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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5108 last month to 5202 on February 17th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 32 out of a total number of 1801 articles. In the area of GAs, at 32, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 42.
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.
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
Orphan articles
Members may have noticed a new spate of article tagging by bots in the last month. A large number (over 250) of articles belonging to the project have been tagged with the {{Orphan}} template indicating that there are no or few incoming links to the article. It would be helpful if members tried to reduce the number of tagged articles by introducing wikilinks into related articles so that there is a minimum of three links to each of the orphaned articles. Once the links are in place the tag can be removed and the bot should not re-add the tag. The bot is currently only doing articles with no incoming links.
Portal
Those of you with eagle eyes may have spotted the change made to the Yorkshire Portal link in the project template. Rather than the usual jig-saw image it has been changed to the Yorkshire Rose image to give it a more distinctive look and hopefully raise the profile of the portal.
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 February 25th.
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.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
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.
The February 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVI (February 2009)
The February 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Nominations for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election
The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process has started; to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on 13 March! This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 18:52, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
WP:FILMS Coordinator nominations
Coordinator nominations
The WikiProject Films coordinator selection process has recently begun! We are aiming to elect seven coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on March 14! Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 23:53, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello?
Gaia,
Know you're around cause I see your edits. Can you update my program page please? Plus, I started two new articles on US Army Commanders. Please tell me how I am doing. PS: Got about 1300 edits. Just Checking in, since you haven't updated my program page. Cheers:) --Riotrocket8676You gotta problem with that? 03:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
The WikiProject Films coordinator voting process has recently begun! We are aiming to elect seven coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are still interested in running, please sign up here. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by March 28. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 18:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
The Military history WikiProject coordinator election has started. We will be selecting coordinators from a pool of eighteen to serve for the next six months. Please vote here by 23:59 (UTC) on Saturday, 28 March! Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 00:56, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Films March 2009 Newsletter
The March 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:06, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVII (March 2009)
The March 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 02:34, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5202 last month to 5866 on March 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 32 out of a total number of 1828 articles. In the area of GAs, at 35, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 40.
To those who have done some work on sorting the orphan articles mentioned in the last newsletter. The number has decreased but there is still some way to go.
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.
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 -
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.
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
Co-ordinates
Further runs of the bot to tag articles with the {{coord missing}} template have been made during the last month. This has resulted in a significant number of the project's articles being tagged as needing coordinate data adding. At the time of writing there are 719 articles assigned to the Yorkshire categories with more expected as the bot moves articles from the United Kingdom and England categories into the county categories. It would be good if we could get the number down as when the co-ordinates are in place the article is available to other providers such as Google to display on maps. The best way of doing this is to complete the appropriate field(s) in the infobox template, if there is no template then consider adding one and killing two birds with one stone.
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 March 9th.
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.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
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.
I recommend always to look back to the last registered user, for example in this contribution you deleted some vandalism but left other untouched. Thanks! --Againme (talk) 19:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I hadn't realized that you were a newbie. :=) You just have to go to the article's "history" (on the top of the page), and look for differences between the last editions by anonymous users and the last edition by a registered user (like we are, users with nicknames in blue). You do this by clicking in the little circles by the side of each version listed in the History page. To compare, click in the left circle of the older version and in the right circle of the newest version. Then, click on "Compare selected versions". To restore the last non vandalic version, you just have to revert the vandalic ones (With the "Undo" button) or, if the system doesn't let you, you can go back directly to the last good version by editing it and saving it again. Regards.--Againme (talk) 19:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks but I know that already. I use huggle to revert vandalism and I haven't totally figured out how to use it yet. :) Gaia Octavia AgrippaTalk | Sign 19:40, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Oh! Too high-tech for me!! LOL
LOL. I'm still finding my way round it but its really good when they only my one vandalisation (?). Gaia Octavia AgrippaTalk | Sign 19:44, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Question by Craig
hello... very confused how to message you, but you reverted some of my changes i made to the lil kim discography... can you please approve my changes - they are legit and as follows
1. in the "featured singles" area where i corrected the borders of the boxes so that the single girls with se7en was in the boxes... this single is now out of the boxes again...
take a look where it says 2009... youll see i was only putting it into the correct format...
2. in the "Guest/soundtrack appearances" where i corrected the title of her song with mu dills... the song is actually called raincheck... someone had changed the title to "hater of the day" - where they have got confused at it being referred to as a "heater of the day" on some hip hop website
3. i also added in the upcoming song with fat joe from his new album... this osng is already listed on wikipedia from his upcoming album, and even has a reference
thanks for that... and the advice! craig (Craigtemplate (talk) 14:53, 16 April 2009 (UTC))
Re: Permission
You are more than welcome to use any of my lessons; in fact, you wouldn't be the first to do so. Please let me know if anything needs updating; I made those lessons over a year ago and some of them are rather out of date. Enjoy, and best of luck with the newbies! Hersfold(t/a/c) 17:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
Would you be interested in helping?
We need more input to a discussion to resolve "if Gallipoli was part of European operations or not". You can reach the discussion using this link Conflict over Gallipoli Campaign. --TarikAkin (talk) 00:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
--Riotrocket8676 You gotta problem with that? 20:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC)