Hi and sorry if this isn't the right way to leave you a message. Thanks for your comments ref St Ermins – you're only the second person I've come across calling it the st Vermins – I'm still trying to work out how Wikipedia works as technically very inept so today am trying to upload some good historical maps without breaching copyright plus starting to put citations in. The Spy history stuff will be quite difficult to substantiate though there is undoubtedly a history there. I'm keen for the piece not to look like an ad as wish it to sit nicely in Wikipedia and will work towards that as much as possible. help always received with much thanks.
I would like to ask A Question do i need to do (Z2a (talk) 16:58, 17 January 2012 (UTC)) at the end of my writing infomation as well
Thanks,
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Tim Fordham-Moss (talk) 11:20, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
I wonder if you could help please. I got the page to a stage where I submitted for review but nothing seems to be happening and I think it has a 'Hold' symbol against it – though not sure why. Am I missing something / going wrong somewhere?[reply]
I noticed that most of the improvements on the Bouchout Castle page have been undone, including yours (shortening the section titles, lede section). However, this is not visible in the history page. Since you are more experienced on Wikipedia: do you know whether this is a technical problem or a kind of vandalism? Who is the best to be notified? Thanks. Kees Recourt (talk) 08:11, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there – I hope this is how to get you a message – sorry, pretty untechnical. You kindly took a look at the St Ermins piece I was doing and offered help. I got it to a stage where I submitted for review but nothing seems to be happening and I think it has a 'Hold' symbol against it – though not sure why. Am I missing something / going wrong somewhere?
Hi, thanks for tightening up the references on the Churchill MT Co entry. I'll have to work my way through what you did to fully make sense of it but it sure looks better. With one exception (there's always one!): something has gone wrong in the "Historical Figures" section, which is now showing a bit of HTML where a reference should be. I'm not sure if this is a result of your actions or that of Ponti-doodah but suspect that since you were using some sort of test template then it might be a result of that.
Given that I do not really understand what you did, I'm loathe to try and fix it without spending an hour or so analysing it all. I might make matters worse! If you have the time then could you perhaps take a look for me?
I'll be adding more content over the next few days and will try to use your examples even if I do not understand fully: copy/paste, insert new citation ... hopefully learn something about formatingf cites along the way. Thanks, Sitush (talk) 00:19, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorted, the ref was reading <refname="foo"> rather than <ref name="foo">, the space makes all the difference :-) There wasn't anything wrong with the way you had the references using {{Cite web}} just that there are specialist templates for references from the London Gazette ({{London Gazette}} and Hansard ({{Cite hansard}}) which I think are easier to complete and the results easier to read. I think the other one was changing {{Cite news}} for {{Cite web}}, again it's a very moot point but it just puts the emphasis on the ref being originally in print rather than on the net. NtheP (talk) 06:45, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I've tried to use the city=Edinburgh parameter of the London Gazette citation template to correctly reference issue 21513 of the publication on the Churchill page. Ref is for dissolution of Churchill-Vertimax in a table of all the dissolved companies. It's not working and I'm clearly doing something simple, wrongly. Any ideas? Sitush (talk) 21:33, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Si, providing too much info was the issue. The parameter city=e was enough, you didn't need to spell Edinburgh out in full. NtheP (talk) 23:00, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A sentence in the Churchill article prior to my involvement has got moved about so much that the citation is a bit amiss – "In 1901 Churchill bought a factory near Chapel Street in Salford, initially as a facility to tool-up the imported machinery". I've added a citation but it is imperfect because it doesn't refer to Chapel Street. Do you have the Rolt "Tools" book to hand? If so, do you mind seeing if the original citation was from that? As I recall, Rolt was just about the only source prior to my editing. I'm also not too happy about the use of the phrase "tool-up": I know what it means but it will be obscure to many people (and it is also used elsewhere re: the Gatling factory) – do you have any view on this? Ta muchly. Sitush (talk) 08:34, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Si, I don't have copy of the book I'm afraid. As to tool up – my assumption is that this is the stage in a production process where production tools, tested and operating at maximum output rate, are in place. (Not my definition, lifted from a dictionary) If it is this or something else then we just need to explain it in the article the first time the phrase is used. NtheP (talk) 11:52, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
OK. Thanks. I'll find a ref for Chapel St from somewhere (perhaps even compare the article at 2 Jan and work it out from there using AGF). Sitush (talk) 11:57, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Thanks for tagging Rex Julius Hormillada just now, but I would have recommended an A7 rather than G11 – he was looking for a job, but it wasn't really blatant advertising. If another tag will do, it is normally preferable to G11, because after a G11 deletion newbies tend to put the article in again with a few adjectives cut out, and then we have to say, OK it's not advertising any more but you still get zapped for notability; and they feel persecuted. G12 (copyright) has the same problem – I tend to tag on a note saying, by the way, even if your make a copyright release, there are still these problems... Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:19, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Per your suggestion I have now WP:GAN'd the Churchill article. All that I feel I can add to it is some photos if/when they turn up and just possibly an extra sentence or two on Maginness, again if a specific article turns up. There may be other stuff lying around somewhere other than as original sources in archives, but I think I've pretty much exhausted what I can do on it.
