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Great images, could you possibly provide some source information for where you got them from? Cheers. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 17:08, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It's great that you're uploading pictures from you own collection, but you still need to list clearly on each image page the source of that photograph. This is so that other users know that they're not copyright violations. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 19:42, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I notice a lot of your images are under the CC non-commercial licence. As I understand it this is incompatible with the philosophy of Wikipedia as a free encyclopedia. The GFDL that Wikipedia content is made available under allows commercial use, and it became official policy a while ago that non-commercial images would not be allowed. I'm telling you this not because I'm going round trying to enforce the policy but because I uploaded a few non-commercial images a while ago and then found out they were all destined for deletion. I argued about it at the time, saying that it should be possible to use computer metadata to filter out images that weren't licenced for whatever it was someone who reproduces Wikipedia content is trying to achieve, but I didn't get very far. Since that time it seems there has been no further movement on deleting non-commercial images, but I suspect it will happen sooner or later. If you own the copyright to an image you've uploaded under a non-commercial use licence and you're prepared to allow commercial use to keep it in Wikipedia then it might be an idea to relicence it at some point. I don't think it's a matter of urgency though, just making you aware of what might happen in the future. — Trilobite(Talk) 23:13, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I think this article looks fairly good now. I'm not sure if the inline external links are a good idea, though. The favoured style is by turning them into footnotes. Otherwise no complaints. JFW | T@lk 03:11, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I'm moving the article to asbestos and the law, since it's mostly about legal issues: regulations on handling, litigation arising from exposure. Nothing in the article actually links exposure levels to cancer (not that I'm doubting this).
The article needs to mention that the laws and litigation stem from public perception of the links. And then refer to the asbestosis article which explains the theory that asbestos fibers irritate the lungs, causing scarring, etc. If there are any studies correlating airborne asbestos exposure to lung diseases (like cancer), those should be cited too!
Finally, if there are any advocates trying to play up (or down) the risks of exposure -- perhaps for a financial motive? -- we should describe their advocacy as fairly as possible. Like Prof. Sei Feir of Islamabad Univerisity says asbestos inhalation causes no harm at all or The U.S. EPA estimates that 1,000 miners died each year from 1935 to 1985 from inhalation of fibers.
Wikipedia should not take sides in the controversy, but present all the arguments given by each side, including scientific studies (if any). Then the reader can make up his mind. --user:Ed Poor(talk) 15:29, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
The second AMA IRC Membership meeting was held on Sunday January 30, 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode.net IRC channel #AMA. Attending were Wally, Metasquares, Anthere, Sam Spade, and alex756 (coordinator). The log of the second meeting can be found here: Wikipedia:AMA IRC Meeting log (1-30-05).
"The third AMA Membership meeting will be held on Saturday February 12, 2005 at 17:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. That is 12:00 Noon Eastern NA Time, 9 AM Pacific NA Time, and 6 PM Central European (Amsterdam/Stokholm/Warsaw/Venice) Time. All members are invited to attend.
