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Hi. Any chance that you could considerably reduce the size of the church image so that there isn't an immense quantity of blank space to the left? Take it out of the infobox and use as a thumbnail? That sort of thing? --GuillaumeTell00:02, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Guillaume. The image width is governed by the infobox code, which doesn't care about the height. The problem is the portrait aspect ratio of the image. If you would like to go to the commons link on the same page and choose a different image which has a landscape format the height of the image should halve. I am intending to add some governance info to the page, so the size of the text area should increase in the near future. Scillystuff (talk) 10:14, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
After a bit of experimentation, I've followed your suggestion, plus I added a gallery down below. What do you think? (I see that we have a couple of parts of England in common). Best. --GuillaumeTell11:29, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Very nice, I like the gallery feature to give a feel of what an area is like. The post office is a good choice for a representative picture (and does nice cream teas as well). I thought I recognised your name from other pages I have edited :) Having seen what Froxfield, Hampshire looks like I guess it will be my next wiki visit. Scillystuff (talk) 17:24, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Sorry if you feel singled out, but the comment wasn't aimed at anyone in particular; sometimes the labels I do are wider than I had anticipated. It just annoys me that I try to keep the width of a diagram to about a third to half the width of the page, then go back a month later to find that it's taken over the article. Britmax (talk) 06:30, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
K&A Canal pics on Commons
Thanks for your message on commons (I don't check my talk page their often). Basically I'm trying to get Kennet and Avon Canal through FAC. One of the comments there was about the quality of an image from the 1970s being poor quality, but I think it is useful to have an image showing the dereliction of the canal before restoration. So I went looking (via Geograph) I found some from the mass upload from Geograph which were on Commons but either uncategorised or in categories labelled as needing checking. I've added the K&A category to loads of them but don't know the categories on Commons well enough to get them all right, so if I've put them in both parent & child I apologise. Any help with sorting the categories out would be great.— Rodtalk16:35, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
I'd be happy to help. Over the past week I have been trying to categorise the K&A lock images in Berkshire and Wiltshire. Is that any help, or is there another job you would prefer I took on? Scillystuff (talk) 18:51, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
That would be great. I did consider a sub cat for Claverton Pumping Station (we already have one for Crofton Pumping Station which I added some to. We have a sub cat for the K&A in Bath - should we have one for K&A in Devizes, Hungerford etc? I'm not sure whether bridges could/should be a sub cat - I noticed Bridges in Wiltshire is a category. Another approach might be to do "old" pics many of the B&W ones are from the 1970s - if you spot one of these which is really good & illustrates the poor state of the canal before the restoration was undertaken we could swap this into the Kennet and Avon Canal article to replace File:Devizeslockspreresotoration.jpg which is the one which was commented on & started me looking at the images. I'm not much of an expert on categories - particularly on Commons - so I'd be happy to follow your lead.— Rodtalk19:01, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work on these. I would suggest it would be useful to put your message & the question re Canal bridge v Bridges over canals on Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Waterways to get consensus. I only got involved because of the one specific article.— Rodtalk15:01, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Don't hold your breath - about the only people who've posted at WT:UKW in recent weeks have been me and Rodw.
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 9,083 last month to 9,157 on July 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 64. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,766 articles.
Currently we have twenty five 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.
Vandalism
With the start of the school holidays there is more chances of vandalism to articles at this time of year. It is time to remind members to be on the alert for vandalism to articles, especially those that are in the projects scope.
Here is a recent example of one that slipped through the net this edit which was reverted by an IP over a month after it was made! You can check the changes to the project's tagged pages using the watchlist or you can use the toolserver version which looks at just articles here. The former may not be up to date, as it requires manual update of the list of articles, but does cover all namespaces.
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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 9,157 last month to 9,229 on August 24th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 65. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,778 articles.
Currently we have twenty seven 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.
Back to school
September and October are the months when many young people move from one school to a new school, or to university. It tends to be a time when freshers "look up" their new schools and colleges on Wikipedia and decide to edit for the first time. Many additions to school articles, in the past, have been unsourced, some poorly formatted and some in violation of other Wikipedia policies. More experienced editors can help here. It is easy to become frustrated, hit revert and issue a warning of some sort. How off-putting for a new editor.
