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== Alligator Gar ==
You deleted a link I added for Earthwave Society on the alligator gar page. Earthwave Society was the first organization to document the alligator gar on video, and have it televised internationally to become the #1 rated program on PBS. Footage from that documentary is still being licensed today by Nat Geo TV, and other renowned networks. It is the most comprehensive documentation of alligator gar ever produced on video. Contents are verifiable at www.earthwave.org/gar.htm so can you tell me why the link was deleted? Please contact me at betwills@mac.com
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Archived discussions
Because of their length, the previous discussions on this page have been archived.
I've reviewed the article and left notes on the talk page. I've put the nomination on hold for seven days to allow the issues to be addressed. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, here, or on the article talk page with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Ealdgyth - Talk15:24, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,621 last month to 8,665 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 62 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 60. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,292 articles.
Currently we have twenty four 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.
Happy Christmas
Wishing all project members a Happy Christmas and thanks for all the work you have put in to the project over the last year. We have made great strides forward especially in the area of Good Articles
and this month we have a bumper set of seven articles trying for GA status. Some passed the review while others did not, but even a try moves an article forward. Thanks to ll those involved in these articles and keep up the good work.
Cleanup listing
Some members will know that we were subscribed to the clean-up listing that was produced on an occasional basis by a BOT. The BOT owner has left and has not released the source of the BOT for someone to pick-up. The last run of this BOT was in March of this year. Others have stepped in and produced a new tool that runs on the tool server to provide projects with similar information.
The clean-up listing gives details of all of the articles with the project's banner that have clean-up tags attached to them. The listing is in alphabetical order but can be sorted on class, importance or the number of different tags found in an article. If you want the listing grouped by the different tags then the tag grouped listing should be used.
According to the tool run dated 28 November of the 8,729 articles in this project 2,725 or 31.2% are marked for clean-up, though I am unsure how it gets the article count figure as that does not appear to match the counts from the assessment table.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 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.
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...
Hi, there! I'm curious why you removed Gwen Grant from the "Notable People from Worksop" list? She's a popular (and prolific) writer, from Worksop, where she continues to live and work. I've added a page for her.
In the interests of full disclosure, I should add that she's my Mom!
Hi, my name is Alex and I have a pop band called Barker.
Apparently the Barker page is a disambiguation page, so I created a similar page as Barker_(disambiguation) and then created in Barker a page for my band.
You change it back to the way it was.
Then I had the idea to create it as Barker_(band) but you deleted it.
And as soon as I created a page for myself Alex_Motta, you deleted it too.
I want the wikipedia pages to offer people a way to know more about us, but you keep deleting the pages I create! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youremyonlyhope (talk • contribs) 23:15, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Felice News
You just deleted Felice News. The article was almost completely different & material that was not verifiable was accordingly deleted. The AfD that you cited in the deletion is further evidence that the article was deleted merely because of incorrect information, not notability. I strongly suggest you re-think your recent deletion.
The article may have some of the same text, although I deleted all of the text without valid references & added numerous external links for further verification of information. Please review the issues with the first article in detail & compare them to the slightly changed text of the second article. Key words like 'claim' have been added. All text without verifiable references has been deleted. I do not see what the problem is. Please tell me what, specifically, is wrong with the second article. It seems like a perfectly verifiable article to me. If the second article is not satisfactory, I invite you ti create your own article on the subject. I represent the actual website & can verify any & all of the information listed in the article. --VivereInNY (talk) 01:47, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
We've got lots of 'external coverage'. Why don't you just google Felice News.
Also- If websites with less visitors than Felice, such as HappyNews.com, have wikipedias, dosent Felice deserve one, as well?
Do you have any suggestions for creating a new article?
Do you think that we have enough 'Notoriety' now?
--VivereInNY (talk) 13:05, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,665 last month to 8,678 on December 13th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 63 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 61. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,304 articles.
Currently we have twenty four 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.
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...
