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The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 127 - November 2018 October issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here Project News Welcome to the one hundredth and twenty seventh 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 14,388 last month to 14,424 on 30 October 2018). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 148 is ahead of WP:GM who have 86. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 67 out of a total number of 4,130 articles. Currently we have forty six Yorkshire featured articles: Henry Moore • Cædmon • 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) • History of York City F.C. (1908–80) • 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 There are also sixteen 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 Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. Article Activity Ackworth, West Yorkshire nominated for GA on 26th September Albert Pierrepoint nominated for FA on 6th October Member News There are 84 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the October 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 Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 1 15 60 78 FL 1 16 17 GA 2 7 36 176 221 B 9 67 137 363 576 C 5 144 303 1,522 1,974 Start 1 242 1,258 8,694 10,195 Stub 21 352 5,655 3 1 6,032 List 4 12 968 984 Category 2,937 2,937 Disambig 13 13 File 21 21 Portal 37 37 Project 194 194 Redirect 2 172 1,251 1,425 Template 521 521 NA 25 1,290 1,315 Other 12 12 Assessed 19 486 2,116 17,651 6,279 1 26,552 Unassessed 1 1 Total 19 486 2,116 17,651 6,279 2 26,553 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 97,225 Ω = 5.10 Assessment Assess and review As of 28 October 2018, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. (Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however) 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! 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 November 2018 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page. Month Dates Article(s) B class choice Start class choice 103 1 Jul 2018 ~ 31 Jul 2018 Michael Palin Marton, Middlesbrough 104 1 Aug 2018 ~ 31 Aug 2018 Rowntree's Newsome Panthers 105 1 Sep 2018 ~ 30 Sep 2018 Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications Orgreave Colliery 106 1 Oct 2018 ~ 31 Oct 2018 Tetley's Brewery Peace Museum, Bradford 107 1 Nov 2018 ~ 30 Nov 2018 Wakefield Queen's Gardens, Hull 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 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...

01:21, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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I have added new citations to both pages and they may not be quite right. Thanks as always T.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes Sir Sputnik Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes Everyking • Jackmcbarn Interface administrator changes Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni Oversight changes Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93 Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

• Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
• A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
• The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
• The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:

Way to go!

Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.

He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.

Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.

Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.

One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.

This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.

Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.

This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.

We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.

We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...

Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:

{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}

Using both maxheight=120px and overflow=Hidden produces this:

There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.

Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.

Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.

See ya round the portal system!    — The Transhumanist   11:43, 11 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-11T11:43:00.000Z","author":"The Transhumanist","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-The_Transhumanist-2018-11-11T11:43:00.000Z-Until_next_issue...","replies":[]}}-->

19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Can I email you right now? --Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 22:20, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T22:20:00.000Z","author":"Thegooduser","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T22:20:00.000Z-Email","replies":["c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T22:22:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T22:20:00.000Z"]}}-->

Yes you can, I will reply on wiki though. Keith D (talk) 22:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T22:22:00.000Z","author":"Keith D","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T22:22:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T22:20:00.000Z","replies":["c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T22:23:00.000Z-Keith_D-2018-11-12T22:22:00.000Z"]}}-->

Emailing you right now. Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 22:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T22:23:00.000Z","author":"Thegooduser","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T22:23:00.000Z-Keith_D-2018-11-12T22:22:00.000Z","replies":["c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T22:59:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T22:23:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Thegooduser: All done. Keith D (talk) 22:59, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T22:59:00.000Z","author":"Keith D","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T22:59:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T22:23:00.000Z","replies":["c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:02:00.000Z-Keith_D-2018-11-12T22:59:00.000Z"]}}-->

Thank You.--Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 23:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:02:00.000Z","author":"Thegooduser","type":"comment","level":6,"id":"c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:02:00.000Z-Keith_D-2018-11-12T22:59:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

Can you RD3 something? I will email you... Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 23:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:14:00.000Z","author":"Thegooduser","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:14:00.000Z-RD3","replies":["c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T23:25:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:14:00.000Z","c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:26:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:14:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Thegooduser: Which versions? Is it the change? Keith D (talk) 23:25, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:25:00.000Z","author":"Keith D","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T23:25:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:14:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

this one --Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 23:26, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:26:00.000Z","author":"Thegooduser","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:26:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:14:00.000Z","replies":["c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T23:35:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:26:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Thegooduser: Done - that user name seems familiar. Keith D (talk) 23:35, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:35:00.000Z","author":"Keith D","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T23:35:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:26:00.000Z","replies":["c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:32:00.000Z-Keith_D-2018-11-12T23:35:00.000Z"]}}-->

Glapz LTZA Page Soon here's an LTA for you to block. --Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 23:32, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:32:00.000Z","author":"Thegooduser","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:32:00.000Z-Keith_D-2018-11-12T23:35:00.000Z","replies":["c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T23:44:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:32:00.000Z","c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:45:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:32:00.000Z"]}}-->

@Thegooduser: I have blocked the user & deleted their user page. Keith D (talk) 23:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:44:00.000Z","author":"Keith D","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Keith_D-2018-11-12T23:44:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:32:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

Thank You.--Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 23:45, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:45:00.000Z","author":"Thegooduser","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:45:00.000Z-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:32:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

and

Please check new ref - number 125 - Sorry and thanks as usual T.

