Hi - I've posted a note on the SUFC Project page about attempting a drive to get some more Blades articles up to GA - any help / thoughts appreciated. Bladeboy1889 (talk) 10:38, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
As a history graduate, I'm very surprised you claim that the 'medieval' Ottoman period has nothing to do with the modern formation of the Republic of Kosovo. Please consult this source which explains the connection. Regards - Ottomanist (talk) 02:24, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,824 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Did You Know?
At the suggestion of a member I have added 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 project page with a full 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 BLP, newly referenced and expanded twofold. If you think an article meets these basic requirements then take a look at the eligibility criteria and make a 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.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,880 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,880 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,942 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
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First of all, when a speedy deletion tag is placed on any article, you are not allowed to remove it, because it takes a debate to decide whether the article is to be deleted or not, on the basis of which it is nominated.
Secondly, I placed the speedy deletion tag on the redirectGeneracija bez budućnosti, the band in which Stefanović was playing bass guitar, which is an absolutely inappropriate redirect, and should be removed as a redirect without any basis for its existence in the current form. I am placing the tag for the deletion of the redirect once again. This will not delete the article about Stefanović, if that is your concern, only the redirect Generacija bez budućnosti to the page Borko Stefanović.--Milosppf (talk) 20:22, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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In case you weren't aware the 2011-12 season article being reviewed for GA status. I just need to look at a couple of things and it's done. As you did 50% of the work on it - well done, we can hopefully get as many of them GA'd as possible. Bladeboy1889 (talk) 09:23, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Signpost
The editors over at the weekly Signpost, that goes out to a large number of people on Wikipedia, have indicated that they would like to feature the 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.
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Also - I've been looking at which Blades articles are currently pretty comprehensive and could be worked up into GAs - wondered if you'd want to collaborate on some - you're always very good at researching stuff and much of what needs doing would be finding references for existing prose. I'll post a note on the Blades project page later this weekend hopefully. Bladeboy1889 (talk) 11:29, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Signpost
Just to let members know that the project was featured in the 3 December issue of the Signpost magazine. You can read that issue of the magazine 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.
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Rita Ora
Hello. For Rita Ora's birthplace, Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija was correct if she was born in November. That was the entity which ran 1990-1999. I think it best to avoid intermediate entities, for one it clutters and for another, it politicises an article that doesn't need to go down that path. What I shall do is put back the city/country but re-introduce Kosovo plus template for modern-day reference. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 20:01, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. You'll have a hard task finding MOS material on birthplace standardisation or implementing it. To my knowledge it has been discussed many times but this is seen as an area that shouldn't be set in stone. There are many ways of presenting similar examples and normally it is down to consensus. Consensus in turn widely favours sovereign states as were known at time of subject's birth and you are free to make amendments everywhere (eg. born 1981 in Prague, Czech Republic can be changed to Czechoslovakia) but it isn't deemed wrong by the original editor if he has chosen the modern entity. We just hope an edit war won't break out. Regards. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 20:55, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
You found a good example with the UK of GB & NI vs home nations setting. In the US you'll find that sometimes one is merely given his city and state but not the country. Even in these cases it is not wrong to introduce an article with United Kingdom (not the long form) and you might find it survives. I realise now that there are local de facto MOS settings by regular editors. The difference between the UK (where I believe you and I are both resident) and the territory of the former Yugoslavia is that with the latter, there is much scope for resentment and POV-pushing and in the case of Kosovo, no real universally accepted clarity either. One starts by saying that an individual is born in Skoplje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (for a person born 1933 for example) and you'll get the narrow-minded IPs trying to amend this to their more favourable Skopje (without -L), in Republic of Macedonia all of which is misleading. Skoplje was how it was known then whilst the whole region was considered part of Serbia, and as for Republic of Macedonia, well this wasn't inaugurated until 1991 (with Macedonia itself coming into being in 1943 or 1944, I forget which). The connection between Rita Ora and Kosovo on the other hand is one of identity and patriotism more than physical association. Obviously I do not know as much as the other editors on the article because her genre of music is not my cup of tea, I listen to classic rock, a world away. This way I cannot remark on her material, her tours and for whom she is opening. Either way, some things do come to my attention - this being an individual from my own region of origin. All I know is that she made a video shoot in Kosovo (because it made local showbiz news) and that she has spoken in interviews of her Albanian identity and her support for Kosovo. In practical senses though, she is a British artist not just for launching her career there but for having lived her whole life there - much like I have despite my parents originating from then-Yugoslavia. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 05:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
