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 8,254 last month to 8,334 on August 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 47 out of a total number of 2,218 articles.
Currently we have twenty one Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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.
Updates
Last month I brought your attention to the proposals for changes to maps in articles and the newer maps have started to be deployed on some of the Scotland and Wales articles. The English ones will follow on though there has been comments on the loss of some features so this may be revised before mass deployment.
The trial for the pending changes implementation has ended and after discussion a straw poll is under way and now is the time to voice your opinion over the trial and if pending changes should continue to be used or if it should be abandoned.
A further batch of about 10,000 images from the Geograph project has been uploaded to Commons. If you are looking for an image then there may be one available on Commons you just have to search for it! Many of the images are incorrectly categorised at the moment but these are being rectified as they are spotted. If you have time then you can give a hand checking out the image categorisation.
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The September 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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.
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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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Hi, I noticed you are adding location grids to a few articles, some of which are difficult to follow. May I suggest that you use the standard {{Geographic location}} or {{NSEW}} for this purpose, there is a smaller version {{Geographic Location 2}} if you prefer. May be you could get those changed, if they are not suitable for your purpose, or have a look in Category:Geography and place templates as there may be something more suitable. Keith D (talk) 13:14, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2010[edit]
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 8,334 last month to 8,468 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 48 out of a total number of 2,228 articles.
Currently we have twenty one Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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.
Wikipedia 0.8 release
Work is starting on preparing release 0.8 of the off line version of Wikipedia and the articles are in the selection stage. The initial selection has been done using some metrics about each of the articles. The number of projects that are interested in the article and the breadth of the individual projects. This is followed by the ratings of quality and importance that have been assigned to the article by each of the interested projects. There is also factored in what is termed the "External interest points" which is based on the number of hits the article gets, the number of unique internal links the article has and the number of inter-wiki links the article has. If you want more detail of the algorithm used then see here.
They have also selected a specific version of each of the articles that they consider is a stable version without vandalism using a version of the WikiTrust algorithm.
After all of this work they have come up with a selection of 116 articles that have been tagged as relevant to our project and these can be viewed here. We have a chance to influence this selection by reporting articles that people do not think are suitable or where an inappropriate version has been selected. It would also be a good idea to try and tidy up these articles before they get published if anyone has the time. Of the 116 the two articles that have been identified by tags as most needing attention are Asda and Rotherham. We have until October 11th to check out and report any problems or improved versions that need to be incorporated in to this release.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2010[edit]
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 8,468 last month to 8,621 on October 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 57 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,266 articles.
Currently we have twenty two Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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.
Dead links
This month I thought that I would concentrate on the problem of link rot in articles. Many of you will have spotted a BOT tagging references with the {{Dead link}} template. The template is added when the external link in a reference is detected as being inaccessible or is a redirect to the main page of the site. You should not remove references that are marked as dead unless you are replacing the reference with a new reference. The information in the reference may be useful to someone trying to locate a valid reference for the text. In order to help this process, when adding references in the first place, add as much detail as possible. It is easier to put in the detail while the reference is in front of you rather than waste someone else's time having to fill in the detail. If you want more detail then see Wikipedia:Link rot.
Many of the project's articles have been tagged in this way by the BOT and it would be useful if members could take a look at the tagged references, when visiting a page, and see if the problem can be resolved. May be the link is now active again in which case it is just a simple task of removing the template. May be an archived copy of the link can be located at the Wayback Machine, just add the link to the reference, if it is templated use the =archiveurl & =archivedate paramerters to record the new location of the link. If the site has been restructured then it may be possible to locate the same page used in the reference by following the links from the home page of the site. In this case replace the URL in the reference and remove the tag. Finally a replacement reference may need to be located if copies of the existing reference cannot be tracked down. If a new reference is used then the old reference and the tag can be removed.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The November 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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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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Please read WP:NOR and WP:VERIFY. I've removed this as it looks like a personal statement, perhaps based on your reading, but it doesn't belong in the article unless it can be well sourced. In fact, I don't think this is the place for such a debate. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 11:08, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2010[edit]
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 8,621 last month to 8,665 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 62 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 60. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,292 articles.
