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Welcome to the one hundred and ninty 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 18,943 last month to 19,208 on 28 February 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 219 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,983 articles.
Currently we have seventy six 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 March 2024 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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12:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Leeds Wikipedia meetup on Saturday 4th May
Hello there! Interested in having a chat with fellow Wikipedians? There's a meetup in Leeds on Saturday 4th May 2024, at the Tiled Hall Café at Leeds Central Library.
You're receiving this one-off message as you're either a member of WikiProject Yorkshire, you've expressed an interest in a previous Leeds meetup years ago, or (for about 4 of you), we've met :)
I plan to organise more in future, so if you'd like to be notified next time, please say so over on the meetup page.
Please also invite any Wikimedia people you know (or have had wiki dealings with) – spread the word! Hope to see you there.
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty 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 19,208 last month to 19,275 on 8 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 221 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,047 articles.
Currently we have seventy six 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 April 2024 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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12:33, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Help
Latest comment: 7 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Thank you for your help with the "free" and not free, but, can you help me making my userpage? I do not know how to make a userbox as you did. GamrrOverDue (talk) 20:37, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty 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 19,275 last month to 19,335 on 28 April 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 220 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,054 articles.
Currently we have seventy six 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
This is the month for local elections, Mayoral elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. There will be a large number of results articles that need creating or updating. There will also be updates to most of the location articles, with changes to the governess sections and infoboxes. Not to mention the people articles for those standing for election.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The May 2024 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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22:27, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Atar Meiner
Latest comment: 7 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Nephelium of approval
Thank you for helping me at the Teahouse when I was an inexperienced Wikipedian! I have improved at editing and making articles, and have made 2 and many edits. Nephellium (talk) 20:36, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty 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 19,335 last month to 19,422 on 3 June 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 219 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,076 articles.
Currently we have seventy six 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 June 2024 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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18:34, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Thnx for answering me on Teahouse and here's a kitten for you, enjoy sir!
Welcome to the one hundred and ninty fifth 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 19,422 last month to 19,543 on 29 June 2024). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 220 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,085 articles.
Currently we have seventy six 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
This month will see the General Election take place with a raft of boundary changes for the constituencies, thanks to the boundary commission review. A lot of work has been done on updating the constituency articles to cover the changes and new articles created for the new constituencies. Once results are in there will be changes to make to all of the candidate articles to show their new status as MP or not as the case may be. There will also be changes to make to the settlement articles to show the new MP and may be change the constituency if the boundary changes affect it.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The July 2024 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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19:32, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Awaiting Reply on Topic: How to Submit to Editors for Publishing?
Latest comment: 5 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Good morning Mr. ColinFine!
I hope you are doing well today sir. I am still awaiting your answer to the questions I have posed previously in The Teahouse regarding the said topic abovementioned. Basically, I would like to be clarified what you, as an editor, consider as "notable, reliable, and independent sources", as stipulated by the Wikipedia guidelines for acceptance of articles for publishing.
I have checked again and again my sources, and they certainly pass the requirements of notability, reliability, and independence. I still am perplexed as to why you and the other editor/s are insisting they are not. I have adequately explained what kind of sources they are, mostly news articles from news agencies and scholarly pieces that are highly credible and well respected up to now.
I do not want to enter into an impasse Mr. ColinFine. As I have suggested in the previous correspondence, kindly check for yourself the sources I have mentioned -- the links are all there! And if a famous person like Maria Ressa, who I forgot was also a Nobel Peace Prize Awardee in 2021, decided to interview Ms. Paat-Dahlstrom for her views on the democratization of space, isn't that enough evidence that what Paat-Dahlstrom had to say was noteworthy enough to be published in that news publication?
Also, I would
Again, I thank you and the rest of the editorial team for your time and efforts to improve on the drafts of newbies like me :).
I look forward to your pleasant reply.
Warm regards,
Eleni
P.S: I am not sure if this page is the right venue to follow up my query regarding your "guidelines". I could not answer back on the chat trail that was initially opened for the topic above. So I had to open another query on your user page. Eleniofillyria (talk) 15:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Eleniofillyria. It's OK to ask me here. I didn't see your reply at the Teahouse because you didn't ping me, so I didn't get a notification.
You seem to have misunderstood what is meant by an independent source. Your first reference, for example from GMA news online, is clearly not independent, because it is obviously based on an interview,
Wikipedia is basically not interested in anything that Paat-Dahlstrom says about herself, or that her colleagues say about her - it makes no difference whether it is actually published by her or a news organisation.
If GMANews publishes an article about her that is a reporter's independent research and analysis about her, that could be an independent source. If it is merely reproducing what she says about herself, it is not. ColinFine (talk) 15:46, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi
Latest comment: 5 months ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Sir I am facing problem in adding some images on an article because it is saying again and again that it is a 'non free image' what do now? UnKnownrNone (talk) 03:30, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello, UnknownrNone. It's hard to answer questions like this when you give me no specific information at all (eg, what image were you trying to add to what article, what stage of the process were you at, how did that message come to you?)
So I can only give you general advice.
First, you understand that uploading an image and adding it to an article are two quite separate processes? I'm guessing that you had the problem when uploading, but I'm not sure.
Second, you understand that Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia are very careful indeed about copyright, much more so than many places on the internet, and that an image cannot be used unless you are clear that its copyright permits this?
Most images you find on the internet, and most screenshots from films, videos, and games, are copyright ("non-free"), and may not be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons at all. Sometimes they can be used in a Wikipedia article under very strict limitations explained in the non-free content criteria. If all these criteria are met, then an image may be uploaded as non-free media to Wikipedia itself, and used in an article. The uploader needs to explain how the image and its use meet all the criteria.
One common use for non-free material is for covers of books, albums, games etc, in articles about the particular book, album, games etc: if that is what you are trying to do, it may be permissible. But if you are trying to include a screenshot of a game (I'm guessing what you're doing, on the basis of your user contributions), then problaby not. See WP:NFCI.
Does this help? If not, you'll need to provide more specific information. And I'm not sure quite why you asked me rather than asking at the Help desk or Teahouse, where many people would see your question and be able to answer it. ColinFine (talk) 10:51, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Yes sir, this really helped me and also thank you for that much big explanation 😊...!!
To find out more about a term used in editing and participating in Wikipedia, it is usually helpful to try searching for it with WP: (short for Wikipedia: on the front.
Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi ColinFine, thanks again for your help over at the Teahouse yesterday.
I have been back into the A. Gary Klesch talk page and tried to break my suggested edits up to make them easier to review. As in many cases I am simply proposing adding sources or removing unsourced material it is difficult to break it up more than this, however I hope this helps!
Would you be interested in reviewing and sharing feedback on the changes?
