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== WikiCup 2014 June newsletter ==

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant5|Godot13}} was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant5|Casliber}} finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance [[Grus (constellation)]]. Third place was Pool B's {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant5|Sturmvogel_66}}, whose contributions included featured articles [[Russian battleship Poltava (1894)|Russian battleship ''Poltava'' (1894)]] and [[Russian battleship Peresvet|Russian battleship ''Peresvet'']]. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant5|Sven Manguard}} taking [[Portal:Literature]] to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant5|12george1}} and the [[Wikipedia:Featured topics/2013 Atlantic hurricane season|2013 Atlantic hurricane season]]. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on [[Wikipedia:Featured topics/Maya Angelou autobiographies|Maya Angelou's autobiographies]] from {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant5|Figureskatingfan}}, a good article on the noted Czech footballer [[Tomáš Rosický]] from {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant5|Cloudz679}} and [[:File:Charlie Murder screenshot 5.png|a now-featured video game screenshot]], freely released due to the efforts of {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant5|Sven Manguard}}.

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then.  If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send]].</small> {{user|J Milburn}} {{user|The ed17}} and {{user|Miyagawa}} 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2014 ==

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* Welcome to the seventy fifth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|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 11,212 last month to 11,230 on June 29th).  In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 112 is ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 82. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,338 articles. 


{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have thirty two Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[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 (bishop)]] • [[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]] 

{{classicon|FA}} There are also fourteen 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 A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of Scarborough F.C. seasons]] • [[List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys]] • [[List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]]

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[2013–14 York City F.C. season]] nominated for GA on '''May 22nd'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} [[2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence]] promoted to GA on '''June 1st'''<br />
{{icon|TFA}} [[Frederick Delius]] appeared as Today's Featured Article on '''June 10th'''<br />
{{icon|DYK}} [[Birch Lane]] appeared in DYK on '''June 11th'''<br />


; Member News

There are 74 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the June newsletter.

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;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 [[Portal:Yorkshire|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 [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|watchlist]].

{{Great}}

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; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]] 

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; 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 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|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]] • [[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.


;Tools

Just a reminder to members that the [[Wikipedia:Toolserver|toolserver]] will have been removed from service by the time you read this newsletter. If your favourite tool is not operating then this may be the reason. Most of the tools have been ported to run on [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Labs|Wikimedia Labs]], which is the replacement infrastructure for this type of activity. So have a look round and see if the one you are interested in has been ported or not. If not then get in touch with the person who looks after it and see if it can be ported over.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The July 2014 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

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|[[Murder of Leanne Tiernan]]
|[[Ingleton, North Yorkshire]]
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|1 Apr 2014 ~ 30 Apr 2014
|[[University of Sheffield]]
|[[Joseph Booth & Bros]]
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|1 May 2013 ~ 31 May 2013
|[[Last Tango in Halifax]]
|[[Kirkbymoorside]]
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|1 Jun 2014 ~ 30 Jun 2014
|[[Manor House Museum]]
|[[Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire]]
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|1 Jul 2014 ~ 31 Jul 2014
|[[South Yorkshire Coalfield]]
|[[Middlesbrough railway station]]
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Please nominate future articles for improvement at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]].


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

[[File:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/bycat/Yorkshire.html '''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''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/WatchAll|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''<br />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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Hey, I notice that you have HighBeam access and you seem to have a few topicons.  That being said, if you are interested, I've created {{Tld|[[Wikipedia:HighBeam/Topicon]]}}.   No reply to this message is necessary (and I won't see it unless you ping me), just wanted to let you know it was available. {{Smiley}}  Happy editing! — <span class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></span> 23:57, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

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== [[User:Gilderien/US State Challenge]] ==

Hi, I moved it to this. I'm closing down RBN, there's not much point continuing with it. ♦ [[User talk:Dr. Blofeld|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span>]] 19:47, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi [[User:Dr. Blofeld|Dr. Blofeld]], thanks for doing this :) I sent you an email.--<span style="">[[User:Gilderien|Gilderien]] <span style="font-size:70%; vertical-align:sub;">[[User talk:Gilderien|Talk]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Gilderien|List of good deeds]]</span></span> 20:24, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

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== Vercours Massif ==

Hi. I've made a quick side-by-side comparison, but  I  don't  have time to  go  through  the long  article line by  line. What  struck me however is that  the English  version appears to  be more of a rewrite than a straight translation although it does essentially  contain the same information. I  found myself looking up  and down in  order to  find the continuity. One particular phrase early  in  the article that  I  found to  be mistranslated was 

''les déplacements et échanges économiques se faisant entre le massif et la plaine plutôt qu'entre les différentes parties du massif''

which  I  would have translated as

...the economic changes and movements taking  place between the mountains and the plains rather than between the different parts of the mountains.

- even the Google translation seems to be accurate on that  point:

''... economic exchanges occurring between the solid and the plain rather than between different parts of the massif.''

Being  bilingual, I obviously don't use machine translations, but it does sometimes help to  get the quick opinion of a machine.

I'm sure there are many  other parts that need some close review and I wish I had more time to  help you on  this, but after having translated the massive [[Brontë family]] from  the poorly  structured  French article  to  replace the short stub on en.Wiki 4 years ago, I  know what  you are up against. If  it's any  consolation, it took me around 60 hours and I did most  of it  offline first. 

Good luck, and if you are not sure of some parts, don't hesitate to  ask, but  I  may  be a bit slow to  respond. If  you  are going  to  Wikimania, perhaps we could look at it together. [[User:Kudpung|Kudpung กุดผึ้ง]] ([[User talk:Kudpung|talk]]) 11:40, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

:Thank you very much for looking it over. I'm not bilingual, but I'll keep plodding on with it, and if something completely escapes me I'll ask you :) The article may be more of a re-write, I often find that things flow better is used in a different way dependent on the words used. It always amazes me to see how the different languages have such a different level of article, even if it's not particularly connected to the language like this one is.

:Unfortunately I can't make it to Wikimania this year, but I hope it is as good as I have heard.--<span style="">[[User:Gilderien|Gilderien]] <span style="font-size:70%; vertical-align:sub;">[[User talk:Gilderien|Chat]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Gilderien|List of good deeds]]</span></span> 16:43, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

:Edit: I am not sure really what "Ce plateau est un témoin du glacier du Grésivaudan qui, à l'époque glaciaire, remontait jusqu'à cette altitude. On y trouve une tourbière." means exactly, so I have left it as glacial remnant for now.--<span style="">[[User:Gilderien|Gilderien]] <span style="font-size:70%; vertical-align:sub;">[[User talk:Gilderien|Chat]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Gilderien|List of good deeds]]</span></span> 23:50, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

::This plateau is evidence that during the Ice Age, the Gresivaudan glacier reached that  altitude leaving  a swamp/marsh.

::The French is a little clumsy  because seen in  English  it  implies that  a glaicier flows upwards 'to  an altitude', whereas in  fact  what  is most  probably  meant  is that  the glacies reached a ''lower'' altitude which  results in  the marshy area that  is there today.[[User:Kudpung|Kudpung กุดผึ้ง]] ([[User talk:Kudpung|talk]]) 09:38, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

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