Welcome to the one hundredth and thirty 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 15,079 last month to 15,112 on 30 October 2019). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 155 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 69 out of a total number of 4,438 articles.
Currently we have fifty Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 28 October 2019, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
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General Election
With the calling of a General Election will members keep an eye on the various Parliament constituency articles. Please check that the candidates are appropriately referenced and that they appear in alphabetical order by surname so that we do not show any bias to a particular party. It is also worth checking the settlement articles to see if they have the correct constituency shown.
There will also be all of the candidate articles to check to see if they have the appropriate term end details and text to show if they are standing or not at the election.
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On 2 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anna Kessel, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that British journalist Anna Kessel co-founded the charity Women in Football, and initiated the Blue Plaque Rebellion, to improve gender equality for women in sport? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anna Kessel. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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 15,112 last month to 15,231 on 29 November 2019). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 156 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,444 articles.
Currently we have fifty one 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.
General Election
With the General Election continuing will members keep an eye on the various Parliament constituency articles. Please check that the candidates are appropriately referenced and that they appear in alphabetical order by surname so that we do not show any bias to a particular party. Once results are in then these will need updating in the constituency articles and the elected MPs reflected in the settlement articles.
Happy Christmas
Well it is that time of year again and time to wish all members of the project a Happy Christmas.
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The December 2019 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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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 15,231 last month to 15,275 on 2 January 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 155 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,461 articles.
Currently we have fifty one 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 New Year
Well it is the start of another year and time to wish all members of the project a Happy New Year and a big thank you for all the hard work on Yorkshire related articles during the past year.
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The January 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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I have just moved your DYK hook for Farnham Mires into Prep and I really like the article. The only pity is that it is about an obscure location that the public cannot visit, and I suppose that the chief attraction to you may be that it is local to you in Yorkshire. I wondered whether you might be interested in doing something similar on a larger scale such as the Wildlife of Iceland that I wrote. If you look at the foot of that article, you can see a mass of redlinked "Wildlife of Europe" articles that do not currently exist. I found that finding out and writing about the Iceland scenery, flora and fauna was very interesting. Anyway, I had better get back to building Prep 1! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:33, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry, I have that in hand. The motivation behind creating the SSSI articles is protection by information. The UK does not have a lot of land for new commercial enterprises, so that all land is potentially under pressure (the projected HS2 route is an example). The public can formally object to local Council planning permissions which may adversely affect SSSIs, but the public cannot do that if they don't know that the SSSIs exist, and/or don't know what they are like.
Of course, publicity goes two ways, and this project has cost me much heart-searching because now vandals and plant-thieves know about the sites too. However, I think that the greater protection is provided by the publicity. In the hope of offsetting the unwanted-visitors effect (who walk dogs in nesting areas, build camp fires etc) I already have plans to create articles about nature reserves in the same area of North Yorkshire. Official nature reserves are organised properly for public use (car parks, facilities, bird hides etc) and would distract the public from the inconvenient SSSIs, but some of them have almost no publicity.
I hope this explanation puts your mind at rest. Congratulations on your Wildlife of Iceland, by the way - fascinating! Storye book (talk) 11:40, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
On 25 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is "one of the most northerly inland breeding populations of reed warbler in Britain"? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 1 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Quarry Moor, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Quarry Moor is one of the few locations in England where the rare parasitic plant thistle broomrape(example pictured) grows? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Quarry Moor), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Wug·a·po·des 06:58, 31 January 2020 (UTC) 12:02, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
On 1 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Orobanche reticulata, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Quarry Moor is one of the few locations in England where the rare parasitic plant thistle broomrape(example pictured) grows? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Orobanche reticulata), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Wug·a·po·des 06:58, 31 January 2020 (UTC) 12:02, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2020[edit]
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty second 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 15,275 last month to 15,346 on 29 January 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 156 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,467 articles.
Currently we have fifty two 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.
Brexit
Well by the time you read this Brexit will have happened and this is the tidy-up that needs doing this month. You can leave the constituency link in articles that use {{infobox UK place}} as the template will hide the field in the output. Those using other templates will need to be edited individually to remove/hide the information. There are also a number of articles that mention the fact in the text of the article and these will need editing to remove the information or show that it was only valid until 31 January 2020.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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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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Hello! Your submission of Ripon Parks at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Spokoyni (talk) 17:07, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team[reply]
I'm almost exactly six months late, but I finally uploaded the pictures that I promised in one of your talk archives, and I've placed them in the cutlery company article.
I have a different question about this article, and I wonder if you'd be able to check your source. The article currently contains the following phrase:
By 13 October 1866, Binns & Mason was a chartered company. It lacked capital and needed investors from Pittsburgh, so it consequently became the Pittsburgh Cutlery Company. The investment was insufficient, so the Pittsburgh Cutlery Company was merged with the Harmony Society's new firm, which was based at Harmony. The Harmony Society had already bought the neighboring town of Beaver Falls in 1849.
