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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2019
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23:08, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Who is the main
Who is the main person/admin/steward/director on the bs.wiki? Бајеццобола (talk) 18:25, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I know nothing about bs-wiki. In most respects, the management of a particular language Wikipedia do not report to anybody else, but have ultimate authority in their Wikipedia. Wikimedia stewards will act in a particular Wikipedia when there is nobody there carrying out administration functions, but I don't believe they will override existing admins. --ColinFine (talk) 18:40, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , the user has been globally locked as a sockpuppet of . --MrClog (talk) 20:43, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Use of unsigned2 template
I see that from time to time you use the unsigned2 template. You may not have noticed that the template says: "This template should always be substituted". Not doing so means that the page history gets cluttered with extra entries when a bot turns up to deal with the transclusion. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:38, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, . I used to use 'subst', but I forgot about it when I did some recently. --ColinFine (talk) 14:34, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2019
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 * Project News
 * Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
 * Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty 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 14,804 last month to 14,957 on 29 July 2019). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 150 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,390 articles.

Currently we have fifty Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Cædmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • 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. (1908–1980) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. (1980–present) • 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

There are also sixteen 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

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.


 * Article Activity

Don Revie was promoted to GA on 25th May

Hilary Benn was nominated for GA on 25th June

Chelsea F.C. 2–4 Bradford City A.F.C. (2015) was not promoted to GA on 8th July

2018 World Snooker Championship was promoted to FA on 25th July


 * Member News

There are 85 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the July newsletter.


 * Thanks


 * A very big 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.

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 * Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...



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 * 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 • 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.

Images of England
The Images of England web site is to be decommissioned this month by Historic England. The text of the site entries has been available on the corresponding National Heritage List entry since that web site was created. The images are being transferred ahead of the decommissioning. As a result of this a BOT has changed all IoE templates to NHLE templates and translated the reference number according to a list provided by Historic England.

It would be good if members could check these, when they come across them, as I have spotted one with an incorrect translation. Some articles already had NHLE templates in them so the references may need to be combined. Other changes that may need to be performed are removal of template or text referring to the site as needing registration, changing the text "Images of England" or "IoE" to something more appropriate or may be even removing it if it is part of the description..


 * WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The August 2019 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from 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.

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. 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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01:43, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Misplaced?
At Teahouse, you provided an answer that I think was meant to be for the following section (Teahouse) —[ Alan M 1 (talk) ]— 04:35, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2019
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21:45, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Need help to revert a vandalism (by my very own self)
Hi! How are you doing? Hope everything is going nice and easy. But for me, I just made a terrible mistake... While I was editing an article with the page name Dhaka City College, right when I was finished editing it, I tapped the removal button for the infobox by mistake before tapping the Publish button, and now it's gone. I can't bring it back myself. Please, if you just could revert it back, I would be very grateful to you. Absol069 (talk) 17:45, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

2020-21 United States Network Television Schedule
I created the article 2 days ago can you fix the this is us ref for me please. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 19:19, 30 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Well, my immediate reaction is to wonder why you're asking me, and why I should care. But I've had a look.

No, I can't fix it, because I have no idea what the source is. Wherever you copied the line about This is us from included a reference; but since it wasn't the first line in that article which cited that source, it doesn't contain the citation. You need to
 * go to the article you copied it from
 * find the first place in the article which cites the source it refers to as "This is Us Three season renewal".
 * Edit/view source on that article, to find and copy the text from on that line
 * Edit the NBC section in your draft, and paste that in place of on that line.

Separate observation: looking at the previous lines, I think it's rather ridiculous to cite a 2011 article to support something happening in 2020. Sure, they agreed then that it should go to 2022, but things don't always go according to plan. The source is solid for the claim that it was intended to go to 2022. I don't think Wikipedia should be claiming it continued to 2019 without a source that says so, let alone to 2021. --ColinFine (talk) 20:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2019
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10:35, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Not at all
Dear Colin, I am not connected to pearlvine in any manner. i was just surfimg through the web and found about thst. and hence i have updated an article in the sandbox only. But it got deleted from there saying that i cannot promote a website for my presonal purposes. Now all i want to post an article about it coz it deserves to be on wikipedia

Dear Colin,

Many thanks for your prompt reply to my Wikipedia query, made earlier today!

Yours sincerely,

Sara Miller — Preceding unsigned comment added by Millersara (talk • contribs) 2019-10-31T17:17:01 (UTC)


 * Hello, . Thanks for explaining that. Since many people do have the misconception that Wikipedia is an appropriate place for promoting things (= telling the world about them), it's easy to conclude that a new editor who goes straight in trying to write an article about a business or product, or adding mentions to it to existing articles, is here to promote it. Your edit to Digital wallet was reverted mainly because it was unsourced, and probably also because it looked like promotion as I mentioned above.
 * Writing a new article is a much harder task than most people realise. As I am not an admin, I cannot see the deleted material from your sandbox; but from the message on your User talk page, I guess that you had not read your first article and discovered about sourcing. In short, Wikipedia is not interested, at all, in what you, or I, or any random person on the internet, knows or thinks; it is only interested in what people have chosen to publish about subjects they are unconnected with, and been published in reliable places. So an article about pearlvine, must be almost completely based on reliably published books or articles about pearlvine, written by people who have no connection with it (and not on the basis of material that comes from pearlvine, such as interviews or press releases).
 * When you put your message to me here, you managed to replace an existing section: please don't do that again! I've restored it and moved your message down here. Please use "New section" to create a new section in future - though if you choose to reply to me here, you should put your reply on the end of this section. Finally, on talk and discussion pages, please sign your contributions with four tildes ~ --ColinFine (talk) 23:40, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2019
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14:47, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

sorry, accidentally undid you on Help desk
Ignore the undo notice. Meters (talk) 22:58, 21 November 2019 (UTC)