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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 11 - March 2009

February issue

Project News

• Welcome to the eleventh WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• 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.

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

Currently there are fourteen Yorkshire featured articles:

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

There are also eight featured lists:

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

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Architecture of Leeds nominated for GA on February 12th
⋅Ealdred (archbishop) nominated at FAC on February 13th
⋅Fulfordgate nominated for GA on February 14th
Wilfrid promoted to GA on February 19th
⋅Ealdred (archbishop) promoted to FA on February 20th
Fulfordgate promoted to GA on February 20th

Member News

There are now 58 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the February newsletter:

• Matriculate (talk · contribs)
• andylaw31 (talk · contribs)
• Richardob (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

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

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

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

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

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

New Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

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.

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

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

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

Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 12 - April 2009

March issue

Project News

• Welcome to the twelfth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• 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.

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

Currently there are fourteen Yorkshire featured articles:

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

There are also eight featured lists:

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

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Kingston upon Hull peer review requested on March 5th
Wilfrid peer review requested on March 5th

Member News

There are now 60 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the March newsletter:

• Computerjoe (talk · contribs)
• Neutralle (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

• 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 -

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

New Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

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.

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

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

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

Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 13 - May 2009

April issue

Project News

• Welcome to the thirteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• 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.

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

Currently there are fourteen Yorkshire featured articles:

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

There are also eight featured lists:

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

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Architecture of Leeds was promoted to GA on April 5th
York was nominated for GA on April 7th
York failed its GA review on April 17th

Member News

There are now 60 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There have been no changes in the membership since the April newsletter.

Thanks

• To those who have done some work on adding co-ordinates and infoboxes to articles as 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 -

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

New Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Article tagging

This month I thought that I would focus on article tagging. Article tagging is the means of identifying that an article is within the scope of the project. This is done by placing the project template {{WikiProject Yorkshire}} on the talk page of an article below any existing project banners. Some pages have a number of banners and can get very cluttered, if this is the case then a shell is used to wrap the templates together and collapse them down to a single line. The main shells in use are {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} and {{WikiProjectBanners}} and any new template should be added inside the shell template. There is no longer a requirement to add the 'nested=yes' parameter to the Yorkshire template when doing this as it will be ignored.

Why tag, you may ask, the reason is to be able to locate relevant articles among all of Wikipedia's articles. If article 'Foo' is relevant to Yorkshire then, unless it is tagged, no one in the project will know it exists unless they happen to stumble across it. The odds are against this happening so tagging makes it easily identifiable to project members.

Once an article has been tagged it can be assessed to see what quality and importance it is to the project. This is done using the assessment parameters to the template, 'class=' and 'importance=', you can leave these to more experienced people to pick-up and assign. The results of this are shown in the statistics table on the left of the newsletter. Tagging also makes the articles appear on the project watchlist, article alerts log and clean-up listing when they are refreshed by the appropriate bot. It also provides readers with a point of contact if they wish to discuss the article in more detail and no responce has been received on the article's talk page or a wider audience is required on the discussion.

I would therefore encourage members to add the project template to the talk pages of articles they find that are relevant to the project so the rest of us know that it exists. You can also tag templates, categories etc. as these are all relevant to maintenance of the articles in the scope of the project. Vandalism on a template can affect a large number of articles so it needs watching.

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.

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

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

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

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 14 - June 2009

May issue

Project News

• Welcome to the fourteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6113 last month to 6344 on May 30th). We have recently overtaken WP:LONDON which has 6283 articles. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 38 out of a total number of 1850 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 42 is just behind WP:GM with 44.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are fifteen Yorkshire featured articles:

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

There are also eight featured lists:

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

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Paulinus of York was promoted to FA on April 7th
Thomas Ferens was nominated for GA on April 11th
Philip Larkin was promoted to GA on May 6th
Geoffrey Boycott was nominated at FAC on May 12th
Geoffrey Boycott was not promoted to FA on May 16th
Geoffrey Boycott peer review requested on May 16th
Architecture of Leeds peer review requested on May 21st
Kingston upon Hull was promoted to GA on May 24th
York City F.C. season 2008–09 was nominated for GA on May 28th

Member News

There are now 63 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the May newsletter:

• Storye book (talk · contribs)
• Nthep (talk · contribs)
• Stuffed cat (talk · contribs)
• Lexaris (talk · contribs)

One members left the project this month:

• Harris Morgan (talk · contribs)

Thanks

• To those who have tagged articles as a result of the feature in the last newsletter. Do keep on tagging articles as you come across them.

