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I am a Yorkshireman living in the Western Highlands of Scotland. I mainly edit things related to Scotland, Yorkshire, Europe, Politics, Geopolitics, History, Film/TV, and Football.
I support the mighty Sheffield United and the mighty St Mirren. And I love travelling, especially around my continent of Europe.
I was previously retired from Wikipedia, however, I'm now partially out of retirement.
I proudly support Scottish independence and I am unapologetically Pro-European.
I am also a proud Vegan for animals rights, the environment, and health (in that order).
This is an archive of past discussions with User:IJA. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current main 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 8,974 last month to 9,083 on June 28). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 63. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,603 articles.
Currently we have twenty 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.
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.
Featured Lists
Featured Lists have been promoted during the last month and have now been given their own weekly slot on the main page. Lists appear on the front page on Mondays just above "Today's featured picture". This may be extended to other days at a later date if people like it. In line with this I have also added a box for lists on to the Yorkshire Portal and created a couple of entries to start it off, more will be added later.
The project currently has 12 featured lists, out of 208 project articles identified as lists, and it would be good if we could get some of these on to the front page. Of anyone wants to take this up they need to create an entry for the list and nominate them to be considered here.
Lists are easier than articles to get to featured status as there is less prose to be created and the bulk of the page is the list itself. Most of the project's current featured lists are on football related topics and it would be good to get a broader range of topics for out Featured Lists. Some of the 208 lists could be brought up to featured status with a little bit of work, if any one wants to take up the challenge.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The July 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions 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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The issue with players contracts has been a bit of a mess this season. When Wilson turned up they decided to give all the players a fresh start so never published a list of released players. There was only really Kozluk and France out of contract anyway (although Thomas may have gone then based on the article you found). They decided to give Kozluk an opportunity so retained his registration and apparently they're negotiating with France to try and get him to retire - there's some stupid clause that means we have to keep him on the staff as long as he's injured unless he retires - ludicrous though that is!! The others are still there as far as I know - and will have numbers. They'll probably come to light following cup games etc so I reckon they should stay in the squad until there's some sort of confirmation that they've left.Bladeboy1889 (talk) 12:03, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
France will still be registered as a player - that's the bit they'll be trying to change by getting him to retire :o). By my reckoning any notable player at the club should be listed in the squad unless there's any indication that some of them have left (I don't think any have although Gardos isn't very evident anywhere. As for the number seven shirt - I was assuming they're saving that for Xavi when he comes. Bladeboy1889 (talk) 15:24, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
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 9,083 last month to 9,157 on July 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 68 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 64. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,766 articles.
Currently we have twenty 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.
Vandalism
With the start of the school holidays there is more chances of vandalism to articles at this time of year. It is time to remind members to be on the alert for vandalism to articles, especially those that are in the projects scope.
Here is a recent example of one that slipped through the net this edit which was reverted by an IP over a month after it was made! You can check the changes to the project's tagged pages using the watchlist or you can use the toolserver version which looks at just articles here. The former may not be up to date, as it requires manual update of the list of articles, but does cover all namespaces.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The August 2011 articles selected below are an editor choice and a suggestion 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.
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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.
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I get the feeling Parrino is only on loan - the article doesn't really make it very clear but the comments are more in line with a loan rather than a full deal. Unfortunately the rest of the media has simply repeated the same line. I'll keep an eye out for some sort of confirmation. Also - I'm starting to think we should probably call it quits and remove France from the playing squads as he's never going to feature again (hopefully). I was hoping for some sort of confirmation by now and I think they may still be negotiating so my suggestion would be to remove him from the squads but not list him as transferring out on the season page just yet and try and look out for some confirmation of what's going on later in the season. That sound reasonable (as the only other person seemingly interested in updating the Blades pages) Bladeboy1889 (talk) 16:31, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Soccerbase has updated France to having left (pretty sure it wasn't listed as that last time I looked) so I'm going to add him in as such on the season. He may well still be hanging around the club but I think we can assume his playing contract is over! Bladeboy1889 (talk) 16:06, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Injuries
I think injury lists are a bit of overkills and are frowned upon by project:football (not that that worries me really, there's too many miserable buggers in that bunch trying to lay down the law.) Never the less I think it's very difficult to quantify and isn't really that notable - maybe if someone gets a major injury that is well reported then it's worth putting it in the overview but otherwise it'll be way too difficult to keep up with and know who is out through injury and who isn't. And as you say - with our current squad the list will be longer than the first team one - Flynn and McDonald already out injured possibly long term, Morgan, France, Ertle, Evans, Taylor, Aksalu all been out for months, Williamson probably due for his annual back surgery soon...
