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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2009 ==

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; Project News
* Welcome to the fourteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* WP:YORKS is  a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6113 last month to 6344 on May 30th). We have recently overtaken [[WP:LONDON]] which has 6283 articles. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 38 out of a total number of 1850 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 42 is just behind [[WP:GM]] with 44.


If you would like to discuss changes to '''Priorities''', please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]]


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are fifteen Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Sheffield]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[M62 motorway]] • [[Henry Moore]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (archbishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

[[List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year]] • [[List of York City F.C. managers]] • [[List of York City F.C. players]] • [[York City F.C. seasons]] • [[Bradford City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of York City F.C. statistics and records]] • [[Leeds United A.F.C. seasons]] • [[Scarborough F.C. seasons]]

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


; Article Activity
{{icon|FA}} [[Paulinus of York]] was promoted to FA on '''April 7th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Thomas Ferens]] was nominated for GA on '''April 11th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Philip Larkin]] was promoted to GA on '''May 6th'''<br>
{{icon|FAC}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] was nominated at FAC on '''May 12th'''<br>
{{icon|NoFA}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] was not promoted to FA on '''May 16th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] peer review requested on '''May 16th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[Architecture of Leeds]] peer review requested on '''May 21st'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Kingston upon Hull]] was promoted to GA on '''May 24th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[York City F.C. season 2008–09]] was nominated for GA on '''May 28th'''<br>


; Member News

There are now 63 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the May newsletter:

*{{User|Storye book}}
*{{User|Nthep}}
*{{User|Stuffed cat}}
*{{User|Lexaris}}

One members left the project this month:

*{{User|Harris Morgan}}


;Thanks

* To those who have tagged articles as a result of the feature in the last newsletter. Do keep on tagging articles as you come across them.

* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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. {{Great}}

* WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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 -

* [[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.


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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
*To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members


;Browsers

According to the article [[Usage share of web browsers]] the percentage of people using the [[Mozilla Firefox]] browser has increased steadily since 2004 and it now stands at 22.56%. The percentage of Wikipedia editors using Firefox is probably considerably higher because the Firefox browser has a number of advantages for editors. Not least of these is the add-on that lets you right click on a web page to get a Cite Web pop up on the menu. [http://wpcite.mozdev.org/ WPCITE] allows you easily to create a citation template. This makes the laborious task of filling in web citation templates (almost) a thing of the past.

Another advantage of Firefox is the ability to use [[Wikipedia:wikiEd|wikiEd]]  which is ''a full-featured Wikipedia-integrated text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to edit pages''. And there is a '''spell checker''' [[Image:Wink.gif|px10]]  Currently, wikEd works under [[Firefox]], [[SeaMonkey]], [[Safari]], and [[Google Chrome]], but not under [[Internet Explorer]] and [[Opera]].

Mention of these other browsers reminds me that not all browsers render pages in the same way. What appears to be a beautiful layout in one browser can be rendered as a tangled mess of text and images by another. As most browsers can be downloaded for free, it is worth having several on your computer just to check the appearance of articles. Bear in mind that many people who use Wikipedia just for reference will have only [[Internet Explorer]], and possibly quite an old version, so some of the latest "bells and whistles" may not work for them.

My apologies to old hands who already know all this, but to new users it really is worthwhile looking into the possibilities of different browsers on Wikipedia.
{{Browser marketshare|align=center}}

; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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. The latest listing was created on '''March 9th'''.

*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

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

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{{Thank}}
*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<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.


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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2009 ==
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* Welcome to the fifteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* WP:YORKS is  a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6344 last month to 6538 on June 28th). We have recently overtaken [[WP:LONDON]] which has 6318 articles. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 39 out of a total number of 1862 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 45 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 44.


If you would like to discuss changes to '''Priorities''', please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]]


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are sixteen Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Sheffield]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[M62 motorway]] • [[Henry Moore]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (archbishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfred]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

[[List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year]] • [[List of York City F.C. managers]] • [[List of York City F.C. players]] • [[York City F.C. seasons]] • [[Bradford City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of York City F.C. statistics and records]] • [[Leeds United A.F.C. seasons]] • [[Scarborough F.C. seasons]]