• 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.  Great!

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

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

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Browsers

According to the article Usage share of web browsers the percentage of people using the Mozilla Firefox browser has increased steadily since 2004 and it now stands at 22.56%. The percentage of Wikipedia editors using Firefox is probably considerably higher because the Firefox browser has a number of advantages for editors. Not least of these is the add-on that lets you right click on a web page to get a Cite Web pop up on the menu. WPCITE allows you easily to create a citation template. This makes the laborious task of filling in web citation templates (almost) a thing of the past.

Another advantage of Firefox is the ability to use wikiEd which is a full-featured Wikipedia-integrated text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to edit pages. And there is a spell checker Currently, wikEd works under Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari, and Google Chrome, but not under Internet Explorer and Opera.

Mention of these other browsers reminds me that not all browsers render pages in the same way. What appears to be a beautiful layout in one browser can be rendered as a tangled mess of text and images by another. As most browsers can be downloaded for free, it is worth having several on your computer just to check the appearance of articles. Bear in mind that many people who use Wikipedia just for reference will have only Internet Explorer, and possibly quite an old version, so some of the latest "bells and whistles" may not work for them.

My apologies to old hands who already know all this, but to new users it really is worthwhile looking into the possibilities of different browsers on Wikipedia.

Please remember...

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.

• Assessment
  Assess and review

 Thanks

• 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.

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 15 - July 2009

June issue

Project News

• Welcome to the fifteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6344 last month to 6538 on June 28th). We have recently overtaken WP:LONDON which has 6318 articles. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 39 out of a total number of 1862 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 45 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 44.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are sixteen Yorkshire featured articles:

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

There are also eight featured lists:

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

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Siward Barn was promoted to GA on May 10th
Oslac of York was promoted to GA on May 18th
Thomas Ferens was promoted to GA on June 6th
Wilfred was promoted to FA on June 9th
Ilkley was nominated for GA on June 11th
Sheffield was nominated for a FAR on June 18th
Peak District was nominated for GA on June 18th
York was submitted for a peer review on June 21st

Member News

There are now 64 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

• nigelcoates (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

• 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.  Great!

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

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

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

 Thanks

Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Citing sources for your text

In recent months some really promising Yorkshire articles from new editors have been appearing on Wikipedia. These editors have worked hard to produce interesting and informative texts with some exquisite images. However, some of these articles have lacked any verifiable sources, an absolute must for Wikipedia articles. Additional research is usually necessary to write a good article. An article has to be verifiable and cite reliable sources which ideally should include books or peer reviewed journal articles. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, or the material may be removed. The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.

Fortunately, Wikipedia provides a number of easily used tools to help with this task. Beside the Firefox add on that was mentioned last month there are a couple of toolbar options to help editors.

• The first is on the default toolbar. It's the <ref>...</ref> button. This places any text that is placed between the markers in the References section on the article page.
• The second handy tool is obtained by going to the my preferences section on the menu tabs at the top of the page, click GADGETS, go to Editing gadgets and check refTools. Save your options and a new CITE button is added to your editing toolbar. This little wonder, when clicked, produces options for citation templates beneath the existing toolbar. It is a fairly simple task then to copy and paste the information into the template and when you've completed as much as you can, click the Add citation button. This produces an inline citation. Of course this all depends on there being a References section on the page with either the <references/> markup or {{Reflist}} template added.

If you are in doubt about an unsourced statement, try copying the phrase or sentence and pasting it into the search box of your favourite search engine. Often this turns up a source which you can then add to the article yourself by filling in one of the citation templates on your editing toolbar. If you want to request a source for an unsourced statement, consider tagging a sentence by adding the {{fact}} template, a section with {{unreferencedsection}}, or the article with {{refimprove}} or {{unreferenced}}. Alternatively, you may leave a note on the talk page requesting a source, or you may move the material to the talk page.

