Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/May 2020

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 145 - May 2020

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Project News

Welcome to the one hundredth and forty 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 15,578 last month to 15,672 on 30 April 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 166 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,485 articles.

Currently we have fifty one Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • 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 • 2019 World Snooker Championship • Capture of Wakefield

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

2015 World Snooker Championship was nominated for GA on 15th March
2016 World Snooker Championship was promoted to GA on 1st April
Cædmon FAR started on 3rd April
Billy Elliot was promoted to GA on 4th April
Justin Wilson (racing driver) was promoted to GA on 6th April
1984 World Snooker Championship was nominated for GA on 15th April
Leeds Town Hall was not promoted to FA on 26th April
Cædmon was demoted from FA on 26th April

Member News

There are 87 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the April newsletter:

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!

Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	2	1	15	60		78
FL			1	16		17
GA	2	7	36	175		220
B	9	66	136	356		567
C	5	144	293	1,495		1,937
Start	1	240	1,250	8,656		10,147
Stub		20	359	5,668	3	6,050
List		4	12	929		945
Category					3,879	3,879
Disambig					21	21
File					22	22
Portal					95	95
Project					225	225
Redirect			2	193	1,353	1,548
Template				110	510	620
NA				5	2	7
Other					11	11
Assessed	19	482	2,104	17,663	6,121	26,389
Unassessed				1		1
Total	19	482	2,104	17,664	6,121	26,390
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 96,906			Ω = 5.10

Assessment
Assess and review

As of 28 April 2020, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.

(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

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.

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The May 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice and a member choice from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
Month	Dates	B class choice	Start class choice
121	1 Jan 2020 ~ 31 Jan 2020	Normanby, Redcar and Cleveland	Dearne Valley Railway
122	1 Feb 2020 ~ 29 Feb 2020	Jeremy Paxman	Easington, North Yorkshire
123	1 Mar 2020 ~ 31 Mar 2020	River Dearne	Fairfax House
124	1 Apr 2020 ~ 30 Apr 2020	Herbert Sutcliffe	Goldsborough, Harrogate
125	1 May 2020 ~ 31 May 2020	Independent Labour Party	Lendal Tower

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.

Thanks

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