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==Athletics world championship reformating efforts==

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. [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 17:54, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

: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. [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 15:39, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

==Metric versus Imperial re: Olympic games==

You wrote above  "''Also, I might try to add results like these to other Championships''", so you should read the following discussion:
[[Wikipedia:Measurements_Debate#A_succinct_solution]]

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. [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 15:58, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

: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. [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 16:10, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
:: 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.  [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 16:32, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

==Country name or abbreviation?==

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?  [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 17:59, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

: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. [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 18:08, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

::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 ;-)  [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 18:10, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

:::Aye OK. I'll start and do 1999 and 2001 if you want.[[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 18:14, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
:::: I finished 2003.  Note this recent edit on one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athletics_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics&diff=18911884&oldid=18473766 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. [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 19:04, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

==Alternative formats==

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. [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 19:52, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

: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. [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 20:11, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

::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 ( [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH03/results/gender=W/discipline=100H/combCode=HEP/roundCode=u/index.html IAAF W100 mH heptathlon] ) including photofinish pictures.  A link at the bottom of the page (ideally this [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH03/results/byEvent.html 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.   [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 20:22, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
:::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 [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH03/results/gender=M/discipline=100/combCode=hash/roundCode=sf/index.html semi final] results!  [[User:Daycd|David D.]] 20:49, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

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== Troi ==

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? [[User:Matthew Platts|Matthew Platts]] 22:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

==schools==
Hi again Evil Eye,  I noticed your comments on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Chepstow_School Chepstow_School] deletion page.  I’m not sure if you noticed but what really happens on these nominations is that [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chepstow_School&oldid=25872909 total garbage] is nominated and then a devoted band of “keep at all costs” members from school watch come in and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chepstow_School&action=history 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. [[User:Daycd|David D.]] [[User talk:Daycd|(Talk)]] 18:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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. [[User:Mdcollins1984|Mdcollins1984]] 12:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
: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. [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 13:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

== [[Junior Common Room Committees]] ==

Hi Evil Eye, it seems that I fielded the then-stub [[Junior Common Room Committees]] incorrectly. I should have redirected it to [[Junior Common Room]], which I didn't know existed. You've already done some good work, so how would you like to merge A into B? [[User:Melchoir|Melchoir]] 04:25, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
: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. [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 21:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
::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! [[User:Melchoir|Melchoir]] 21:47, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

== Students' Union / Association sabs list ==

*'''I've started a discussion on [[User_talk:Chriscf#Students.27_Union_.2F_Association_sabs_list|Chriscf's Talk Page]] as this involve all the union's page'''. Please go there to provide your opinion if you're interested. -- [[User:KTC|KTC]] 15:53, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
:Thanks for letting me know....as it happens, I was actually already reading what you mention above before I read your message here :) [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 15:55, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

*Moved to [[Talk:Students Union]] at Chris request to move away from his user talk page. -- [[User:KTC|KTC]] 04:08, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

== [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheffield pubs]] ==

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, [[User:JeremyA|JeremyA]] 03:29, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

== Tom Vek Page ==
Hi, sorry about that, will try and do that, i'm new to this so still learnimg, thanks for the advice, much appreciated. [[User:Normsky|Normsky]] 18:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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. [[User:Normsky|Normsky]] 18:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

== Your editing of [[East Ukraine]] ==

Your editing of [[East Ukraine]] is absurd and ignorant. 
* The Southern part of Ukraine is not '''East Ukraine'''.  This there is '''South Ukraine'''. 
* West Ukraine As well as East Ukraine were part of Russia and the USSR. 
* You use the map of the fraudulent elections in November. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4043315.stm] (25 November, 2004) see [[Ukrainian presidential election, 2004]] and so on and the like -- [[User:Yakudza|Yakudza]] 17:57, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
: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. [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 18:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

==Amanda Vale==
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.[[User:Englishrose|Englishrose]] 15:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
: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. [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 15:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

==Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion==

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 - [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Anglicanism|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! [[User:Fishhead64|Fishhead64]] 23:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

==List of schools in the East of England==
You have recently created the article [[:List of schools in the East of England]]. This was deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's [[WP:DP|deletion policies]]. Please do not recreate the article: if you disagree with the article's deletion, you may ask for a review at [[Wikipedia:Deletion review]]. <!-- Template:Recreated --> [[User:TigerShark|TigerShark]] 22:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

==Lists of schools==
Hi Evil Eye. I was just clearing through [[:Category:United Kingdom-related lists|this category]] and [[:Category:Lists of schools in the United Kingdom|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. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] <sup>[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]</sup> 13:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
: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 [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] 15:10, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
::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. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] <sup>[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]</sup> 15:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Cheers! The lists are coming along quite nicely btw. -- [[User:Zzuuzz|zzuuzz]] <sup>[[User_talk:Zzuuzz|(talk)]]</sup> 22:58, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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

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*To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
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* [[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.

*'''''Article improvement'''''<br />  
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*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. Useful ones include:

::[[Template:Infobox Artifact]] e.g. [[Coppergate Helmet]]

::[[:Template:Infobox Person]] e.g. [[Bill Gates]]

::[[:Template:Infobox Musical artist]]

::[[:Template:Infobox Company]]

::[[:Template:Infobox Defunct company]]

::[[:Template:Infobox Hiking trail]]

::[[:Template:Infobox Football club]]

::[[:Template:Infobox Football biography]]

::[[:Template:Infobox church]]

::[[:Template:Infobox UK school]]

::[[:Template:Infobox Museum]] e.g. [[Rotunda Museum]]

::[[:Template:Infobox UK place]]

::[[:Template:UK road routebox]] e.g.[[ A1 road (Great Britain)]]

::[[:Template:Infobox park]]

::[[:Template:Infobox UKproperty]] e.g. [[Nunnington Hall]]

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2008 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* 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.


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


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are twelve 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.]] 

{{classicon|FA}} 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

{{classicon|GA}} [[Jimmy Speirs]] was promoted to GA Status on '''July 22nd'''

{{FAR-icon}} [[Henry Moore]] is on FAR since '''August 15th'''

* [[Battle of Marston Moor]] on peer review since '''August 22nd'''

* [[KitKat Crescent]] on peer review since '''August 22nd'''

{{classicon|FA}} [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] was promoted to FA Status on '''August 25th'''

{{icon|FAC}} [[Last of the Summer Wine]] nominated at FAC on '''August 27th'''

{{classicon|GA}} [[Chris Brandon]]was promoted to GA Status on '''August 27th'''


; Member News

There are now 48 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that has joined us since the August newsletter:

*{{User|Evil Eye}}
*{{User|Leo1802}}

One user in the WikiProject was banned this month:

*{{User|Yorkshirian}}


;Thanks

* To those who have been tagging articles this month, the number of articles has now gone over the 4,000 mark.

* There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]]. Thanks. 

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

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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; 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 above)
*To bring our top level article [[Yorkshire]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Wikipedia:Featured_portal_criteria|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 -

* [[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.


; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is now subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2008 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* WP:YORKS is  a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4005 last month to 4085 on September 27th). [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 28 out of a total number of 1678 articles. In the area of GAs, at 21, WP:YORKS also falls  behind [[WP:GM]] with 28.


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


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen 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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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

{{classicon|FA}} [[Last of the Summer Wine]] was promoted to FA Status on '''September 9th'''<br>
[[Image:GA candidate.svg|20px]] [[Curtis Woodhouse]] was nominated for GA Status on '''September 18th'''<br>
{{classicon|FA}} [[Henry Moore]] retained its FA Status after FAR on '''September 25th'''


; Member News

There are now 51 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that has joined us since the September newsletter:

*{{User|Marcopolomaya}}
*{{User|Nr9krw}}
*{{User|Langliffe}}


;Thanks

* There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


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; 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 above)
*To bring our top level article [[Yorkshire]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/release-data/2008-9-13/HTML/Yorkshire.s0.html here].

The selection has been done using a [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/SelectionBot|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...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is now subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2008 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the seventh [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* 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.


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


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen 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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{classicon|GA}} [[Northallerton]] was promoted to GA Status on '''October 6th'''<br>
{{classicon|GA}} [[Curtis Woodhouse]] was promoted to GA Status on '''October 7th'''<br>
{{classicon|GA}} [[Hebden, North Yorkshire]] was promoted to GA Status on '''October 30th'''<br>


; Member News

There are now 51 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

*{{User|Petripavlovian}}

One member left the project this month:

*{{User|Adambro}}


;Thanks

;'''Wikipedia DVD version 0.7'''

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 [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/release-data/2008-9-13/HTML/Yorkshire.s0.html here].

The selection was done using a [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/SelectionBot|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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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; 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 above)
*To bring our top level article [[Yorkshire]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.

Appropriate locational infoboxes include:

*[[Template:Infobox Settlement]]
*[[Template:Infobox UK place]]
*[[Template:Infobox UKproperty]]
*[[Template:Infobox UK disused station]]
*[[Template:Infobox church]]

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.

Further information can be found at [[Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates]].

Once co-ordinates have been added the template {{tl|coord missing}} should be removed from the article.

; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is now subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2008 ==

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* Welcome to the seventh [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* 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.


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


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen 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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
[[Image:GA candidate.svg|20px]] [[Geoff Horsfield]] was nominated at GA on '''November 16th'''<br>
[[Image:Cscr-star_piece.png|22px|FAR]] [[M62 motorway]] on FAR on '''November 26th'''

; Member News

There are now 52 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:

*{{User|Zolstijers}}

No members left the project this month:


;'''Wikipedia DVD version 0.7'''

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 [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/release-data/2008-9-13/HTML/Yorkshire.s0.html here].

The selection was done using a [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/SelectionBot|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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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; 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 above)
*To bring our top level article [[Yorkshire]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 &mdash; [[:Category:East Riding of Yorkshire articles missing geocoordinate data|East]], [[:Category:North Yorkshire articles missing geocoordinate data|North]], [[:Category:South Yorkshire articles missing geocoordinate data|South]] and [[:Category:West Yorkshire articles missing geocoordinate data|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia|Spoken article project]].


[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is now subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2009 ==
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* Welcome to the ninth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* 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.


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


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen 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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{classicon|GA}} [[Geoff Horsfield]] was promoted to GA on '''December 3rd'''<br>


; Member News

There are now 54 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the December newsletter:

*{{User|Euchiasmus}}
*{{User|Chemical Engineer}}

No members left the project this month:


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


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; 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 above)
*To bring our top level article [[Yorkshire]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 {{tl|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 [[WT:YORKS|project talk page]].

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is now subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2009 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the tenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* 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.


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


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are thirteen 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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
[[File:GA candidate.svg|20px]]⋅[[Leeds Rhinos]] nominated for GA on '''January 7th'''<br>
[[File:GA candidate.svg|20px]] [[Architecture of Leeds]] nominated for GA on '''January 12th'''<br>
[[File:Symbol unsupport vote.svg|20px]] [[Architecture of Leeds]] failed GA review on '''January 22nd'''<br>
[[File:GA candidate.svg|20px]] [[Wilfrid]] nominated for GA on '''January 25th'''
<br>
[[File:Symbol unsupport vote.svg|20px]] [[Leeds Rhinos]]  failed GA review on '''January 25th'''


; Member News

There are now 55 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the December newsletter:

*{{User|WinslowBoy}}

No members left the project this month:


;Thanks

* Thanks to [[User:Kaly99|Kaly99]] for work on [[Grade I listed buildings in North Yorkshire]] which was kept after being nominated for deletion and is now well on the way to a possible nomination as a featured list.

* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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; 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 above)
*To bring our top level article [[Yorkshire]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 [[User:ArticleAlertbot|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
  

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is now subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2009 ==


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; Project News
* Welcome to the eleventh [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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)]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
[[File:GA candidate.svg|20px]] [[Architecture of Leeds]] nominated for GA on '''February 12th'''<br>
[[File:Cscr-candidate.svg|20px]]⋅[[Ealdred (archbishop)]] nominated at FAC on '''February 13th'''<br>
[[File:GA candidate.svg|20px]]⋅[[Fulfordgate]] nominated for GA on '''February 14th'''<br>
[[File:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] [[Wilfrid]] promoted to GA on '''February 19th'''<br>
{{classicon|FA}}⋅[[Ealdred (archbishop)]] promoted to FA on '''February 20th'''<br>
[[File:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] [[Fulfordgate]] promoted to GA on '''February 20th'''<br>


; 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:

*{{User|Matriculate}}
*{{User|andylaw31}}
*{{User|Richardob}}

No members left the project this month:


;Thanks

* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 {{tl|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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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.


[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2009 ==

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* Welcome to the twelfth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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)]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
[[File:Nuvola apps kedit.png|20px]] [[Kingston upon Hull]] peer review requested on '''March 5th'''<br>
[[File:Nuvola apps kedit.png|20px]] [[Wilfrid]] peer review requested on '''March 5th'''<br>
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[[File:GA candidate.svg|20px]] [[Architecture of Leeds]] nominated for GA on '''February 12th'''<br>
[[File:Cscr-candidate.svg|20px]]⋅[[Ealdred (archbishop)]] nominated at FAC on '''February 13th'''<br>
[[File:GA candidate.svg|20px]]⋅[[Fulfordgate]] nominated for GA on '''February 14th'''<br>
[[File:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] [[Wilfrid]] promoted to GA on '''February 19th'''<br>
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[[File:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] [[Fulfordgate]] promoted to GA on '''February 20th'''<br>
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; 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:

*{{User|Computerjoe}}
*{{User|Neutralle}}

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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 {{tl|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.


[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2009 ==

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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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)]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GA}} [[Architecture of Leeds]] was promoted to GA on '''April 5th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[York]] was nominated for GA on '''April 7th'''<br>
{{icon|NoGA}} [[York]] failed its GA review on '''April 17th'''<br>


; Member News

There are now 60 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There have been no changes in the membership since the April newsletter.<!--A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:

*{{User|Computerjoe}}

No members left the project this month:
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;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>


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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 {{tl|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 {{tl|WikiProjectBannerShell}} and {{tl|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.