Currently we have twenty four Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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.
Happy Christmas
Wishing all project members a Happy Christmas and thanks for all the work you have put in to the project over the last year. We have made great strides forward especially in the area of Good Articles
and this month we have a bumper set of seven articles trying for GA status. Some passed the review while others did not, but even a try moves an article forward. Thanks to ll those involved in these articles and keep up the good work.
Cleanup listing
Some members will know that we were subscribed to the clean-up listing that was produced on an occasional basis by a BOT. The BOT owner has left and has not released the source of the BOT for someone to pick-up. The last run of this BOT was in March of this year. Others have stepped in and produced a new tool that runs on the tool server to provide projects with similar information.
The clean-up listing gives details of all of the articles with the project's banner that have clean-up tags attached to them. The listing is in alphabetical order but can be sorted on class, importance or the number of different tags found in an article. If you want the listing grouped by the different tags then the tag grouped listing should be used.
According to the tool run dated 28 November of the 8,729 articles in this project 2,725 or 31.2% are marked for clean-up, though I am unsure how it gets the article count figure as that does not appear to match the counts from the assessment table.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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.
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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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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2011[edit]
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 8,665 last month to 8,678 on December 13th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 63 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 61. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,304 articles.
Currently we have twenty four Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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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Hi there Francish7, hope you're well. Over the weekend I had a little go at Guisborough (twinning) and Gisborough Priory (the Black Monk) and I've left comments on both Talk pages. Please do have a look if you get the chance.
On the Monk, I must say that (a) I don't believe in that stuff but (b) I know that the stories exist and I feel that this should be documented, and that's my motivation at the article. BUT here's the thing - you could not possibly offer me enough cash, not by the wheelbarrow or even vanload, to sit on that bench (if it is still there) facing N towards PPC with my back to the Priory all night, no looking back, on the designated night! I mean, I'm not superstitious but ... and anyway I think my most probable fate if I were to try that would be to drop dead of a heart attack when some joker with a dark jumper over their head leapt out and went BOO at me for a laugh - I think that would polish me off quite neatly with nary a hint of a supernatural cause! Cheers, DBaK (talk) 11:43, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This is a courtesy notice to let you know that I have failed Basankusu for Good Article status. You are welcome to renominate the article when you think it is ready. ArcticNight 20:08, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Arctic! First of all, thank you very much for reviewing my article. I'll cetainly take your comments on board and - time permitting - make the relevant changes so that I can renominate. I've invited quite a few people to join me in writing the page but it has still ended up being 99% by me. Anyway, thanks again - hope to have a better outcome in a few months. Best Wishes Francis Hannaway Francis Hannaway 12:30, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2011[edit]
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 8,678 last month to 8,766 on January 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 65 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 60. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 50 out of a total number of 2,342 articles.
Currently we have twenty four Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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.
Article Alerts
After nearly a year without the Article Alerts listing after the previous BOT operator departed a new BOT has been developed to give similar functionality. This was trialled on a few projects over the New Year period and has now been rolled out as a replacement for the original BOT. Just to remind members the listing gives changes to the status of articles tagged with the project template. It includes details such as good article candidate, articles up for deletion etc. the full list of workflows covered by the BOT can be seen here.
The BOT runs daily and updates the project listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Article alerts. The BOT edit summary indicates the extent of the change so if the listing is watchlisted you can quickly tell if there is anything that may be of interest. If there are things that the BOT does not pick-up then do report them here so that they can be fixed. If you think an article should be covered by the project then add the project template {{WikiProject Yorkshire}} to the talk page of the article.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2011[edit]
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 8,766 last month to 8,841 on February 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 65 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 61. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,376 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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.
