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| width=50% | British agency cites Wikipedia in denying F1 trademark

| width=50% | Wikipedian bloggers launch "article rescue" effort

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Charles Lane"

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| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "World domination"

| width=50% | News and notes: "The Wikipedia Story", visa ruling, milestones

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| colspan=3 align="center" | From the editor: Another experiment and Wikimania

| width=50% | Response: News from Citizendium

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| width=50% | Committee makes statement on U.S. chapter

| width=50% | About: The Wikipedia Plays

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| width=50% | CC 3.0 licenses accepted on Commons

| width=50% | Reviewing five software requests

| width=50% | News and notes: Meetup, milestones

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| width=50% | Bad Jokes, Deletion Nonsense, and an arbitration case

| width=50% | WikiScanner tool creates "minor public relations disasters" for scores of organizations

| width=50% | News and notes: Wikimania '08, 200 x 100, milestones

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| colspan=3 align="center" | From the editor: Interview with Jimbo Wales

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| colspan=3 align="center" | From the editor: Interview with Jimbo Wales

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Godwin's Law"

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| colspan=3 align="center" | From the editor: Reader survey

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Sarah Vowell"

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| colspan=3 align="center" | From the editor: Survey results

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Ambigram"

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| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Buttered cat paradox"

| width=50% | News and notes: Commons uploaders, Wikimania 2008/2009, milestones

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| colspan=3 align="center" | From the editor: Brion Vibber interview

| width=50% | Board meeting held, budget approved

| width=50% | San Francisco job openings published

| width=50% | Bot is approved to delete redirects

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Soramimi Kashi"

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| width=50% | Fundraiser opens, budget released

| width=50% | Biographies of living people grow into "status symbol"

| width=50% | News and notes: Wikipedian Robert Braunwart dies

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| colspan=3 align="center" | From the editor: Florence Devouard interview

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Human billboard"

| width=50% | WikiProject Report: Agriculture

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| width=50% | Wikimedia avoids liability in French lawsuit

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Fall Out Boy"

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| width=50% | Unregistered page creation remains on hold so far

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Exploding whale"

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| width=50% | An interview with Florence Devouard

| width=50% | Author borrows from Wikipedia article without attribution

| width=50% | News and notes: Page patrolling, ArbCom age requirement, milestones

| width=50% | WikiProject Report: History

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| width=50% | Arbitration Committee elections: Candidate profiles

| width=50% | WikiWorld comic: "Cursive"

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2007-12-03|Gardner interview|Signpost interview: New Executive Director Sue Gardner}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2007-12-03|Arbitration series|Arbitration Committee elections: Elections open}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2007-12-03|License compatibility|Possible license migration sparks debate}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2007-12-03|Staffing features|Featured articles director names deputy}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2007-12-03|Software issues|Software bug fixed, overuse of parser function curtailed}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2007-12-03|WikiWorld|WikiWorld comic: "Wordplay"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2007-12-03|News and notes|News and notes: Wikipedian honored, fundraiser, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2007-12-03|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2007-12-03|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: LGBT studies}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2007-12-03|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|11|2007-12-03|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|12|2007-12-03|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2007-12-10|German Wikipedia|Wikipedia dragged into German politics over Nazi images}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2007-12-10|Citing Wikipedia|Wales comments on citing Wikipedia produce BBC correction}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2007-12-10|WikiWorld|WikiWorld comic: "Kilroy was here"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2007-12-10|News and notes|News and notes: Elections, Wikimania 2009, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2007-12-10|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2007-12-10|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Greater Manchester}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2007-12-10|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2007-12-10|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2007-12-10|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|0|2007-12-17|From the editor|From the editor: ArbCom elections, holiday publication}}