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/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]]<br />The changes are:<br />
**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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/B-Class_criteria|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 [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment/A-Class_criteria|described here]]. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2009 ==

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; Project News
* Welcome to the fourteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|FA}} [[Paulinus of York]] was promoted to FA on '''April 7th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Thomas Ferens]] was nominated for GA on '''April 11th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Philip Larkin]] was promoted to GA on '''May 6th'''<br>
{{icon|FAC}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] was nominated at FAC on '''May 12th'''<br>
{{icon|NoFA}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] was not promoted to FA on '''May 16th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] peer review requested on '''May 16th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[Architecture of Leeds]] peer review requested on '''May 21st'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Kingston upon Hull]] was promoted to GA on '''May 24th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[York City F.C. season 2008–09]] was nominated for GA on '''May 28th'''<br>


; 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:

*{{User|Storye book}}
*{{User|Nthep}}
*{{User|Stuffed cat}}
*{{User|Lexaris}}

One members left the project this month:

*{{User|Harris Morgan}}


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>


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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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. [http://wpcite.mozdev.org/ 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 [[Wikipedia:wikiEd|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''' [[Image:Wink.gif|px10]]  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.
{{Browser marketshare|align=center}}

; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''Assessment''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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{{Thank}}
*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2009 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GA}} [[Siward Barn]] was promoted to GA on '''May 10th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Oslac of York]] was promoted to GA on '''May 18th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Thomas Ferens]] was promoted to GA on '''June 6th'''<br>
{{icon|FA}} [[Wilfred]] was promoted to FA on '''June 9th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Ilkley]] was nominated for GA on '''June 11th'''<br>
{{icon|FAR}} [[Sheffield]] was nominated for a FAR on '''June 18th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Peak District]] was nominated for GA on '''June 18th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[York]] was submitted for a peer review on '''June 21st'''<br>


; 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:

*{{User|nigelcoates}}

No members left the project this month:


;Thanks


* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border=0 align=center cellpadding=5 style="background-color:transparent;"
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{{Thank}}
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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire|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 [[WP:V|verifiable]] and [[Wikipedia:Cite sources|cite]] [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|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 [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|inline citation]].

Fortunately, Wikipedia provides a number of easily used tools to help with this task. Beside the [[Mozilla firefox|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 <nowiki><ref>...</ref></nowiki>  [[File:Button reflink.png]]  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  [[File:Button easy cite.png]]  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 <nowiki><references/></nowiki> markup or {{tl|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 {{tl|fact}} template, a section with {{tl|unreferencedsection}}, or the article with {{tl|refimprove}} or {{tl|unreferenced}}. Alternatively, you may leave a note on the [[Help:Talk page|talk page]] requesting a source, or you may move the material to the talk page.

; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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.

<table class="wikitable">
<tr><th>Article</th><th>Maintenance categories</th></tr>
<tr><td>[[Bradford]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2006, Articles with dead external links (Sep 2008, Oct 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Leeds]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with unsourced statements (Jan 2008, Oct 2008, Mar 2009), Wikipedia articles needing clarification (Oct 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[North Yorkshire]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with dead external links (Oct 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Ripon]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with specifically-marked weasel-worded phrases (Mar 2009), Articles with unsourced statements (Mar 2009), Wikipedia articles needing clarification (Feb 2009)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Sheffield]] '''«FA, Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with dead external links (Jun 2008, Oct 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Wakefield]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles needing additional references (Sep 2008), Articles with trivia sections (Aug 2008), Articles with unsourced statements (Jan 2007, Feb 2007)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[William Wilberforce]] '''«FA, Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with dead external links (Mar 2009)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Yorkshire]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with dead external links (Oct 2008), Articles with unsourced statements (Mar 2009)</td>
</tr>
</table>

*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2009 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GA}} [[Peak District]] passed a GA review on '''July 2nd'''<br>
{{icon|NoGA}} [[Ilkley]] failed a GA review on '''July 19th'''<br>
[[File:GA Candidate Neutral vote(ChaosNil).svg|20px]] [[Arctic Monkeys]] kept following GAR reassessment on '''July 21st'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[York]] nominated for GA review on '''July 21st'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] nominated for GA review on '''July 25th'''<br>


; 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:

*{{User|Fuchsia Perfect}}
*{{User|rfsmit}}

One member left the project this month:

*{{User|Adamjhepton}}


;Thanks


* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border=0 align=center cellpadding=5 style="background-color:transparent;"
|align=center|As of 31 July, 2009, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| style="border: 1px solid black" cellspacing=1 width=50% height=15x align=center
|align=center width=100% style=background:#00A550|
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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&mdash;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 {{tl|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.]]

<nowiki>[[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.]]</nowiki>

(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 [[Help:Displaying a formula|Math-mode formulas]] but is probably less important to this project as very few of our articles contain such mark-up.


; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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; Project News
* Welcome to the seventeenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GA}} [[York City F.C. season 2008–09]] passed a GA review on '''August 2nd'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[York]] passed a GA review on '''August 7th'''<br>
{{icon|GAR}}[[Robin Hood]] entered a GAR review on '''August 7th'''<br>
{{icon|NoGA}} [[Robin Hood]] de-listed following a GAR review on '''August 12th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}}[[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] peer review requested on '''August 14th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Drax Power Station]] nominated for GA review on '''August 16th'''<br>
{{icon|FAC}} [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] nominated at FAC on '''August 25th'''<br>


; 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:

*{{User|95jb14}}

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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Coastal_settlements_list 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...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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; Project News
* Welcome to the eighteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GA}} [[Hull City A.F.C.]] retained following a GAR review on '''September 4th'''<br>
{{icon|FA}} [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] promoted to FA on '''September 6th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[David Wetherall]] nominated for GA review on '''September 7th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] passed a GA review on '''September 10th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Anne Brontë]] nominated for GA review on '''September 25th'''<br>


; 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:

*{{User|IJA}}
*{{User|TheresaWilson}}

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, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]] article got the most attention and improvements during the month. 

* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border=0 align=center cellpadding=5 style="background-color:transparent;"
|align=center|As of 31 July, 2009, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 [[WP:Good article|good article]] at [[Oxford University]] and one about a school at [[City of London School]].

'''Resources'''

[http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/list_providers/%28region%29/3/%28type%29/8192/%28typename%29/Secondary%20schools/%28sort%29/datesort,desc/%28object_step%29/10 Search page for Ofsted inspection reports for Yorkshire and the Humber secondary schools.]

[http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php 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...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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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; Project News
* Welcome to the nineteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GA}} [[Drax Power Station]] passed a GA review on '''October 5th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[Thomas of Bayeux]] peer review initiated on '''October 8th'''<br>
{{icon|DFA}} [[Sheffield]] was demoted from FA on '''October 9th'''<br>
{{icon|NoGA}} [[Anne Brontë]] failed a GA review on '''October 10th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] peer review initiated on '''October 23rd'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[Leeds]] peer review initiated on '''October 25th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[David Wetherall]] passed a GA review on '''October 26th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[County Borough of Leeds]] nominated for GA review on '''October 26th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[Philip Larkin]] peer review initiated on '''October 27th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[County Borough of Leeds]] promoted to GA on '''October 30th'''<br>


; 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:

*{{User|Willde1}}
*{{User|Rimmer1993}}

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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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
==[[Arctic Monkeys]] fight it out with [[Dracula]]==

The addition of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Popular pages|popular pages]] facility to the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Sidebar|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.

[[File:Newarcticmonkeys.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Arctic monkeys. Sadly no Dracula image, any volunteers?]]
As the page has a [http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/ 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...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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...'''


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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2009 ==

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* Welcome to the twentieth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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]]


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GAN}} [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] nominated for GA review on '''November 7th'''<br />


; 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:

*{{User|Quantpole}}
*{{User|birksey}}

No members left the project this month:


;Thanks

* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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 [[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|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 [[Sockpuppet (Internet)|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 network]]s, [[antivirus software]], [[graphic art software|graphics software]] to [[memory card]]s and [[memory stick]]s. [[Digital camera]]s 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. 

[[Christmas stocking|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...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<br />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...'''


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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2010 ==
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* Welcome to the twenty first [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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. 


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GA}} [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] passed for GA review on '''December 12th'''<br />


; 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:

*{{User|MarmadukePercy}} joined us on 25 December 2009

No members left the project this month, though the list of [[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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:
::# Increasing coverage and [[WP:VERIFY|accuracy]]
::# Adding supporting materials
::# Improving [[WP:CITE|references and citations]]
::# Refining the article's structure and organisation
::# Copyediting [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Grammar|grammar]], [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punctuation|punctuation]], and spelling
::# Improving the quality and clarity of the writing
::# Establishing and maintaining the article's [[WP:NPOV|neutral point-of-view]]
::# Providing [[WP:SS|well-rounded coverage]] of the subject
::# See [[WP:GA?|GA]]/[[WP:FA?|FA]] requirements for more details
:* General guidelines
::# Help verify/supply new sources
::# If the article lacks an [[WP:Infobox]], create one
::# Update statistics.  (These drastically affect the accuracy of this encyclopedia so make sure the data displayed in the article is up-to-date.)
::# Check to see if the article is following the appropriate suggested article guidelines.
::# '''Make sure the article is [[WP:NOT#ADVERTISING|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
::# Remove any instances of [[WP:Peacock|peacock terms]] being used
::# [[WP:BOLD|Be Bold]].
:*And most importantly...
::#Have fun!

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

{| class=wikitable
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! rowspan="2" | Dates
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|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
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|Jan 01, 2010 ~ Jan 31, 2010
|[[Ripon]]
|[[Yorkshire and the Humber]]
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|Feb 01, 2010 ~ Feb 28, 2010
|To be decided
|To be decided
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|III
|Mar 01, 2010 ~ Mar 31, 2010
|To be decided
|To be decided
|- align=center
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Please nominate future articles for improvement at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]].

;Happy New Year

; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2010 ==
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* Welcome to the twenty second [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 7,888 last month to 7,950 on January 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 53 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 52. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,074 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GAR}} [[Michael Palin]] GA reassesment review on '''January 25th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership remaining unchanged since the last newsletter though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Assessment

This month we focus on article assessment as a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes on this. In January the new version of the bot used for generating the information was deployed. For the observant you will have noticed the changes made to the assessment table on the left, it now has details of all of the pages other than articles that are tagged with the project banner. Now you can see counts of the categories, templates, files and other miscellaneous tagged pages that the project is looking after. The article count earlier in the newsletter does not include all of the newly reported classes as they are not really articles. 

A new facility is the ability to click on any of the numbers and get a list of the articles that are in the intersection of the article importance rating with the quality rating. For example this enables you to see all of the articles that the project has rated as high priority stub-class articles. This is something that was not readily available prior to this revision of the bot.

The quality ratings are only valid at the time they are done and may be out of date as some of the assessments were done over two years ago. Many of the articles have changed since they were rated so it would be good if members could re-rate them when they see substantial changes to a particular article or flag it up for someone more experienced to take a look at and revise the quality rating if appropriate. Many of the articles were rated before the introduction of the C-class rating so may be over rated as B-class articles or under rated as Start-class articles.

Other changes have taken place in the formatting of the log files and more is to come. The data is now stored in a database off wiki and so tools can be written to generate further reports, have customised rating levels for projects etc. The bot is also able to get through the articles quicker and so is reporting changes daily rather than about weekly as with the previous version.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The February 2010 articles selected below are as discussed on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|I
|Jan 01, 2010 ~ Jan 31, 2010
|[[Ripon]]
|[[Yorkshire and the Humber]]
|- align=center
|II
|Feb 01, 2010 ~ Feb 28, 2010
|[[Robin Hood]]
|[[Skipton]]
|- align=center
|III
|Mar 01, 2010 ~ Mar 31, 2010
|To be decided
|To be decided
|- align=center
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2010 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 23 - March 2010 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/February 2010|February issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the twenty third [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 7,950 last month to 7,987 on February 27th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 53. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,117 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}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]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|FAC}} [[Thomas of Bayeux]] FAC review on '''February 24th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership remaining unchanged since the last newsletter though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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|align=center|As of 28 February 20109, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Biographies of Living People

This month we need to concentrate efforts on Biographies of Living People (BLP) as detailed at [[WP:BLP]]. There is currently ongoing discussions about what should be done with nearly 50,000 unsourced articles on living people that have accumulated and being tagged with the {{tl|BLP unsourced}} template. Options range from deleting all of them immediately to a period of grace for the articles to be sourced. There is also discussions as to what should be done, going forward, with new articles on living people that are created without sources. Do have your say on these discussions [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people|here]], if you are interested in biographical articles.

As a project we have not tagged many biographical articles but looking at the articles of people under the Yorkshire category an estimate of 150 of these are tagged as unreferenced. This does not include those related to the various sports people who play for the many teams in the area. Obviously those articles relevant to the project we would want to save from the axe and so we need to concentrate our efforts on referencing articles that have been tagged as unreferenced. Once articles have been given some references then the tag can be changed to {{tl|BLP sources}} or removed, if full referencing has been done.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The March 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|I
|Jan 01, 2010 ~ Jan 31, 2010
|[[Ripon]]
|[[Yorkshire and the Humber]]
|- align=center
|II
|Feb 01, 2010 ~ Feb 28, 2010
|[[Robin Hood]]
|[[Skipton]]
|- align=center
|III
|Mar 01, 2010 ~ Mar 31, 2010
|[[The Human League]]
|[[Swaledale]]
|- align=center
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/March 2010]]

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2010 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 24 - April 2010 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/March 2010|March issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the twenty fourth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 7,987 last month to 8,063 on March 30th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 55. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,139 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have eighteen 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]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GAN}} [[Yorkshire captaincy crisis of 1927]] nominated for GA review on '''March 6th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Yorkshire captaincy crisis of 1927]] promoted to GA on '''March 12th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Thomas of Bayeux]] promoted to FA on '''March 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Bramhope Tunnel]] nominated for GA review on '''March 18th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 74 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the March newsletter:

*{{User|Genealogy Jo}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is currently low.


;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.

* Thanks to thos members that have been referencing the Biographies of Living People that was raised last month. We have cut the number of totally unreferenced articles to five.

* To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 31 March 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Biographies of Living People

As a follow up to last month's feature on BLP articles a BOT is now creating project listings of those BLP articles that are tagged as totally unreferenced. The listing for our project can be found at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Unreferenced BLPs]], I have added a link to this from the project side-bar for easy access to the listing. There are just five articles remaining on the list at the time of going to press, so well done.


;General Election

The next General Election will be announced sometime during the month and so we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to this. There are two main sets of articles relevant here, firstly the constituency articles and secondly the articles relating to the candidates that are standing for election. Taking the first group there are a number of boundary changes relating to the constituencies in the area that will be implemented at the time of the General Election. These changes need to be reflected into the settlement articles that are affected by the change. I would suggest that the settlement's history section is updated to include details of the former constituency when adding the new one so that information is not lost. All of the constituency articles will need to be kept up to date with the list of candidates that are standing for the election. Much of the basic work on this has been done but new candidates will emerge until the closing date for candidates to declare. Note that the order of candidates should be maintained in ballot paper order prior to the result being declared so that we do not favour any of the parties in the election. So even if A. Aardvark is standing for the "Lets do away with wiki" party then they should appear first regardless of if we support them or not.

