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The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 212 – December 2025 November issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here Project News Welcome to the two hundred and twelfth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter. Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WikiProject Yorkshire has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 21,157 last month to 21,237 on 29 November 2025). In the area of GAs WikiProject Yorkshire at 241 is ahead of WikiProject Greater Manchester who have 89. WikiProject Yorkshire also has the lead in FAs at 99 while WikiProject Greater Manchester has 64 out of a total number of 5,361 articles. Currently we have eighty two 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 • Bobby Peel • 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 • Poisoning of Abbot Greenwell • James Cook 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 Emily Brontë promoted to GA on 29 October 2025 HMS Turquoise (1876) nominated for GA on 16 November 2025 County Borough of Leeds reassenment of GA on 22 November 2025 HMS Turquoise (1876) promoted to GA on 27 November 2025 Member News There are 104 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No new members have joined us since the November newsletter. Assessment Assess and review Yorkshire articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 2 16 62 82 FL 1 16 17 GA 2 7 34 198 241 B 9 67 131 427 1 635 C 5 150 334 1,725 2,214 Start 1 281 1,397 9,117 5 10,801 Stub 18 350 5,637 1 6,006 List 4 13 1,284 1 1,302 Category 4,023 4,023 Disambig 21 21 File 25 25 Portal 95 95 Project 240 240 Redirect 6 1,579 1,585 Template 641 641 Other 16 16 Assessed 19 529 2,276 18,472 6,640 8 27,944 Unassessed 8 8 Total 19 529 2,276 18,472 6,640 16 27,952 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 101,055 Ω = 5.07 As of 29 November 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 - Bradford • Doncaster • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • Northern England • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber 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 Christmas It is the festive time of the year so a happy Christmas to all members of the project. At this time some of the regulars are away so it is more important that those who are available look out for vandalism on articles that are supported by the project. We need to guard all of the hard work of members, also keep an eye out for those article been nominated for deletion so none are lost unnecessarily. WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project The November 2025 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page. Month Dates Article(s) B class choice Start class choice 187 1 Jul 2025 ~ 31 Jul 2025 Bradford Upsall Castle 188 1 Aug 2025 ~ 31 Aug 2025 The Cottingley Cuckoo Vintage Guitars 189 1 Sep 2025 ~ 30 Sep 2025 Downton Abbey Woodhouse Moor 190 1 Oct 2025 ~ 31 Oct 2025 Alfred Edwards (politician) X2 (video game) 191 1 Nov 2025 ~ 30 Nov 2025 Farndale Yorkshire Traction 192 1 Dec 2025 ~ 31 Dec 2025 Geology of Yorkshire Zetland (lifeboat) 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 members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal. 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... 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18:59, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello Girth! Congratulations on your success in the ArbCom election!! Mz7 (talk) 18:56, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded. I’ve no idea what happened, but it sounds amazing. Seasider53 (talk) 19:21, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Seasider53 too. I volunteered to sit on Arbcom (WP:ARBCOM), and I guess enough people thought I'd be alright on the committee. Lots of reading to do now... Girth Summit _(blether) 19:51, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Mz7. Seems like a long time since you took me through the CVUA course, but I still remember all the good advice you gave me. Here's to the next learning curve... Girth Summit _(blether) 19:50, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Knew you'd win easily.Doug Weller talk 19:49, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Doug - I wasn't so sure myself, what with the near-total lack of any direct experience with arbitration, but it seems like people have faith in me, which is gratifying. Hope you're keeping as well as possible, and that the dogs aren't getting wrapped up in the fairy lights? Girth Summit _(blether) 20:16, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Just a reminder to email us per the above instructions at your earliest convenience. Thanks. :-) Katie^talk 23:18, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Katie, thanks for the prod. I've sent the email; agreements already signed, and username already on the lest. Cheers Girth Summit _(blether) 11:06, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

Congratulations! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:51, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gerda! Girth Summit _(blether) 11:06, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome! - I woke up to a a Bach cantata, GA by an editor's first review, and it was the first time that I was involved (a bit) in a pictured ITN blurb. More pics of buildings by him on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:51, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm an old admin who is still trying to get back in the swing of things, so apologies if there are better venues for this. I was responding to a request for page protection on National Iranian American Council due to suspected sockpuppeting, and I noticed that a previous contributor to this page, User:James Bertrand 8, had been blocked by you due to abusive editing (presumably sockpuppeting). However, I could find no WP:SPI page or other information, so I'm wondering if you might be able to look into this, especially the newer accounts that seem to all be agreeing with each other on the talk page. Thanks! RunningOnBrains^(talk) 23:03, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Runningonbrains, when you get a request like that at RFPP, my uncharitable but realistic assumption is that it's someone who knows page protection will win them an edit war and is hoping that RFPP won't look as hard at the sock claims as SPI would. So if I were you, I'd decline those and direct the reporting editor to SPI. -- asilvering (talk) 04:16, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - I agree with asilvering on this. I'm afraid I can't immediately bring to mind what led me to make that block, but if someone suspects sockpuppetry they ought to make a report that we can invetigate, rather than just ask for protection of a particular page. Girth Summit _(blether) 11:09, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello GirthSummit. Could you check this SPI report when you have time? Thank you. --Griboski (talk) 20:30, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - thanks for making the report. I'm making dinner at the moment, and I don't do SPI stuff from my mobile (it's hard enough not to screw up just writing a reply...). The case will be addressed in due course. Girth Summit _(blether) 20:59, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll add that if it's urgent, and obvious, go to AIV or ANI. SPI isn't really set up for urgent cases. Girth Summit _(blether) 21:01, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. --Griboski (talk) 21:07, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Took a look just now, and I see that Ponyo handled it. Thanks again for raising the report. Girth Summit _(blether) 21:36, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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(replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (botop|talk) 19:31, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the close at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LGTteam. I am still inquiring on the new account's talk page, since you mentioned there may still be a connection. TornadoLGS (talk) 18:55, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems possible, since they've come along one after the other, but there's no kind of technical connection beyond 'they are in different parts of the same very large country'. To be clear, I don't take the original account's assertion that they are the subject of that article at face value - it could easily be a fan, or for all I know it's an LTA looking to cause trouble (I've seen socks do some very strange things). That being said, if it genuinely is the subject, and they were blocked from editing their article, it would not be beyond the realms of possibility that they have engaged the services of a marketing professional or similar to attempt to do the same thing. With only two edits so far, one of them to the talk page, I don't see the urgent need for further action, but if you want to try to engage with them and keep an eye on it that sounds good. Girth Summit _(blether) 20:47, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:35, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks HB. I guess we'll find out what we've let ourselves in for soon enough. Happy holidays to you and yours. Girth Summit _(blether) 16:54, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:22, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Girth, how are you? I happened to notice an indef-blocked notice on this user's user-page, but note that he/she isn't actually indeffed. An oversight, perhaps? Anyway, all the best for the imminent new year! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:36, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oops - yes, obviously forgot to check a box on the SPI helper dialog or something - thanks for noticing! I'll go and remedy that. Happy new year to you when it comes. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:44, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Figured it out - they were already partially blocked, and I didn't tick the block to override the existing block. Must have failed to notice the error message. Hopefully now fixed. Thanks again for spotting it. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:49, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]