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Hiya Nick, I just discovered your Wikipedia page so I thought I'd leave a message saying hey. Feel free to contact me on my talk page or by email for all things Wikiepdia.
Thanks for responding. Could you give some further explanation so other editors who come across these edits will understand what's going on? Addressing copyrights would help. --Ronz (talk) 15:50, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 15:05, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for this work. I found [1] and I encourage you to continue adding Wikipedia-cited works to your institutional repository as well as links to those copies from Wikipedia articles. Your edits were probably subject to more discussion than usual because it was a busy time or because of links not going to PDFs directly, but policies clearly support adding URLs of OA PDFs in existing citations. Let me know if you need more suggestions of DOIs to deposit or links to add with OAbot's help (there are currently 112 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk links in the queue). --Nemo 17:22, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I just noticed we're now over 700 articles with a link to eprints.whiterose.ac.uk, that's wonderful! I hope the repository keeps expanding its collection of green open access copies of works cited on Wikipedia. Nemo 14:15, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Yes I link an OA version whenever I spot one and encouraging use of Wikipedia across the institution. May be interested in this article http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.509Nick Sheppard (talk) 15:04, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, nice write-up! Kudos for citing all Wikimedia projects. Nemo 18:02, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And good to have the dataset in Zenodo, but too bad for the XSLX format... a preservation and FLOSS-friendly ODT is always better, in my view! But just nitpicking. If you want I can write a very simplistic SQL query to make such counts for those domains in a click, à la quarry:query/31224. Nemo 04:36, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for the informative edit to the sewage article. I rather favor its initial placement in the Disposal section over its later placement in the Treatment section; although I think the concept might warrant an intermediate Reclamation section. What are your thoughts? Thewellman (talk) 18:02, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Thewellman: Thanks. Yes I think so too...just didn't have time! Probably also more out there for such a section?
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Welcome to the one hundred and seventy 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 18,293 last month to 18,564 on 31 January 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,844 articles.
Currently we have seventy four Yorkshire featured articles:
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2023[edit]
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy ninth 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 18,564 last month to 18,601 on 27 February 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,848 articles.
Currently we have seventy four 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.
North Yorkshire
A note that there will be a major change coming up for North Yorkshire with the reorganisation of the local government of the area. This will see the abolition of the districts and North Yorkshire becoming a unitary authority taking on all of the responsibilities of the district councils. This will require a change to most articles relating to the area. If you have any thoughts on what needs doing then make them known at the project talk page.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2023[edit]
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 18,601 last month to 18,643 on 29 March 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,855 articles.
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Welcome to the one hundred and eighty first 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 18,643 last month to 18,663 on 29 April 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 210 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,858 articles.
Currently we have seventy five Yorkshire featured articles:
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Elections
Just a note to remind members that May is the time for local elections in England. Some new articles will be required for details of the elections in the different areas holding elections. Location articles may need updating to cover changes to the political makeup of the councils.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2023[edit]
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty second 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 18,663 last month to 18,698 on 3 June 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 210 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,863 articles.
Currently we have seventy five 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.
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Hello! Your submission of Dress history at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 00:32, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2023[edit]
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty third 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 18,698 last month to 18,727 on 29 June 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,865 articles.
Currently we have seventy five 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.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2023[edit]
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty 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 18,727 last month to 18,781 on 29 July 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,868 articles.
Currently we have seventy five 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.
Yorkshire Day
Happy Yorkshire Day to all the project members. I have selected the article as the start-class article for improvement for this month. So take a look at what is there and see if you can improve it.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2023[edit]
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty 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 (down from 18,781 last month to 18,772 on 4 September 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 215 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,861 articles.
Currently we have seventy five 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.
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Hallo Nick, Thanks for your edits to All Saints' Church, Harewood, which I saw as it's on my watch list (I started the article many years ago, after singing in a wonderful come-and-sing rendition of a 40-part choral work there to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Redundant Churches Trust).
A few little points:
Please remember that refs go after punctuation, not before
Please remember not to use "curly" single or double quotes, even within quoted text (one of the few permitted changes to quoted text)
Please remember to give enough info in a reference so that someone could trace the article without clicking on the web link: I've upgraded your ref to the Dawson paper, as just "Proquest" was really inadequate.
