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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2014

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 71 - March 2014

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Project News

Welcome to the seventy first 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 10,935 last month to 10,977 on February 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 108 is ahead of WP:GM who have 81. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,311 articles.

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

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

None

This is the first month since the newsletter was started that there has been no article activity to report on.

Member News

There are 71 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the February newsletter:

Flarpster (talk · contribs)

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 WikiProject 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 22 February 2014, 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 March 2014 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
XXXXVII	1 Nov 2013 ~ 30 Nov 2013	Calendar Girls	Eastwood, West Yorkshire
XXXXVIII	1 Dec 2013 ~ 31 Dec 2013	Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)	Frickley Colliery
XXXXIX	1 Jan 2014 ~ 31 Jan 2014	Meanwood Valley Trail	Globe Works
XXXXX	1 Feb 2014 ~ 28 Feb 2014	John Prescott	Heron Foods
XXXXXI	1 Mar 2014 ~ 31 Mar 2014	Murder of Leanne Tiernan	Ingleton, North Yorkshire

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. 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...

Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

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