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			== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2017 ==

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			'''The ] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 110 - June 2017 <br />
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			; Project News
			* Welcome to the one hundredth and nintenth ] 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 13,279 last month to 13,303 on 2nd June). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 139 is ahead of ] who have 85. ] has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,842 articles.


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

			] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ]

			{{classicon\|FA}} There are also sixteen featured lists:

			] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ]

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


			; Article Activity

			<!--There has been no article activity to report on this month.-->
			{{icon\|PR}} ] PR closed on '''May 9th'''<br />
			{{icon\|FAC}} ] nominated for FA on '''May 9th'''<br />
			{{icon\|GAN}} ] was nominated for GA on '''May 20th'''<br />


			; Member News

			There are 81 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the May newsletter.

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			] 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 ].

			* 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 ].

			{{Great}}

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			; '''Assessment'''<br />]

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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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			<small>Written by {{noping\|Keith D}} • Template by {{noping\|Jza84}} \| ''']</small>'''
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			; Aims

			After discussion at ] 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 ] up to ] status
			*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least ] 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 -

			* ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ]

			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.


			;Snap general election
			With the calling of a ] there will be a lot of changes required to articles over the coming month to update the candidates and results for these in articles. There may be a set of new articles required for new MPs elected this time.

			We also need to keep an eye out for any bias in articles about those standing for the election and to keep strict ballot paper order for the election results tables in the constituency articles before the results are know. We all have our views on this but we must remain as ] as possible.


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

			The June 2017 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

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			Please nominate future articles for improvement at ].


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

			]The project is subscribed to a 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 ] 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.


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I am a Yorkshireman living in the Western Highlands of Scotland. I mainly edit things related to Scotland, Yorkshire, Europe, Politics, Geopolitics, History, Film/TV, and Football.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2015

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 92 - December 2015

November issue

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Project News

Welcome to the ninety second 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 12,209 last month to 12,218 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 118 is ahead of WP:GM who have 84. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,539 articles.

Currently we have thirty 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. • 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 • 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)

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 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 • 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

History of York City F.C. (1980–present) was promoted to GA on November 20th
History of York City F.C. (1908–80) was promoted to FA on November 23rd

Member News

There are 78 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the November 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 November 2015, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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

A Happy Christmas to all members of the project and a big thank you for all the hard work on Yorkshire related articles during the year.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The December 2015 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
68	1 Aug 2015 ~ 31 Aug 2015	A15 road (England)	Beck Hole
69	1 Sep 2015 ~ 30 Sep 2015	Kirkdale Cave	City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra
70	1 Oct 2015 ~ 31 Oct 2015	St Robert's Church, Pannal	Dibbles Bridge coach crash (1925)
71	1 Nov 2015 ~ 30 Nov 2015	The Spa, Bridlington	East Ardsley
72	1 Dec 2015 ~ 31 Dec 2015	Wentworth Woodhouse	Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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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The Signpost: 02 December 2015

Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?

News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections

In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches

Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015

News and notes: ArbCom election results announced

Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view

In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?

Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things

Technology report: Tech news in brief

The Signpost: 16 December 2015

In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges

In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015

Arbitration report: GMO case decided

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WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations

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The Signpost: 30 December 2015

News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee

Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended

Featured content: The post-Christmas edition

Traffic report: The Force we expected

Year in review: The top ten Misplaced Pages stories of 2015

In the media: Misplaced Pages plagued by a "Basket of Deception"

Gallery: It's that time of year again

The Signpost: 06 January 2016

News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent

In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE

Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided

Featured content: Featured menagerie

Recent research: Teaching Misplaced Pages, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Misplaced Pages?

WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League

Technology report: Tech news in brief

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 93 - January 2016

December issue

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Project News

Welcome to the ninety 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 12,218 last month to 12,254 on January 4th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 120 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,559 articles.

