Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/December 2010

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 32 - December 2010

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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 8,621 last month to 8,665 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 62 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 60. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,292 articles.

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

Henry MooreCaedmonSheffield Wednesday F.C.George 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 (archbishop of York)Paulinus of YorkWilfridCosmo Gordon LangThomas of BayeuxCottingley FairiesWilfred RhodesGuy FawkesYorkshire captaincy affair of 1927Roy KilnerGeorge Macaulay

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

List of York City F.C. Clubmen 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. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|GAC}} 1903–04 Bradford City A.F.C. season was nominated for GA on October 19th

{{icon|FA}} George Macaulay was promoted to FA on October 20th

{{icon|GAC}} Agnes Grey was nominated for GA on October 21st

{{icon|NOGA}} Agnes Grey failed GA review on November 5th

{{icon|GAC}} Aire and Calder Navigation was nominated for GA on November 6th

{{icon|GA}} Abe Waddington was promoted to GA on November 7th

{{icon|GA}} Joe Colbeck was promoted to GA on November 9th

{{icon|GAC}} York Castle was nominated for GA on November 14th

{{icon|GA}} York Castle was promoted to GA on November 14th

{{icon|GA}} John and Christopher Wright was promoted to GA on November 15th

{{icon|GA}} 1903–04 Bradford City A.F.C. season was promoted to GA on November 28th

; Member News

There are now 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:

  • {{User|Crouch, Swale}}

No members left the project this month: though 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}}

;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.

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}

; Assessment
Assess and review

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{{Thank}}

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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.

;Happy Christmas

Wishing all project members a Happy Christmas and thanks for all the work you have put in to the project over the last year. We have made great strides forward especially in the area of Good Articles

and this month we have a bumper set of seven articles trying for GA status. Some passed the review while others did not, but even a try moves an article forward. Thanks to ll those involved in these articles and keep up the good work.

;Cleanup listing

Some members will know that we were subscribed to the clean-up listing that was produced on an occasional basis by a BOT. The BOT owner has left and has not released the source of the BOT for someone to pick-up. The last run of this BOT was in March of this year. Others have stepped in and produced a new tool that runs on the tool server to provide projects with similar information.

The [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire clean-up listing] gives details of all of the articles with the project's banner that have clean-up tags attached to them. The listing is in alphabetical order but can be sorted on class, importance or the number of different tags found in an article. If you want the listing grouped by the different tags then the [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListingByCat.php?project=Yorkshire tag grouped listing] should be used.

According to the tool run dated 28 November of the 8,729 articles in this project 2,725 or 31.2% are marked for clean-up, though I am unsure how it gets the article count figure as that does not appear to match the counts from the assessment table.

;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The December 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

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|IX

|Sept 01, 2010 ~ Sept 31, 2010

|Rotunda Museum

|Liquorice allsorts

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|X

|Oct 01, 2010 ~ Oct 31, 2010

|Leeds and Liverpool Canal

|Bridlington

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|XI

|Nov 01, 2010 ~ Nov 30, 2010

|Yorkshire Engine Company

|Morley, West Yorkshire

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|XII

|Dec 01, 2010 ~ Dec 31, 2010

|John Fowler (agricultural engineer)

|Scampston Hall

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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