WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,538 last month to 6,651 on July 27th). WP:LONDON have had a major tagging spree by a bot and now have 12,595 articles which is twice as may as this project. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 39 out of a total number of 1,946 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 46 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 45.
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
Article Activity
Peak District passed a GA review on July 2nd Ilkley failed a GA review on July 19th Arctic Monkeys kept following GAR reassessment on July 21st York nominated for GA review on July 21st Geoffrey Boycott nominated for GA review on July 25th
Member News
There are now 65 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the July newsletter:
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.
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
Images
This month we focus on a recent requirement for images in articles—that of supplying alternative text for each of the images. This has been raised in FAC debates and is now a requirement for FA articles and as a result there is a general push to get all images marked-up. For example the {{Infobox UK place}} is currently undergoing changes in preparation for the use of alternative text on its images.
Alternative text is text added to the image mark-up to describe the image to someone who cannot see the image. The alternative text is in addition to the caption and should not duplicate information in the caption. It should be added, without any wikimark-up or line-breaks in it, using the alt= parameter of the image mark-up. For more information on this see WP:ALT.
Example
The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.
[[Image:York castle exterior.jpg|thumb|100px|alt=A tall, circular, roofless building of honey coloured stone positioned on top of a high mound of grass.|The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.]]
(If you are using a standard graphical browser and want to read this image's alt text, ask the browser to display the image's properties. Usually right click, properties.)
The same requirement is to be applied to Math-mode formulas but is probably less important to this project as very few of our articles contain such mark-up.
Please remember...
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. The latest listing was created on June 18th.
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.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLI (July 2009)[edit]
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Nominations open for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election[edit]
The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process has started; to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on 12 September! Many thanks, Roger Daviestalk 04:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2009[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,651 last month to 6,881 on August 23rd). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1,972 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 47 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 44.
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.
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
Summer treasures?
As the summer holiday season draws to a close, it is likely that many of our project Yorkshire members will have visited the Yorkshire coast. Some will have digital photographs stored on their camera cards or have leaflets and guide books about places they have visited. Now is the time to put all that wonderful treasury of information onto Wikipedia, before they all get lost in the run up to Christmas. (Ah yes, I can see supermarkets selling off barbecues to make room for baubles.)
There are two major categories for our coastal venues Category:Coastal settlements in North Yorkshire and Category:Coastal settlements in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Many of the articles in these categories are not kept up to date on a regular basis. Although it has to be said that some of the articles about the more popular resorts are well maintained and regularly watched for vandalism. Some tend to suffer from being overlinked to commercial enterprises but most sit there waiting patiently for a bit of TLC.
Fish and tricks at the seaside
Our own watchlists often become unmanageable after a while, so here is a way to make the task of keeping an eye on specific articles much easier.
You can create your own separate Watchlist for any articles that you are interested in helping to maintain or expand by:
listing the articles on a clean Sandbox page
clicking on "Related changes" in the toolbox area to get a list of recent changes for your adopted articles
copying and pasting the URL displayed on the address bar of your browser to a convenient place, maybe your to do list.
And, of course, you can change the options at the top of the page to display more or fewer changes, as usual.
(This trick works for any special little watchlists that you might like to create!!)
Please remember...
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. The latest listing was created on August 18th.
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.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLII (August 2009)[edit]
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Military history coordinator elections: voting has started![edit]
Voting in the Military history WikiProject coordinator election has now started. The aim is to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of sixteen candidates. Please vote here by 23:59 (UTC) on 26 September! For the coordinators, Roger Daviestalk 22:09, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2009[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,881 last month to 7,532on September 26th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1,993 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 49 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.
For those of you who made changes to the coastal places articles after last month's feature. I think that the Scarborough article got the most attention and improvements during the month.
There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.
The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs. Great!
WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
A big Thank you to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
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.
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...