Please remember...

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 June 18th. Here is an extract

The project has 15 top-importance articles. 8 of them, or 53.3%, are flagged for cleanup.

• 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.

• 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.

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 16 - August 2009

July issue

Project News

• Welcome to the sixteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,538 last month to 6,651 on July 27th). WP:LONDON have had a major tagging spree by a bot and now have 12,595 articles which is twice as may as this project. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 39 out of a total number of 1,946 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 46 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 45.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are sixteen Yorkshire featured articles:

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

There are also eight featured lists:

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

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Peak District passed a GA review on July 2nd
Ilkley failed a GA review on July 19th
Arctic Monkeys kept following GAR reassessment on July 21st
York nominated for GA review on July 21st
Geoffrey Boycott nominated for GA review on July 25th

Member News

There are now 65 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the July newsletter:

• Fuchsia Perfect (talk · contribs)
• rfsmit (talk · contribs)

One member left the project this month:

• Adamjhepton (talk · contribs)

Thanks

• 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.  Great!

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

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

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

 Thanks

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Images

This month we focus on a recent requirement for images in articles—that of supplying alternative text for each of the images. This has been raised in FAC debates and is now a requirement for FA articles and as a result there is a general push to get all images marked-up. For example the {{Infobox UK place}} is currently undergoing changes in preparation for the use of alternative text on its images.

Alternative text is text added to the image mark-up to describe the image to someone who cannot see the image. The alternative text is in addition to the caption and should not duplicate information in the caption. It should be added, without any wikimark-up or line-breaks in it, using the alt= parameter of the image mark-up. For more information on this see WP:ALT.

Example

[[Image:York castle exterior.jpg|thumb|100px|alt=A tall, circular, roofless building of honey coloured stone positioned on top of a high mound of grass.|The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.]]

(If you are using a standard graphical browser and want to read this image's alt text, ask the browser to display the image's properties. Usually right click, properties.)

The same requirement is to be applied to Math-mode formulas but is probably less important to this project as very few of our articles contain such mark-up.

Please remember...

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 June 18th.

• 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.

• 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.

Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 17 - September 2009

August issue

Project News

• Welcome to the seventeenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,651 last month to 6,881 on August 23rd). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1,972 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 47 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 44.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are sixteen Yorkshire featured articles:

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

There are also nine featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

York City F.C. season 2008–09 passed a GA review on August 2nd
York passed a GA review on August 7th
Robin Hood entered a GAR review on August 7th
Robin Hood de-listed following a GAR review on August 12th
Cosmo Gordon Lang peer review requested on August 14th
Drax Power Station nominated for GA review on August 16th
Cosmo Gordon Lang nominated at FAC on August 25th

Member News

There are now 66 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the August newsletter:

• 95jb14 (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

• For those of you attempting to add alt text to images, a task which is not easy to get something succinct yet descriptive.

• 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.  Great!

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

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

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

 Thanks

Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Summer treasures?

As the summer holiday season draws to a close, it is likely that many of our project Yorkshire members will have visited the Yorkshire coast. Some will have digital photographs stored on their camera cards or have leaflets and guide books about places they have visited. Now is the time to put all that wonderful treasury of information onto Wikipedia, before they all get lost in the run up to Christmas. (Ah yes, I can see supermarkets selling off barbecues to make room for baubles.)

There are two major categories for our coastal venues Category:Coastal settlements in North Yorkshire and Category:Coastal settlements in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Many of the articles in these categories are not kept up to date on a regular basis. Although it has to be said that some of the articles about the more popular resorts are well maintained and regularly watched for vandalism. Some tend to suffer from being overlinked to commercial enterprises but most sit there waiting patiently for a bit of TLC.

Fish and tricks at the seaside

Our own watchlists often become unmanageable after a while, so here is a way to make the task of keeping an eye on specific articles much easier.

You can create your own separate Watchlist for any articles that you are interested in helping to maintain or expand by:

• listing the articles on a clean Sandbox page

• clicking on "Related changes" in the toolbox area to get a list of recent changes for your adopted articles

• copying and pasting the URL displayed on the address bar of your browser to a convenient place, maybe your to do list.