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I moved the old article out of the way. You can now edit the article. I didn't include the text from talk, so that you can do it and get the proper attribution in the article history. Peace! DanKeshet 22:37, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)
Hi! Whilst browsing the Sheffield article I noticed that there are two photos that you added in June and July of last year. Both of these photos are marked with the {{unverified}} tag which, I think, means that they are likely to be deleted at some point. Do you have information on the source and copyright status of these photos? Thanks, JeremyA 22:21, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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Per your comment on my talk page, your changes look good! I removed the "lacks importance" tag and the stub tag. —Brim 15:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Image:Avebury henge and village UK.jpg listed for deletion[edit]
OK Dbenbenn, As advised on your talk page some minutes ago I intended to change the license details to a form acceptable by the current Wikipedia rules on this subject. This has now been undertaken and I request removal of the IFD tags and reverts of the deleted links in the associated articles. Thanks in advance for your cooperation. Regards, Wikityke 03:14, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Debenbenn, - ok , I guess you're busy. I've reverted the edits, after duly "opening" the image licenses. PLEASE CHECK that everything's now ok. Regards, Wikityke 03:45, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I want to thank everyone who took the time to vote on my ArbCom candidacy. I have placed some thoughts on this matter on my user page and would welcome your thoughts.--Edivorce 23:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I got your message and responded on the AMA talk board already. Short version is that I and the members voting on the talk page felt secret ballot a more positive expression of individual views rather than public voting, especially in the wake of the shoddy ArbCom election. We're always looking for new viewpoints if you want to participate on the talk page in the future, though — consensus requires many contributors. Wally 20:10, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There was an election, but it came out a tie. Now no one seems to feel there is any legitimacy to anyone stepping forward and taking charge. What do you think? Alex756 03:23, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There was initially a tie 9-9, but then Alex756, who hadn't voted, providing the casting vote in my favour. I've been keeping a low profile since because it's a bit of an awkward situation, but this is degenerating into a bit of a farce, so I'm going to put my foot down soon. Ambi 03:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
We decided without objection to have Alex decide on the tie-breaker, and so as far as I'm concerned Ambi is the new Coordinator. Whether or not she will be putting her foot down is a matter for her. Wally 06:51, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
For what it is worth since Keith does not seem really interested that is the final nail in the coffin so to speak. I would have hoped that the advocates that suggested that I caste the deciding vote would have gotten closure on this, but apparently even though they made that suggestion they wimped out when it came to taking a stand on their decision (see Keith's post below) and they have let the situation just meander for a while. I hope Ambi puts her foot down and gets down to business, maybe the controversy will get the AMA some needed attention from some of its apathetic (but still somewhat useful) membership. Alex756 04:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I never got notified, either. It looks like Alex's statement that he would have voted for Ambi [1] was used as the deciding factor. Which I don't really disagree with (though I would have liked for the AMA to make the decision on how to split the tie, but Wikipedians increasingly abhor doing things right).
What confuses me is that, after seemingly accepting Alex's sentiment as the deciding vote, he subsequently proposed forming a governing committee with the reasoning "As there is not yet a settlement". [3]
Hi! I am writing to you as someone who has contributed to the articles on the Sheffield area. Captain scarlet suggested that we start a Sheffield wikiproject. As I think that this is a good idea I have started drafting ideas at User:JeremyA/Sheffield. If you are interested in the idea please add your name to the list and feel free to edit the draft project page. Thanks, JeremyA 15:39, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for signing up. As we now have five participants I have moved the draft project pages to Wikipedia:WikiProject Sheffield, you might want to add this page to your watchlist. JeremyA 22:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The article was speedied by RasputinAXP for being a non-notable bio. I can't offer any more insight than that, my deletion was just clearing up the dead redirect. —Xezbeth 21:53, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey there Wikityke, nice work on the Asbestosis referencing! I've removed the tag as there's no need for it now. Regards SeanMack 00:48, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi ! I've tried for your SPTC badge and my result is this : . I've done it with Inkscape, so it's a .svg image. For the colours, it seems that the image you have loaded has a green much more clear than the original one. That's why when you watch the Wikipedia:Requested pictures/Graphics#Logos & Symbols where I've inserted my result close to yours, you can see a real difference. Tell me what you think of my try and if I should better it. The easier for me is that you write me on the french WP at fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Henry Salomé, I can see it every day, more than the en:WP. Hope you will be satisfied in some time... Sincerely, ℍenry, encyclophile(speak slowly, please) 17:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tyke ! Well, this morning when I saw the badge, I was not quite happy because there were some problems with the latin motto : the letters were up and down and some were badly inclined. So you have a new version (I've reduced too the frame). I don't know about british laws about copyright but in France where such laws are very strict, I believe we have no problems about copies from original drawings about subjects like blazons or signboards (I don't mean commercial logos). So you can be quiet about the licensing (anyway, you didn't draw it ! Maybe only french laws can be applied because the drawer is french ! LOL ! Other subject : french word for professional is professionnel with 2 n. Why 2 n ? I don't know. Anyway we say mariage instead of your marriage ! (French is such a nice and marvelous language, but so difficult to learn and use, even for us !) Translation of the motto : We learn [in order] to teach. (textually : We learn so that we teach). Cordially, ℍenry, encyclophile(speak slowly, please) 09:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Orphaned fair use image (Image:Al stewart orange album 1972.jpg)[edit]
Thanks for uploading Image:Al stewart orange album 1972.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image is unlicensed for use on Wikipedia and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).
