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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2008[edit]

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue I - May 2008

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Project News

One of the new aims of the project was to produce a monthly newsletter to be circulated to members. This is it!

Priorities are still being discussed; please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are nine Yorkshire featured articles:

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade

There are also seven 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 • York City F.C. seasons • Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. statistics and records • Leeds United A.F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Kingston upon Hull was nominated for GA Status on April 28th

WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (3343 on April 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.

As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.

Member News

There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 2 new members that have joined us since March:

Jetsetradio (talk · contribs)

Paulrach (talk · contribs)

No users left the WikiProject this month, but the list may need trimming to account for the one user who was permanently blocked and one who seems not to exist. There are also several who have not contributed to Wikipedia for some months.

The format of the member list has been altered to:

allow easier editing for new members
assist members to communicate more easily (by including members talk pages)
allow member to keep up to date with each other's contributions

Thanks

The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99. Many thanks.

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

Written by User:Harkey Lodger • 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!

New Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

Specific aims for the project are:-

To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles
To recruit more active editors
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

The top priority articles that have been identified to date and their current ratings are as follows -

Bradford - B
East Riding of Yorkshire - B
Henry Moore - FA - but would be demoted for lack of references if reviewed
Kingston upon Hull - B - informal Peer review comments on talk page
Leeds - B
North Yorkshire - Start
Ripon - B
Sheffield - FA
South Yorkshire - Start
Wakefield - Start
West Yorkshire - Start
William Wilberforce - GA - actively being worked on for FAC
York - B
Yorkshire - B
Yorkshire and the Humber - Start

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

Don't Forget...

Monitor
Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism can be removed as quickly as possible.

Images!
There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need.

Assessment
Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.

Last but not Least...
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do.

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