On the second set of articles, those on candidates, we are back to issues relating to [[WP:BLP|BLP]], [[WP:NPOV|NPOV]] and to avoiding them, or their supporters, using wiki as an electioneering medium. We should be vigilant to remove anything that ventures into this area as quickly as possible. There may be articles for candidates who are standing that are not tagged for the project so it would be good for these to be tagged so we can keep an eye on them. It is also a good time to improve the articles on the candidates as they will no doubt get more hits during the election period. Those of you in the UK may also see some of the candidates out on the campaign trail and it would be good to get a photo for their article if possible. It does not have to be a Yorkshire related politician as there are lots of articles about politicians that needed photos or updates to dated images. 


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The April 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|II
|Feb 01, 2010 ~ Feb 28, 2010
|[[Robin Hood]]
|[[Skipton]]
|- align=center
|III
|Mar 01, 2010 ~ Mar 31, 2010
|[[The Human League]]
|[[Swaledale]]
|- align=center
|IV
|Apr 01, 2010 ~ Apr 30, 2010
|[[Patrick Stewart]]
|[[A64 road]]
|- align=center
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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 23rd'''.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/April 2010]]

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2010 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 25 - May 2010 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/April 2010|April issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the twenty fifth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,063 last month to 8,082 on April 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 55 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 56. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,161 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have eighteen 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]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]]

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GA}} [[Bramhope Tunnel]] promoted to GA following review on '''April 2nd'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Tickle Cock Bridge]] was nominated, reviewed and promoted to GA on '''April 3rd'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Cottingley Fairies]] was nominated, reviewed and promoted to GA on '''April 27th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 75 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:

*{{User|Scillystuff}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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.

* Thanks to those members that have been working on updating articles in preparation for the general election.

* To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Elections

The next General Election will take place this month as will the local elections in a number of areas in the region and so again this month we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to these.

Last month I concentrated on the general election related articles in the run up to the announcement of the election. This month we need to concentrate on the aftermath of the election. The constituency articles are the first ones that need to be looked at and the results added to each of these. This gives us an opportunity to have some references on these pages as there will be extensive media coverage for the results. The articles relating to the set of new MPs will need to be updated to include details of their election victory and the office they take up in the new parliamentary session. At the same time those articles relating to politicians who loose their seat will need to be updated to cover this and to show the successor to the seat/office they held. Other articles that need to be looked at are the settlement articles to see if they need updating as a number of them mention the party that represent the place and some give details of the MPs that represent them.

As well as the general election there is also the local elections that are being held on the same day and again this needs to be looked at when updating the settlement articles as the council make up is often described in the governance section or given in the infobox. These elections will necessitate new articles creating for each of the councils that are holding elections to record the details of the election and the results. Others may generate these articles and members should tag these with the project tag {{tl|WikiProject Yorkshire}} when they find them so that they can be tracked and are not forgotten about.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The April 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
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! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|III
|Mar 01, 2010 ~ Mar 31, 2010
|[[The Human League]]
|[[Swaledale]]
|- align=center
|IV
|Apr 01, 2010 ~ Apr 30, 2010
|[[Patrick Stewart]]
|[[A64 road]]
|- align=center
|V
|May 01, 2010 ~ May 31, 2010
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Bolling Hall, Bradford]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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 23rd'''.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2010 ==
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/May 2010|May issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the twenty sixth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,082 last month to 8,202 on May 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 54 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 58. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,182 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty 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]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • 

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|FAC}} [[Cottingley Fairies]] was nominated for FA on '''April 29th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Cottingley Fairies]] was promoted to FA on '''May 8th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Guy Fawkes]] was nominated for FA on '''May 14th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Guy Fawkes]] was promoted to FA on '''May 22nd'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 76 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:

*{{User|harbino}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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.

* Thanks to those members that have been working on updating articles in the aftermath the general election.

* To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 April 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Images

As a change from all the election related material this month I thought that we could look at images. With summer on its way in England then it is time to spend away from the computer and in the great outdoors. There are many events and places to visit so if you are taking time out at any of these then take along your camera and capture the scene. Then when back home you can upload the images to [[WP:Commons|Commons]] so that they can be used on any of the projects run by the foundation. This is preferred to uploading just to Wikipedia as they are more widely available to other projects and save time of people having to make the transfer of suitable images. When uploading images to Commons then you need to categorise the image to enable it to be located easily and to group it with others of a similar theme. It is best to put it in a specific category, but if you cannot find one then pick the best fit you can and others will shift it around into more suitable categories. The process is similar to article categorisation and multiple categories can be added, as appropriate, but an image should not normally be placed in a category and one of it's sub-categories.

There are a number of articles requiring images and the Yorkshire related ones can be found [[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Yorkshire|here]]. Take a look before you go out as you may be able to fulfil one of the requests while out visiting.

If you locate an article that requires an image and no suitable image is available then add the {{tl|reqphoto}} template to the article talk page to flag the article appropriately. If you want an image of a specific thing then you can use the '''of=''' parameter to give details. For example, if  an interior shot is required of the building that is the subject of the article then use '''<nowiki>{{reqphoto|of=interior}}</nowiki>'''. You can narrow the image to a location by using the '''in=''' parameter, '''<nowiki>{{reqphoto|in=Yorkshire}}</nowiki>''' will request a photo in Yorkshire. If you use North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire or the East Riding of Yorkshire in place of Yorkshire then it will categorise in the appropriate sub-category but will not show up in the request box. A way round this is to apply Yorkshire and the division to the request and they will show up but remain unlinked. So to a request an image in the East Riding of Yorkshire it may be best to use '''<nowiki>{{reqphoto|in=Yorkshire|in2=the East Riding of Yorkshire}}</nowiki>''' to show in the request box and classify it in both [[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Yorkshire]] and [[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the East Riding of Yorkshire]].

For biographical articles the biography project template {{tl|WPBiography}} has a '''needs-photo=''' parameter which should be set to yes if a photograph is required.

When adding an image to an article also check the talk page and remove the flags if the image fulfils the request. 


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The June 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|IV
|Apr 01, 2010 ~ Apr 30, 2010
|[[Patrick Stewart]]
|[[A64 road]]
|- align=center
|V
|May 01, 2010 ~ May 31, 2010
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Bolling Hall, Bradford]]
|- align=center
|VI
|Jun 01, 2010 ~ Jun 30, 2010
|[[Supertram (Sheffield)]]
|[[North Yorkshire]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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 23rd'''.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/June 2010]]

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2010 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 27 - July 2010 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/June 2010|June issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the twenty seventh [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,202 last month to 8,225 on June 21st).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 54 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 59. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,193 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty 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]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • 

{{classicon|FA}} 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
{{icon|GAC}} [[Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet]] was nominated for GA on '''June 9th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Yorkshire captaincy crisis of 1927]] peer review initiated on '''June 19th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 77 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

*{{User|Tomdresser27}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 31 May 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Pending changes

The trial period for Pending Changes is under way and will last for two months. Initially this will be restricted to a pre-defined set of articles that are updated on a daily basis. The queue of articles for the trial is [[Wikipedia:Pending changes/Queue|here]]. This involves a change to the article settings, similar to article protection, that allows edits by anonymous and non-autoconfirmed users to be delayed before going live. (It is possible to set it so that all edits need reviewing but this is not been used for the trial.) These edits will only go live when they have been reviewed by another user who has been granted the Reviewer user rights. Pages with revisions waiting review can be found [[Special:OldReviewedPages|here]]. A large number of the regular editors have been granted this privilege for the trial and if not it can be requested [[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Reviewer|here]]. It is a good idea to have a look at the [[Special:StablePages|pages]] that have this applied so that you are clued up for the discussion following the trial. Those of you with one of the selected articles on their watchlist will get a notification at the top of the watchlist page when there are pending changes to an article on their watchlist.

Once the trial is over there will be a discussion on rolling the system out generally or to reject this method of handing changes. If you want more details on this then take a look at the [[Help:Pending changes|help document]].


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The July 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
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! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|IV
|Apr 01, 2010 ~ Apr 30, 2010
|[[Patrick Stewart]]
|[[A64 road]]
|- align=center
|V
|May 01, 2010 ~ May 31, 2010
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Bolling Hall, Bradford]]
|- align=center
|VI
|Jun 01, 2010 ~ Jun 30, 2010
|[[Supertram (Sheffield)]]
|[[North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|VII
|Jul 01, 2010 ~ Jul 31, 2010
|[[Vale of Pickering]]
|[[BBC Radio Leeds]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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 23rd'''.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2010 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the twenty eigth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,225 last month to 8,254 on July 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 59. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,201 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty 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]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • 

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eleven 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet]] was promoted to GA on '''June 26th'''<br />
{{icon|FLC}} [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] FLC initiated on '''June 30th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Sheffield]] FAC initiated on '''July 15th'''<br />
{{icon|FL}} [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] was promoted to FL on '''July 16th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 78 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the July newsletter:

*{{User|Hamish Griffin}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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|align=center|As of 31 May 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Maps

This month I thought that I would focus on the current discussions over the maps used in infoboxes for UK articles.

Firstly an initiative by user [[User:Nilfanion|Nilf]][[commons:User:Nilfanion|anion]] ([[User talk:Nilfanion|talk]]) is currently under way on producing map data for the whole of the UK. The maps would cover all counties, wards, civil parishes etc. and be derived from the [[Ordnance Survey]] OpenData release. Further details can be seen [[Wikipedia talk:UK Wikipedians' notice board#Locator maps from OS opendata|here]] where feedback would be appreciated on two specific concerns—the colour scheme and line thickness. Discussion is also taking place as to what features to include on the maps, such as rivers, roads and railways.

Second discussion [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography#Alternative Location Map for districts/boroughs/cities|here]] on another alternative for mapping data changes to existing maps in infoboxes for districts, boroughs and cities in the UK.

Thirdly a discussion on Wales maps in place infoboxes is under way [[Template talk:Infobox UK place#Wales location maps|here]], which has branched out into a general discussion on the initiative by user [[User:Nilfanion|Nilf]][[commons:User:Nilfanion|anion]] [[Template talk:Infobox UK place#New maps|here]].

It would be good if members take time to have a look at these various proposals and comment, where they feel they have some input to offer, as these proposals could potentially affect all of the UK articles with maps in their infoboxes. If you do not speak now then you will have to put up with the results!


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The August 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|V
|May 01, 2010 ~ May 31, 2010
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Bolling Hall, Bradford]]
|- align=center
|VI
|Jun 01, 2010 ~ Jun 30, 2010
|[[Supertram (Sheffield)]]
|[[North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|VII
|Jul 01, 2010 ~ Jul 31, 2010
|[[Vale of Pickering]]
|[[BBC Radio Leeds]]
|- align=center
|VIII
|Aug 01, 2010 ~ Aug 31, 2010
|[[Wuthering Heights]]
|[[Haworth]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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 23rd'''.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2010 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 29 - September 2010 <br />
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; Project News
* Welcome to the twenty ninth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,254 last month to 8,334 on August 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 58. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 47 out of a total number of 2,218 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty one 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]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy crisis of 1927]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eleven 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|NOFA}} [[Sheffield]] FAC not promoted on '''July 29th'''<br />
{{icon|GAC}} [[Sheffield]] was nominated for GA on '''August 1st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Sheffield]] was promoted to GA on '''August 14th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] FAC initiated on '''August 15th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] promoted to FA on '''August 26th'''<br />
{{icon|GAC}} [[Joe Colbeck]] was nominated for GA on '''August 30th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 80 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the August newsletter:

*{{User|Francish7}}
*{{User|Leeds120}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 31 August 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
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{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Updates

Last month I brought your attention to the proposals for changes to maps in articles and the newer maps have started to be deployed on some of the Scotland and Wales articles. The English ones will follow on though there has been comments on the loss of some features so this may be revised before mass deployment.

The trial for the [[WP:pending changes|pending changes]] implementation has ended and after discussion a [[Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll|straw poll]] is under way and now is the time to voice your opinion over the trial and if pending changes should continue to be used or if it should be abandoned.

A further batch of about 10,000 images from the Geograph project has been uploaded to [[WP:Commons|Commons]]. If you are looking for an image then there may be one available on Commons you just have to search for it! Many of the images are incorrectly categorised at the moment but these are being rectified as they are spotted. If you have time then you can give a hand checking out the image categorisation.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The September 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|VI
|Jun 01, 2010 ~ Jun 30, 2010
|[[Supertram (Sheffield)]]
|[[North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|VII
|Jul 01, 2010 ~ Jul 31, 2010
|[[Vale of Pickering]]
|[[BBC Radio Leeds]]
|- align=center
|VIII
|Aug 01, 2010 ~ Aug 31, 2010
|[[Wuthering Heights]]
|[[Haworth]]
|- align=center
|IX
|Sept 01, 2010 ~ Sept 31, 2010
|[[Rotunda Museum]]
|[[Liquorice allsorts]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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 23rd'''.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2010 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirtieth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,334 last month to 8,468 on September 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 58. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 48 out of a total number of 2,228 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty one 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]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy crisis of 1927]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eleven 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAC}} [[1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final]] was nominated for GA on '''September 6th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 81 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the September newsletter:

*{{User|Anthony Winward}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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|align=center|As of 31 August 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Wikipedia 0.8 release

Work is starting on preparing release 0.8 of the off line version of Wikipedia and the articles are in the selection stage. The initial selection has been done using some metrics about each of the articles. The number of projects that are interested in the article and the breadth of the individual projects. This is followed by the ratings of quality and importance that have been assigned to the article by each of the interested projects. There is also factored in what is termed the "External interest points" which is based on the number of hits the article gets, the number of unique internal links the article has and the number of inter-wiki links the article has. If you want more detail of the algorithm used then see [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Article selection|here]]. 

They have also selected a specific version of each of the articles that they consider is a stable version without vandalism using a version of the [[WikiTrust]] algorithm.