So my vote is to stay away from it! Bladeboy1889 (talk) 22:12, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Why are you treating the EU like a country? Do you wish to see the collapse of nation sovereign states? Fine Britain is in the EU, but the EU is certainly not meant to be a country. Alexandre8 (talk) 18:40, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
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 9,157 last month to 9,229 on August 24th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 65. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,778 articles.
Currently we have twenty seven 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.
Back to school
September and October are the months when many young people move from one school to a new school, or to university. It tends to be a time when freshers "look up" their new schools and colleges on Wikipedia and decide to edit for the first time. Many additions to school articles, in the past, have been unsourced, some poorly formatted and some in violation of other Wikipedia policies. More experienced editors can help here. It is easy to become frustrated, hit revert and issue a warning of some sort. How off-putting for a new editor.
New editors do make innocent mistakes and it is up to us all to try to welcome and support them; perhaps by issuing a welcome message, helping them to find sources or format references and citations. Obviously, not all will turn out to be paragons of Wikipedia virtue, but we can at least give them the opportunity. May be it is time for us all to re-read the essay Please do not bite the newcomers.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The September 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions 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.
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
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→ Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 14:15, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi IJA, this is just a quick reminder about the Manchester wikimeet this Saturday (17th September). Hope you can make it. Mike Peel (talk) 23:00, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, IJA! I need your help regarding one sensitive subject. Article Partition of Kosovo needs your help, regarding Republic of Kosovo attitudes, and a bit of expansion. I remember our great collaboration on Belgrade-Priština negotiations, so i hope we can edit again in the same style! Thanks in advance! --WhiteWriter speaks 19:41, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
:) I didn't do anything, have so much obligations, and i almost forgot about that one... --WhiteWriter speaks 12:50, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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 9,229 last month to 9,255 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 69 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 51 out of a total number of 2,813 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight 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.
New software release
October sees the next release of the MediaWiki software (version 1.8) that runs the English Wikipedia. It will probably live by the time the newsletter arrives by the last few month's delivery dates! If you see any problems with the page display on any articles or problems with your favourite gadget or script then it may be a problem with the new release of software. It is worth checking out the Village Pump - Technical board to see if there has been any report of a similar problem. If not then raise a new thread to get it recorded and to see if there are any of the technical people that can point you at a solution. Hopefully things will go smoother than previous releases but these things always throw up obscure problems that have not been foreseen.
If you are interested in the detail of the changes made in this release then take a look at the full list.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions 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.
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
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→ Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 23:23, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, IJA! You are the man! :) :) :) --WhiteWriter speaks 22:05, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
O, you are so right. Sad, and funny, in the same time. :) All best! --WhiteWriter speaks 22:18, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
New League table on season article
I've added in a new version of the league table I spotted on some of the other team season pages - it should save having to update it manually each week as it's a centralised template. That said I think we should move it as it seems a bit odd now as it's stuck in the middle of all the squad info. How about shifting it above the squad list? Or maybe below the squad details stuff? Thoughts? Bladeboy1889 (talk) 08:40, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
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 9,266 last month to 9,354 on October 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 70 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 66. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 52 out of a total number of 2,835 articles.
Currently we have twenty eight 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.
Collaboration
Each month the project has a collaboration of the month when two articles are nominated to be worked on by members during the month. One of these is usually a B-class article and one a start-class article. Some of these have not really been worked on by members and I would encourage all members to get involved and see what can be achieved. An example of the success of this effort has been Whitby which was the B-class collaboration article in July and has just achieved Good Article status. This was achieved by just the efforts of three editors just think what would be achieved if all of the 91 members got involved in editing these articles. They may not be ones which are of particular interest to you but they relate to Yorkshire in some way so they raise the profile of the county and can often be related to articles you are interested in in some way or other. I have tried to rotate round the county with a variety of differing topics while steering clear of the ones designated as our priority articles. If you have an article that you think could be improved in one of these collaborations then just nominate it on the project talk page and I will fit it in at some point.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The November 2011 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions 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.
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
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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→ Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 21:52, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
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