Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/May 2011

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 37 - May 2011

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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 8,899 last month to 8,918 on April 19th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,413 articles.

{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty six 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 (bishop)Paulinus of YorkWilfridCosmo Gordon LangThomas of BayeuxCottingley FairiesWilfred RhodesGuy FawkesYorkshire captaincy affair of 1927Roy KilnerGeorge MacaulayFrederick DeliusBattle of Towton

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve 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. seasonsList of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|NOGA}} Brontë family failed GA on April 1st

; Member News

There are now 85 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:

  • {{User|Mykleavens}}

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.

;Commons images

For those of you who missed it, April saw a milestone for images on Commons with the upload of the 10 millionth image. There are images on most subjects, if you can find them, to illustrate articles. With the major work of transferring Geograph images to Commons nearing completion then most location articles should have images available for use in illustrating the subject. All of the village and civil parish articles that had articles in December 2009 had categories created on Commons for them so that the Geograph images can be placed into them. Thus the {{tl|Commons category}} template can be added to all village and civil parish articles to link to all the available images on Commons for the location. Though beware that if the template does not have any arguments, moving of the article to a new name will break the link to Commons so it is wise to include the article name in the template call e.g.{{Commons category|Rotherham}}.

Those of you interested in helping out at Commons are more than welcome to help organise and categorise all of the uploaded Geograph images so that they can be found and made available to users.

For more details see the press release.

;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The May 2011 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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|XIV

|Feb 01, 2011 ~ Feb 28, 2011

|National Railway Museum

|RAF Fylingdales

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|XV

|Mar 01, 2011 ~ Mar 31, 2011

|Yorkshire Dales

|Todmorden War Memorial

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|XVI

|Apr 01, 2011 ~ Apr 30, 2011

|Yarm

|Barbara Hepworth

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|XVII

|May 01, 2011 ~ May 31, 2011

|Pennine Way

|Mappin & Webb

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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