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Welcome to the one hundred and seventy first 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 18,093 last month to 18,141 on 28 July 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 206 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 89 while WP:GM has 68 out of a total number of 4,753 articles.
Currently we have seventy 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.
Yorkshire Day
Happy Yorkshire Day to all our members. Thanks to all for looking after the Yorkshire articles that we support as a project. Would be good if more members would get involved in improving the articles and in fixing the various problems flagged on the articles.
There are also a number of articles suggested on the project's to-do list that need creating if you find the time to get them started.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The August 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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11:44, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Apparent clash on Help desk
Hi Colin! Re the Rappahannock Times query, I didn't intentionally insert my answer before yours; I seemingly had some connectivity problems (only with Wikipedia), so I paused a while before coming back and completing my post. Apologies and feel free to re-order our responses if yoiu wish. Terry Hunt {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.208.90.29 (talk) 19:41, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
No problem. I was a bit surprised to come back and find your answer before mine, but assumed that the timing had come out a bit odd. I'm not bothered. Colin ColinFine (talk) 19:56, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy third 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 18,141 last month to 18,166 on 31 August 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 206 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 90 while WP:GM has 68 out of a total number of 4,756 articles.
Currently we have seventy three Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 28 August 2022, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
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!
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...
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.
Wiki Loves Monuments
September is the time for the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition to get quality photographs of listed buildings and scheduled monuments in the UK. It would be good if any members in the Yorkshire area got out and about taking images of any monuments or listed buildings that they find. There are still several entries on the various list articles without images and it would be best to prioritise these if you are in the right place. Details for this years competition can be found here. There are cash prises of up to £250 for the best images that are submitted.
If you are not in Yorkshire then you are still able to join in as the competition covers the whole of the UK, separate competitions are available for other areas of the world if you are not UK based.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The September 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Not to worry, I've done it myself. I whipped up a quick template, {{welcometea}}, which should say Welcome to the Teahouse if you're on WP:TEA, and Welcome to PAGENAME if you're somewhere else. If you decide to use it, let me know how it works. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 16:36, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy fourth 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 18,166 last month to 18,211 on 29 September 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 208 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 90 while WP:GM has 68 out of a total number of 4,777 articles.
Currently we have seventy three Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 28 September 2022, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
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!
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...
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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
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Welcome to the one hundred and seventy 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 18,211 last month to 18,228 on 29 October 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 210 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 90 while WP:GM has 67 out of a total number of 4,815 articles.
Currently we have seventy three 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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The November 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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17:07, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
A bit of background history
WP:Esperanza was a WikiProject focused around new users, which was ultimately killed at MfD for being too social-club-like and not really helping with the new user experience. That said, some of its ideas were considered to be good ideas and would be incorporated into Wikipedia proper. The Coffee Lounge was one such idea, and became WP:Teahouse. —Jéské Courianov^_^va little blue Bori22:20, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
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Welcome to the one hundred and seventy 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 18,228 last month to 18,260 on 29 November 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 93. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 90 while WP:GM has 67 out of a total number of 4,824 articles.
Currently we have seventy three 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
A very Happy Christmas to all project members, hope you are all OK. The number of articles supported by the project is increasing slowly so thanks for all the hard work during the year. At this time of the year there is an increase in vandalism so if you have time keep an eye on the articles tagged with the project's banner to keep then vandal free. Many of the regulars are away over the feastive period so more chance for things to go unnoticed. Take care hope to see you all active in the new year.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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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