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Welcome to the one hundred and sixty 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 17,376 last month to 17,458 on 29 November 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 204 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 88 while WP:GM has 70 out of a total number of 4,696 articles.
Currently we have seventy one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Happy Christmas
Just to say thanks for all the effort put in by members on articles covering the Yorkshire area and to wish everyone a Happy Christmas. It is time to take a break and to spend some time with family and friends. May be even to indulge yourself in the food and drink that abounds at this time of year or even make that occasional visit to a church. What ever you do over the festive season enjoy it and see you next year.
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Very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.Martinevans123 (talk) 21:36, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Non-legally binding Santa Clause disclaimer statement: any supposed similarity to the Christmas card sent to you by MarnetteD is purely coincidental. Merry Everything!! (.. I already sent you the Rock Bottom version, didn't I...)
Thanks Martin! ... ermmmm I don't remember you rocking my bottom, but do please remind me? My flaky memory is quite a feature nowadays ... Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:45, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
AHA yes! Thank you so much. Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:52, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy Everything!
I wish all my friends and colleagues here a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and/or other seasonal and/or religious event as appropriate, or indeed just a nice few days off and a drink or two – whatever works for you! Happy happy, best wishes to all, DBaK (talk) 16:14, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Class 47
Yeah, that was confusing for a reader who wasn't familiar with the complexities of the subject. Basically 111 locomotives still exist, 78 as Class 47s and 33 which were converted to 57s. Of the 78, 31 are preserved and 33 are mainline registered, but four of those are actually both, so that's 60 locomotives. 17 are stored unserviceable and 1 was exported to Hungary = 78. Since that's never going in the lede (and the number that are mainline registered can be fluid), I've just simplified it. Black Kite (talk) 23:43, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Ah great, thank you @Black Kite for an excellent sortout! Cheers DBaK (talk) 12:56, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
today an Italian opera, my second ever, as the TFA written by two dear people, and a park where I went with dear people, as pictured DYK --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
... and today memories of singing Monteverdi, Handel, Rossini - a triple nod to Brian - and a Bach sing-along to come tonight, stay tuned --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:33, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
If you like Advent music, check this out. If you like Christmas music and wishes, watch my user talk until 27 December ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:50, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
This list that you have doubts about was constructed by a very obvious sock of User:Politialguru. Along with others, I've addressed their block evading edits at existing articles but was unsure about the best way of addressing an article they had themself compiled and that whether that in itself was a suficient basis to delete the list. As you also have doubts about it, any thoughts? Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:03, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
That was denied as ineligible. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:18, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Ah right – thanks Mutt Lunker – fair enough I suppose, and good luck with your next bit. I suppose if it does survive it will either become useful or get ignored, so no-one will actually die either way ... I was just a bit baffled about what it was for, but ho hum. Tickled to see Benwell mentioned – are you local? – my grandfather was landlord or manager or something at the Benwell Arms (... or Benwell Hotel??) about a zillion years ago. I think it is now something very unglamorous like a carpet warehouse or something. Maybe just waiting for a rich madman to make it a trendy gastropub ... cheers DBaK (talk) 20:11, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
No likelihood of deaths rather sums up the bulk of Politialguru's socks edits. They make numerous, substantial, bafflingly pointless changes, peppered with sufficient actively suspect material that they were blocked but keep coming back for more. Can't remember how they came into my radar but it's not because I'm local. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:30, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Sheesh, and thanks. I had a look at some of the LTA stuff last night and very promptly wished that I had not ... best wishes (and good luck!) DBaK (talk) 10:00, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Update: this is getting very offtopic but I looked at Streetview and it (the ex-boozer) is now a rather nice-looking supermarket with flats above and new dormer windows in the roof. It's in better shape than it has been for a while, so I can probably keep my millions ... DBaK (talk) 10:02, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Hahaha thank you Martin! Excellent stuff that you created here. The thing I find bizarre is that I don't remember knowing about this story at the time. I am supposed to be a classical music person (OK I was not working in music then but even so) and yet it seems to have floated way over my head. Did you know about it then?? Cheers DBaK (talk) 09:58, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
I surely cannot have been drunk for all of 2007???? DBaK (talk) 09:59, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
Lol. Ditto - similarly, I had never heard of her. In fact, the nearest I got to Joyce Hatto was Beth Ditto. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:01, 30 December 2021 (UTC) p.s,. I managed most of 2006.
DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 13:54, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and sixty 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 17,514 last month to 17,579 on 28 January 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 204 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 87 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,715 articles.
Currently we have seventy Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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Welcome to the one hundred and sixty 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 17,458 last month to 17,514 on 2 January 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 204 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 88 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,703 articles.
Currently we have seventy one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Happy New Year
Just a Happy New Year to all those active members of he Yorkshire project, hope you all had a good time over the Festive period and are ready for the new year. Hopefully it will not be as disrupive as the previous couple of years.
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The January 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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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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For spellchecking my article on William Thornton Whitsett. No matter how many times I proofread, I still miss really fundamental errors.
Txantimedia (talk) 23:21, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and sixty 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 17,579 last month to 17,593 on 28 February 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 204 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 87 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,722 articles.
Currently we have seventy Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Welcome to the one hundred and sixty 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 17,593 last month to 17,926 on 30 March 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 206 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 87 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,726 articles.
Currently we have seventy Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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