The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 19 - November 2009

October issue

Project News

• Welcome to the nineteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.

• WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,532 last month to 7,738 on October 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2.034 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • 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 (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang

There are also ten 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 • 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

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Drax Power Station passed a GA review on October 5th
Thomas of Bayeux peer review initiated on October 8th
Sheffield was demoted from FA on October 9th
Anne Brontë failed a GA review on October 10th
East Riding of Yorkshire peer review initiated on October 23rd
Leeds peer review initiated on October 25th
David Wetherall passed a GA review on October 26th
County Borough of Leeds nominated for GA review on October 26th
Philip Larkin peer review initiated on October 27th
County Borough of Leeds promoted to GA on October 30th

Member News

There are now 70 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:

• Willde1 (talk · contribs)
• Rimmer1993 (talk · contribs)

No members left the project this month:

Thanks

• For those of you who made changes and looked after the school and university articles after last month's feature.

• 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. Great!

• 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.

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
• To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

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