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Thanks for all your help Evil Eye. It's more fun when someone else is working beside you. I'm not editing anymore today, so you don't have to worry about us working redundantly on the same page. From now on, if I have time, I'll work from 1999 down. That way we won't duplicate effort. Again, thanks for the help. David D.17:54, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome. I can see there is a lot of work invloved in doing all the pages and I was looking for something to do, so seen as I have the results all on my computer I thought I might as well. Also, that link you ound containing the bit of history looks useful. I might have a good at incorporating some of the data etc into the article if I get the time. Also, I might try to add results like these to other Championships as I think I have the results for others too. Evil Eye15:39, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
It turns out that the Olympics are not as easy to correct with regard to the results since someone has been adding the imperial results. I am loathed to delete them, so I have left them, but included metric too. I suppose our American friends really do have a problem understanding the metric results if they take that much effort to convert them. David D.15:58, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
That is interesting. It hadn't occurred to me yet that there might be different people wanting results in different units. I'd tend to the point of view that (in athletics anyway) that as everything seems to be measured in metric units in the events themselves, that is what should bhe used here. But thanks for making me aware of this. I've just read some more of that article and will try to read some of the dicussion when I get the chance. Evil Eye16:10, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Since you're intending to go into teaching you'll love this. In the US they still teach in feet, inches etc. Obviously this is one of the major reasons they can't switch because even the younger generation don't get metric. Even more strange is that in high school they don't run the 1500 m. You'd think they would substitute for the mile right? Wrong, they run the 1600 m. Does that make any sense at all?
With regard to the imperial units, my policy has been to incorporate them into the results if someone has taken the effort to do that. However, I am not willing to do the conversions, especially since they are not literal conversions, there are official tables. For example, the official height of 5.00 m in the pole vault is converted to 16' 4 3/4" where as the exact conversion is 16' 4.85". I assume they round down to the nearest quarter. Since everything is actually measured in metric I see no logical or useful reason to convert anything to imperial. David D.16:32, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I have to admit that I have been using the three letter abbreviations for the WC tables since my source for the results had that formatt. In contrast, when I started the euro championships pages I used the full country names. I am leaning to full country names since some of the abbreviations are too cryptic. I also notice that the wikipedia country pages do not reference the three letter abbreviations typically used at sporting events. Which do you think is better since it would be good to come to a consensus sooner rather than later? David D.17:59, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, I've just seen that I've been using the full names and that you have been placing the abbreviations. I was using the full names as they were already in the table. I also think they are better as they are the only indication of country and we need something which would be unambiguous, but, as you say, the abbreviations can be cryptic. So I suggest we use the names. Evil Eye18:08, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
This is just too easy. Aren't we supposed to argue about things like that? We had better get them changed quick before someone disagrees ;-) David D.18:10, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I finished 2003. Note this recent edit on one of the olympic pages . This is the same user that is adding all the flags. In retrospect s/he probably got the flag idea from the olympic pages. David D.19:04, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Check out the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics page. I had never really taken much notice of it before. If you click the event on the left in the table it takes you to the details results. Although with all that effort you'd think they'd have the reaction times and wind readings too. David D.19:52, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I'm astounded by the effort gone into that. It would be great if that could be done for the World Championships, but it would take some serious work and a lot of info gathering. Perhaps we should try something like that for the upcoming world Championships...it could pretty much be set up beforehand, like the page you've already done. The format could be copied from the Olympic one (though perhaps a table for each race would look bettwe/be easier to follow than the way it is on that page). I'd be able to have a go at starting the pages for some events tomorrow if you like. Evil Eye20:11, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Personally that seems like a massive amount of work and I'm not sure it is worth the trouble. I have been to that page quite a few times and never thought to click on the links for full results. I think a better strategy would be to link to the IAAF pages that will document each event in a huge amount of detail ( IAAF W100 mH heptathlon ) including photofinish pictures. A link at the bottom of the page (ideally this link) may actually be more efficient than linking to all the heats and finals. It will also be a hard copy record. Remember these wikipedia pages get vandalised all the time. In summary, the more pages you make the more difficult they are to navigate and the harder they are to maintain. David D.20:22, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Another good reason to link to the IAAF site is that if there are DQ's due to drugs they update the results accordingly. It was interesting to note that Dwain Chambers was stripped from the results in 2003, even his heats and semi final results! David D.20:49, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Scouring some non-canon fiction. If I find any ideas on I. A. Troi's birth name I will let you know. Have you ever tried the Moroccan Mint in your namesake? Matthew Platts22:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi again Evil Eye, I noticed your comments on the Chepstow_School deletion page. I’m not sure if you noticed but what really happens on these nominations is that total garbage is nominated and then a devoted band of “keep at all costs” members from school watch come in and write it properly. I think it is great that they do this but there are two problems:
Rewritten school articles are probably not monitored that carefully, so there could be an increase in sophisticated vandalism. It would not be hard to change (pseudo update) these school articles with bogus information.
