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Ketene thing
Hello Edward. Glad to see you participate in the chem articles. We need people like you, and some skepticism because these articles are often highly imperfect. I am an editor who adds lots of content about industrial routes, but my knowledge is often based on reading, not direct experience. So your question is warranted. Here is a quote from Ullmann's Encyclopedia on Industrial Chemistry "Thermal Cleavage of Acetone. This variation of the ketene process (cleavage of acetone into ketene and methane [59]) has no economic significance for the manufacture of acetic anhydride today." The article emphasizes the thermal dehydration of acetic acid to give ketene, which then adds to AcOH to give the anhydride. --Smokefoot (talk) 01:21, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It was earlier editor that tagged the article, I just spotted that the template used contained a deprecated parameter (missing the "reason="), unfortunately my own knowledge of chemistry is a little more limited EdwardUK (talk) 01:35, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the comment. I will address the question. --Smokefoot (talk) 01:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Acetaldehyde thing
Agreed that using acetylene and Hg is a little strange. My understanding is that Hg and acetylene routes are current only in countries - PRC, Soviet bloc - that tolerate a lot of pollution. They often rely on cheap coal as a hydrocarbon surrogate. But in the bad old days, lots of mercury was often used even in the West to induce reactions of alkynes. Here is a quote from another section of Ullmann's Encyclopedia (doi:10.1002/14356007.a01_031.pub2): "Wet Oxidation Process (Hoechst). The wet oxidation process ... was operated... until the changeover to ethylene.... In this method, iron(III) sulfate is added to reoxidize the mercury metal to the mercury(II) salt..." One of the angles I have taken in writing these basic chemicals articles is to highlight large scale routes that today might seem implausible.--Smokefoot (talk) 01:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
As with the "Acetic acid" article an editor called Riventree originally tagged the section with "citation needed" EdwardUK (talk) 01:53, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Barton Paul Levenson and other Author Pages
Hi EdwardUK
I've neglected the author pages I edit, which is mostly writers from Cooperstown NY and Pittsburgh, PA.
Several of the pages I edit have stale refs or edits have left some of them a little choppy.
I saw you put on a ref improve on the BPL page back in February.
It's going to take me a while but I've just finished my Master's so I have time again.
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Hello, I don't know how RS 'Talk Talk' is, but assure you that, as it says on the 'Central' page, In 1989 it was incorporated as a higher education college in its own right and funded directly by government. Central had been offering degrees since 1986, firstly validated by the Council for National Academic Awards and from 1992 by the Open University.
No 'Central' student received any kind of degree until 1986. Were this not the case, why is there no mention of a degree on the Harold Pinter, Laurence Olivier, the three Redgraves etc etc etc pages and no mention of a degree on any other Judi Dench source (one of the most written about modern actresses). Central offered a practical training, not an academic course and only began awarding degrees when it became 'necessary' for Govt funding reasons. The same was true of all major UK drama schools until the 1980s. Pincrete (talk) 23:44, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that it would be expected for it to be mentioned in more sources - there are a couple of other articles (broadway.com) (thestage.co.uk) that state "first class degree" (who may have used talktalk as their source), but other such as Darling Judi (Miller) only go as far as saying she graduated. I had reinserted it as it matched the source given, but based on what you have written and the possible unreliability of the source I think it is probably best to leave it out. EdwardUK (talk) 00:33, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
'Graduated' is used on quite a number of Central alumni articles, in the pre-1986 context it simply means 'completed and left'. Previous to 1986, 'Central' awarded diplomas, which had no real value outside of the world of acting. This was true of almost all drama courses - and some other arts courses (eg musical instruments). Most of these drama school courses made the change as it became necessary for a course to be recognised as a degree course in order for students to get grants (and later loans). In the case of 'Central', the entire acting course staff resigned circa 1984 in protest at the change forced on them by the Governors, to what had previously been a wholly practical training, but which became a 'faux academic' course in their opinion. Central had also trained teachers and speech therapists and theatre techs, but they were awarded various forms of certificate. Pincrete (talk) 10:39, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A goat for you!
