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The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 209 – September 2025 August issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here Project News Currently we have seventy nine Yorkshire featured articles: George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop of York) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity • Abe Waddington • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball • The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished • The Wrestlers (Etty) • Bootham Crescent • History of York City F.C. (1922–1980) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. (1980–present) • William Sterndale Bennett • Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed • The World Before the Flood • Musidora: The Bather ‘At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed’ • North Eastern Railway War Memorial • York City War Memorial • Northern England • Albert Pierrepoint • RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor • Keldholme Priory election dispute • 2018 World Snooker Championship • 2019 World Snooker Championship • Capture of Wakefield • 2017 World Snooker Championship • 2017 EFL Championship play-off Final • 1985 World Snooker Championship • Cardiff City F.C. 2–1 Leeds United F.C. (2002) • 1986 World Snooker Championship • 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final • 2020 World Snooker Championship • 1984 World Snooker Championship • 1925 FA Cup Final • 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final • Acamptonectes • 1997 Football League First Division play-off Final • 1987 World Snooker Championship • 1989 World Snooker Championship • 2014 World Snooker Championship • 1983 World Snooker Championship • 1988 World Snooker Championship • 2015 World Snooker Championship • 2002 World Snooker Championship • 2021 World Snooker Championship • 1982 World Snooker Championship • 2016 World Snooker Championship • 2022 World Snooker Championship • 1981 World Snooker Championship • 1980 World Snooker Championship • Ian Carmichael •2023 World Snooker Championship • 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning • Dracula There are also seventeen featured lists: York City F.C. Clubman of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland • List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons • List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England • Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent • York City F.C. league record by opponent • List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances) • List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances) • Kate Rusby discography Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. Article Activity There has been no article activity to report on this month. Member News There are 104 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No new members have joined us since the August newsletter. Assessment Assess and review Yorkshire articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 1 16 61 80 FL 1 16 17 A 1 1 GA 2 8 34 192 236 B 9 68 140 403 620 C 5 146 323 1,709 6 2,189 Start 1 274 1,350 9,013 8 10,646 Stub 18 355 5,651 2 6,026 List 4 13 1,203 1,220 Category 4,011 4,011 Disambig 21 21 File 23 23 Portal 95 95 Project 236 236 Redirect 11 1,569 1,580 Template 631 631 Other 17 17 Assessed 19 519 2,232 18,260 6,603 16 27,649 Unassessed 4 4 Total 19 519 2,232 18,260 6,603 20 27,653 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 100,457 Ω = 5.07 ‘ As of 31 August 2025, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. (Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however) Aims After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008. Specific aims for the project are:- To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See Assessment) To recruit more active editors (See Member News) To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status 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 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. Wiki Loves Monuments This month is the annual Wiki Loves Monuments, may be we can do some photographing this month and get some relevant photographs in the Yorkshire area that are listed buildings without photographs. You can find articles for buildings that are listed in the sub-categories of Category:Listed buildings in Yorkshire. There are various list articles in Category:Lists of listed buildings in Yorkshire that you can scan to see where photographs are missing. WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project The September 2025 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page. Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire. Please bear in mind… 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, usually on a Tuesday. 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. Thanks A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed. To the football and rugby editors who have done sterling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs. To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.  Great! 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… Written by Keith D • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! 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(trialing replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (botop|talk) 21:30, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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(trialing replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (botop|talk) 06:30, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your help is currently needed for Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thewikiuser1999. I am guessing you have CU logs for this SPI as you had done CU on this SPI in 2024.[1] Thanks THEZDRX _{(User) | (Contact)} 11:31, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Any checkuser has access to the CU logs from any case. The trouble with logged data is that it is not complete, and in most cases the older the data, the less relevant it is – IPs get reassigned, people move to different ISPs, move house, change jobs, etc. You’ll need to wait until someone can look at it from a behavioural angle. Girth Summit _(blether) 14:29, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

—Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:15, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Gerda – just realised that I didn’t respond to this – how rude! Thanks for the reminder – how can it have been six years? Thanks for the precious memories. Girth Summit _(blether) 23:33, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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(replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (botop|talk) 16:30, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, LTA is back. They are continuing their POV edits. Could you please take a look at this SPI? [2] Kajmer05 (talk) 21:29, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, it’s late and I’m going to bed – someone will look at it in due course. Girth Summit _(blether) 21:44, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

