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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.
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JJS Karate Dojo
Latest comment: 15 years ago7 comments2 people in discussion
A blessed day. I'm very glad to know that you are a martial artist at the same time an admin in martial arts wiki project and for sure you are a good editor. If you will agree with me martial arts don't pay much in tournament our even as a trainer, not like in boxing that they are paid lots of dollars. Good thing if you are a superstar, an actor, stuntman or a fighter in UFC. Martial arts like karate don't even had a limelight or a spot light compared to Tennis, Golf, Football and Basketball athletes in the media world what I'm trying to emphases that its hard for us karatekas to have a good sources or in wikipedia terms "3rd party sources" like the magazine and etc, not of course if you are a rich and can affort to have a press conference.
With regards to this matter I'm solicating your advice regarding my article JJS Karate Dojo. Frankly speaking I'm having a hard time saving my article from deletion. Yes, our dojo is so small compared to other dojo abroad but somehow we like the world to know that we exist and our kids are having a good time and achieving. It would be a great help if you could somehow visit my article and do improve or save it from deletion. Looking forward for your support in this matter. (Jjskarate (talk) 04:05, 20 November 2008 (UTC))
THANK YOU SO MUCH for saving my article and for making it worth reading...
I was really impress/delighted to see my article today. MORE POWER TO YOU!! Jjskarate (talk) 23:59, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
...a BOW as a sign of my respect to you as a martial artist and a good fellow who give special attention and support to those who needed help. OOSSS Jjskarate (talk) 05:09, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
You made my day NATE1481.
Thankz a lot for your help and for that powerful words and encouraging message. I do love to hang around here since my article was accepted, glad to have one someday but for now I am contented and very happy to inform all my friends and karatekas about JJS article and they love it!!
STAY COOL and NICE!! Jjskarate (talk) 02:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, hope you're having a good time there.
I tried to come up again with another article related to our karate dojo, this time its about our karate instructor Randy Mengullo. I'm doing my best to save it from deletion because somehow our sensei deserve a little place here in wikipedia because of his contribution in martial arts world. Yes, he may not be that famous but his work and achievements as a trainer/coach for little children are beyond compare...
Hope you can visit my article or the talk page if you have time.
HAVE A NICE DAY AHEAD!! Jjskarate (talk) 01:37, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Good deal on helping out the Jack and Jill School article. If I knew how to award you one of those fancy barnstars or whatever I would. lol User5802 (talk) 04:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi again, hope you're doing fine.
Thankz for always there...
Your friend User5802 also help me in my new article Randy Mengullo but somehow I'm still struggling to make it possible.
Glad to have you both as friends here.
STAY COOL!! Jjskarate (talk) 00:59, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Commented in the talk page of the Bullshido article.
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Don't think Alexa info should be stated in the first portion of this article. Perhaps somewhere else in the article. User5802 (talk) 06:03, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
WJJF
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi, I'm in the wjjf too. I wanted to improve the page of my federation, please check it out to correct wrong things. Bye
--M.c.april (talk) 12:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
wjjf update
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I updated the page correcting grammar errors and the layout. I corrected the license of the images and I also added new references. Can you give the page a new rate? That page is now rated C-class.
can i add this video?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:25_straight_throws_wjjf.OGG
Bye
--M.c.april (talk) 17:11, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Randy Mengullo
Latest comment: 15 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion
Thank you for time, support and expertise in helping my new article.
You've a good point in the discussion of Randy Mengullo
Some small facts that somehow may help:
1. During the time when sensei Randy Mengullo is still active in martial arts competitions (1988-1994) computer and internet are just read or topics in the book. The Visayan Daily Star (35 years in the print media), the most awarded newspaper in the region have just established computer/internet access more or less in the year 2001. That's why its hard for us to established notability if the google search is the measurement of standard. I have here a dosen of "hard copy/original" press realeses, sports news and certificates to concerning sensei Mengullo achievements.