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Hi MECU, thanks for the info'. It seems that the image (orignally included in Al Stewart ) has been replaced by another "fair use" item .
The new item is a more recent photo', but not an album cover, so I'm not sure how this fits in with current WIKI"fair use" policy. If the new one's ok from the legal aspect, I believe it's better than the one I uploaded and would have no objections to the latter being deleted. Regards, Wikityke 15:43, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the article about the album already has a duplicate image, which I believed to be slightly better in color so I tagged this image as redundant. Also, the album cover should not have been used except for on the article about the album, so it was in appropriate to use on Al Stewart. The image there is also used under Fair Use, but I marked it as Fair Use Replaceable as it appear to me to just show the singer and have no special purpose, and thus replaceable. If you disagree, you may dispute it. I have also notified the uploader who may dispute it as well. Thank you for your response and sorry "your" image has to get deleted. --MECU≈talk 15:52, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No problem ! Wikityke 15:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Wikityke. You could use a photo of any of the bombers which were involved in the attacks and state in the caption that bombers like the one in the photo were involved. A photo of Sheffield during the war would be perfect though - not that I know anything about whether such photos are actually available to you (I live in Canberra, Australia). --Nick Dowling 07:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Looks OK to me. I would maybe use a slightly different wording, but I'll think about that and suggest changes. It may be worth keeping an eye on Open Street Map. They don't have much coverage of Sheffield yet, but once they do if we want street maps for articles we could use theirs (the licence is cc-by-sa). —Jeremy (talk) 16:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK~. Thanks for that, Jeremy. Wikityke 16:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, ultimately I would like to see the UK place infobox removed from the Crookes article altogether (see my comments at WP:SHEFF). However, if we do decide to use this template in the Sheffield district articles like Crookes I think that its primary purpose is to display the location map. Removing the coords from the template stops that location map from displaying. Hopefully someone will fix the template, as I think that your suggestion for including a scale option is good. Thanks, —Jeremy (talk) 16:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK Jeremy, I wasn't aware of the problem associated with removing the Lat/Long from the infobox. Thanks for that. (I respond further on comments at WP:SHEFF). cheers, Wikityke 16:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What you want regarding scale can be done (see User:JeremyA/Sandbox/Crookes). I have suggested the appropriate changes be incorporated into the infobox. —Jeremy (talk) 16:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nice one , Jeremy ! cheers, Wikityke 16:44, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, just a quick note to say thanks for all your work on History of Sheffield (going back to before the article was even created). It is now a featured article. —Jeremy (talk) 00:34, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Great news , Jeremy. Thanks. Cheers, Wikityke 22:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Replaceable fair use Image:Harvey_Andrews_2005.jpg[edit]
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Google Earth has been parsing coord (with display=title) for a couple of months now, and coord is supposed to be replacing the others in due course. AFAIK GE hasn't been parsing coord used via lat= and long= in infoboxes (eg The City School, which doesn't yet show up on GE). See eg Google FAQ. -- roundhouse0 15:41, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK cheers. Wikityke 22:37, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Disputed fair use rationale for Image:City school logo.GIF[edit]
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As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.
Member News
There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 2 new members that have joined us since March:
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Images! There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need.
Assessment "Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.
