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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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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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Jamie Bekyarovich
hello, i am the creator of the page Jamie Bekyarovich, i am also very new wikipedia, i noticed you deleted the page Jamie Bekyarovich, i was wondering why it was deleted and if theres anything i can do to keep it up such as changeing certain things ect. thanks (talk) 20:12, 5 june 2010
Replied on your talk page:
(Hello, Revolution.rock2010, welcolme to Wikipedia and thank you for your message.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and so has criteria for what subjects and topics may be included in it. There are a number of guidelines but the primary one is that the subject of an article should have received "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." (WP:GNG). In other words Mr Bekyarovich needs to have been written about in some depth in good quality, independent sources to meet the inclusion criterion for an article.
In some cases where an article falls well below the inclusion criteria and has no practical chance of surviving the usual deletion discussion, it may be deleted speedily (or 'speedy deleted', in the jargon). In this case, an editor considered that the article did not makes any credible claim of significance or importance for the subject - one of the criteria for 'speedy deletion' - and when I reviewed it, it appeared to me to unquestionably meet that criterion.
My advice? Begin with sources. Find the best quality sources that you can about a subject and then write the article. And bear in mind the five pillars of Wikipedia.
Re: Deletion of Yellow flower (G3: Vandalism / Hoax)
Hi Malcolmxl5. Thanks for taking care of that, I notice you deleted it the second time. I actually recreated that page by mistake, and when I realised what had happened, went hunting for an admin. PMDrive1061 deleted it, and at the same time he deleted it, I was editing it to add a {{db-hoax}} tag to the page.
We must have both hit enter pretty close, and I didn't receive an edit conflict, my edit submitted to Wiki, and all I saw was my tag on the page, stating it was up for CSD under db-hoax. I was concerned in case I received any form of warning for recreation of vandal material, so I figured it wise to let you know what occurred. Thanks for your help. BarkingFishTalk to me | My contributions09:40, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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No problem, Ssavilam, though I see the article has been deleted again, this time for not indicating the significance of the company. Perhaps we'll have a look at that later? --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:27, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Im sorry im not as good editing here as i am in es:wiki, but your reversion is wrong as well. How is someone supposed to know that the article for the band is missing if it keeps pointing to a song that even redirects to it from the same article. I dont think it makes any sense as i was looking for a band, not a song and the chances for creating the article by appearing in blue are very little. Excuse my poor english too. Thanks for your little help. Rafax (talk) 22:31, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
1) The redirect page makes it unreasonably difficult for users to locate similarly named articles via the search engine. - Impossible the way it is now.
4) The redirect makes no sense, such as redirecting Apple to Orange. - From a rock and roll band it points to a song of another performer. Rafax (talk) 22:45, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Rafax, I must say that your English is actually pretty good! I understand what you're saying but speedy deletion of a redirect is restricted to redirects from mainspace to other namespace (with some exceptions); to redirects as the result of an implausible typo that has been recently created; and to redirects to a target that does not exist (e.g. a that page has been deleted). Redirects for discussion is the best place for this, I think, have you listed it there? Kind regards, --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:23, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Malcolm! I've been writing three pages on D&D deities for the 4th edition and a week ago you deleted one of them (Erathis). I understand your motivation but I am curious as to why Erathis of all the 314 D&D Deity articles was the one failing to live up to WP standards. My other to articles (Avandra and Ioun), one to which you made minor edits, are quite similar.
Hi, Elias, I'll have a look into this. (I'm afraid I don't remember the Erathis article - a week can be a long time sometimes !). Cheers, --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:14, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Elias. I see that I redirected the page to D&D on the basis that it was about fictional character with no independent coverage in reliable sources. If you feel that was not appropriate, do feel free to undo my edit. Regards, --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:29, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your response! You have a perfectly resonable point and one could certainly argue that all D&D Deity articles should be removed on that basis. Still, such a big step should be preceded by a discussion, and as long as the rest of these articles remain the exclusion of Erathis stands out. I would therefore like to put it back.
Hello, Arkangel lucifer. Thank you for adding references; I have removed the tags. Carry on improving the articles. By the way, don't think of the messages as 'warnings', think of them as advice to editors on how an article might be improved. :) Kind regards, --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:44, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
I count two primary sources plus the school district's website on the Banks County School District article: the geocoder one just provides a facility to "look up an address"; the school stats is of uncertain quality (how does the reader know it's right?). Are you saying that you *don't* want editors to improve the article with additional, good quality sources. Because that all that tag is doing: asking editors to *improve* the article. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:07, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm just not sure if the article is copyvio or if the references need to be improved, between the two bots. How do you suggest the user improve the article with more refs? Add a ref from the school district's website? --Mjrmtg (talk) 02:33, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
It's difficult to see how CorenSearchBot is finding a copyvio (I am looking at Lumpkin County School District). Probably the situation will improve as the article grows. On the references, I'm not knowledgeable about the US education system but I suspect that, like any bureaucracy, there are plenty of official documents around. :) Here's a similar article I've seen with 13 references Sidney Central School District that might give you a few ideas. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 13:01, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
P.S. How about the National Center for Education Statistics[2][3], a part of the US Department of Education?
The data on that website says it is as of the 2007-2008 school year. I'll look around to see if I can't find somethng more current. --Mjrmtg (talk) 16:41, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Links Fixed - References Added
Links to "Nicholas X. Notias" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_X._Notias) fixed - no more bare url's. Also added more references and proper citations about this persons professional associations.
Nice work, 87.10.68.148. I've reformatted the citations so we can see what they are. I particularly like these two [4][5], which tells us something about the life of Mr Notias and more of these would be good. :) --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 14:09, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for tagging this. Penelope Boston is somewhat (but not entirely) unsung. With a longish interview of her, and another article about her work on microbots on Mars (the SEED magazine entry), I think I've got enough cites to definitely establish notability. Actually, from the links available when I found the article, I think she'd already cleared that bar, but because those links weren't properly labeled, it was far from obvious. In addition, there was early coverage from Gregg Easterbrook, later more extensive stuff in National Geographic, and a few other good sources. I'm taking the notability tag down. Yakushima (talk) 11:15, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. You tagged this article and I've done a ton of work on it. Let me know what you think. If you're really keen, I'd appreciate it if you could check the references. - Richard Cavell (talk) 11:01, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Richard, it's looking good. If I might make a suggestion, I think some of the items are over cited: two or three ought be enough, but you've done a grand job there. I'm happy to help out by the way. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:41, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeah. My intention is that we can comment out some of the refs. But while I was working on it, I wanted to propagate the references as much as possible so that at least one could see the menu from which to choose, if you know what I mean. - Richard Cavell (talk) 22:39, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
And one more thought - I think we should have as many references as possible for, say, the sex scandal mention. That's the kind of thing that should be sourced as robustly as possible. I invite you to work on it. See what you can do. - Richard Cavell (talk) 22:41, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't notice you had already done the work to improve it and I was thinking, what is this complaint about..excuse me. Thanks Off2riorob (talk) 16:03, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I learn something new here every day. I see it is commented out for now and that you are still improving the article. Good work there by the way. Off2riorob (talk) 17:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you added the {{refimproveBLP}} tag to the Erin Hill page. Most of the info comes from the artist's official page, IMDB and personal knowledge of her career. How can I improve the article? Can I ask you some advice/help on what citations and/or notes fit better? Thanks in advance. Cat italia (talk) 11:57, 3 July 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 8,202 last month to 8,225 on June 21st). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 54 is just behind WP:GM who have 59. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,193 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.
Pending changes
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Hi, long ago you deleted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamara Holder, the article has now reappeared but imho is sufficiently different not to be a G4. However I thought I'd bring it to your attention in case you thought she still doesn't meet notability and wanted to file a new AFD. ϢereSpielChequers11:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
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Maps
This month I thought that I would focus on the current discussions over the maps used in infoboxes for UK articles.
Firstly an initiative by user Nilfanion (talk) is currently under way on producing map data for the whole of the UK. The maps would cover all counties, wards, civil parishes etc. and be derived from the Ordnance Survey OpenData release. Further details can be seen here where feedback would be appreciated on two specific concerns—the colour scheme and line thickness. Discussion is also taking place as to what features to include on the maps, such as rivers, roads and railways.
Second discussion here on another alternative for mapping data changes to existing maps in infoboxes for districts, boroughs and cities in the UK.
Thirdly a discussion on Wales maps in place infoboxes is under way here, which has branched out into a general discussion on the initiative by user Nilfanionhere.
It would be good if members take time to have a look at these various proposals and comment, where they feel they have some input to offer, as these proposals could potentially affect all of the UK articles with maps in their infoboxes. If you do not speak now then you will have to put up with the results!
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After some expansion I restored the article on Andrea J. Prasow to article space.
Since you played a role in its deletion and userification I thought I would keep you informed.
Since the article is about three times as long, covers more "events", and has more references, I did not think it was necessary to request a DRV. Do you think I got that right?
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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.
Updates
Last month I brought your attention to the proposals for changes to maps in articles and the newer maps have started to be deployed on some of the Scotland and Wales articles. The English ones will follow on though there has been comments on the loss of some features so this may be revised before mass deployment.
The trial for the pending changes implementation has ended and after discussion a straw poll is under way and now is the time to voice your opinion over the trial and if pending changes should continue to be used or if it should be abandoned.
A further batch of about 10,000 images from the Geograph project has been uploaded to Commons. If you are looking for an image then there may be one available on Commons you just have to search for it! Many of the images are incorrectly categorised at the moment but these are being rectified as they are spotted. If you have time then you can give a hand checking out the image categorisation.
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Currently we have twenty 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.
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.
Wikipedia 0.8 release
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and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Dead links
This month I thought that I would concentrate on the problem of link rot in articles. Many of you will have spotted a BOT tagging references with the {{Dead link}} template. The template is added when the external link in a reference is detected as being inaccessible or is a redirect to the main page of the site. You should not remove references that are marked as dead unless you are replacing the reference with a new reference. The information in the reference may be useful to someone trying to locate a valid reference for the text. In order to help this process, when adding references in the first place, add as much detail as possible. It is easier to put in the detail while the reference is in front of you rather than waste someone else's time having to fill in the detail. If you want more detail then see Wikipedia:Link rot.
Many of the project's articles have been tagged in this way by the BOT and it would be useful if members could take a look at the tagged references, when visiting a page, and see if the problem can be resolved. May be the link is now active again in which case it is just a simple task of removing the template. May be an archived copy of the link can be located at the Wayback Machine, just add the link to the reference, if it is templated use the =archiveurl & =archivedate paramerters to record the new location of the link. If the site has been restructured then it may be possible to locate the same page used in the reference by following the links from the home page of the site. In this case replace the URL in the reference and remove the tag. Finally a replacement reference may need to be located if copies of the existing reference cannot be tracked down. If a new reference is used then the old reference and the tag can be removed.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The November 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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I noticed that you deleted my new Rubicon Project page and I am curious as to why. I sourced major news outlets and the firm is notable. Any insights would be appreciated on how I can do better as I am fairly new to editing. thank you.Goalloverhere (talk) 21:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I see that I nominated it for deletion as an article that that did not indicate the importance or significance of the company that it was about and it was subsequently deleted by User:Courcelles. I see also that you added sources after I nominated it for deletion. What I suggest you do is ask Courcelles to userfy for you so that you can carry on working on it in your user space. A bit more work, sources and that assertation of significance will probably do the job. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:20, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I’ve found a “notability” tag in the RenovatioCMS article. I understand you’re an experienced wiki user. I am not. Please give me some time to find some third party sources. I did not know they were required.
Our software is completely free and open. The project is relatively new, but more users appear every day. Anyone can participate. One could argue it doesn’t harm anyone to have a Wiki article written about it. The article is meant to be neutral and is actually quite accurate. It also serves to complete the List of content management systems and to add extra value to articles that link to it, like WYSIWYM.
Nevertheless, the statement that an article should have more than one source seems reasonable. How much time is there left for us to correct this situation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Durk de Vries (talk • contribs) 09:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Mr de Vries, do call me Malcolm! The tag is a general one advising editors how the article may be improved. In this case, it will be improved by additional sources as the general criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia is to show significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. No time limit has been specified so you may go ahead and improve the article at your own pace. Let me know if you have any problems. Kind regards, Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:27, 30 November 2010 (UTC)