The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 186 – October 2023

September issue

Project News

• 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:

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop of York) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • 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) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity • Abe Waddington • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball • The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished • The Wrestlers (Etty) • Bootham Crescent • History of York City F.C. (1922–1980) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. (1980–present) • William Sterndale Bennett • Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed • The World Before the Flood • Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' • North Eastern Railway War Memorial • York City War Memorial • Northern England • Albert Pierrepoint • RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor • Keldholme Priory election dispute • 2018 World Snooker Championship • 2019 World Snooker Championship • Capture of Wakefield • 2017 World Snooker Championship • 2017 EFL Championship play-off Final • 1985 World Snooker Championship • Cardiff City F.C. 2–1 Leeds United F.C. (2002) • 1986 World Snooker Championship • 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final • 2020 World Snooker Championship • 1984 World Snooker Championship • 1925 FA Cup Final • 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final • Acamptonectes • 1997 Football League First Division play-off Final • 1987 World Snooker Championship • 1989 World Snooker Championship • 2014 World Snooker Championship • 1983 World Snooker Championship • 1988 World Snooker Championship • 2015 World Snooker Championship • 2002 World Snooker Championship • 2021 World Snooker Championship • 1982 World Snooker Championship • 2016 World Snooker Championship • 2022 World Snooker Championship • 1981 World Snooker Championship • 1980 World Snooker Championship

There are also seventeen 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 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 • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent • List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances) • List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) • Bootham Crescent • Kate Rusby discography

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Article Activity

Joe Johnson (snooker player) promoted to GA on 31 August
Chelsea F.C. 2–4 Bradford City A.F.C. not promoted to GA on 25 September

Member News

There are 97 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the September newsletter.

Assessment
Assess and review

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 sterling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.

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

 Great!

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

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!

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 • Doncaster • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • Northern England • 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.

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.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The October 2023 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.

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