Hi Storye book! I saw that you recently reviewed the article MTV Unplugged (Thirty Seconds to Mars EP) for the DYK nomination. I was wondering if you would review it for the good article status. Thanks, --Earthh (talk) 21:31, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for asking me - much appreciated. However I only have one Good Article achievement myself, and I don't suppose that qualifies me as a GA reviewer. So I have simply done a copyedit on the article - it was basically fine except for one or two items (see my edit summary). It's unfortunate that the article involves a TV show and an EP with the same name, and both have to be in italics. That means I had to make the difference clear. Yes of course it's easy to work out which is which if you read it carefully, but at first glance it can be confusing. I hope that's OK. --Storye book (talk) 11:27, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the kind encouragement, EEng! However I don't feel ready for that, right now, especially as the DYK-backlog-clearing job is taking far longer and is far more intense than I had estimated. I am happy to contribute in small ways to GA article development if I am asked, though. --Storye book (talk) 12:58, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't being kind. I just like to butt in and be a knowitall. EEng (talk) 13:37, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Haha, tough job, but someone has to do it. --Storye book (talk) 13:46, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It brings tears to my eyes to know that at least someone appreciates the many sacrifices I make to bring knowitall-ness to Wikipedia. Thank you. I can die happy now. BTW I'll do Jack and Ed Biddle today -- there's a delay on Jean Berko Gleason but not too much longer. EEng (talk) 18:08, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Skr15081997 is giving you this special award for maintaining high standards while reviewing DYK nominations which is much needed for building the best encyclopedia. Skr15081997 (talk) 12:33, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Hope you're doing well. Since you asked me to let me know when my 50th DYK hit the main page, it happened yesterday. Also, thanks for the reviews you've done for my nominations. --Jakob (talk) 08:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thank you for notifying me about this. I am finding more information detailedly describing what happened and what means did the eunuchs adopt during this practice. It's 9:30 pm in China so I may get back to improve the content in about 1 day. :) Cheers, KouDou 13:31, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
FYI it's going to take another few days on this. I received a lot of corrections to the research section which will take some work to integrate. Thanks for shepherding this. EEng (talk) 14:48, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be wrapping this up this weekend. Listen, you may have noticed I'm on a bit of a hook-pull rampage, and I dinged a couple which you had approved. I hope you're not sore. I just never noticed until now how really hollow so many hooks are under their eggshell veneers. EEng (talk) 22:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You do exhibit unusual calmness of spirit. EEng (talk) 11:52, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I want to accept that one. But how I can? Other than editing template. Thanks a lot. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 11:28, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I replied on your talkpage. --Storye book (talk) 11:42, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Not to blow up the DYK nomination further: I don't know what 11/11 means, and if it's November, I guess the answer is no, at least I asked about August in May and the answer was "no, no more than six weeks in advance". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! You may be interested to know that Hassocks5489 has found a 1907 online citation for the bells - see Ref 10. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 13:34, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Super DYK Avenger, you are my hero! Swoon. [inexplicably shows bounteous cleavage and legs as she's whisked away] Belle (talk) 12:57, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Launchballer 09:07, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That was sent to you by accident per my reply on my talk page; you can probably ignore it.--Launchballer 09:35, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I replied on your talk page. It's cool. --Storye book (talk) 09:49, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Storye book! I visited your talk page to just say a huge thanks for reviewing my DYK nomination and for your patience in waiting. On the other side, I'm sorry that I did not responded immediately because of my busy school life. I hope you have a great day! FairyTailRocks 17:31, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. I fail to see how we can expect to have fully referenced articles, without what you call close paragraphing. But to be more constructive, why don't you try to improve the article? Bear in mind there was no article about all when I created it, even though she was a very prominent entertainer.Zigzig20s (talk) 17:46, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Super DYK Avenger. How does donating QPQs work? (I realise I'm probably not being my normal razor-edged-self here; probably low blood sugar or my refusal to let the Professor inject me with the Brain Enhancer serum this morning; OK, so it makes you super intelligent, but the giant pulsing brain look is so off trend) Belle (talk) 13:24, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
(watching) for me it worked like this: a friend was reminded that everything was fine with a nom but the missing qpq, I had no idea when he would see that, and did one for him, which was accepted, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:44, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
But that wasn't retroactive was it? I'm thinking I've done hundreds (probably tens but I like to talk myself up) of reviews without a single nomination. Can I donate one of those if I take pity on some drowning nominator, or would I have to do another review? (not that that would be a problem as I am a reviewing machine, sometimes I do as many as three in one day; count them, three; that's more than a camel can count on one hoof.) Belle (talk) 14:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks guys for your generous QPQ donations. @ Belle: I think the principle is that QPQ should help a little to rectify the awful backlog of DYK noms, i.e. it's there to make things better for DYK in general, and not there to hassle nominators who for whatever reason might find QPQ too difficult. Some nominators are clearly not ready. Some are struggling with English as a second language. Some don't have time or have disappeared. So that's my own motivation for donating. The only proviso is that donated QPQs should be found easily by admin when promoting the nom. If you think that admin won't find your donated QPQ, include a link to the template that you reviewed. No need to do a brand new extra one. Sorted. I do hesitate to donate sometimes, when I'm dying to shove the nom upstairs quickly to get rid of it, and the nominator is clearly capable of doing a QPQ but they have delayed, and might be offended if I do stuff for them. Nothing is clear-cut, really. --Storye book (talk) 14:55, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Storye book. I'll give them out sparingly (and patronisingly) Belle (talk) 01:08, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