I re-read the talk page today and remain amazed at the comment from "Maurice" at the time of AfD that there were no useful secondary/third party sources to expand the article: how far did he look, I wonder, before intellectual arrogance took over.Sitush (talk) 18:14, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Article Alerts
After nearly a year without the Article Alerts listing after the previous BOT operator departed a new BOT has been developed to give similar functionality. This was trialled on a few projects over the New Year period and has now been rolled out as a replacement for the original BOT. Just to remind members the listing gives changes to the status of articles tagged with the project template. It includes details such as good article candidate, articles up for deletion etc. the full list of workflows covered by the BOT can be seen here.
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Hi, being aware of the 3RR rule, do you know what my options are with a new user who has introduced copious amounts of copy-and-paste from a family history site on to a WP article? This was reverted yesterday by someone, and then this afternoon the new user reverted the revert and added more. I restored to the previous version and left a "welcome coi" note on the new user's talk page. They then can back and reverted my revert. I got rid of that with a "vandal" rollback and it was more or less immediately reinstated again. I've now left a note for them on the article talk page as well as their own.
I am wary of doing yet another revert. It could go on for ever and the problem appears to be that the user is ignoring (or somehow not seeing) the prompts/new messages on their personal talk page. Thoughts? Article is Hilton family, which I went to initially because it was throwing maintenance problems due to the user's poor reflist formatting. - Sitush (talk) 16:50, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think your comments were great. Personally I'm dubious about the notability of the whole article. If there are members of the family who merit their own articles, that's one thing, otherwise it just seems like a bit of a puff piece to mention a lot of non-entities. NtheP (talk) 11:56, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I rasied notability with the admin who blocked the new user. It turns out that admin has actually created a genealogy page of their own! S/he said it wasn't worth time taking it to AfD. I'm not so sure. - Sitush (talk) 15:26, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the citation; I removed my concern and gave my thumbs up. Also, thanks for changing back the "and bar" designation. I had never seen it, and the London Gazette article introducing the GM didn't mention it, so I assumed it wasn't correct. I now see plenty of other articles with it, so I stand corrected. Cmprince (talk) 23:16, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On 27 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George Samuel Sewell, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that George Samuel Sewell was the first civilian to be awarded a bar to the George Medal, for fighting fires at a petrol refinery during the Hull Blitz? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Above superseded – got the GA, with a comment that it should go towards FA via a peer review. I've now instigated the peer review. Honestly, it would not have got this far without your assistance and encouragement. Not to mention your judgement, as you did comment some time ago that this should go to GA and soon thereafter to FA, and also mentioned the peer review process – are you clairvoyant or what? <g> – Sitush (talk) 01:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Si, really pleased for you on this. You took it on as a challenge and by hell you've showed what can be done. Thanks for the kind words, perhaps my best bit of wikigoming :-) NtheP (talk) 21:26, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
W & J Galloway & Sons is well on the way now. EdJogg, in particular, has helped me out with a lot of gnoming but feel free to wave your magic wand over it. I've not finished with the thing yet but it is probably 80- 90% there. Difficult to see the wood for the trees sometimes, which is where the gnomes come in handy ;) – Sitush (talk) 21:52, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(Update) – just revisited the Afd nom – "The article on Churchill Machine Tools has no substance and it is very unlikely that it will attract sufficient interest from historians capable of expanding it in any meaningful way. This is especially true now that the article’s solitary graphic has been removed by the Wikipedia deletion squad." Whoops. I think it is unfortunate that, for reasons I never did fully understand, the originator of this and some other similar articles appears to have gone. I do know that the gist of it was about unwillingness to