{{Signpost/item|2|1|2007-12-17|Former COO|Former Wikimedia employee's criminal history detailed}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2007-12-17|Möller move|Möller resigns from board, joins foundation as employee}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2007-12-17|Google Knol|Google announces foray into user-generated knowledge}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2007-12-17|WikiWorld|WikiWorld comic: "Tractor beam"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2007-12-17|News and notes|News and notes: Elections, Wikimania 2009, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2007-12-17|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2007-12-17|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Plants}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2007-12-17|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2007-12-17|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2007-12-17|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2007-12-26|Arbitration series|Wales appoints six arbitrators}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2007-12-26|Board expansion|Board approves expansion, up to 11 trustees possible}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2007-12-26|WikiWorld|WikiWorld comic: "Molasses"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2007-12-26|News and notes|News and notes: Stewards, Senate testimony, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2007-12-26|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2007-12-26|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Plants}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2007-12-26|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2007-12-26|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2007-12-26|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-01-02|WikiWorld|WikiWorld comic: "John Lasseter"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-01-02|News and notes|News and notes: Stewards, fundraiser, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-01-02|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-01-02|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Scouting}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-01-02|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-01-02|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-01-02|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|0|2008-01-07|From the editor|From the editor: Stepping in after delay}}

{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-01-07|WikBack|New Wikipedia discussion forum gains steam}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-01-07|WikiWorld|WikiWorld comic: "Goregrind"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-01-07|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-01-07|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-01-07|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-01-07|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|0|2008-01-14|From the editor|From the editor: A new weekly feature}}

{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-01-14|2007 in review|Special: 2007 in Review}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-01-14|Wikimania 2009|Wikimania 2009 bidding ends, jury named}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-01-14|Roll 'em back, move 'em out|Controversial non-administrator rollback process added}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-01-14|Apple leak?|Supposed advance draft of Jobs keynote surfaces on talk page}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-01-14|WikiWorld|WikiWorld comic: "The Nocebo Effect"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-01-14|News and notes|News and notes: Fundraiser ends, $500,000 donation, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-01-14|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-01-14|Tutorial|Tutorial: Fundamentals of editing}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-01-14|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2008-01-14|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|11|2008-01-14|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-01-21|2007 in review|Special: 2007 in Review, Part II}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-01-21|Parser changes|New parser preprocessor to be introduced}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-01-21|Pic of the year|Commons Picture of the Year contest in final round}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-01-21|WikiWorld|WikiWorld comic: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-01-21|News and notes|News and notes: Freely-licensed music, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-01-21|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-01-21|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-01-21|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|0|2008-01-28|From the editor|From the editor: New feature}}

{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-01-28|2007 in review|Special: 2007 in Review, Part III}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-01-28|John Broughton interview|Signpost interview: John Broughton}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-01-28|New parser|New parser preprocessor introduced}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-01-28|WikiWorld|Best of WikiWorld: "Truthiness"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-01-28|News and notes|News and notes: Estonian Wikipedia, Picture of the Year, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-01-28|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-01-28|Tutorial|Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-01-28|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Molecular and Cellular Biology}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-01-28|Dispatches|Wikipedia Dispatches: Banner year for Featured articles}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2008-01-28|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|11|2008-01-28|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|12|2008-01-28|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-02-04|2007 in review|Special: 2007 in Review, Part IV}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-02-04|Newsroom use|Tensions in journalistic use of Wikipedia explored}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-02-04|WikiWorld|Best of WikiWorld: "Calvin and Hobbes"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-02-04|News and notes|News and notes: Milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-02-04|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-02-04|Tutorial|Tutorial: Adding citations}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-02-04|Dispatches|Dispatches: New methods to find Featured Article candidates}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-02-04|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-02-04|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2008-02-04|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-02-11|Muhammad image|Petition seeks to remove images of Muhammad}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-02-11|Audit released|Foundation's FY2007 audit released}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-02-11|Pope|Vatican claims out-of-context Wikipedia quote was used to attack Pope}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-02-11|WikiWorld|Best of WikiWorld: "W"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-02-11|News and notes|News and notes: Working group, Wik-iPhone, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-02-11|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-02-11|Tutorial|Tutorial: Basic dispute resolution}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-02-11|Dispatches|Dispatches: Great saves at Featured article review}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-02-11|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2008-02-11|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|11|2008-02-11|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|0|2008-02-18|From the editor|From the editor}}