Good for you, but why is Zayn Malik still in twins? I have something more to say than this and I am not done talking to you! I think we should start an article for Rybka twins. Make me talk more because I do not feel lowly of myself in front of people whether they are related to me or not. I have never seen a negativity before in my entire life.
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thank you very much…
Hi EdwardUK, thank you very much for your all infobox corrections. One question… how are you identifying the errors? Best Regards DynamoDegsy (talk) 22:00, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
For rugby infoboxes there is a list of errors here: Category:Pages using infobox rugby league biography with unknown parameters. When you go to an article you can click edit and then preview and it gives a red message at the top of the article such as: "Warning: Page using Template:Infobox rugby league biography with unknown parameter "nickname" (this message is shown only in preview)." To let you know what the error is. Then I either correct or remove the parameter based on whether it’s a simple typo, incorrect, already covered in the main text, or needs a citation. EdwardUK (talk) 22:40, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Census statistics
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Frainy Bomanji
Hi Edward,
Thanks for you fixing up Lady Bomanjis page. I write to seek your help in keeping this page alive. Just read my talk page and you will understand whats going on. I have added all factual information about her but i have not been able to convince some guy on wiki to keep her page. I have been given time to fix it up before it is marked for deletion. Please help in keeping this page alive on wiki. It is the least we can do to for someone who gave her life to harrogate and england.
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Aldermaston Pottery - images to add - help please
Hello Edward. I have added some information to the Aldermaston Pottery page. It seems like there isn't one main person who created the page out of a special interest. So I'm just contacting you to see if you have time to help load up a couple of images.
Sorry, every time I try it takes hours and I don't succeed. I've obviously got abilities in other areas!
You'll see my entry on the page so far.
There are copies of the lists of studio assistants at Aldermaston Pottery, with an example of their potter's mark.
I found a couple at a web site called 20th Century Forum.
If you look there, scroll down, maybe on the 2nd page, and there are a couple of examples of the lists.
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t3346-aldermaston-pottery
I saved them as pictures on my computer but can't get any further.
I wonder if you could help?
Regards
Solatully
Australia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Solatully (talk • contribs) 05:12, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Yorkshire Day
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Why did you remove the image of Sam Daghles? Shipsview (talk) 17:23, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
there was no image, only text - which doesn't belong in the "image=" parameter, but in others such as "coach_start=" and "cteam1=" - see Template:Infobox basketball biography - EdwardUK (talk) 20:51, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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It is that time of year again so to wish all members a Happy Christmas. Just to remind members that there will be fewer of the regular members around over the festive period and that there are usually loads of new editors around using their new shiny devices to access the internet and try out some editing. Those who are around just keep an eye out for any vandalism and test edits that occur and revert as soon as possible.
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01:38, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Why did you reduce the size of the image in Sue Draheim ?
Hi Edward ---- Can you tell me what is your reason for reducing the size of the image of Sue Draheim in the article Sue Draheim? Thank you. --Akhooha (talk) 18:43, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The picture used full image syntax rather than just the file name as suggested in the infobox documentation – see template:Infobox musical artist. A forced fixed size (px) is generally only needed to enlarge small images and it overrides users preference settings for image display. To me the default size seemed adequate here – however i’ve now added the upright parameter which scales the image back to the previous size. EdwardUK (talk) 20:51, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for restoring it to its original size. I'm just curious, though, since now everything looks the same as before you made any changes, what purpose was served in changing the "syntax" of the image? Thanks for your reply. --Akhooha (talk) 20:58, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I can’t remember quite where i’ve read the more detailed version of it, but one reason is given in Wikipedia:autosizing images is that having a fixed image size can cause problems for certain users and devices. EdwardUK (talk) 21:14, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmmm --- OK -- thanks for your quick reply.--Akhooha (talk) 21:28, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The McCreery House
You've edited the page about the William H. McCreery House. I own that house and my wife and I operate a wedding and event venue on the property. The legal business name is simply "The McCreery House" which is what I attempted to use in the main content as well as a link to the business website. Why was that changed? Can we not link to tour business site?
