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Signpost
Just to let members know that the project was featured in the 3 December issue of the Signpost magazine. You can read that issue of the magazine here.
Happy New Year
It is the start of another year so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all members of the project a happy New Year.
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Thanks for the expansion, it's quite appreciated. I only had time to read the plan document a little bit and add coordinates before giving up on ground of tiredness. Point of interest: was their railway infrastructure on or near the site previously? There's infrastructure visible in the undergrowth just south of Crown Point retail part. Sceptre(talk)15:48, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
There was railway infrasturcture at the adjacent Crown Point site. However as I undertstand it, the current site is at New Lane which is seperated from the Crown Point site by the Meadow Lane gas works (now known as Pottery Fields). In and around this there is track visable in the roads, but to my knowledge this was for bringing coal to the gas works and didn't come close to the New Lane site. Mtaylor848 (talk) 15:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
By the way, with regards to the map, this page seems to indicate that the pedestrian walkway will feed right into the new Granary Wharf entrance when New Lane opens. Currently looking at the gov.uk documents to see if that's reflected there... Sceptre(talk)15:59, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
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Currently we have thirty 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.
2011 Census
The Office for National Statistics have now published the detailed information from the 2011 Census for wards and parishes. The data can be searched for on their web site here. Would be good to get the information added to all of the relevant articles but this is a big job. If the article already has the 2001 census figures then it may be worth retaining these, in the text of the article, for comparison purposes.
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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 10,371 last month to 10,390 on February 25th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 95 is ahead of WP:GM who have 74. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,190 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
Interwiki links
There has been a major change this month to the way that interwiki links are handled with the introduction of Wikidata. Wikidata is a central place to record meta-data about an article and the initial phase was rolled out this month to cater for interwiki links. The links in the language area are served from this project and can be edited by use of the "edit links" icon at the bottom of the list. These links in articles are now redundant but if present override the information supplied by wikidata. Check each of the links to ensure that they exist and are correct on wikidata before removing the entry from an article. BOTs are in the process of removing these links from articles but will leave behind missing or conflicting links for someone to investigate and fix appropriately.
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but if the original name is reused for a different article then other wikis will be pointing to an incorrect location.
Wikidate also does not handle section links in the interwiki link so these must remain as part of the article code.
Watchlists have been changed to give an extra option to Show/Hide changes to wikidata entries for articles on the watchlist.
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Hello and thank you for your edits to the above article. Unfortunately, I have had to revert them as the links you added appear to break the overlinking guidelines. It is usual for a link to be given on its first mention only and not for it to be either given on its later mentions or on every mention from then on. Many thanks and happy editing! -- CassiantoTalk14:13, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Because of the significant gap between links, I felt it prudent to repeat it. It is impractical to ask people to search back through so much text to find a workable link. Mtaylor848 (talk) 14:18, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
I agree somewhat, however it goes against the MOS and I think we should stick to the guidelines like glue seeing as the article is featured. As far as I can see, it offers no exceptions within the rule to repeat the link again. -- CassiantoTalk17:00, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Excalibur estate
Hi. A while back you put out a request for pics of the Excalibur estate in Catford. As I said at the time, I don't get out that way very often but I took a few pics a fortnight ago. The weather and time of day weren't in my favour, but I've uploaded a general view and the church which hopefully should do you. Aside from more pics of prefabs (many of which have now been boarded up and looking rather sad) I guess the only other building of interest is the office which has a map outside it; let me know if you want those uploading, they're not very interesting but I suppose might be useful if you were doing an entire article about the estate. Interesting corner of London, so thanks for the prod to go and see it even if it's not exactly on the regular tourist trail. Le Deluge (talk) 15:12, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
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Lua
Another change to the software last month sees the introduction of Lua for coding of templates. Those of you who edit templates may come across this with the introduction of the "#invoke" statement. The code is held in the new namespace of Module that was created for this purpose. One of the first places to show the change is the search screen that now has options to search the Module or the associated Module talk namespaces.
The use of Lua is expected to improve the speed of loading of pages with a large number of complex templates. The heavily used complex templates are being targeted for early conversion to use Lua. {{Coord}} and {{cite}} family of templates are among the first to receive attention. If you see any problems when conversion is made then report them to Technical Village Pump or to the talk page of the module involved.
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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 10,444 last month to 10,461 on April 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 99 is ahead of WP:GM who have 76. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 58 out of a total number of 3,229 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
Notifications
By the time you read this the new Notifications tool will be available for use. You will have a new Notifications tab under Preferences to enable the selection of which type of notification you want on web and which you want e-mailing about. The count of those selected for web delivery will be shown between your user page and talk page links at the top of each page. Just click on this number to see the notifications that are applicable to you. One the resulting page there is also a direct link to the new Notifications tab of your preferences.
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Hi, Michael. You placed a "citation needed" and "dubious" tag in the lead of the Rachel Bradley article in March([2]) but didn't expand on it on the talk page. Could you clarify what you find dubious? The statement regarding the increase in people taking out life insurance policies is cited in the body of the article. Thanks. Bradley0110 (talk) 17:18, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Leeds
Hello there,
I have recently located and found the project that you have previously worked on, WikiProject Leeds, and since it has not been updated in over a year, wondered if you would help me in reviving and updating the project from it's current inactive state.
Thank you for your time and please do not hesitate to reply so that we can get this project back up and running to revive Leeds!
I would be interested in reviving it, if we could get a discussion going with interested parties that might help. Mtaylor848 (talk) 12:21, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed you've been moving a bunch of articles and respeling words with articles with the reason "More approriate English for a European based article" That dosn't fall under "An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should use the English of that nation. ", I feel you are violating "When an English variety's consistent usage has been established in an article, it is maintained in the absence of consensus to the contrary. With few exceptions (e.g. when a topic has strong national ties or a term/spelling carries less ambiguity), there is no valid reason for such a change."(emphasis mine). Please stop changing spellings for articles about Europe (Emergency Fighter Program, List of programs broadcast by TV 2 (Norway), Heinkel He 162, Heinkel He 280 and others) without a valid reason. CombatWombat42 (talk) 16:59, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
In a recent edit, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. CombatWombat42 (talk) 17:03, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
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