Nominations open for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election[edit]
The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process has started; to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on 12 September! Many thanks, Roger Daviestalk 04:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Storye book. I read your message and I listened to the wonderful you tube clips. My wife and I were just admiring them. What a lovely voice! Definitely not a countertenor (he doesn't apply falsetto). I asked my wife (she's an opera singer by profession) about the leggiero tenor classification and she told me that the term "leggiero tenor" is really only used to refer to a group of singers specializing in a particular set of Italian opera roles; apparently its not really applied to singers outside of Italian opera. She said the term lyric tenor would fit his voice. However, I do think we need a source to back up any designation in the article.Plumadesabiduría (talk) 20:13, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2009[edit]
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.
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
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.
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...
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 August 18th.
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.
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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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLII (August 2009)[edit]
The August 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 21:17, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
HI! Just got back today from a couple of weeks driving around the Alto Tajo (National Park) in Spain. I spteed your message and agree with your comments. I've edited the article accordingly! Richard Harvey (talk) 15:56, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Military history coordinator elections: voting has started![edit]
Voting in the Military history WikiProject coordinator election has now started. The aim is to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of sixteen candidates. Please vote here by 23:59 (UTC) on 26 September! For the coordinators, Roger Daviestalk 22:09, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm so glad you added this bit to the Museum page which is on my Watchlist... we went over to York on Monday to see it, well worth while. Amazing to look at a coin and think "This came from Samarkand and was in a field near Harrogate for a millenium"! Thanks for that. PamD (talk) 18:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2009[edit]
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.
For those of you who made changes to the coastal places articles after last month's feature. I think that the Scarborough article got the most attention and improvements during the month.
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. Great!
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.
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...
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 September 4th.
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.
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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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIII (September 2009)[edit]
The September 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 02:52, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hiya! I hadn't realised you were into Military History, I noted you got the project Newsletter. :) I'm not in the Mil-hist Project, but I do know about the Dukes, as you may have gathered from my update of their bit in the Bankfield Museum article that you edit. I have been humming and 'aaring (?) about the Dukes, and its antecedent regiment's, articles for a while. Today I have taken a bold plunge into things and merged the '76th Foot (Macdonalds Highlanders)' article into the 76th Regiment of Foot article and updated that article with extra details about its original formation, having been raised by Simon Harcourt, 1st Lord Harcourt, who's article I have also updated. I have also merged the '33rd Regiment of Foot' article with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment article and heavily copyedited and updated that with extra detail, especially in the Sports section, which lacked sufficient links to famous sports personalities the regiment has spawned. I'd be grateful if you could take a look and see if I've got a bit blinkered in my edits, yes my eyes do hurt now, without detracting from the readability of the articles. Richard Harvey (talk) 16:18, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Storye book. Just to let you know that I am not an administrator. My advice on the talk page is simply based on a lot of experience creating and editing articles, mainly opera-related. By the way, if you ever need any advice or help on those types of articles, do drop by Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On October 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hi -- I see you're the main editor of Alexandrov Ensemble discography. I've just added a couple of records that were missing, which I have in my possession; I don't have any sources for them other than the records themselves. I see that the spelling of at least one of the soloists -- Eisen -- isn't in line with your sources; it is what's on the record, though. If there's any more information I can provide from the LP that would be useful, let me know. Mike Christie(talk) 00:39, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hiya! Could you please take a look at the re-write of this article by Tryde from 14 October. I'm not sure if the usage of the wording 'Wellington' is correct as the 'Name' for His Grace. It is after all a title and the article is about 'Arthur Wellesley', therefore a second opinion would be useful. To the best of my knowledge 'Wellington', as a name, is generally used to refer to the 1st Duke, not his successors. Richard Harvey (talk) 07:20, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
