Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/August 2018

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 124 - August 2018

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and twenty fourth 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 14,255 last month to 14,285 on 30 July 2018). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 147 is ahead of WP:GM who have 86. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 67 out of a total number of 4,082 articles.

Currently we have forty six Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Cædmon • 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 (archbishop of York) • 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 • Abe Waddington • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball • The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished • The Wrestlers (Etty) • History of York City F.C. (1908–80) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. (1980–present) • Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed • The World Before the Flood • Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' • North Eastern Railway War Memorial • York City War Memorial • Northern England

There are also sixteen 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 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 • List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances) • List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) • Bootham Crescent

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

2018 World Snooker Championship nominated for GA on June 27th

Member News

There are 82 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the July 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 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 watchlist.

Great!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	58			76
FL			1	16			17
GA	3	9	36	173			221
B	9	63	132	335			539
C	3	140	285	1,433			1,861
Start	1	216	1,173	8,413		1	9,804
Stub		18	326	5,646		1	5,991
List		4	12	758	1		775
Category				1	3,798		3,799
Disambig				1	21		22
File					21		21
Portal					95		95
Project					219		219
Redirect			3	179	1,322		1,504
Template		1	8	431	153		593
Other			1	1	12		14
Assessed	18	452	1,992	17,445	5,642	2	25,551
Unassessed				1		5	6
Total	18	452	1,992	17,446	5,642	7	25,557
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 94,451			Ω = 5.11

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 July 2018, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

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

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

Aims

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

Specific aims for the project are:-

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

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

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 • Northern England • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

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

Yorkshire Day

Happy Yorkshire Day to all our members. Thanks to all for looking after the Yorkshire articles that we support as a project. Would be good if more members would get involved in improving the articles and in fixing the various problems flagged on the articles. There are also a number of articles suggested on the project's to-do list that need creating if you find the time to get them started.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The August 2018 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
100	1 Apr 2018 ~ 30 Apr 2018	Holderness Drain	Joe Johnson (snooker player)
101	1 May 2018 ~ 31 May 2018	Otley	Kiveton Park Colliery
102	1 Jun 2018 ~ 30 Jun 2018	Oaks explosion	Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire
103	1 Jul 2018 ~ 31 Jul 2018	Michael Palin	Marton, Middlesbrough
104	1 Aug 2018 ~ 31 Aug 2018	Rowntree's	Newsome Panthers

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

Please bear in mind...

The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.

Monitoring is essential
Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.

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

Thanks

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