2. Jack & Jill School is a elementary institution and most of the players are ages 6-12. That's why it hard for us to established prominent figure because most of te media people focus in the college level or professional level competitions and some of our students transfered to Manila or Cebu to pursue their college education. I may say the team belongs to the "grass roots" level of sports program in the country but if given the chance to compete the team shines from City Meet, Provincial, Regional up to National level competitions. It always proven in the National Karatedo Federation Karatedo Championship and Philipine Olympic Festival held every year in different area in the contry (the local version of Olympic).
3. I tried to give references even the name of the Mr. Randy Mengullo are not mention in the press release or in the sports news because it's all connected when talking karate achievements is concern. Some of the sport news only mention Jack & Jill School Team, JJS Karate, JJS karatedo or simply JJS but in general the official coach/trainer is Mr. Mengullo.
Hope it can somehow help or clear this topic. Thank you so much!!! Jjskarate (talk) 07:38, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Really need your help
The article of sensei Randy Mengullo was published yesterday in "Sunday Inquirer Magazine" of Philippine Daily Inquirer, one of the leading national newspaper in the country. Kindy help me make this a reference accepted to retain or pass the notability... THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance!!!
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view/20081214-177923/Life-Lessons-from-KarateJjskarate (talk) 00:54, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your precious time and help. MERRY CHRISTMAS. Jjskarate (talk) 07:17, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I agree that the ext links were excessive and have wanted to trim them for some time now - but always resisted because the home dojo isn't in English. In retrospec, I guess those English links aren't hard to find via google, so no large loss. Good edit. —MrandTalk • C 16:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Krav Maga
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The page I added to the External Links is not my page. Does "User Essay" mean something other than what it sounds like? I reviewed the rule regarding External Links, and this did not seem to apply. How am I misunderstanding this, please help me to understand this rule's application here. Thank you.
What should be linked
Shortcut:
WP:ELYES
Wikipedia articles about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to the subject's official site, if any.
An article about a book, a musical score, or some other media should link to a site hosting a copy of the work if none of the "Links normally to be avoided" criteria apply.
Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks) or other reasons.
Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as reviews and interviews.
This is the guideline I used and it still seems applicable to me, am I wrong? --63.226.23.69 (talk) 17:29, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Nate there is no "Martial art group" infobox
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
What is it about the ITA page that you see as being so wrong? No comments but labeling the page seems sort of disengenuous... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bweldon (talk • contribs) 05:06, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2009
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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.
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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Wing Chun linneage article
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Funny timing, I was actually just going to message you and put a posting on the martial arts project regarding that page. I think its turned in to just a big list of links, and think it might be better served in a different format. What did you have in mind? --Marty Goldberg (talk) 02:57, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Krav Maga: Aikido
Latest comment: 15 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion
Hello,
I don't want this to seem like I am targeting you. However, I do need to point out that Imi approved his first Black Belt, Eli Avikzar, to not only attend Aikido and Judo classes, but also encouraged him to get Black Belts in both. All so they could determine what of each could be used to improve Krav Maga for both military and civilian use. After adding some principles from both of these, Imi retired from the military and Eli replaced him as the head of military training. It was at this point that Eli, with Imi's blessing, chose to distinguish himself by naming his interpretation "Krav Magen". You can pick up some of the tidbits HERE. Rick Seid is a well known student of Guy Dar who was a direct student of Mr. Avikzar. Rick knew Eli and they were friends, but his training under him was a bit limited. At any rate, Imi did approve of the addition of many techniques/principles from Eli's experience in Judo and Aikido. They were used specifically to make Krav more easily learned by civilians, due to the use of proper body mechanics. I hope this helps, and again, I don't mean this to be an attack. I don't know if it is important enough to include in this Wiki-Article, but it is none the less true and correct information. --KravTeacher (talk) 16:42, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Nate,
Thanks for your reply, I didn't look as closely as I should have in regard to the removal of other known systems which have influenced Krav Maga. Sorry about that. It is however a well known fact that Imi did include some, though not anywhere near all or even a lot, of the principles that Mr. Avikzar brought in from his judo and aikido experience. There are those, who I will not name here, who have carried the implication that aikido was a major influence on the krav seen today. This is likely untrue. One of my instructors trained under Mr. Avikzar and he speaks fondly of the changes Mr. Avikzar brought to the system. His experience under Mr. Avikzar was in military service and he attests to the influence of both arts. I wish I could say how much from each, but I suppose that's not possible, at least not for me as I never knew Mr. Avikzar. I am not suggesting that Rick Seid's website be used to cite the article in any way, he is however a credible source. His page including info. on Mr. Avikzar just deosn't meet Wiki criteria. Be well --KravTeacher (talk) 02:31, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Nate,