LOL, yes. You only get to win a few friends at this game. If you give selectively you're patronising or missing out the needy, and if you don't give at all you're mean, and if you give too much to too many you're undermining the system. But there are always some who are pleased or relieved to get a free QPQ, and they keep me going. --Storye book (talk) 06:30, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
According to this source it means Advisor to the Kingdom. It comes up in numerous sources as the title of a Minister (foreign minister from context, particularly Persian). Yngvadottir (talk) 00:00, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Storye book, just like to update that FairyTailRocks did give a more detailed QPQ review, so Paige's DYK did run after all. Thanks for your patience and help during the review! :) starship.paint~ regal 08:11, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2014[edit]
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Wiki Loves Monuments
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election[edit]
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2014[edit]
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 11,446 last month to 11,461 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 112 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,381 articles.
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Sheffield Editathon 22 November 2014
There will be an editathon on Saturday 22 November in Sheffield, the theme is historical authors and printers from the Yorkshire region. Project members would be very welcome either to join them on the day or make suggestions on the project page.
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Happy Christmas
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Voting for the Military historian and Military newcomer of the year now open![edit]
Nominations for the military historian of the year and military newcomer of the year have now closed, and voting for the candidates has officially opened. All project members are invited to cast there votes for the Military historian and Military newcomer of the year candidates before the elections close at 23:59 December 21st. For the coordinators, TomStar81
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Welcome back! When you have a chance, you might perhaps wish to look at the comments which I added to your talk page (Archive 14, under the heading Charles Farrar Forster) last August. I have got a head-and-shoulders photo of Charles which you might possibly think worth adding to his page. Trouble is, I'm not sufficiently clued up on how to go about doing that. The photo has been cut round & is about 4 inches across, so it would need to be cropped or squared off. I've scanned it & it's in the "My Scans" section on my PC. I could therefore probably send it to you as an email attachment/PDF file or whatever the correct description is. Please let me know if you think this might be a good idea.
Since Charles was my great great uncle, I'm also intrigued to know whether you are related to him. When you have a chance, please could you let me know about this, either here or on my talk page. NinetyCharacters (talk) 22:24, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! I replied on your talk page. --Storye book (talk) 10:08, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Have replied on that page. NB: I could also post to you a copy of the article, written by my father in "Stamp Magazine" in 1999, which deals prominently with Beckwithshaw & which is among the sources listed on the Beckwithshaw Wiki page. NinetyCharacters (talk) 21:08, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I replied on your talk page. --Storye book (talk) 08:30, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
There is an edit-a-thon on the subject of Art+Feminism to be held at the Hepworth Wakefield on Sunday 8 March 2015. Any members who fit the criteria "Women and allies of all genders, including non-binary gender identities" in the Wakefield area who can get to the event would be welcome to participate. For more information and to sign-up see the event page.
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Leeds Meet-up
Members are invited to a meet-up in Leeds on 12 April 2015 where you can meet other Wikipedians and discuss things. You can also have a meal and drink together. The meeting will be at 12:30 at The New Conservatory, The Albions, Albion Place, Leeds, LS1 6JL. If you are interested then you can find more details and sign-up at the meet-up page.
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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 11,807 last month to 11,836 on April 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 114 is ahead of WP:GM who have 84. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 58 out of a total number of 3,489 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
Elections
With the general election and local elections taking place on 7 May there will be a large number of articles that will need to be updated with the election results when they are declared. Also there will be new articles needed for the election results and for newly elected MPs who we have no articles for. Would be good if these new articles could be tagged with the project banner if they are relevant to the area so that they can be tracked. Please keep an eye on the articles of any candidates so that they remain neutral and are not vandalised, as they will be popular pages at the moment.
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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 11,836 last month to 11,889 on June 1st). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 115 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 59 out of a total number of 3,502 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
York Meet-up
Members are invited to a meet-up in York on 15 June 2015 where you can meet other Wikipedians and discuss things. You can also have a meal and drink together. The meeting will be at 12:30 at Your Bike Shed, 148/150 Micklegate, York, YO1 6JX. If you are interested then you can find more details and sign-up at the meet-up page.
