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Thanks
Thanks for your participation in my recent RfA. I will do my very best not to betray the confidence you have shown me. If you ever have any questions or suggestions about my conduct as an administrator or as an editor please don't hesitate to contact me. Once again, thanks. ·Maunus·ƛ· 13:17, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
IJA
Hey, I was wondering who is this IJA with a sudden interest in IRoK article but now I found out it's you. Cheers.--Avala (talk) 15:41, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
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Canvassing?
You appear to be selectively alerting users of the Mitrovica discussion who've expressed in the past that they are in favor of changing the title. This is referred to as Vote Stacking. --KingÖomie 13:02, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Ive asked for their opinions only IJA (talk) 13:10, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
...Selectively targeting users who've all publicly expressed the SAME viewpoint... which is called Vote Stacking. That's what I said, yeah. You don't have to say "So go vote my way" to them for it to be canvassing. Consider this your official warning. --KingÖomie 13:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Actually not all have expressed the same point of view, some have said it should be called other things and others have said it should remain the same IJA (talk) 16:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
I see that now. I apologize for my accusation; apparently AGF was nowhere to be found here. Kudos to you for being so calm. --KingÖomie 16:56, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
No problem, however I do admit not asking radical POV Serbs on the issue IJA (talk) 17:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia
Ijanderson977, I don't understand what movie suggestions have to do with Wikipedia. Furthermore, I don't understand how 90% of the time you end up taking the side against the Serbian POV, not only in the case of Kosovo, but Bosnia too. Is there something you have against Serbs? You claim to be neutral in the issue, but somehow always ending up working hard to please Albanians, Bosniaks, etc. You should understand that it's exactly that kind of behavior that keeps the people inhabiting the former Yugoslavia apart - one side always trying to win the approval of anyone from the "West" and the other side (Serbs) feeling alienated from the world because no one ever speaks on their behalf. I am not a Serb, but I understand why they're upset with such behavior - sure they committed many crimes during the 1990s, but so did everyone else. When I have to spend hours looking for Western sources about the Cemerno massacre against Serbs, while I can find tons of literature on every single massacre committed by Serbs, what does that say about Western intentions and viewpoints concerning Serbs? I just don't understand what's motivating you to take the easy way to go about all this. This is not a website for the promotion of what governments and the media (largely supporting their governments' POV) think about Kosovo, Bosnia, etc. We're trying to create an as accurate as possible account of what happened and what is happening - just because the West had their interests in the Balkans and largely had/has control over what was/is written by mainstream media, this encyclopedia must not broadcast their version of history and the present. Also, your sources concerning Kosovska Mitrovica seem to refer to the town as Kosovska Mitrovica too, which makes your argument insignificant. I would suggest seeing things differently, not everything is so black and white. If you'd like to see a movie to better understand that, watch the Bosnian film No Man's Land and the Serbian films The Tour and Knife. --CinémaC 00:30, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
All Pages Need Numbering
Why do you revert my changes? I simply numbered the table. I reverted it back, please do not undermine neutral POV work without discussing it with me or in the talk page of the article in question first (otherwise it is considered vandalism), thank you for your future discretion. Jenga3 (talk) 01:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Russia: Georgia vs. Serbia
The first time Russians have made a coherent statement on what is the difference between Kosovo and Abkhazia/South Ossetia. Vitaly Churkin said that "the strongest argument is the fact that at the time when Kosovo’s authorities made the UDI, nobody was threatening them or putting them in a position where they had to secede. On the contrary, Belgrade even went so far as to refrain from exerting any military or economic pressure on Pristina.". This is probably what they will use at the ICJ too. Also countries that have recognised Abkhazia/South Ossetia but not Kosovo haven't been any more talkative than Russians, the most they have said is that there was no hope for compromise in status negotiations so they just decided to go with independence of Kosovo. Btw states have until 15 Sep to apply for oral arguments at the ICJ (so far I've seen Brazil and Romania making public statements about joining the discussion) and it begins on Dec 1.