Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/February 2020

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 142 - February 2020

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and forty 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 15,275 last month to 15,346 on 29 January 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 156 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,467 articles.

Currently we have fifty two Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Cædmon • 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 (archbishop of York) • 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 • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball • The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished • The Wrestlers (Etty) • Bootham Crescent • History of York City F.C. (1908–1980) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. (1980–present) • Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed • The World Before the Flood • Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' • North Eastern Railway War Memorial • York City War Memorial • Northern England • Albert Pierrepoint • RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor • Keldholme Priory election dispute • 2018 World Snooker Championship • 2019 World Snooker Championship • Capture of Wakefield

There are also seventeen 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 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 • List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances) • List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) • Bootham Crescent • Kate Rusby discography

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Capture of Wakefield was promoted to FA on 25th December
Shire Oak (Headingley) featured in DYK on 25th December
Billy Elliot was nominated for GA on 3rd January
Kate Rusby discography was promoted to FL on 9th January
Siege of Hull (1642) was nominated for GA on 17th January
Dehenna Davison featured in DYK on 18th January
Farnham Mires featured in DYK on 22nd January
Acaster South Ings featured in DYK on 23rd January
Battle of Leeds was nominated for GA on 23rd January

Member News

There are 86 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the January newsletter:

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	8	36	173			220
B	9	63	132	336			540
C	3	142	287	1,440			1,872
Start	1	225	1,177	8,432		1	9,836
Stub		18	327	5,649		1	5,995
List		4	12	773	1		790
Category				1	3,810		3,811
Disambig				1	21		22
File					21		21
Portal					95		95
Project					220		220
Redirect			3	179	1,321		1,503
Template		1	8	431	159		599
Other			1	1	13		15
Assessed	18	462	1,999	17,490	5,661	2	25,632
Total	18	462	1,999	17,490	5,661	2	25,632
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 94,680			Ω = 5.11

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 January 2020, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

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

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 • Northern England • 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.

Brexit

Well by the time you read this Brexit will have happened and this is the tidy-up that needs doing this month. You can leave the constituency link in articles that use {{infobox UK place}} as the template will hide the field in the output. Those using other templates will need to be edited individually to remove/hide the information. There are also a number of articles that mention the fact in the text of the article and these will need editing to remove the information or show that it was only valid until 31 January 2020.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The February 2020 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
118	1 Oct 2019 ~ 31 Oct 2019	Otley	Barbican Centre, York
119	1 Nov 2019 ~ 30 Nov 2019	Calder and Hebble Navigation	Market Weighton
120	1 Dec 2019 ~ 31 Dec 2019	M62 motorway	Chapel Allerton Hospital
121	1 Jan 2020 ~ 31 Jan 2020	Normanby, Redcar and Cleveland	Dearne Valley Railway
122	1 Feb 2020 ~ 29 Feb 2020	Jeremy Paxman	Easington, 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.

Thanks

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