- Project News
Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire
 Currently there are eleven 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
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
 Sam Cowan was promoted to GA Status on July 2nd
Bradford City A.F.C. season 2007–08 was promoted to GA Status on July 17th
William Wilberforce was promoted to FA status on July 18th
Battle of Boroughbridge was promoted to GA on July 25th
- WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 3635 last month to 3781 on July 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 24 out of a total number of 1624 articles. In the area of GAs, at 17, WP:YORKS falls behind WP:LONDON and WP:GM who each have 21.
- Member News
There are now 47 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new member that has joined us since the July newsletter:
One user left the WikiProject this month:
- Thanks
- User:Kaly99 would very much appreciate comments about Yorkshire Portal at peer review which continues to be maintained by Kaly99. Once more, thank you.
- There has been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date too.
- The football and rugby editors have to be admired for keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.
- WikiProject 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.
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Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS?? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
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- New 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 above)
- To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
- To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
- To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
- To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
- 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.
 One of the aims of our project was to set up a periodic Article improvement drive. The article on our county town of York is suggested for this month. Please discuss and/or make edits to move towards WP:GA? status for our first selected article.
- Please remember...
 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. Useful ones include:
- Template:Infobox Artifact e.g. Coppergate Helmet
- Template:Infobox Person e.g. Bill Gates
- Template:Infobox Musical artist
- Template:Infobox Company
- Template:Infobox Defunct company
- Template:Infobox Hiking trail
- Template:Infobox Football club
- Template:Infobox Football biography
- Template:Infobox church
- Template:Infobox UK school
- Template:Infobox Museum e.g. Rotunda Museum
- Template:Infobox UK place
- Template:UK road routebox e.g.A1 road (Great Britain)
- Template:Infobox park
- Template:Infobox UK property e.g. Nunnington Hall
- Assessment
Assess and review Assessment of Yorkshire related articles has been revised recently due to new classes being added by the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
The changes are:
- 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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