Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/April 2016

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 96 - April 2016

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; Project News

  • Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 12,503 last month to 12,534 on 3 April). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 123 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,586 articles.

{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have forty Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry MooreCaedmonGeorge Calvert, 1st Baron BaltimoreHistory of SheffieldYork City F.C.Joseph PriestleyStocksbridge Park Steels F.C.Valley ParadeWilliam WilberforceHistory of Bradford City A.F.C.Last of the Summer WineEaldred (bishop)Paulinus of YorkWilfridHMS EndeavourCosmo Gordon LangThomas of BayeuxCottingley FairiesWilfred RhodesGuy FawkesYorkshire captaincy affair of 1927Roy KilnerGeorge MacaulayFrederick DeliusBattle of TowtonHalifax GibbetGerard (archbishop of York)George HirstGeoffrey (archbishop of York)Len HuttonHedley VerityAbe WaddingtonÆthelwold æthelingPreparing for a Fancy Dress BallThe Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished The Wrestlers (Etty)History of York City F.C. (1908–80)William EttyHistory of York City F.C. (1980–present)

{{classicon|FA}} There are also sixteen featured lists:

York City F.C. Clubman of the YearList of York City F.C. managersList of York City F.C. playersList of York City F.C. seasonsList of Bradford City A.F.C. seasonsList of York City F.C. records and statisticsList of Leeds United A.F.C. seasonsList of Scarborough F.C. seasonsList of awards and nominations received by Arctic MonkeysList of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in ClevelandList of Hull City A.F.C. seasonsList of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern EnglandSheffield United F.C. league record by opponentYork City F.C. league record by opponentList of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances)List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances)Bootham Crescent

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|GA}} 1965 FA Cup Final was promoted to GA on March 8th

{{icon|FA}} History of York City F.C. (1980–present) was promoted to FA on March 11th

{{icon|GAN}} York Community Stadium was nominated for GA on March 20th

; Member News

There are 80 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the March newsletter:

  • {{User|antihistoriaster}}

No members left the project this month.

;Thanks

  • A very big {{Thank you}} to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
  • To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
  • To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

{{Great}}

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; Assessment
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; Aims

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

Specific aims for the project are:-

  • To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See 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 -

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

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;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The April 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

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|72

|1 Dec 2015 ~ 31 Dec 2015

|Wentworth Woodhouse

|Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve

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|73

|1 Jan 2016 ~ 31 Jan 2016

|River Idle

|Grand Hotel (Scarborough)

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|74

|1 Feb 2016 ~ 29 Feb 2016

|University of York

|John Healey (politician)

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|75

|1 Mar 2016 ~ 31 Mar 2016

|Sheffield Tramway

|KCOM Group

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|76

|1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Apr 2016

|Humber Bridge

|Leeds General Infirmary

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

; Please bear in mind...

File:Imbox style.pngThe project is subscribed to a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/bycat/Yorkshire.html 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.

  • Monitoring is essential
    Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
  • Moves
    Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.

; Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

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