In the source about Malawi [1] I don't see diplomatic relations and I can't find another source. Do you have another source or we should remove it from the list? Japinderum (talk) 06:41, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Umm I remember that the old President invited one of the senior Kosovan Politicians on a state visit to Malawi and they established Dip Relations then. I don't think we should remove it, we need to hunt for a source. IJA (talk) 09:35, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
I couldn't find. Japinderum (talk) 06:32, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
2011 Census
The Office for National Statistics have now published the detailed information from the 2011 Census for wards and parishes. The data can be searched for on their web site 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.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Interwiki links
There has been a major change this month to the way that interwiki links are handled with the introduction of 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.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Lua
Another change to the software last month sees the introduction of 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. {{Coord}} and {{cite}} family of templates are among the first to receive attention. If you see any problems when conversion is made then report them to Technical Village Pump or to the talk page of the module involved.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
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himself to the club until 2015. He scored his first goal of the season in a 3-1 defeat to [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United] at [[Old Trafford]].
Hi IJA. We are a team of researchers interested in the editing dynamics on different language Wikipedias regarding the topic of Kosovo. We are looking for users who have edited and discussed articles about this topic, and who would be willing to be interviewed for the purpose of this research project. The project is approved by the Wikimedia Foundations´ Research Committee and you can find more information on this meta-wiki page. Research results will be published under open access and your participation would be much appreciated. If you would like to participate you can reach us at interwikiresearch@gmail.com and we will set up an interview in a way that best suits your needs.Pbilic (talk) 09:14, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
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You have no right to declare what Wikipedia stands for when you are clearly ignoring the PROD procedures. The article was already ineligible for proposed deletion as it has previously been kept at AfD, and you are not allowed to add a PROD back after it has been removed, as you did after my removal. If you add it again, I will block you. J Milburn (talk) 19:47, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Oh them 'uns! The fan girls are ganging up on me. I never claimed that I have the right to declare what Wikipedia stands for. Biographies on WP stand for Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, I never wrote and agreed to this, but this is what Biographies on WP stand for. This wasn't my decision. But we're just going to let this be over looked because of fan girls. Pathetic! IJA (talk) 19:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Is that name-calling really necessary? Being third in line to the throne is confers notability in and of itself. Even if the monarchy were abolished tomorrow, or there were to be some tragedy, historians would look back on and discuss the significance of Prince George. We have some very strong articles on short-lived members of the Royal Family; take a look at the good article on Prince Alfred of Great Britain, who died when he was two years old. Even if you want to challenge this reading of notability, misusing a prod tag, then edit warring when it is removed in good faith with an at least plausible explanation, is not the way forward. J Milburn (talk) 19:58, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Articles legitimately being resubmitted for AfD within 24 of the previous one aren't rare. And since when has being on the main page made the article immunised from being proposed for AfD? The content is notable for a mention on wikipedia, I do not dispute this. What I dispute is a stand alone article at this stage in his life. There is a big difference between 2 days and 2 years. IJA (talk) 20:03, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
You didn't nominate the article for AfD, you proposed deletion. There's a big difference. In any case, nominating an article for AfD which has already received the very recent scrutiny of an AfD (one in which many people participated, and one which was closed as a speedy keep) and the recent scrutiny of the ITN team (not to mention the DYK team and all the people who have visited the article while it's been on the main page) is not something to be taken lightly- and probably isn't something that should be done by an editor who isn't even clear on our various deletion procedures. J Milburn (talk) 20:18, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Yes I was proposing it for deletion first. I never claimed to have nominated it for deletion, please feel free to prove me wrong. I don't think it is wise for someone to be an admin if they can't tell the difference between someone proposing an article for deletion and someone nominating an article for deletion. IJA (talk) 20:29, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