--Avala (talk) 13:44, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Yeah it would be the best if a lot of countries join the discussion. In the end the ICJ should hopefully bring the compromise solution that should be lasting and acceptable to all. I don't know, the name of the city is Kosovska Mitrovica so I really don't understand why should it be renamed (for an example Columbia (British) or South Wales (New) sound equally unnecessary to me). Btw what is EU-3? I saw it in your post and then in the International recognition of Abkhazia article today but I am not sure what does it represent? Is it the EU Troika (FM, High Representative and EC)? Why did they use the Russian term for that btw?--Avala (talk) 15:36, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Ah OK. I thought it was troika, that represents the European Union in external relations, which is the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Member State holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Secretary-General/High Representative for the common foreign and security policy and the European Commissioner in charge of external relations and European neighbourhood policy. Btw the EU has such internal rules that even Malta can be a power if it wants. All it needs to do is veto everything like a madman. Take a look at Slovenia that has been blocking Croatian EU negotiations (not entry) for a long time now over a few meters of disputed borderline in some bay. And Croatia has an absolute support by Germany which is the first and foremost power of the EU but the EU rules make such absurd situations. Treaty of Lisbon should change that.--Avala (talk) 15:44, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
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Kosovo timeline
I've asked you for pages and quotes, because the books you mention in the references dont say a word about what you claim in 'Illyrian prehistory' section. Since it is a entirely fictious claim (Illyrian prehistory? are you serious?), I have to report you if you revert my removal again.Alexikoua (talk) 20:12, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
If you think you have a legitimate reason to report me, then please feel free to do so. I will face the consequences for my actions. IJA (talk) 20:33, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
Kosovo-note
Regarding your pointless and naive observation about canvassing, Wikipedia:Canvassing:"Under certain conditions it is acceptable to notify other editors of ongoing discussions, but messages that are written to influence the outcome rather than to improve the quality of a discussion compromise the consensus building process and may be considered disruptive.", so your edit is wrong. You can also read this, so you will learn more about that.
Regarding "recognised", well it is recognize to Americans, recognise to a British. So, at the end it is quite clear what it is...
Term "unrecognised" is explicit and pellucid, so it can stay.
And all your problems should be written here, not on my talk page. Also, not now, but before, while we discussed that question. Where were you??
And, at the end, do not change consensus version without discussion on the talk page.
If you dont like consensus, ask for another one. Until then, THIS IS a consensus version. And, "aint" is not quite regarded as good English. Tadija (talk) 21:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Ok, i will. Tadija (talk) 22:08, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
IJA, stop reverting the consensus version. On the Wikipedia consensus page it's written that "At the same time it is normal to invite more people into the discussion, in order to obtain new insights and arguments." The consensus isn't invalid just because Tadija invited people into the discussion in order to obtain new insights and arguments. --CinémaC 22:43, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I certainly appreciate your support, Ian, but I wish you weren't so inflammatory. - Canadian Bobby (talk) 00:42, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Cheers mate, I said what needed to be said? IJA (talk) 00:44, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
3RR
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Tadija (talk) 21:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I've just sent you that message. Thus I know the rules of WP:3RR. IJA (talk) 21:54, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
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Abkhazia AfD
Thanks for the heads up. --Tocino 22:25, 1 October 2009
Greece
I am really baffled as to why did they choose to slander Papandreou like that? It really is a piece of slander if you know how fondly he speaks of Serbia and how he didn't speak in chosen words about Kosovo like Karamanlis or Bakoyannis did. Saying that Papandreou is pro Kosovo is almost like saying that if Behgjet Pacolli became the Swiss President he would have taken the anti Kosovo attitude or that Hillary Clinton was only hiding her pro Serbian stance when she talked about Kosova. I found a few statements by Papandreou about Kosovo like "its unilateral recognition is a flagrant violation of international law and added that Greece's insistence on international law is a profoundly patriotic stance". Sounds much stronger than what Karamanlis and such have said. Bakoyannis probably said those few things only because she is the family friend of Vuk Jeremic, otherwise she would have stayed silent too. As for the article, we need to trim a few things now, if you think I cut too much bring it back. --Avala (talk) 16:39, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, the reason I reverted your edit is because the tricolor is not the flag of the Irish National Rugby Team, see here for details. Regards Khukri 14:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