{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-02-18|New board members|Michael Snow, Domas Mituzas appointed to Board of Trustees}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-02-18|WikiWorld|WikiWorld: "Thinking about the immortality of the crab"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-02-18|News and notes|News and notes: Administrator desysopped, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-02-18|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-02-18|Tutorial|Tutorial: Getting an article to featured article status}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-02-18|Dispatches|Dispatches: FA promotion despite adversity}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-02-18|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-02-18|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-02-18|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-02-25|Michael Snow interview|Signpost interview: Michael Snow}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-02-25|Controversial RFA|Controversial RfA results in resysopping of ^demon}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-02-25|Sockpuppeting administrator|Sockpuppeting administrator desysopped, community banned}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-02-25|Print encyclopedias|Two major print encyclopedias cease production}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-02-25|WikiWorld|WikiWorld: "Hyperthymesia"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-02-25|News and notes|News and notes: Wikimania Call for Participation, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-02-25|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-02-25|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Family Guy}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-02-25|Dispatches|Dispatches: A snapshot of featured article categories}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2008-02-25|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|11|2008-02-25|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|12|2008-02-25|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-03-03|Wales' relationship with journalist|Wales' relationship, breakup with journalist Rachel Marsden raises questions about possible improprieties}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-03-03|Bureaucratship candidacies|Eleven users apply for bureaucratship}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-03-03|Domas Mituzas interview|Signpost interview: Domas Mituzas}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-03-03|Hidden Categories|Role of hidden categories under discussion}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-03-03|Book review|Book review: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-03-03|WikiProject elections|Military history WikiProject elections conclude, nine elected}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-03-03|WikiWorld|Best of WikiWorld: "Extreme ironing"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-03-03|News and notes|News and notes: Encyclopedia of Life, Wikipedian dies, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-03-03|Dispatches|Dispatches: April Fools mainpage featured article}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2008-03-03|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Football}}

{{Signpost/item|2|11|2008-03-03|Tutorial|Tutorial: How to use an ImageMap}}

{{Signpost/item|2|12|2008-03-03|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|13|2008-03-03|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|14|2008-03-03|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|0|2008-03-13|From the editor|From the editor}}

{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-03-13|Scandal fallout continues|Accusations of financial impropriety receive more coverage}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-03-13|WikiWorld|Best of WikiWorld: "Five-second rule"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-03-13|News and notes|News and notes: New bureaucrat, Wikimania bids narrowed, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-03-13|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-03-13|Dispatches|Dispatches: Vintage image restoration}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-03-13|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Professional wrestling}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-03-13|Tutorial|Tutorial: Summary of policies}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-03-13|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-03-13|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|10|2008-03-13|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|1|2008-03-17|WikiWorld|Best of WikiWorld: "The Rutles"}}

{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-03-17|News and notes|News and notes: Single-user login, election commission, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-03-17|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-03-17|Dispatches|Dispatches: Changes at peer review}}

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue I - May 2008

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; Project News

• One of the new aims of the project was to produce a monthly newsletter to be circulated to members. This is it!

Priorities are still being discussed; please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

• Currently there are nine Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade

• There are also seven featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players •

York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

• Kingston upon Hull was nominated for GA Status on April 28th

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (3343 on April 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.

• As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.

; Member News

There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 2 new members that have joined us since March:

• {{User|Jetsetradio}}

• {{User|Paulrach}}

No users left the WikiProject this month, but the list may need trimming to account for the one user who was permanently blocked and one who seems not to exist. There are also several who have not contributed to Wikipedia for some months.

The format of the member list has been altered to:

1. allow easier editing for new members
2. assist members to communicate more easily (by including members talk pages)
3. allow member to keep up to date with each other's contributions

;Thanks

• The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99. Many thanks.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

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; New Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles
• To recruit more active editors
• 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

The top priority articles that have been identified to date and their current ratings are as follows -

• Bradford - B
• East Riding of Yorkshire - B
• Henry Moore - FA - but would be demoted for lack of references if reviewed
• Kingston upon Hull - B - informal Peer review comments on talk page
• Leeds - B
• North Yorkshire - Start
• Ripon - B
• Sheffield - FA
• South Yorkshire - Start
• Wakefield - Start
• West Yorkshire - Start
• William Wilberforce - GA - actively being worked on for FAC
• York - B
• Yorkshire - B
• Yorkshire and the Humber - Start

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

; Don't Forget...

