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Arbitration
Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.
Miscellaneous
Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 18,228 last month to 18,260 on 29 November 2022). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 93. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 90 while WP:GM has 67 out of a total number of 4,824 articles.
Currently we have seventy three Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
Happy Christmas
A very Happy Christmas to all project members, hope you are all OK. The number of articles supported by the project is increasing slowly so thanks for all the hard work during the year. At this time of the year there is an increase in vandalism so if you have time keep an eye on the articles tagged with the project's banner to keep then vandal free. Many of the regulars are away over the feastive period so more chance for things to go unnoticed. Take care hope to see you all active in the new year.
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The December 2022 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter error
The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:29, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi John, my memory is not great, but i think I recall you sending me something very much like the above quite a long time ago. I do not disagree with what you say. I also belong to the Humanists and think they are more important than the Skeptics. Too often the Skeptics make a big deal about something that is in no way important. --Bduke (talk) 06:12, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
I just realised that if there is a source showing a name change and King's Guide is the most common use then Queen's Guide should move there and King's Guide should not be a disambiguation. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 20:27, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
The King (or Queen) is very much involved in the award. Every year all the King's Scouts and Kings Guides are invited to a rally at Windsor and the King addresses them. I remember going to it way back in 1956. I was living in UK then. Wikipedia says "King's Scouts are entitled to attend one King's Scout Parade held at Windsor Castle each year held on the Sunday closest to St George's Day; this is the only time when Scouts officially march". --Bduke (talk) 20:59, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
I was also in the Scouts in the UK until I emigrated to Canada. The Queen died in September so the Guides and Scouts would not have attended a rally at Windsor during the reign of King Charles. However, the King's Scout, and here's the reference to show that the Queen's Scout was renamed the King's Scout, isn't a usable source for King's Guide. There doesn't seem to be any current references to call the Queen's Guide the King's Guide. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk),
I agree there does not seem to be any evidence that the award is not still called "Queen's Guide". --Bduke (talk) 08:26, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Bduke/Archive 16! During the entire month of February there will be an ongoing edit-a-thon on all labour related projects across English Wikipedia and sister projects. Register to track your edits and sign up on the edit-a-thon's project page as a participant. To invite other participants paste {{subst:WPLABOR/2023}} on their talk page! This event is organized by WP:WikiProject Organized Labour
Apologies for this message out of the blue but I saw one of your (helpful) edits and, not having seen the username before, had a look at your user page. I have rarely felt such a sense of affinity as I did reading your page. I may be a couple of years younger and my academic prowess was at London rather than Oxford (although my children and grandchildren have done much to right that balance), but I too was much involved in Scouting and also abandoned religious belief quite early on. I haven't had the multi national working experience but I have had the pleasure of being a working scientist in Wales, and now temporarily resident in New Zealand for as long as I am allowed.
Many thanks for writing your user page and reminding me that maybe, just maybe, Brexit is not forever.
Best wishes VelellaVelella Talk 03:45, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. I posted on your user page. --Bduke (talk) 03:57, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy ninth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 18,564 last month to 18,601 on 27 February 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,848 articles.
Currently we have seventy four Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
North Yorkshire
A note that there will be a major change coming up for North Yorkshire with the reorganisation of the local government of the area. This will see the abolition of the districts and North Yorkshire becoming a unitary authority taking on all of the responsibilities of the district councils. This will require a change to most articles relating to the area. If you have any thoughts on what needs doing then make them known at the project talk page.
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The March 2023 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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Hi regards your Revert. I have take WikiChemists out because i didn´t find in any source that WikiChemists get the award. As sample here there is nothing with WikiChemists. Or did I look in the wrong source? Viele Grüße aus Deutschland :-) Calle Cool (talk) 12:34, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for you comment on my talk page. If you had given an edit summary, it would have been clear to me and others that your edit was fine, but you did not. Edit summaries are important. --Bduke (talk) 21:08, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
You are right - I will improve it at the next edit ;-) --Calle Cool (talk) 06:18, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello and welcome to the March 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December and our Annual Report for 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members, including those who have signed up for our current March Backlog Elimination Drive. We wish you all happy copy-editing.
Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC).
Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 articles.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo.
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I have nominated Scouting for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:14, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty first WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 18,643 last month to 18,663 on 29 April 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 210 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,858 articles.
Currently we have seventy five Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
Elections
Just a note to remind members that May is the time for local elections in England. Some new articles will be required for details of the elections in the different areas holding elections. Location articles may need updating to cover changes to the political makeup of the councils.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The May 2023 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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.
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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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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20:21, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Coronation today, 6th May
Why the hell do we, in Australia, put up with this total nonsense? --Bduke (talk) 11:01, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
User from Kano
Hello @Bduke, Thank you so much for your kind response! I appreciate your willingness to help and your offer to guide me through the intricacies of editing on Wikipedia. I will definitely reach out to you if I encounter any challenges or have any questions. I understand the time difference, and I will keep that in mind when I contact you. Once again, thank you for your support and encouragement. Gwanki (talk) 10:04, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.
Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself!
Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here.
Blitz:Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.
Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo.
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Welcome to the one hundred and eighty third WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 18,698 last month to 18,727 on 29 June 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,865 articles.
Currently we have seventy five Yorkshire featured articles:
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.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The July 2023 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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.
Monitoring is essential 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.
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. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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I am doing an informal survey of just you to see if I can get some preliminary understanding of how certain issues are seen by the wider WPcommunity, if at all. Do you consider WP:NJOURNALS to have the weight of a policy or guideline. If so, how did you come to that decision? I am trying to figure out what exactly is going on with that area of Wikipedia and something seems off to me. jps (talk) 12:16, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
It is labelled as an essay and I consider that makes it a guideline. --Bduke (talk) 23:59, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your explanation. That is useful information. jps (talk) 13:51, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Appreciation
Hello Bduke, I don't know how to start this comment but let me look for somewhere to start from. After taking a look at your userpage, your comments on the talk pages of some Nigerian Wikipedians (like this one) that I have come across, your user contributions, I want to specially thank you for being kind. For being a great admin too when you were still one. Thank you for all your contributions to this multilingual project. You see, see the project you contributed to, see what it has become now - the horsepower of knowledge and information. Maybe I wouldn't have met this project in this shape if you didn't contribute to it. I will be watching your TP from now :). Thank you once again! Vanderwaalforce (talk) 16:14, 5 October 2023 (UTC)s
Many thanks for your comment. After my time in Kano and my recent time on Wikipedia, I think I can help users from Nigeria as it must be more difficult for many there to edit than it is for me. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you and your colleagues. However, I am getting old and my memory is not what it was. Bduke (talk) 01:02, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
@Bduke Yes! I will be in touch with you whenever necessary. Many thanks! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 04:52, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
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