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I am sorry to see you go. It was nice to edit with you, because we could always reach a compromise. However if everything goes by plan the hype will come back in the mid 2010 so see you then. All the best with your study, regards --Avala (talk) 22:21, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Me too, although I'm sure you'll be back (at least as an observer) when the ICJ decision is made, and all the ensuing recognitions or derecognitions take place. I'll give you a call next time I'm in Bangor - I've got no visits planned in the near future though. Cheers, Bazonka (talk) 17:47, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
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Please don't delete sourced statements in articles with unsourced statements as you did in the Arthur Guinness article, as well as wrongly altering the flag section. Mabuska (talk) 13:39, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
2 months late mate IJA (talk) 18:04, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
So, the warning still applies no matter how much time passes Mabuska (talk) 21:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
I refuse to recognise this so called warning, after so much time has passed; I believe it to be out of date and thus expired/ passed it's sell buy date. Sorry regards IJA (talk) 02:59, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
It doesn't matter if you recognise it or not. Just because it wasn't picked up within a certain time period doesn't mean that you suddenly become innocent and thus a warning can't be handed out. Sorry regards. Mabuska (talk) 16:00, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
So are you to Wiki back for good? Have you tried the WP:WPTEST :) ? --Avala (talk) 19:49, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Merry Christmas! Thank for you all the nice wishes. Yes it's true we celebrate Christmas on January 7 indeed. Some Orthodox churches have changed their calendars but Serbian hasn't done so, so we still use the so called old calendar. I hope that the new 2010 will bring us a lot of diplomatic scuffles that we will make edits about, for starters we need to see who wins in PNG, Pacolli or Serbian Embassy in Tokyo :) Then a few months later the ICJ ruling that could really have a strong and wide impact if the judges take their job seriously. It will be a fun and interesting year for sure. I also wish all the best to the United Kingdom and I hope it will join the Schengen area so that we from Serbia can freely travel and visit. Cheers, --Avala (talk) 14:20, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have undone your edition at Future Enlargement of the EU because your reasons are not strong: if the EU only recognize Kosovo under UNSCR 1244, why can't Kosovo join the EU under the UNSCR 1244? If the EU doesn't recognize the Republic of Kosovo, how can the Republic of Kosovo join the EU? The truth nowadays is that the EU only see the UNSCR 1244 and doesn't recognize Kosovo as a state (see this site and this), so the Kosovo that can join the EU in the future is not the ROK-one. We can show Kosovo without flag in its relations with the EU, but we can't show a regime that the EU doesn't recognize. You can answer me in my wiki:es user page.
I'm sorry, but it would not be possible for a UN entity to join the EU. The only way Kosovo can join the EU is as Serbia as a whole or as the Republic of Kosovo. Also the EU doesn't recognise Kosovo as a province or as a country. Just to keep in mind the European Parliament recognises Kosovo as independent. IJA (talk) 12:46, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar
Thanks so much for the barnstar - my first one actually. I've been offline for most of today so that was a great Christmas present to come back to. Thanks also for your help with the article. And, of course, may I also wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:20, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
In order to keep your talk page closer, I'm using the RetroGuy section to thank you for the barnstar! I am really enjoying looking at it!sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 21:49, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
December 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Template:Politics of Kosovo, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Please, stop reverting consensus version. This version is agreed to, it you want to edit it, talk on the talk page of Template:Politics of Kosovo. All best, Tadija (talk) 14:58, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Well I beg to differ IJA (talk) 15:02, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
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Assessment
This month we focus on article assessment as a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes on this. In January the new version of the bot used for generating the information was deployed. For the observant you will have noticed the changes made to the assessment table on the left, it now has details of all of the pages other than articles that are tagged with the project banner. Now you can see counts of the categories, templates, files and other miscellaneous tagged pages that the project is looking after. The article count earlier in the newsletter does not include all of the newly reported classes as they are not really articles.
A new facility is the ability to click on any of the numbers and get a list of the articles that are in the intersection of the article importance rating with the quality rating. For example this enables you to see all of the articles that the project has rated as high priority stub-class articles. This is something that was not readily available prior to this revision of the bot.
The quality ratings are only valid at the time they are done and may be out of date as some of the assessments were done over two years ago. Many of the articles have changed since they were rated so it would be good if members could re-rate them when they see substantial changes to a particular article or flag it up for someone more experienced to take a look at and revise the quality rating if appropriate. Many of the articles were rated before the introduction of the C-class rating so may be over rated as B-class articles or under rated as Start-class articles.
Other changes have taken place in the formatting of the log files and more is to come. The data is now stored in a database off wiki and so tools can be written to generate further reports, have customised rating levels for projects etc. The bot is also able to get through the articles quicker and so is reporting changes daily rather than about weekly as with the previous version.
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Good work on the Foreign Relations article. It looks a hell of a lot better than it did. Cheers! (ps now turn your computer off and go to the pub) Bazonka (talk) 20:07, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
You missed this one [1]Bazonka (talk) 09:24, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps mention the non-recognising countries that have got liaison offices or similar (are there any? I'm not sure). Also, I'd question whether recognition with no embassy really counts as a "foreign relation". Maybe these should be removed? That might be one for the talk page. Bazonka (talk) 09:55, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for editing the article, but I've undone your edit. There isn't really space to fully explain in an edit summary, so I thought you deserved a fuller explanation. The image you added of Harlech's gatehouse was particularly good, but there isn't much space in the article and realistically adding more creates white space on some screens. The picture immediately above the one you added was chosen as in it you can see several of the elements discussed in the text: a moat, the gatehouse, hoardings etc. Also it has the advantage of being French (although a walled city rather than a castle, but it was a convenient example) and if you take a peek a the talk page you'll see there have been a few accusations of British (specifically English) bias. Thinking about it further, Harlech might be a better example of a developed gatehouse to use further down the article than Beeston Castle's gatehouse, although I do rather like Beeston. Nev1 (talk) 17:25, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Proposed new map style for List of Diplomatic missions by Country articles
Diplomatic missions of SpainCities with Singaporean diplomatic missions
As a regular contributor to these articles your views are sought about a new map style for the List of Diplomatic missions by Country articles.
Currently we are using maps which show which countries host a diplomatic mission of a given country (please see as an example the map we use for List of diplomatic missions of Spain). These maps however do not show where the missions are actually located (which may be a few for those countries with large networks of consulates). And the title of this ("Diplomatic missions of Spain") and other similar maps could be more accurate
The map style I propose instead indicates the cities that host a mission of a given country. As an example, I have produced this map for List of diplomatic missions of Singapore.
It is not difficult to make these maps. They are based on the third map below (accessible at [File:Blank map cities shaded.PNG] on Wikipedia Commons), in which I have indicated all the world capitals and other major cities where diplomatic missions are located. The circles representing cities are not visible because they are slightly different shade of grey, but all you have to do is colour each circle with a distinctive colour, and in no time you can have a more accurate and easier to read map.
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 7,950 last month to 7,987 on February 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just behind WP:GM who have 53. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,117 articles.
Currently we have seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:
There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership remaining unchanged since the last newsletter though the number of
active members is currently low.
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 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.
Biographies of Living People
This month we need to concentrate efforts on Biographies of Living People (BLP) as detailed at WP:BLP. There is currently ongoing discussions about what should be done with nearly 50,000 unsourced articles on living people that have accumulated and being tagged with the {{BLP unsourced}} template. Options range from deleting all of them immediately to a period of grace for the articles to be sourced. There is also discussions as to what should be done, going forward, with new articles on living people that are created without sources. Do have your say on these discussions here, if you are interested in biographical articles.
As a project we have not tagged many biographical articles but looking at the articles of people under the Yorkshire category an estimate of 150 of these are tagged as unreferenced. This does not include those related to the various sports people who play for the many teams in the area. Obviously those articles relevant to the project we would want to save from the axe and so we need to concentrate our efforts on referencing articles that have been tagged as unreferenced. Once articles have been given some references then the tag can be changed to {{BLP sources}} or removed, if full referencing has been done.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2010 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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Somaliland Talkback
Very exciting indeed! But a tonne of work to be done. Category Somaliland should help, I can only stay for alittle while longer tonight, it's late where I am today. Way to find a ref so quickly, I had no idea, til you came along! Outback the koala (talk) 01:59, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Why bother saying "needs more references" if you can't be arsed to look for any? Burden of proof yadda yadda. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 16:20, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Still, I think you shouldn't say "needs more references" unless you can prove that more exist. Otherwise, you're just passing the buck. (Sorry if I was a little snarky, too.) Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 16:26, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Talkback
Hello, IJA. You have new messages at Rettetast's talk page. Message added 15:13, 22 March 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
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 7,987 last month to 8,063 on March 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just behind WP:GM who have 55. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,139 articles.
Currently we have eighteen Yorkshire featured articles:
No members left the project this month: though the number of
active members is currently low.
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.
Thanks to thos members that have been referencing the Biographies of Living People that was raised last month. We have cut the number of totally unreferenced articles to five.
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.
Biographies of Living People
As a follow up to last month's feature on BLP articles a BOT is now creating project listings of those BLP articles that are tagged as totally unreferenced. The listing for our project can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Unreferenced BLPs, I have added a link to this from the project side-bar for easy access to the listing. There are just five articles remaining on the list at the time of going to press, so well done.
General Election
The next General Election will be announced sometime during the month and so we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to this. There are two main sets of articles relevant here, firstly the constituency articles and secondly the articles relating to the candidates that are standing for election. Taking the first group there are a number of boundary changes relating to the constituencies in the area that will be implemented at the time of the General Election. These changes need to be reflected into the settlement articles that are affected by the change. I would suggest that the settlement's history section is updated to include details of the former constituency when adding the new one so that information is not lost. All of the constituency articles will need to be kept up to date with the list of candidates that are standing for the election. Much of the basic work on this has been done but new candidates will emerge until the closing date for candidates to declare. Note that the order of candidates should be maintained in ballot paper order prior to the result being declared so that we do not favour any of the parties in the election. So even if A. Aardvark is standing for the "Lets do away with wiki" party then they should appear first regardless of if we support them or not.
On the second set of articles, those on candidates, we are back to issues relating to BLP, NPOV and to avoiding them, or their supporters, using wiki as an electioneering medium. We should be vigilant to remove anything that ventures into this area as quickly as possible. There may be articles for candidates who are standing that are not tagged for the project so it would be good for these to be tagged so we can keep an eye on them. It is also a good time to improve the articles on the candidates as they will no doubt get more hits during the election period. Those of you in the UK may also see some of the candidates out on the campaign trail and it would be good to get a photo for their article if possible. It does not have to be a Yorkshire related politician as there are lots of articles about politicians that needed photos or updates to dated images.
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I would like to know your opinion concerning a proposal I made, which I think represents a decent compromise.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 03:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
I was hoping you could offer your opinion specifically on whether you think the proposed compromise title is an acceptable alternative.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 17:49, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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 8,063 last month to 8,082 on April 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 55 is just behind WP:GM who have 56. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,161 articles.
Currently we have eighteen Yorkshire featured articles:
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
Article Activity
Bramhope Tunnel promoted to GA following review on April 2nd Tickle Cock Bridge was nominated, reviewed and promoted to GA on April 3rd Cottingley Fairies was nominated, reviewed and promoted to GA on April 27th
Member News
There are now 75 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:
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.
Elections
The next General Election will take place this month as will the local elections in a number of areas in the region and so again this month we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to these.
Last month I concentrated on the general election related articles in the run up to the announcement of the election. This month we need to concentrate on the aftermath of the election. The constituency articles are the first ones that need to be looked at and the results added to each of these. This gives us an opportunity to have some references on these pages as there will be extensive media coverage for the results. The articles relating to the set of new MPs will need to be updated to include details of their election victory and the office they take up in the new parliamentary session. At the same time those articles relating to politicians who loose their seat will need to be updated to cover this and to show the successor to the seat/office they held. Other articles that need to be looked at are the settlement articles to see if they need updating as a number of them mention the party that represent the place and some give details of the MPs that represent them.
As well as the general election there is also the local elections that are being held on the same day and again this needs to be looked at when updating the settlement articles as the council make up is often described in the governance section or given in the infobox. These elections will necessitate new articles creating for each of the councils that are holding elections to record the details of the election and the results. Others may generate these articles and members should tag these with the project tag {{WikiProject Yorkshire}} when they find them so that they can be tracked and are not forgotten about.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 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. The latest listing was created on March 23rd.
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File:British Empire Threw Out History.PNG listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:British Empire Threw Out History.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Vadac (talk) 21:36, 19 May 2010 (UTC) (Please note that this article for deletion request was posted by myself on behalf of Vadac (talk·contribs) who asked for assistance with posting to AfD. Chzz ► 21:44, 19 May 2010 (UTC))
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 8,082 last month to 8,202 on May 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 54 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,182 articles.
Currently we have twenty 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.
Images
As a change from all the election related material this month I thought that we could look at images. With summer on its way in England then it is time to spend away from the computer and in the great outdoors. There are many events and places to visit so if you are taking time out at any of these then take along your camera and capture the scene. Then when back home you can upload the images to Commons so that they can be used on any of the projects run by the foundation. This is preferred to uploading just to Wikipedia as they are more widely available to other projects and save time of people having to make the transfer of suitable images. When uploading images to Commons then you need to categorise the image to enable it to be located easily and to group it with others of a similar theme. It is best to put it in a specific category, but if you cannot find one then pick the best fit you can and others will shift it around into more suitable categories. The process is similar to article categorisation and multiple categories can be added, as appropriate, but an image should not normally be placed in a category and one of it's sub-categories.
There are a number of articles requiring images and the Yorkshire related ones can be found here. Take a look before you go out as you may be able to fulfil one of the requests while out visiting.
If you locate an article that requires an image and no suitable image is available then add the {{reqphoto}} template to the article talk page to flag the article appropriately. If you want an image of a specific thing then you can use the of= parameter to give details. For example, if an interior shot is required of the building that is the subject of the article then use {{reqphoto|of=interior}}. You can narrow the image to a location by using the in= parameter, {{reqphoto|in=Yorkshire}} will request a photo in Yorkshire. If you use North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire or the East Riding of Yorkshire in place of Yorkshire then it will categorise in the appropriate sub-category but will not show up in the request box. A way round this is to apply Yorkshire and the division to the request and they will show up but remain unlinked. So to a request an image in the East Riding of Yorkshire it may be best to use {{reqphoto|in=Yorkshire|in2=the East Riding of Yorkshire}} to show in the request box and classify it in both Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Yorkshire and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
For biographical articles the biography project template {{WPBiography}} has a needs-photo= parameter which should be set to yes if a photograph is required.
When adding an image to an article also check the talk page and remove the flags if the image fulfils the request.
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The June 2010 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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Your accusation of trolling against another contributor at this article does not belong at this page. If you feel an editor is behaving in the way you described there are remedies available to you. Your comment may have the appearance of being deliberately provocative on an issue that appears settled lately. There is enough sensitivity around this article's subject already without stoking the fires. RashersTierney (talk) 15:12, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Fair play. I just wanted to make other uses aware of what he does to Kosovo related articles. It was not intended as an attack. IJA (talk) 15:15, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
I would strongly advise to withdraw any direct reference to a particular editor at this page. Don't underestimate the ability of other editors to follow editing histories. Your present 'rhetorical' question is unnecessary and provocative. RashersTierney (talk) 15:29, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
I've removed my rhetoric question. Regards IJA (talk) 15:33, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
: 17 August 2009
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Tadija (talk) 21:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.
Please don't delete sourced statements in articles with unsourced statements as you did in the Arthur Guinness article, as well as wrongly altering the flag section. Mabuska (talk) 13:39, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