After all of this work they have come up with a selection of '''116 articles''' that have been tagged as relevant to our project and these can be viewed [http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&namespace=0&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=100&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality&filterRelease=on&reviewFilter=0&releaseFilter=1&projecta=Yorkshire here]. We have a chance to influence this selection by reporting articles that people do not think are suitable or where an inappropriate version has been selected. It would also be a good idea to try and tidy up these articles before they get published if anyone has the time. Of the 116 the two articles that have been identified by tags as most needing attention are [[Asda]] and [[Rotherham]]. We have until '''October 11th''' to check out and [[Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8|report]] any problems or improved versions that need to be incorporated in to this release.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The October 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|VI
|Jun 01, 2010 ~ Jun 30, 2010
|[[Supertram (Sheffield)]]
|[[North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|VIII
|Aug 01, 2010 ~ Aug 31, 2010
|[[Wuthering Heights]]
|[[Haworth]]
|- align=center
|IX
|Sept 01, 2010 ~ Sept 31, 2010
|[[Rotunda Museum]]
|[[Liquorice allsorts]]
|- align=center
|X
|Oct 01, 2010 ~ Oct 31, 2010
|[[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]]
|[[Bridlington]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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 23rd'''.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2010 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 31 - November 2010 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/October 2010|October issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty first [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,468 last month to 8,621 on October 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 57 is just behind [[WP:GM]] who have 58. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,266 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty two 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 of York)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eleven 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAC}} [[Abe Waddington]] was nominated for GA on '''September 19th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Roy Kilner]] was promoted to FA on '''September 30th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final]] was promoted to GA on '''October 8th'''<br />
{{icon|GAC}} [[Talk:John Wright (Gunpowder Plot)]] was nominated for GA on '''October 26th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 83 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

*{{User|Kildwyke}}
*{{User|TomDWilliams}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 31 October 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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|- 
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Dead links

This month I thought that I would concentrate on the problem of link rot in articles. Many of you will have spotted a BOT tagging references with the {{tl|Dead link}} template. The template is added when the external link in a reference is detected as being inaccessible or is a redirect to the main page of the site. You should '''not remove''' references that are marked as dead unless you are replacing the reference with a new reference. The information in the reference may be useful to someone trying to locate a valid reference for the text. In order to help this process, when adding references in the first place, add as much detail as possible. It is easier to put in the detail while the reference is in front of you rather than waste someone else's time having to fill in the detail. If you want more detail then see [[Wikipedia:Link rot]].

Many of the project's articles have been tagged in this way by the BOT and it would be useful if members could take a look at the tagged references, when visiting a page, and see if the problem can be resolved. May be the link is now active again in which case it is just a simple task of removing the template. May be an archived copy of the link can be located at the [[Wayback Machine]], just add the link to the reference, if it is templated use the =archiveurl & =archivedate paramerters to record the new location of the link. If the site has been restructured then it may be possible to locate the same page used in the reference by following the links from the home page of the site. In this case replace the URL in the reference and remove the tag. Finally a replacement reference may need to be located if copies of the existing reference cannot be tracked down. If a new reference is used then the old reference and the tag can be removed.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The November 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|VIII
|Aug 01, 2010 ~ Aug 31, 2010
|[[Wuthering Heights]]
|[[Haworth]]
|- align=center
|IX
|Sept 01, 2010 ~ Sept 31, 2010
|[[Rotunda Museum]]
|[[Liquorice allsorts]]
|- align=center
|X
|Oct 01, 2010 ~ Oct 31, 2010
|[[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]]
|[[Bridlington]]
|- align=center
|XI
|Nov 01, 2010 ~ Nov 30, 2010
|[[Yorkshire Engine Company]]
|[[Morley, West Yorkshire]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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 23rd'''.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2010 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 32 - December 2010 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/November 2010|November issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty second [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,621 last month to 8,665 on November 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 62 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 60. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,292 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty four 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 of York)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eleven 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAC}} [[1903–04 Bradford City A.F.C. season]] was nominated for GA on '''October 19th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[George Macaulay]] was promoted to FA on '''October 20th'''<br />
{{icon|GAC}} [[Agnes Grey]] was nominated for GA on '''October 21st'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Agnes Grey]] failed GA review on '''November 5th'''<br />
{{icon|GAC}} [[Aire and Calder Navigation]] was nominated for GA on '''November 6th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Abe Waddington]] was promoted to GA on '''November 7th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Joe Colbeck]] was promoted to GA on '''November 9th'''<br />
{{icon|GAC}} [[York Castle]] was nominated for GA on '''November 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[York Castle]] was promoted to GA on '''November 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[John and Christopher Wright]] was promoted to GA on '''November 15th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[1903–04 Bradford City A.F.C. season]] was promoted to GA on '''November 28th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:

*{{User|Crouch, Swale}} 

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 November 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Happy Christmas

Wishing all project members a Happy Christmas and thanks for all the work you have put in to the project over the last year. We have made great strides forward especially in the area of [[WP:Good Articles|Good Articles]]
and this month we have a bumper set of seven articles trying for GA status. Some passed the review while others did not, but even a try moves an article forward. Thanks to ll those involved in these articles and keep up the good work.


;Cleanup listing

Some members will know that we were subscribed to the clean-up listing that was produced on an occasional basis by a BOT. The BOT owner has left and has not released the source of the BOT for someone to pick-up. The last run of this BOT was in March of this year. Others have stepped in and produced a new tool that runs on the tool server to provide projects with similar information.

The [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''clean-up listing'''] gives details of all of the articles with the project's banner that have clean-up tags attached to them. The listing is in alphabetical order but can be sorted on class, importance or the number of different tags found in an article. If you want the listing grouped by the different tags then the [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListingByCat.php?project=Yorkshire tag grouped listing] should be used. 

According to the tool run dated 28 November of the 8,729 articles in this project 2,725 or 31.2% are marked for clean-up, though I am unsure how it gets the article count figure as that does not appear to match the counts from the assessment table.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The December 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|IX
|Sept 01, 2010 ~ Sept 31, 2010
|[[Rotunda Museum]]
|[[Liquorice allsorts]]
|- align=center
|X
|Oct 01, 2010 ~ Oct 31, 2010
|[[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]]
|[[Bridlington]]
|- align=center
|XI
|Nov 01, 2010 ~ Nov 30, 2010
|[[Yorkshire Engine Company]]
|[[Morley, West Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XII
|Dec 01, 2010 ~ Dec 31, 2010
|[[John Fowler (agricultural engineer)]]
|[[Scampston Hall]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 33 - January 2011 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/December 2010|December issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty third [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,665 last month to 8,678 on December 13th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 63 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 61. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,304 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty four 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 of York)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eleven 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Aire and Calder Navigation]] was promoted to GA on '''November 29th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[River Hull]] was nominated for GA on '''December 7th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the December newsletter:

*{{User|Crouch, Swale}} 

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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|align=center|As of 30 November 2010, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
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{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Happy New Year

Wishing all project members a Happy New Year and thanks for all the work you have put in to the project over the last year. 




;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The January 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|X
|Oct 01, 2010 ~ Oct 31, 2010
|[[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]]
|[[Bridlington]]
|- align=center
|XI
|Nov 01, 2010 ~ Nov 30, 2010
|[[Yorkshire Engine Company]]
|[[Morley, West Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XII
|Dec 01, 2010 ~ Dec 31, 2010
|[[John Fowler (agricultural engineer)]]
|[[Scampston Hall]]
|- align=center
|XIII
|Jan 01, 2011 ~ Jan 31, 2011
|[[Yorkshire]]
|[[Joe Simpson (mountaineer)]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 34 - February 2011 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/January 2011|January issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty fourth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,678 last month to 8,766 on January 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 65 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 60. [[WP:GM]] also has the lead in FAs at 50 out of a total number of 2,342 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty four 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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[River Hull]] was promoted to GA on '''December 31st'''<br />
{{icon|FTC}} [[Gunpowder Plot]] was nominated for FT on '''January 3rd'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Len Hutton]] was promoted to GA on '''January 23rd'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Frederick Delius]] PR opened on '''January 23rd'''<br />
{{icon|FL}} [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] was promoted to FL on '''January 28th'''<br />
{{icon|FT}} [[Gunpowder Plot]] was promoted to FT on '''January 28th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Battle of Towton]] was nominated for FA on '''January 31st'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire, unchanged since the January newsletter.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 29 January 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Article Alerts

After nearly a year without the Article Alerts listing after the previous BOT operator departed a new BOT has been developed to give similar functionality. This was trialled on a few projects over the New Year period and has now been rolled out as a replacement for the original BOT. Just to remind members the listing gives changes to the status of articles tagged with the project template. It includes details such as good article candidate, articles up for deletion etc. the full list of workflows covered by the BOT can be seen [[Wikipedia:Article alerts/Workflows|here]].

The BOT runs daily and updates the project listing at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Article alerts]]. The BOT edit summary indicates the extent of the change so if the listing is watchlisted you can quickly tell if there is anything that may be of interest. If there are things that the BOT does not pick-up then do report them [[Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Bugs|here]] so that they can be fixed. If you think an article should be covered by the project then add the project template {{tl|WikiProject Yorkshire}} to the talk page of the article.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The February 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XI
|Nov 01, 2010 ~ Nov 30, 2010
|[[Yorkshire Engine Company]]
|[[Morley, West Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XII
|Dec 01, 2010 ~ Dec 31, 2010
|[[John Fowler (agricultural engineer)]]
|[[Scampston Hall]]
|- align=center
|XIII
|Jan 01, 2011 ~ Jan 31, 2011
|[[Yorkshire]]
|[[Joe Simpson (mountaineer)]]
|- align=center
|XIV
|Feb 01, 2011 ~ Feb 28, 2011
|[[National Railway Museum]]
|[[RAF Fylingdales]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/February 2011]]

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2011 ==
{| class="navbox collapsible collapsed" style="text-align: left; border: 2px; margin-top: 0.2em;"
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! style="background:#ccf; border:2px #007fff solid; -moz-border-radius:20px; text-align:center;"|'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|Yorkshire WikiProject]] Newsletter'''
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{| style="width:100%; border:1px gray solid; background:#ccf;"
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[[Image:White Rose Badge of York.svg|100px|left]] 
<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 35 - March 2011 <br />
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:right; width:45%; border:0; background:#ccf; padding:1em;"|
[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/February 2011|February issue]]
<br /><div style="text-align:center;"><small>Got any suggestions?<br /> — ''Add them [[WT:YORKS|<span style="color:#000;">here</span>]]''</small></div><br/>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|
; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty fifth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,766 last month to 8,841 on February 26th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 65 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 61. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,376 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty six 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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|FAC}} [[Frederick Delius]]  was nominated for FA on '''February 1st'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Frederick Delius]]  was promoted to FA on '''February 8th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Battle of Towton]] was promoted to FA on '''February 8th'''<br />
{{icon|GAC}} [[George Hirst]] was nominated for GA on '''February 10th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Scarborough Castle]] PR opened on '''February 17th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the February newsletter:

*{{User|notjamesbond}}

No members left the project this month, a duplicate entry was removed: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 29 January 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Great Backlog Drive

Most of you should have spotted the advertisement for the [[Wikipedia:Contribution_Team/Backlogs|Great Backlog Drive]] that is under way at the moment. This is an initiative to reduce the number of tags that are attached to articles by attempting to fix as many of these as possible. Of cause some tags are more of a problem to fix than others but the purpose of the drive is to cut down the overall number of articles that have identified problems in them, rather than concentrate on specific problems. It would be good if project members got involved in this and fixed tags that they come across in their editing. It would also be helpful to avoid tagging new problems by fixing them when you spot the problem, though if you cannot fix it then tag for someone else to look at.

The project clean up listing gives a list of the more common tags attached to the project's articles, of which 32.1 % are marked for clean up, and can be found - 

*[http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire Clean up listing in article order]

*[http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListingByCat.php?project=Yorkshire Clean up listing grouped by tag]

Those who want a challenge can get involved in the competition that is been run during the period - see [[Wikipedia:Contribution_Team/Backlogs#Competition|here]] for details.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The March 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XII
|Dec 01, 2010 ~ Dec 31, 2010
|[[John Fowler (agricultural engineer)]]
|[[Scampston Hall]]
|- align=center
|XIII
|Jan 01, 2011 ~ Jan 31, 2011
|[[Yorkshire]]
|[[Joe Simpson (mountaineer)]]
|- align=center
|XIV
|Feb 01, 2011 ~ Feb 28, 2011
|[[National Railway Museum]]
|[[RAF Fylingdales]]
|- align=center
|XV
|Mar 01, 2011 ~ Mar 31, 2011
|[[Yorkshire Dales]]
|[[Todmorden War Memorial]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 36 - April 2011 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/March 2011|March issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty sixth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,841 last month to 8,899 on March 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 62. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,395 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty six 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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[George Hirst]]  was promoted to GA on '''March 7th'''<br />
{{icon|GAC}} [[Brontë family]] was nominated for GA on '''March 15th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Howard Webb]] failed GA on '''March 16th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No membership changes have taken place since the March newsletter,
though the number of [[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;Thanks

* Thanks to all those who took part in the '''Great Backlog Drive''' raised in the last newsletter. A small inroad was made getting down from 32.1% to 31.7% of articles tagged.

* 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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;WikiConference UK 2011

Just a reminder for those members in the UK that there is the [http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/ WikiConference UK 2011] that takes place in [[Bristol]] on 16 April 2011. This will incorporate the [http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia UK's] annual conference. It would be good if the project has some members who could attend and support the event. Opportunities are available to get more widely involved in the direction of the UK chapter. If you have time you can volunteer and get involved by just contacting them [http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership here].


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The April 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XIII
|Jan 01, 2011 ~ Jan 31, 2011
|[[Yorkshire]]
|[[Joe Simpson (mountaineer)]]
|- align=center
|XIV
|Feb 01, 2011 ~ Feb 28, 2011
|[[National Railway Museum]]
|[[RAF Fylingdales]]
|- align=center
|XV
|Mar 01, 2011 ~ Mar 31, 2011
|[[Yorkshire Dales]]
|[[Todmorden War Memorial]]
|- align=center
|XVI
|Apr 01, 2011 ~ Apr 30, 2011
|[[Yarm]]
|[[Barbara Hepworth]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2011 ==
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/April 2011|April issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty seventh [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,899 last month to 8,918 on April 19th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 62. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,413 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty six 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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Brontë family]] failed GA on '''April 1st'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 85 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:

*{{User|Mykleavens}} 

No members left the project this month: though the number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 20 April 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Commons images

For those of you who missed it, April saw a milestone for images on [[WP:Commons|Commons]] with the upload of the 10&nbsp;millionth image. There are images on most subjects, if you can find them, to illustrate articles. With the major work of transferring Geograph images to Commons nearing completion then most location articles should have images available for use in illustrating the subject. All of the village and civil parish articles that had articles in December 2009 had categories created on Commons for them so that the Geograph images can be placed into them. Thus the {{tl|Commons category}} template can be added to all village and civil parish articles to link to all the available images on Commons for the location. Though beware that if the template does not have any arguments, moving of the article to a new name will break the link to Commons so it is wise to include the article name in the template call e.g.<nowiki>{{Commons category|Rotherham}}</nowiki>.

Those of you interested in helping out at Commons are more than welcome to help organise and categorise all of the uploaded Geograph images so that they can be found and made available to users. 