I suspect that Blairtummock is being a bit of nuisance. Blairtummock recently has re-instated information about demolished town ports back into the landmarks section. At the end of the first paragraph, is the one and only reference and i seriously don't believe, unless i'm mistaken, mention anything relating to the content. I also believe that this information does not belongs in the section (it would be better in the history section), but if i am seen deleting this info again, Blairtummock will just put it back in. Kilnburn (talk) 21:26, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mark Pincus
As an editor on the Mark Pincus page, would you mind weighing in on an issue I have raised on the page's discussion? I believe a recent edit was made without citing a reliable source. Since you have made edits on the page prior, I respect your opinion and would appreciate your insight. Thanks. NinaSpezz (talk) 17:21, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thomas Hauser
I edited the entry about me on Wikipedia because the previous entry was incomplete and inaccurate. All of the information that I included in the edit is accurate and verifiable. I have no problem with future additions from other readers, but request that my edit be restored. In the absence of that, please remove the entry about me from Wikipedia Thank you. Thomas Hauser — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomashauser (talk • contribs) 22:49, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,678 last month to 8,766 on January 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 65 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 60. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 50 out of a total number of 2,342 articles.
Currently we have twenty four 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.
Article Alerts
After nearly a year without the Article Alerts listing after the previous BOT operator departed a new BOT has been developed to give similar functionality. This was trialled on a few projects over the New Year period and has now been rolled out as a replacement for the original BOT. Just to remind members the listing gives changes to the status of articles tagged with the project template. It includes details such as good article candidate, articles up for deletion etc. the full list of workflows covered by the BOT can be seen here.
The BOT runs daily and updates the project listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Article alerts. The BOT edit summary indicates the extent of the change so if the listing is watchlisted you can quickly tell if there is anything that may be of interest. If there are things that the BOT does not pick-up then do report them here so that they can be fixed. If you think an article should be covered by the project then add the project template {{WikiProject Yorkshire}} to the talk page of the article.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2011 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.
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...
Can I please ask you why you have removed the links I added as 'unnessary external links'?
The links were to relavant, unique content so I thought it was okay. I did one ages ago and it appeared to be acceptable (last August) but you have now deemed it unacceptable too and the few I did last night.
How unique does the content need to be before you will allow a link?
So, in this context I am not sure how my link was deemed unneccessary. It's equally as good and useful as the best links. Is it that I added several links, without contributing content which irked you?
Apologies for taking up your time, I just want to understand so I can contribute better.
Hi Jeremy, it's been some years since I last contacted you but I've followed a person onto WP and thought it appropriate to warn you.
GeorgeGriffiths has and still does participate to Wikimapia. His behaviour has been for the least disruptive, disrespectful, uncoordinated, unreferenced, unverified and otherwise poor. He has been banned and is now on WM hit list of contributors to immediately ban as his behaviour has led the admins to no longer welcome him. GeorgeGriffiths has done his best, for such a young person, to circumvent the tens of bans by creating sockpuppets or contributing anonymously. Should you request it, I can send you links to all the threads on WM fora with discussions about his behaviour. All the best Jez. Captain Scarletand the Mysterons20:46, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On the first three pages of "user behaviour" are three threads about George alone, I could dig out more if you require:
Ah, what have I stumbled upon here. I do not appreciate you talking about me behind my back. I would like to let you know that I am, in fact, a different person from Tpxpress. Tpxpress is my good friend who lives only a few roads away from me, which is why our edits are similar (we both actively edit about our local area, and we both love trains, too). I refuse to comment about Wikimapia. GeorgeGriffiths (talk) 21:46, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