collaborate (& he was certainly forthright), but out of at least a couple of small acorns planted by said contributor ... - Sitush (talk) 00:30, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Not quite, this is a GA until a GAR says otherwise. Best bet is to stay out of it, it looks like there are plenty to fight your corner NtheP (talk) 22:21, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, someone reverted the editor's reclassification for procedural reasons. I've said my bit & am not inclined to go further because I do recognise how close I am to it. I've opposed the move, though, as that is a different issue & I feel ok to have a say there. What I am astonished about is where all these other folks have come from, since not many are watching the page. Can only assume that the early actions caused it to appear on notification lists etc. Still learning!- Sitush (talk) 22:25, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,766 last month to 8,841 on February 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 65 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 61. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,376 articles.
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Great Backlog Drive
Most of you should have spotted the advertisement for the Great Backlog Drive that is under way at the moment. This is an initiative to reduce the number of tags that are attached to articles by attempting to fix as many of these as possible. Of cause some tags are more of a problem to fix than others but the purpose of the drive is to cut down the overall number of articles that have identified problems in them, rather than concentrate on specific problems. It would be good if project members got involved in this and fixed tags that they come across in their editing. It would also be helpful to avoid tagging new problems by fixing them when you spot the problem, though if you cannot fix it then tag for someone else to look at.
The project clean up listing gives a list of the more common tags attached to the project's articles, of which 32.1 % are marked for clean up, and can be found -
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Hi. Thanks for the useful info at WT:UKRAIL on the York Racecourse station. I'm still planning to create a stub for it, and I'd appreciate it if you could let me have author, title and page no(s) for what "Butt" says so that I could use it as a ref – I've never heard of him, even though I have a mild interest in the development and "streamlining" of the railway system in the UK. Incidentally, I have a copy of David and Charles's reprint of Bradshaw for (I think) 1911, which doesn't mention either York Racecourse station or its former Holgate name, but I guess that that's because trains stopping there only did so on seemingly random (i.e. raceday) dates. Best. --GuillaumeTell18:30, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Butt has it's own template {{Butt-Stations}} and the page numbers you want are p257 for York Holgate Bridge & York Racecourse and p121 for Holgate Excursion Platform. NtheP (talk) 19:38, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I did track down Butt in various articles after a bit of trial and error but had no idea that a template was involved. Might send off for a copy of the book. --GuillaumeTell21:57, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I hope you don't mind but I renamed the entry in line with previous talk on this subject, best wishes.Twobells (talk)
Don't mind in the slightest. Knowing how sensitive anything around the topic of Ireland can be all I wanted to do was point out the new information and retire from the scene. How to incorporate it, if at all, in a fashion that won't provoke an edit war I'll leave to others. NtheP (talk) 12:43, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Update: It seems that certain pro republican editors don't want to debate on how to include the De Valera 'spying for Britain' revelations into his article and would rather it all went away, I have tried to approach them on discussing how to enter in the facts neutrally but they have gone silent over this (see De Valera talk) for many months although they are still active, any ideas?Twobells (talk) 11:07, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,841 last month to 8,899 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,395 articles.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
There are 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No membership changes have taken place since the March newsletter,
though the number of active members is still currently low.
Thanks
Thanks to all those who took part in the Great Backlog Drive raised in the last newsletter. A small inroad was made getting down from 32.1% to 31.7% of articles tagged.
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 WikiProkject 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.