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

• Images!
  There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need.

• Assessment
  "Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles" has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.

• Last but not Least...
  Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do.

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 2 - June 2008

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30px May issue

; Project News

• Welcome to the second WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

Priorities are still being discussed; please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

• Currently there are ten Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon

• There are also seven featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players •

York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

• Lealholm was nominated for GA Status on May 1st and has just received the review comments

• Last of the Summer Wine proposed at FAC on May 22nd

• History of Bradford City A.F.C. on peer review since May 29th

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3343 last month to 3509 on May 28th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.

• As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.

; Member News

There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 4 new members that have joined us since the May newsletter:

• {{User|ObscureFruits}}

• {{User|Dr Greg}}

• {{User|Johnbibby}}

• {{User|Ahjet}}

No users left the WikiProject this month, but the list has been trimmed to account for the one user who was permanently blocked and one who seems not to exist. There are also several who have not contributed to Wikipedia for some months. However it is the exam season :-)

{{User|Retiono Virginian}} has been permanently blocked

and

{{User|Malcolm Bryant}} does not seem to have registered on Wikipedia.(Let me know if I am wrong.)

Last month the format of the member list was altered to:

1. allow easier editing for new members
2. assist members to communicate more easily (by including members talk pages)
3. allow members to keep up to date with each other's contributions

It had to be changed again before the May Newsletter went out to allow easier, more efficient, circulation by the ENewsBot. The Bot worked like magic last month but slightly complicated the signing up process, particularly for novice users.

;Thanks

• The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99 once again, thank you. There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list and this has been kept up to date too.

• The Northallerton article has been greatly expanded by User:Yorkshiresky in the last month.

• The football and rugby editors have to be congratulated for keeping abreast of most. if not all, of the top clubs.

• User:Cyberdemon007 has made a lot of edits to North Yorkshire settlement infoboxes. Thank you.

• There have been more WikiProkject Yorkshire editors on vandal patrol on watchlist , just lately. Thanks it's really good to know that you have others in support.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. If you patrol the recent changes regularly you "get to know" the editors and their specialities quite well.

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; New Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles
• To recruit more active editors
• 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

The top priority articles that have been identified to date and their current ratings are as follows -

• Bradford - B - some tidying up was done earlier in the month but much still to do.
• East Riding of Yorkshire - B - See comments page

• Henry Moore - FA - but would be demoted for lack of references if reviewed.
• Kingston upon Hull - B - informal Peer review comments on talk page. Has gone to WP:GA review and is awaiting result.
• Leeds - B -has been really improved lately but suffers from ISP edits. Well done to editors who keep on top of them.
• North Yorkshire - Start
• Ripon - B - See comments page
• Sheffield - FA -Wikipedia:WikiProject Sheffield seem to be keeping an eye on this, their flagship article.
• South Yorkshire - Start
• Wakefield - Start
• West Yorkshire - Start
• William Wilberforce - GA - actively being worked on for FAC
• York - B - Main problems are lack of references and the lists, also the external links section would need a major prune before a GA review.Maybe ask for peer review when these are done? Bath, Somerset is an FA and a good role model.
• Yorkshire - B - see talk page for discussions on this.
• Yorkshire and the Humber - Start. The article has been reorganised and expanded (some sections with no text are there on the source page but are commented out at the moment). It could do with more citations.

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

; Don't Forget...

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

• Images!
  There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need. A good old holiday picture of The Spa, Bridlington would be a useful addition to the article.

• Assessment
  "Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles" has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.

• Last but not Least...
  Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do. One small edit each session would make a big difference.