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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.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIII (September 2009)[edit]
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Hi, thank you for the tidy up. I am not sure how to expand the references, I think I have squeezed the info relating to the church. --Jimmydenham (talk) 13:44, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rather than gte disjointed I'll reply here. If you edit the article then put the reference sources on the talk page (obviously saying which belongs to which item in the text) I'll sort the references out or you can have a go yourself and I'll check it over for you. There are templates for citing boks and web pages Template:Cite book and Template:Cite web which although they look ferocious are fairly easy after a while. Have a look at those and you'll see the sort of information needed. Author, title, page ref, url (if it's on the web), are the basics. For example the reference to the New Statistical Account of Scotland need a volume number (I believe it was in 6 or 8 volumes) so to be accurate we need to say which one. NtheP (talk) 13:55, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks again. I have had a look at the 'cite' refernces pages for books authors and webs, just looking gives me a headache. I don't even know houw to place the inline reference nos. ie [1] I can do that but in the reference area th number 1 appears and I don't know how to attach the reference beside that number. Also when I have used, say [2] then [3] when I try to refer to something else and I try to us no. (the first reference, it comes up [4] I hope I have explained that ok--Jimmydenham (talk) 14:16, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I mean when I try to use the no. [5] again it comes up as [6]--Jimmydenham (talk) 14:19, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Even this is confusing if I want to refer to reference one it comes up as a one, same for no. 2 reference and for no. 3 but if I want to refer back to refernce one it appears as no. 4 and so on[reply]
I know what you mean. Don't worry about the numbers - the use of <ref> </ref> allocates the numbers automatically. Try following these instructions:-
1) Find where you want to put the reference
2) type <ref>
3) enter your reference. If the templates throw you, just type it e.g. Smith, John (2006), A history of Scottish architecture, p. 103.
4) type </ref>
Then when you preview or save the page the inline number will be where you placed it, and the reference will be in the reference section. NtheP (talk) 14:27, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
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THAT'S GREAT Thank you, that's me taken another step forward. i did try it and, it worked --Jimmydenham (talk) 14:53, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello again, I uploaded another article 'Dunglass Collegiate Church, East Lothian" I tried the inline citations you showed me. I have had a message saying it had been reverted as being unconstructive, I think I am ready to give in --Jimmydenham (talk) 20:45, 16 October 2009 (UTC)--Jimmydenham (talk) 20:45, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm still having trouble having the Jonathan Fisher (lawyer) page to be verified by wikipedia. All information is now verified by external links and the information is 100% neutral. Please could you help me review the page and if further edits are needed please could you either make the changes or tell me what is needed? thank you for your help! hannah
(Hannah.rachel0801 (talk) 07:10, 19 October 2009 (UTC))[reply]
Hi. Thank you for all the advice yesterday. I've once again revamped and rearranged the page and looked at the pages of several other notable lawyers to understand the format approved by wikipedia for such pages. Please could I ask you once again to look at what I've done and let me know if the page can now be fully accepted by wikipedia? Thank you again for all your help, (Hannah.rachel0801 (talk) 10:44, 20 October 2009 (UTC))[reply]
Scan of second printing of Exposition Of The Crede[edit]
Thanks, I will make an attempt at starting to scan the edition. I dislike doing it because it does some violence to the spine of a book, but since there is no public copy anywhere of this edition it is probably worth while. I will not attempt to correct for the fact that I am going to place the two pages down on the scanning table. It will result in distortion towards the center, but so be it. If someone wants to correct for it in photoshop they can do so. I will leave it as is. If it were a leaf pile like by Theodore DeBeze first edition that I want to re-sew and re-bind, there would be no problem. But the binding and hinges on this copy are pretty good and do not care to ruin them.
Any suggestion on how the scans can be organized. An obvious but probably poor concept would be a page with links to the images. I suppose with enough time and effort I can produce a PDF of the entire book and link that, but it will take a while. You appear to be a Brit. Just stay away from Shipley, My surname comes from some towns nearby although my grandfather hailed from Cheshire with a town by the same name right outside of Chester. BibleBill (talk) 23:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2009[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,532 last month to 7,738 on October 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2.034 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.
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.
The addition of the popular pages facility to the Yorkshire sidebar last month has thrown light on which of our articles Wikipedia readers actually access most. The first month for which there is complete data is September when Arctic Monkeys were in pole position with an average 6,869 hits daily. In second place with 5,781 was Wuthering Heights followed by Dracula with 4,996. The table is sortable on a number of attributes but the sort takes a while to complete.
As the page has a link to current data it is possible to see and compare current raw data for daily hits. So far the October statistics (up to October 20th) reveal that Dracula with 5,474 daily hits is well ahead of seasonal favourite Guy Fawkes with 4,411, and last month's favourite, Arctic Monkeys, are pushed into third position with a daily hit score of 4,259.
