Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/January 2012

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 45 - January 2012

December issue

Project News

• Welcome to the forty 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 (up from 9,459 last month to 9,480 on December 14th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 71 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,865 articles.

Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York)

There are also twelve featured lists:

York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Webster's Brewery re-nominated for GA on November 29th
Webster's Brewery failed GA review December 3rd

Member News

There are 95 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! There has been no change in the project membership since the December newsletter:

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.

• To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.

• To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

• To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

 Great!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	59		77
FL			1	16		17
GA	3	7	36	173		219
B	9	64	133	341		547
C	3	143	288	1,454		1,888
Start	1	235	1,222	8,547		10,005
Stub		18	343	5,661		6,022
List		4	12	837		853
Category					3,835	3,835
Disambig					21	21
File					22	22
Portal					95	95
Project					222	222
Redirect			3	184	1,345	1,532
Template		1	8	432	164	605
NA			1	2		3
Other			1		11	12
Assessed	18	473	2,063	17,706	5,715	25,975
Total	18	473	2,063	17,706	5,715	25,975
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 95,759			Ω = 5.11

Assessment
Assess and review

 Thanks

Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia 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.

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.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all the members of the project.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The January 2012 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia 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.

• 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.

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