Garbage school articles that are not nominated do not get cleaned up. It seems that the schoolwatch characters use the deletion nomination as a heads up for starting to improve the article.
Personally, I am surprised they are not more aggressive at cleaning these articles up before they are nominated for deletion, that would be more constructive. I suspect they might enjoy waiting for the deletion nomination before starting the clean up process since it allows them to score points with regard to how many schools are kept vs deleted after they are nominated for deletion. They do seem to keep score and are quite vocal about it. David D.(Talk)18:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Evil Eye. I came across your list of schools in England page, and gave it a good geography lesson. (Everywhere had gone into one region by mistake!) Good work on it, areas other than Yorkshire need a bit of work, perhaps you could give it proper article so people can find it... Good work. Mdcollins198412:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I actually got the list from the main space to work on splitting it up into 9 regional articles. Those 9 articles are now in the main wikipedia space (for example List of schools in Yorkshire and the Humber). I've added a few more schools to some regions, listed the schools by LEA and then by state/independent schools and type of school. I've also tried to incoded brief details about the schools, well for Barsnley in the Yorkshire region I have anayway. Hopefully such information can be included for all schools in all regions eventually. Evil Eye13:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I too wasn't aware of the Junior Common Room article, so when I saw the Junior Common Room Committees article has ac couple of improvement tags placed on it, I thought he subject was worth while so had a go at improving the article. Personally I don't see anything wrong with leaving the articles as they are for the time being to see if the either develops and more. But if you think the committees article should be merged into the other why not have a go. Evil Eye21:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, those tags were my fault. As for merging or not, I'm feeling indecisive and lazy, so I think I'll just slap on a couple of See also links. Cheers! Melchoir21:47, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for letting me know....as it happens, I was actually already reading what you mention above before I read your message here :) Evil Eye15:55, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Following your comments on this article I decided that perhaps this article can be saved, so I have had a go at cleaning it up. Please have a look at it and see if you can help further. Thanks, JeremyA03:29, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, sorry about that, will try and do that, i'm new to this so still learnimg, thanks for the advice, much appreciated. Normsky18:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I'm not sure if you know how to do it, but I'm not sure how to go about creating a page with the discogrpahy info on, and then deleting the others. Normsky18:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for bring lots of point of view and unbacked up facts into this. All I am doing is making use of other wikipedia articles and other web sites to back up what I right. I have chosen one or two websites to show the usage of 'East Ukraine' has been used to talk about the areas to the east and west of the country, which I stated in the article. I gave a source which mentioned that parts of the Ukraine were in/conected Poland/Austria Hungary. These sames parts were also at another time in Russia/USSR, but that the rest of the Ukraine not connected to Austria-Hungary was either always part of Russia/USSR or else has ben independent.
Finally I have never used on map in particular, but have used at least two different web-pages with map on them to show the splitting up of the country by the 2004 election results. Sen as both the fraudulent election and the non-fraudulent election both resulted in the splitting up of the country in the same way and that at least one of the pages I use has map showing the results of both elections, I do not see your point here.