Reference names don't need to be in quotes unless they include spaces, so I don't know why you added quotes to so many of them: unnecessary clutter. (I make a point of using hyphens rather than spaces in ref names, just to avoid the quotes)
Thanks, PamD 15:39, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @PamD - just a few quick edits after a turn round the All Saints Graveyard this morning when out with the dog, I’m still a novice and not necessarily great at the detail!
I knew the proquest reference was insufficient but was struggling to find the full reference.
Don’t quite understand the last point? For references I tend to use the auto-generate feature…has that introduced quotes?
Appreciate the pointers. The great thing about Wikipedia of course is that someone will come and tidy up after me 😀
I’d love to go back and see inside sometime. Nick Sheppard (talk) 18:49, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
"someone will come and tidy up after me", of course, but ideally you shouldn't need the same tidying up too often! I see Keith D fixed another misplaced ref, or misplaced fullstop.
I don't know what the "auto-generate feature" is, or why it would mess with existing reference names: do you use Visual Editor or text editing, I wonder? There are so many options and alternatives that we can all end up with a different editing environment.
Note that all- numeric dates are allowed as an option for "access-date", but not when the article has an established style of using dmy dates for the access-date (as any article started by me will have, I don't like numeric dates).
As for the Dawson ref, just put in the info you can see on screen. it doesn't seem to have a doi. If you really can't work out how to format a ref it's better to include a full but badly-formatted ref, rather than well-formatted but uninformative.
There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey. Enjoy your editing! PamD 20:10, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Always interesting to see people from Leeds Uni: I wrote the University Library's first web page in August 1994, during 26 years working there till early-retiring 20 years ago! PamD 20:14, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I mostly use visual editor with the 'cite' button which just creates a reference from a doi or web link. I do find wiki mark up tricky, I'm better with html! Would love to have seen that first webpage from 1994 :)
Do let me know if you'd like to know more, or even share your expertise as a former librarian from Leeds. Feel free to drop me an email n.sheppard(at)leeds.ac.uk Nick Sheppard (talk) 08:36, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty 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 18,772 last month to 18,816 on 29 September 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 215 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,865 articles.
Currently we have seventy five 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.
Article counts
The drop in the article count last month was caused by a BOT converting the assesments over for pages that had become redirects. Please remember that when you convert an existing article into a redirect to change the class rating to |class=Redir and remove the importance rating from the project banner on the talk page.
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Welcome to the one hundred and eighty 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 18,816 last month to 18,845 on 29 October 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 216 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,866 articles.
Currently we have seventy five 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.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2023[edit]
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty 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 18,845 last month to 18,873 on 29 November 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 216 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,871 articles.
Currently we have seventy five 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
A Happy Christmas to all members of the project and thanks for all the work you have put in supporting articles relating to Yorkshire. The year saw much change, especially to the governance of North Yorkshire which became a unitary authority in April. This affected a large number of articles, but most of this has been done by those who are active. There is still many of the smaller settlements that need updating, so if you have time have a go at bringing them up to date.
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I have sent you a note about a page you started[edit]
Thank you for this interesting article. I have given it a minor copyedit, and added an infobox and commons category, plus a header paragraph. I have checked it for copyvio, and rephrased a few words to avoid that problem. I have also added a few links to it, in other articles, so that it is not an orphan, and added a few Wikiprojects to the talk page.
Looking at a past conversation on your talk page, I strongly recommend that you compare the changes that I have made, and learn from them. You still need to put references after punctuation, for example. That said, I am glad that you have created this article, and I look forward to seeing more articles from you.
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It's the first rewrite I've done and not totally sure of the etiquette...the last previous edit was a year ago so just thought I'd go ahead. Let me know what you think (probably needs an infobox?)
Have checked references after punctuation :) Nick Sheppard (talk) 19:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have done a quick copyedit of the Peel Monument article. There are a few issues remaining. One is that the header (opening para) is supposed to be a quick summary of the main body of the article. Therefore we don't put citations in the header; we repeat the information (with citations) in the body of the article.
I always find it easiest when starting an article from scratch to first amass a pile of sources, then create the body of the article from that. Lastly I add the header as a summary. That way, I don't end up with any uncited paras, or a header which does not properly summarise the article. I also find that it is useful to insert the infobox form as early as possible, because it acts as a good prompt for research and inclusion of essential facts. Because starting with a pile of sources would not be well-received on WP, I always begin the article construction in userspace. Everybody has their own way of starting their article construction, of course; that is only one way, but it does help to prevent certain errors.
