- Project News
- WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3781 last month to 4005 on August 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 25 out of a total number of 1664 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:GM with 27 and WP:LONDON with 22.
Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire
 Currently there are twelve Yorkshire featured articles:
Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C.
There are also eight featured lists:
List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
- Article Activity
 Jimmy Speirs was promoted to GA Status on July 22nd
 Henry Moore is on FAR since August 15th
History of Bradford City A.F.C. was promoted to FA Status on August 25th
 Last of the Summer Wine nominated at FAC on August 27th
Chris Brandonwas promoted to GA Status on August 27th
- Member News
There are now 48 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that has joined us since the August newsletter:
One user in the WikiProject was banned this month:
- Thanks
- To those who have been tagging articles this month, the number of articles has now gone over the 4,000 mark.
- There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.
- The football and rugby editors have to be admired for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
- 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.
| Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
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| Quality
|
Importance
|
| Top
|
High
|
Mid
|
Low
|
NA
|
???
|
Total
|
| FA
|
2
|
1
|
15
|
60
|
|
|
78
|
| FL
|
|
|
1
|
16
|
|
|
17
|
| GA
|
2
|
7
|
36
|
175
|
|
|
220
|
| B
|
9
|
66
|
136
|
356
|
|
|
567
|
| C
|
5
|
144
|
293
|
1,495
|
|
|
1,937
|
| Start
|
1
|
240
|
1,250
|
8,656
|
|
1
|
10,148
|
| Stub
|
|
20
|
359
|
5,667
|
3
|
|
6,049
|
| List
|
|
4
|
12
|
930
|
|
|
946
|
| Category
|
|
|
|
|
3,879
|
|
3,879
|
| Disambig
|
|
|
|
|
21
|
|
21
|
| File
|
|
|
|
|
22
|
|
22
|
| Portal
|
|
|
|
|
95
|
|
95
|
| Project
|
|
|
|
|
225
|
|
225
|
| Redirect
|
|
|
2
|
193
|
1,353
|
|
1,548
|
| Template
|
|
|
|
109
|
511
|
|
620
|
| NA
|
|
|
|
5
|
2
|
|
7
|
| Other
|
|
|
|
|
12
|
|
12
|
| Assessed
|
19
|
482
|
2,104
|
17,662
|
6,123
|
1
|
26,391
|
| Unassessed
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
1
|
| Total
|
19
|
482
|
2,104
|
17,663
|
6,123
|
1
|
26,392
|
| WikiWork factors (?)
|
ω = 96,905
|
Ω = 5.10
|
Written by Kaly99/Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View
Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
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- New 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 above)
- 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
- To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
- Yorkshire Portal
The Yorkshire portal helps people navigate through the content related to Yorkshire. The highlighted content is displayed randomly and includes -
- Did you Knows
- Articles
- Biographies
- Pictures
- Panoramas
Any additions to these would be great. The portal is being prepared for featured portal candidacy so help meeting the criteria, for example, copy-editing or suggestions for new content sections such as Selected anniversaries, On this day, or In the news would be appreciated.
- 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.
- Please remember...
 The project is now 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.
- 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.
- Assessment
Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
The changes are:
- The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
- The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
- A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
- 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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