Project News 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.
Henry Moore • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • 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
List of York City F.C. Clubmen 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 A.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
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
Article Activity River Don Navigation nominated for GA on April 23rd William Stones Ltd peer review initiated on April 25th Ravensworth peer review initiated on May 5th Gerard (archbishop of York) peer review initiated on May 12th Sheffield Wednesday F.C. FAR initiated on May 14th River Don Navigation promoted to GA on May 15th Halifax Gibbet peer review initiated on May 18th Halifax Gibbet FAC initiated on May 21st Geoffrey (archbishop of York) peer review initiated on May 22nd
Member News There are now 85 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the May newsletter:
One member was removed from the project this month for socking.
The number of
active members is still currently low.
Thanks A very big Thank you 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!
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.
Yorkshire articles by quality and importance
Quality
Importance
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
1,253
8,665
1
10,160
Stub
20
356
5,659
3
6,038
List
4
12
930
946
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
104
516
620
NA
5
2
7
Other
12
12
Assessed
19
482
2,104
17,658
6,128
1
26,392
Unassessed
1
1
Total
19 482 2,104 17,659 6,128 1 26,393
WikiWork factors (? ω = 96,899
Ω = 5.10
Assessment Assess and review
As of 20 April 2011, we have assessed 100% (Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
Thanks
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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project The June 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire .
Please bear in mind... clean-up listing
Monitoring is essential 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 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... Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View
Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS ?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS ! New editors are always welcome!