CONT. FROM LAST POST Yeah, it's unethical. How? WELL HOW COME BOTH ARE ON AT THE SAME TIME, EDITING AT THE SAME TIME UNDER DIFFERENT I.Ps? Uh? Well? I'll leve you to have a think Tpxpress (talk) 12:34, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have now been accused of being a sockpuppet of GeorgeGriffiths by Captain scarlet. We have never used the same IP, our contributions are barely similar and we haven't edited the same pages. I don't understand what connection I have with GeorgeGriffiths, I don't know him and I never contacted him until I was accused. I don't even know why I was accused. George888 (talk) 16:28, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Stop flamin' wastin' your time you people! George888 isn't me. Tpxpress isn't me. And I use many IPs BECAUSE I HAVE MANY COMPUTERS: 1) my laptop 2) dads laptop 3) mums laptop 4) nans computer GeorgeGriffiths (talk) 12:20, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, there are lots of George's in the world, so stop accusing every single one of them. And anyway, what is it that you've got against me? What have I ever done to you? Hmmm? HMMM? GeorgeGriffiths (talk) 12:19, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Each of your home computers have the same public IP. Your IP today is 86.176.136.159 for instance. I made no reference to your sock-puppet accounts in my comment of the 23 April, I mentioned you logging out to make controversial and arguable contributions, a practice you used on Wikimapia and that I've warned you about on multiple occasions, today being the last time I have. When replying to comments, please have the decency to do so politely. Jeremy and I are a little older than you and we've learnt that shouting isn't the best approach, that includes Wikipedia. Regards, Captain Scarletand the Mysterons17:42, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Jeremy, before I saw George's comment above, I was going to mention Contributions/86.176.136.159, George's IP for the day with which he's been editing his usual articles. I read what you said about SPI and I understand. Since all actions are logged, little should evade our gaze if we are attentive. Captain Scarletand the Mysterons17:42, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Vote rigging
Hi Jeremy, no doubt it hasn't fooled you but you'll notive there is an unsigned vote on Robin Brook AfD. The IP, 91.107.205.247 I have already on my radar, it is GeorgeGriffiths' IP I have on file at Wikimapia. His whois shows: that he is the person that was banned, I can get you a list of IPs George and his sockpuppet accounts have used at any time (and you may cross-reference them with your WP tools). Regards, Captain Scarletand the Mysterons19:19, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,766 last month to 8,841 on February 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 65 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 61. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,376 articles.
Currently we have twenty 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.
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.
Great Backlog Drive
Most of you should have spotted the advertisement for the Great Backlog Drive that is under way at the moment. This is an initiative to reduce the number of tags that are attached to articles by attempting to fix as many of these as possible. Of cause some tags are more of a problem to fix than others but the purpose of the drive is to cut down the overall number of articles that have identified problems in them, rather than concentrate on specific problems. It would be good if project members got involved in this and fixed tags that they come across in their editing. It would also be helpful to avoid tagging new problems by fixing them when you spot the problem, though if you cannot fix it then tag for someone else to look at.
The project clean up listing gives a list of the more common tags attached to the project's articles, of which 32.1 % are marked for clean up, and can be found -
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...
For God's sake, why did you delete it? I clearly stated that it was a Work In Progress and it was under construction. Now you deleted it FOR NO GOOD REASON, and I lost all my progress. Thanks a lot.
I seriously think you have something against me. Every page I create, you delete. And they're all good pages. What have I ever done to you? So, stop it. Seriously. It's childish. This Stops NOW. Got that? GeorgeGriffiths (talk) 19:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed I was thinking along the lines of Rebuilding of Sheffield in the 1950s and yes, I'd have included the current contents of the brutalist article and put into a social housing section within the twenty-year long rebuilding scheme of the Corporation which includes transport, the city centre, woodlands, energy.. I'll look at a stub over the weekend. Captain Scarletand the Mysterons18:35, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Catherine Dusable
Hi, I left a comment on the Dusable talk page and am wondering if you have anymore sourced info about Dusable's wife? Basically, my concern is that she is being left out of history, similar to the way he was for so long. If he's 'founder,' isn't she also? Thanks. Alanscottwalker (talk) 14:11, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Rahm Emanuel page
Hi, Jeremy.
I'm fairly new to editing on Wiki. Apparently I violated a guideline. I wasn't aware of the rules, so here's where I say "I'm sorry."
Thanks for pointing it out to me. What can I do?
Nutshell:
Rahm Emanuel's page says his father was a member of the Irgun, listed as "a Jewish paramilitary organization."
But Wiki's own listing for Irgun says "Irgun was legally classified as a terrorist organization by the State of Israel in 1948." And it has a link to a book on Google, listing in English the relevant text of the declaration.
I think that labelling a group as "paramilitary" when ISRAEL calls it "terrorist" is a form of political advocacy. Surely that's not what Wiki stands for.
What can I do to work on this? As I said, I'm fairly new to wiki editing. Thanks for your time.
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 8,841 last month to 8,899 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,395 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
There are 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No membership changes have taken place since the March newsletter,
though the number of active members is still currently low.
Thanks
Thanks to all those who took part in the Great Backlog Drive raised in the last newsletter. A small inroad was made getting down from 32.1% to 31.7% of articles tagged.