I'm quite doubtful on one point, the idea that the Society was running operations at Harmony at the time. When they migrated to the US in 1804, they formed the settlement of Harmony, but after a few years they sold the town and moved to New Harmony, Indiana, hundreds of miles away. When that didn't work out, they sold the place and moved back to western Pennsylvania in 1824, and founded the town that's now known as Ambridge. (See Harmony Historic District, New Harmony Historic District, and Old Economy Village for background.) As far as I know, the Society never had a presence in Harmony after they moved to Indiana more than half a century before Pittsburgh Cutlery was formed. Plus, the Society's manufacturing presence was concentrated along the rivers, being heavily dependent on water power (thus Beaver Falls) and the rail transportation that's a lot more convenient along the rivers than in the surrounding hill country. Ambridge is almost straight south of Beaver Falls along the rivers, while Harmony's a good deal farther northeast; see route map.
With all this in mind, does your source say Harmony or Economy/Ambridge? The source is Whatmore, Rhys D. Dyson (1990s). "Retro: Sheffield cutlers at Beaver Falls". Sheffield Star. Sheffield: Sheffield Newspaper Ltd.. If it says Harmony, I think more research will be needed (has Whatmore misunderstood the history a little bit? I know I'd have a hard time with similarly-named places in a different country), but if you accidentally misread or mistyped something, that's easier. And please don't think I'm complaining; the history is confusing for those of us who lived there. The first time I tried to visit Old Economy, I knew that it was park-like, and I accidentally followed signs for the park in the adjacent community of Economy.
PS, note from the map that Beaver Falls isn't a neighboring town to Harmony; in the context of 19th-century manufacturing communities, the only neighboring communities for BF would be New Brighton across the river (Beaver Falls was previously "Old" Brighton), which had a significant manufacturing presence, or perhaps Fallston a little ways downstream, but it's always been a tiny community. Nyttend (talk) 16:23, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty 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 15,346 last month to 15,404 on 29 February 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 157 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,472 articles.
Currently we have fifty two 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.
Destubathon
The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon is running in March, sign up if you can help, there's nearly $500 worth of book prizes available so if anybody needs books for other topics this might help you out! The project has 5,550 articles currently tagged as sub-class, members could join in the drive and help reduce this number by expanding them up to at least start-class. We are not looking to merge articles but to expand them. In the process you may be in for a prize.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
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the DeafMute was too long of an article, I agree, I am learning. Please, allow for some discussion for other reverts. I will do my part to keep information simple and in their respective categories and language. I was not trying to connect the DeafMute category to the public person, but I did not want the public person reverted in its entirety. Thank you for contributing to my learning experience. It is important for me to also be able to contribute while having a learning experience.````
So I see you've reverted. Are you going to monitor every tourist attraction in the world? Are you going to remember to undo your changes when the lockdown is over? Is stating that a tourist attraction is/was closed during a period when most tourist attractions in the world are/were closed really a sensible use of your time? This change appears to go against WP:RECENTISM, WP:NOTNEWS, WP:NOTGUIDE and WP:NOTDIARY. Those are my "good reasons" for reverting your edit. Dave.Dunford (talk) 23:10, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Re Tourist Accidents section: Hi, I think you should also add a topic sentence so it doesn't look like you cherry-picked a few accidents. Perhaps you have a source that says something about the need to be aware of safety precautions in the absence of barriers and guards, and that the rocks have seen several accidents. Yoninah (talk) 20:09, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I can't find any quotations which put the situation in the context of absent wardens and staff, but I have added an intro with other material that I could find. Thank you for your support with this article. Storye book (talk) 21:58, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome. And thank you for the new text. Yoninah (talk) 22:56, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
On 23 March 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Brimham Rocks, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that although the Brimham Rocks(example pictured) were shaped naturally by erosion, Hayman Rooke conjectured that the extraordinary shapes of some stones could have been carved in part by druids? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brimham Rocks. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Brimham Rocks), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
No one likes accidents, but are you suggesting that all dangerous cliffs/mountains should have that text: Mount Everest, the Eiger, the Matterhorn, Scafell, Ben Nevis, El Cap, Snowdon? We're not a public health agency, we provide information not warnings, and that info is already in the preceding section. So I'm removing it again on these grounds. It's fine having it in the tourism section, and it's appropriate there, possibly, but this is the climbing section, and I feel that climbers know that their sport has risks. To repeat it in an article about every cliff is a bit redundant. Thanks! Ericoides (talk) 12:37, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty fourth 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 15,404 last month to 15,578 on 30 March 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 159 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,477 articles.
Currently we have fifty two 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.
Destubathon
The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon has been running throughout March and a thank you to all members that participated in the effort to reduce the number of stub articles in the project. There were 32 Yorkshire articles de-stubbed by the effort. Though the number for the project has increased, this is due to tagging of more articles, with 174 new articles tagged this month.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from 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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Hello! Your submission of Ripon Parks at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Spokoyni (talk) 17:07, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