Here is one I made earlier!!

This is the list: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Coastal settlements list

Here is the URL of the related changes page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Coastal_settlements_list

Tidied up to put on your to do list as: My coastal settlements watchlist

And, of course, you can change the options at the top of the page to display more or fewer changes, as usual.

(This trick works for any special little watchlists that you might like to create!!)

Please remember...

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 August 18th.

• 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.

• 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.

Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 18 - October 2009

September issue

Project News

• Welcome to the eighteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,881 last month to 7,532on September 26th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1,993 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 49 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are eighteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Sheffield • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang

There are also ten featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Hull City A.F.C. retained following a GAR review on September 4th
Cosmo Gordon Lang promoted to FA on September 6th
David Wetherall nominated for GA review on September 7th
Geoffrey Boycott passed a GA review on September 10th
Anne Brontë nominated for GA review on September 25th

Member News

There are now 68 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the September newsletter:

• IJA (talk · contribs)
• TheresaWilson (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

• For those of you who made changes to the coastal places articles after last month's feature. I think that the Scarborough article got the most attention and improvements during the month.

• 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.  Great!

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

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

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

 Thanks

Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Back to school or Uni

The new academic year usually elicits a lot of edits to articles about schools and universities. There are Wikiprojects for both.

WP:WPSCH & WP:UNI are the shortcuts to the project pages. These Wikiprojects have some very useful guidelines about how to structure articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Article_guidelines and Wikipedia:College_and_university_article_guidelines. Both have suggested infoboxes as well.

There is an example of a uni good article at Oxford University and one about a school at City of London School.

Resources

Search page for Ofsted inspection reports for Yorkshire and the Humber secondary schools.

Times online good university guide 2010

Checks

When looking at school articles please take time to check the Ofsted links in the article and the references as the site has been restructured and the links to the reports may just redirect to the main page. These need to be corrected if any are found. The link in the infobox has been corrected so that one should still operate correctly.

Please remember...

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 September 4th.

• 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.

• 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.

Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 19 - November 2009

October issue

Project News

• Welcome to the nineteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,532 last month to 7,738 on October 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2.034 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang

There are also ten featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Drax Power Station passed a GA review on October 5th
Thomas of Bayeux peer review initiated on October 8th
Sheffield was demoted from FA on October 9th
Anne Brontë failed a GA review on October 10th
East Riding of Yorkshire peer review initiated on October 23rd
Leeds peer review initiated on October 25th
David Wetherall passed a GA review on October 26th
County Borough of Leeds nominated for GA review on October 26th
Philip Larkin peer review initiated on October 27th
County Borough of Leeds promoted to GA on October 30th

Member News

There are now 70 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

• Willde1 (talk · contribs)
• Rimmer1993 (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

• For those of you who made changes and looked after the school and university articles after last month's feature.

• 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.  Great!

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

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

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

 Thanks

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Popular pages

The addition of the popular pages facility to the Yorkshire sidebar last month has thrown light on which of our articles Wikipedia readers actually access most. The first month for which there is complete data is September when Arctic Monkeys were in pole position with an average 6,869 hits daily. In second place with 5,781 was Wuthering Heights followed by Dracula with 4,996. The table is sortable on a number of attributes but the sort takes a while to complete.

As the page has a link to current data it is possible to see and compare current raw data for daily hits. So far the October statistics (up to October 20th) reveal that Dracula with 5,474 daily hits is well ahead of seasonal favourite Guy Fawkes with 4,411, and last month's favourite, Arctic Monkeys, are pushed into third position with a daily hit score of 4,259.

Three football clubs Leeds United A.F.C., Hull City A.F.C. and Middlesbrough F.C.get into the top 25 along with several pages about literary topics such as the Brontë family and their works. Television personalities are well represented, Jeremy Clarkson (4,559) is 4th overall in the list and Judi Dench is 23rd with a hit score of 1,577. Do the history topics in the top 25 suggest homework assignments?

It will be interesting to monitor the rise and fall of pages on the list which will also suggest where our efforts as a project might best be directed for maximum impact.

Please remember...

