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An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.
Technical news
A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)
Arbitration
Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.
Miscellaneous
Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy sixth 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 18,228 last month to 18,260 on 29 November 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 93. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 90 while WP:GM has 67 out of a total number of 4,824 articles.
Currently we have seventy three 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.
Happy Christmas
A very Happy Christmas to all project members, hope you are all OK. The number of articles supported by the project is increasing slowly so thanks for all the hard work during the year. At this time of the year there is an increase in vandalism so if you have time keep an eye on the articles tagged with the project's banner to keep then vandal free. Many of the regulars are away over the feastive period so more chance for things to go unnoticed. Take care hope to see you all active in the new year.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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.
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16:25, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
Moz Wikipedia page
Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi @Malcolmxl5, I'm reaching out on behalf of Moz (an SEO software company headquartered in Seattle and recently acquired by Ziff Davis). While I realize we have a conflict of interest, Moz is a well known company in the martech space and I'd like to suggest a new/skinnier article covering just the facts of business, drafted below. Will you please review and let me know your thoughts? I appreciate your time and consideration. - @BrittaniDinsmoreMoz
SEO software startup Moz was acquired by email marketing company iContact(1), a subsidiary of digital media and internet company Ziff Davis (previously known as J2 Global). (2)(3)
Moz was founded in 2004. (4) The company sells marketing analytics software subscriptions. Rand Fishkin and his mother, Gillian Muessig, founded the company, Sarah Bird took over as CEO in 2014 (4). Fishkin left the company in 2018.(5) Bird left the company in 2021.(6)
Starting under the name SEOMoz until its rebrand in 2013 (7) in 2004, the company was an early publisher of publicly available informational content about SEO as a discipline. It is best known for developing an algorithm and weighted level metric, branded as "Domain Authority", which gives predictions on a website's performance in search engine rankings with a discriminating range from 0 to 100. (8)
The sources proffered here aren't of any use for your envisioned "skinnier article", since they're all pretty much routine business news that would be reported on as a matter of course. —Jéské Courianov^_^va little blue Bori 06:39, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi @jeske Couriano/Decode, Thank you for reviewing and for the feedback. Do you happen to have examples of what would qualify as acceptable forms of "notability"? And if I am able to find sources to meet that standard, would it be ok for me to run this by you again?
Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hey, I see you protectedthreepages about siblings from the G.I. Joe universe a couple of months ago. IPs have noticed that these pages are now unprotected. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 22:47, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
This individual is not only using multiple IPs over many months and claiming to be different people, they are abusing the report system (accusing me of edit warring) when their intent is clearly motivated by a lack of neutrality and an agenda. Please step in. 2001:569:BB90:8700:190D:4CFE:FAC3:4D7E (talk) 00:59, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
Persistent unhelpful editing - update
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi Malcolm - I was wondering if anything came of the case I raised against a user from Blackburn who has been using multiple IP addresses to repeatedly make unhelpful edits and breach Wikipedia house style. I see the discussion has been archived, but they are still at it. Thanks, Neilinabbey (talk) 15:16, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
Seasons Greetings
Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments1 person in discussion
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)}}
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I just wanted to thank you for the various photos of York you've been taking. You may have noticed that I've recently written numerous articles on the city, and in particular its buildings, and in many cases I've used your photos. Warofdreamstalk 01:29, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy seventh 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 18,260 last month to 18,293 on 2 January 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 93. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 90 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,836 articles.
Currently we have seventy three 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.
Happy New Year
A very Happy New Year to all project members.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The January 2023 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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.
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12:42, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Undelete Felix Leong
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy eighth 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 18,293 last month to 18,564 on 31 January 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,844 articles.
Currently we have seventy four 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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2023 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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.
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19:04, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy ninth 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 18,564 last month to 18,601 on 27 February 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,848 articles.
Currently we have seventy four 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.
North Yorkshire
A note that there will be a major change coming up for North Yorkshire with the reorganisation of the local government of the area. This will see the abolition of the districts and North Yorkshire becoming a unitary authority taking on all of the responsibilities of the district councils. This will require a change to most articles relating to the area. If you have any thoughts on what needs doing then make them known at the project talk page.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2023 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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.
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12:34, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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 18,601 last month to 18,643 on 29 March 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,855 articles.
Currently we have seventy four 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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2023 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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.
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19:51, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
Technical news
Arbitration
Miscellaneous
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