Three football clubs Leeds United A.F.C., Hull City A.F.C. and Middlesbrough F.C.get into the top 25 along with several pages about literary topics such as the Brontë family and their works. Television personalities are well represented, Jeremy Clarkson (4,559) is 4th overall in the list and Judi Dench is 23rd with a hit score of 1,577. Do the history topics in the top 25 suggest homework assignments?
It will be interesting to monitor the rise and fall of pages on the list which will also suggest where our efforts as a project might best be directed for maximum impact.
Please remember...
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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.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIV (October 2009)[edit]
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Unfortunately DocumentsOnline is specifically excluded from direct resuse of images (see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright.htm ) - I meant to mention that in my post. The actual text is less restricted, so quoting from his account should be fine, but actually using the image of the wooden horse is probably out. David Underdown (talk) 20:23, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways you put "The same argument for adding the link to every article could be used for saying that a link to the National Rail Journey Planner ought to be added to every article (about an open station) so readers can look up current services from the station". The thing is, we already do that - if the article uses {{Infobox GB station}} and you fill in |code=, it generates links to both http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ (Live arrivals/departures) and http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ (station information), both being specific to the station concerned. Please don't take this as an argument supporting Timetable World, however. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:45, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, sort of remembered that afterwards :) I still think TW is pretty useless though apart from the limited number of scans that it carries of old timetables. NtheP (talk) 19:51, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Thanks for the help with the article I have made some alterations at your suggestion and would appreciate you taking a look to check for any errors,
1) infobox changed to Infobox UK property
2) relevance of the family tree of Alice Asshaw, work to yet omplete.
3) Style wise too many paragraphs start "In date" - later edits will ammend these.
4) Use Template:Convert on all measurements - have included the template for acres but there does not seem to be one for rods and perches or feet and inches.
5) There's a lot of history of the ownership but not much on the history of the building e.g. dates of construction and alteration. At the same time there are bits that don't seem to relate to the hall e.g. In 1765 Holt Leigh acquired lands in Rivington and Anglezarke from Baxter Roscow and Helen his wife, and Elizabeth Shaw, heirs to the Baron Willoughby of Parham. - Have worked the Hollt Leigh sentence into previous paragraph - will be adding ore detail about the building as the more research is undertaken
6) Some of the references have quite unfathomable titles e.g. Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 70, no. 68. - I have changed these to point to the foot notes of the original article.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,738 last month to 7,870 on November 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,045 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 51.
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.
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
Christmas Greetings
Welcome to all our active members. This is the twentieth newsletter, the Christmas 2009 issue, and by the time it reaches members there should still be time to drop some helpful hints about seasonal gifts for Wikipedians. The obvious things are computer and digital stuff, and books. (On Wikipedia socks are only for those with a sad identity crisis.) What sort of things? Well, computer stuff can be anything from a high spec laptop, through wireless networks, antivirus software, graphics software to memory cards and memory sticks. Digital cameras are coming down in price and an MP3 player can double up as a memory stick.
A useful book for apprentice Wikipedians is, "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" by John Broughton, it's full of tips, tricks and explanations and can be bought at about half the price on the cover if you shop around. "The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality" by Andrew Dalby has just one five star review on Amazon, and the review of "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia" by Andrew Lih says "it's a book that will certainly make you think, but it will also leave you frustrated!". It might be a better idea to go for a reference book about your next favourite sport, hobby or indulgence. A good atlas always comes in useful as does a thesaurus, for when you come across the seventh time a word has been used in a paragraph! Or the good old phrase "is the home of" turns up yet again.
Stocking fillers include pens and pencils, to replace the ones which fall on the floor and are never to be found again, and notebooks of all shapes and sizes. A ream of printer paper and the odd ink cartridge might be useful too.
Happy Christmas.
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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.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XIV (November 2009)[edit]
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What do you think about this article. A few people are aggressively trying to kill it by redirecting it and do not want to have a merge discussion. Maybe discuss it on the talk page of the above link? JB50000 (talk) 04:12, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the advice - I hope this is the correct place to reply!
I did just realise that the [[]] characters allowed me to make internal links by looking at some other articles and was very proud of myself!
Yes the subject of my article is my Great Uncle. There are many references to his work but so little about his life - there is not too much in the family records either but I will be able to provide some information and a picture of the artist as well as his work.
I've also noticed an error or two on another article which I hope to be able to get corrected.
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 7,870 last month to 7,888 on December 16th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 53 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 51. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,048 articles.
Currently we have seventeen 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.
