Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/October 2017

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 114 - October 2017

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and fourteenth 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 13,606 last month to 13,649 on 30 September). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 142 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 64 out of a total number of 3,919 articles.

Currently we have forty six Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Cædmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop of York) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity • Abe Waddington • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball • The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished • The Wrestlers (Etty) • History of York City F.C. (1908–80) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. (1980–present) • Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed • The World Before the Flood • Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' • North Eastern Railway War Memorial • York City War Memorial • Northern England

There are also sixteen featured lists:

York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent • List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances) • List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) • Bootham Crescent

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Northern England was TFA on September 4th
North Eastern Railway War Memorial was TFA on September 10th

Member News

There are 81 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the September newsletter.

Thanks

A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

Great!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	58		76
FL			1	16		17
GA	3	8	36	173		220
B	9	63	132	336		540
C	3	142	286	1,435		1,866
Start	1	219	1,177	8,433		9,830
Stub		18	327	5,645		5,990
List		4	12	767	1	784
Category				1	3,808	3,809
Disambig				1	21	22
File					21	21
Portal					95	95
Project					219	219
Redirect			3	179	1,323	1,505
Template		1	8	431	157	597
Other			1	1	13	15
Assessed	18	456	1,998	17,476	5,658	25,606
Total	18	456	1,998	17,476	5,658	25,606
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 94,596			Ω = 5.11

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 September 2017, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

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)
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 (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.

Priority Articles

The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -

Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • Northern England • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

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 2017 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
90	1 Jun 2017 ~ 30 Jun 2017	River Don, South Yorkshire	Alex Zane
91	1 Jul 2017 ~ 31 Jul 2017	Asking Alexandria	Aike Beck
92	1 Aug 2017 ~ 31 Aug 2017	The Scott Motorcycle Company	Belle Vue (Doncaster)
93	1 Sep 2017 ~ 30 Sep 2017	Thurbrand the Hold	Chalkland Way
94	1 Oct 2017 ~ 31 Oct 2017	River Torne	Dairycoates

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Please bear in mind...

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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Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

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