Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/October 2009
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; Project News
If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire {{classicon|FA}}Currently there are eighteen Yorkshire featured articles: Henry Moore • Sheffield • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • 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 (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang {{classicon|FA}} There are also ten featured lists: List of York City F.C. Clubmen 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. statistics and records • 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 Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. ; Article Activity {{icon|GA}} Hull City A.F.C. retained following a GAR review on September 4th {{icon|FA}} Cosmo Gordon Lang promoted to FA on September 6th {{icon|GAN}} David Wetherall nominated for GA review on September 7th {{icon|GA}} Geoffrey Boycott passed a GA review on September 10th {{icon|GAN}} Anne Brontë nominated for GA review on September 25th ; Member News There are now 68 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the September newsletter:
No members left the project this month: ;Thanks
;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 {| border=0 align=center cellpadding=5 style="background-color:transparent;" | style="text-align:center;" |As of 31 July, 2009, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. {| style="border: 1px solid black" cellspacing=1 width=50% height=15x align=center |align=center width=100% style=background:#00A550| |align=center width=0% style=background:#FF0000| |
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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
- To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
;Back to school or Uni
The new academic year usually elicits a lot of edits to articles about schools and universities. There are Wikiprojects for both.
WP:WPSCH & WP:UNI are the shortcuts to the project pages. These Wikiprojects have some very useful guidelines about how to structure articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Article_guidelines and Wikipedia:College_and_university_article_guidelines. Both have suggested infoboxes as well.
There is an example of a uni good article at Oxford University and one about a school at City of London School.
Resources
[http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/list_providers/%28region%29/3/%28type%29/8192/%28typename%29/Secondary%20schools/%28sort%29/datesort,desc/%28object_step%29/10 Search page for Ofsted inspection reports for Yorkshire and the Humber secondary schools.]
[http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php Times online good university guide 2010]
Checks
When looking at school articles please take time to check the Ofsted links in the article and the references as the site has been restructured and the links to the reports may just redirect to the main page. These need to be corrected if any are found. The link in the infobox has been corrected so that one should still operate correctly.
; Please remember...
Image:Imbox style.pngThe project is subscribed to a 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. The latest listing was created on September 4th.
- Monitor
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.
- Infoboxes
Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
- References
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
- 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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