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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 75 - July 2014

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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 11,212 last month to 11,230 on June 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 112 is ahead of WP:GM who have 82. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,338 articles.

{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty two 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. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • 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 • Abe Waddington

{{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}} 2013–14 York City F.C. season nominated for GA on May 22nd

{{icon|GA}} 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence promoted to GA on June 1st

{{icon|TFA}} Frederick Delius appeared as Today's Featured Article on June 10th

{{icon|DYK}} Birch Lane appeared in DYK on June 11th

; Member News

There are 74 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the June newsletter.

;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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{{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.

;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.

;Tools

Just a reminder to members that the toolserver will have been removed from service by the time you read this newsletter. If your favourite tool is not operating then this may be the reason. Most of the tools have been ported to run on Wikimedia Labs, which is the replacement infrastructure for this type of activity. So have a look round and see if the one you are interested in has been ported or not. If not then get in touch with the person who looks after it and see if it can be ported over.

;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The July 2014 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

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|1 Mar 2014 ~ 31 Mar 2014

|Murder of Leanne Tiernan

|Ingleton, North Yorkshire

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|1 Apr 2014 ~ 30 Apr 2014

|University of Sheffield

|Joseph Booth & Bros

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|1 May 2014 ~ 31 May 2014

|Last Tango in Halifax

|Kirkbymoorside

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|1 Jun 2014 ~ 30 Jun 2014

|Manor House Museum

|Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire

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|1 Jul 2014 ~ 31 Jul 2014

|South Yorkshire Coalfield

|Middlesbrough railway station

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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