Currently we have thirty eight Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

[REDACTED] George Macaulay featured on the main page on December 7th
[REDACTED] The Wrestlers (Etty) featured on the main page on December 20th
William Etty was nominated for FA on December 8th

Member News

There are 78 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the December 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 5 January 2016, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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

A Happy New Year to all members of the project.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The January 2016 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
69	1 Sep 2015 ~ 30 Sep 2015	Kirkdale Cave	City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra
70	1 Oct 2015 ~ 31 Oct 2015	St Robert's Church, Pannal	Dibbles Bridge coach crash (1925)
71	1 Nov 2015 ~ 30 Nov 2015	The Spa, Bridlington	East Ardsley
72	1 Dec 2015 ~ 31 Dec 2015	Wentworth Woodhouse	Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve
73	1 Jan 2016 ~ 31 Jan 2016	River Idle	Grand Hotel (Scarborough)

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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...

Delivered January 2016 by MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.

13:41, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 January 2016

In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias

Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF

Editorial: We need a culture of verification

In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street

Op-ed: Transparency

Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report

Special report: Misplaced Pages community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016

News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee

Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Misplaced Pages

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Next meetups in North-West England

Hello. This is just to let you know that the next wikimeets in North-West England will take place in:

Manchester on 23rd January 2016
Liverpool on 27th February 2016

Please sign up on the relevant wikimeet page if you can make them! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:51, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 January 2016

News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out

Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle

In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up

Traffic report: Danse Macabre

Featured content: This week's featured content

Blog: Fifteen years ago, Misplaced Pages was a very different place

The Signpost: 27 January 2016

Op-ed: Lila Tretikov: the WMF needs your input in developing our strategy

News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board

In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote

Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling

Traffic report: Death and taxes

Featured content: This week's featured content

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 94 - February 2016

January issue

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Project News

Welcome to the ninety 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 12,254 last month to 12,301 on January 31st). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 121 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,563 articles.

Currently we have thirty eight Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

M62 motorway was not promoted to GA on December 22nd
History of York City F.C. (1980–present) was nominated for FA on January 1st
1965 FA Cup Final was nominated for GA on January 4th
Joseph Terry was promoted to GA on January 20th

Member News

There are 79 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the January newsletter:

Hullian111 (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month.

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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 31 January 2016, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 February 2016 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
70	1 Oct 2015 ~ 31 Oct 2015	St Robert's Church, Pannal	Dibbles Bridge coach crash (1925)
71	1 Nov 2015 ~ 30 Nov 2015	The Spa, Bridlington	East Ardsley
72	1 Dec 2015 ~ 31 Dec 2015	Wentworth Woodhouse	Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve
73	1 Jan 2016 ~ 31 Jan 2016	River Idle	Grand Hotel (Scarborough)
74	1 Feb 2016 ~ 29 Feb 2016	University of York	John Healey (politician)

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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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23:41, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 February 2016

From the editors: Help wanted

Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost

In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board

Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?

News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background

Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

Traffic report: Bowled

Featured content: This week's featured content

The Signpost: 10 February 2016

Special report: New internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

News and notes: Another WMF departure

In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Misplaced Pages and connects

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: A river of revilement

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov

Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Super Bowling

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy

The Signpost: 24 February 2016

Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent’s fashion to the world

Arbitration report: Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity

Featured content: This week's featured content

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 95 - March 2016

February issue

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Project News

Welcome to the ninety fifth 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 12,301 last month to 12,503 on 29 February). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 123 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,580 articles.

Currently we have thirty nine Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

New Model Army (band) was nominated for GA on January 17th
Robert of Bridlington appeared in DYK on February 7th
Joseph Terry appeared in DYK on February 18th
William Etty was promoted to FA on February 20th

Member News

There are 79 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the February 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 February 2016, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 March 2016 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
71	1 Nov 2015 ~ 30 Nov 2015	The Spa, Bridlington	East Ardsley
72	1 Dec 2015 ~ 31 Dec 2015	Wentworth Woodhouse	Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve
73	1 Jan 2016 ~ 31 Jan 2016	River Idle	Grand Hotel (Scarborough)
74	1 Feb 2016 ~ 29 Feb 2016	University of York	John Healey (politician)
75	1 Mar 2016 ~ 31 Mar 2016	Sheffield Tramway	KCOM Group

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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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02:29, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 March 2016

News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Brawling

Recent research: Misplaced Pages and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted

In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Misplaced Pages's new iOS app and its fight for market share

Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future

Featured content: Five articles, four lists, a topic, and five images were promoted this week.

Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks

WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes

Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Misplaced Pages articles on women scientists

Systemic bias: Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..."

