on 26 May ; Member News There are 103 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No new members have joined us since the May newsletter. ; Assessment Assess and review {{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}} {| border="0" cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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; Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See Assessment)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

;Priority Articles

The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -

• Bradford • Doncaster • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • Northern England • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

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;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The June 2025 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.

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align=center |181 |1 Jan 2025 ~ 31 Jan 2025 |John Thomson (bishop) |Ormesby Hall

align=center |182 |1 Feb 2025 ~ 28 Feb 2025 |Upgang Lifeboat Station |Pocklington School

align=center |183 |1 Mar 2025 ~ 31 Mar 2025 |Laura Veale |Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield

align=center |184 |1 Apr 2025 ~ 30 Apr 2025 |Whitby and Pickering Railway |Roos

align=center |185 |1 May 2025 ~ 31 May 2025 |York Minster fire |Skipton Broughton Road Carriage sidings

align=center |186 |1 Jun 2025 ~ 30 Jun 2025 |Agnes Grey |Templar Hotel, Leeds

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

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• Monitoring is essential
  Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.

• Moves
  Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.

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• A very big {{Thank you}} to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

• To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

• To the football and rugby editors who have done sterling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

• To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).

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• An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

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• A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
• History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.

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• An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

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• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
• An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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