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for your Contributions to Wikipedia! Thegooduser Let's Chat 🍁 23:42, 12 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-12T23:42:00.000Z","author":"Thegooduser","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Thegooduser-2018-11-12T23:42:00.000Z-A_barnstar_for_you!","replies":[]}}-->

23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Keith D. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-19T18:42:00.000Z","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-2018-11-19T18:42:00.000Z-ArbCom_2018_election_voter_message","replies":[]}}-->

Please check new ref - IBSN number??? Thanks again from T

Please check new ref's thanks so much. T

Tricky one here - added a large file at top of page - please check if you have the time. Thanks from T (Mike).

2 new requests please

Please check new refs Thanks from T.

Please check new refs. Thanks from T.

There are now 4,180 portals.

Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?

I know we can. But, that is up to you!

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers,    — The Transhumanist   06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-26T06:51:00.000Z","author":"The Transhumanist","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-The_Transhumanist-2018-11-26T06:51:00.000Z-Happy_Holidays","replies":[]}}-->

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

The following portals have been created since the last issue:

Keep 'em coming!

By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).

We'll keep it short this issue.

Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.

Cheerio,    — The Transhumanist   07:46, 26 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-26T07:46:00.000Z","author":"The Transhumanist","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-The_Transhumanist-2018-11-26T07:46:00.000Z-In_closing","replies":[]}}-->

22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

I have added a new citation from a journal in the "Grandparents of Michael Middleton" section. Please check if you have the time. Thanks from T.

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 128 - December 2018 November issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here Project News Welcome to the one hundredth and twenty eigth 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 14,424 last month to 14,430 on 30 November 2018). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 148 is ahead of WP:GM who have 86. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 67 out of a total number of 4,131 articles. Currently we have forty seven Yorkshire featured articles: Henry Moore • Cædmon • 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) • History of York City F.C. (1908–80) • 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 There are also sixteen 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 Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. Article Activity Albert Pierrepoint promoted to FA on 30th October Member News There are 83 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No new members that have joined us since the November newsletter: Web SourceContent (talk · contribs) was removed as a sock-puppet 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 Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 1 15 60 78 FL 1 16 17 GA 2 7 36 176 221 B 9 67 137 363 576 C 5 144 303 1,522 1,974 Start 1 242 1,258 8,694 10,195 Stub 21 352 5,655 3 1 6,032 List 4 12 968 984 Category 2,937 2,937 Disambig 13 13 File 21 21 Portal 37 37 Project 194 194 Redirect 2 172 1,251 1,425 Template 521 521 NA 25 1,290 1,315 Other 12 12 Assessed 19 486 2,116 17,651 6,279 1 26,552 Unassessed 1 1 Total 19 486 2,116 17,651 6,279 2 26,553 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 97,225 Ω = 5.10 Assessment Assess and review As of 28 November 2018, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. (Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however) 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! 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. Happy Christmas It is that time of year again so to wish all members a Happy Christmas. Just to remind members that there will be fewer of the regular members around over the festive period and that there are usually loads of new editors around using their new shiny devices to access the internet and try out some editing. Those who are around just keep an eye out for any vandalism and test edits that occur and revert as soon as possible. WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project The December 2018 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page. Month Dates Article(s) B class choice Start class choice 104 1 Aug 2018 ~ 31 Aug 2018 Rowntree's Newsome Panthers 105 1 Sep 2018 ~ 30 Sep 2018 Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications Orgreave Colliery 106 1 Oct 2018 ~ 31 Oct 2018 Tetley's Brewery Peace Museum, Bradford 107 1 Nov 2018 ~ 30 Nov 2018 Wakefield Queen's Gardens, Hull 108 1 Dec 2018 ~ 31 Dec 2018 Yooka-Laylee Ravensworth Nurseries 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 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...

01:38, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
• A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
• A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
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• In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
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Obituaries

• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Please fix up new ref in this article - tricky for me. Thanks T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.33.45.21 (talk) 09:17, 6 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-06T09:17:00.000Z","author":"175.33.45.21","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-175.33.45.21-2018-12-06T09:17:00.000Z-Carole_Middleton","replies":[]}}-->

Please check refs here - Thanks as always T (Mike)

Hello, Keith D, I noticed that you have made some date correction changes on some of the entries on our project. I was wondering what my students were doing that was incorrect so that we don't have that annoying little change that needs to be made for you to bother with.

Here is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mooresville_Times

Blessings, Fr. K.+ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkurowski (talk • contribs) 23:56, 6 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-06T23:56:00.000Z","author":"Mkurowski","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mkurowski-2018-12-06T23:56:00.000Z-Wikiproject:_Newspapers_Mooresville_Times","replies":["c-Keith_D-2018-12-07T00:05:00.000Z-Mkurowski-2018-12-06T23:56:00.000Z"]}}-->

The problem was the |accessdate= format that included a time element "2018-12-04T19:43:13Z" rather than "2018-12-04". This was a bug in the recent Visual Editor deployment, and was supposed to be fixed 5 December though I have seen instances of this today. See Help talk:Citation Style 1#accessdate errors. Editors should be able to see the error in the References section with a red error message "Check date values in: |date= (help)". Keith D (talk) 00:05, 7 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-07T00:05:00.000Z","author":"Keith D","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Keith_D-2018-12-07T00:05:00.000Z-Mkurowski-2018-12-06T23:56:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

New citation for you check if you have the time please. Thanks as usual T.

Please check all refs. thanks again T.

17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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