Traffic report: All business like show business

The Signpost: 16 March 2016

News and notes: Misplaced Pages Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Misplaced Pages

In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Misplaced Pages PR editing

Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

Featured content: This week's featured content

Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

Misplaced Pages Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Misplaced Pages

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The Signpost: 23 March 2016

Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Misplaced Pages Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

Misplaced Pages Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016

News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

In the media: Saskatoon police delete Misplaced Pages content about police brutality

WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

Featured content: A slow, slow week

Technology report: Browse Misplaced Pages in safety? Use Telnet!

Recent research: "Employing Misplaced Pages for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

Misplaced Pages Weekly: Podcast #121: How April Fools went down

Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Misplaced Pages

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 96 - April 2016

March issue

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Project News

Welcome to the ninety 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 12,503 last month to 12,534 on 3 April). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 123 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,586 articles.

Currently we have forty Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

1965 FA Cup Final was promoted to GA on March 8th
History of York City F.C. (1980–present) was promoted to FA on March 11th
York Community Stadium was nominated for GA on March 20th

Member News

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

antihistoriaster (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month.

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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 March 2016, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 April 2016 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
72	1 Dec 2015 ~ 31 Dec 2015	Wentworth Woodhouse	Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve
73	1 Jan 2016 ~ 31 Jan 2016	River Idle	Grand Hotel (Scarborough)
74	1 Feb 2016 ~ 29 Feb 2016	University of York	John Healey (politician)
75	1 Mar 2016 ~ 31 Mar 2016	Sheffield Tramway	KCOM Group
76	1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Nov 2016	Humber Bridge	Leeds General Infirmary

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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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12:36, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 April 2016

Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Misplaced Pages?

News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death

Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology

Gallery: A history lesson

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The Signpost: 24 April 2016

News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director

Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot

Traffic report: Two for the price of one

Featured content: The double-sized edition

Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

In the media: Misplaced Pages Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

Traffic report: Purple

Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks

Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 97 - May 2016

April issue

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Project News

Welcome to the ninety 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 12,534 last month to 12,568 on 27 April). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 125 is ahead of WP:GM who have 86. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,603 articles.

Currently we have forty Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

York City War Memorial appeared in DYK on March 13th
Wressle Castle was nominated for GA on April 3rd
2004 Football League Cup Final was nominated for GA on April 5th
York Community Stadium was promoted to GA on April 7th
Wressle Castle was promoted to GA on April 17th
2004 Football League Cup Final was nominated for GA on April 21st
2004 Football League Cup Final appeared in DYK on April 23rd

Member News

There are 80 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the April 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 March 2016, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 May 2016 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
73	1 Jan 2016 ~ 31 Jan 2016	River Idle	Grand Hotel (Scarborough)
74	1 Feb 2016 ~ 29 Feb 2016	University of York	John Healey (politician)
75	1 Mar 2016 ~ 31 Mar 2016	Sheffield Tramway	KCOM Group
76	1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Apr 2016	Humber Bridge	Leeds General Infirmary
77	1 May 2016 ~ 31 May 2016	RAF Firbeck	Mayor of Middlesbrough

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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...

Delivered May 2016 by MediaWiki message delivery.
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17:03, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 May 2016

News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF

Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil

In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post

Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one

Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs

Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"

Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

In the media: The perils of Misplaced Pages's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee

Recent research: English as Misplaced Pages's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

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News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 98 - June 2016

May issue

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Project News

Welcome to the ninety 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 12,568 last month to 12,628 on 4 June). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 126 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,724 articles.

Currently we have forty Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

2016 Women's Tour de Yorkshire was nominated for GA on April 30th
2015–16 York City F.C. season was nominated for GA on May 14th
New Model Army (band) was promoted to GA on May 23rd

Member News

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

Tommy animator (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month.

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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 5 June 2016, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 2016 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
74	1 Feb 2016 ~ 29 Feb 2016	University of York	John Healey (politician)
75	1 Mar 2016 ~ 31 Mar 2016	Sheffield Tramway	KCOM Group
76	1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Apr 2016	Humber Bridge	Leeds General Infirmary
77	1 May 2016 ~ 31 May 2016	RAF Firbeck	Mayor of Middlesbrough
78	1 Jun 2016 ~ 30 Jun 2016	Huddersfield	Northern General Hospital

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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
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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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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

Featured content: From the crème de la crème

In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 99 - July 2016

June issue

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Project News

Welcome to the ninety 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 12,628 last month to 12,769 on 29 June). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 127 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,620 articles.