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.
WikiConference UK 2011
Just a reminder for those members in the UK that there is the WikiConference UK 2011 that takes place in Bristol on 16 April 2011. This will incorporate the Wikimedia UK's annual conference. It would be good if the project has some members who could attend and support the event. Opportunities are available to get more widely involved in the direction of the UK chapter. If you have time you can volunteer and get involved by just contacting them here.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2011 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.
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...
Hey Jeremy, your Feral friend had posted something on the wrong Jeremy's page--User talk:Jeremy. To my surprise, after some plowing around I found that User:Ruhrfisch made the same mistake more than three years ago. So here, with a bit of a delay, is your well-earned DYK from February 2008. Drmies (talk) 02:49, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I am ambivilent either way as to whether this page is deleted. But there needs to be some decision as to whether the railway station is an actual direct interchange, and thus should include reference to the tram stop there (as is the case with Manchester Piccadilly and Birmingham Snow Hill), or whether, given it has a seperate name, it should also be seperate (as with Station Street in Nottingham). Hammersfan 05/05/11, 10.40 BST
FARC
I have nominated Sheffield Wednesday F.C. for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Arsenikk(talk)09:36, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,899 last month to 8,918 on April 19th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,413 articles.
Currently we have twenty 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.
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.
Commons images
For those of you who missed it, April saw a milestone for images on Commons with the upload of the 10 millionth image. There are images on most subjects, if you can find them, to illustrate articles. With the major work of transferring Geograph images to Commons nearing completion then most location articles should have images available for use in illustrating the subject. All of the village and civil parish articles that had articles in December 2009 had categories created on Commons for them so that the Geograph images can be placed into them. Thus the {{Commons category}} template can be added to all village and civil parish articles to link to all the available images on Commons for the location. Though beware that if the template does not have any arguments, moving of the article to a new name will break the link to Commons so it is wise to include the article name in the template call e.g.{{Commons category|Rotherham}}.
Those of you interested in helping out at Commons are more than welcome to help organise and categorise all of the uploaded Geograph images so that they can be found and made available to users.
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...
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 8,918 last month to 8,974 on May 23rd). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 63. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,439 articles.
Currently we have twenty 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.
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...
Looking at Kotorkid's contributions on HMHS Britannic, three hours seems too short for a block. Considering that their three and only edits were all vandalism, would you support an indef-block for vandalism-only account for them? SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:19, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You delete pages that are little compared to bigger things!
Do you realize how many people have pages & you keep deleting mine. This kid is an aspiring actor does he have to be a celeb just to have A wikidepia page on him, because a lot of them do AND THEY SURE AS HELL AREN'T DETELTED! — Preceding unsigned comment added by DominateTV (talk • contribs) 23:47, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, Kids4Fun, whom you blocked indefinitely, is back as Freesaveliy. I don't know what history there may be there, but didn't want to block the reincarnation myself since (1) I'm currently in a dispute with it and (2) since the reason for your block was vandalism and the user wasn't vandalizing, I didn't see a need to do so on any kind of emergency basis. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Kids4Fun.2FFreesaveliy if interested. --B (talk) 19:58, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Never mind ... these accounts were apparently the tip of the iceberg and the drawer has been emptied out. --B (talk) 20:40, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,974 last month to 9,083 on June 28). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 63. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,603 articles.
Currently we have twenty five 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.
Featured Lists
Featured Lists have been promoted during the last month and have now been given their own weekly slot on the main page. Lists appear on the front page on Mondays just above "Today's featured picture". This may be extended to other days at a later date if people like it. In line with this I have also added a box for lists on to the Yorkshire Portal and created a couple of entries to start it off, more will be added later.
The project currently has 12 featured lists, out of 208 project articles identified as lists, and it would be good if we could get some of these on to the front page. Of anyone wants to take this up they need to create an entry for the list and nominate them to be considered here.
Lists are easier than articles to get to featured status as there is less prose to be created and the bulk of the page is the list itself. Most of the project's current featured lists are on football related topics and it would be good to get a broader range of topics for out Featured Lists. Some of the 208 lists could be brought up to featured status with a little bit of work, if any one wants to take up the challenge.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The July 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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I am looking for niformation why Lynn Hodgson website has been blocked and the website of the self-proclaimed 'camp x historical society' is in its place?