Great Backlog Drive
Most of you should have spotted the advertisement for the Great Backlog Drive that is under way at the moment. This is an initiative to reduce the number of tags that are attached to articles by attempting to fix as many of these as possible. Of cause some tags are more of a problem to fix than others but the purpose of the drive is to cut down the overall number of articles that have identified problems in them, rather than concentrate on specific problems. It would be good if project members got involved in this and fixed tags that they come across in their editing. It would also be helpful to avoid tagging new problems by fixing them when you spot the problem, though if you cannot fix it then tag for someone else to look at.
The project clean up listing gives a list of the more common tags attached to the project's articles, of which 32.1 % are marked for clean up, and can be found -
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.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2011[edit]
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 8,841 last month to 8,899 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,395 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
There are 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No membership changes have taken place since the March newsletter,
though the number of active members is still currently low.
Thanks
Thanks to all those who took part in the Great Backlog Drive raised in the last newsletter. A small inroad was made getting down from 32.1% to 31.7% of articles tagged.
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 WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
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.
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.
WikiConference UK 2011
Just a reminder for those members in the UK that there is the WikiConference UK 2011 that takes place in Bristol on 16 April 2011. This will incorporate the Wikimedia UK's annual conference. It would be good if the project has some members who could attend and support the event. Opportunities are available to get more widely involved in the direction of the UK chapter. If you have time you can volunteer and get involved by just contacting them here.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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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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 8,899 last month to 8,918 on April 19th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,413 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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.
Commons images
For those of you who missed it, April saw a milestone for images on Commons with the upload of the 10 millionth image. There are images on most subjects, if you can find them, to illustrate articles. With the major work of transferring Geograph images to Commons nearing completion then most location articles should have images available for use in illustrating the subject. All of the village and civil parish articles that had articles in December 2009 had categories created on Commons for them so that the Geograph images can be placed into them. Thus the {{Commons category}} template can be added to all village and civil parish articles to link to all the available images on Commons for the location. Though beware that if the template does not have any arguments, moving of the article to a new name will break the link to Commons so it is wise to include the article name in the template call e.g.{{Commons category|Rotherham}}.
Those of you interested in helping out at Commons are more than welcome to help organise and categorise all of the uploaded Geograph images so that they can be found and made available to users.
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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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 8,918 last month to 8,974 on May 23rd). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 63. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,439 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2011[edit]
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 8,974 last month to 9,083 on June 28). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 63. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,603 articles.
Currently we have twenty five Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
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.
Featured Lists
Featured Lists have been promoted during the last month and have now been given their own weekly slot on the main page. Lists appear on the front page on Mondays just above "Today's featured picture". This may be extended to other days at a later date if people like it. In line with this I have also added a box for lists on to the Yorkshire Portal and created a couple of entries to start it off, more will be added later.
The project currently has 12 featured lists, out of 208 project articles identified as lists, and it would be good if we could get some of these on to the front page. Of anyone wants to take this up they need to create an entry for the list and nominate them to be considered here.
Lists are easier than articles to get to featured status as there is less prose to be created and the bulk of the page is the list itself. Most of the project's current featured lists are on football related topics and it would be good to get a broader range of topics for out Featured Lists. Some of the 208 lists could be brought up to featured status with a little bit of work, if any one wants to take up the challenge.
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I do apologise - I think I misread the latter of the two sentences that I removed, though I still feel that the line about Boulby Potash is a bit irrelevant since it has nothing whatsoever to do with Gisborough Priory. Please bear with me, I'm still working on the article, so there will be some more changes to come. Prioryman (talk) 22:53, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
My intention - maybe clumsily written - was to show a link between the legacy of the dissolution of Gisborough Priory and the present time ... with present day places and people. I admit that they don't show a direct description of the structure of the building or the daily life of the priory, but instead bring it to life in the context of modern England.