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{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-06-02|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 3 - July 2008

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30px June issue

; Project News

• Welcome to the third WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

Priorities are still being discussed; please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

• Currently there are ten Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon

• There are also eight featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players •

York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

• Sam Cowan was nominated for GA Status on May 12th and is on hold from June 23rd

• Last of the Summer Wine was not promoted to FA on June 12th

• Kingston upon Hull was not promoted to GA status on June 10th after a re-review

• Portal:Yorkshire on peer review since June 17th

• Scarborough F.C. seasons was promoted to FL status on June 25th

• Lealholm was not promoted to GA status on June 30th

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3509 last month to 3635 on June 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.

; Member News

There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 3 new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

• {{User|almost-instinct}}

• {{User|A1personage}}

• {{User|Mtaylor848}}

No users left the WikiProject this month, but 1 user was registered twice under different logins and has been consolidated.

;Thanks

• The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99 once again, thank you. User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments at peer review. There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list and this has been kept up to date too.

• The football and rugby editors have to be congratulated for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs. Also for getting Scarborough F.C. seasons to FL status during the month.

• There have been even more WikiProkject Yorkshire editors on vandal patrol on watchlist. Thanks it's really good to know that you have others in support.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. If you patrol the recent changes regularly you "get to know" the editors and their specialities quite well.

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; New Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles
• To recruit more active editors
• 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 • 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.

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|+ Informal article viewing and editing statistics for 5 of our priority articles

!Article

!Viewing statistics

| Rated a B class article. Viewed 40,122 times in May, 2008. Only went below 1,000 viewings on one day, 10th, and achieved 1,600 on the 6th and the 20th. Overall total number of edits 1,818 with 46 in May, 2008.

| Rated a B class article. Viewed 38,018 times in May, 2008. On 12 days there were over 1,000 viewings with a sudden peak of 4,200 on the 24th. Overall number of edits 2,269 with 88 in May, 2008.

| Rated a B class article. The highest number of monthly viewings for our priority articles at 50,846 for the month of May, 2008. There were consistently over 1,000 daily viewings with a high of 2,000 on the 25th. Overall total number of edits 3,152 with 86 in May, 2008.

| Rated an FA class article.Viewed 37,740 times in May, 2008 with usually over 1,000 daily viewings. There were 6 days when over 1,400 viewings were made then a low of 900 on the 10th. Overall total number of edits 2,550 with 44 in May, 2008.

| Rated a GA class article and actively being worked on for FAC. Viewed 42,902 times in May, 2008. Consistently over 1,000 daily viewings with 2,000 viewings on the 12th. Overall total number of edits 2,434 with 241 in May, 2008.

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 4 - August 2008

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30px July issue

; Project News

• Welcome to the fourth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

{{icon|FA}}Currently there are eleven Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce

{{icon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players •

York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|GA}} Sam Cowan was promoted to GA Status on July 2nd

• Jimmy Speirs was nominated for GA on July 5th

• Herbert Chapman has had a peer review

• Brian Close was demoted from FA on July 7th

• History of Bradford City A.F.C. on peer review since July 16th

{{icon|GA}} Bradford City A.F.C. season 2007–08 was promoted to GA Status on July 17th

{{icon|FA}} William Wilberforce was promoted to FA status on July 18th

{{icon|GA}} Battle of Boroughbridge was promoted to GA on July 25th

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3635 last month to 3781 on July 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 24 out of a total number of 1624 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:LONDON and WP:GM who each have 21.

; Member News

There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new member that has joined us since the July newsletter:

• {{User|BulldozerD11}}

One user left the WikiProject this month:

• {{User|Qst}}

;Thanks

• User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments about Yorkshire Portal at peer review which continues to be maintained by Kaly99. Once more, thank you.

• There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.

• The football and rugby editors have to be admired for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.

• WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

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; New 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 below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News above)
• 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 • 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.

• Article improvement
  

35pxOne of the aims of our project was to set up a periodic Article improvement drive. The article on our county town of York is suggested for this month. Please discuss and/or make edits to move towards WP:GA? status for our first selected article.

; Please remember...

Image:Ambox style.pngThe project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

• Monitor
  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.