Currently we have forty Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Keith Emerson was nominated for GA on March 19th
Brudenell Social Club was nominated for GA on June 10th
Hull Castle was nominated for GA on June 22nd
[REDACTED] Len Hutton appeared on the main page as TFA on June 23rd
Hull Castle was promoted to GA on June 24th

Member News

There are 82 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

Will299 (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month.

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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 June 2016, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 2016 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
75	1 Mar 2016 ~ 31 Mar 2016	Sheffield Tramway	KCOM Group
76	1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Apr 2016	Humber Bridge	Leeds General Infirmary
77	1 May 2016 ~ 31 May 2016	RAF Firbeck	Mayor of Middlesbrough
78	1 Jun 2016 ~ 30 Jun 2016	Huddersfield	Northern General Hospital
79	1 Jul 2016 ~ 31 Jul 2016	Roseberry Topping	Old Queen's Head

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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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The Signpost: 04 July 2016

News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany

Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?

In the media: Terrorism database cites Misplaced Pages as a source

Featured content: Triple fun of featured content

Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit

Blog: Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Misplaced Pages "shockingly biased"

Featured content: A wide variety from the best

Traffic report: Sports and esports

Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 100 - August 2016

July issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundreth 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 12,769 last month to 12,795 on 30 July). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 127 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,633 articles.

Currently we have forty Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Marmion Tower was nominated for GA on July 6th
Herbert Chapman was nominated for GA on July 22nd

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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 June 2016, 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

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...

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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.

Celebrations

Celebrations are in order this month as we reach a milestone in the project with 100 editions of the newsletter. It was way back in May 2008 when we introduced the monthly newsletter to project members and I hope that it is still useful to keep members informed of things that are going on in the project. Sometimes you wonder if there is any activity going on and what is happening to the articles in the scope of the project but slowly things are progressing. In May 2008 we only had 3,343 articles to look after, but today that is 12,795. Membership was 45 but is now 82, even though we had a cull of members who were no longer active during that period. Of our identified 15 top-level importance articles, 1 has been promoted to FA-class, 3 have been promoted to GA-class, 1 to B-class, 1 to C-class, while 1 has been demoted to GA-class and another to C-class, note that C-class did not exist in May 2008. We now have 40 FA-class articles and 16 FL-class lists compared to 9 FA-class articles and 7 FL-class lists in May 2008.

Congratulations to all who have helped along the way and be inspired to move things forward over the coming months.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The August 2016 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
76	1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Apr 2016	Humber Bridge	Leeds General Infirmary
77	1 May 2016 ~ 31 May 2016	RAF Firbeck	Mayor of Middlesbrough
78	1 Jun 2016 ~ 30 Jun 2016	Huddersfield	Northern General Hospital
79	1 Jul 2016 ~ 31 Jul 2016	Roseberry Topping	Old Queen's Head
80	1 Aug 2016 ~ 31 Aug 2016	Culture of Yorkshire	Patrington

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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The Signpost: 04 August 2016

Editorial: Misplaced Pages policy suppresses sharing of information

News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Misplaced Pages as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Misplaced Pages's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

Featured content: Women and Hawaii

Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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The Signpost: 18 August 2016

News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses

Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica

In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising

Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks

Traffic report: Olympic views

Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)

Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case

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Abkhazia RfC closure by a "new" IP

Hi IJA, please take a look here, at the last few edits, whenever you have time. Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 22:23, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

@LouisAragon: - By the looks of things, the matter seems to have been resolved. Give me a shout if you need anything mate. Regards IJA (talk) 10:49, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 101 - September 2016

August issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and first 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 12,795 last month to 12,822 on 3 September). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 132 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,655 articles.

Currently we have forty Yorkshire featured articles:

There are also sixteen featured lists:

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Marmion Tower was promoted to GA on August 3rd
2015–16 York City F.C. season was promoted to GA on August 5th
2016 Women's Tour de Yorkshire was promoted to GA on August 8th
Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed was nominated for FA on August 10th
1974 FA Charity Shield was nominated for GA on August 14th

Member News

There are 82 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the August 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 August 2016, 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

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...