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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
Every month, two articles will be selected for the project to improve, one B-class and one Start-class. The January 2010 articles are an arbitrary choice of the newsletter editors but members will be asked to nominate future articles for improvement.
Update statistics. (These drastically affect the accuracy of this encyclopedia so make sure the data displayed in the article is up-to-date.)
Check to see if the article is following the appropriate suggested article guidelines.
Make sure the article is NOT an advertisement. If it is written like an advertisement, fix it. If you cannot, notify us on the appropriate subject header on this talk page or on the article 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. The latest listing was created on December 11th.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVI (December 2009)[edit]
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You appear to be creating empty articles on railway stations using AWB. You may consider going through your contribs and tagging them with {{db-author}} so that they may be deleted. — ækTalk 17:50, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, re this edit: they're stacking up a bit, and it might be an idea to condense them into an {{about}} template. For example:
{{about||the station in Clifton, Greater Manchester, commonly known as Dixon Fold|Dixon Fold railway station|the station in Clifton, Bristol|Clifton Down railway station|the station in Clifton, Derbyshire|Clifton Mayfield railway station}}
{{about|the station on the Manchester to Preston line|the station in Clifton, Greater Manchester, commonly known as Dixon Fold|Dixon Fold railway station|the station in Clifton, Bristol|Clifton Down railway station|the station in Clifton, Derbyshire|Clifton Mayfield railway station}}
Thinking again, I think that Dixon Fold should be ditched. It was on the Manchester-Bolton line, and was the next station north from Clifton, and according to Butt, never had any name other than Dixon Fold. Clifton, however, was previously Clifton Junction (ren 6 May 1974). So I think it's misleading to mention Dixon Fold in the hatnotes of Clifton railway station. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:55, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm still thinking disambig with Clifton moved to Clifton, Gtr Manchester. NtheP (talk) 15:10, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That'd very kind of you, thank Nthep. I did have an offer from User:EyeSerene so I'll quickly drop him a note to see if he did take any pictures so as not to waste his effort! Do you have any idea what permissions to upload with a picture that someone else has given permission for? I've no idea! Ranger Steve (talk) 12:23, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That's good of you Nthep, I'll let you know when EyeSerene gets back to me. Ranger Steve (talk) 15:53, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well if you don't mind Nthep, I'll go with your kind offer. I think the top image is best personally - do you think the owner of the pic will mind us editing it (ie straightening it) once its uploaded? Ranger Steve (talk) 20:14, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sweet! Thanks again, owe you a favour one day! Ranger Steve (talk) 20:31, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2010[edit]
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 7,888 last month to 7,950 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 53 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 52. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,074 articles.
Currently we have seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:
There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership remaining unchanged since the last newsletter though the number of
active members is 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!
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.
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.
Assessment
This month we focus on article assessment as a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes on this. In January the new version of the bot used for generating the information was deployed. For the observant you will have noticed the changes made to the assessment table on the left, it now has details of all of the pages other than articles that are tagged with the project banner. Now you can see counts of the categories, templates, files and other miscellaneous tagged pages that the project is looking after. The article count earlier in the newsletter does not include all of the newly reported classes as they are not really articles.
A new facility is the ability to click on any of the numbers and get a list of the articles that are in the intersection of the article importance rating with the quality rating. For example this enables you to see all of the articles that the project has rated as high priority stub-class articles. This is something that was not readily available prior to this revision of the bot.
The quality ratings are only valid at the time they are done and may be out of date as some of the assessments were done over two years ago. Many of the articles have changed since they were rated so it would be good if members could re-rate them when they see substantial changes to a particular article or flag it up for someone more experienced to take a look at and revise the quality rating if appropriate. Many of the articles were rated before the introduction of the C-class rating so may be over rated as B-class articles or under rated as Start-class articles.