• Infoboxes
  Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. Useful ones include:

::Template:Infobox Artifact e.g. Coppergate Helmet

:::Template:Infobox Person e.g. Bill Gates

:::Template:Infobox Musical artist

:::Template:Infobox Company

:::Template:Infobox Defunct company

:::Template:Infobox Hiking trail

:::Template:Infobox Football club

:::Template:Infobox Football biography

:::Template:Infobox church

:::Template:Infobox UK school

:::Template:Infobox Museum e.g. Rotunda Museum

:::Template:Infobox UK place

:::Template:UK road routebox e.g. A1 road (Great Britain)

:::Template:Infobox park

:::Template:Infobox UKproperty e.g. Nunnington Hall

• Assessment
  Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
  The changes are:
  
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

• References
  Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

• 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.

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{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-07-28|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: Military history}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-07-28|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-07-28|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-08-09|Dispatches|Dispatches: Style guide and policy changes, July}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-08-09|WikiProject report|WikiProject Report: WikiProject New York State routes}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-08-09|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-08-09|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|2|2008-08-18|Dispatches|Dispatches: Choosing Today's Featured Article}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-08-18|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 5 - September 2008

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30px August issue

; Project News

• Welcome to the fifth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3781 last month to 4005 on August 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 25 out of a total number of 1664 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:GM with 27 and WP:LONDON with 22.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

{{icon|FA}}Currently there are twelve Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C.

{{icon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|GA}} Jimmy Speirs was promoted to GA Status on July 22nd

{{FAR-icon}} Henry Moore is on FAR since August 15th

• Battle of Marston Moor on peer review since August 22nd

• KitKat Crescent on peer review since August 22nd

{{icon|FA}} History of Bradford City A.F.C. was promoted to FA Status on August 25th

{{icon|FAC}} Last of the Summer Wine nominated at FAC on August 27th

{{icon|GA}} Chris Brandonwas promoted to GA Status on August 27th

; Member News

There are now 48 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that has joined us since the August newsletter:

• {{User|Evil Eye}}
• {{User|Leo1802}}

One user in the WikiProject was banned this month:

• {{User|Yorkshirian}}

;Thanks

• To those who have been tagging articles this month, the number of articles has now gone over the 4,000 mark.

• There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.

• The football and rugby editors have to be admired for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.

• WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

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; New 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 below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News above)
• 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

;Yorkshire Portal

The Yorkshire portal helps people navigate through the content related to Yorkshire. The highlighted content is displayed randomly and includes -

• Did you Knows
• Articles
• Biographies
• Pictures
• Panoramas

Any additions to these would be great. The portal is being prepared for featured portal candidacy so help meeting the criteria, for example, copy-editing or suggestions for new content sections such as Selected anniversaries, On this day, or In the news would be appreciated.

;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.

; Please remember...

Image:Ambox style.pngThe project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

• Monitor
  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.

• Infoboxes
  Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.

• Assessment
  Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
  The changes are:
  
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

• References
  Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

• 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.

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{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-08-25|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-08-25|Dispatches|Dispatches: Interview with Mav}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-08-25|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-08-25|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-09-08|News and notes|News and notes: Wikipedian dies, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-09-08|In the news|Wikipedia in the News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-09-08|Dispatches 1|Dispatches: Featured topics}}

{{Signpost/item|2|6|2008-09-08|Dispatches 2|Dispatches: Style guide and policy changes, August}}

{{Signpost/item|2|7|2008-09-08|Features and admins|Features and admins}}

{{Signpost/item|2|8|2008-09-08|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

{{Signpost/item|2|9|2008-09-08|Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}}

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{{Signpost/item|2|3|2008-09-15|News and notes|News and notes: Wikis Takes Manhattan, milestones}}

{{Signpost/item|2|4|2008-09-15|Dispatches|Dispatches: Interview with Ruhrfisch, master of Peer review}}

{{Signpost/item|2|5|2008-09-15|Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}}

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 6 - October 2008

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30px September issue

; Project News

• Welcome to the sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4005 last month to 4085 on September 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 28 out of a total number of 1678 articles. In the area of GAs, at 21, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 28.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

{{icon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine

{{icon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|FA}} Last of the Summer Wine was promoted to FA Status on September 9th

20px Curtis Woodhouse was nominated for GA Status on September 18th

{{icon|FA}} Henry Moore retained its FA Status after FAR on September 25th

; Member News

There are now 51 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that has joined us since the September newsletter:

• {{User|Marcopolomaya}}
• {{User|Nr9krw}}
• {{User|Langliffe}}

;Thanks

• There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.