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
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WikiConference UK 2011
Just a reminder for those members in the UK that there is the WikiConference UK 2011 that takes place in Bristol on 16 April 2011. This will incorporate the Wikimedia UK's annual conference. It would be good if the project has some members who could attend and support the event. Opportunities are available to get more widely involved in the direction of the UK chapter. If you have time you can volunteer and get involved by just contacting them here.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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Hi. Just a heads up to advise that your table on the lineage of the Yorkshire Regiment's 4th Bn was deleted yesterday, by an editor who claimed it was 'clearly' wrong. I reverted his deletion as the lineage is absolutely correct. However he is challenging it on the talk page. I have already replied with supporting detail in defence of it, but thought you may wish to have your 'tuppenceworth'. Richard Harvey (talk) 07:39, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,899 last month to 8,918 on April 19th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 66 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 62. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,413 articles.
Currently we have twenty six 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.
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.
Commons images
For those of you who missed it, April saw a milestone for images on Commons with the upload of the 10 millionth image. There are images on most subjects, if you can find them, to illustrate articles. With the major work of transferring Geograph images to Commons nearing completion then most location articles should have images available for use in illustrating the subject. All of the village and civil parish articles that had articles in December 2009 had categories created on Commons for them so that the Geograph images can be placed into them. Thus the {{Commons category}} template can be added to all village and civil parish articles to link to all the available images on Commons for the location. Though beware that if the template does not have any arguments, moving of the article to a new name will break the link to Commons so it is wise to include the article name in the template call e.g.{{Commons category|Rotherham}}.
Those of you interested in helping out at Commons are more than welcome to help organise and categorise all of the uploaded Geograph images so that they can be found and made available to users.
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I was looking at the article and noticed it crosslinks between the harvard notes and references, but does so manually. Was there a specific reason not to use the {{sfn}} series of templates? If there is interest, I'm perfectly willing do the conversion. Circéus (talk) 18:27, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Nthep, I noticed that you changed Alexander Rigby's wikiproject from Lancashire & Cumbria to Greater Manchester. I have a feeling that you're more up to speed with the scope of the project, but wouldn't Rigby be more relevant to Lancashire, given that Wigan was, while he was alive, in Lancashire? I don't know too much about him yet, but I believe he had to do with the history of various (present day) Lancashire settlements too... that's not really my point though. Wouldn't the scope of the Gr Manchester project cover things/people from the time that it has existed? Obviously not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, I'm just curious! :) --BelovedFreak15:42, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I would love to have included Rigby as within L&C but it was discussed when the project was set up to limit interest based on the current gerographical boundaries of Lancs & Cumbria otherwise there would be a huge overlap with the Manchester and Merseyside projects (also Yorkshire to a lesser extent). Rigby isn't the first interesting historical character I've removed from project tagging and undoubtedly won't be the last. NtheP (talk) 17:15, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the explanation, that's kind of a shame in a way but it makes sense from an orgnisational point of view. Cheers, --BelovedFreak18:01, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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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.
Currently we have twenty six Yorkshire featured articles:
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I believe that this was done to show that the airport is now non-operational. You might want to raise this at WP:AIRPORTS, as I'm not sure if this is a project wide thing, or just that of whoever it was that did it. Mjroots (talk) 19:06, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 8,974 last month to 9,083 on June 28). 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 2,603 articles.
Currently we have twenty five 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.
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.
Featured Lists
Featured Lists have been promoted during the last month and have now been given their own weekly slot on the main page. Lists appear on the front page on Mondays just above "Today's featured picture". This may be extended to other days at a later date if people like it. In line with this I have also added a box for lists on to the Yorkshire Portal and created a couple of entries to start it off, more will be added later.
The project currently has 12 featured lists, out of 208 project articles identified as lists, and it would be good if we could get some of these on to the front page. Of anyone wants to take this up they need to create an entry for the list and nominate them to be considered here.
Lists are easier than articles to get to featured status as there is less prose to be created and the bulk of the page is the list itself. Most of the project's current featured lists are on football related topics and it would be good to get a broader range of topics for out Featured Lists. Some of the 208 lists could be brought up to featured status with a little bit of work, if any one wants to take up the challenge.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The July 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions 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.
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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.