For more details see the [[Commons:Commons:Press releases/10M|press release]]. 


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The May 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XIV
|Feb 01, 2011 ~ Feb 28, 2011
|[[National Railway Museum]]
|[[RAF Fylingdales]]
|- align=center
|XV
|Mar 01, 2011 ~ Mar 31, 2011
|[[Yorkshire Dales]]
|[[Todmorden War Memorial]]
|- align=center
|XVI
|Apr 01, 2011 ~ Apr 30, 2011
|[[Yarm]]
|[[Barbara Hepworth]]
|- align=center
|XVII
|May 01, 2011 ~ May 31, 2011
|[[Pennine Way]]
|[[Mappin & Webb]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 38 - June 2011 <br />
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[[Image:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/May 2011|May issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty eighth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,918 last month to 8,974 on May 23rd).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 63. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,439 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty six 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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[River Don Navigation]] nominated for GA on '''April 23rd'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[William Stones Ltd]] peer review initiated on '''April 25th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Ravensworth]] peer review initiated on '''May 5th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] peer review initiated on '''May 12th'''<br />
{{icon|FAR}} [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.]] FAR initiated on '''May 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[River Don Navigation]] promoted to GA on '''May 15th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Halifax Gibbet]] peer review initiated on '''May 18th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Halifax Gibbet]] FAC initiated on '''May 21st'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] peer review initiated on '''May 22nd'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 85 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the May newsletter:

*{{User|MikeBeckett}}

One member was removed from the project this month for socking. 

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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|align=center|As of 20 April 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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'''

The June 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XV
|Mar 01, 2011 ~ Mar 31, 2011
|[[Yorkshire Dales]]
|[[Todmorden War Memorial]]
|- align=center
|XVI
|Apr 01, 2011 ~ Apr 30, 2011
|[[Yarm]]
|[[Barbara Hepworth]]
|- align=center
|XVII
|May 01, 2011 ~ May 31, 2011
|[[Pennine Way]]
|[[Mappin & Webb]]
|- align=center
|XIV
|Jun 01, 2011 ~ Jun 30, 2011
|[[Leeds United A.F.C. and Manchester United F.C. rivalry]]
|[[Paull Holme Tower]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 39 - July 2011 <br />
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; Project News
* Welcome to the thirty ninth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 8,974 last month to 9,083 on June 28).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 63. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,603 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty five Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|PR}} [[Abe Waddington]] peer review initiated on '''May 30th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Halifax Gibbet]] promoted to FA on '''May 31st'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke]] nominated for GA on '''June 1st'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Hedley Verity]] nominated for GA on '''June 3rd'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Ed Miliband]] nominated for GA on '''June 25th'''<br />
{{icon|FFA}} [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.]] was demoted from FA on '''June 28th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 87 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

*{{User|Agdturner}}
*{{User|Zeyi}}

No members left the project this month. 

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 June 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;Featured Lists

[[WP:FL|Featured Lists]] have been promoted during the last month and have now been given their own weekly slot on the [[WP:MAIN|main page]]. Lists appear on the front page on Mondays just above "Today's featured picture". This may be extended to other days at a later date if people like it. In line with this I have also added a box for lists on to the [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]] and created a couple of entries to start it off, more will be added later.

The project currently has 12 featured lists, out of 208 project articles identified as lists, and it would be good if we could get some of these on to the front page. Of anyone wants to take this up they need to create an entry for the list and nominate them to be considered [[Wikipedia:Today's featured list/submissions|here]].

Lists are easier than articles to get to featured status as there is less prose to be created and the bulk of the page is the list itself. Most of the project's current featured lists are on football related topics and it would be good to get a broader range of topics for out Featured Lists. Some of the 208 lists could be brought up to featured status with a little bit of work, if any one wants to take up the challenge.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The July 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XVI
|1 Apr 2011 ~ 30 Apr 2011
|[[Yarm]]
|[[Barbara Hepworth]]
|- align=center
|XVII
|1 May 2011 ~ 31 May 2011
|[[Pennine Way]]
|[[Mappin & Webb]]
|- align=center
|XVIII
|1 Jun 2011 ~ 30 Jun 2011
|[[Leeds United A.F.C. and Manchester United F.C. rivalry]]
|[[Paull Holme Tower]]
|- align=center
|XIX
|1 Jul 2011 ~ 31 Jul 2011
|[[Whitby]]
|[[The History Boys]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 40 - August 2011 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/July 2011|July issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fortieth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,083 last month to 9,157 on July 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 64. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,766 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty five Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[2010–11 York City F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''June 30th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[George Hirst]] peer review initiated on '''July 7th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Ed Miliband]] failed GA review on '''July 15th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke]] failed GA review on '''July 21st'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] nominated for FA on '''July 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Ed Miliband]] nominated for GA on '''July 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Swarcliffe]] nominated for GA on '''July 29th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Whitby]] peer review initiated on '''July 30th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 88 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the July newsletter:

*{{User|Nick Watts}}
*{{User|DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered}}

One members left the project this month: 

*{{User|Jorvik}}

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;Thanks

* A big thanks to those involved in the collaboration of the month effort on the [[Whitby]] article.

* 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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 31 July 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
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|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Vandalism
With the start of the school holidays there is more chances of vandalism to articles at this time of year. It is time to remind members to be on the alert for vandalism to articles, especially those that are in the projects scope.
Here is a recent example of one that slipped through the net [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Appleton-le-Street&diff=prev&oldid=435831123 this edit] which was reverted by an IP over a month after it was made! You can check the changes to the project's tagged pages using the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|watchlist]] or you can use the toolserver version which looks at just articles [http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject+Yorkshire here]. The former may not be up to date, as it requires manual update of the list of articles, but does cover all namespaces.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The August 2011 articles selected below are an editor choice and a suggestion from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XVII
|1 May 2011 ~ 31 May 2011
|[[Pennine Way]]
|[[Mappin & Webb]]
|- align=center
|XVIII
|1 Jun 2011 ~ 30 Jun 2011
|[[Leeds United A.F.C. and Manchester United F.C. rivalry]]
|[[Paull Holme Tower]]
|- align=center
|XIX
|1 Jul 2011 ~ 31 Jul 2011
|[[Whitby]]
|[[The History Boys]]
|- align=center
|XX
|1 Aug 2011 ~ 31 Aug 2011
|[[James Cook]]
|[[Levitt Hagg]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 41 - September 2011 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/August 2011|August issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty first [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,157 last month to 9,229 on August 24th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 65. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,778 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty seven Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Swarcliffe]] GA nomination withdrawn on '''July 31st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[2010–11 York City F.C. season]] promoted to GA on '''August 4th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Swarcliffe]] nominated for GA on '''August 4th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Swarcliffe]] GA nomination withdrawn on '''August 15th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Whitby]] nominated for GA on '''August 21st'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[James Cook]] peer review initiated on '''August 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Hedley Verity]] promoted to GA on '''August 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] promoted to FA on '''August 23rd'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[George Hirst]] nominated for FA on '''August 24th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 88 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the August newsletter:

*{{User|PatHadley}}

One members left the project this month: 

*{{User|Malcolmxl5}}

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Back to school

September and October are the months when many young people move from one school to a new school, or to university. It tends to be a time when freshers "look up" their new schools and colleges on Wikipedia and decide to edit for the first time. Many additions to school articles, in the past, have been unsourced, some poorly formatted and some in violation of other Wikipedia policies. More experienced editors can help here. It is easy to become frustrated, hit revert and issue a warning of some sort. How off-putting for a new editor. 

New editors do make innocent mistakes and it is up to us all to try to welcome and support them; perhaps by issuing a [[Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates|welcome message]], helping them to find sources or format references and citations. Obviously, not all will turn out to be paragons of Wikipedia virtue, but we can at least give them the opportunity. May be it is time for us all to re-read the essay [[Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers|Please do not bite the newcomers]].


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The September 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
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! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XVIII
|1 Jun 2011 ~ 30 Jun 2011
|[[Leeds United A.F.C. and Manchester United F.C. rivalry]]
|[[Paull Holme Tower]]
|- align=center
|XIX
|1 Jul 2011 ~ 31 Jul 2011
|[[Whitby]]
|[[The History Boys]]
|- align=center
|XX
|1 Aug 2011 ~ 31 Aug 2011
|[[James Cook]]
|[[Levitt Hagg]]
|- align=center
|XXI
|1 Sept 2011 ~ 30 Sept 2011
|[[Holmfirth Branch Line]]
|[[The Society of M.I.C.E.]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 42 - October 2011 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/September 2011|September issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty second [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,229 last month to 9,255 on September 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 66. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,813 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty eight Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Ed Miliband]] promoted to GA on '''September 12th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Webster's Brewery]] peer review initiated on '''September 12th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[George Hirst]] promoted to FA on '''September 27th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 88 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There has been no change in membership since the September newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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|align=center|As of 30 September 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
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{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;New software release

October sees the next release of the MediaWiki software (version 1.8) that runs the English Wikipedia. It will probably live by the time the newsletter arrives by the last few month's delivery dates! If you see any problems with the page display on any articles or problems with your favourite gadget or script then it may be a problem with the new release of software. It is worth checking out the [[WP:VPT|Village Pump - Technical]] board to see if there has been any report of a similar problem. If not then raise a new thread to get it recorded and to see if there are any of the technical people that can point you at a solution. Hopefully things will go smoother than previous releases but these things always throw up obscure problems that have not been foreseen.

If you are interested in the detail of the changes made in this release then take a look at the [http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_18/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 full list].


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The October 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XIX
|1 Jul 2011 ~ 31 Jul 2011
|[[Whitby]]
|[[The History Boys]]
|- align=center
|XX
|1 Aug 2011 ~ 31 Aug 2011
|[[James Cook]]
|[[Levitt Hagg]]
|- align=center
|XXI
|1 Sept 2011 ~ 30 Sept 2011
|[[Holmfirth Branch Line]]
|[[The Society of M.I.C.E.]]
|- align=center
|XXII
|1 Oct 2011 ~ 31 Oct 2011
|[[Howden]]
|[[Tinsley railway station]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/October 2011]]

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2011 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 43 - November 2011 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/October 2011|October issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty third [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,266 last month to 9,354 on October 30th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 66. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,835 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty eight Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[Peter Swan (footballer born 1966)]]  nominated for GA '''September 1st'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] FAC initiated on '''October 18th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Whitby]] promoted to GA on '''October 28th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Stones Brewery]] nominated for GA '''October 28th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 91 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

*{{User|10redmoe}}
*{{User|LNWWatcher}}
*{{User|Synaptic peach}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 31 October 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Collaboration

Each month the project has a collaboration of the month when two articles are nominated to be worked on by members during the month. One of these is usually a B-class article and one a start-class article. Some of these have not really been worked on by members and I would encourage all members to get involved and see what can be achieved. An example of the success of this effort has been [[Whitby]] which was the B-class collaboration article in July and has just achieved [[WP:GA|Good Article]] status. This was achieved by just the efforts of three editors just think what would be achieved if all of the 91 members got involved in editing these articles. They may not be ones which are of particular interest to you but they relate to [[Yorkshire]] in some way so they raise the profile of the county and can often be related to articles you are interested in in some way or other. I have tried to rotate round the county with a variety of differing topics while steering clear of the ones designated as our priority articles. If you have an article that you think could be improved in one of these collaborations then just nominate it on the project talk page and I will fit it in at some point.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The November 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XX
|1 Aug 2011 ~ 31 Aug 2011
|[[James Cook]]
|[[Levitt Hagg]]
|- align=center
|XXI
|1 Sept 2011 ~ 30 Sept 2011
|[[Holmfirth Branch Line]]
|[[The Society of M.I.C.E.]]
|- align=center
|XXII
|1 Oct 2011 ~ 31 Oct 2011
|[[Howden]]
|[[Tinsley railway station]]
|- align=center
|XIX
|1 Nov 2011 ~ 30 Nov 2011
|[[University of Bradford]]
|[[The Mount, Sheffield]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2011 ==
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/November 2011|November issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty fourth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,354 last month to 9,459 on November 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 67. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,857 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[Webster's Brewery]] nominated for GA on '''November 5th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] promoted to FAC on '''November 7th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Webster's Brewery]] failed GA review '''November 20th'''<br />
{{icon|GAR}} [[Ed Miliband]] GA review requested on '''November 28th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Stones Brewery]] passed GA review on '''November 28th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 95 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:

*{{user|Gilderien}}
*{{user|mrcumming}}
*{{user|Acabashi}}
*{{user|futurefjp}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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|align=center|As of 30 November 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas to all the members of the project. Many thanks for all the hard work over the past year and hope that the good progress will be kept up in the new year. Many of the regular editors will be away over the break and vandalism tends to increase at this time of year, could be all those new computers that people get for Christmas. So if you are around then keep an eye out for vandalism to the project's articles and revert as soon as possible. All of the good work of the project can be destroyed quickly if vandalism is not spotted and dealt with.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The December 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXI
|1 Sept 2011 ~ 30 Sept 2011
|[[Holmfirth Branch Line]]
|[[The Society of M.I.C.E.]]
|- align=center
|XXII
|1 Oct 2011 ~ 31 Oct 2011
|[[Howden]]
|[[Tinsley railway station]]
|- align=center
|XXIII
|1 Nov 2011 ~ 30 Nov 2011
|[[University of Bradford]]
|[[The Mount, Sheffield]]
|- align=center
|XXIV
|1 Dec 2011 ~ 31 Dec 2011
|[[Thornton Watlass]]
|[[Beverley town walls]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2012 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 45 - January 2012 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/December 2011|December issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty fifth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,459 last month to 9,480 on December 14th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 71 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 67. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,865 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[Webster's Brewery]] re-nominated for GA on '''November 29th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Webster's Brewery]] failed GA review '''December 3rd'''<br />


; Member News

There are 95 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There has been no change in the project membership since the December newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 November 2011, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}


{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all the members of the project. 