• The football and rugby editors have to be admired for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.

• WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

;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.

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; New 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 below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News above)
• 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

;Wikipedia DVD version 0.7

Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7 aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia.

The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is currently under way and 43 of the project's articles are being

considered for inclusion. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/release-data/2008-9-13/HTML/Yorkshire.s0.html here].

The selection has been done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki

links the article has and the number of times the article has been viewed.

The process of selecting clean versions for each of the selected articles is also being undertaken so that vandalised versions are not put on the DVD.

Some of the articles also have clean-up tags attached to them which need to be dealt with before a version can be used on the DVD. It would be good if members

could address any tags in the selected articles and fix the problem identified. Those articles that are tagged by multiple projects should get a visit by each of the projects involved

so the articles will probably get a lot of activity in the next few days.

The cut-off date for this work is October 20th, but changes to articles following version selection may not be incorporated as there may not be time to reassess them.

; Please remember...

Image:Ambox style.pngThe project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

• Monitor
  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.

• Infoboxes
  Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.

• Assessment
  Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
  The changes are:
  
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

• References
  Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

• 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.

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 7 - November 2008

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30px October issue

; Project News

• Welcome to the seventh WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4085 last month to 4284 on October 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1708 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 30.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

{{icon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine

{{icon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|GA}} Northallerton was promoted to GA Status on October 6th

{{icon|GA}} Curtis Woodhouse was promoted to GA Status on October 7th

{{icon|GA}} Hebden, North Yorkshire was promoted to GA Status on October 30th

; Member News

There are now 51 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

• {{User|Petripavlovian}}

One member left the project this month:

• {{User|Adambro}}

;Thanks

;Wikipedia DVD version 0.7

As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD.

The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/release-data/2008-9-13/HTML/Yorkshire.s0.html here].

The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.

Only two of our top priority articles were not selected, Ripon and Wakefield, the others were cleaned up, improved, expanded and copyedited as far as time allowed.

• There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.

• The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.

• WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

;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.

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; New 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 below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News above)
• 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

Missing co-ordinates

A recent entry on the project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire#Missing coordinates alerted us to the fact that many of our articles do not display any geographical co-ordinates. Many also do not have infoboxes. As locational infoboxes usually have a field for co-ordinates, it was suggested that members might be able to kill two birds with one stone by adding an appropriate infobox at the same time as co-ordinates.

Appropriate locational infoboxes include:

• Template:Infobox Settlement
• Template:Infobox UK place
• Template:Infobox UKproperty
• Template:Infobox UK disused station
• Template:Infobox church

The infobox page usually includes detailed instructions for its use and many of the fields are not mandatory so are not displayed until information is entered.

The geographical co-ordinates for a location can be found on Google Earth.

• Open Google Earth and enter the name of the location in the search box. (Quite often the article name can be copied and pasted directly into the search box but sometimes it is useful to add ,UK to the address.)
• A results list is displayed beneath the search box.
• Click on the right one.
• Zoom in to check that the correct feature is being displayed on the image. (Sometimes the supposed feature is not at the centre of the page.)
• Place the pointer over the location on the screen image and read the geographical co-ordinates from the panel at the bottom of the screen.
• Make a note of the co-ordinates.
• Open the tab of the article you are editing and add the co-ordinates in the co-ords field.

Further information can be found at Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates.

Once co-ordinates have been added the template {{tl|coord missing}} should be removed from the article.

; Please remember...

Image:Ambox style.pngThe project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

• Monitor
  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.

• Infoboxes
  Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.

• Assessment
  Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
  The changes are:
  
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

• References
  Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

• 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.

