Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/December 2012

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style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"\| ; Project News Welcome to the fifty sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter. 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 10,234 last month to 10,275 on November 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 91 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,163 articles. {{classicon\|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles: Henry Moore • Caedmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity {{classicon\|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists: York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. ; Article Activity {{icon\|GAN}} LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman nominated for GA on October 31st {{icon\|GA}} LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman promoted to GA on November 4th {{icon\|GA}} Stones Bitter promoted to GA on November 6th {{icon\|GAN}} Blackburn Meadows nominated for GA on November 9th {{icon\|GAN}} Stainforth and Keadby Canal nominated for GA on November 17th {{icon\|GA}} 2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season promoted to GA on November 18th {{icon\|NOGA}} Ravensworth not promoted to GA on November 20th ; Member News There are 107 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There were no new members since the November newsletter: One member left the project this month. {{user\|Cacolantern}} 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 members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal. 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}} {{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}} ; Assessment Assess and review {\| border="0" cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 56 - December 2012

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; Project News

Welcome to the fifty sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

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 10,234 last month to 10,275 on November 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 91 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,163 articles.

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

Henry Moore • Caedmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity

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

York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|GAN}} LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman nominated for GA on October 31st

{{icon|GA}} LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman promoted to GA on November 4th

{{icon|GA}} Stones Bitter promoted to GA on November 6th

{{icon|GAN}} Blackburn Meadows nominated for GA on November 9th

{{icon|GAN}} Stainforth and Keadby Canal nominated for GA on November 17th

{{icon|GA}} 2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season promoted to GA on November 18th

{{icon|NOGA}} Ravensworth not promoted to GA on November 20th

; Member News

There are 107 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There were no new members since the November newsletter:

One member left the project this month.

{{user|Cacolantern}}

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 members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

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.

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

; 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 -

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.

;Signpost

The editors over at the weekly Signpost, that goes out to a large number of people on Wikipedia, have indicated that they would like to feature the Yorkshire project in one of the future editions. There was an invitation on the project's talk page for members to get involved in this by responding to a series of questions. It is disappointing that no members have stepped forward to respond to this but they have gone on my responses and the project should be featured in the 3rd December issue of the magazine.

;Happy Christmas

It is Christmas time again so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all members of the project a happy Christmas.

;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The December 2012 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

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|XXXIII

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|Brian Blessed

|Derwent Valley Light Railway

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|1 Oct 2012 ~ 31 Oct 2012

|Settle-Carlisle Line

|RAF Holmpton

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|1 Nov 2012 ~ 30 Nov 2012

|National Media Museum

|Dobroyd Castle

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|XXXVI

|1 Dec 2012 ~ 31 Dec 2012

|Redcar

|Goole

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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