BulldozerD11 now has internet access back, but is working at reduced level on Wikipedia, till I clear a backlog of material for my Tractor Wiki project and my wikipedia watch list, and so may not respond immediately to posts here, Thank you
Hello, BulldozerD11, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
Thanks for your work on this article. As I said on the talk page, if you can use those sources you referenced to improve the article, that would be great. Thanks, JRawle (Talk) 23:36, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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One possiblity is to use {{Template group}} as below. I'm still not sure about the usefulness as anyone looking into the subjects would be looking at their related articles rather than the main Sheffield page but if other people consider them useful then I wouldn't have a problem with it.
There is no indication that the tag placed on the University of Derby page was warranted. The quality of the page is well above wiki standards. It seems you may have a different motive here. Either way, the tag is malicious. If you are honest with yourself; genuine with yourself, you will see that the tag is not needed. The page exceeds the quality level of the vast majority of wiki pages in terms of clarity, style, and honestly. Search your motives and be honest with yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.161.38.178 (talk) 13:29, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
hi bd ... I'm hoping the protection might help. The user above obviously thinks you need to think outside the box .... hmmm ... and the Derby Uni page is an improvement? Its good for an old type web page. Good luck. Victuallers (talk) 20:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I am adding this to show my agreement with 70.161.38.178. It does not appear that your edits are legit. You have damaged the integrity of the page. In fact, created a problem when there was not one and then persisted to escalate the false problem. I also agree that you should be honest with yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.248.218.37 (talk) 21:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment on Derby Uni article - The only edit I have initialy made was to flag up what in MY "Honest" opinion the page needs {{cleanup}} as it does not meet the accepted standards of presentation and content in some areasWP:MOS. To remove edit tags without reason is a breach of wiki guidelines and is considered WP:Vandalism which was reverted by another editor before me. I had asked on the talk page for discussion. The page quality is well below the standard wiki editor are working to acheive. The standard of other university pages is a seperate issue, as they were not the page being looked at. The style oveall style was not in question particulartly, just content not meeting wiki guide lies like WP:EL, listings of courses and lack of references in the text WP:Cite to back up claims. Feel free to discuse on the articles talk page were all Editors to the article can join in (as was requested initialy). The claim that adding a maintenace tag damages the integrity of the page is a bit strange, as the purpose of the tagges is to engage all editors, rather than just changing the page en block. Wiki articles are not adverts for the subject of the article, but a descriptiom of what something is or was in general terms (What, Were, When). If people want the lastest news whatch the TV or read a Paper, for the bus or train times get a timtable or look on the providers web site. You are both free to have your veiw on the page and edit it if done in a constructive manner, and within wikipedias accepted guidelines for editing. - BulldozerD11 (talk) 23:27, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Firstly, your honest opinion is worthless to an encyclopedia. Opinion has no place whatsoever. Secondly, the standard of other university pages is not a separate issue as simple logic dictates that to have any standard there must be a relational class. Thirdly, and beyond damaging the integrity of the page, tags damage the integrity of wiki itself and is the prime reason it is seen as so laughable per any reliability. People do not trust the pages. The tag you placed should be of a last resort and not out of laziness. The better option for you was to make the appropriate edits without resorting to the tag. Or, as the admin stated, “think outside the box”. That is, think outside of the tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.161.38.178 (talk) 03:19, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If you are going to edit. Please pay attention to sentence structure. I am glad you have decided to fix issues instead of merely placing a tag. This is a much wiser decision. However, please do not create sentence errors such as you have with the school of health and the school of science. Under each there is two sentences when there should be one.
To IP editor above. Tags are an integral part of the operation of the encyclopaedia development, as is signing comments on talk pages to assist readers. A degree in English is not a prerequisite for editing Wikipedia, It leaves something for others to do as the perfect editors not being invented yet which would render most of wikipedia obsolete, and leave some editors with nothing to do. Many eyes are better than one pair and by an iterative process we can get an article thas not from the PR department and full of superlatives and no citations to support wild claims or full of lists that look like a copy of a catalogue of course names that can be for any uni. Anyway back to fixing article instead of debating the finer points of the English language, practice makes perfect (so it is said). P.S is it not "There are two sentences" not "There is two sentences" & I will continue to place tags on articles i do not have time to fix then or feel need the input of other editors expertise, whilst attempting to improve others at my discretion as per Wikipedias collaboration and open access structure facilitates. - BulldozerD11 (talk) 17:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think you have totally ruined this page in the past couple weeks. It seems like that makes three of us that believe this. I also think you are not being honest with yourself and that your editing has other motives. I agree again that tags are for lazy people and that they destroy the integrity of wiki. You are participating in this destruction. The uni Derby page was immeasurably better before you touched it. You should really be honest with yourself. Your edits are not productive for anything other than yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.220.55.202 (talk) 15:19, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh so you can discern problems in sentence structure...good job. But you did again miss that the first two sentences of the post needed to be one sentence. You have also failed to correct other errors of the like within the page; errors you created. I think it is interesting how the tide is mounting against your edits of this page....The University of Derby site is much worse than it was, but perhaps you'll keep trying and perhaps you will 'honestly' revert the page to its pre-bulldozer glory. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.161.38.178 (talk) 13:28, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Politics of Derbyshire etc. etc.