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Hello! I'm very pleased to say that the collaboration with the National Maritime Museum which I mentioned earlier in the year is going ahead. They have put a load of their data on Royal Navy warships up on their website. Please do drop by Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM to find out more, start work, and/or help suggest ways of moving forward. :-) The Land (talk) 12:26, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 9,083 last month to 9,157 on July 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 64. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,766 articles.
Currently we have twenty five 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.
Vandalism
With the start of the school holidays there is more chances of vandalism to articles at this time of year. It is time to remind members to be on the alert for vandalism to articles, especially those that are in the projects scope.
Here is a recent example of one that slipped through the net this edit which was reverted by an IP over a month after it was made! You can check the changes to the project's tagged pages using the watchlist or you can use the toolserver version which looks at just articles here. The former may not be up to date, as it requires manual update of the list of articles, but does cover all namespaces.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The August 2011 articles selected below are an editor choice and a suggestion from the project talk page.
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yes it is a long topic, i figure it will take me about one to two days, I shall be adding a history section (need to find my copy of the english legal system first) and current developments section. Feel free to add to it in my user space, hopefully I shall get around to publishing it in the main space tonight or tomorrow and get some did you knows on the main page. Once again thanks for the welcome.
Could you kindly offer some advice as to what Wiki image licence tag is applied to this archive licence:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/ the BBC broke a story back in March 2011 about the Irish president Eamon De Valera colluding with the British to defeat the IRA yet every time I try and add the documents from National Archives copies someone deletes it citing different reasons why it cannot be used, so I would like you to read the licence and see under which tag it can be used, thanks in advance. Here is the BBC piece that certain editors suggest is either fake or copyrightTwobells (talk) 14:29, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for my inept upload, but I am still learning. I do have full permission by the photographer to use the image in question, an was correcting my error when you marked it for deletion. Please let me know what further steps might be needed to keep this file from being deleted, thanks. Ffejmopp (talk) 20:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I just wanted to thank you for your help in all this. thanks to you I now understand how to do this properly going forward. I am truly grateful for your assistance. Ffejmopp (talk) 20:19, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 9,157 last month to 9,229 on August 24th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 65. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,778 articles.
Currently we have twenty seven 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.
Back to school
September and October are the months when many young people move from one school to a new school, or to university. It tends to be a time when freshers "look up" their new schools and colleges on Wikipedia and decide to edit for the first time. Many additions to school articles, in the past, have been unsourced, some poorly formatted and some in violation of other Wikipedia policies. More experienced editors can help here. It is easy to become frustrated, hit revert and issue a warning of some sort. How off-putting for a new editor.
New editors do make innocent mistakes and it is up to us all to try to welcome and support them; perhaps by issuing a welcome message, helping them to find sources or format references and citations. Obviously, not all will turn out to be paragons of Wikipedia virtue, but we can at least give them the opportunity. May be it is time for us all to re-read the essay Please do not bite the newcomers.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The September 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions 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.
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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 9,229 last month to 9,255 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,813 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight 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.
New software release
October sees the next release of the MediaWiki software (version 1.8) that runs the English Wikipedia. It will probably live by the time the newsletter arrives by the last few month's delivery dates! If you see any problems with the page display on any articles or problems with your favourite gadget or script then it may be a problem with the new release of software. It is worth checking out the Village Pump – Technical board to see if there has been any report of a similar problem. If not then raise a new thread to get it recorded and to see if there are any of the technical people that can point you at a solution. Hopefully things will go smoother than previous releases but these things always throw up obscure problems that have not been foreseen.
If you are interested in the detail of the changes made in this release then take a look at the full list.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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Can I ask you how certain you are of those coordinates? Having visited Canoe River, and trespassed on CNR property to get as close to the crash site as I could conveniently, I know it is not marked. The cairn is about a mile, so I was told, from the actual crash site.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I must admit I may have made a gross misassumption by assuming that the co-ords had been checked as part of the FA assessment. NtheP (talk) 21:33, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
They were not. I need to go through the diffs and figure out who added them. I did not notice that they were in the infobox. Honestly, I am not even certain if they were there during the FAC.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:58, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi and sorry if this isn't the right way to leave you a message. Thanks for your comments ref St Ermins – you're only the second person I've come across calling it the st Vermins – I'm still trying to work out how Wikipedia works as technically very inept so today am trying to upload some good historical maps without breaching copyright plus starting to put citations in. The Spy history stuff will be quite difficult to substantiate though there is undoubtedly a history there. I'm keen for the piece not to look like an ad as wish it to sit nicely in Wikipedia and will work towards that as much as possible. help always received with much thanks.