You have said that "In 1932, Lord Gisborough transferred control of the priory to the Office of Works. It later became the responsibility of the Ministry of Works, then the Department of the Environment and finally English Heritage.[1]" and this seems to be a great jump from the time of Henry VIII to the present time. I think that readers are more interested in historical texts if they can see a link to the present time, but that your jump to 1932 is quite a big one.
The paragraph about the alum legacy IS a very tangible one, in that it shows the branch of events which occured because of the closure of the priory. The discovery of alum and England's success in trade were directly related. The Chaloner family - even though Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough, and the present Lord Gisborough, Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough, are not directly from the line that was granted the land of the priory, they are direcly related to the alum legacy of the dissolution of Gisborough Priory. So too, is the establishment of the Potash mine at Boulby, in that the minerals that were first used to fix dyes in wool are now used for other uses.
So, in summary, it is to link the events of the dissolution to the present that I have included this information.
Hi Francis, thanks for your reply. You have a good point about the jump from the dissolution to 1932. I've added some more material that should fill this gap. I agree that the alum legacy is a point that's worth noting but it is a bit tangential to the history of the priory (more relevant to the industrial history of Guisborough, which would be worth an article of its own). However, the story about Chaloner is a bit dubious. I've reworked the alum material into the article - I don't think it really needs to have its own section. As for Boulby, I've not found any source linking it to the priory, so I think it would be original research to make that connection. It would certainly be relevant to an article about the local alum industry but not to the priory, as far as I can see. Prioryman (talk) 11:03, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Additional comment - I had removed this notice as it's a template for use on user talk-pages, rather than talk-pages of articles. I do however see that Reaper Eternal has made necessary adjustments, and everything now appears to be back in order. Happy editing. :) -- WikHead (talk) 22:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2011[edit]
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 9,083 last month to 9,157 on July 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 64. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,766 articles.
Currently we have twenty five Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
Vandalism
With the start of the school holidays there is more chances of vandalism to articles at this time of year. It is time to remind members to be on the alert for vandalism to articles, especially those that are in the projects scope.
Here is a recent example of one that slipped through the net this edit which was reverted by an IP over a month after it was made! You can check the changes to the project's tagged pages using the watchlist or you can use the toolserver version which looks at just articles here. The former may not be up to date, as it requires manual update of the list of articles, but does cover all namespaces.
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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 9,157 last month to 9,229 on August 24th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 65. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,778 articles.
Currently we have twenty seven Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
Back to school
September and October are the months when many young people move from one school to a new school, or to university. It tends to be a time when freshers "look up" their new schools and colleges on Wikipedia and decide to edit for the first time. Many additions to school articles, in the past, have been unsourced, some poorly formatted and some in violation of other Wikipedia policies. More experienced editors can help here. It is easy to become frustrated, hit revert and issue a warning of some sort. How off-putting for a new editor.
New editors do make innocent mistakes and it is up to us all to try to welcome and support them; perhaps by issuing a welcome message, helping them to find sources or format references and citations. Obviously, not all will turn out to be paragons of Wikipedia virtue, but we can at least give them the opportunity. May be it is time for us all to re-read the essay Please do not bite the newcomers.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2011[edit]
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 9,229 last month to 9,255 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,813 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
New software release
October sees the next release of the MediaWiki software (version 1.8) that runs the English Wikipedia. It will probably live by the time the newsletter arrives by the last few month's delivery dates! If you see any problems with the page display on any articles or problems with your favourite gadget or script then it may be a problem with the new release of software. It is worth checking out the Village Pump - Technical board to see if there has been any report of a similar problem. If not then raise a new thread to get it recorded and to see if there are any of the technical people that can point you at a solution. Hopefully things will go smoother than previous releases but these things always throw up obscure problems that have not been foreseen.
If you are interested in the detail of the changes made in this release then take a look at the full list.