BTW - I've never updated a wiki page before and I'm only interested in this one because it appears in Google searches for our business and was showing incorrect information and a terrible picture which does not encourage people to visit our website. I'm mainly interested in directing traffic there, but I would think accurate information in Wikipedia is also important?
The article is primarily about the building rather than the business that operates there, but I can see why you would like to improve it. I changed the article because articles usually start with the full name in bold, which in this article is the registered name of historic building. The website link is still there at the bottom of the article, but I have now also added it to the infobox, and added: "also known as The McCreery House" to the first line.
To encourage people to want to find out more (and visit the website) the article would benefit from being longer - firstly adding sections on the architecture and history of the building – there is lots of info given in the nrhp listing (reference 3) which could be useful, and then add a section about its current use. The WikiProject National Register of Historic Places WP:NRHP has links to good articles on similar buildings and a guide that may help. EdwardUK (talk) 18:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar
Hi ! Thank you for your support and help with edits of image bu Elliott Broidy page. If you dont mind could you say me how exactly i should added the picture, what was my mistake? Regards Annmorgan24 (talk) 16:42, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The formatting would have been fine if used somewhere else in the article, but in the infobox it only needed the filename without the square brackets or the use of thumb. there are lots of useful guides for editing on the Help:Contents page. EdwardUK (talk) 16:58, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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20:52, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks!
I’m new to Wikipedia and I couldn’t figure out how to convince the infobox of the N-localizer page to display the enclosed image on center. You did it, so thanks, or should I say “Ta” instead? Lunqvist (talk) 02:29, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Images in infoboxes
Hello! Thank you for fixing Solrad 1. My issue with other photos is that, because they are large or long, they make an infobox unwieldy, which is why I've sometimes used thumbnails. Do you have a recommendation on how to address this issue? Thank you! --Neopeius (talk) 17:05, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Most infoboxes have parameters such as image_size= or upright= that can be used to adjust the display size. Template:Infobox spaceflight uses image_size= which defaults to 220px wide if not set, but can be changed if needed – for tall images it is also possible to set the height rather than width by putting an x before the number – for example x250px - EdwardUK (talk) 17:24, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Kalani Pe'a
I'm going to edit my inline refs over next few days. Can you check it in a week please. Kalani Pe'aAllanbcool (talk) 08:53, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you
Thank you for tidying up the logo attributes in the image parameter for the organization infobox on Phoenix Lodge. Rjrh (talk) 17:37, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Recent changes
As some of you will know the script for generating the list of project articles for use with the Recent Changes utility stopped working a couple of years ago so the list was way out of date. The good news is that I have managed to find a convoluted way of creating a new list using AutoWikiBrowser. The link for using the new list is Watchlist of recent edits. If you are not interested in talk pages then use Watchlist of recent article edits or for talk pages only Watchlist of recent talk page edits.