I have located an interesting online article. The homepage is that of the organization which Mr. Avikzar started with Imi's approval. However, this particular page has no advertising and doesn't seem to be promoting the org. Since it does not seem self serving, do you suppose it could be used? If so how and where? If you would please, take a look: Eli Avikzar Thanks for asking me to help! --KravTeacher (talk) 19:59, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Rowing
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I see on the rowing page that you've been using the wiki syntax of ; to mark up sub-headings. Can I suggest that this isn't a very good practice to adopt? What it does is mark that line as being the first part of a definition list (ie. a definition term) that you're not supplying a definition for (look at the HTML markup generated). If it's going to be a heading, it needs to use one of the heading syntaxes if possible. Thanks! Mrh30 (talk) 16:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
More fun with Oom Yung Doe
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I've recently elicited some specific criticisms of the article from Subverdor (talk). Since you've made some helpful comments & edits in the past, I'd really like your input on the issues described here. I realize that you do a lot of other things, but I'd really like your input on this bolus of proposed edits. Thanks! Cjim63 (talk) 06:17, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Greetings from WikiProject Medicine!
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I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Our goal is to facilitate collaboration on medicine-related articles, and everyone is welcome to join (regardless of medical qualifications!). Here are some suggested activities:
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Wikipedia Signpost, January 17, 2009
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Noel Edmonds Page
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi there - you recently reverted an edit I had made reinstating material that is unsubstantiated, poorly integrated with the subject matter and somewhat confusing. Anonymous IP users continue to reinsert this material and despite repeated requests by me for them to justify the inclusion they have not done so. Do you have reason to believe the material is justifiably included on grounds of being well-written, apposite and true? If not I will flag with an admin for a review. Please respond here. DaveK@BTC (talk) 14:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Cheers for sorting. DaveK@BTC (talk) 14:48, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Shintaido page
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Thank you for your interest in the Shintaido page, as you can tell I'm quite new to Wikipedia but keen to get this page into a state that agreeable to all. Any specific points or suggestions regarding missing citations or general 'tone' would be very welcome.--Edobarn (talk) 21:55, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
How shall I post
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The intention was to offer an external link on boxing where individuals can learn information on how to get started on boxing. Feel free to review the site and see if I was incorrect if the site does not offer that to individuals who are interested in getting started in the sport. The primary reason I posted it is if you check out http://www.boxing-for-life.com/preparing-to-box.html. It has a lot of information on what you need to get started. If you could please respond and answer what differnce do the sites that are currently up offer than the site I posted I would greatly appreciate it. They do not add to article they offer additional information beyound what is listed as what I thought you were suppose to do. Or was the problem in what the link was titled? Thank you for your response in advance.
Also I have an article written in regards to boxing combination and conditioning that I wrote that comes from that site. It is on my sub page under my user page. Please check it out and possible edit before I make it live.
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Kendo article edit war
Hi Nate148.
I have reported user 90.184.244.234, for the repeated re-edits.
If you agree, your support would be welcome.
Kendo 66 13:30, 4 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kendo 66 (talk • contribs)
Thanks for helping out by correcting my complaint structure.
Latest comment: 15 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
Could you go into some specifics as to where the tone problems exist? Daniel Case (talk) 15:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I see what you mean. A couple of years ago I greatly expanded that one with an eye towards a future FA nom. But since then I got into doing other things, we got stricter about inline sourcing and, while I still would like to do this, right now I just keep an eye on the article and haven't always removed things that weren't obvious vandalism. Daniel Case (talk) 17:54, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
GKR Karate
Latest comment: 15 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
I know personally these details are true. How can I be breaking rules?
sulstar —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulstar (talk • contribs) 16:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm satisfied with what is currently there now in GKR Karate - Thanks,its just all about learning the wikipedia boundaries. Sorry about any confusion —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulstar (talk • contribs) 17:06, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Jon Hess
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Nate check out this interview thegarv.com/2008/10/29/the-return-of-jon-hess-and-safta. Hessisthebest (talk) 22:27, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2009
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 4822 last month to 5108 on January 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 31 out of a total number of 1798 articles. In the area of GAs, at 26, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 41.