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


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Siward Barn]] was promoted to GA on '''May 10th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Oslac of York]] was promoted to GA on '''May 18th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Thomas Ferens]] was promoted to GA on '''June 6th'''<br>
{{icon|FA}} [[Wilfred]] was promoted to FA on '''June 9th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Ilkley]] was nominated for GA on '''June 11th'''<br>
{{icon|FAR}} [[Sheffield]] was nominated for a FAR on '''June 18th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Peak District]] was nominated for GA on '''June 18th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}} [[York]] was submitted for a peer review on '''June 21st'''<br>


; Member News

There are now 64 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the June newsletter:

*{{User|nigelcoates}}

No members left the project this month:


;Thanks


* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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. {{Great}}

* WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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 -

* [[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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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

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{{Thank}}
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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
*To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members


;Citing sources for your text

In recent months some really promising [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] articles from new editors have been appearing on Wikipedia. These editors have worked hard to produce interesting and informative texts with some exquisite images. However, some of these articles have lacked any verifiable sources, an absolute '''must''' for Wikipedia articles. Additional research is usually necessary to write a good article.  An article has to be [[WP:V|verifiable]] and [[Wikipedia:Cite sources|cite]] [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable sources]] which ideally should include books or peer reviewed journal articles. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, or the material may be removed. The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. The ''burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material''. All quotations and any material '''challenged or likely to be challenged''' must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|inline citation]].

Fortunately, Wikipedia provides a number of easily used tools to help with this task. Beside the [[Mozilla firefox|Firefox]] add on that was mentioned last month there are a couple of toolbar options to help editors. 
* The first is on the default toolbar. It's the <nowiki><ref>...</ref></nowiki>  [[File:Button reflink.png]]  button. This places any text that is placed between the markers in the '''References''' section on the article page.
* The second handy tool is obtained by going to the '''my preferences''' section on the menu tabs at the top of the page, click '''GADGETS''', go to '''Editing gadgets''' and check '''refTools'''. Save your options and a new CITE button  [[File:Button easy cite.png]]  is added to your editing toolbar. This little wonder, when clicked, produces options for citation templates beneath the existing toolbar. It is a fairly simple task then to copy and paste the information into the template and when you've completed as much as you can, click the '''Add citation''' button. This produces an inline citation. Of course this all depends on there being a '''References''' section on the page with either the <nowiki><references/></nowiki> markup or {{tl|Reflist}} template added.

If you are in doubt about an unsourced statement, try copying the phrase or sentence and pasting it into the search box of your favourite [[search engine]]. Often this turns up a source which you can then add to the article yourself by filling in one of the citation templates on your editing toolbar. If you want to request a source for an unsourced statement, consider tagging a sentence by adding the {{tl|fact}} template, a section with {{tl|unreferencedsection}}, or the article with {{tl|refimprove}} or {{tl|unreferenced}}. Alternatively, you may leave a note on the [[Help:Talk page|talk page]] requesting a source, or you may move the material to the talk page.

; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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. The latest listing was created on '''June 18th'''. Here is an extract

; The project has 15 top-importance articles. 8 of them, or 53.3%, are flagged for cleanup.

<table class="wikitable">
<tr><th>Article</th><th>Maintenance categories</th></tr>
<tr><td>[[Bradford]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2006, Articles with dead external links (Sep 2008, Oct 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Leeds]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with unsourced statements (Jan 2008, Oct 2008, Mar 2009), Wikipedia articles needing clarification (Oct 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[North Yorkshire]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with dead external links (Oct 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Ripon]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with specifically-marked weasel-worded phrases (Mar 2009), Articles with unsourced statements (Mar 2009), Wikipedia articles needing clarification (Feb 2009)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Sheffield]] '''«FA, Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with dead external links (Jun 2008, Oct 2008)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Wakefield]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles needing additional references (Sep 2008), Articles with trivia sections (Aug 2008), Articles with unsourced statements (Jan 2007, Feb 2007)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[William Wilberforce]] '''«FA, Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with dead external links (Mar 2009)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[[Yorkshire]] '''«Top»'''</td>
<td>Articles with dead external links (Oct 2008), Articles with unsourced statements (Mar 2009)</td>
</tr>
</table>

*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<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.


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; Project News
* Welcome to the sixteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* WP:YORKS is  a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,538 last month to 6,651 on July 27th). [[WP:LONDON]] have had a major tagging spree by a bot and now have 12,595 articles which is twice as may as this project. [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 39 out of a total number of 1,946 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 46 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 45.