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19:50, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
1970 FA Cup Final
You clearly haven't seen the match. BTW, where is the source that Chelsea were "better" in the first half of 1994 FA Cup Final? See what is says in Summary section. D Gums (talk) 20:34, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ref template
Hi - regarding this diff, and several other ones you made recently to some articles I've written recently - can you give me a link to instructions on using ref templates like that? I'll probably be using that Historic Environment Scotland portal again in future articles, so if you can show me how to reference it more efficiently next time it will save other people having to clear up after me. Cheers GirthSummit (blether) 09:02, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty fourth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
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18:50, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Oliver's Mount
That link is to an out of date news article, this revision is current and accurate info — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.93.211 (talk) 19:37, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
All material on Wikipedia articles must be attributable to a reliable published source, so if the information regarding Oliver's Mount has changed then a citation needs to be provided to support the changes otherwise it appears to be "original research" which is prohibited on Wikipedia and is usually reverted or removed. EdwardUK (talk) 00:02, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
There is no citation to quote as it has not been reported elsewhere, but this is fact and was posted by Olivers Mount Racing Ltd, the account for the company that own the rights to operate the circuit, and so should be regarded as such unless anyone has evidence to the contrary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.93.211 (talk) 08:22, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If there are no sources that directly report the information, then you have to rely on available published sources and reword the article based on what they say – I’ve added a citation that gives the original company name as reported at the time and another citation which shows that it has since been renamed. EdwardUK (talk) 11:03, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Edward, so that suggests that Wiki can only ever report the situation as it has been reported elsewhere, but what about when the information is accurate but simply has not been reported elsewhere? Surely it should be able to stand if no-one disputes the information stated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.93.211 (talk) 17:57, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
If there is no source for the information then it shouldn't be on Wikipedia. This is one of the core policies as covered here: Wikipedia:No original research. EdwardUK (talk) 18:35, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the guidance, will await a quotable external source before editing this piece again — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.93.211 (talk) 07:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty fifth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
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23:08, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Historic Environment Scotland Template
Hi - you've been good enough in the past to go through a few articles I wrote and replace my 'cite web' reference templates with the 'Historic Environment Scotland' template. Since then I've been trying to avoid making other people tidy up after me by using that template myself when writing articles - I wonder, though, whether I'm doing it wrong.
Generally, when I insert a ref, I use the 'cite' tool above the editing window, and select one of the standard templates from the drop-down list - web, news, book or journal. This is fairly easy and convenient, but since you changed my first few article, whenever I now cite a Historic Environment Scotland template, I find myself going back to an old article, finding the template you added, copy/pasting it into my new article, and manually changing the code with the right details. Essentially, it's significantly more of a hassle than just citing it as a standard web reference.
I'm sure I'm missing something here - is there a smart/easy way for me to insert a template like that without going through a whole load of hassle? A script I have to install or something? Any tips would be much appreciated. Cheers GirthSummit (blether) 18:24, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I not aware of any tools or scripts for making it easier to use the template, also I haven't seen anything similar for use with the NHLE template (which the Historic Environment Scotland template is based on) – my method for using such templates is to cut and paste from a text document I've created which has blank copies of the non-standard cite templates I use most often. EdwardUK (talk) 22:39, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that - I guess I could do something similar. Just for my understanding then, what's the rationale for using the template instead of a standard web ref? It's only slightly more of a ballache than inserting a regular ref, so I'm happy to do it if it's of any actual benefit, but I'm not clear on how it helps. Cheers GirthSummit (blether) 18:02, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Just noticed on your userpage that you actually created the template - I'd probably have phrased the above comments slightly differently if I'd realised that! Apologies if I've come across as moaning about it, I'm not meaning to have a go, just trying to better understand the reasoning behind it. GirthSummit (blether) 18:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
There are a couple of reasons of using the template – dead link management and uniform appearance.
The main benefit of the template is that if the website for the database changes then we only have to update the template rather than all of the pages on which it is used. In the past the databases for listed buildings across the UK have changed websites a few times, but the reference numbers for each listing stay constant. For Scotland it was "data.historic-scotland.gov.uk" before becoming "portal.historicenvironment.scot". These changes caused the standard citations to become dead links thus creating a lot of work to archive/replace each of them, whereas with the template it would have been possible to update all these pages with just a couple of edits as was done with the England template in March 2015. Currently the Scotland template is used on only about 1500 pages, but for the England template the figure is about 14000.
The template also produces a consistent look to these citations regardless of editor as most people will probably only use 3 or 4 main parameters (typically num, desc, and access-date) unlike with cite web where individual editors often use different combinations of author, work, website or publisher. EdwardUK (talk) 14:58, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ah - OK, I'm sold - the idea of manually changing 1,500 (let along 14,000!) pages if their website changes is... unappealing. That makes perfect sense, I'll do as you suggest and start a 'notes' page with this template on there. Thanks for explaining (and for creating the template!) GirthSummit (blether) 21:48, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
William Bunting (eco-warrior)
Thank you for your recent edit on the above article. You were more justified in doing that than you may have realised. I created the article and knew about that complaint at the time, but omitted it from the article for a reason. It is true that his relatives made such a complaint, but whether he was guilty or not is beside the point. The accusations became official just when a BBC team was researching for a documentary on Bunting's conservation work, and in response the team promptly withdrew plans for the programme. I understand that the withdrawal was not only about possible public exposure of vulnerable people who may have suffered, but also about rumoured suggestions of heavy bribery and/or political pressure from certain major chemical company interests whose reputation might have benefited from such revelations. I would think that this matter would fall under WP biography guidelines, so I would suggest that this kind of material is kept out of the article so long as there are living relatives who could be hurt by it. Keep up the good work. Storye book (talk) 20:02, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
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Images of England
The Images of England web site is to be decommissioned this month by Historic England. The text of the site entries has been available on the corresponding National Heritage List entry since that web site was created. The images are being transferred ahead of the decommissioning. As a result of this a BOT has changed all {{IoE}} templates to {{NHLE}} templates and translated the reference number according to a list provided by Historic England.
It would be good if members could check these, when they come across them, as I have spotted one with an incorrect translation. Some articles already had {{NHLE}} templates in them so the references may need to be combined. Other changes that may need to be performed are removal of template or text referring to the site as needing registration, changing the text "Images of England" or "IoE" to something more appropriate or may be even removing it if it is part of the description..
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Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty seventh WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 14,957 last month to 14,992 on 30 August 2019). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 153 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,407 articles.
Currently we have fifty Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 28 August 2019, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
Thanks
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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.
Wiki Loves Monuments
September is the time for the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition to get quality photographs of listed buildings and scheduled monuments in the UK. It would be good if any members in the Yorkshire area got out and about taking images of any monuments or listed buildings that they find. There are still several entries on the various list articles without images and it would be best to prioritise these if you are in the right place. Details for this years competition can be found here. There are cash prises of up to £250 for the best images that are submitted.
If you are not in Yorkshire then you are still able to join in as the competition covers the whole of the UK, separate competitions are available for other areas of the world if you are not UK based.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The September 2019 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty eighth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 14,992 last month to 15,070 on 30 September 2019). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 155 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,419 articles.
Currently we have fifty Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 28 September 2019, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
Thanks
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...
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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2019 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty ninth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,079 last month to 15,112 on 30 October 2019). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 155 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 69 out of a total number of 4,438 articles.
Currently we have fifty Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 28 October 2019, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
Thanks
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...
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.
General Election
With the calling of a General Election will members keep an eye on the various Parliament constituency articles. Please check that the candidates are appropriately referenced and that they appear in alphabetical order by surname so that we do not show any bias to a particular party. It is also worth checking the settlement articles to see if they have the correct constituency shown.
There will also be all of the candidate articles to check to see if they have the appropriate term end details and text to show if they are standing or not at the election.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The November 2019 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,112 last month to 15,231 on 29 November 2019). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 156 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,444 articles.
Currently we have fifty one 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.
General Election
With the General Election continuing will members keep an eye on the various Parliament constituency articles. Please check that the candidates are appropriately referenced and that they appear in alphabetical order by surname so that we do not show any bias to a particular party. Once results are in then these will need updating in the constituency articles and the elected MPs reflected in the settlement articles.
Happy Christmas
Well it is that time of year again and time to wish all members of the project a Happy Christmas.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 2019 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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02:09, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
SVU Season 14 Episode Traumatic Wound
did (Alex, Jake, Britt, Ralph, Louis) know for (100% that Gaby was Going To Get Asaulted, Atacked, Gang Raped at Club)?(76.214.109.69 (talk) 03:23, 23 December 2019 (UTC)).[reply]