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 September 2016 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
77	1 May 2016 ~ 31 May 2016	RAF Firbeck	Mayor of Middlesbrough
78	1 Jun 2016 ~ 30 Jun 2016	Huddersfield	Northern General Hospital
79	1 Jul 2016 ~ 31 Jul 2016	Roseberry Topping	Old Queen's Head
80	1 Aug 2016 ~ 31 Aug 2016	Culture of Yorkshire	Patrington
81	1 Sep 2016 ~ 30 Sep 2016	Leeds United F.C.	Queen Margaret's School, York

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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The Signpost: 06 September 2016

News and notes: AffCom still grappling with WMF Board's criteria for new chapters

Special report: Olympics readership depended on language

In the media: Librarians, Wikipedians, and a library of Misplaced Pages coverage

WikiProject report: Watching Misplaced Pages

Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between

Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit

Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them

Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism

Blog: Upload of free photos from Swiss library underway

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News and notes: Misplaced Pages Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 102 - October 2016

September issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and second 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 12,822 last month to 12,859 on 30 September). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 132 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,693 articles.

Currently we have forty one 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

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

Herbert Chapman was promoted to GA on August 21st
1974 FA Charity Shield was promoted to GA on August 23rd
Gilling and Pickering Line appeared in DYK on September 10th
Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed was promoted to FA on September 11th
The World Before the Flood was nominated for FA on September 21st
H. H. Asquith PR opened on September 23rd

Member News

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

EdwardUK (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month.

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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 September 2016, 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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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.

See how template parameters are used

The following was reported in Signpost and is very useful for finding mistakes in template usage.

The Template Parameters tool is now available on Tool Labs, for viewing template parameter usage. It works with TemplateData to show the validity of parameter names that are used in template transclusions. For a required parameter, it can display a list of pages where the template is missing the parameter. The tool also shows commonly used values for each parameter. The data is updated monthly.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The October 2016 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
78	1 Jun 2016 ~ 30 Jun 2016	Huddersfield	Northern General Hospital
79	1 Jul 2016 ~ 31 Jul 2016	Roseberry Topping	Old Queen's Head
80	1 Aug 2016 ~ 31 Aug 2016	Culture of Yorkshire	Patrington
81	1 Sep 2016 ~ 30 Sep 2016	Leeds United F.C.	Queen Margaret's School, York
82	1 Oct 2016 ~ 31 Oct 2016	Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews	Richmond, Sheffield

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 103 - November 2016

October issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and 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 12,850 last month to 12,996 on 30 October). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 132 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,719 articles.

Currently we have forty one Yorkshire featured articles:

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

North Eastern Railway War Memorial was nominated for GA on October 11th
H. H. Asquith PR closed on October 21st
H. H. Asquith was nominated for FA on October 21st

Member News

There are 83 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the October 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 October 2016, 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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 2016 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
79	1 Jul 2016 ~ 31 Jul 2016	Roseberry Topping	Old Queen's Head
80	1 Aug 2016 ~ 31 Aug 2016	Culture of Yorkshire	Patrington
81	1 Sep 2016 ~ 30 Sep 2016	Leeds United F.C.	Queen Margaret's School, York
82	1 Oct 2016 ~ 31 Oct 2016	Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews	Richmond, Sheffield
83	1 Nov 2016 ~ 30 Nov 2016	Associated Humber Lines	Thomas Savage (bishop)

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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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23:10, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

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Wikicup: WikiCup winners

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2016

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 104 - December 2016

November issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and 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 12,996 last month to 13,004 on 30 November). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 132 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,727 articles.

Currently we have forty two Yorkshire featured articles:

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

Neville–Neville feud was nominated for GA on October 27th
Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds was nominated for GA on October 28th
Mary Kitson Clark appeared in the DYK section of the main page on October 30th
The World Before the Flood was promoted to FA on November 1st
Sydney Robert Elliston appeared in the DYK section of the main page on November 4th
Neville–Neville feud was withdrawn from GA on November 22nd
Brudenell Social Club was promoted to GA on November 23rd

Member News

There are 83 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the November 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 November 2016, 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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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

Its that time of year again to wish all our members a Happy Christmas and a big thanks for all of the hard work put in throughout the year.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The December 2016 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
80	1 Aug 2016 ~ 31 Aug 2016	Culture of Yorkshire	Patrington
81	1 Sep 2016 ~ 30 Sep 2016	Leeds United F.C.	Queen Margaret's School, York
82	1 Oct 2016 ~ 31 Oct 2016	Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews	Richmond, Sheffield
83	1 Nov 2016 ~ 30 Nov 2016	Associated Humber Lines	Thomas Savage (bishop)
84	1 Dec 2016 ~ 31 Dec 2016	Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum	Taylor Report

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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...

