User talk:Polequant/Archive 1

I don't think that 'stale' is a good reason for removing a POV tag- the article still reads as if it were written as an advertisement, by a company representative. In my opinion, it would be better to either rewrite the article for neutrality, or else leave the tag in place as a reminder to others that the rewrite still needs to be done. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 15:03, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

:It was raised on the talkpage in February, and the user didn't receive any objections to putting in the information they wanted to. That they didn't do anything is not a reason to leave the tag in place. I don't read the article as particularly advertising. It does what most company articles do - describe the activities of the company. There is a little bit of criticism in there as well. Polequant (talk) 15:05, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

::I don't think I understand your response; do you think that the article is written in a neutral tone? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 15:08, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

:::Do you think it isn't? In the 20 seconds you took to revert me, did you read through the whole thing, and come to a considered conclusion? If there are things you think need changing why don't you detail them on the talkpage, or do it yourself, rather than keeping it as a "badge of shame". Also have you read the instructions [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POV here]? I seem to be following them to the letter. Polequant (talk) 15:13, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

::::I don't think I understand your response- do you think this article is written in a neutral tone? I haven't had someone attack me for reading quickly since junior high school, and I'm not sure what to make of it, but it doesn't seem to be helpful as an answer to my question. Frankly, I thought I asked pretty politely, and I wasn't expecting quite this level of unpleasantness- is there some context to your reaction that would help me understand it? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 15:16, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

::::::In any case, I was just patrolling new user contributions, and am not personally invested in this article enough to give a damn what happens to it. I'm certainly not interested in getting in a fight over it. If you are a person who'd be that nasty to a complete stranger then I'm not at all interested in collaborating with you on the article, so I guess it's up to you to fix now. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 15:18, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

::::::::I am following the instructions of that template. There is no ongoing discussion about it. If you have problems with the article it is up to you to detail them. It is irrelevant whether you or I think it is written neutrally unless we discuss it on the article itself. And get over yourself - you think I'm being nasty to you?! If you want to do recent change patrolling I recommend you work on your people skills. Polequant (talk) 15:22, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

• Can I just add to this that just because the changes have not been made within a month, a year, whatever, it does not mean that the article is somehow now neutral. It still isn't, and the POV tag should remain until the article has been brought to a neutral point of view, however long that takes. Also, as the person who added the tag, I am not obliged to do this myself. IainUK talk 00:35, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

You are free to say whatever you want. You are wrong however-just read the notes on the template you added. If you still don't understand then come back and I'll explain it to you.Polequant (talk) 19:45, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

:Sorry yes, you are of course correct. The article is still not neutral though so if I get the time, I'll see what I can do to fix that. Cheers, Iain IainUK talk 09:23, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

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• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• 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 (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

;Featured Lists

Featured Lists have been promoted during the last month and have now been given their own weekly slot on the main page. Lists appear on the front page on Mondays just above "Today's featured picture". This may be extended to other days at a later date if people like it. In line with this I have also added a box for lists on to the Yorkshire Portal and created a couple of entries to start it off, more will be added later.

The project currently has 12 featured lists, out of 208 project articles identified as lists, and it would be good if we could get some of these on to the front page. Of anyone wants to take this up they need to create an entry for the list and nominate them to be considered here.

Lists are easier than articles to get to featured status as there is less prose to be created and the bulk of the page is the list itself. Most of the project's current featured lists are on football related topics and it would be good to get a broader range of topics for out Featured Lists. Some of the 208 lists could be brought up to featured status with a little bit of work, if any one wants to take up the challenge.

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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 below)
• 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 (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

;Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • 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.

;Vandalism

With the start of the school holidays there is more chances of vandalism to articles at this time of year. It is time to remind members to be on the alert for vandalism to articles, especially those that are in the projects scope.

Here is a recent example of one that slipped through the net [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Appleton-le-Street&diff=prev&oldid=435831123 this edit] which was reverted by an IP over a month after it was made! You can check the changes to the project's tagged pages using the watchlist or you can use the toolserver version which looks at just articles [http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject+Yorkshire here]. The former may not be up to date, as it requires manual update of the list of articles, but does cover all namespaces.

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• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• 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 (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

;Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • 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.

;Back to school

September and October are the months when many young people move from one school to a new school, or to university. It tends to be a time when freshers "look up" their new schools and colleges on Wikipedia and decide to edit for the first time. Many additions to school articles, in the past, have been unsourced, some poorly formatted and some in violation of other Wikipedia policies. More experienced editors can help here. It is easy to become frustrated, hit revert and issue a warning of some sort. How off-putting for a new editor.

New editors do make innocent mistakes and it is up to us all to try to welcome and support them; perhaps by issuing a welcome message, helping them to find sources or format references and citations. Obviously, not all will turn out to be paragons of Wikipedia virtue, but we can at least give them the opportunity. May be it is time for us all to re-read the essay Please do not bite the newcomers.

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Thank you for moving and updating the page at Wyre Forest School‎. Please be sure to add references that support such major changes. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:05, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

:No worries. I was trying to sort out a copy paste move by User:BVRT11. Thanks for adding the ref.Polequant (talk) 09:54, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

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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 below)
• 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 (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

;Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • 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.

;New software release

October sees the next release of the MediaWiki software (version 1.8) that runs the English Wikipedia. It will probably live by the time the newsletter arrives by the last few month's delivery dates! If you see any problems with the page display on any articles or problems with your favourite gadget or script then it may be a problem with the new release of software. It is worth checking out the Village Pump - Technical board to see if there has been any report of a similar problem. If not then raise a new thread to get it recorded and to see if there are any of the technical people that can point you at a solution. Hopefully things will go smoother than previous releases but these things always throw up obscure problems that have not been foreseen.

If you are interested in the detail of the changes made in this release then take a look at the [http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_18/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 full list].

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Your PROD at Balloon Frames has been contested, so it has gone to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balloon Frames instead. You may wish to comment. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:29, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

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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 below)
• 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 (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

;Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • 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.

;Collaboration

Each month the project has a collaboration of the month when two articles are nominated to be worked on by members during the month. One of these is usually a B-class article and one a start-class article. Some of these have not really been worked on by members and I would encourage all members to get involved and see what can be achieved. An example of the success of this effort has been Whitby which was the B-class collaboration article in July and has just achieved Good Article status. This was achieved by just the efforts of three editors just think what would be achieved if all of the 91 members got involved in editing these articles. They may not be ones which are of particular interest to you but they relate to Yorkshire in some way so they raise the profile of the county and can often be related to articles you are interested in in some way or other. I have tried to rotate round the county with a variety of differing topics while steering clear of the ones designated as our priority articles. If you have an article that you think could be improved in one of these collaborations then just nominate it on the project talk page and I will fit it in at some point.

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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 below)
• 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 (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

;Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • 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.

;Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas to all the members of the project. Many thanks for all the hard work over the past year and hope that the good progress will be kept up in the new year. Many of the regular editors will be away over the break and vandalism tends to increase at this time of year, could be all those new computers that people get for Christmas. So if you are around then keep an eye out for vandalism to the project's articles and revert as soon as possible. All of the good work of the project can be destroyed quickly if vandalism is not spotted and dealt with.

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

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• Monitoring is essential
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• Moves
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