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File permission problem with File:2001 A Human Oddity, David Reekie, Jan 2001.jpg
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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 9,480 last month to 9,599 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 54 out of a total number of 2,906 articles.
Currently we have twenty nine 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.
New software release
We are getting near to the next release of the MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia, this will be version 1.19 and is expected in the second half of February. For those of you who are interested in the details of the changes then take a look at this page on MediaWiki.org. There is usually some disruption around the time of the release so if you experience problems then check out at the Village Pump to see if the problem has been reported. If it has not then report it so that the developers can get a view of the problem. One area of concern is the scripts used by users to perform routine tasks. It could be that if this change is included in the deployment then scripts may need to be changed to declare modules the script is dependent upon. So if your favourite script fails to work this could be the problem and will need to be fixed.
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The February 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice ans a suggestion fron the project talk page.
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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Etta James. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 12:36, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Promoting Colin Larkin and his btoe.com website
Hello Pamela Gardiner. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.
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From what I can gather I am being linked to someone called Arthur or George? I can assure you I am not Arthur or George or whatever his name is. I have just got in from a week at work (I am a female full-time school teacher and cannot edit wikipedia during the day because you cannot access wikipedia from a school site), I do so in the evenings after work for fun. So I definitely havent been editing wikipedia today or yesterday. I have been writing and editing biographical articles on wikipedia for several years and have created several biographical articles. One of these is for the music editor Colin Larkin (which I created in 2008) I have recently been adding internal links to his page about both his recently launched website and a published notable source, the All Time Top 1000 Albums, which I created the page for a few months ago. Because I believe the power of wikipedia is in the wealth of its internal connections I have been linking that book to the bands listed and ranked in it. But I don't know anyone called Arthur and I have not been doing something I would call 'promoting' (this book has been in print for several years under editions). If any of my links have been regarded as misplaced, I have talked reasonably on the discussion page and taken advice. There are other people who use wikipedia from this IP address because I have adult children, but I dont think any of them is registered as Arthur! I will naturally comply with any wikipedia guidelines and have no idea why I have been blocked because as far as I am concerned I have added several worthwhile neutral point of view biographical articles on wikipedia. And I havent been on the site for over a week, possibly two, cant exactly remember.
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Apologies. I do now know who GeorgeB3 and MelanieB2 are, these are the log ins of my adult kids who use this IP address. I wasn't aware having three people log in from the same IP was against wiki rules, but we will accept the block if that is the case and learn from the experience. I still have no idea at all who all these Arthurs are, they are not me or anyone who uses this IP address. Pamela Gardiner (talk) 08:38, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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File permission problem with File:Bell exhibition invite.jpg
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If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kellyhi!09:05, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
File permission problem with File:All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd edition).jpg
Thanks for uploading File:All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd edition).jpg, which you've sourced to Colin Larkin (A search for "All Time Top 1000 Albums" in OTRS shows no hits). I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.
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If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Ronhjones (Talk)21:40, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
File permission problem with File:All Time Top 1000 Albums (Virgin, 2000).jpg
Thanks for uploading File:All Time Top 1000 Albums (Virgin, 2000).jpg, which you've sourced to Colin Larkin (A search for "All Time Top 1000 Albums" in OTRS shows no hits). I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.
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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Ronhjones (Talk)21:42, 22 February 2012 (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 9,599 last month to 9,683 on February 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,917 articles.
Currently we have twenty nine 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.
New software release
By the time you read this the new software release mentioned in the last newsletter should be in as it is currently scheduled for 2 March. Problems in switching other wikis have been encountered, most notably Commons, which was reverted twice and, at the time of writing, is still experiencing problems with the new software. See article in Signpost for details.
Discussions
Members may be interested in some discussions that are ongoing at the moment. A discussion on whether or not secondary schools meet notability guidelines is still on-going. If you are interested in having articles on secondary schools then raise your voice in the discussion. Another schools related one is taking place on the talk page of template {{Infobox UK school}} about introducing co-ordinates in to the infobox in addition to the top right corner of the article. Similar discussion was also raised at {{Infobox UK place}}. If you have views then chip in and see if consensus can be found on these areas.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice as there were no suggestions on the project talk page.
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btoe.com blacklist
Good to see you've been following my conversation with Mr Larkin. Yes, I submitted btoe.com to the spam blacklist after manually clearing up around forty articles where your children (?) had used the site as an inappropriate reference. (The aggregated opinion of one small pool of anonymous internet voters is not reliable enough to say "X is the best known work of writer Y", and it seems unlikely that we would ever want to write about any individual poll results in context.) I explained the reasoning at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist, which you seem to have found by yourself.