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!

Delivered December 2016 by MediaWiki message delivery.
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21:18, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2017

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 105 - January 2017

December issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and fifth 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 13,004 last month to 13,038 on 3rd January). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 139 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,746 articles.

Currently we have forty two Yorkshire featured articles:

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

Penistone Hill Country Park appeared in the DYK section of the main page on November 25th
Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' was nominated for FA on December 7th

Member News

There are 82 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! Since the December newsletter 1 member has retired:

IJA (talk · contribs)

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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 December 2016, 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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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

Wishing all our members a Happy New Year.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The January 2017 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
81	1 Sep 2016 ~ 30 Sep 2016	Leeds United F.C.	Queen Margaret's School, York
82	1 Oct 2016 ~ 31 Oct 2016	Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews	Richmond, Sheffield
83	1 Nov 2016 ~ 30 Nov 2016	Associated Humber Lines	Thomas Savage (bishop)
84	1 Dec 2016 ~ 31 Dec 2016	Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum	Taylor Report
85	1 Jan 2017 ~ 31 Jan 2017	Brian Clough	Upsall Castle

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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 2017

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 106 - February 2017

January issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and 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 13,038 last month to 13,084 on 29th January). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 140 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,765 articles.

Currently we have forty three Yorkshire featured articles:

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

H. H. Asquith was not promoted to FA on December 17th
Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds was promoted to GA on December 22nd
Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' was promoted to FA on January 15th
Pinchinthorpe railway station appeared in the DYK section of the main page on January 21st

Member News

There are 82 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is 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 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 29 January 2017, 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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 February 2017 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
82	1 Oct 2016 ~ 31 Oct 2016	Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews	Richmond, Sheffield
83	1 Nov 2016 ~ 30 Nov 2016	Associated Humber Lines	Thomas Savage (bishop)
84	1 Dec 2016 ~ 31 Dec 2016	Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum	Taylor Report
85	1 Jan 2017 ~ 31 Jan 2017	Brian Clough	Upsall Castle
86	1 Feb 2017 ~ 28 Feb 2017	Yorkshire Terrier	Victoria Hall, Saltaire

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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 2017

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 107 - March 2017

February issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and 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 13,084 last month to 13,185 on 28th February). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 140 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,785 articles.

Currently we have forty three Yorkshire featured articles:

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

Giant Days appeared in the DYK section of the main page on January 20th
North Eastern Railway War Memorial was nominated for FA on February 1st
AM (Arctic Monkeys album) was nominated for GA on February 14th
[REDACTED] History of York City F.C. (1908–80) was the featured article on February 26th

Member News

There are 82 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the February 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 February 2017, 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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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 March 2017 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
83	1 Nov 2016 ~ 30 Nov 2016	Associated Humber Lines	Thomas Savage (bishop)
84	1 Dec 2016 ~ 31 Dec 2016	Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum	Taylor Report
85	1 Jan 2017 ~ 31 Jan 2017	Brian Clough	Upsall Castle
86	1 Feb 2017 ~ 28 Feb 2017	Yorkshire Terrier	Victoria Hall, Saltaire
87	1 Mar 2017 ~ 31 Mar 2016	University of Hull	West Burton, North Yorkshire

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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...

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

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13:42, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Collaborations of the month April 2017

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 108 - April 2017

March issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and 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 13,185 last month to 13,234 on 28th March). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 139 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,792 articles.

Currently we have forty four Yorkshire featured articles:

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

North Eastern Railway War Memorial was promoted to FA on March 6th
York City War Memorial was nominated for FA on March 7th
Northern England PR opened on March 13th
Neville–Neville feud was nominated for GA on March 25th

Member News

There are 81 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! One member left the project since the February newsletter.