New editors do make innocent mistakes and it is up to us all to try to welcome and support them; perhaps by issuing a welcome message, helping them to find sources or format references and citations. Obviously, not all will turn out to be paragons of Wikipedia virtue, but we can at least give them the opportunity. May be it is time for us all to re-read the essay Please do not bite the newcomers.
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Next time you start a complaint about me on a project page, please inform me. As you can see, most editors agree with me. And just because I'm editing fast, doesn't me I'm not checking the pages. It just doesn't take long to see that there's little to none source out of universe information. JDDJS (talk) 23:52, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
I didn't start a complaint about you. I described your actions and I asked for advice. A very different thing. I did exactly what is asked in the 3RR warning - "If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss the changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution." Scillystuff (talk) 15:30, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
OK, I agree it would have been polite to let you know. However, I already knew what your opinion was as I had contacted you on your own talk page before posting to the project. As you had already redirected over 50 articles supported by WikiProject Television it wasn’t unreasonable to expect that you were a member, or at least watched the project talk page. You can't realistically say that "most editors agree with me" when only two have and I and Spidey104 obviously don't. WP:TVSERIES states "Generally, an individual radio or television program is likely to be notable if it airs on a network of radio or television stations (either national or regional in scope), or on a cable television network with a national audience." This covers every episode of CSI. It doesn’t mention having to include "out of universe information", which is why I asked where you had sourced your notability guidelines. It does mention reliable sources, which is why I said in my comments that in most cases I agreed with you. However, I can't agree with "At most, these episodes only had on sourced and useful sentence, which I'm sorry if that's lost but overall it is not a big deal." as we are supposed to add references to Wikipedia, not hide them. However, I'm not going to 3RR with you over it. I've moved the one reference that I added to an otherwise hard to reference episode and I see you have reapplied the redirect, so that's done. I am glad that there are bold editors like you on Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with you :) Scillystuff (talk) 19:18, 30 September 2011 (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 9,229 last month to 9,255 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,813 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight 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
October sees the next release of the MediaWiki software (version 1.8) that runs the English Wikipedia. It will probably live by the time the newsletter arrives by the last few month's delivery dates! If you see any problems with the page display on any articles or problems with your favourite gadget or script then it may be a problem with the new release of software. It is worth checking out the Village Pump - Technical board to see if there has been any report of a similar problem. If not then raise a new thread to get it recorded and to see if there are any of the technical people that can point you at a solution. Hopefully things will go smoother than previous releases but these things always throw up obscure problems that have not been foreseen.
If you are interested in the detail of the changes made in this release then take a look at the full list.
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The October 2011 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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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 9,266 last month to 9,354 on October 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,835 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight 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.
Collaboration
Each month the project has a collaboration of the month when two articles are nominated to be worked on by members during the month. One of these is usually a B-class article and one a start-class article. Some of these have not really been worked on by members and I would encourage all members to get involved and see what can be achieved. An example of the success of this effort has been Whitby which was the B-class collaboration article in July and has just achieved Good Article status. This was achieved by just the efforts of three editors just think what would be achieved if all of the 91 members got involved in editing these articles. They may not be ones which are of particular interest to you but they relate to Yorkshire in some way so they raise the profile of the county and can often be related to articles you are interested in in some way or other. I have tried to rotate round the county with a variety of differing topics while steering clear of the ones designated as our priority articles. If you have an article that you think could be improved in one of these collaborations then just nominate it on the project talk page and I will fit it in at some point.
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The November 2011 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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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 9,354 last month to 9,459 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,857 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.
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas to all the members of the project. Many thanks for all the hard work over the past year and hope that the good progress will be kept up in the new year. Many of the regular editors will be away over the break and vandalism tends to increase at this time of year, could be all those new computers that people get for Christmas. So if you are around then keep an eye out for vandalism to the project's articles and revert as soon as possible. All of the good work of the project can be destroyed quickly if vandalism is not spotted and dealt with.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 2011 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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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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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 9,459 last month to 9,480 on December 14th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 71 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,865 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.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all the members of the project.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The January 2012 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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