Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/August 2012

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 52 - August 2012

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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 9,880 last month to 9,942 on July 25th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 83 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,022 articles.

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

Henry MooreCaedmonGeorge Calvert, 1st Baron BaltimoreHistory of SheffieldYork City F.C.Joseph PriestleyStocksbridge Park Steels F.C.M62 motorwayValley ParadeWilliam WilberforceHistory of Bradford City A.F.C.Last of the Summer WineEaldred (bishop)Paulinus of YorkWilfridCosmo 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 Verity

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen 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 opponent

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|FLC}} Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent nominated for FL on June 28th

{{icon|GA}} Gisborough Priory promoted to GA on June 28th

{{icon|NOGA}} Swarcliffe not promoted to GA on June 29th

{{icon|GA}} 1889–90 Sheffield United F.C. season promoted to GA on June 30th

{{icon|DYK}} Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent DYK entry on July 2nd

{{icon|GA}} One Direction promoted to GA on July 5th

{{icon|GAN}} 2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season nominated for GA on July 7th

{{icon|FL}} Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent promoted to FL on July 19th

{{icon|FL}} York City F.C. league record by opponent promoted to FL on July 19th

{{icon|NOGA}} 2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season withdrawn on July 21st

{{icon|GAN}} Bosa of York nominated for GA on July 24th

; Member News

There are 101 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! Membership has remained the same since the July newsletter:

The number of

active members is still currently low.

;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
Assess and review

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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.

;Sporting feast

Just in case it has escaped members notice but August is a big sporting month with the 2012 Olympic Games taking place at the start of the month and the 2012–13 Football season getting under way from the middle of the month. There are likely to be lots of articles that will need changing as we go through the month with new signings, new records etc. so keep an eye on sport related articles and try and keep them up to date.

I have picked a pair of sport related items for this month's collaboration from the suggestions on the project talk page. So those of you with a sporting slant should have plenty to get going with this month.

;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The August 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.

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|1 May 2012 ~ 31 May 2012

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|Victoria Theatre (Halifax)

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|1 Jun 2012 ~ 30 Jun 2012

|Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency)

|Bradford Dudley Hill

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|1 Jul 2012 ~ 31 Jul 2012

|Battle of the Standard

|Elliot Morley

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|1 Aug 2012 ~ 31 Aug 2012

|Yorkshire County Cricket Club

|Football in Yorkshire

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

; Please bear in mind...

File:Imbox style.pngThe project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire 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.

; 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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