Lynn Hodgson is well know to be the world's leading expert on Camp-X, he has authored almost every book on the subject and is the owner of the world's largest Camp-x artifact collection. Not to mention he has organized every major event(Anniversaries, soldier gatherings, etc.,) for the camp in the passed thirty years and continues to do FREE walking tours of the camp to this day.
I understand that Lynn's website is a little outdated, he is into his 70's now and maintains this himself, but I do not beleive that lack of W3C compliance is reason enough to block the link.
If you could please offer me some explanation as to why this has occured and how I may be able to assist in correcting this. I would REALLY appreciate it.
I am unsure of if or how this is proceeding. I would really like to see this remedied, as all the photos on this article are from Lynn Hodgson's personal collection, taken from his website and used on the wikipedia page. Why can we not have this ban reversed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dtcraig (talk • contribs) 18:25, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 9,083 last month to 9,157 on July 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 64. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,766 articles.
Currently we have twenty five 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.
Vandalism
With the start of the school holidays there is more chances of vandalism to articles at this time of year. It is time to remind members to be on the alert for vandalism to articles, especially those that are in the projects scope.
Here is a recent example of one that slipped through the net this edit which was reverted by an IP over a month after it was made! You can check the changes to the project's tagged pages using the watchlist or you can use the toolserver version which looks at just articles here. The former may not be up to date, as it requires manual update of the list of articles, but does cover all namespaces.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The August 2011 articles selected below are an editor choice and a suggestion from 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.
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Hey, just a heads up (pardon the silly heading) but this guy is on a crusade to start adding transit info to infoboxes (which in many cases -- such as the train lines that stop nowhere near the MSI -- is useless clutter) on Chicago museum articles. Noit sure where he's from, but he is obviously not familiar with the urban geography of Chicago or Cleveland, but he's carrying it over from a related edit war on a Cleveland museum article, so I figured you might want to be clued in. Thanks. Ryecatcher773 (talk) 18:21, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the delayed reply—I've not logged in the last couple of days. I generally think that infoboxes are over-used in Wikipedia; and I definitely think that they should usually be a summary of the pertinent facts from the article, and not contain information that is not found within the prose of the article. The MSI website is a primary source, so, per WP:RS, may be used as a source for information about the MSI, but not if that information is disputed. Also, inclusion in a primary source does not indicate noteworthiness and so if someone disputes the inclusion of that information in an article a reliable secondary source should be found or the information should be removed. At the moment public transit information takes up more than half the space in the MSI infobox, which I find pretty ridiculous. Both the infobox and the article body have a link to the museum website, where the information is readily available, so I don't see that there is much purpose served in filling up the infobox with it. I have to say that Kai445's additions to the infoboxes of Chicago museums seems very pointy, and if I didn't know better I'd say that you had done it just to annoy Ryecatcher773. —Jeremy (talk) 17:13, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 9,157 last month to 9,229 on August 24th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 65. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,778 articles.
Currently we have twenty seven 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.
Back to school
September and October are the months when many young people move from one school to a new school, or to university. It tends to be a time when freshers "look up" their new schools and colleges on Wikipedia and decide to edit for the first time. Many additions to school articles, in the past, have been unsourced, some poorly formatted and some in violation of other Wikipedia policies. More experienced editors can help here. It is easy to become frustrated, hit revert and issue a warning of some sort. How off-putting for a new editor.
New editors do make innocent mistakes and it is up to us all to try to welcome and support them; perhaps by issuing a welcome message, helping them to find sources or format references and citations. Obviously, not all will turn out to be paragons of Wikipedia virtue, but we can at least give them the opportunity. May be it is time for us all to re-read the essay Please do not bite the newcomers.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The September 2011 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.
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.
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You deleted a link I added for Earthwave Society on the alligator gar page. Earthwave Society was the first organization to document the alligator gar on video, and have it televised internationally to become the #1 rated program on PBS. Footage from that documentary is still being licensed today by Nat Geo TV, and other renowned networks. It is the most comprehensive documentation of alligator gar ever produced on video. Contents are verifiable at www.earthwave.org/gar.htm so can you tell me why the link was deleted? Please contact me at betwills@mac.com
