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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2012[edit]

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 54 - October 2012

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Project News

Welcome to the fifty fourth 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 9,942 last month to 10,141 on September 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 87 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,102 articles.

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

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

Joseph Roebuck DYK entry on July 28th
Members of men's basketball team in Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics DYK entry on August 26th
One Direction GA review started on August 26th
Terry Bywater DYK entry on September 5th
Bosa of York promoted to GA on September 8th
Stones Bitter nominated for GA on September 13th
Terry Bywater nominated for GA on September 16th
Terry Bywater promoted to GA on September 16th

Member News

There are 106 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.

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 WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

Great!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	58			76
FL			1	16			17
GA	3	7	36	173			219
B	9	63	132	340			544
C	3	143	287	1,443			1,876
Start	1	227	1,187	8,467			9,882
Stub		18	328	5,646		3	5,995
List		4	12	798	1		815
Category				1	3,815		3,816
Disambig					21		21
File					21		21
Portal					95		95
Project					220		220
Redirect			3	177	1,325		1,505
Template		1	8	431	159		599
Other			1	1	11		13
Assessed	18	464	2,010	17,551	5,668	3	25,714
Unassessed			1			3	4
Total	18	464	2,011	17,551	5,668	6	25,718
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 94,936			Ω = 5.11

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 July 2012, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

Thanks

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.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The October 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
XXXI	1 Jul 2012 ~ 31 Jul 2012	Battle of the Standard	Elliot Morley
XXXII	1 Aug 2012 ~ 31 Aug 2012	Yorkshire County Cricket Club	Football in Yorkshire
XXXIII	1 Sep 2012 ~ 30 Sep 2012	Brian Blessed	Derwent Valley Light Railway
XXXIV	1 Oct 2012 ~ 31 Oct 2012	Settle-Carlisle Line	RAF Holmpton

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Please bear in mind...

The 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.

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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WikiWomen's Collaborative[edit]

WikiWomen Unite!
	Hi Harkey Lodger! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative. As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by: Liking the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook and share your tips, projects, and connect with other WikiWomen Join the conversation on our Twitter feed Reading and writing for our blog channel We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can get involved! Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 04:22, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWomen Unite!

Hi Harkey Lodger! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative.

As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by:

Liking the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook and share your tips, projects, and connect with other WikiWomen
Join the conversation on our Twitter feed
Reading and writing for our blog channel

We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can get involved!

Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 04:22, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]