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WikiProject Yorkshire - June 2008 Newsletter[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3343 last month to 3509 on May 28th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.
As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.
Member News
There are now 45 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 4 new members that have joined us since the May newsletter:
No users left the WikiProject this month, but the list has been trimmed to account for the one user who was permanently blocked and one who seems not to exist. There are also several who have not contributed to Wikipedia for some months. However it is the exam season :-)
Malcolm Bryant (talk·contribs) does not seem to have registered on Wikipedia.(Let me know if I am wrong.)
Last month the format of the member list was altered to:
allow easier editing for new members
assist members to communicate more easily (by including members talk pages)
allow members to keep up to date with each other's contributions
It had to be changed again before the May Newsletter went out to allow easier, more efficient, circulation by the ENewsBot. The Bot worked like magic last month but slightly complicated the signing up process, particularly for novice users.
Thanks
The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99 once again, thank you. There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list and this has been kept up to date too.
The football and rugby editors have to be congratulated for keeping abreast of most. if not all, of the top clubs.
User:Cyberdemon007 has made a lot of edits to North Yorkshire settlement infoboxes. Thank you.
There have been more WikiProkject Yorkshire editors on vandal patrol on watchlist , just lately. Thanks it's really good to know that you have others in support.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. If you patrol the recent changes regularly you "get to know" the editors and their specialities quite well.
York - B - Main problems are lack of references and the lists, also the external links section would need a major prune before a GA review.Maybe ask for peer review when these are done? Bath, Somerset is an FA and a good role model.
Yorkshire and the Humber - Start. The article has been reorganised and expanded (some sections with no text are there on the source page but are commented out at the moment). It could do with more citations.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Don't Forget...
Monitor Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism can be removed as quickly as possible.
Images! There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need. A good old holiday picture of The Spa, Bridlington would be a useful addition to the article.
Assessment "Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.
Last but not Least... Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do. One small edit each session would make a big difference.
Lealholm was not promoted to GA status on June 30th
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3509 last month to 3635 on June 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs. WP:YORKS is lacking in the area of GAs and falls well behind WP:LONDON. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion and is an important issue for WP:YORKS.
Member News
There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the 3 new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:
No users left the WikiProject this month, but 1 user was registered twice under different logins and has been consolidated.
Thanks
The Yorkshire Portal continues to be maintained by User:Kaly99 once again, thank you. User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments at peer review. There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list and this has been kept up to date too.
The football and rugby editors have to be congratulated for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs. Also for getting Scarborough F.C. seasons to FL status during the month.
There have been even more WikiProkject Yorkshire editors on vandal patrol on watchlist. Thanks it's really good to know that you have others in support.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. If you patrol the recent changes regularly you "get to know" the editors and their specialities quite well.
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.
Informal article viewing and editing statistics for 5 of our priority articles
Rated a B class article. Viewed 40,122 times in May, 2008. Only went below 1,000 viewings on one day, 10th, and achieved 1,600 on the 6th and the 20th. Overall total number of edits 1,818 with 46 in May, 2008.
Rated a B class article. Viewed 38,018 times in May, 2008. On 12 days there were over 1,000 viewings with a sudden peak of 4,200 on the 24th. Overall number of edits 2,269 with 88 in May, 2008.
Rated a B class article. The highest number of monthly viewings for our priority articles at 50,846 for the month of May, 2008. There were consistently over 1,000 daily viewings with a high of 2,000 on the 25th. Overall total number of edits 3,152 with 86 in May, 2008.
Rated an FA class article.Viewed 37,740 times in May, 2008 with usually over 1,000 daily viewings. There were 6 days when over 1,400 viewings were made then a low of 900 on the 10th. Overall total number of edits 2,550 with 44 in May, 2008.
Rated a GA class article and actively being worked on for FAC. Viewed 42,902 times in May, 2008. Consistently over 1,000 daily viewings with 2,000 viewings on the 12th. Overall total number of edits 2,434 with 241 in May, 2008.