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 8 - December 2008

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30px November issue

; Project News

• Welcome to the seventh WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4284 last month to 4532 on November 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1746 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 31.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

{{icon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine

{{icon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

20px Geoff Horsfield was nominated at GA on November 16th

Image:Cscr-star_piece.png M62 motorway on FAR on November 26th

; Member News

There are now 52 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:

• {{User|Zolstijers}}

No members left the project this month:

;Wikipedia DVD version 0.7

As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD.

The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/release-data/2008-9-13/HTML/Yorkshire.s0.html here].

The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.

Since the last newsletter Northallerton has also been selected to go onto the DVD having recently achieved GA status.

;Thanks

• Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.

• There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.

• The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.

• WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

;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.

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; New 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 below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News above)
• 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

;Co-ordinates

Just to let you know that a bot is currently sub-dividing the articles with missing co-ordinate data into sub-categories for ease of use. You can now find the articles by looking at the categories for each area as — East, North, South and West. From the discussions it looks like only the co-ordinates in the title area are being used by external sites so articles with multiple co-ordinates are not being handled correctly as yet.

;Happy Christmas

Just to say thanks for all the effort put in by members on articles covering the Yorkshire area and to wish everyone a happy Christmas. It is time to take a break and to spend some time with family and friends. May be even to indulge yourself in the food and drink that abounds at this time of year or even make that occasional visit to a church. What ever you do over the festive season enjoy it and see you next year.

Though if you are at a loose end then many of you will be getting some new toys to play with which can be used to enhance wiki articles. Those new digital cameras can be used to get photographs for some of the articles which are currently without and for which the Geograph site has nothing suitable. May be it is a new PC that you just need to play with then spend some time checking out the watchlist for vandalism which tends to go unnoticed when there are fewer regular editors around. It may even be a book which can be used to add references to an article. May be you want to do something different then try creating spoken articles see the Spoken article project.

Image:Ambox style.pngThe project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

• Monitor
  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.

• Infoboxes
  Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.

• Assessment
  Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
  The changes are:
  
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

• References
  Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

• 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.

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 9 - January 2009

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30px December issue

; Project News

• Welcome to the ninth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4532 last month to 4822 on December 19th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1763 articles. In the area of GAs, at 25, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 36.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

{{icon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine

{{icon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|GA}} Geoff Horsfield was promoted to GA on December 3rd

; Member News

There are now 54 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the December newsletter:

• {{User|Euchiasmus}}
• {{User|Chemical Engineer}}

No members left the project this month:

;Thanks

• Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.

• There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.

• The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.

• WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.

• A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

;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.

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; New 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 below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News above)
• 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

;Citations

Citations are a necessity to give credence to the articles that we produce, so that the facts given can be verified. One of the templates that is used for this is {{tl|Cite book}} to give details of books used for creating the articles. There has been some changes to the template that we should be aware of and make changes accordingly when editing articles. The id= field should no longer be used to give the ISBN number for a book instead use the isbn= parameter. The page= and pages= parameters now have the p. or pp. automatically inserted and so we should just put the page number in the fields. Use page= for a single page and pages= for multiple pages. If the insertion of p. or pp. is not required then use nopp=true to suppress this. Note that the number of pages in a book is not specified using these fields and at the moment a new parameter is being discussed to cover this.

;Happy New Year

Hope everyone enjoyed the festive season and are not feeling too worse for ware. At the start of a new year we all look back at what has happened in the last year and look forward to the coming year. It is time to take stock of what has happened in the last year well we have managed to get some priority articles selected and to get this newsletter in place to keep members up to date on what is happening. Articles have been tagged and assessed, a watchlist of these has been set up for members to keep track of changes to those articles that the project is interested in. So over all great steps have been made in the last year and thanks to everyone for the efforts put in. Looking forward it is time to make some targets for the coming year. If anyone has any ideas for what we should be doing in the coming year then please share them on the project talk page.

Image:Ambox style.pngThe project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

• Monitor
  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.

• Infoboxes
  Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.

• Assessment
  Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
  The changes are:
  
• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

• References
  Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

• 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.

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 10 - February 2009

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• Welcome to the tenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4822 last month to 5108 on January 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 31 out of a total number of 1798 articles. In the area of GAs, at 26, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 41.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

{{icon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine