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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2009

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 10 - February 2009

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Project News

Welcome to the tenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4822 last month to 5108 on January 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 31 out of a total number of 1798 articles. In the area of GAs, at 26, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 41.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are thirteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine

There are also eight featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

⋅Leeds Rhinos nominated for GA on January 7th
Architecture of Leeds nominated for GA on January 12th
Architecture of Leeds failed GA review on January 22nd
Wilfrid nominated for GA on January 25th
Leeds Rhinos failed GA review on January 25th

Member News

There are now 55 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the December newsletter:

WinslowBoy (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

Thanks to Kaly99 for work on Grade I listed buildings in North Yorkshire which was kept after being nominated for deletion and is now well on the way to a possible nomination as a featured list.

There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.

The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.

WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.

A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

Priority Articles

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

Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • 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.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	175			220
B	9	66	137	359			571
C	5	144	295	1,502			1,946
Start	1	242	1,259	8,693			10,195
Stub		21	353	5,663	3		6,040
List		4	12	948			964
Category					3,888		3,888
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					226		226
Redirect			2	194	1,360		1,556
Template					620		620
NA					1		1
Other					10		10
Assessed	19	485	2,110	17,610	6,246		26,470
Unassessed						1	1
Total	19	485	2,110	17,610	6,246	1	26,471
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,147			Ω = 5.10

New 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 above)
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Article Activity Monitoring

Article activity is now been recorded at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Article alerts by the bot ArticleAlertbot. This gives details of the changes that have taken place in the last 14 days in the status of articles tagged for the project. The status changes being monitored are :-

Proposed deletion
Articles for deletion
Miscellany for deletion
Templates for deletion
Categories for deletion
Good article nominations
Good article reassessment
Good topic candidates
Featured article candidates
Featured article reviews
Featured list candidates
Featured list removal candidates
Featured topic candidates
Peer review
Requests for comments
Requested moves
Did you know

The project is now subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

Monitor
Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.

Infoboxes
Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.

Assessment
Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
The changes are:
- The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
- The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
- A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

References
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.

Moves
Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.

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Nell McAndrew

Thanks for adding references to the Nell McAndrew article. I had a bit of time, so I cleaned them up slightly. Notice that if you put the links in between <ref> and </ref> tags, the reference will show up in the references section at the bottom of the article. Also, I removed the first reference that you provided. The link didn't actually say that she was born in Belle Isle. It mentioned that she was "...of Belle Isle" or whatever but didn't say that she was born there. Oh, also, if you add references to an article that has an "unreferenced" tag at the top, you are free to remove that tag when adding the refs. Dismas|^(talk) 22:28, 17 February 2009 (UTC)