Symac (talk · contribs)

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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 March 2017, 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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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.

Place list

This month I would like members to focus their attention on the List of places in Yorkshire article. It would be good that each time you look at an article on a place in Yorkshire that you also check if it is in the list article. You can easily get to the list article from a place article if it uses the {{Infobox UK place}} template as there is a link at the bottom of the template. If it is not present then add the appropriate link to the list.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The April 2017 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
84	1 Dec 2016 ~ 31 Dec 2016	Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum	Taylor Report
85	1 Jan 2017 ~ 31 Jan 2017	Brian Clough	Upsall Castle
86	1 Feb 2017 ~ 28 Feb 2017	Yorkshire Terrier	Victoria Hall, Saltaire
87	1 Mar 2017 ~ 31 Mar 2016	University of Hull	West Burton, North Yorkshire
88	1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Apr 2016	Oakwell Hall	Xscape (building)

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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...

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

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22:44, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2017

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 109 - May 2017

April issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and 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 13,234 last month to 13,279 on 29th April). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 139 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,826 articles.

Currently we have forty five Yorkshire featured articles:

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

York City War Memorial was promoted to FA on March 27th
William Tuke was nominated for GA on April 1st
2014 Tour de France was nominated for GA on April 12th
[REDACTED] George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore appeared on main page TFA on April 25th

Member News

There are 81 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the April 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 March 2017, 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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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.

Snap general election

In addition to the usual local elections, with the calling of a snap general election there will be a lot of changes required to articles over the coming couple of months to update the candidates and results for these in articles. There may be a set of new articles required for new MPs elected this time.

We also need to keep an eye out for any bias in articles about those standing for the election and to keep strict ballot paper order for the election results tables in the constituency articles before the results are know. We all have our views on this but we must remain as neutral as possible.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The May 2017 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
85	1 Jan 2017 ~ 31 Jan 2017	Brian Clough	Upsall Castle
86	1 Feb 2017 ~ 28 Feb 2017	Yorkshire Terrier	Victoria Hall, Saltaire
87	1 Mar 2017 ~ 31 Mar 2016	University of Hull	West Burton, North Yorkshire
88	1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Apr 2016	Oakwell Hall	Xscape (building)
89	1 May 2017 ~ 31 May 2017	Pickering, North Yorkshire	York Wagon Works

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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...

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!

Delivered May 2017 by MediaWiki message delivery.
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21:44, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2017

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 110 - June 2017

May issue

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and nintenth 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 13,279 last month to 13,303 on 2nd June). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 139 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,842 articles.

Currently we have forty five Yorkshire featured articles:

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

Northern England PR closed on May 9th
Northern England nominated for FA on May 9th
Herbert Sutcliffe was nominated for GA on May 20th

Member News

There are 81 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the May 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	60			78
FL			1	16			17
GA	2	7	36	180			225
B	9	67	137	372			585
C	5	146	303	1,518		1	1,973
Start	1	246	1,264	8,719			10,230
Stub		21	355	5,661	3		6,040
List		4	12	991			1,007
Category					3,929		3,929
Disambig					21		21
File					22		22
Portal					95		95
Project					228		228
Redirect			2	197	1,382		1,581
Template					624		624
NA					3		3
Other					9		9
Assessed	19	492	2,125	17,714	6,316	1	26,667
Unassessed			1				1
Total	19	492	2,126	17,714	6,316	1	26,668
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,463			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 March 2017, 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

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 Misplaced Pages 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 • 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.

Snap general election

With the calling of a snap general election there will be a lot of changes required to articles over the coming month to update the candidates and results for these in articles. There may be a set of new articles required for new MPs elected this time.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The June 2017 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
86	1 Feb 2017 ~ 28 Feb 2017	Yorkshire Terrier	Victoria Hall, Saltaire
87	1 Mar 2017 ~ 31 Mar 2016	University of Hull	West Burton, North Yorkshire
88	1 Apr 2016 ~ 30 Apr 2016	Oakwell Hall	Xscape (building)
89	1 May 2017 ~ 31 May 2017	Pickering, North Yorkshire	York Wagon Works
90	1 Jun 2017 ~ 30 Jun 2017	River Don, South Yorkshire	Alex Zane

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages 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.

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21:54, 3 June 2017 (UTC)