If you would like to discuss changes to '''Priorities''', please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]]


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are sixteen Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Sheffield]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[M62 motorway]] • [[Henry Moore]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (archbishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfred]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eight featured lists:

[[List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year]] • [[List of York City F.C. managers]] • [[List of York City F.C. players]] • [[York City F.C. seasons]] • [[Bradford City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of York City F.C. statistics and records]] • [[Leeds United A.F.C. seasons]] • [[Scarborough F.C. seasons]]

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


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Peak District]] passed a GA review on '''July 2nd'''<br>
{{icon|NoGA}} [[Ilkley]] failed a GA review on '''July 19th'''<br>
[[File:GA Candidate Neutral vote(ChaosNil).svg|20px]] [[Arctic Monkeys]] kept following GAR reassessment on '''July 21st'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[York]] nominated for GA review on '''July 21st'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] nominated for GA review on '''July 25th'''<br>


; Member News

There are now 65 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the July newsletter:

*{{User|Fuchsia Perfect}}
*{{User|rfsmit}}

One member left the project this month:

*{{User|Adamjhepton}}


;Thanks


* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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. {{Great}}

* WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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 -

* [[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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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

{| border=0 align=center cellpadding=5 style="background-color:transparent;"
|align=center|As of 31 July, 2009, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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{{Thank}}

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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
*To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members


;Images

This month we focus on a recent requirement for images in articles&mdash;that of supplying '''alternative text''' for each of the images. This has been raised in FAC debates and is now a requirement for FA articles and as a result there is a general push to get all images marked-up. For example the {{tl|Infobox UK place}} is currently undergoing changes in preparation for the use of alternative text on its images. 

Alternative text is text added to the image mark-up to describe the image to someone who cannot see the image. The alternative text is in addition to the caption and should not duplicate information in the caption. It should be added, without any wikimark-up or line-breaks in it, using the '''alt=''' parameter of the image mark-up. For more information on this see [[WP:ALT]].

'''Example'''

[[Image:York castle exterior.jpg|thumb|100px|alt=A tall, circular, roofless building of honey coloured stone positioned on top of a high mound of grass.|The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.]]

<nowiki>[[Image:York castle exterior.jpg|thumb|100px|alt=A tall, circular, roofless building of honey coloured stone positioned on top of a high mound of grass.|The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.]]</nowiki>

(If you are using a standard graphical browser and want to read this image's alt text, ask the browser to display the image's properties. Usually right click, properties.)





The same requirement is to be applied to [[Help:Displaying a formula|Math-mode formulas]] but is probably less important to this project as very few of our articles contain such mark-up.


; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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. The latest listing was created on '''June 18th'''.

*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<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.




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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2009 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the seventeenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* WP:YORKS is  a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,651 last month to 6,881 on August 23rd). [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1,972 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 47 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 44.

If you would like to discuss changes to '''Priorities''', please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]]


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are sixteen Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Sheffield]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[M62 motorway]] • [[Henry Moore]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (archbishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfred]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also nine featured lists:

[[List of York City F.C. Clubmen 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. statistics and records]] • [[List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of Scarborough F.C. seasons]] • [[List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys]]

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


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[York City F.C. season 2008–09]] passed a GA review on '''August 2nd'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[York]] passed a GA review on '''August 7th'''<br>
{{icon|GAR}}[[Robin Hood]] entered a GAR review on '''August 7th'''<br>
{{icon|NoGA}} [[Robin Hood]] de-listed following a GAR review on '''August 12th'''<br>
{{icon|PR}}[[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] peer review requested on '''August 14th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Drax Power Station]] nominated for GA review on '''August 16th'''<br>
{{icon|FAC}} [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] nominated at FAC on '''August 25th'''<br>


; Member News

There are now 66 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the August newsletter:

*{{User|95jb14}}

No members left the project this month:


;Thanks

* For those of you attempting to add alt text to images, a task which is not easy to get something succinct yet descriptive. 

* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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. {{Great}}

* WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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 -

* [[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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''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
*To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members


;Summer treasures?

As the summer holiday season draws to a close, it is likely that many of our project Yorkshire members will have visited the Yorkshire coast. Some will have digital photographs stored on their camera cards or have leaflets and guide books about places they have visited. Now is the time to put all that wonderful treasury of information onto Wikipedia, before they all get lost in the run up to Christmas. (Ah yes, I can see supermarkets selling off barbecues to make room for baubles.)