Monitor Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism can be removed as quickly as possible.
Images! There is a shortage of good images in Yorkshire related articles, particularly on pages about smaller settlements. A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need. A good old holiday picture of The Spa, Bridlington would be a useful addition to the article.
Assessment "Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been brought up to date recently, but needs constant maintenance.
Last but not Least... Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is in permanent need of attention. Please take a look and see what you can do. One small edit each session would make a big difference.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2008[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3635 last month to 3781 on July 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 24 out of a total number of 1624 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:LONDON and WP:GM who each have 21.
Member News
There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new member that has joined us since the July newsletter:
User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments about Yorkshire Portal at peer review which continues to be maintained by Kaly99. Once more, thank you.
There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.
The football and rugby editors have to be admired for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
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.
Article improvement
One of the aims of our project was to set up a periodic Article improvement drive. The article on our county town of York is suggested for this month. Please discuss and/or make edits to move towards WP:GA? status for our first selected article.
Please remember...
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Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. Useful ones include:
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
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Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice[edit]
Hi,
As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.
We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.
You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Wikipedia:Meetup, for updates on future meets.
We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3781 last month to 4005 on August 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 25 out of a total number of 1664 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:GM with 27 and WP:LONDON with 22.
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Yorkshire Portal
The Yorkshire portal helps people navigate through the content related to Yorkshire. The highlighted content is displayed randomly and includes -
Did you Knows
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Pictures
Panoramas
Any additions to these would be great. The portal is being prepared for featured portal candidacy so help meeting the criteria, for example, copy-editing or suggestions for new content sections such as Selected anniversaries, On this day, or In the news would be appreciated.
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.
Please remember...
The project is now 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.
Monitor 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.
Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
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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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2008[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4005 last month to 4085 on September 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 28 out of a total number of 1678 articles. In the area of GAs, at 21, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 28.
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Wikipedia DVD version 0.7
Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7 aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia. The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is currently under way and 43 of the project's articles are being considered for inclusion. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection has been done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article has and the number of times the article has been viewed.
The process of selecting clean versions for each of the selected articles is also being undertaken so that vandalised versions are not put on the DVD. Some of the articles also have clean-up tags attached to them which need to be dealt with before a version can be used on the DVD. It would be good if members could address any tags in the selected articles and fix the problem identified. Those articles that are tagged by multiple projects should get a visit by each of the projects involved so the articles will probably get a lot of activity in the next few days.
The cut-off date for this work is October 20th, but changes to articles following version selection may not be incorporated as there may not be time to reassess them.
Please remember...
The project is now 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.
Monitor 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.
Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
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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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2008[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4085 last month to 4284 on October 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1708 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 30.
As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD. The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.
Only two of our top priority articles were not selected, Ripon and Wakefield, the others were cleaned up, improved, expanded and copyedited as far as time allowed.
There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.
The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Missing co-ordinates
A recent entry on the project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire#Missing coordinates alerted us to the fact that many of our articles do not display any geographical co-ordinates. Many also do not have infoboxes. As locational infoboxes usually have a field for co-ordinates, it was suggested that members might be able to kill two birds with one stone by adding an appropriate infobox at the same time as co-ordinates.
The infobox page usually includes detailed instructions for its use and many of the fields are not mandatory so are not displayed until information is entered.
The geographical co-ordinates for a location can be found on Google Earth.
Open Google Earth and enter the name of the location in the search box. (Quite often the article name can be copied and pasted directly into the search box but sometimes it is useful to add ,UK to the address.)
A results list is displayed beneath the search box.
Click on the right one.
Zoom in to check that the correct feature is being displayed on the image. (Sometimes the supposed feature is not at the centre of the page.)
Place the pointer over the location on the screen image and read the geographical co-ordinates from the panel at the bottom of the screen.
Make a note of the co-ordinates.
Open the tab of the article you are editing and add the co-ordinates in the co-ords field.
Once co-ordinates have been added the template {{coord missing}} should be removed from the article.
Please remember...
The project is now 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.
Monitor 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.
Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
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.
Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Van der Graaf Generator Lost.ogg)[edit]
Thanks for uploading Image:Van der Graaf Generator Lost.ogg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:35, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2008[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4284 last month to 4532 on November 27th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1746 articles. In the area of GAs, at 24, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 31.
As mentioned in the October newsletter, Wikipedia DVD Version 0.7, which aims to be a collection of around 30,000 articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia needed work to prepare 43 of the project's articles for the DVD. The process of producing the list of articles for the DVD is now completed and thanks are due to the many members who made a contribution to the effort. The list of selected Yorkshire articles can be seen here.
The selection was done using a scoring system depending on the project's assessment, the number of incoming links to the article, the number of interwiki links the article had and the number of times the article had been viewed.
Since the last newsletter Northallerton has also been selected to go onto the DVD having recently achieved GA status.
Thanks
Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.
There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.
The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Co-ordinates
Just to let you know that a bot is currently sub-dividing the articles with missing co-ordinate data into sub-categories for ease of use. You can now find the articles by looking at the categories for each area as — East, North, South and West. From the discussions it looks like only the co-ordinates in the title area are being used by external sites so articles with multiple co-ordinates are not being handled correctly as yet.
Happy Christmas
Just to say thanks for all the effort put in by members on articles covering the Yorkshire area and to wish everyone a happy Christmas. It is time to take a break and to spend some time with family and friends. May be even to indulge yourself in the food and drink that abounds at this time of year or even make that occasional visit to a church. What ever you do over the festive season enjoy it and see you next year.
Though if you are at a loose end then many of you will be getting some new toys to play with which can be used to enhance wiki articles. Those new digital cameras can be used to get photographs for some of the articles which are currently without and for which the Geograph site has nothing suitable. May be it is a new PC that you just need to play with then spend some time checking out the watchlist for vandalism which tends to go unnoticed when there are fewer regular editors around. It may even be a book which can be used to add references to an article. May be you want to do something different then try creating spoken articles see the Spoken article project.
The project is now 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.
Monitor 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.
Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
References Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
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.
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4532 last month to 4822 on December 19th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 29 out of a total number of 1763 articles. In the area of GAs, at 25, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 36.
Thanks for all those who have been adding co-ordinate information to articles as a result of last month's newsletter. The major impact has been on the railway station articles, including disused ones, but other location articles have also been tackled. This effort means that the articles can be accessed directly from external sources such as Google maps and gives them a much higher profile.
There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.
The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
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
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Citations
Citations are a necessity to give credence to the articles that we produce, so that the facts given can be verified. One of the templates that is used for this is {{Cite book}} to give details of books used for creating the articles. There has been some changes to the template that we should be aware of and make changes accordingly when editing articles. The id= field should no longer be used to give the ISBN number for a book instead use the isbn= parameter. The page= and pages= parameters now have the p. or pp. automatically inserted and so we should just put the page number in the fields. Use page= for a single page and pages= for multiple pages. If the insertion of p. or pp. is not required then use nopp=true to suppress this. Note that the number of pages in a book is not specified using these fields and at the moment a new parameter is being discussed to cover this.
Happy New Year
Hope everyone enjoyed the festive season and are not feeling too worse for ware. At the start of a new year we all look back at what has happened in the last year and look forward to the coming year. It is time to take stock of what has happened in the last year well we have managed to get some priority articles selected and to get this newsletter in place to keep members up to date on what is happening. Articles have been tagged and assessed, a watchlist of these has been set up for members to keep track of changes to those articles that the project is interested in. So over all great steps have been made in the last year and thanks to everyone for the efforts put in. Looking forward it is time to make some targets for the coming year. If anyone has any ideas for what we should be doing in the coming year then please share them on the project talk page.