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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 196 – August 2024

July issue

Project News

• Welcome to the one hundred and ninty 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 19,543 last month to 19,698 on 29 July 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 218 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 94 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,104 articles.

Currently we have seventy seven 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 • Ian Carmichael •2023 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

Humberside Police nominated for GA on 6 July
Laura Veale appeared in DYK on 7 July
2023 World Snooker Championship promoted to FA on 8 July
1858 Bradford sweets poisoning nominated for FA on 14 July
East House mass shooting appeared in DYK on 15 July
York GAR started 19 July
Frances Darlington appeared in DYK on 24 July

Member News

There are 100 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No new members have joined us since the July newsletter.

Assessment
Assess and review

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	59		77
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	173		218
B	9	65	134	343		551
C	4	142	289	1,460		1,895
Start	1	238	1,228	8,585		10,052
Stub		18	347	5,662		6,027
List		4	12	854		870
Category					3,845	3,845
Disambig					21	21
File					23	23
Portal					95	95
Project					223	223
Redirect			3	185	1,349	1,537
Template		1	8	432	167	608
NA				2		2
Other			1	1	11	13
Assessed	18	476	2,074	17,772	5,734	26,074
Total	18	476	2,074	17,772	5,734	26,074
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,147			Ω = 5.11

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!

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.

Yorkshire Day

Happy Yorkshire Day to all project members, official celebrations this year take place in York. May be if anyone is in York could get some pictures of the celebrations would be useful. The York article is about to loose it's GA status as it has been under review and is in need of work. Would be good if members could take time to update and keep it as a Good article.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The August 2024 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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