Another issue is that you have some rather awkward, long sentences. They would make more sense if you changed the order of the material in them, or - even better - if you divided them into shorter sentences. Think about "which he had also built in 1832, when viewed from his home at Nuttall Hall". or "Built at a cost of £1000 raised through public appeal and standing 128 feet,[1][2] the gritstone used to construct the monument was quarried". Written in the right order, long sentences with great, overarching clauses, and an atom bomb at the end (so to speak), can be powerful - or witty. If you want to be in control of your long sentences, one of the best examples to imitate is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall. On the other hand, short sentences can be powerful in another way, especially if you are piling on the facts, then ending with the main point. The main thing is to be in control.
Think I've run out of online sources for Wilson but there's stuff in Special Collections at UoL I want to look at, and plan to visit the Leeds Library at some point.
I just took a quick glance at the first half of the Wilson article, and the Standard English looks fine to me. I see you've already had PamD on there - it's always worth taking her edit summaries seriously, bearing in mind she is one of our best editors on the British articles. Storye book (talk) 12:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure if you mean Leeds Central Library (public library next to Town Hall) or Leeds Library (private, -fee-paying library in Commercial Street). I guess you know all this already, but if you haven't been there - the indexing in Leeds Central Library is very good, and last time I was there it was the Business library which fronted the reference books, though there is also a Local Studies section - both upstairs. UoL has an excellent search engine for its books, but if you're not currently a member you need an appointment. But forgive me if you already know all this. Last time I was in Leeds Library (the private one), they had a wonderful collection and lovely staff, but no proper indexing, to the extent that they didn't really know what books they had, or didn't have. Sigh. Storye book (talk) 12:34, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't spent much time at the Central Library tbh, I did go to an editathon there once and have a good contact there - I'd like to do more wiki stuff across Leeds, bringing together the University, library and museums. Everyone's so busy though! Nick Sheppard (talk) 12:44, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, they are a good bunch of people. I contributed to Leeds Tiger along with two museum archive people - that was quite exciting when they kindly opened the glass case so that I could photograph it. When I was in a phase of doing Victorian churches with their clergy, the Central Library staff used to bring all their Crockfords down on a trolley to the Business dept - really kind of them, as they were heavy to manhandle, like that (now there's a few Crockfords online, which helps). The LCL library ticket is really useful for their free online subscriptions, e.g. to Who's Who and various newspapers. Storye book (talk) 16:30, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That reminds me - if you are doing Holcombe Moor - you maybe have access to the Manchester library and museum? I'm just wondering if they have: Tracy, William Burnett (1901). Pike, W. T. (ed.). Vol. 2. Manchester and Salford at the Close of the Nineteenth Century.' Brighton, Sussex: W. T. Pike & Co. (known as Pike Manchester). It's exactly the right date for our Rev. Henry Dowsett of Pilgrims' Cross fame - there might be a pic of him and short biog in there. Worth a try? He was a bit of a character - officially an Anglican priest, but a Puritan who tried to ban dancing, apparently. If you can't get at Pike Manchester, I'll try the British Library at Wetherby, when I can get there (a four-bus round trip and some walking ... ) Storye book (talk) 16:44, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately not…I grew up in Lancashire, about 3 miles from Holcombe Village. Could see the tower across the valley from my house 😀 Nick Sheppard (talk) 18:02, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, then you'll know exactly how the country people would have all known each other for generations, and in 1901 they will have had a very good idea about who destroyed the Pilgrim's Cross foundation stone, and why. My guess is that they knew how fond of the stone Dowsett was, and he had upset somebody. Bearing in mind that he had been going around telling people off for dancing, I daresay there was no shortage of motivations. Local journalists always know, too, but local papers are always scared of publishing anything too controversial. Kick one and they all limp, haha. So we'll never know, but I bet they did. Storye book (talk) 18:18, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good theory! I used to run up there past Pilgrims’ Cross - never did the fell race though - took my wife up there on one of our first dates, in Winter…2008. Perhaps surprisingly we’re still married. I’ve a picture of us sat on the stone, so it’s great to have such detailed history up on Wikipedia. Nick Sheppard (talk) 18:47, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fantastic! I've just discovered that Dowsett had a wife called Lydia Luce, from St Helier. I suspect that she had a lot to put up with, what with him stomping about on the moor doing antiquarian stuff with his mates, writing books and grumping about dancing, hehe. At least I suppose all that kept him out of her way. Storye book (talk) 19:15, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Haha, good one! Another bit of good news is that I have just received a better scan of the cart-and-village photo. If you zoom in, you can just glimpse the ears of some of the 14 horses, the heavy iron cartwheels with chocks, and the nicely-dressed (antiquarians?) on the right. I guess Dowsett was behind the camera, because I'm betting that if he had had the chance he would have been strutting front-of-stage. I'll upload it in a little while, and use it to replace the current version in the article.