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
Article Activity Monitoring
Article activity is now been recorded at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Article alerts by the bot ArticleAlertbot. This gives details of the changes that have taken place in the last 14 days in the status of articles tagged for the project. The status changes being monitored are :-
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WP:ATHLETE and WP:GNG
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Hey, in case you don't have the AFD's watchlisted I just wanted to point you to my comments here and here. I don't want to come off as "whiny" for people voting keep, and you're entitled to you opinion if you'd like them kept, but I still wanted to point it out in case you only based you opinion on WP:ATHLETE :) Cheers, --aktsu(t / c) 13:19, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
I remember discussing WP:ATHLETE with east718 some time ago, and he pretty much agreed it doesn't really work with combat sports and was thinking about bringing it up sometime in the future. Changes would probably have to be done to Wikipedia:Notability (people) as I don't think its something we could decide about among ourselves. As it stand, everyone on Sherdog is (in theory, as WP:ATHLETE is only a guideline) automatically notable as someone who fight at a professional level of the sport. Something along having won a few fights in a top-level organization (UFC, Affliction, DREAM, Sengoku etc), or being a champion/major contender at a lower level (KOTC, Shooto etc) would IMO be what we should be looking at. I'm not holding my breath though, and it's not really something that's urgent either. I just hate it when people insists on filling _every_ redlink in MMA articles with stubs only containing an infobox and a fight record for people with no chance of getting a proper article. -_- --aktsu(t / c) 15:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Not a bad idea at all. Should probably take one issue at the time, but agreeing on something like that is definitely something that should be brought up in the future IMO. --aktsu(t / c) 15:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
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Wikipedia Signpost — February 23, 2009
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This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 8, which includes these articles:
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5108 last month to 5202 on February 17th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 32 out of a total number of 1801 articles. In the area of GAs, at 32, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 42.
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
Orphan articles
Members may have noticed a new spate of article tagging by bots in the last month. A large number (over 250) of articles belonging to the project have been tagged with the {{Orphan}} template indicating that there are no or few incoming links to the article. It would be helpful if members tried to reduce the number of tagged articles by introducing wikilinks into related articles so that there is a minimum of three links to each of the orphaned articles. Once the links are in place the tag can be removed and the bot should not re-add the tag. The bot is currently only doing articles with no incoming links.
Portal
Those of you with eagle eyes may have spotted the change made to the Yorkshire Portal link in the project template. Rather than the usual jig-saw image it has been changed to the Yorkshire Rose image to give it a more distinctive look and hopefully raise the profile of the portal.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. The latest listing was created on February 25th.
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.
Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 04:18, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Abundant Life
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Thanks for sorting out the "Church I See" section. I couldn't get the paragraphs to work - now you've shown me how to do it. Hyper3 (talk) 15:55, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia Signpost: 30 March 2009
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 5202 last month to 5866 on March 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 32 out of a total number of 1828 articles. In the area of GAs, at 35, WP:YORKS also falls behind WP:GM with 40.
To those who have done some work on sorting the orphan articles mentioned in the last newsletter. The number has decreased but there is still some way to go.
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
Further runs of the bot to tag articles with the {{coord missing}} template have been made during the last month. This has resulted in a significant number of the project's articles being tagged as needing coordinate data adding. At the time of writing there are 719 articles assigned to the Yorkshire categories with more expected as the bot moves articles from the United Kingdom and England categories into the county categories. It would be good if we could get the number down as when the co-ordinates are in place the article is available to other providers such as Google to display on maps. The best way of doing this is to complete the appropriate field(s) in the infobox template, if there is no template then consider adding one and killing two birds with one stone.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. The latest listing was created on March 9th.
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.
Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 19:25, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
AFD for William Cheung by new account
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Thought you might be interested in this. Brand new account, first contribution is proposing an AFD for William Cheung. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 06:16, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
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