Hi
I'll try to help out where I can. I've mainly been watching Engel's progress, deciding to be a part of the democratic process through this parliament at least.
I've looked over her immediate predecessor's entry (Harry Barnes: currently it's a stub) and added banners to the talk page and category information to the entry page.
Rating criteria for WP:CRIC is outlined on our assessment page and the relevant bit about C-class is here. We have agreed that an article must meet all of B-class criteria #1 to #4 for C-class, even if it already meets #5 and #6. Obviously it must meet all six criteria for B-class. An alternative proposal for C-class could be that it meets any four criteria and if you want to take something like that forward, please do so at WT:CRIC. Our assessment guidelines are not carved in stone and we're always happy to amend if a consensus is there. BlackJack | talk page03:34, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All current Derbyshire MPs added
Hello again,
I've tagged all current Derbyshire MPs to the Politics of Derbyshire and I'll add banners too (shortly after this).
Greg Knight is appearing in this category too, which I'm puzzled about, since, I think, he's East Yorkshire or something.
1888,,, I think - up to that point there was bits of derbyshire within leicestershire and vice versa. Burton was in derbys and bits of south west sheffield like Dore were derbyshire. I think you can find it but I forget where Victuallers (talk) 21:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Any chance you can work out why the red blob for locations of Hollinsclough and Longnor, Staffordshire are on Edinburgh in the insert instead of within the Satffordshire boundary of the main outline map? Infobox map system. I have checked and rechecked the grid refs and latitude / longitude refs. No trouble getting 3 shire head in the right place straight away. Robert of Ramsor (talk) 00:04, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ockbrook
Greetings BulldozerD11. Re your recent comments on Talk:Ockbrook. You are not wrong. But instead of writing all that blather and tagging the article, wouldn't it have been a more productive use of your time to actually make the changes you suggest? -Arb. (talk) 20:54, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes and No Arb, As if its just a few bits yes generally i will fix it, but as I'm working round looking for Derbyshire articles, if i spend the time fixing the refs and checking every one of the external links it will take ages for each article. As its a decent article (not like some of the stuff you find) rather than just tag the issues I'd take then time to leave a note as well as tags refer to talk pages for comments. Or I could have taken the other route and just delete almost all the External links as some do. Id rather flag up the issue and let others have the chance to rationalize/ discuss the list who are familiar with it. Or I could just click on by and leave a page thats a Start-class but could be a C and on the way to a B-class article with a bit of work. Its No Win. Some chose to work on a couple of articles, others chose to work on many or collect articles together, add extra cross links. I'd already gone at a tangent by then, so thats why I flag up what i think are issues with the article. - BulldozerD11 (talk) 21:21, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Silversmith Entry UnDo
Hi BulldozerD11,
This was my first go on Wikipedia so no worries about taking down the link. I wasn't sure of the rules on linking to a commercial site but thought it showed lots of good examples, got a better understanding now though. Out of interest how come there is a link to another Silversmiths website in the article. Hope the insert of the image of the handforged Goblets was ok though because it is a good example of handforging and modern silversmithing. If not I can change. Emma-Kate is actually my girlfriend. Thanks RogerRoger5 (talk) 17:00, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi BulldozerD11, Thanks very much for the intro to wikipedia and your comments, really useful and appreciate your time. I have used it before for research think it is great and looking forward to contribute further. Thanks ----
Derby continued
Sorry I was being a tad sarcastic about the uni article on the talk page. despite your efforts its s still reads like its a pyramid selling scam. I mean how many depts have higher degrees? ... why all of them of course ... so why say it? Lots of words but little said. Don't think this is aimed at you. I'm hoping the marketing dept have a reasoned view too Victuallers (talk) 23:10, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No offence, I had missed the OOtt example you quoted. We all know uni's teach dergee etc. Hence some of my earliar comments + the wood from the trees. And why I slaped advert on the earlier student union update yesterday full of bold text and contact details. If it was just hacked to bits, it would go to an edit/revert war again, so was leaving it to allow other editors & or discussion to take place after the IP block ended. Dont want to waste too much time on it at one go, as plenty of other articles to tweak & Find/Assess for this project and (the others).