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Thanks for pointing that out. Somehow the first (wrong) spelling seemed natural to me. Basankusu is an area of light in a very dark zone of Wikipedia. I have recently been starting articles on DRC topics and keep getting distracted by trying to turn redlinks blue for topics that absolutely should have articles like territories, sizable towns and major rivers. I will try to slow down and make more complete and correctly spelled articles. :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 15:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No, I have never been there. But ignorance of a subject is not a reason to avoid it, as long as there are sources. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:04, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you want to change common names (of countries) to official ones? It's a long established practice to prefer common names over official or formal names (WP:COMMONNAME, WP:ON). Everyking (talk) 20:15, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The Democratic Republic of Congo is just establishing itself with that name. The name Congo-Kinshasa is not, in reality, a common name. It is a name that is an echo of history. To write an encyclopedic article we've got to be clear. Because the country was very recently called Zaire, people aren't quite sure where the Democratic Republic of Congo is, or whether it's the same place as the Congo-Kinshasa - how can Congo-Kinshasa be a common name for a country which has just changed from another name? If you scroll down the page a bit on your WP:COMMONNAME page you will see a section about "Precision and disambiguation". It's along these lines that we need to let the readers know which country we're talking about.
You probably know a lot about the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo - most readers don't. How long have you known them as Congo-Kinshasa
and Congo-Brazaville? Perhaps in twenty years time you will be able to come back and say that they are common names - but not just yet.
Remember that when you talk about "a long established practice" - Wikipedia is only ten years old ... encyclopedias have been written for hundreds of years. Francis Hannaway 20:48, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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 9,266 last month to 9,354 on October 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,835 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
Collaboration
Each month the project has a collaboration of the month when two articles are nominated to be worked on by members during the month. One of these is usually a B-class article and one a start-class article. Some of these have not really been worked on by members and I would encourage all members to get involved and see what can be achieved. An example of the success of this effort has been Whitby which was the B-class collaboration article in July and has just achieved Good Article status. This was achieved by just the efforts of three editors just think what would be achieved if all of the 91 members got involved in editing these articles. They may not be ones which are of particular interest to you but they relate to Yorkshire in some way so they raise the profile of the county and can often be related to articles you are interested in in some way or other. I have tried to rotate round the county with a variety of differing topics while steering clear of the ones designated as our priority articles. If you have an article that you think could be improved in one of these collaborations then just nominate it on the project talk page and I will fit it in at some point.
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Your recent editing history at Conservative Party (UK) shows that you are in danger of breaking the three-revert rule, or that you may have already broken it. An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Breaking the three-revert rule often leads to a block.
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Quite right - I should have called them Conservative Future. Whoever they are, they are still associated with the Conservative Party and were involved in Klu-Klux-Klan-like activity. Francis Hannaway 17:40, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2011[edit]
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 9,354 last month to 9,459 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,857 articles.
Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:
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 Christmas
Happy Christmas to all the members of the project. Many thanks for all the hard work over the past year and hope that the good progress will be kept up in the new year. Many of the regular editors will be away over the break and vandalism tends to increase at this time of year, could be all those new computers that people get for Christmas. So if you are around then keep an eye out for vandalism to the project's articles and revert as soon as possible. All of the good work of the project can be destroyed quickly if vandalism is not spotted and dealt with.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2012[edit]
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:
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.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2012[edit]
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 9,480 last month to 9,599 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 54 out of a total number of 2,906 articles.
Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
New software release
We are getting near to the next release of the MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia, this will be version 1.19 and is expected in the second half of February. For those of you who are interested in the details of the changes then take a look at this page on MediaWiki.org. There is usually some disruption around the time of the release so if you experience problems then check out at the Village Pump to see if the problem has been reported. If it has not then report it so that the developers can get a view of the problem. One area of concern is the scripts used by users to perform routine tasks. It could be that if this change is included in the deployment then scripts may need to be changed to declare modules the script is dependent upon. So if your favourite script fails to work this could be the problem and will need to be fixed.