There are two major categories for our coastal venues [[:Category:Coastal settlements in North Yorkshire]] and [[:Category:Coastal settlements in the East Riding of Yorkshire]]. Many of the articles in these categories are not kept up to date on a regular basis. Although it has to be said that some of the articles about the more popular resorts are well maintained and regularly watched for vandalism. Some tend to suffer from being overlinked to commercial enterprises but most sit there waiting patiently for a bit of TLC. 

;Fish and tricks at the seaside

Our own watchlists often become unmanageable after a while, so here is a way to make the task of keeping an eye on specific articles much easier.

You can '''create your own separate Watchlist''' for any articles that you are interested in helping to maintain or expand by: 

*listing the articles on a clean Sandbox page

* clicking on "Related changes" in the toolbox area to get a list of recent changes for your adopted articles 

* copying and pasting the URL displayed on the address bar of your browser to a convenient place, maybe your '''to do''' list. 

'''Here is one I made earlier!!'''

This is the list: [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Coastal settlements list]]

Here is the URL of the related changes page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Coastal_settlements_list

Tidied up to put on your '''to do''' list as: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Coastal_settlements_list My coastal settlements watchlist]

And, of course, you can change the options at the top of the page to display more or fewer changes, as usual.

'''(This trick works for any special little watchlists that you might like to create!!)'''


; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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. The latest listing was created on '''August 18th'''.

*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<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.




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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2009 ==
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; Project News
* Welcome to the eighteenth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* WP:YORKS is  a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,881 last month to 7,532on September 26th). [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1,993 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 49 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 47.

If you would like to discuss changes to '''Priorities''', please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]]


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are eighteen Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Sheffield]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[Joseph Priestley]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[M62 motorway]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (archbishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also ten featured lists:

[[List of York City F.C. Clubmen 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. statistics and records]] • [[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]]


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


; Article Activity
{{icon|GA}} [[Hull City A.F.C.]] retained following a GAR review on '''September 4th'''<br>
{{icon|FA}} [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] promoted to FA on '''September 6th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[David Wetherall]] nominated for GA review on '''September 7th'''<br>
{{icon|GA}} [[Geoffrey Boycott]] passed a GA review on '''September 10th'''<br>
{{icon|GAN}} [[Anne Brontë]] nominated for GA review on '''September 25th'''<br>


; Member News

There are now 68 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the September newsletter:

*{{User|IJA}}
*{{User|TheresaWilson}}

No members left the project this month:


;Thanks

* For those of you who made changes to the coastal places articles after last month's feature. I think that the [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]] article got the most attention and improvements during the month. 

* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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. {{Great}}

* WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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 -

* [[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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

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

{| border=0 align=center cellpadding=5 style="background-color:transparent;"
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{{Thank}}

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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
*To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members


;Back to school or Uni

The new academic year usually elicits a lot of edits to articles about schools and universities. There are Wikiprojects for both.

[[WP:WPSCH]] & [[WP:UNI]] are the shortcuts to the project pages. These Wikiprojects have some very useful guidelines about how to structure articles at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Article_guidelines]] and [[Wikipedia:College_and_university_article_guidelines]]. Both have suggested infoboxes as well.

There is an example of a uni [[WP:Good article|good article]] at [[Oxford University]] and one about a school at [[City of London School]].

'''Resources'''

[http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/list_providers/%28region%29/3/%28type%29/8192/%28typename%29/Secondary%20schools/%28sort%29/datesort,desc/%28object_step%29/10 Search page for Ofsted inspection reports for Yorkshire and the Humber secondary schools.]

[http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php Times online good university guide 2010]

'''Checks'''

When looking at school articles please take time to check the Ofsted links in the article and the references as the site has been restructured and the links to the reports may just redirect to the main page. These need to be corrected if any are found. The link in the infobox has been corrected so that one should still operate correctly. 


; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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. The latest listing was created on '''September 4th'''.

*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<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.




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==[[Arctic Monkeys]] fight it out with [[Dracula]]==

The addition of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Popular pages|popular pages]] facility to the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Sidebar|Yorkshire sidebar]] last month has  thrown light on which of our articles Wikipedia readers actually access most. The first month for which there is complete data is September when Arctic Monkeys were in [[pole position]] with an average 6,869 hits daily. In second place with 5,781 was [[Wuthering Heights]] followed by Dracula with 4,996. The table is sortable on a number of attributes but the sort takes a while to complete.

