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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2011

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The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 33 - January 2011

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Project News

Welcome to the thirty third 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.

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

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

Aire and Calder Navigation was promoted to GA on November 29th
River Hull was nominated for GA on December 7th

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:

Crouch, Swale (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month: though the number of 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 Yorkshire Portal.

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

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

Great!

Priority Articles

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

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

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

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	58			76
FL			1	16			17
GA	3	8	36	173			220
B	9	63	132	338			542
C	3	142	287	1,440			1,872
Start	1	225	1,177	8,434		2	9,839
Stub		18	327	5,647		1	5,993
List		4	12	782	1		799
Category				1	3,814		3,815
Disambig				1	21		22
File					21		21
Portal					95		95
Project					220		220
Redirect			3	179	1,322		1,504
Template		1	8	431	159		599
Other			1	1	11		13
Assessed	18	462	1,999	17,501	5,664	3	25,647
Unassessed						2	2
Total	18	462	1,999	17,501	5,664	5	25,649
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 94,689			Ω = 5.11

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 30 November 2010, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

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

Thanks

Aims

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

Specific aims for the project are:-

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

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

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.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
X	Oct 01, 2010 ~ Oct 31, 2010	Leeds and Liverpool Canal	Bridlington
XI	Nov 01, 2010 ~ Nov 30, 2010	Yorkshire Engine Company	Morley, West Yorkshire
XII	Dec 01, 2010 ~ Dec 31, 2010	John Fowler (agricultural engineer)	Scampston Hall
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...

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.

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

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