“No, I do not see any irony here. I made this thread because I think TonyTheTiger’s vote was retaliatory and obviously goes against the spirit of honest voting. I still think it does. How you deal with that is up to you. GeogSage giving his friend a “beer” was never ever an issue. Him running off to another page to comment on my “reaction” (and saying it’s the least of what he thinks) is a very clear “F that guy” to me. You can interpret it another way, but I will not. And again, how the admins here choose to respond (if at all) is up to them. Block me, if you deem it necessary. I can only speak my mind and say my peace on this matter.” 217.159.164.134 (talk) 22:55, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I’m sorry you interpret it that way. I don’t know why you are so bothered about the original vote. Do you ever watch ‘RfA’ discussions, where people vote on whether or not somebody should become an admin? There are people who will vote oppose there not because they have any particular problem with the candidate, but because they are opposed to administrators in general, or even because they don’t want to see an RfA go through unopposed. We don’t block those people – we don’t think they’re very nice, but we don’t block them, because they have a right to cast their vote however they choose, and if someone wants to make a pillock of themselves publicly then provided they’re not causing disruption elsewhere, we are not the Don’t Be A Pillock Police.

As for the beer on the talk page, I don’t know why you think it has to be a ‘fuck that guy’; why can’t it be a ‘never mind that guy, don’t worry about it’, or a ‘yeah, he was over-reacting, you didn’t do anything wrong so don’t feel bad about it’? You can take it how you choose to, I suppose. And no, I don’t see any reason why I would block anybody at this point. Girth Summit _(blether) 23:12, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please add this here as a very small linked addendum in your final reply on ANI? I did write it literally seconds before the close. My final ¢2. Other than that, I’ll bow out. 217.159.164.134 (talk) 23:27, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don’t want to add to a discussion that’s been closed, and I don’t see what good it would do. That discussion will disappear into the archive, and likely nobody will ever look at it again. Girth Summit _(blether) 23:32, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Irrelevant but also so precious it can no longer be touched. Honestly, I think you are a nasty scumbag. As are the two other guys. Please block me from this website. And do it indefinitely. No two months nonsense. 🙂 217.159.164.134 (talk) 23:43, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It’s just a matter of form – adding to a closed discussion isn’t entirely forbidden, but it’s not the sort of thing one does unless there is a point to it. Now, what I can’t really get my head around is someone who is so sensitive to perceived insults that they start a thread at ANI because someone else voted to cancel out their own vote, and complain about someone saying they over-reacted, but who is also willing to call other people nasty scumbags. I’ve been called worse, it doesn’t bother me, but I really don’t understand that mentality. Girth Summit _(blether) 23:52, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Only responding in kind. I now see that almost all power users on this site are in cahoots (INB4 your retarded explanation about how that’s not the case). Now block me (indefinitely). Let’s get it over with. 217.159.164.134 (talk) 00:04, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Erm… I had to look up what INB4 means. ‘Retarded’ is not a nice word to use, I’m not personally offended by it but I know that some people are, so I will use a synonym. Stupid explanation incoming: I’ve never interacted with either of those two editors before, as far as I can recall. I’m not sure I’d call either of them ‘power users’, they’re just regular editors. I guess Tony the Tiger has a few advanced permissions and a lot of edits, but GeogSage not so much. So no, we’re not in cahoots, but we’ve been around long enough to learn the lay of the land. I kind of suspect that you have too, no? This particular IP hasn’t been editing for long, but new editors tend not to wash up on the shores of Wikipedia talk:Vital articles as their first port of call. How long have you been around?

We don’t indefinitely block IPs. We sometimes block them for a few years, but since they tend to get reassigned, there’s little point in indefinitely blocking them. You’ve been on this one for, what, three days? If I was going to block you, I’d probably make it a week – but I’m not going to block you for calling me a few mean names on my talk page. Someone else might. Girth Summit _(blether) 00:14, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see that Acroterion has pressed the button. Any ideas who this is? Girth Summit _(blether) 00:17, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, they don’t seem familiar, just someone with a chip on their shoulder and a keyboard. Acroterion (talk) 00:37, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt this is their first rodeo, but I don’t see them on that IP range in the past. Oh well. Cheers Girth Summit _(blether) 00:40, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. If only the drama had actually diffused, instead of migrating here, perhaps blocks wouldn’t have been necessary… Girth Summit _(blether) 03:33, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]