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As a local lad, I reckon you might be interested in the article I've written about Eston railway station. I'd be interested in your comments! Prioryman (talk) 20:38, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2012[edit]
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 9,599 last month to 9,683 on February 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,917 articles.
Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
New software release
By the time you read this the new software release mentioned in the last newsletter should be in as it is currently scheduled for 2 March. Problems in switching other wikis have been encountered, most notably Commons, which was reverted twice and, at the time of writing, is still experiencing problems with the new software. See article in Signpost for details.
Discussions
Members may be interested in some discussions that are ongoing at the moment. A discussion on whether or not secondary schools meet notability guidelines is still on-going. If you are interested in having articles on secondary schools then raise your voice in the discussion. Another schools related one is taking place on the talk page of template {{Infobox UK school}} about introducing co-ordinates in to the infobox in addition to the top right corner of the article. Similar discussion was also raised at {{Infobox UK place}}. If you have views then chip in and see if consensus can be found on these areas.
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Hi Francish7, the Mbayi Kafwemb article has been marked for deletion. The discussion can be found here. I've tried to find reliable sources for this article to stop the deletion from going ahead but I am not having success at present. If I am right, as expressed by another editor, the name may be transcribed in error. After doing some digging, I think the name Mbayi or Mbaye is the title of a king e.g. Maad a Sinig and Maad Saloum among the Serer people. Unfortunately I am not familiar with the subject or the history. Are you? The editors who may have known something about this subject have not contributed since 2007. I'll also post this to Wikipedia project Congo (your fellow members). Best regards.Tamsier (talk) 07:09, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent! Is it real? Francis Hannaway 21:55, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
It's a no-doubter. =) Khazar2 (talk) 22:02, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2012[edit]
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 9,683 last month to 9,730 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 73 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 68. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,928 articles.
Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 29 March 2012, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
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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.
Link rot
This month I thought that we should focus on link rot in articles. Articles are created with lots of references to online sources as this is often easier than using printed sources. This is all well and good until a few months down the line when the web site is no longer available or has been re-organised and the page linked to has been moved. Whatever the reason for the change results in the reference link in our article becoming dead or just pointing at the main page of the site in question. The link therefore provides no verification for the information in our article and needs to be repaired. If you find a link like this then it should be tagged with the {{dead link}} template rather than deleted as the information may give someone a clue as to where to find a replacement link. If you know where the page has been moved to then go ahead and change the URL in the reference rather than tagging it. You could Google to see if a new page can be located or use the Wayback machine to see if there is an archived copy of the page available. If an archived version is located then use the |archiveurl= and |archivedate= fields of the {{citation}} template to record the archived version of the page.
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It would be good, if this month, we try to reduce the number of {{dead link}} templates in the project's articles as a BOT is currently going round adding the template to articles.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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I see you've since managed to source most of the claims I made in the first revision of Langbaurgh East. The remaining thing is the alternate name of East Cleveland. Due to Wikipedia polluting Google search results - not a problem we had in 2005 - I'm not sure exactly on what basis I made that claim back then. But for example, this is an official government usage of the term to mean the eastern, less urban, part of the borough. Morwen - Talk 17:21, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have removed a chunk of the first paragraph which was more or less saying that Henry was right to dissolve the monasteries because they were guzzling up all the dosh:
"Although some monastic foundations dated back to Anglo-Saxon England, the overwhelming majority of the 825 religious communities dissolved by Henry VIII owed their existence to the wave of monastic enthusiasm that had swept England and Wales in the 11th and 12th centuries; in consequence of which religious houses in the 16th century controlled appointment to about a third of all parish benefices, and disposed of about half of all ecclesiastical income." Francis Hannaway (talk) Francis Hannaway 18:14, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have restored the paragraph; with the sources cited. These are simple statements of fact, taken from the Valor Ecclesiasticus and entirely appropriate to the article. TomHennell (talk) 21:21, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have removed a chunk of the first paragraph which was more or less saying that Henry was right to dissolve the monasteries because they were guzzling up all the dosh:
"Although some monastic foundations dated back to Anglo-Saxon England, the overwhelming majority of the 825 religious communities dissolved by Henry VIII owed their existence to the wave of monastic enthusiasm that had swept England and Wales in the 11th and 12th centuries; in consequence of which religious houses in the 16th century controlled appointment to about a third of all parish benefices, and disposed of about half of all ecclesiastical income." Francis Hannaway (talk) Francis Hannaway 18:14, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have restored the paragraph; with the sources cited. These are simple statements of fact, taken from the Valor Ecclesiasticus and entirely appropriate to the article. TomHennell (talk) 21:22, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Absolute nonsense. You are quoting a biased article to begin with. The opening paragraph need only state that Henry broke with the main part of the Catholic Church and refused recognition of the Pope in England, Your statement implies that he broke with Rome because of the money consumed by the monasteries - not true, it was a power thang. Therefore, your statement was POV. Francis Hannaway (talk) Francis Hannaway 21:43, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Of course these statements about monastic wealth and possessions could be put into one of the later paragraphs; but I think them more pertinent in the lead, as they follow on from the description of what the dissolution did: confiscate monastic assets and make provision for religious persons and monastic dependents. It is very pertinent to know at the outset what the scale of this action was. Indeed you may note that David Knowles advances the excessive scale of monastic wealth - relative to that of the English Church as whole - as first in his listing of contributory factors leading to the decline of late medieaval monasticism, and hence to the dissolution. Nor can I understand your categorisation of Dickens work as 'biased'; on the contrary, this remains one of the standard texts on the subject. Moreover, your alternative suggestions for the content of the lead would appear (to me) to be of questionable relevance, as they confuse the Dissolution with the Henrician Reformation. Henry would have dissolved monasteries whether or not he had broken with Rome. Scarisbrick's point that 'a purge of the religious orders was probably regarded as the most obvious task of the new regime', would appear unarguable. Certainly, many of those who opposed the Royal Supremacy, such as Reginald Pole and Thomas More, were nervertheless strong proponents of major action so suppress failing religious houses. TomHennell (talk) 22:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The bias is in the idea that the Valor Ecclesiasticus was used as a tool to support the Dissolution. I accept that the Dissolution may, or would, have happened without a break with Rome, although not on such a scale (a purge is not a dissolution). I also think, though, that there was a strong link with his dislike of the religious orders and his feeling of being manipulated by Rome which itself was being manipulated by other powers - in short he needed to consolidate his own sovereign authority. Having said that I accept your offer to remove the information to a later paragraph. Thank you. Francis Hannaway (talk) Francis Hannaway 22:55, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Please, the article cites several books that say very clearly that Mother's Day is a holiday originated in the US, and that Mothering Sunday is unrelated. --Enric Naval (talk) 21:59, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
But the article also says that it has existed in other countries for centuries. There is a separate article about Mother's Day (U.S.). It is not correct to have Mother's Day in soooooo many countries and then for someone in America to suddenly claim it was their invention. It has existed spontaneously in many countries. It is a day for mothers - that is all. There is no copyright in the day. There is a place for each country to put their own version - let's leave it at that. Francis Hannaway 19:57, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
I think that the biggest mistake editors can make is to think that they are writing for a local audience. Imagine that your article is being read by someone in Flint, Michigan, or Kanazawa, Ishikawa. They don't want to know the latest council election details, the times of the buses or the fact that the local Asda supermarket used to be a Netto supermarket and people preferred it that way. They really don't. Francis Hannaway 13:18, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, you additions on safeguarding were helpful and useful - they added balance to the section - but overall your edits seem to be somewhat POV. Please have a check at [WP:NPOV] before deleting or spinning those sections of the article which are not necessarily positive. Springnuts (talk) 09:08, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have reverted the last edit (an IP edit) which more or less leaves things as they were a month ago with the useful addition of the safeguarding stuff, and have started a discussion on the article talk page. Please add your 2p worth there before removing more sourced material. I am taking a wiki-pause on editing the article and respectfully suggest you may wish to do the same. Let's not get into an edit war :)