Further to earlier posts, all Derbyshire MPs, past and current are now situated in appropriate sub-cats under Politics of Derbyshire.
Article pages are tagged appropriately and talk pages have all been brought-up to the same 'boilerplate' standard.
I now resume my normal programming :-)
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4085 last month to 4284 on October 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1708 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 30.
As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD.
The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.
Only two of our top priority articles were not selected, Ripon and Wakefield, the others were cleaned up, improved, expanded and copyedited as far as time allowed.
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.
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.
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
Missing co-ordinates
A recent entry on the project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire#Missing coordinates alerted us to the fact that many of our articles do not display any geographical co-ordinates. Many also do not have infoboxes. As locational infoboxes usually have a field for co-ordinates, it was suggested that members might be able to kill two birds with one stone by adding an appropriate infobox at the same time as co-ordinates.
The infobox page usually includes detailed instructions for its use and many of the fields are not mandatory so are not displayed until information is entered.
The geographical co-ordinates for a location can be found on Google Earth.
Open Google Earth and enter the name of the location in the search box. (Quite often the article name can be copied and pasted directly into the search box but sometimes it is useful to add ,UK to the address.)
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Click on the right one.
Zoom in to check that the correct feature is being displayed on the image. (Sometimes the supposed feature is not at the centre of the page.)
Place the pointer over the location on the screen image and read the geographical co-ordinates from the panel at the bottom of the screen.
Make a note of the co-ordinates.
Open the tab of the article you are editing and add the co-ordinates in the co-ords field.
Once co-ordinates have been added the template {{coord missing}} should be removed from the article.
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.
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.
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I see you have an interest in steam fairs. I saw this morning that there was no List of steam fairs so created a very incomplete list, and am hoping that interested parties will enhance it substantially and place a link in relevant articles (and create redlinked articles, too!). Fiddle Faddle (talk) 09:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4284 last month to 4532 on November 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1746 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 31.
As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD.
The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.
Since the last newsletter Northallerton has also been selected to go onto the DVD having recently achieved GA status.
Thanks
Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.
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.
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.
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
Co-ordinates
Just to let you know that a bot is currently sub-dividing the articles with missing co-ordinate data into sub-categories for ease of use. You can now find the articles by looking at the categories for each area as — East, North, South and West. From the discussions it looks like only the co-ordinates in the title area are being used by external sites so articles with multiple co-ordinates are not being handled correctly as yet.
Happy Christmas
Just to say thanks for all the effort put in by members on articles covering the Yorkshire area and to wish everyone a happy Christmas. It is time to take a break and to spend some time with family and friends. May be even to indulge yourself in the food and drink that abounds at this time of year or even make that occasional visit to a church. What ever you do over the festive season enjoy it and see you next year.
Though if you are at a loose end then many of you will be getting some new toys to play with which can be used to enhance wiki articles. Those new digital cameras can be used to get photographs for some of the articles which are currently without and for which the Geograph site has nothing suitable. May be it is a new PC that you just need to play with then spend some time checking out the watchlist for vandalism which tends to go unnoticed when there are fewer regular editors around. It may even be a book which can be used to add references to an article. May be you want to do something different then try creating spoken articles see the Spoken article project.
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.
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.
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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.
I notice that you keep adding in The Manitowoc Company page that Manitowoc cranes are usually red with an orange circle and a white "Manitowoc" through it. This has not been the Manitowoc logo for quite some time. While the crawlers and tower cranes (in the US) are red, all the other cranes have a different paint scheme and different brand names and logos. The Manitowoc "meatball" as it is referred to, has gone through a few transformations since the orange circle and was found only on crawler cranes from years ago.
Kkoeppen (talk) 22:51, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's a shame on Wikipedia when people go round adding random "fact" tags, when the fact they are querying - and which i didn't personally add - is so easily verifiable. You three seconds would be better spent referring to The Derbyshire's website, and adding a reference thereto, than adding spurious "fact" tags to the article.
I agree. Tiny stubs are just annoying as you see a link ... follow it ... and then find it tells you nothing. Nothing wrong with redlinks but those ones had been there for some time. Thx for your efforts. I do try to keep the assessment lists in check. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 00:18, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Lack of Broadband service
Due to failure of BT/Tiscali to currently provide a working broadband connection and voice line simultaneously i'm currenty unable to operated on Wikipedia. (Must have worn the line out with data volume).
Normal service will resume once service restored and watchlist backlog cleared (Currently 2 weeks), as Wikipedia is impossible by dialup connection 1mb data up, 12 mb down and 30 minutes to edit 2 pages.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4532 last month to 4822 on December 19th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1763 articles. In the area of GAs, at 25, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 36.
Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.
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.
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.
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
Citations
Citations are a necessity to give credence to the articles that we produce, so that the facts given can be verified. One of the templates that is used for this is {{Cite book}} to give details of books used for creating the articles. There has been some changes to the template that we should be aware of and make changes accordingly when editing articles. The id= field should no longer be used to give the ISBN number for a book instead use the isbn= parameter. The page= and pages= parameters now have the p. or pp. automatically inserted and so we should just put the page number in the fields. Use page= for a single page and pages= for multiple pages. If the insertion of p. or pp. is not required then use nopp=true to suppress this. Note that the number of pages in a book is not specified using these fields and at the moment a new parameter is being discussed to cover this.
Happy New Year
Hope everyone enjoyed the festive season and are not feeling too worse for ware. At the start of a new year we all look back at what has happened in the last year and look forward to the coming year. It is time to take stock of what has happened in the last year well we have managed to get some priority articles selected and to get this newsletter in place to keep members up to date on what is happening. Articles have been tagged and assessed, a watchlist of these has been set up for members to keep track of changes to those articles that the project is interested in. So over all great steps have been made in the last year and thanks to everyone for the efforts put in. Looking forward it is time to make some targets for the coming year. If anyone has any ideas for what we should be doing in the coming year then please share them on the project talk page.
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.
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.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4822 last month to 5108 on January 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 31 out of a total number of 1798 articles. In the area of GAs, at 26, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 41.
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
Article Activity Monitoring
Article activity is now been recorded at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Article alerts by the bot ArticleAlertbot. This gives details of the changes that have taken place in the last 14 days in the status of articles tagged for the project. The status changes being monitored are :-
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Peer review
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Did you know
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.
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.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5108 last month to 5202 on February 17th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 32 out of a total number of 1801 articles. In the area of GAs, at 32, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 42.
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
Orphan articles
Members may have noticed a new spate of article tagging by bots in the last month. A large number (over 250) of articles belonging to the project have been tagged with the {{Orphan}} template indicating that there are no or few incoming links to the article. It would be helpful if members tried to reduce the number of tagged articles by introducing wikilinks into related articles so that there is a minimum of three links to each of the orphaned articles. Once the links are in place the tag can be removed and the bot should not re-add the tag. The bot is currently only doing articles with no incoming links.
Portal
Those of you with eagle eyes may have spotted the change made to the Yorkshire Portal link in the project template. Rather than the usual jig-saw image it has been changed to the Yorkshire Rose image to give it a more distinctive look and hopefully raise the profile of the portal.
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 February 25th.
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.
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.
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Thank you for the message, it’s much appreciated. If we can help one another on projects, it makes for a better Wikipedia. Lincolnshire is my core area, along with people, places, military etc, that are associated with the county, though I do dabble in the book and history projects and articles. I read a fair bit.
The project importance levels, are more as I see it for working on, and so you may see them different to the other projects, for example a place under the England project may be low, but for Lincolnshire project it may be mid to high, because it is important to us. A lot of work is still needed, but if we all chip away at it, we’ll get there in time.
Please always let me know your thoughts on these issues, and also if you ever need help on an article connected to the county.
--BSTemple (talk) 16:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah Lincolnshire is kinda one of those places you just drive through. I went to Lincoln a couple of years ago it is gorgeous, like why did nobody tell me this was here? Always the way, when things are on your doorstep you don't bother to go see them. 17:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Yes, for Engineering firms, I certainly can think of Lincoln, as it's famous for aircraft and tanks, though much looks to be going into decline now. The comment above is true though, Lincolnshire is beautiful. Did you know by the way, that the council are going to shut the tourist office near the Cathedral?
I agree with the importance (priority) parameter, this is how in general, I see it. Cities/Major Towns "Top", Important towns "High", other towns "Mid", and Villages mostly "Low", with exceptions. Each has to be looked at on its own merits.
Important is also Lincolnshire people, businesses, history etc. I have also found Keith D to be very helpful in the Lincolnshire articles and has dealt with Vandalism on many occasions. I live in Lincolnshire, so can also see what is right and wrong in many of the articles, which helps. I know what you mean about the linked comments page, and will start to use these, these do seem to open up new pages and I think will be useful, if other Editors know to use them or even know they are there.--BSTemple (talk) 18:41, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, knowing they are there is the hardest bit, even with a good search sometimes I can't find anything. WP:Overlink and [[WP::Underlink]](same article) also give some advice. One of the nice things about the collaborative nature of Wikipedia is others can come alog after and add links-- I tend to leave a template like '[citation needed]' when I can't find it while editing. SimonTrew (talk) 19:42, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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