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The January 2012 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXII
|1 Oct 2011 ~ 31 Oct 2011
|[[Howden]]
|[[Tinsley railway station]]
|- align=center
|XXIII
|1 Nov 2011 ~ 30 Nov 2011
|[[University of Bradford]]
|[[The Mount, Sheffield]]
|- align=center
|XXIV
|1 Dec 2011 ~ 31 Dec 2011
|[[Thornton Watlass]]
|[[Beverley town walls]]
|- align=center
|XXV
|1 Jan 2012 ~ 31 Jan 2012
|[[Halifax, West Yorkshire]]
|[[South Yorkshire Railway]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2012 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 46 - February 2012 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/January 2012|January issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty sixth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,480 last month to 9,599 on January 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 67. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 54 out of a total number of 2,906 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Peter Swan (footballer born 1966)]] promoted to GA on '''December 18th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Len Hutton]] PR started on '''December 27th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[1936 FA Cup Final]] nominated for GA review on '''December 31st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[1936 FA Cup Final]] promoted to GA on '''January 12th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] PR started on '''January 26th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 96 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us  since the January newsletter:

*{{user|fiddlersmouth}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;New software release

We are getting near to the next release of the [[MediaWiki]] software that runs Wikipedia, this will be version 1.19 and is expected in the second half of February. For those of you who are interested in the details of the changes then take a look at this [[:mw:MediaWiki_1.19|page on MediaWiki.org]]. There is usually some disruption around the time of the release so if you experience problems then check out at the [[WP:VPT|Village Pump]] to see if the problem has been reported. If it has not then report it so that the developers can get a view of the problem. One area of concern is the scripts used by users to perform routine tasks. It could be that if this change is included in the deployment then scripts may need to be changed to declare modules the script is dependent upon. So if your favourite script fails to work this could be the problem and will need to be fixed. 



;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The February 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice ans a suggestion fron the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXIII
|1 Nov 2011 ~ 30 Nov 2011
|[[University of Bradford]]
|[[The Mount, Sheffield]]
|- align=center
|XXIV
|1 Dec 2011 ~ 31 Dec 2011
|[[Thornton Watlass]]
|[[Beverley town walls]]
|- align=center
|XXV
|1 Jan 2012 ~ 31 Jan 2012
|[[Halifax, West Yorkshire]]
|[[South Yorkshire Railway]]
|- align=center
|XXVI
|1 Feb 2012 ~ 29 Feb 2012
|[[Fountains Abbey]]
|[[Saltburn Cliff Lift]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2012 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty seventh [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,599 last month to 9,683 on February 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 67. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,917 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|PR}} [[Hedley Verity]] PR started on '''February 6th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Len Hutton]] FAC nominated on '''February 12th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Webster's Brewery]] nominated for GA review on '''February 22nd'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 98 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us  since the February newsletter:

*{{user|HeroTwins!}}
*{{user|Mattythewhite}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;New software release
By the time you read this the new software release mentioned in the last newsletter should be in as it is currently scheduled for 2 March. Problems in switching other wikis have been encountered, most notably Commons, which was reverted twice and, at the time of writing, is still experiencing problems with the new software. See article in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-02-27/Technology report|Signpost]] for details.


;Discussions
Members may be interested in some discussions that are ongoing at the moment. A [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Secondary_schools_should_meet_WP:GNG_or_are_they_exempt.3F|discussion]] on whether or not secondary schools meet [[Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline|notability guidelines]] is still on-going. If you are interested in having articles on secondary schools then raise your voice in the discussion. Another schools related one is taking place on the talk page of template {{tl|Infobox UK school}} about introducing co-ordinates in to the infobox in addition to the top right corner of the article. Similar discussion was also raised at {{tl|Infobox UK place}}. If you have views then chip in and see if consensus can be found on these areas.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The March 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice as there were no suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXIV
|1 Dec 2011 ~ 31 Dec 2011
|[[Thornton Watlass]]
|[[Beverley town walls]]
|- align=center
|XXV
|1 Jan 2012 ~ 31 Jan 2012
|[[Halifax, West Yorkshire]]
|[[South Yorkshire Railway]]
|- align=center
|XXVI
|1 Feb 2012 ~ 29 Feb 2012
|[[Fountains Abbey]]
|[[Saltburn Cliff Lift]]
|- align=center
|XXVII
|1 Mar 2012 ~ 31 Mar 2012
|[[M1 motorway]]
|[[RAF Elvington]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2012 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty eighth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,683 last month to 9,730 on March 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 73 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 68. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,928 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|FA}} [[Len Hutton]] promoted to FA on '''February 28th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Stones Brewery]] FAC nomination on '''March 15th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 98 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There has been no change in project membership since the March newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 29 March 2012, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
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|}

{{Thank}}

; '''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...'''

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Link rot
This month I thought that we should focus on link rot in articles. Articles are created with lots of references to online sources as this is often easier than using printed sources. This is all well and good until a few months down the line when the web site is no longer available or has been re-organised and the page linked to has been moved. Whatever the reason for the change results in the reference link in our article becoming dead or just pointing at the main page of the site in question. The link therefore provides no verification for the information in our article and needs to be repaired. If you find a link like this then it should be tagged with the {{tl|dead link}} template rather than deleted as the information may give someone a clue as to where to find a replacement link. If you know where the page has been moved to then go ahead and change the URL in the reference rather than tagging it. You could Google to see if a new page can be located or use the [[Wayback machine]] to see if there is an archived copy of the page available. If an archived version is located then use the {{para|archiveurl}} and {{para|archivedate}} fields of the {{tl|citation}} template to record the archived version of the page. 

The more information that is recorded when the reference is added the easier it is to find replacement URLs so remember to record as much information as possible when adding a reference. A bare URL with no information as to page title, publisher, publication date etc. makes finding replacements almost impossible. You can add archive details when adding a reference so that there is a backup copy already recorded for the reference. A BOT is currently operating to add archive details to live links to prevent future link rot. For more information on the subject of link rot see [[WP:LINKROT|here]].

It would be good, if this month, we try to reduce the number of {{tl|dead link}} templates in the project's articles as a BOT is currently going round adding the template to articles.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The April 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice as there were no suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXV
|1 Jan 2012 ~ 31 Jan 2012
|[[Halifax, West Yorkshire]]
|[[South Yorkshire Railway]]
|- align=center
|XXVI
|1 Feb 2012 ~ 29 Feb 2012
|[[Fountains Abbey]]
|[[Saltburn Cliff Lift]]
|- align=center
|XXVII
|1 Mar 2012 ~ 31 Mar 2012
|[[M1 motorway]]
|[[RAF Elvington]]
|- align=center
|XXVIII
|1 Apr 2012 ~ 30 Apr 2012
|[[Sheffield station]]
|[[Rise Hall]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2012 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the forty ninth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,730 last month to 9,769 on April 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 73 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 68. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 2,983 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|NOFA}} [[Stones Brewery]] failed FA nomination on '''March 31st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Webster's Brewery]] promoted to GA on '''April 8th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Hedley Verity]] FAC nomination on '''April 12th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[John Smith's Brewery]] nominated for GA on '''April 16th'''<br />
{{icon|GAR}} [[Webster's Brewery]] GA reassessment initiated on '''April 16th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Ravensworth]] nominated for GA on '''April 16th'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[Hedley Verity]] promoted to FA on '''April 28th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 98 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There has been no change in project membership since the April newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Elections
May is the month for local elections to take place in many of our town and cities. This will create a lot of work in updating all of the place articles that include council make-up details. In addition each of the elections will require a new article creating to cover details of the election and the results in each of the wards. A number of elections from the last round of elections have not yet been created and it would be good if the missing election articles could be created so that we have a full set of recent elections for Yorkshire.

At the same time as the local council elections a number of cities in the area are holding a [[English mayoral referendums, 2012|referendum on elected mayors]]. The main article will need to be updated with the results from each of the cities involved and any background that may be relevant to that article. Individual articles covering the referendum in each of the cities involved would also be useful to create while the details and references are to hand in the local press.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The May 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice as there were no suggestions on the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXVI
|1 Feb 2012 ~ 29 Feb 2012
|[[Fountains Abbey]]
|[[Saltburn Cliff Lift]]
|- align=center
|XXVII
|1 Mar 2012 ~ 31 Mar 2012
|[[M1 motorway]]
|[[RAF Elvington]]
|- align=center
|XXVIII
|1 Apr 2012 ~ 30 Apr 2012
|[[Sheffield station]]
|[[Rise Hall]]
|- align=center
|XXIX
|1 May 2012 ~ 31 May 2012
|[[Yarm]]
|[[Victoria Theatre (Halifax)]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2012 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fiftieth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,769 last month to 9,824 on May 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 70. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 2,993 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[Thorne and Hatfield Moors]] nominated for GA on '''May 1st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Webster's Brewery]] kept as GA following reassessment on '''May 1st'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Gisborough Priory]] nominated for GA on '''May 9th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Ravensworth]] failed GA on '''May 13th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Stones Bitter]] nominated for GA on '''May 15th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[Stones Brewery]] FAC nomination on '''May 15th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Swarcliffe]] nominated for GA on '''May 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Middleton, Leeds]] nominated for GA on '''May 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Cynesige]] nominated for GA on '''May 29th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 99 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us  since the May newsletter:

*{{user|Bacr13}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Commons links

This month I thought that I would mention the {{tl|Commons category}} template to generate a link to image categories on [[WP:Commons|Commons]] holding additional images for topics. The template should be added to articles where Commons holds a number of other images that are not displayed in the article to provide a convenient link to these additional images. If you do not want to display the box then {{tl|Commons category inline}} can be used instead to add an entry to the External links section.

The problem with both these templates is they use the article name as the name for the category on Commons so if an article is renamed the link is broken. To overcome this please ensure that all usages of these templates have as the first parameter the name of the category on Commons that is being used, even if it is the same as the article title. To enable those usages that have not been given a parameter to be tracked the hidden category [[:Category:Commons category template with no category set]] has been set up. This has initially only been applied to the {{tl|Commons category}} template. It would be good if members fixed these while editing articles to avoid having to edit specifically to fix the problem.

For newer members you can see hidden categories by setting the "Show hidden categories" option in the "Advanced options" section of the "Appearance" tab of the "my preferences" link.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The June 2012 articles selected below are an editors choice and a suggestion from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXVII
|1 Mar 2012 ~ 31 Mar 2012
|[[M1 motorway]]
|[[RAF Elvington]]
|- align=center
|XXVIII
|1 Apr 2012 ~ 30 Apr 2012
|[[Sheffield station]]
|[[Rise Hall]]
|- align=center
|XXIX
|1 May 2012 ~ 31 May 2012
|[[Yarm]]
|[[Victoria Theatre (Halifax)]]
|- align=center
|XXVI
|1 Jun 2012 ~ 30 Jun 2012
|[[Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency)]]
|[[Bradford Dudley Hill]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2012 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty first [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,824 last month to 9,880 on June 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 78 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 70. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,009 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also twelve featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] •  [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]]


'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|NOFA}} [[Stones Brewery]] not promoted to FA on '''June 2nd'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Church of Saint Oswald, King and Martyr, Oswaldkirk]] DYK entry on '''June 3rd'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Stones Bitter]] not promoted to GA on '''June 3rd'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Church of Saint Oswald, King and Martyr, Oswaldkirk]] nominated for GA on '''June 3rd'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Church of Saint Oswald, King and Martyr, Oswaldkirk]] promoted to GA on '''June 7th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Michael Coulson (footballer)]] nominated for GA on '''June 9th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Cynesige]] promoted to GA on '''June 9th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Church of St Helen, Treeton]] DYK entry on '''June 11th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[While She Sleeps]] DYK entry on '''June 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Michael Coulson (footballer)]] promoted to GA on '''June 15th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Church of Saint Mary, Whitby]] DYK entry on '''June 18th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Church of All Saints, Helmsley ]] DYK entry on '''June 19th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[1889–90 Sheffield United F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''June 19th'''<br />
{{icon|FAC}} [[John Smith's Brewery]] nominated for FA on '''June 20th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[2011–12 York City F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''June 20th'''<br />
{{icon|FLC}} [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] nominated for FL on '''June 20th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Thorne and Hatfield Moors]] promoted to GA on '''June 21st'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]] DYK entry on '''June 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|NOFA}} [[John Smith's Brewery]] not promoted to FA on '''June 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|FLC}} [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]] nominated for FL on '''June 23rd'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[One Direction]] nominated for GA on '''June 23rd'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Holy Cross Church, Gilling]] DYK entry on '''June 26th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Middleton, Leeds]] promoted to GA on '''June 26th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[2011–12 York City F.C. season]] promoted to GA on '''June 27th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 101 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

*{{user|Gavbadger}}
*{{user|GrahamSmith}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 28 June 2012, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Did You Know?
At the suggestion of a member I have added [[WP:DYK|Did You Know?]] entries for the project to the article activity section of the newsletter. Not having had any entries since January this month saw seven Yorkshire related articles appear in this front page section. There is a list of the recent entries from the project's articles on the main [[WP:YORKS|project page]] with a full list [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/DYK list|here]].

When working on an article it is always worth considering if it can be nominated for the Did You Know? section on the main page. May be a little more work but it does get the article recognised and exposed to a wider audience. The main requirements for a nomination are that, within the last five days, it was created, expanded fivefold or, for an unsourced [[WP:BLP|BLP]], newly referenced and expanded twofold. If you think an article meets these basic requirements then take a look at the [[Wikipedia:Did you know#Eligibility criteria|eligibility criteria]] and make a [[Template talk:Did you know|nomination]]. The hook is the important part of the process as that is the text that will appear on the front page and this must be mentioned in the article with an appropriate inline citation to back it up. If you can suggest more than one hook for an article then the more chances of it been selected for inclusion on the front page. If you do nominate it is important to keep an eye on the nomination as there may be questions/suggestions from those reviewing the hooks that you will need to respond to if the nomination is to succeed.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The July 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXVIII
|1 Apr 2012 ~ 30 Apr 2012
|[[Sheffield station]]
|[[Rise Hall]]
|- align=center
|XXIX
|1 May 2012 ~ 31 May 2012
|[[Yarm]]
|[[Victoria Theatre (Halifax)]]
|- align=center
|XXX
|1 Jun 2012 ~ 30 Jun 2012
|[[Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency)]]
|[[Bradford Dudley Hill]]
|- align=center
|XXXI
|1 Jul 2012 ~ 31 Jul 2012
|[[Battle of the Standard]]
|[[Elliot Morley]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2012 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty second [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,880 last month to 9,942 on July 25th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 83 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 72. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,022 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|FLC}} [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] nominated for FL on '''June 28th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Gisborough Priory]] promoted to GA on '''June 28th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Swarcliffe]] not promoted to GA on '''June 29th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[1889–90 Sheffield United F.C. season]] promoted to GA on '''June 30th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] DYK entry on '''July 2nd'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[One Direction]] promoted to GA on '''July 5th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''July 7th'''<br />
{{icon|FL}} [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] promoted to FL on '''July 19th'''<br />
{{icon|FL}} [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]] promoted to FL on '''July 19th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season]] withdrawn on '''July 21st'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Bosa of York]] nominated for GA on '''July 24th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 101 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! Membership has remained the same since the July newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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|align=center|As of 28 July 2012, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Sporting feast
Just in case it has escaped members notice but August is a big sporting month with the [[2012 Olympic Games]] taking place at the start of the month and the 2012–13 Football season getting under way from the middle of the month. There are likely to be lots of articles that will need changing as we go through the month with new signings, new records etc. so keep an eye on sport related articles and try and keep them up to date.

