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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3635 last month to 3781 on July 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 24 out of a total number of 1624 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:LONDON and WP:GM who each have 21.
Member News
There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new member that has joined us since the July newsletter:
User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments about Yorkshire Portal at peer review which continues to be maintained by Kaly99. Once more, thank you.
There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.
The football and rugby editors have to be admired for 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.
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.
Article improvement
One of the aims of our project was to set up a periodic Article improvement drive. The article on our county town of York is suggested for this month. Please discuss and/or make edits to move towards WP:GA? status for our first selected article.
Please remember...
The project is now 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.
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. Useful ones include:
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.
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David Cotterill
Hi there, here are some sources.[1][2][3] It may sound strange but it's true... Mattythewhite (talk) 10:55, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Cobweb bridge
Thanks for updating, I'm going to have a look. I love the bridge and was bloody annoyed when it was vandalised. Talltim (talk) 16:05, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Not a problem pal. I believe it's been sorted for a while. It's just a shame some miserable ****holes feel the need to keep wrecking it for a quick few quid!
I was gonna head down there myself next week, see if I can't get a nice photo or something. :) L.J.Skinnerwot|I did 18:38, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I wouldn't hurry, I've just been there and its still closed and no work looks like it has been done :( Talltim (talk) 12:53, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
That's a shame. I'd hear it'd been fixed. L.J.Skinnerwot|I did 08:54, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Opinion
Lewis have can you have a look at Meadowhall see what you think of recent edits, since you changed my rough conversion to convert, see what you think. cheers2 - --BulldozerD11 (talk) 01:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I assume you're referring to the removal of information. I've put it back, as I think it's all useful, save maybe for the Meadowhell nickname - although I have heard it many times, I doubt it can be sourced, and so needs to removed if challenged. L.J.Skinnerwot|I did 01:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
I know your more familiar with the article than me, and to me it changing the POV. The Envior bits abit over weight and look too PR to me. needs convert from Gallons to liters adding. BTW we still use Miles ;) Cheers lewis (would have reverted but database locked {bit like SSC} then other edits made) so was not sure, as change in shops valid up date, but other white wash not. - BulldozerD11 (talk) 02:03, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
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