[[File:Newarcticmonkeys.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Arctic monkeys. Sadly no Dracula image, any volunteers?]]
As the page has a [http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/ link to current data] it is possible to see and compare current raw data for daily hits. So far the October statistics (up to October 20th) reveal that Dracula with 5,474 daily hits is well ahead of seasonal favourite [[Guy Fawkes]] with 4,411, and last month's favourite, Arctic Monkeys, are pushed into third position with a daily hit score of 4,259. 

Three football clubs [[Leeds United A.F.C.]], [[Hull City A.F.C.]] and [[Middlesbrough F.C.]]get into the top 25 along with several pages about literary topics such as the Brontë family and their works. Television personalities are well represented, [[Jeremy Clarkson]] (4,559) is 4th overall in the list and [[Judi Dench]] is 23rd with a hit score of 1,577. Do the history topics in the top 25 suggest homework assignments?

It will be interesting to monitor the rise and fall of pages on the list which will also suggest where our efforts as a project might best be directed for maximum impact.


; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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. The latest listing was created on '''September 4th'''.

*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<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.




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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2009 ==

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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br/> Issue 20 - December 2009 <br />
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* Welcome to the twentieth [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter. 

* WP:YORKS is  a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,738 last month to 7,870 on November 29th). [[WP:GM]] has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,045 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of [[WP:GM]] who have 51.

If you would like to discuss changes to '''Priorities''', please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]]


{{classicon|FA}}Currently there are seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:

[[Henry Moore]] • [[Caedmon]] • [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.]] • [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[History of Sheffield]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[Joseph Priestley]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[M62 motorway]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (archbishop)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]]

{{classicon|FA}} There are also ten featured lists:

[[List of York City F.C. Clubmen 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]]


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


; Article Activity
{{icon|GAN}} [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] nominated for GA review on '''November 7th'''<br />


; Member News

There are now 72 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the November newsletter:

*{{User|Quantpole}}
*{{User|birksey}}

No members left the project this month:


;Thanks

* There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|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. {{Great}}

* WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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 -

* [[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.


<div style="float: center;  margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>

; '''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
*To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members


;Christmas Greetings

Welcome  to all our [[tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/useractivity.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yorkshire/Members&days=365&action=table|active members]]. This is the twentieth newsletter, the Christmas 2009 issue, and by the time it reaches members there should still be time to drop some helpful hints about seasonal gifts for Wikipedians. The obvious things are computer and digital stuff, and books. (On Wikipedia [[Sockpuppet (Internet)|socks]] are only for those with a sad identity crisis.) What sort of things? Well, computer stuff can be anything from a high spec [[laptop]], through [[wireless network]]s, [[antivirus software]], [[graphic art software|graphics software]] to [[memory card]]s and [[memory stick]]s. [[Digital camera]]s are coming down in price and an [[MP3 player]] can double up as a memory stick.

A useful book for apprentice Wikipedians is, "'''Wikipedia: The Missing Manual'''"  by John Broughton, it's full of tips, tricks and explanations and can be bought at about half the price on the cover if you shop around. "'''The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality'''" by Andrew Dalby has just one five star review on Amazon, and the review of "'''The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia'''" by Andrew Lih says "it's a book that will certainly make you think, but it will also leave you frustrated!". It might be a better idea to go for a reference book about your next favourite sport, hobby or indulgence. A good [[atlas]] always comes in useful as does a [[thesaurus]], for when you come across the seventh time a word has been used in a paragraph! Or the good old phrase "is the home of" turns up yet again. 

[[Christmas stocking|Stocking fillers]] include pens and pencils, to replace the ones which fall on the floor and are never to be found again, and [[notebooks]] of all shapes and sizes. A ream of printer paper and the odd [[ink cartridge]] might be useful too.

Happy Christmas.


; '''Please remember...'''

[[Image:Ambox style.png]]The project is subscribed to  a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Cleanup listing|'''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. The latest listing was created on '''November 6th'''.

*''Monitor''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/watchlist|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''<br />Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox. 

*''References''<br />Please remember that the [[:Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles|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''<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.




; '''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...'''


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The member list is meant to provide a clearer picture of active membership. It is recommended that you update your status if you plan to regularly:
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Members listed in the "Unknown" section will be removed from the membership list and category at the end of January 2010. You may re-add yourself to the active list at any time. Thank you for your help, and we look forward to working with you.

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