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• Monitor
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• Infoboxes
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• References
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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 20 - December 2009

November issue

Project News

• Welcome to the twentieth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,738 last month to 7,870 on November 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,045 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 51.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang

There are also ten featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

East Riding of Yorkshire nominated for GA review on November 7th

Member News

There are now 72 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:

• Quantpole (talk · contribs)
• birksey (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

• 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.  Great!

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

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

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

 Thanks

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Christmas Greetings

Welcome to all our active members. This is the twentieth newsletter, the Christmas 2009 issue, and by the time it reaches members there should still be time to drop some helpful hints about seasonal gifts for Wikipedians. The obvious things are computer and digital stuff, and books. (On Wikipedia socks are only for those with a sad identity crisis.) What sort of things? Well, computer stuff can be anything from a high spec laptop, through wireless networks, antivirus software, graphics software to memory cards and memory sticks. Digital cameras are coming down in price and an MP3 player can double up as a memory stick.

A useful book for apprentice Wikipedians is, "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" by John Broughton, it's full of tips, tricks and explanations and can be bought at about half the price on the cover if you shop around. "The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality" by Andrew Dalby has just one five star review on Amazon, and the review of "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia" by Andrew Lih says "it's a book that will certainly make you think, but it will also leave you frustrated!". It might be a better idea to go for a reference book about your next favourite sport, hobby or indulgence. A good atlas always comes in useful as does a thesaurus, for when you come across the seventh time a word has been used in a paragraph! Or the good old phrase "is the home of" turns up yet again.

Stocking fillers include pens and pencils, to replace the ones which fall on the floor and are never to be found again, and notebooks of all shapes and sizes. A ream of printer paper and the odd ink cartridge might be useful too.

Happy Christmas.

Please remember...

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 November 6th.

• 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.

• 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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Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 21 - January 2010

December issue

Project News

• Welcome to the twenty first WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• 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 7,870 last month to 7,888 on December 16th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 53 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 51. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,048 articles.

Currently we have seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang

There are also ten featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

East Riding of Yorkshire passed for GA review on December 12th

Member News

There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the December newsletter:

• MarmadukePercy (talk · contribs) joined us on 25 December 2009

No members left the project this month, though the list of active members shows that some may be "resting"!!

Thanks

• A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

• To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

• To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

• To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

 Great!

Priority Articles

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

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	135	344		553
C	4	142	290	1,470		1,906
Start	1	238	1,234	8,602		10,075
Stub		19	346	5,664		6,029
List		4	12	874		890
Category					3,847	3,847
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	190	1,349	1,542
Template		1	8	432	169	610
NA				6		6
Other			1		13	14
Assessed	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
Total	18	477	2,081	17,831	5,740	26,147
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,250			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

 Thanks

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

• To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
• To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
• To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
• To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
• To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

Every month, two articles will be selected for the project to improve, one B-class and one Start-class. The January 2010 articles are an arbitrary choice of the newsletter editors but members will be asked to nominate future articles for improvement.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

How to help

We're looking for editors to help upgrade B-Class articles to GA-Class and Start-Class articles to B-Class

• You can contribute by:

1. Increasing coverage and accuracy
2. Adding supporting materials
3. Improving references and citations
4. Refining the article's structure and organisation
5. Copyediting grammar, punctuation, and spelling
6. Improving the quality and clarity of the writing
7. Establishing and maintaining the article's neutral point-of-view
8. Providing well-rounded coverage of the subject
9. See GA/FA requirements for more details

• General guidelines

1. Help verify/supply new sources
2. If the article lacks an WP:Infobox, create one
3. Update statistics. (These drastically affect the accuracy of this encyclopedia so make sure the data displayed in the article is up-to-date.)
4. Check to see if the article is following the appropriate suggested article guidelines.
5. Make sure the article is NOT an advertisement. If it is written like an advertisement, fix it. If you cannot, notify us on the appropriate subject header on this talk page or on the article talk page
6. Remove any instances of peacock terms being used
7. Be Bold.

• And most importantly...

1. Have fun!

The January 2010 articles selected below are an arbitrary choice of the newsletter editor.

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Happy New Year

Please bear in mind...

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 December 11th.

• Monitoring is essential
  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.

• 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.

Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!