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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 11,889 last month to 12,008 on June 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 115 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 59 out of a total number of 3,512 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
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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 12,008 last month to 12,031 on July 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 116 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,517 articles.
Currently we have thirty four 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.
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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 12,031 last month to 12,045 on August 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 116 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,525 articles.
Currently we have thirty four 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.
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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 12,045 last month to 12,193 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 119 is ahead of WP:GM who have 84. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,532 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
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00:38, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
File permission problem with File:Eisenach.jpg[edit]
Thanks for uploading File:Eisenach.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.
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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Eisenach.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. Kellyhi! 13:48, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I have replied. The case has already been discussed and closed. Please revert your edit. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 14:10, 14 October 2015 (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 12,193 last month to 12,209 on October 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 118 is ahead of WP:GM who have 84. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,534 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
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The November 2015 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2015[edit]
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 12,209 last month to 12,218 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 118 is ahead of WP:GM who have 84. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,539 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
Happy Christmas
A Happy Christmas to all members of the project and a big thank you for all the hard work on Yorkshire related articles during the year.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The December 2015 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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00:49, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Nominations for the Military history WikiProject historian and newcomer of the year awards now open![edit]
On behalf of the Military history WikiProject's Coordinators, we would like to extend an invitation to nominate deserving editors for the 2015 Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards. The nomination period will run from 7 December to 23:59 13 December, with the election phase running from 14 December to 23:59 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:06, 7 December 2015 (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 12,218 last month to 12,254 on January 4th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 120 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,559 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
Happy New Year
A Happy New Year to all members of the project.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The January 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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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 12,254 last month to 12,301 on January 31st). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 121 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,563 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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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 12,301 last month to 12,503 on 29 February). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 123 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,580 articles.
Currently we have thirty 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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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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 12,503 last month to 12,534 on 3 April). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 123 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 61 out of a total number of 3,586 articles.
Currently we have forty 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 April 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:IvanSBukreev.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 01:40, 8 April 2016 (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 12,534 last month to 12,568 on 27 April). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 125 is ahead of WP:GM who have 86. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,603 articles.
Currently we have forty 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.
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The May 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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17:03, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2016[edit]
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 12,568 last month to 12,628 on 4 June). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 126 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,724 articles.
Currently we have forty 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 June 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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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 12,628 last month to 12,769 on 29 June). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 127 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,620 articles.
Currently we have forty 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 July 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from 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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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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 12,769 last month to 12,795 on 30 July). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 127 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,633 articles.
Currently we have forty Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 29 June 2016, 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
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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.
Celebrations
Celebrations are in order this month as we reach a milestone in the project with 100 editions of the newsletter. It was way back in May 2008 when we introduced the monthly newsletter to project members and I hope that it is still useful to keep members informed of things that are going on in the project. Sometimes you wonder if there is any activity going on and what is happening to the articles in the scope of the project but slowly things are progressing. In May 2008 we only had 3,343 articles to look after, but today that is 12,795. Membership was 45 but is now 82, even though we had a cull of members who were no longer active during that period. Of our identified 15 top-level importance articles, 1 has been promoted to FA-class, 3 have been promoted to GA-class, 1 to B-class, 1 to C-class, while 1 has been demoted to GA-class and another to C-class, note that C-class did not exist in May 2008. We now have 40 FA-class articles and 16 FL-class lists compared to 9 FA-class articles and 7 FL-class lists in May 2008.
Congratulations to all who have helped along the way and be inspired to move things forward over the coming months.
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The August 2016 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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Orphaned non-free image File:1958 ivan brovkin na tseline.jpg[edit]
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Thanks for the heads up on this. The image had apparently been removed from its article at some point. I have replaced it in the article Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov and added a small critical commentary beneath the image. Storye book (talk) 09:48, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Orphaned non-free image File:DVD cover of Ivan Brovkin Na Tseline.jpg[edit]
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I don't think we can use a second non-free image in the same article, so I believe this one will have to be deleted due to being orphaned. Storye book (talk) 07:23, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2016[edit]
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 12,795 last month to 12,822 on 3 September). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 132 is ahead of WP:GM who have 85. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 62 out of a total number of 3,655 articles.
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Hi Storye book – thanks for uploading the image. I am intending to work on Hove eventually as my next main project, and in particular the history of Hove's development, so this will be very useful. This terrace is only about 5 minutes from where I live, funnily enough. It has been altered a bit and no longer has the name Doone Terrace, but has instead been renumbered as 77–91 (odd) Lorna Road. The date of 1880 makes them the earliest buildings on the road. The Encyclopaedia of Hove and Portslade tells me that Richard Jefferies lived at number 87 when he was convalescing in the 1880s, and there is indeed a plaque on the house (although not a blue plaque!). Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 19:45, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 03:03, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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