Other changes have taken place in the formatting of the log files and more is to come. The data is now stored in a database off wiki and so tools can be written to generate further reports, have customised rating levels for projects etc. The bot is also able to get through the articles quicker and so is reporting changes daily rather than about weekly as with the previous version.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2010 articles selected below are as discussed 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. The latest listing was created on December 11th.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVII (January 2010)[edit]
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Hi Nthep, thanks for your message! I must admit that I know absolutely nothing about Katri Rosendahl, but randomly stumbled upon the article a few months back, while it was being abused in a rather strange sort of way. The IP-vandal in question, gave me the impression that they may have known the subject personally (a jealous sister perhaps) and were doing everything in their power to blank the article (or most of it) as well as any links to it. Just someone with an unusual burning desire to discredit and rub out the existence of the subject, or so it seemed. I wanted to remove the PROD myself, but was unable to find references to justify it. I appreciate you keeping an eye on this one with me... together perhaps, we might just get lucky enough to find the source material to bring the article up to snuff, and maybe even restore a few other lost fragments from its edit history. I look forward to seeing more of you. Have yourself a great day, and happy editing :) -- WikHead (talk) 13:20, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have changed one of the categories that you placed on the Wayoh Reservoir article. I have left an explination on the article's talk page. Please let me know if you think that the change is acceptable. Best wishes. •• Fly by Night (talk) 23:27, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to thank for your continuing help improving the accuracy of some of the new reservoir articles. Good work, and thanks again! •• Fly by Night (talk) 19:10, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for helping clear up the newbie trail of destruction I left behind me. Your comments on my page for The Do Lectures were appreciated and gratefully received! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inspired Mentalist (talk • contribs) 11:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. It may be worth adding this info to the main WP:CUMBRIA page so that the project scope is clear. Cheers. --Jameboy (talk) 13:54, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Nthep, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request. Please be aware that rollback should be used to revert vandalism/spam/blatantly unconstructive edits, and that using it to revert anything else (such as by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with) can lead to it being removed from your account...sometimes without any warning, depending on the admin who becomes aware of any misuse. If you think an edit should require a reason for reverting, then don't use rollback and instead, use a manual edit summary. For practice, you may wish to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 21:44, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, hopefully the speedy will put an end to this nonsense asap. If not, I will be happy to support your AfD nominations. Cheers, WWGB (talk) 13:01, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2010[edit]
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 7,950 last month to 7,987 on February 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just behind WP:GM who have 53. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,117 articles.
Currently we have seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:
There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership remaining unchanged since the last newsletter though the number of
active members is 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!
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.
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.
Biographies of Living People
This month we need to concentrate efforts on Biographies of Living People (BLP) as detailed at WP:BLP. There is currently ongoing discussions about what should be done with nearly 50,000 unsourced articles on living people that have accumulated and being tagged with the {{BLP unsourced}} template. Options range from deleting all of them immediately to a period of grace for the articles to be sourced. There is also discussions as to what should be done, going forward, with new articles on living people that are created without sources. Do have your say on these discussions here, if you are interested in biographical articles.
As a project we have not tagged many biographical articles but looking at the articles of people under the Yorkshire category an estimate of 150 of these are tagged as unreferenced. This does not include those related to the various sports people who play for the many teams in the area. Obviously those articles relevant to the project we would want to save from the axe and so we need to concentrate our efforts on referencing articles that have been tagged as unreferenced. Once articles have been given some references then the tag can be changed to {{BLP sources}} or removed, if full referencing has been done.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions 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. The latest listing was created on December 11th.
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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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVIII (February 2010)[edit]
The February 2010 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 23:01, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Nice article, but it needs a few tweaks. Per WP:MOSSHIP, ship names should be in italics. You may find it beneficial to use the {{HMS}} template to link to Royal Navy ships. Don't forget to add the ship to the relevant List of ship launches and List of shipwrecks (by year). Mjroots (talk) 17:23, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Keep an eye on this one. We seem to have attracted a Ruben Diaz hater who keeps adding unnecessary tags... ‡ Himalayan ‡ ΨMonastery 20:04, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You recently tagged the article for a7, as did I. the author holdon-ed it, and explained that it a business concept where companies create a virtual tour of their business before it is created. I thought about it, and it doesn't really count as web content anymore, since its actually a concept, as oppsed to something material. I'm still not sure its notable. What do you think? Brambleclawx 18:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Could be valid I suppose but not as an article on it's own. Perhaps a merger into Sales pitch? NtheP (talk) 18:31, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Personally, I'm unsure. I haven't explored any of the busniess related topics in Wiki yet, so I have no idea. Maybe you have more experience, or it could be brought up at the appropriate wikiproject. Brambleclawx 18:34, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Taking it to WP:BUSINESS is a good idea. I'll put something on the project talkpage. NtheP (talk) 18:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for adding the disambiguation page to Putnam Park[edit]
I appreciate it. i am still new and trying to find my way around or I would have done it myself.
DCX (talk) 19:24, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Just a quick note to thank you for your support at the election, very much appreciated. See you around the Milhist pages! Ranger Steve (talk) 20:42, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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