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You commented recently on some BLP issues concerning ]. I've written a considerably expanded and improved version of the article in my userspace at ]. If you have any comments about this new version before it gets transferred into article space, please feel free to comment at ]. -- ] (]) 23:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC) You commented recently on some BLP issues concerning ]. I've written a considerably expanded and improved version of the article in my userspace at ]. If you have any comments about this new version before it gets transferred into article space, please feel free to comment at ]. -- ] (]) 23:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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Sheba Akhtar

I was about to put a speedy on Sheba Akhtar when I noticed that you had removed the speedy that you had earlier put there. The article seems like a resume of someone who is not very notable. Can you explain? Thanks. Peter Chastain (talk) 11:14, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

I put the speedy on but then did a quick look around and there seems to be some stuff about her. It's a terrible article but I'm not sure what it would be speediable as. I originally put A7 but there is an assertion of notability. I guess a G11 would be OK as a resume only promotes someone, but I'm not sure if that applies to people. If you think there's a valid speedy tag then feel free to go ahead. Quantpole (talk) 12:06, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
I've removed the resume stuff now. Still needs more cleaning up though. Quantpole (talk) 12:08, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2010

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 24 - April 2010

March issue


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Project News
  • 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 7,987 last month to 8,063 on March 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just behind WP:GM who have 55. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,139 articles.


Currently we have eighteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry MooreCaedmonSheffield Wednesday F.C.George Calvert, 1st Baron BaltimoreHistory of SheffieldYork City F.C.Joseph PriestleyStocksbridge Park Steels F.C.M62 motorwayValley ParadeWilliam WilberforceHistory of Bradford City A.F.C.Last of the Summer WineEaldred (archbishop)Paulinus of YorkWilfridCosmo Gordon LangThomas of Bayeux

There are also ten featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the YearList of York City F.C. managersList of York City F.C. playersList of York City F.C. seasonsList of Bradford City A.F.C. seasonsList of York City F.C. records and statisticsList of Leeds United A.F.C. seasonsList of Scarborough F.C. seasonsList of awards and nominations received by Arctic MonkeysList of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland


Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.


Article Activity

Yorkshire captaincy crisis of 1927 nominated for GA review on March 6th
Yorkshire captaincy crisis of 1927 promoted to GA on March 12th
Thomas of Bayeux promoted to FA on March 14th
Bramhope Tunnel nominated for GA review on March 18th


Member News

There are now 74 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the March newsletter:

No members left the project this month: though the number of active members is currently low.


Thanks
  • A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
  • Thanks to thos members that have been referencing the Biographies of Living People that was raised last month. We have cut the number of totally unreferenced articles to five.
  • To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
  • To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

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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.


Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 2 1 15 60 78
FL 1 16 17
GA 2 7 36 176 221
B 9 67 137 363 576
C 5 144 303 1,522 1,974
Start 1 242 1,258 8,694 10,195
Stub 21 352 5,655 3 1 6,032
List 4 12 968 984
Category 2,937 2,937
Disambig 13 13
File 21 21
Portal 37 37
Project 194 194
Redirect 2 172 1,251 1,425
Template 521 521
NA 25 1,290 1,315
Other 12 12
Assessed 19 486 2,116 17,651 6,279 1 26,552
Unassessed 1 1
Total 19 486 2,116 17,651 6,279 2 26,553
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 97,225 Ω = 5.10
Assessment
Assess and review
As of 31 March 2010, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)


 Thanks

Aims

After discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

  • To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
  • To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
  • 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 (See this month's feature below)
  • To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.


Biographies of Living People

As a follow up to last month's feature on BLP articles a BOT is now creating project listings of those BLP articles that are tagged as totally unreferenced. The listing for our project can be found at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Yorkshire/Unreferenced BLPs, I have added a link to this from the project side-bar for easy access to the listing. There are just five articles remaining on the list at the time of going to press, so well done.


General Election

The next General Election will be announced sometime during the month and so we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to this. There are two main sets of articles relevant here, firstly the constituency articles and secondly the articles relating to the candidates that are standing for election. Taking the first group there are a number of boundary changes relating to the constituencies in the area that will be implemented at the time of the General Election. These changes need to be reflected into the settlement articles that are affected by the change. I would suggest that the settlement's history section is updated to include details of the former constituency when adding the new one so that information is not lost. All of the constituency articles will need to be kept up to date with the list of candidates that are standing for the election. Much of the basic work on this has been done but new candidates will emerge until the closing date for candidates to declare. Note that the order of candidates should be maintained in ballot paper order prior to the result being declared so that we do not favour any of the parties in the election. So even if A. Aardvark is standing for the "Lets do away with wiki" party then they should appear first regardless of if we support them or not.

On the second set of articles, those on candidates, we are back to issues relating to BLP, NPOV and to avoiding them, or their supporters, using wiki as an electioneering medium. We should be vigilant to remove anything that ventures into this area as quickly as possible. There may be articles for candidates who are standing that are not tagged for the project so it would be good for these to be tagged so we can keep an eye on them. It is also a good time to improve the articles on the candidates as they will no doubt get more hits during the election period. Those of you in the UK may also see some of the candidates out on the campaign trail and it would be good to get a photo for their article if possible. It does not have to be a Yorkshire related politician as there are lots of articles about politicians that needed photos or updates to dated images.


WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The April 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

Month Dates Article(s)
B class choice Start class choice
II Feb 01, 2010 ~ Feb 28, 2010 Robin Hood Skipton
III Mar 01, 2010 ~ Mar 31, 2010 The Human League Swaledale
IV Apr 01, 2010 ~ Apr 30, 2010 Patrick Stewart A64 road

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.


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Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination)

Hi, Quantpole. Because you participated in Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (3rd nomination), you may be interested in Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination). Cunard (talk) 02:22, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2010

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 25 - May 2010

April issue


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Project News
  • 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 8,063 last month to 8,082 on April 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 55 is just behind WP:GM who have 56. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,161 articles.


Currently we have eighteen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry MooreCaedmonSheffield Wednesday F.C.George Calvert, 1st Baron BaltimoreHistory of SheffieldYork City F.C.Joseph PriestleyStocksbridge Park Steels F.C.M62 motorwayValley ParadeWilliam WilberforceHistory of Bradford City A.F.C.Last of the Summer WineEaldred (archbishop)Paulinus of YorkWilfridCosmo Gordon LangThomas of Bayeux

There are also ten featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the YearList of York City F.C. managersList of York City F.C. playersList of York City F.C. seasonsList of Bradford City A.F.C. seasonsList of York City F.C. records and statisticsList of Leeds United A.F.C. seasonsList of Scarborough F.C. seasonsList of awards and nominations received by Arctic MonkeysList of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland


Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.


Article Activity

Bramhope Tunnel promoted to GA following review on April 2nd
Tickle Cock Bridge was nominated, reviewed and promoted to GA on April 3rd
Cottingley Fairies was nominated, reviewed and promoted to GA on April 27th


Member News

There are now 75 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:

No members left the project this month: though the number of active members is still currently low.


Thanks
  • A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
  • Thanks to those members that have been working on updating articles in preparation for the general election.
  • To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
  • To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

thumbs up Great!


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.


Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 2 1 15 60 78
FL 1 16 17
GA 2 7 36 176 221
B 9 67 137 363 576
C 5 144 303 1,522 1,974
Start 1 242 1,258 8,694 10,195
Stub 21 352 5,655 3 1 6,032
List 4 12 968 984
Category 2,937 2,937
Disambig 13 13
File 21 21
Portal 37 37
Project 194 194
Redirect 2 172 1,251 1,425
Template 521 521
NA 25 1,290 1,315
Other 12 12
Assessed 19 486 2,116 17,651 6,279 1 26,552
Unassessed 1 1
Total 19 486 2,116 17,651 6,279 2 26,553
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 97,225 Ω = 5.10
Assessment
Assess and review
As of 30 April 2010, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)


 Thanks

Aims

After discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

  • To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
  • To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
  • 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 (See this month's feature below)
  • To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.


Elections

The next General Election will take place this month as will the local elections in a number of areas in the region and so again this month we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to these.

Last month I concentrated on the general election related articles in the run up to the announcement of the election. This month we need to concentrate on the aftermath of the election. The constituency articles are the first ones that need to be looked at and the results added to each of these. This gives us an opportunity to have some references on these pages as there will be extensive media coverage for the results. The articles relating to the set of new MPs will need to be updated to include details of their election victory and the office they take up in the new parliamentary session. At the same time those articles relating to politicians who loose their seat will need to be updated to cover this and to show the successor to the seat/office they held. Other articles that need to be looked at are the settlement articles to see if they need updating as a number of them mention the party that represent the place and some give details of the MPs that represent them.

As well as the general election there is also the local elections that are being held on the same day and again this needs to be looked at when updating the settlement articles as the council make up is often described in the governance section or given in the infobox. These elections will necessitate new articles creating for each of the councils that are holding elections to record the details of the election and the results. Others may generate these articles and members should tag these with the project tag {{WikiProject Yorkshire}} when they find them so that they can be tracked and are not forgotten about.


WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The April 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

Month Dates Article(s)
B class choice Start class choice
III Mar 01, 2010 ~ Mar 31, 2010 The Human League Swaledale
IV Apr 01, 2010 ~ Apr 30, 2010 Patrick Stewart A64 road
V May 01, 2010 ~ May 31, 2010 River Derwent, Yorkshire Bolling Hall, Bradford

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.


Please bear in mind...

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 23rd.

  • 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.
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

Written by Keith D and Harkey• Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

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Richard Goldstone - new version

You commented recently on some BLP issues concerning Richard Goldstone. I've written a considerably expanded and improved version of the article in my userspace at User:ChrisO/Goldstone. If you have any comments about this new version before it gets transferred into article space, please feel free to comment at Talk:Richard Goldstone#New version. -- ChrisO (talk) 23:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Notification: General sanctions and 1RR restriction on Richard Goldstone

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