By the way, I've had a rethink about the whodunnit. The controversy about the requisition of land for the firing range started by 1901, and it would have been in the interest of pro-firing-range people to remove any monument which got in the way of their case. And it was local people who staffed the local Territorial Army. And that might explain why it would have been expedient for Dowsett to get an important-looking replacement up there pronto. Storye book (talk) 09:32, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've already got it in hand. I've done the QPQ, and thought of at least one hook - the 14 horses, which have really captured my imagination - though you're welcome to add other ALTs. The picture would of course be one of the monument ID pictures - possibly the one you initially chose for the article. You as creator, me as contributor and nominator - so we each get one DYK credit. The article is both new enough, long enough, and already has been expanded 5X, so we get to jump through all the hoops. If you had already set your heart on doing the nomination yourself, I apologise - If I do it I shall have to do it today, because I don't know if I'll be free to do it at the weekend, so may miss the 7-day slot. Just take it as me bagsying the time slot, and you are very welcome to change any other details. Hope that's OK? Storye book (talk) 16:41, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Did you know nominations/Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor. Done. Thank you for your patience with this. As I said, please change the details and hook as you wish. At least we've bagged the time slot now. We don't yet have proper pictures of the horses, but I suspect that they exist. I have been given the info that Bury Archive has 5 pictures in the set (presumably four dated 24 May 1902 and one dated before 1901) titled: 1. Holcombe (the village pic that we have?), 2. Harcles Hill, 3. Moorbottom Road, 4. unloading new stone, 5. socket destroyed 1901 (possibly Henry Dowsett's pic that we have?).
Meanwhile, I have sent for a modern reprint of Pike Manchester and Pike Lancashire, in the hope that Dowsett might be in one of them. Even if he is not, I shall at least be able to upload the indexes to the W.T. Pike Commons category, so that our editors can check out what is in there. One way or another, it should be useful. Storye book (talk) 17:23, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty ninth 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 (down from 18,873 last month to 18,855 on 4 January 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 216 is ahead of WP:GM who have 89. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,872 articles.
Currently we have seventy five 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
A Happy New Year to all members of the project and thanks for all the work you have put in supporting articles relating to Yorkshire in the last year.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2024[edit]
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 18,855 last month to 18,943 on 31 January 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 217 is ahead of WP:GM who have 89. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,916 articles.
Currently we have seventy five Yorkshire featured articles:
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Unreferenced backlog
There is an Unreferenced Article Backlog drive running throughout February across Wikipedia, it would be good for project members to be involved in this and help reduce the number of unreferenced articles supported by the project. You do not have to signup to be involved. There are currently 245 in the "Cites no sources" section of the project's clean-up listing that could do with some sources adding to them.
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There has been widespread adoption of circular economic models in agriculture which is essential to global food security and to help mitigate against climate changee, however there are also potential risks to human and environmental health from contaminants remaining in recycled water or organic material.
These risks can be mitigated by addressing three specific issues that will also depend on the local context. These are contaminant monitoring, collection, transport, and treatment, and regulation and policy. Nick Sheppard (talk) 14:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2024[edit]
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty first 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 18,943 last month to 19,208 on 28 February 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 219 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,983 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
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Hello there! Interested in having a chat with fellow Wikipedians? There's a meetup in Leeds on Saturday 4th May 2024, at the Tiled Hall Café at Leeds Central Library.
You're receiving this one-off message as you're either a member of WikiProject Yorkshire, you've expressed an interest in a previous Leeds meetup years ago, or (for about 4 of you), we've met :)
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Welcome to the one hundred and ninty second 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 19,208 last month to 19,275 on 8 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 221 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,047 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
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Welcome to the one hundred and ninty third 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 19,275 last month to 19,335 on 28 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 220 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,054 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
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Elections
This is the month for local elections, Mayoral elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. There will be a large number of results articles that need creating or updating. There will also be updates to most of the location articles, with changes to the governess sections and infoboxes. Not to mention the people articles for those standing for election.
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Hello! Your submission of Wilson Armistead at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Mhhossein talk 14:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
