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Welcome to the one hundred and ninty 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 18,943 last month to 19,208 on 28 February 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 219 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,983 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
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 2024 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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12:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Some bubble tea for you!
We meet again! Thank you for quickly nominating that interesting talk & user page. I can't wait to see what other wonderful, detailed reasons to contest the deletion that ChatGPT they come up with. Schrödinger's jellyfish✉ 00:34, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Quite, and thank you for the delicious drink! Cheers DBaK (talk) 00:35, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Editor experience invitation
Hi DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered :) (although maybe the smile isn't as nice to you given the whole disillusioned part). Anyways, I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀(talk) 11:36, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
No, smiles are always nice, and welcome. Thank you very much for the message. I will certainly go and have a look. Please feel free to remind me if I have not responded properly within a week, or something! Cheers DBaK (talk) 12:42, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello there! Interested in having a chat with fellow Wikipedians? There's a meetup in Leeds on Saturday 4th May 2024, at the Tiled Hall Café at Leeds Central Library.
You're receiving this one-off message as you're either a member of WikiProject Yorkshire, you've expressed an interest in a previous Leeds meetup years ago, or (for about 4 of you), we've met :)
I plan to organise more in future, so if you'd like to be notified next time, please say so over on the meetup page.
Please also invite any Wikimedia people you know (or have had wiki dealings with) – spread the word! Hope to see you there.
Oh thank you! I am delighted. Cheers ...thanks for the lovely beer! DBaK (talk) 20:39, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
FAC
Spotting your new comma (for which thank you) chez Arthur Bliss reminds me that you are a musician, and so perhaps may be interested to comment on the current featured article candidacy of Jacques Offenbach. (Not closing a parenthesis with a second comma is my besetting prose sin. It is at least sixty years since I was first pulled up for it as a schoolboy.) Tim riley talk 10:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Ooh I would love to! Thanks Tim – I will have a look ASAP.
Describing me as "a musician" is a bit much but very generous. Usually "a mere trumpet player" will suffice ... sometimes just "a person who owns some trumpets" ...
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty second 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 19,208 last month to 19,275 on 8 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 221 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,047 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
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 April 2024 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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.
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in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this, and of Vami, mentioned above --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:05, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you so much for this, Gerda. DBaK (talk) 00:35, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
... and the premiere of Nabucco - I always wanted to go to that theatre where Idomeneo premiered, and they played Mozart! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
I feel understood! - Two days later in time, a different music, - Happy Easter! - You would have liked yester-night's Easter Vigil, with 4 (!) concertos for two trumpets in organ version (between readings, for offertory, for communion and for postlude). The choir was busy on Good Friday, and has to learn all the Bach for 5 May. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:34, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Greetings! I noticed your comment at AfD. I wanted to offer some insight that might be helpful. The short of it is: it's probably not the subject. The points: 1) In this cultural and social context, it's very unlikely a nobleman is actually editing his own article: he has people for that; 2) In the same context, it's likely any agent might claim to be the represented party; instead of "I represent" or "I work for," it's frustratingly normal to get "This is" or "I" (email me if you want anecdotes). We aren't talking to a prince, but we are talking to the underling or maybe the friend of an annoyed prince. Probably doing his (it's certainly a he) job. Of course, we aren't subject to any wishes, but I find it helps to see this definite COI editor in the most realistic light. Thanks for reading as I split COI hairs. And thanks for your comment at AfD. Cheers! JFHJr (㊟) 19:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Sure, understood, and thanks for the insight. Probably I shouldn't have weighed in at all – it's really not my area and I had only stumbled over this by accident because he was posting to some Talk pages that I watch. I was just a bit baffled by what I thought of as rather unusual behaviour ... it's good of you to have put in in context for me. Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:01, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
You weighed in for the right reasons, the discussion is better for it, and I'm glad you did. JFHJr (㊟) 21:09, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
I like to see Appalachian Spring on the Main page today (not by me, just interested and reviewed), and I also made it my story. - How do you like the statue (look up places)? - I was undecided so show three versions ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
The statue is great! Personally I love the middle image best but I can see good points in them all. DBaK (talk) 21:33, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Just chiming in...I too think the middle one is good, but my only complaint is that it shows a bit too much human development in the background, although I doubt anyone can tell but me. Viriditas (talk) 21:28, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Ah, interesting point, thank you. I shall have to look again. DBaK (talk) 21:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
The statue is of Hildegard of Bingen, and as it happens, her Physica is on the Main page today, and Marian Anderson as my top story (by NBC, 1939), and below (on my talk) three people with raised arms, - and the place is the cherry blossom in Frauenstein --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
By a crazy coincidence we were at the Alnwick Garden yesterday in order to see their massive cherry orchard in blossom. It's been there for 16 years or something but we have never managed the timing before. Absolute bliss. DBaK (talk) 21:35, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
love the coincidence! - now plum tree blossom for Kalevi Kiviniemi in the snow - see my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
My story today is about a piece composed for the Second Sunday after Easter 300 years ago (listen!), and I just returned from a (long) opera about the same age, with soprano Pretty Yende --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
Your blossom pics are fantastic! I must show you some of our Alnwick ones. It gave me quite a moment. Cheers DBaK (talk) 09:19, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you, looking forward! - Now images of a flock of sheep that I met by chance on the 300th birthday of cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:36, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Oh how lovely, thank you ... the Flammkuchen looks wonderful! Also the sheep, safely grazing as one gathers they should. I shall now have to go and listen to the cantata, of course, despite its woeful lack of trumpets. Tsk. Presumably Bach thought they would frighten the sheep, or possibly the accountant.
Busy yesterday with Mozart K. 466, Delibes messing around pretending to be in the C16, and, fantastic revelation, Emilie Mayer's Symphony No. 1 ... lovely music, a touch too early (or late) for great trumpet parts but hey ... DBaK (talk) 21:31, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Yesterday's cantata had a trumpet ;) - Well, Bach didn't use trumpets unless for the high holidays or other special impact. We rehearse the oratorio with orchestra fully only on concert Sunday, not to have to pay the trumpets for two days. Did you get a chance to play that? - I am happy that Kathleen Ferrier made it to the Main page again on her birthday, - that was my idea four years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:20, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Lovely about Ferrier! No, I have never played BWV 12. It's a very interesting one ... weird key, weird notes ... maybe a Zugtrompete oder so was because you sure as redacted can't play it on a bogstandard natural trumpet! I must look up my learned sources ... or possibly pour a glass of something nice, which would also help. Cheers! DBaK (talk) 20:04, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you, I learned a lot, also that I have to be more precise. When I said "that" I meant the oratorio ;) - Just one less in BWV. I can't speak too much about an upcoming concert or someone will say canvassing or advertising. As you may have seen on my talk I received a logged warning in a contentious area for having said I rub my eyes, please watch. That's canvassing. Rubbing eyes is not neutral. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
I plead the 5th amendment! But thank you for the message. :) Cheers DBaK (talk) 17:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
You plead what? - today a sad task - memory of Andrew Davis - turned into entertainment (yt at the bottom of his article, actually both) -- the latest pictures capture extreme weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Plead the Fifth is a protection against self-incrimination. It's me not wanting to comment in order to not get into trouble, albeit in a jokey way.
Wall done on Davies. What sad news ... he was excellent.
Mozart Requiem rehearsal tonight ... more on Friday, gig on Saturday. It is not exactly a challenging trumpet part but it is very, very satisfying to play. DBaK (talk) 21:40, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
You may remember that the Requiem was also our last concert. Conductor's birthday is the same as Mozart's but he didn't usually like Mozart music (just the Ave verum and the Mass in C minor). It changed over dealing with the score. - I had no idea of that Grainger piece, - I just wanted to know what the image in my story shows ;) - Perhaps I should have made the story about that. However, today is the birthday of a friend with whom I went to Der Ring in Minden, so it had to be the Ring ;) - Her future husband and his colleague played the first notes. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
I have again a rather sad story on the Main page, - yesterday's double bass story was more fun. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty third 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 19,275 last month to 19,335 on 28 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 220 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,054 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
Elections
This is the month for local elections, Mayoral elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. There will be a large number of results articles that need creating or updating. There will also be updates to most of the location articles, with changes to the governess sections and infoboxes. Not to mention the people articles for those standing for election.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The May 2024 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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...
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