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Hi, {{convert}} has a useful parameter "disp=flip" which displays the values in reverse - I think it's useful to keep the original values an editor has input, presumably from a source, and convert those to metric, rather than convert and re-convert as you suggested in the photo caption at Yorkshire and the Humber#Universities. Happy Editing! PamD 10:13, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I do hope the article about Middlesbrough does not shrink too much. It was the home of my 6th gr-grandfather. I read the article periodically looking for the Surname Goss. No response is necessary. Thank you. Respectfully, Tiyang (talk) 07:55, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your message. I have only removed the over wordiness of the article. Some parts are being sent off to make their own pages ... so, that will actually make the subject of Middlesbrough longer. A lot of trivial information - non-encyclopedic information - has been trimmed, too. All in all the editing I have done has been restrained, but, in my mind, has made a more readable article. Best wishes Francis Hannaway (talk) 08:06, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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You might try respecting other participants in discussions as opposed to including insulting remarks in your edit summaries.[2] See WP:CIVIL. Kauffner (talk) 00:55, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ha! This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black! The arguments for both proposed changes have been exhausted on several occasions, but you don't take the hint. It's hardly surprising that your whole user page is given over to being a shrine to a paranoid delusion about having a stalker. Whatever! Francis Hannaway (talk) 19:38, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
My experience in, not only editing the pages on the two Congos, but also living and working there, has born me in good stead. These ngrams [3][4] outcomes show what I had experienced in the field. Congo-Kinshasa did gain some popularity in the time of uncertainty around the year 2000. Similarly, Congo-Brazzaville had its heyday around the 1970s. The full official titles for both countries now reign supreme in both countries and in my formidable experience, in the streets of Kinshasa and in the villages and towns of the interior, as well as watch TV from Brazzaville, I have found the same.
Your status as editor puzzles me somewhat. You don't give any information about your background, your whereabouts, your preferences in life or for Wikipedia - and yet you creep around trying to change pages that you haven't been involved with. I think you need to reconsider your relationship with Wikipedia and become more a part of our community. Francis Hannaway (talk) 08:58, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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I will observe that in your zeal to expurgate all mentions of the common name "Congo-Brazzaville", you made this edit, in which you changed the name of Tchibambelela's own book—not only changed the name, but changed part of the French title to English! Also, if you will recall, there was no "Republic of Congo" in the 1980s. Do you suppose we should anachronistically call it the "Republic of Congo" anyway, or should we belabor our readers by making them reader even longer versions of the formal name (and then switching to the current name later on in the article)? Everyking (talk) 21:07, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you are right;I may have been over zealous and I apologise for that. I was trying to avoid articles dated earlier than 1990s but it was late in the evening and there were a lot to do. However, I've been through lots of discussion over the naming of the two Congos and it's not just me who thinks that 1. there's never been a country called Congo-Brazzaville and 2. it's not really a common name in The Republic of Congo. The problem is that - although some countries go by an accepted common name - many English readers of Wikipedia are only further confused by these extra namings. I've just been through this discussion and this discussion and would draw your attention to them.
It's only for clarity in a world that thinks of Africa as one country. Hope you have a pleasant evening. Francis Hannaway (talk) 21:42, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Francish7. Thank you for your work on patrolling new pages and tagging for speedy deletion. I'm just letting you know that I declined your deletion request for Talk:Dressed Like Wolves, a page that you tagged for speedy deletion, because the criterion you used or the reason you gave does not cover this kind of page. Please take a moment to look at the suggested tasks for patrollers and review the criteria for speedy deletion. Particularly, the section covering non-criteria. Such pages are best tagged with proposed deletion, proposed deletion for biographies of living persons, or sent to the appropriate deletion discussion. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:51, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
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