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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 13 - May 2009

April issue

Project News

• Welcome to the thirteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5866 last month to 6113 on April 25th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1835 articles. In the area of GAs, at 36, WP:YORKS equals WP:GM.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are fourteen 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 • Caedmon • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop)

There are also eight 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 • Scarborough F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Architecture of Leeds was promoted to GA on April 5th
York was nominated for GA on April 7th
York failed its GA review on April 17th

Member News

There are now 60 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There have been no changes in the membership since the April newsletter.

Thanks

• To those who have done some work on adding co-ordinates and infoboxes to articles as 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 -

• Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

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	Other	???	Total
FA	2	1	15	60				78
FL			1	16				17
GA	2	7	36	176				221
B	9	67	137	366				579
C	5	144	303	1,520				1,972
Start	1	242	1,258	8,698			1	10,200
Stub		21	352	5,656	3		1	6,033
List		4	12	969				985
Category					3,419	1		3,420
Disambig					21			21
File					20			20
Portal					74			74
Project					79			79
Redirect			2	188	1,299			1,489
Template					506			506
NA				9	14			23
Other					10			10
Assessed	19	486	2,116	17,658	5,445	1	2	25,727
Unassessed							4	4
Total	19	486	2,116	17,658	5,445	1	6	25,731
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 97,247			Ω = 5.10

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 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
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

Article tagging

This month I thought that I would focus on article tagging. Article tagging is the means of identifying that an article is within the scope of the project. This is done by placing the project template {{WikiProject Yorkshire}} on the talk page of an article below any existing project banners. Some pages have a number of banners and can get very cluttered, if this is the case then a shell is used to wrap the templates together and collapse them down to a single line. The main shells in use are {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} and {{WikiProjectBanners}} and any new template should be added inside the shell template. There is no longer a requirement to add the 'nested=yes' parameter to the Yorkshire template when doing this as it will be ignored.

Why tag, you may ask, the reason is to be able to locate relevant articles among all of Misplaced Pages's articles. If article 'Foo' is relevant to Yorkshire then, unless it is tagged, no one in the project will know it exists unless they happen to stumble across it. The odds are against this happening so tagging makes it easily identifiable to project members.

Once an article has been tagged it can be assessed to see what quality and importance it is to the project. This is done using the assessment parameters to the template, 'class=' and 'importance=', you can leave these to more experienced people to pick-up and assign. The results of this are shown in the statistics table on the left of the newsletter. Tagging also makes the articles appear on the project watchlist, article alerts log and clean-up listing when they are refreshed by the appropriate bot. It also provides readers with a point of contact if they wish to discuss the article in more detail and no responce has been received on the article's talk page or a wider audience is required on the discussion.

I would therefore encourage members to add the project template to the talk pages of articles they find that are relevant to the project so the rest of us know that it exists. You can also tag templates, categories etc. as these are all relevant to maintenance of the articles in the scope of the project. Vandalism on a template can affect a large number of articles so it needs watching.

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.

• Assessment
  Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Misplaced Pages:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
  The changes are:
  
  • 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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