I have picked a pair of sport related items for this month's collaboration from the suggestions on the project talk page. So those of you with a sporting slant should have plenty to get going with this month.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The August 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXIX
|1 May 2012 ~ 31 May 2012
|[[Yarm]]
|[[Victoria Theatre (Halifax)]]
|- align=center
|XXX
|1 Jun 2012 ~ 30 Jun 2012
|[[Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency)]]
|[[Bradford Dudley Hill]]
|- align=center
|XXXI
|1 Jul 2012 ~ 31 Jul 2012
|[[Battle of the Standard]]
|[[Elliot Morley]]
|- align=center
|XXXII
|1 Aug 2012 ~ 31 Aug 2012
|[[Yorkshire County Cricket Club]]
|[[Football in Yorkshire]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2012 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty third [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,880 last month to 9,942 on July 25th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 83 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 72. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,065 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[The Box Tree]] nominated for GA on '''July 21st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[The Box Tree]] promoted to GA on '''July 24th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[The Box Tree]] DYK entry on '''July 28th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 103 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the August newsletter:

*{{user|Kfisher22}}
*{{user|Rocky miller 97}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 28 July 2012, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
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{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Schools back

This month is the time for the start of a new school year. All of those pupils going to a new school will be looking for information on their new school and so the school articles under the project's banner will get higher than usual hits. It would be good if members could keep an eye out for vandalism and the addition of vanity entries on the local school articles.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The September 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXX
|1 Jun 2012 ~ 30 Jun 2012
|[[Doncaster Central (UK Parliament constituency)]]
|[[Bradford Dudley Hill]]
|- align=center
|XXXI
|1 Jul 2012 ~ 31 Jul 2012
|[[Battle of the Standard]]
|[[Elliot Morley]]
|- align=center
|XXXII
|1 Aug 2012 ~ 31 Aug 2012
|[[Yorkshire County Cricket Club]]
|[[Football in Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXIII
|1 Sep 2012 ~ 30 Sep 2012
|[[Brian Blessed]]
|[[Derwent Valley Light Railway]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2012 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty fourth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 9,942 last month to 10,141 on September 27th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 87 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 72. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,102 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|DYK}} [[Joseph Roebuck]] DYK entry on '''July 28th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} Members of men's basketball team in [[Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics]] DYK entry on '''August 26th'''<br />
{{icon|GAR}} [[One Direction]] GA review started on '''August 26th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Terry Bywater]] DYK entry on '''September 5th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Bosa of York]] promoted to GA on '''September 8th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Stones Bitter]] nominated for GA on '''September 13th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Terry Bywater]] nominated for GA on '''September 16th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Terry Bywater]] promoted to GA on '''September 16th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 106 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the September newsletter:

*{{user|2^oscar}}
*{{user|Chronotopian}}
*{{user|Yorkshiresoul}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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|align=center|As of 28 July 2012, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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|- 
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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;

;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The October 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXI
|1 Jul 2012 ~ 31 Jul 2012
|[[Battle of the Standard]]
|[[Elliot Morley]]
|- align=center
|XXXII
|1 Aug 2012 ~ 31 Aug 2012
|[[Yorkshire County Cricket Club]]
|[[Football in Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXIII
|1 Sep 2012 ~ 30 Sep 2012
|[[Brian Blessed]]
|[[Derwent Valley Light Railway]]
|- align=center
|XXXIV
|1 Oct 2012 ~ 31 Oct 2012
|[[Settle-Carlisle Line]]
|[[RAF Holmpton]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2012 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 55 - November 2012 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/October 2012|October issue]]
<br /><div style="text-align:center;"><small>Got any suggestions?<br /> — ''Add them [[WT:YORKS|<span style="color:#000;">here</span>]]''</small></div><br/>
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty fifth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,141 last month to 10,234 on October 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 88 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 72. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,140 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''October 21st'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Ravensworth]] nominated for GA on '''October 26th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 108 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

*{{user|HarryAdney}}
*{{user|1916Walker987}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 28 October 2012, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
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{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;

;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The November 2012 articles selected below are suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXII
|1 Aug 2012 ~ 31 Aug 2012
|[[Yorkshire County Cricket Club]]
|[[Football in Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXIII
|1 Sep 2012 ~ 30 Sep 2012
|[[Brian Blessed]]
|[[Derwent Valley Light Railway]]
|- align=center
|XXXIV
|1 Oct 2012 ~ 31 Oct 2012
|[[Settle-Carlisle Line]]
|[[RAF Holmpton]]
|- align=center
|XXXV
|1 Nov 2012 ~ 30 Nov 2012
|[[National Media Museum]]
|[[Dobroyd Castle]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2012 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 56 - December 2012 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/November 2012|November issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty sixth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,234 last month to 10,275 on November 27th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 91 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 72. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,163 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman]] nominated for GA on '''October 31st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman]] promoted to GA on '''November 4th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Stones Bitter]] promoted to GA on '''November 6th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Blackburn Meadows]] nominated for GA on '''November 9th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Stainforth and Keadby Canal]] nominated for GA on '''November 17th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season]] promoted to GA on '''November 18th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Ravensworth]] not promoted to GA on '''November 20th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 107 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There were no new members since the November newsletter:

One member left the project this month.

*{{user|Cacolantern}}

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 28 November 2012, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;''Signpost''

The editors over at the weekly ''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Signpost]]'', that goes out to a large number of people on Wikipedia, have indicated that they would like to feature the [[WP:YORKS|Yorkshire project]] in one of the future editions. There was an invitation on the project's talk page for members to get involved in this by responding to a series of questions. It is disappointing that no members have stepped forward to respond to this but they have gone on my responses and the project should be featured in the 3rd December issue of the magazine.  


;Happy Christmas

It is Christmas time again so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all members of the project a happy Christmas. 


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The December 2012 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXIII
|1 Sep 2012 ~ 30 Sep 2012
|[[Brian Blessed]]
|[[Derwent Valley Light Railway]]
|- align=center
|XXXIV
|1 Oct 2012 ~ 31 Oct 2012
|[[Settle-Carlisle Line]]
|[[RAF Holmpton]]
|- align=center
|XXXV
|1 Nov 2012 ~ 30 Nov 2012
|[[National Media Museum]]
|[[Dobroyd Castle]]
|- align=center
|XXXVI
|1 Dec 2012 ~ 31 Dec 2012
|[[Redcar]]
|[[Goole]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/December 2012]]


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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2013 ==
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/December 2012|December issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty seventh [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,275 last month to 10,294 on December 15th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 93 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 73. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,171 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Blackburn Meadows]] promoted to GA on '''December 8th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Stainforth and Keadby Canal]] promoted to GA on '''December 8th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Cleveland Railway (England)]] nominated for GA on '''December 16th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery]] nominated for GA on '''December 16th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 108 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the December newsletter:

*{{user|AxG}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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{{Thank}}

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;''Signpost''

Just to let members know that the project was featured in the 3 December issue of the ''[[WP:Signpost|Signpost]]'' magazine. You can read that issue of the magazine [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2012-12-03|here]].


;Happy New Year

It is the start of another year so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all members of the project a happy New Year. 


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The January 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
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! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXIV
|1 Oct 2012 ~ 31 Oct 2012
|[[Settle-Carlisle Line]]
|[[RAF Holmpton]]
|- align=center
|XXXV
|1 Nov 2012 ~ 30 Nov 2012
|[[National Media Museum]]
|[[Dobroyd Castle]]
|- align=center
|XXXVI
|1 Dec 2012 ~ 31 Dec 2012
|[[Redcar]]
|[[Goole]]
|- align=center
|XXXVII
|1 Jan 2013 ~ 31 Jan 2013
|[[Kate Rusby]]
|[[Patons and Baldwins]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2013 ==
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/January 2013|January issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty eighth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,294 last month to 10,371 on January 28th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 93 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 74. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,185 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|FAN}} [[Stones Brewery]] nominated for FA on '''December 19th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Andy McDonald (politician)]] appeared in DYK on '''December 21st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery]] promoted to GA on '''December 31st'''<br />
{{icon|NOFA}} [[Stones Brewery]] not promoted to FA on '''January 6th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Fairy Queen (locomotive)]] nominated for GA on '''January 8th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Sheffield United F.C.]] PR opened on '''January 11th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the January newsletter:

*{{user|Daleb1995}}
*{{user|Dakinijones}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 27 January 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}

| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;2011 Census

The [[Office for National Statistics]] have now published the detailed information from the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]] for wards and parishes. The data can be searched for on their web site [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadHome.do?a=7&i=1001&m=0&s=1359825572223&enc=1&extendedList=true&nav=A&areaSearchText= here]. Would be good to get the information added to all of the relevant articles but this is a big job. If the article already has the 2001 census figures then it may be worth retaining these, in the text of the article, for comparison purposes.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The February 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXV
|1 Nov 2012 ~ 30 Nov 2012
|[[National Media Museum]]
|[[Dobroyd Castle]]
|- align=center
|XXXVI
|1 Dec 2012 ~ 31 Dec 2012
|[[Redcar]]
|[[Goole]]
|- align=center
|XXXVII
|1 Jan 2013 ~ 31 Jan 2013
|[[Kate Rusby]]
|[[Patons and Baldwins]]
|- align=center
|XXXVIII
|1 Feb 2013 ~ 28 Feb 2013
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Tinsley Marshalling Yard]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/February 2013]]


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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2013 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 59 - March 2013 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/February 2013|February issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the fifty ninth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,371 last month to 10,390 on February 25th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 95 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 74. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,190 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|DYK}} [[2013 Football League Cup Final]] appeared in DYK on '''February 1st'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[1891–92 Sheffield United F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''February 2nd'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Gordon Banks]] nominated for GA on '''February 4th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Cleveland Railway (England)]] promoted to GA on '''February 7th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The project membership is unchanged since the February newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 25 Febuary 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
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| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
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|}

{{Thank}}


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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Interwiki links

There has been a major change this month to the way that interwiki links are handled with the introduction of [[WP:Wikidata|Wikidata]]. Wikidata is a central place to record meta-data about an article and the initial phase was rolled out this month to cater for interwiki links. The links in the language area are served from this project and can be edited by use of the "edit links" icon at the bottom of the list. These links in articles are now redundant but if present override the information supplied by wikidata. Check each of the links to ensure that they exist and are correct on wikidata before removing the entry from an article. BOTs are in the process of removing these links from articles but will leave behind missing or conflicting links for someone to investigate and fix appropriately. 

Be aware that when moving articles to change the destination for the en interwiki link on wikidata to point to the new article location. The redirect will normally take care of this
but if the original name is reused for a different article then other wikis will be pointing to an incorrect location.

Wikidate also does not handle section links in the interwiki link so these must remain as part of the article code.

Watchlists have been changed to give an extra option to Show/Hide changes to wikidata entries for articles on the watchlist. 


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The February 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXVI
|1 Dec 2012 ~ 31 Dec 2012
|[[Redcar]]
|[[Goole]]
|- align=center
|XXXVII
|1 Jan 2013 ~ 31 Jan 2013
|[[Kate Rusby]]
|[[Patons and Baldwins]]
|- align=center
|XXXVIII
|1 Feb 2013 ~ 28 Feb 2013
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Tinsley Marshalling Yard]]
|- align=center
|XXXIX
|1 Mar 2013 ~ 31 Mar 2013
|[[Asda]]
|[[Gaping Gill]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2013 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 60 - April 2013 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/March 2013|March issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixtieth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,390 last month to 10,444 on March 27th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 97 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 75. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,208 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[1891–92 Sheffield United F.C. season]] promoted to GA on '''February 26th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[John Hemmingham]] review started on '''February 26th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Fairy Queen (locomotive)]] promoted to GA on '''February 28th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Axholme Joint Railway]] nominated for GA on '''March 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Wars of the Roses]] nominated for GA on '''March 16th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Wars of the Roses]] not promoted to GA on '''March 18th'''<br />
{{icon|FAR}} [[M62 motorway]] FAR review started on '''March 25th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Richard Cresswell]] nominated for GA on '''March 27th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The project membership is unchanged since the March newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 25 March 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
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| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}


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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Lua

Another change to the software last month sees the introduction of [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] for coding of templates. Those of you who edit templates may come across this with the introduction of the "#invoke" statement. The code is held in the new namespace of Module that was created for this purpose. One of the first places to show the change is the search screen that now has options to search the Module or the associated Module talk namespaces.

The use of Lua is expected to improve the speed of loading of pages with a large number of complex templates. The heavily used complex templates are being targeted for early conversion to use Lua. {{tl|Coord}} and {{tl|cite}} family of templates are among the first to receive attention. If you see any problems when conversion is made then report them to [[WP:VPT|Technical Village Pump]] or to the talk page of the module involved.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The April 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXVII
|1 Jan 2013 ~ 31 Jan 2013
|[[Kate Rusby]]
|[[Patons and Baldwins]]
|- align=center
|XXXVIII
|1 Feb 2013 ~ 28 Feb 2013
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Tinsley Marshalling Yard]]
|- align=center
|XXXIX
|1 Mar 2013 ~ 31 Mar 2013
|[[Asda]]
|[[Gaping Gill]]
|- align=center
|XXXX
|1 Apr 2013 ~ 30 Apr 2013
|[[Elland Road]]
|[[Osmotherley, North Yorkshire]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2013 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 60 - April 2013 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/March 2013|March issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixtieth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,390 last month to 10,444 on March 27th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 97 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 75. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,208 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[1891–92 Sheffield United F.C. season]] promoted to GA on '''February 26th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[John Hemmingham]] review started on '''February 26th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Fairy Queen (locomotive)]] promoted to GA on '''February 28th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Axholme Joint Railway]] nominated for GA on '''March 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Wars of the Roses]] nominated for GA on '''March 16th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[Wars of the Roses]] not promoted to GA on '''March 18th'''<br />
{{icon|FAR}} [[M62 motorway]] FAR review started on '''March 25th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Richard Cresswell]] nominated for GA on '''March 27th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The project membership is unchanged since the March newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 25 March 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}


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| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Lua

Another change to the software last month sees the introduction of [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] for coding of templates. Those of you who edit templates may come across this with the introduction of the "#invoke" statement. The code is held in the new namespace of Module that was created for this purpose. One of the first places to show the change is the search screen that now has options to search the Module or the associated Module talk namespaces.

