The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 19 - November 2009

October issue

Project News

• Welcome to the nineteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,532 last month to 7,738 on October 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2.034 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang

There are also ten featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Drax Power Station passed a GA review on October 5th
Thomas of Bayeux peer review initiated on October 8th
Sheffield was demoted from FA on October 9th
Anne Brontë failed a GA review on October 10th
East Riding of Yorkshire peer review initiated on October 23rd
Leeds peer review initiated on October 25th
David Wetherall passed a GA review on October 26th
County Borough of Leeds nominated for GA review on October 26th
Philip Larkin peer review initiated on October 27th
County Borough of Leeds promoted to GA on October 30th

Member News

There are now 70 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

• Willde1 (talk · contribs)
• Rimmer1993 (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

• For those of you who made changes and looked after the school and university articles after last month's feature.

• There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.

• The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs. Great !

• WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.

• A big Thank you to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.

Priority Articles

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

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

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

Yorkshire articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA	2	1	8	6	17
	FL				10	10
	GA	3	5	15	30	53
	B	4	33	99	63	199
	C	1	25	98	190	314
	Start	5	78	673	2090	2846
	Stub		16	392	3876	4284
	List		2	8	155	165
	Assessed	15	160	1293	6420	7888
	Total	15	160	1293	6420	7888

Assessment
Assess and review

Thanks

Aims

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

Specific aims for the project are:-

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

Popular pages

[edit] VBT

You typed:

I have reverted your edit which was in effect an attempt to alter the name of this article by copying the content and not doing a proper move that retains the history. You also did not make the same changes to the talk page. There has been consensus for a long while to call thsi article "Valence bond theory" with no caps for "bond" or "theory". If you think the name needs changing discuss it on the talk page and if there is agreement, the move can be done correctly. --Bduke (Discussion) 21:03, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Me: Hi, actually Valence bond theory may or might not have caps on "bond" and "theory", I just made the change because we use the short form VBT for Valence Bond Theory. So I thought, maybe the letters would be capital. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oberoy248 (talk • contribs) 12:06, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Who uses VBT? It is certainly not common. I see "VB theory", frequently but not "VBT". However, the main points are, first, that you changed the name improperly by copying material not doing a move. It had to be reverted to preserve the history of the article for copyright purposes. Please do not try to alter names of articles until you understand how it is done properly. Second, it is always a good idea if a title has existed for some time to discuss the move on the talk page. Please sign you posts on talk pages with ~~~~. Cheers, --Bduke (Discussion) 20:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

OK, got it. But how is it done? And thanks for the tip on signing Oberoy248 (talk) 04:11, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

You mean "moving"? You use the move tag at the top of the page. This will transfer the history, move the talk page also if it exists and make the old names (article and talk) into redirects. Alternately there is a page to request moves. --Bduke (Discussion) 05:57, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Please do your monitoring, overseeing thing

See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Scouting#Stepping_down_as_ScoutingWikiProject_Lead_Coordinator — Rlevse • Talk • 02:05, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Scouting elections

You are receiving this notice as an active member of WikiProject Scouting. To change your status as a member, please edit Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Members.

Rlevse is retiring as our lead coordinator; see Stepping down as ScoutingWikiProject Lead Coordinator. Election for a new coordinator will be held after the new year. If you are interested in nominating yourself or another editor, please add the name to Project coordinator election.

Yours in Scouting
---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 16:08, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2009

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 20 - December 2009 November issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here Project News Welcome to the twentieth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter. WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,738 last month to 7,870 on November 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,045 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 51. If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire Currently there are seventeen Yorkshire featured articles: Henry Moore • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang There are also ten featured lists: List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. Article Activity East Riding of Yorkshire nominated for GA review on November 7th Member News There are now 72 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter: Quantpole (talk · contribs) birksey (talk · contribs) No members left the project this month: Thanks There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date. The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs. Great ! WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks. A big Thank you to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. Priority Articles The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows - Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. Yorkshire articles Importance Top High Mid Low Total Quality FA 2 1 8 6 17 FL 10 10 GA 3 5 15 30 53 B 4 33 99 63 199 C 1 25 98 190 314 Start 5 78 673 2090 2846 Stub 16 392 3876 4284 List 2 8 155 165 Assessed 15 160 1293 6420 7888 Total 15 160 1293 6420 7888 Assessment Assess and review As of 30 November 2009, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. (Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however) Thanks Aims After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008. Specific aims for the project are:- To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below) To recruit more active editors (See Member News) To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members Christmas Greetings Welcome to all our active members. This is the twentieth newsletter, the Christmas 2009 issue, and by the time it reaches members there should still be time to drop some helpful hints about seasonal gifts for Wikipedians. The obvious things are computer and digital stuff, and books. (On Wikipedia socks are only for those with a sad identity crisis.) What sort of things? Well, computer stuff can be anything from a high spec laptop, through wireless networks, antivirus software, graphics software to memory cards and memory sticks. Digital cameras are coming down in price and an MP3 player can double up as a memory stick. A useful book for apprentice Wikipedians is, "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" by John Broughton, it's full of tips, tricks and explanations and can be bought at about half the price on the cover if you shop around. "The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality" by Andrew Dalby has just one five star review on Amazon, and the review of "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia" by Andrew Lih says "it's a book that will certainly make you think, but it will also leave you frustrated!". It might be a better idea to go for a reference book about your next favourite sport, hobby or indulgence. A good atlas always comes in useful as does a thesaurus, for when you come across the seventh time a word has been used in a paragraph! Or the good old phrase "is the home of" turns up yet again. Stocking fillers include pens and pencils, to replace the ones which fall on the floor and are never to be found again, and notebooks of all shapes and sizes. A ream of printer paper and the odd ink cartridge might be useful too. Happy Christmas. Please remember... 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. The latest listing was created on November 6th. Monitor 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. Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference. Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below... Written by Keith D and Harkey• 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!

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