To repeat myself- When you tried to defend your actions by claiming that "Articles legitimately being resubmitted for AfD within 24 of the previous one aren't rare", I assumed that you were saying you believed that you had nominated the article for deletion at AfD. Am I instead to assume that you knew you were PRODing the article? If so, you would know that you certainly should not have been doing so, as it had already been kept at AfD, and you would also know that you should not be edit warring to keep the PROD template there after it was removed, as both of these are against policy. I only assumed your ignorance because to do otherwise would be to suggest that you wilfully chose to ignore policy. Which is it, then- do you not understand policy, or are you just wantonly ignoring it? J Milburn (talk) 20:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
@ J Milburn My intention was to eventually nominate the AfD after getting some support by PRODing it first, however I should have anticipated the high volume of celebrity mad fan girls who have hijacked the article. My argument was if it is acceptable to nominate an article for deletion within 24 hours of it's previous AfD, why isn't it acceptable to just simply propose it's deletion? Surely PRODing is a lesser action than AfD-ing? At times I do like to Wikipedia:Ignore all rules and this article's existence suggests that other editors like to ignore them. IJA (talk) 21:06, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
It's not acceptable for the reasons I've listed below. I suggest you actually read WP:PROD to avoid misusing it in the future. In addition, I'd also warn you that immature name-calling only demonstrates a WP:NOTHERE attitude that will get you nowhere. — RichardBB 21:10, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
What this ultimately comes down to is the fact that you misused the PROD. It's there for uncontroversial deletions and should only be used if no opposition is expected. One of the central rules of a PROD is that it has not been discussed at an AfD. All of this is plainly written on the WP:PROD article. Adding it once can be an honest blunder, but re-adding it demonstrates a disruptive attitude. — RichardBB 21:07, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Richard is, of course, right. You cannot hide behind IAR when you make a mistake or engage in disruptive editing. You also need to drop the "fan girl" rhetoric: It's sexist, belittling towards editors interested in this topic and dismissive of the historical significance of the prince. Again, I have no idea which policies you believe this article violates. You've made vague gestures towards BLP and the general notability pages, but beyond accusing others of ignoring the policies, you've not really explained why you think the policies are being violated. As another editor has pointed out, the article hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of being deleted- you're wasting your time and the time of others in pursuing the deletion. J Milburn (talk) 22:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Ian, because your name is on this notification list, I'm just letting you know that there will be a Manchester Wikimeet taking place on 25 August. Perhaps we'll see you there? Cheers, Bazonka (talk) 21:55, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Not to worry - perhaps you'll be able to make the next one which will probably be in October. Or you could maybe make the Liverpool meetup in September? I reckon we should organise a Leeds meetup too. Cheers, Bazonka (talk) 22:07, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 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.
Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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Hi Ian, I've sort of got myself the job of organising Wikimeets for NW England, and (whilst it's not in the NW) I've decided that it's high time there was one in Leeds too. So, since you're a local, can you suggest a good venue - ideally not too far from the station, not too busy, and with wi-fi (oh, and decent beer too of course)? Wetherspoons are usually good for this sort of thing. Am I right in thinking there's a Wetherspoons actually in the station? Do you think it would be any good? Also, what date (preferably a Saturday) do you think would be best - hopefully a day when you can make it? We don't want to clash with any big events or other localish Wiki stuff. Cheers, Bazonka (talk) 20:32, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 10,659 last month to 10,691 on August 21st). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 106 is ahead of WP:GM who have 79. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,277 articles.
Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Wiki Loves Monuments
This month sees the UK participating in the Wiki Loves Monuments competition for the first time. The aim is to capture images of Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings and to upload them to Commons. Many monuments have no images available for them or need better ones without clutter in view. The lists of the monuments have been produced on a county basis, some already existed as wiki articles, and have been enhanced as part of this process. A full list of the English lists for use in the competition are available at listed buildings in England. If you are interested in taking part then take a look at the UK home page for further details. You do not have to take images in Yorkshire but it would be helpful if those in the area would help out to try and get at least one image for every monument in our area. Would be good to get some of the unusual or overlooked ones, for example we have several of "Sewerby House", but no good ones of the "Terrace Balustrade and Attached Garden Wall and Archway to Sewerby House" as this appears as an incidental item in images of the main house.
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