If you're concerned about the blacklisting, all you have to do is follow the instructions at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed removals and "show where the link can be useful on Wikipedia". There may be some merit in whitelisting the main page of btoe.com, for linking from Colin Larkin's biography article, while keeping the rest blacklisted. --McGeddon (talk) 15:49, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
The sites you list are, glancing at them, services that aggregate the overall scores of published reviews for something. Btoe.com aggregates the overall scores of some anonymous internet users' opinions. This is meaningless as a source for an encyclopedia as it is WP:NOTRELIABLE (I assume Larkin's "editorial control" is merely moderating against joke answers and blatant vote-stuffing, rather than extensively manipulating the outcomes of polls) and unambiguously WP:USERGENERATED.
Virtually all of the "in 2011, Robert de Niro was voted the best actor on earth" type edits that you and your family added to Wikipedia could be overruled at any time with a handful of extra votes. I would only require a dozen volunteers from a Steve Martin fan site (or ten minutes with a proxy IP server) to put Martin above de Niro as "the best actor on earth" on btoe.com. There is no way that Wikipedia could regard the outcome of a btoe.com poll as a reliable source for any statement. --McGeddon (talk) 09:29, 10 March 2012 (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 9,683 last month to 9,730 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 73 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 68. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,928 articles.
Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 29 March 2012, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
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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.
Link rot
This month I thought that we should focus on link rot in articles. Articles are created with lots of references to online sources as this is often easier than using printed sources. This is all well and good until a few months down the line when the web site is no longer available or has been re-organised and the page linked to has been moved. Whatever the reason for the change results in the reference link in our article becoming dead or just pointing at the main page of the site in question. The link therefore provides no verification for the information in our article and needs to be repaired. If you find a link like this then it should be tagged with the {{dead link}} template rather than deleted as the information may give someone a clue as to where to find a replacement link. If you know where the page has been moved to then go ahead and change the URL in the reference rather than tagging it. You could Google to see if a new page can be located or use the Wayback machine to see if there is an archived copy of the page available. If an archived version is located then use the |archiveurl= and |archivedate= fields of the {{citation}} template to record the archived version of the page.
The more information that is recorded when the reference is added the easier it is to find replacement URLs so remember to record as much information as possible when adding a reference. A bare URL with no information as to page title, publisher, publication date etc. makes finding replacements almost impossible. You can add archive details when adding a reference so that there is a backup copy already recorded for the reference. A BOT is currently operating to add archive details to live links to prevent future link rot. For more information on the subject of link rot see here.
It would be good, if this month, we try to reduce the number of {{dead link}} templates in the project's articles as a BOT is currently going round adding the template to articles.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice as there were no suggestions on the project talk page.
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Science lovers wanted!
Science lovers wanted!
Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 02:21, 17 April 2012 (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 9,730 last month to 9,769 on April 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 73 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 68. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 2,983 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.
Elections
May is the month for local elections to take place in many of our town and cities. This will create a lot of work in updating all of the place articles that include council make-up details. In addition each of the elections will require a new article creating to cover details of the election and the results in each of the wards. A number of elections from the last round of elections have not yet been created and it would be good if the missing election articles could be created so that we have a full set of recent elections for Yorkshire.
At the same time as the local council elections a number of cities in the area are holding a referendum on elected mayors. The main article will need to be updated with the results from each of the cities involved and any background that may be relevant to that article. Individual articles covering the referendum in each of the cities involved would also be useful to create while the details and references are to hand in the local press.
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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 9,769 last month to 9,824 on May 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 70. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 2,993 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.
Commons links
This month I thought that I would mention the {{Commons category}} template to generate a link to image categories on Commons holding additional images for topics. The template should be added to articles where Commons holds a number of other images that are not displayed in the article to provide a convenient link to these additional images. If you do not want to display the box then {{Commons category inline}} can be used instead to add an entry to the External links section.
The problem with both these templates is they use the article name as the name for the category on Commons so if an article is renamed the link is broken. To overcome this please ensure that all usages of these templates have as the first parameter the name of the category on Commons that is being used, even if it is the same as the article title. To enable those usages that have not been given a parameter to be tracked the hidden category Category:Commons category template with no category set has been set up. This has initially only been applied to the {{Commons category}} template. It would be good if members fixed these while editing articles to avoid having to edit specifically to fix the problem.
For newer members you can see hidden categories by setting the "Show hidden categories" option in the "Advanced options" section of the "Appearance" tab of the "my preferences" link.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The June 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice and a suggestion from the project talk page.
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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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wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.
wikimedia.org.
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Etta James. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 12:36, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
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