The use of Lua is expected to improve the speed of loading of pages with a large number of complex templates. The heavily used complex templates are being targeted for early conversion to use Lua. {{tl|Coord}} and {{tl|cite}} family of templates are among the first to receive attention. If you see any problems when conversion is made then report them to [[WP:VPT|Technical Village Pump]] or to the talk page of the module involved.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The April 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXVII
|1 Jan 2013 ~ 31 Jan 2013
|[[Kate Rusby]]
|[[Patons and Baldwins]]
|- align=center
|XXXVIII
|1 Feb 2013 ~ 28 Feb 2013
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Tinsley Marshalling Yard]]
|- align=center
|XXXIX
|1 Mar 2013 ~ 31 Mar 2013
|[[Asda]]
|[[Gaping Gill]]
|- align=center
|XXXX
|1 Apr 2013 ~ 30 Apr 2013
|[[Elland Road]]
|[[Osmotherley, North Yorkshire]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/April 2013]]



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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2013 ==
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[[File:White Rose Badge of York.svg|100px|left]] 
<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 61 - May 2013 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/April 2013|April issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixty first [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,444 last month to 10,461 on April 27th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 99 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 76. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 58 out of a total number of 3,229 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Axholme Joint Railway]] promoted to GA on '''April 1st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[John Hemmingham]] promoted to GA on '''April 6th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Portal:Yorkshire]] review started on '''April 19th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:

* {{user|Peaky76}}

The following members left the project this month.

* {{user|95jb14}}

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 April 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}


| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Notifications

By the time you read this the new [[WP:Notifications|Notifications]] tool will be available for use. You will have a new Notifications tab under [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to enable the selection of which type of notification you want on web and which you want e-mailing about. The count of those selected for web delivery will be shown between your user page and talk page links at the top of each page. Just click on this number to see the notifications that are applicable to you. One the resulting page there is also a direct link to the new Notifications tab of your preferences. 

The main noticeable change will be the disappearance of the big orange bar at the top when you get a new talk page message, it will now be just a discreet change to the notification count.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The May 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXVIII
|1 Feb 2013 ~ 28 Feb 2013
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Tinsley Marshalling Yard]]
|- align=center
|XXXIX
|1 Mar 2013 ~ 31 Mar 2013
|[[Asda]]
|[[Gaping Gill]]
|- align=center
|XXXX
|1 Apr 2013 ~ 30 Apr 2013
|[[Elland Road]]
|[[Osmotherley, North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXXI
|1 May 2013 ~ 31 May 2013
|[[Humberside]]
|[[Markham Main Colliery]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2013 ==
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[[File:White Rose Badge of York.svg|100px|left]] 
<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 61 - May 2013 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/April 2013|April issue]]
<br /><div style="text-align:center;"><small>Got any suggestions?<br /> — ''Add them [[WT:YORKS|<span style="color:#000;">here</span>]]''</small></div><br/>
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixty first [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,444 last month to 10,461 on April 27th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 99 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 76. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 58 out of a total number of 3,229 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Axholme Joint Railway]] promoted to GA on '''April 1st'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[John Hemmingham]] promoted to GA on '''April 6th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Portal:Yorkshire]] review started on '''April 19th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:

* {{user|Peaky76}}

The following members left the project this month.

* {{user|95jb14}}

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 April 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}


| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Notifications

By the time you read this the new [[WP:Notifications|Notifications]] tool will be available for use. You will have a new Notifications tab under [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to enable the selection of which type of notification you want on web and which you want e-mailing about. The count of those selected for web delivery will be shown between your user page and talk page links at the top of each page. Just click on this number to see the notifications that are applicable to you. One the resulting page there is also a direct link to the new Notifications tab of your preferences. 

The main noticeable change will be the disappearance of the big orange bar at the top when you get a new talk page message, it will now be just a discreet change to the notification count.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The May 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXVIII
|1 Feb 2013 ~ 28 Feb 2013
|[[River Derwent, Yorkshire]]
|[[Tinsley Marshalling Yard]]
|- align=center
|XXXIX
|1 Mar 2013 ~ 31 Mar 2013
|[[Asda]]
|[[Gaping Gill]]
|- align=center
|XXXX
|1 Apr 2013 ~ 30 Apr 2013
|[[Elland Road]]
|[[Osmotherley, North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXXI
|1 May 2013 ~ 31 May 2013
|[[Humberside]]
|[[Markham Main Colliery]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2013 ==
{| class="navbox collapsible collapsed" style="text-align: left; border: 2px; margin-top: 0.2em;"
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! style="background:#ccf; border:2px #007fff solid; -moz-border-radius:20px; text-align:center;"|'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|Yorkshire WikiProject]] Newsletter'''
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{| style="width:100%; border:1px gray solid; background:#ccf;"
| style="vertical-align:middle; width:55%; border:0; background:#ccf; padding:1em;"|
[[File:White Rose Badge of York.svg|100px|left]] 
<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 62 - June 2013 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/May 2013|April issue]]
<br /><div style="text-align:center;"><small>Got any suggestions?<br /> — ''Add them [[WT:YORKS|<span style="color:#000;">here</span>]]''</small></div><br/>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|
; Project News
* Welcome to the sixty second [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,461 last month to 10,472 on May 18th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 99 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 76. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 58 out of a total number of 3,247 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[2012–13 York City F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''May 15th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the May newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 April 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}


| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The June 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXIX
|1 Mar 2013 ~ 31 Mar 2013
|[[Asda]]
|[[Gaping Gill]]
|- align=center
|XXXX
|1 Apr 2013 ~ 30 Apr 2013
|[[Elland Road]]
|[[Osmotherley, North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXXI
|1 May 2013 ~ 31 May 2013
|[[Humberside]]
|[[Markham Main Colliery]]
|- align=center
|XXXXII
|1 Jun 2013 ~ 30 Jun 2013
|[[Humber Forts]]
|[[RAF Skipton-on-Swale]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/June 2013]]


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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2013 ==
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|-
! style="background:#ccf; border:2px #007fff solid; -moz-border-radius:20px; text-align:center;"|'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|Yorkshire WikiProject]] Newsletter'''
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{| style="width:100%; border:1px gray solid; background:#ccf;"
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 62 - June 2013 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/May 2013|April issue]]
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixty second [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,461 last month to 10,472 on May 18th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 99 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 76. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 58 out of a total number of 3,247 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[2012–13 York City F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''May 15th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the May newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 April 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}


| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The June 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXIX
|1 Mar 2013 ~ 31 Mar 2013
|[[Asda]]
|[[Gaping Gill]]
|- align=center
|XXXX
|1 Apr 2013 ~ 30 Apr 2013
|[[Elland Road]]
|[[Osmotherley, North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXXI
|1 May 2013 ~ 31 May 2013
|[[Humberside]]
|[[Markham Main Colliery]]
|- align=center
|XXXXII
|1 Jun 2013 ~ 30 Jun 2013
|[[Humber Forts]]
|[[RAF Skipton-on-Swale]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2013 ==
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[[File:White Rose Badge of York.svg|100px|left]] 
<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 63 - July 2013 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/June 2013|June issue]]
<br /><div style="text-align:center;"><small>Got any suggestions?<br /> — ''Add them [[WT:YORKS|<span style="color:#000;">here</span>]]''</small></div><br/>
|-
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixty third [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,472 last month to 10,605 on June 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 103 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 78. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,265 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[Joseph Priestley]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|FFA}} [[M62 motorway]] was demoted from FA on '''May 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Paul Robinson (footballer born 1979)]] nominated for GA on '''May 27th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Paul Robinson (footballer born 1979)]] promoted to GA on '''June 9th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Gordon Banks]] promoted to GA on '''June 9th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[2012–13 York City F.C. season]] promoted to GA on '''June 17th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Bolckow Vaughan]] nominated for GA on '''June 18th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Richard Cresswell]] promoted to GA on '''June 21st'''<br />


; Member News

There are 111 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

*{{user|Tomdaone}}

No members left the project.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 June 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}


| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The July 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXX
|1 Apr 2013 ~ 30 Apr 2013
|[[Elland Road]]
|[[Osmotherley, North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXXI
|1 May 2013 ~ 31 May 2013
|[[Humberside]]
|[[Markham Main Colliery]]
|- align=center
|XXXXII
|1 Jun 2013 ~ 30 Jun 2013
|[[Humber Forts]]
|[[RAF Skipton-on-Swale]]
|- align=center
|XXXXIII
|1 Jul 2013 ~ 31 Jul 2013
|[[Pickering railway station]]
|[[Clarence Dock (Leeds)]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/July 2013]]


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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2013 ==
{| class="navbox collapsible collapsed" style="text-align: left; border: 2px; margin-top: 0.2em;"
|-
! style="background:#ccf; border:2px #007fff solid; -moz-border-radius:20px; text-align:center;"|'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|Yorkshire WikiProject]] Newsletter'''
|-
| style="border:solid 1px gray;"|
{| style="width:100%; border:1px gray solid; background:#ccf;"
| style="vertical-align:middle; width:55%; border:0; background:#ccf; padding:1em;"|
[[File:White Rose Badge of York.svg|100px|left]] 
<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 63 - July 2013 <br />
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:right; width:45%; border:0; background:#ccf; padding:1em;"|
[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/June 2013|June issue]]
<br /><div style="text-align:center;"><small>Got any suggestions?<br /> — ''Add them [[WT:YORKS|<span style="color:#000;">here</span>]]''</small></div><br/>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|
; Project News
* Welcome to the sixty third [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,472 last month to 10,605 on June 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 103 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 78. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,265 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[Joseph Priestley]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|FFA}} [[M62 motorway]] was demoted from FA on '''May 14th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Paul Robinson (footballer born 1979)]] nominated for GA on '''May 27th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Paul Robinson (footballer born 1979)]] promoted to GA on '''June 9th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Gordon Banks]] promoted to GA on '''June 9th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[2012–13 York City F.C. season]] promoted to GA on '''June 17th'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} [[Bolckow Vaughan]] nominated for GA on '''June 18th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Richard Cresswell]] promoted to GA on '''June 21st'''<br />


; Member News

There are 111 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

*{{user|Tomdaone}}

No members left the project.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
|-
|align=center|As of 30 June 2013, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
{| cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid black; width:50%; height:15x; margin:auto;"
|- 
| style="width:100%; background:#00a550;"|
| style="width:0; background:#f00;"|
|}<small>(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)</small>
|}

{{Thank}}


| style="vertical-align:top; border:2px #007fff solid; padding:1em; width:45%; background:#ccf;"|

; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The July 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXX
|1 Apr 2013 ~ 30 Apr 2013
|[[Elland Road]]
|[[Osmotherley, North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXXI
|1 May 2013 ~ 31 May 2013
|[[Humberside]]
|[[Markham Main Colliery]]
|- align=center
|XXXXII
|1 Jun 2013 ~ 30 Jun 2013
|[[Humber Forts]]
|[[RAF Skipton-on-Swale]]
|- align=center
|XXXXIII
|1 Jul 2013 ~ 31 Jul 2013
|[[Pickering railway station]]
|[[Clarence Dock (Leeds)]]
|}

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


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListing.php?project=Yorkshire '''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.

*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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...'''

[[File:Orange Icon Talk.svg|center|150px|link=Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/July 2013]]


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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2013 ==

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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 64 - August 2013 <br />
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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixty fourth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,605 last month to 10,659 on July 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 105 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 79. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,269 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[Joseph Priestley]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[Ecgbert (bishop)]] nominated for GA on '''July 3rd'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[ Bolckow Vaughan]] promoted to GA on '''July 10th'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[Ecgbert (bishop)]] promoted to GA on '''July 13th'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Wetherby (Linton Road) railway station]] PR started '''July 14th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 111 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the July newsletter:

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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{{Thank}}


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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The August 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

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|1 May 2013 ~ 31 May 2013
|[[Humberside]]
|[[Markham Main Colliery]]
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|1 Jun 2013 ~ 30 Jun 2013
|[[Humber Forts]]
|[[RAF Skipton-on-Swale]]
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|1 Jul 2013 ~ 31 Jul 2013
|[[Pickering railway station]]
|[[Clarence Dock (Leeds)]]
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|1 Aug 2013 ~ 31 Aug 2013
|[[Ilkley]]
|[[The Garden Village, Kingston upon Hull]]
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Please nominate future articles for improvement at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]].


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

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*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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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== WikiProject Yorkshire ==

I noticed that you haven't made an edit in over a year. To keep our list up-to-date, I have removed your name from it. If you wish to be a participant again, feel free to ping me or add yourself back into the list.--<span style="">[[User:Gilderien|Gilderien]] <span style="font-size:70%; vertical-align:sub;">[[User talk:Gilderien|Talk]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Gilderien|List of good deeds]]</span></span> 22:19, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2013 ==

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* Welcome to the sixty eighth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 10,787 last month to 10,842 on November 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 108 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 81. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,299 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[Joseph Priestley]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (bishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[HMS Endeavour]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen featured lists:

[[York City F.C. Clubman 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]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Wade's Causeway]] promoted to GA on '''October 28th'''<br />
{{icon|NOGA}} [[ Leeds Blitz]] not promoted to GA on '''November 1st'''<br />
{{icon|PR}} [[Wade's Causeway]] peer review opened on '''November 8th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 69 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:

* {{user|Zakhx150}}
* {{user|Oldontarian}}}

No members left the project this month.

The number of 
[[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]] is still currently low.


;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]]. 

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

* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

{| border="0"  cellpadding="5" style="margin:auto; background:none;"
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{{Thank}}


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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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.


;'''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.


;Happy Christmas

It is nearly the end of another year and Christmas will soon be upon us so Happy Christmas to all project members.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The December 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

{| class=wikitable
|- align=center
! rowspan="2" | Month
! rowspan="2" | Dates
! colspan="3" | Article(s)
|- align=center
|bgcolor=lightblue|'''B class choice'''
|bgcolor=lightgreen|'''Start class choice'''
|- align=center
|- align=center
|XXXXIV
|1 Aug 2013 ~ 31 Aug 2013
|[[Ilkley]]
|[[The Garden Village, Kingston upon Hull]]
|- align=center
|XXXXV
|1 Sep 2013 ~ 30 Sep 2013
|[[Transport in Sheffield]]
|[[River Esk, North Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXXVI
|1 Oct 2013 ~ 31 Oct 2013
|[[History of York]]
|[[Sewerby Hall]]
|- align=center
|XXXXVII
|1 Nov 2013 ~ 30 Nov 2013
|[[Calendar Girls]]
|[[Eastwood, West Yorkshire]]
|- align=center
|XXXXVIII
|1 Dec 2013 ~ 31 Dec 2013
|[[Herbert Sutcliffe's cricket career (1919–27)]]
|[[Frickley Colliery]]
|}

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


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*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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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