HI! I thought your suggestion to be quite sound, and so I edited the page accordingly, regrettably another editor has reverted that, So I am not going to bother with doing it again! I also fail to see the need to add a citation to prove he was born in Italy. Though Jane's new book does mention him being three years old, when her grandparents returned from Rome in 1918. Her Grandfather was in the Diplomatic service there. Mind you I haven't a clue where to find a citation to the plaque in the Bathroom at Eton!!! :) Richard Harvey (talk) 21:20, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Storye book; I hope you don't mind a slightly off-Wikipedia question. I added those LPs to the Alexandrov article because I'm going through my old records and getting rid of them. I'm somewhat sentimental about them since they belonged to my father, and I'd like to replace them with an MP3 or CD version of the same tracks. I can't tell what the vintage is of the various recordings I can see on the net. Can you recommend a CD with the 1959 or 1963 London recordings? In return, I'd be happy to mail you these LPs if you'd like them, though they're not in the best condition. Thanks -- Mike Christie(talk) 00:54, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You can reach me via the "Email this user" link on my user page. I'm in the US, so I can go ahead and send them and presumably they'll reach you once the mail strike is over. Thanks for the pointers to youtube! I will definitely be following those uploads. Mike Christie(talk) 10:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The link is on the left side of my talk page, in the sidebar, in the toolbox section. If you search for "E-mail" you should find it. You can enable the link for yourself (if you want to) by clicking on "My preferences" at the top of the page. No worries on the postage; it would cost you more in transaction fees to reimburse me than the cost of the postage. I already have styrofoam peanuts and so on since I occasionally sell things on eBay, so it's not a problem. They're not 78s; they're 33 rpm, and so a bit less fragile, but I'll double-pack them anyway. I can see no hint of a date on them, but there's a handwritten $10.50 on one of them which means they were probably purchased in Australia or Singapore, which are the only places we lived with dollars for currency. That puts it between late 1960 and early 1965. Perhaps the Columbia records catalog numbers would indicate the date? Mike Christie(talk) 22:38, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2009[edit]
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,532 last month to 7,738 on October 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2.034 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.
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.
The addition of the popular pages facility to the 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.
As the page has a 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...
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 September 4th.
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.
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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Hi Storye book! I am trying to revive this WikiProject which appears to have went dormant in the past years. I figured that you recently registered as participant and made some edits. After more than a month of efforts to update the Portal and WikiProject pages there are now finally a couple of things going on such as Selected article candidateAkshardham (Delhi), Peer review of Architecture of Bangladesh, or Featured picture candidateAuditorio de Tenerife. Your input and critique would be helpful to get a bit of activity on this project. cheers. Elekhh (talk) 23:58, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As a member of the Military history WikiProject or World War I task force, you may be interested in competing in the Henry Allingham International Contest! The contest aims to improve article quality and member participation within the World War I task force. It will also be a step in preparing for Operation Great War Centennial, the project's commemorative effort for the World War I centenary.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLIV (October 2009)[edit]
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2009[edit]
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.
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
Christmas Greetings
Welcome to all our 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 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 networks, antivirus software, graphics software to memory cards and memory sticks. Digital cameras 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.
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...
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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.
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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On December 8, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Herne Bay Museum and Gallery, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XIV (November 2009)[edit]
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We need a better reference for his biography, traced to, for example, a book, a reliable web cite (established newspaper or publisher), etc. http://www.calend.ru is self-published site, it is unclear where does that information come from. S nastupayushim. Materialscientist (talk) 11:28, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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 7,870 last month to 7,888 on December 16th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 53 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 51. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,048 articles.
Currently we have seventeen 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.
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 (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
Every month, two articles will be selected for the project to improve, one B-class and one Start-class. The January 2010 articles are an arbitrary choice of the newsletter editors but members will be asked to nominate future articles for improvement.
Update statistics. (These drastically affect the accuracy of this encyclopedia so make sure the data displayed in the article is up-to-date.)
Check to see if the article is following the appropriate suggested article guidelines.
Make sure the article is NOT an advertisement. If it is written like an advertisement, fix it. If you cannot, notify us on the appropriate subject header on this talk page or on the article 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. The latest listing was created on December 11th.
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.
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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVI (December 2009)[edit]
The December 2009 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 04:36, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On January 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leonid Kharitonov (actor), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hiya Linda; RE: 'Melodiya' - only the first instance of a word needs to be linked, not all of them ;), see:- WP:OVERLINK. Richard Harvey (talk) 13:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! Your submission of Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that 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! Materialscientist (talk) 11:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