Just get over the fact that some people feel that this article should exist and let the wikipedia deletion process run it's course to see whether the article can stay or not. If your are unhappy with the sources I have used to back up what I wrote (which were mostly wikipedia, the BBC and the Guardian), please proivde us with other ources to back up your counter-claims. Evil Eye18:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your message. Sorry it was a typo. Amanda Vale made her first appearance two days before Leah's wedding to Dan in episode 3994. I will correct it now.Englishrose15:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Cool, glad it's sorted. I'm not really a big fan of H&A, but I just remembered reading that she was the newest character or something when I was sorting out the combined character page the other day. Evil Eye15:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! I noticed that you have identified yourself as an Anglican, and so I thought that you may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand articles related to Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion! Cheers! Fishhead6423:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Evil Eye. I was just clearing through this category and this category when I came across a lot of lists of schools in your user space. I'd like to edit these lists in order to remove the duplicated articles from the main article categories (eg User:Evil Eye/List of schools in the West Midlands and List of schools in the West Midlands), but also to get your other lists ready to go in (eg East of England). I saw the AfD about the list of schools in the East (a very unfortunate title), I agree with your analysis, and I think it should be possible to recreate the deleted article at some point - once other editors can see the wider context. First thing would be to sort out the category and the other lists. I'll just carry on - drop me a line if you wish to discuss this further. -- zzuuzz(talk)13:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there. Thanks for noticing the categories on the pages in my user space. I never thought of them being there when I copied the pages so I could try and work on them (not much work being done sadly on some of them). However, I will still try to add to them and move stuff over to the main sapce when I can...which won't be much now for the next month due to limited internet access. Hopefully soon, the East article will be able to be created again soon...since the article was nominated for deletion, I did put a lot more work into it, yet it appeared no one who voted for it;s deletion even bothered to look at the improved article. Never mind. If I can get somewhere near a compelted article before it';s recreated, then that should be OK. Thanks Evil Eye15:10, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi again Evil Eye. Despite me removing the lists in your userspace from the main article categories, there are still editors updating them. This is duplicating or wasting a lot of effort, since all the articles now exist in the main article space, and need to be expanded there. I wonder if we could either delete, or blank, or add a warning to the articles in your userspace to avoid this duplication. -- zzuuzz(talk)15:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Member News
There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new member that has joined us since the July newsletter:
User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments about Yorkshire Portal at peer review which continues to be maintained by Kaly99. Once more, thank you.
There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.
The football and rugby editors have to be admired for 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.
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.
Article improvement
One of the aims of our project was to set up a periodic Article improvement drive. The article on our county town of York is suggested for this month. Please discuss and/or make edits to move towards WP:GA? status for our first selected article.
Please remember...
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. Useful ones include:
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.
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3781 last month to 4005 on August 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 25 out of a total number of 1664 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:GM with 27 and WP:LONDON with 22.
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
Yorkshire Portal
The Yorkshire portal helps people navigate through the content related to Yorkshire. The highlighted content is displayed randomly and includes -
Did you Knows
Articles
Biographies
Pictures
Panoramas
Any additions to these would be great. The portal is being prepared for featured portal candidacy so help meeting the criteria, for example, copy-editing or suggestions for new content sections such as Selected anniversaries, On this day, or In the news would be appreciated.
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
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.
Please remember...
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.
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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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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Wikipedia DVD version 0.7
Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7 aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia. The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is currently under way and 43 of the project's articles are being considered for inclusion. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection has been done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article has and the number of times the article has been viewed.
The process of selecting clean versions for each of the selected articles is also being undertaken so that vandalised versions are not put on the DVD. Some of the articles also have clean-up tags attached to them which need to be dealt with before a version can be used on the DVD. It would be good if members could address any tags in the selected articles and fix the problem identified. Those articles that are tagged by multiple projects should get a visit by each of the projects involved so the articles will probably get a lot of activity in the next few days.
The cut-off date for this work is October 20th, but changes to articles following version selection may not be incorporated as there may not be time to reassess them.
Please remember...
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.
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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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4085 last month to 4284 on October 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1708 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 30.
As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD. The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.
Only two of our top priority articles were not selected, Ripon and Wakefield, the others were cleaned up, improved, expanded and copyedited as far as time allowed.
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 -
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Missing co-ordinates
A recent entry on the project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire#Missing coordinates alerted us to the fact that many of our articles do not display any geographical co-ordinates. Many also do not have infoboxes. As locational infoboxes usually have a field for co-ordinates, it was suggested that members might be able to kill two birds with one stone by adding an appropriate infobox at the same time as co-ordinates.
The infobox page usually includes detailed instructions for its use and many of the fields are not mandatory so are not displayed until information is entered.
The geographical co-ordinates for a location can be found on Google Earth.
Open Google Earth and enter the name of the location in the search box. (Quite often the article name can be copied and pasted directly into the search box but sometimes it is useful to add ,UK to the address.)
A results list is displayed beneath the search box.
Click on the right one.
Zoom in to check that the correct feature is being displayed on the image. (Sometimes the supposed feature is not at the centre of the page.)
Place the pointer over the location on the screen image and read the geographical co-ordinates from the panel at the bottom of the screen.
Make a note of the co-ordinates.
Open the tab of the article you are editing and add the co-ordinates in the co-ords field.
Once co-ordinates have been added the template {{coord missing}} should be removed from the article.
Please remember...
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.
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.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4284 last month to 4532 on November 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1746 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 31.
As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD. The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.
Since the last newsletter Northallerton has also been selected to go onto the DVD having recently achieved GA status.
Thanks
Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.
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 -
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Co-ordinates
Just to let you know that a bot is currently sub-dividing the articles with missing co-ordinate data into sub-categories for ease of use. You can now find the articles by looking at the categories for each area as — East, North, South and West. From the discussions it looks like only the co-ordinates in the title area are being used by external sites so articles with multiple co-ordinates are not being handled correctly as yet.
Happy Christmas
Just to say thanks for all the effort put in by members on articles covering the Yorkshire area and to wish everyone a happy Christmas. It is time to take a break and to spend some time with family and friends. May be even to indulge yourself in the food and drink that abounds at this time of year or even make that occasional visit to a church. What ever you do over the festive season enjoy it and see you next year.
Though if you are at a loose end then many of you will be getting some new toys to play with which can be used to enhance wiki articles. Those new digital cameras can be used to get photographs for some of the articles which are currently without and for which the Geograph site has nothing suitable. May be it is a new PC that you just need to play with then spend some time checking out the watchlist for vandalism which tends to go unnoticed when there are fewer regular editors around. It may even be a book which can be used to add references to an article. May be you want to do something different then try creating spoken articles see the Spoken article project.
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.
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.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4532 last month to 4822 on December 19th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1763 articles. In the area of GAs, at 25, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 36.
Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.
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 -
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Citations
Citations are a necessity to give credence to the articles that we produce, so that the facts given can be verified. One of the templates that is used for this is {{Cite book}} to give details of books used for creating the articles. There has been some changes to the template that we should be aware of and make changes accordingly when editing articles. The id= field should no longer be used to give the ISBN number for a book instead use the isbn= parameter. The page= and pages= parameters now have the p. or pp. automatically inserted and so we should just put the page number in the fields. Use page= for a single page and pages= for multiple pages. If the insertion of p. or pp. is not required then use nopp=true to suppress this. Note that the number of pages in a book is not specified using these fields and at the moment a new parameter is being discussed to cover this.
Happy New Year
Hope everyone enjoyed the festive season and are not feeling too worse for ware. At the start of a new year we all look back at what has happened in the last year and look forward to the coming year. It is time to take stock of what has happened in the last year well we have managed to get some priority articles selected and to get this newsletter in place to keep members up to date on what is happening. Articles have been tagged and assessed, a watchlist of these has been set up for members to keep track of changes to those articles that the project is interested in. So over all great steps have been made in the last year and thanks to everyone for the efforts put in. Looking forward it is time to make some targets for the coming year. If anyone has any ideas for what we should be doing in the coming year then please share them on the project talk page.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5108 last month to 5202 on February 17th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 32 out of a total number of 1801 articles. In the area of GAs, at 32, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 42.
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Orphan articles
Members may have noticed a new spate of article tagging by bots in the last month. A large number (over 250) of articles belonging to the project have been tagged with the {{Orphan}} template indicating that there are no or few incoming links to the article. It would be helpful if members tried to reduce the number of tagged articles by introducing wikilinks into related articles so that there is a minimum of three links to each of the orphaned articles. Once the links are in place the tag can be removed and the bot should not re-add the tag. The bot is currently only doing articles with no incoming links.
Portal
Those of you with eagle eyes may have spotted the change made to the Yorkshire Portal link in the project template. Rather than the usual jig-saw image it has been changed to the Yorkshire Rose image to give it a more distinctive look and hopefully raise the profile of the portal.
The project is 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. The latest listing was created on February 25th.
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.
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.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5202 last month to 5866 on March 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 32 out of a total number of 1828 articles. In the area of GAs, at 35, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 40.
To those who have done some work on sorting the orphan articles mentioned in the last newsletter. The number has decreased but there is still some way to go.
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 -
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Co-ordinates
Further runs of the bot to tag articles with the {{coord missing}} template have been made during the last month. This has resulted in a significant number of the project's articles being tagged as needing coordinate data adding. At the time of writing there are 719 articles assigned to the Yorkshire categories with more expected as the bot moves articles from the United Kingdom and England categories into the county categories. It would be good if we could get the number down as when the co-ordinates are in place the article is available to other providers such as Google to display on maps. The best way of doing this is to complete the appropriate field(s) in the infobox template, if there is no template then consider adding one and killing two birds with one stone.
The project is 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. The latest listing was created on March 9th.
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.
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.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5866 last month to 6113 on April 25th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1835 articles. In the area of GAs, at 36, WP:YORKS equals WP:GM.