Tim Fordham-Moss (talk) 11:20, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for help and support. I'm building this slowly and will start putting citations where I can today / Monday. I've also altered a little the intro based on your comments and although the history could well sit under Westminster once the maps I've got or think I can get go in then it does position the building nicely. The spies stuff is – to be honest – mainly informed hearsay, simply by its very nature though the SOE etc and the Noel Coward links are substantiable, as are the Caxton Bar Cambridge Five meets. Just mastered left and right positioning of photos so now very pleased with self.............. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim Fordham-Moss (talk • contribs) 12:59, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 9,266 last month to 9,354 on October 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,835 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight 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.
Collaboration
Each month the project has a collaboration of the month when two articles are nominated to be worked on by members during the month. One of these is usually a B-class article and one a start-class article. Some of these have not really been worked on by members and I would encourage all members to get involved and see what can be achieved. An example of the success of this effort has been Whitby which was the B-class collaboration article in July and has just achieved Good Article status. This was achieved by just the efforts of three editors just think what would be achieved if all of the 91 members got involved in editing these articles. They may not be ones which are of particular interest to you but they relate to Yorkshire in some way so they raise the profile of the county and can often be related to articles you are interested in in some way or other. I have tried to rotate round the county with a variety of differing topics while steering clear of the ones designated as our priority articles. If you have an article that you think could be improved in one of these collaborations then just nominate it on the project talk page and I will fit it in at some point.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The November 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions 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.
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I notice you proposed speedy deletion as a copyright infringement. It has been recreated. I have PROD'd as an unreferenced bio. Do the copyright issues persist in this version? ScottyBerg (talk) 21:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
To Nthep,
I am struggling to understand how to progress this. The text submitted is my own copyright because i also created the original website that the text comes from. i have in any case changed and edited this text in order to better suit wikipedia, and is not copied directly. I was getting references for the wiki page when you sent me this message.
From Ninjakins — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninjakins (talk • contribs) 21:48, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 9,354 last month to 9,459 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,857 articles.
Currently we have twenty nine 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
Happy Christmas to all the members of the project. Many thanks for all the hard work over the past year and hope that the good progress will be kept up in the new year. Many of the regular editors will be away over the break and vandalism tends to increase at this time of year, could be all those new computers that people get for Christmas. So if you are around then keep an eye out for vandalism to the project's articles and revert as soon as possible. All of the good work of the project can be destroyed quickly if vandalism is not spotted and dealt with.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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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.
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And I took them away again for reasons I explained in my edit summary and on my talk page. Bottom line, Nthep was right in the first place. --Bob Re-born (talk) 19:04, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry if I did not make the Lancashire connection clear. I have now explained it on the article talk page. I can go into further detail if you like. Best wishes. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 18:41, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
I have added him to WP Yorkshire now as well. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 18:43, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. Thanks for letting me know, I thought I was not seeing things when the report vanished from my contributions list. NtheP (talk) 18:44, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nthep, thanks for your interest in my amendment of the modifier '78-mile' in Helen Skelton. I stand by the change I made, and have explained why under your comment on my talk page. Onanoff (talk) 05:22, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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 9,459 last month to 9,480 on December 14th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 71 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,865 articles.
Currently we have twenty nine 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 New Year
Happy New Year to all the members of the project.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The January 2012 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
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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.
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I haven't looked at his contributions just the articles on my watch list. I'll happily review others but as I'm working on a smartphone editing isn't as easy as normal. I think the conclusion will be no concensus and discuss in a case by case basis. As I've had my say more than once I felt it better to leave to others to refute his points lest it looked like me vs the rest. NtheP (talk) 19:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! Your submission of George Samuel Sewell at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Cmprince (talk) 22:54, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
