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Charity template

It looks as if your EW charity template has broken - think Char Commission has done another redesign. Would you be able to fix this? Scottish one still works. --Mervyn (talk) 14:09, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me - I'd already noticed it, and have contacted my mole at the CC (who to my delight is still there - it's been 4 years since the last revamp), and he's given me a helpful-looking reply, which I've yet to implement. Will have a go either later today or very soon: I feel I need to be clear-headed when messing with a template, and have just been sitting out in the sun for rather too long! PamD 16:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay, but I think I've now fixed it. If you spot any problems, do let me know. Thanks for taking an interest. PamD 20:16, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks for fixing this - I find it a highly useful template. --Mervyn (talk) 07:43, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Please however could you check the links before adding them. You have twice linked the end child poverty charity to a "removed from register" page at the charity commission website even though it was reverted with explanation the first time. This is unhelpful. Thanks. --BozMo talk 17:49, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that: I did think it seemed familiar when I searched for it the second time, but thought that if anything I must have got muddled and clicked "Save" before adding the link the first time round. Didn't notice the reversion and explanation because I'm not adding all these pages to my watchlist. When a search of the CC register finds multiple hits I look carefully to find the one which is the current registration, but I will try to remember to check more carefully that single hits aren't "removed" entries. This seems to be an odd case where a charity existed but now exists "hosted" by CPAG instead: I've tried to clarify in the article. The categories about charities are probably still relevant, as it's a coalition of charities even though it apparently is no longer a free-standing charity in itself.

Since the CC revamped its website again so that the template needed an update (see above), I've been working on adding the template to other E&W charities - quite a lot had dead non-templated links to the CC's old website, some mention the registration number but didn't have a link to CC, and plenty just say it's a charity but don't include the reg no. I think the CC info is a useful External Link for a charity, as it provides access to so much info about it - so adding those links is my ongoing project. Sorry I got it wrong, twice, in this case! PamD 19:05, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

No Problem. And I both understand the frustration with the CC redoing their pages and appreciate the work trying to fix it. I am involved in several charities and the links out to the Charity Commission on the about us pages all broke. They must have caused chaos by not redirecting. --BozMo talk 20:13, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

PamD

I removed that picture because it was a copyright infringement. Please do not re-add the photo. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harrybeckett (talk • contribs) 17:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

But you uploaded it to Commons and said that it was your own work and you licensed it irrevocably to be shared and used for any purpose. Are you saying it was not your own work? Or trying to go back on the irrevocable licensing statement you made at the time? PamD 18:01, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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California Labor School revisions/reversions

Hello PamD: Regarding the California Labor School article, I see that user Msulaiman91 (who is a student in my class and doing this for a class assignment) overstepped by replacing the existing content. I've contacted her and urged a more careful approach. Thanks! Toby Higbie (talk) 22:44, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. It might be worth reminding your students to add the "educational assignment" banner which you've already told them to add! I've made a probably over-long comment at User_talk:Msulaiman91#Editing_collaboratively. (Oh and sorry about reverting your edit with an irrelevant edit summary - I meant to "undo" the two edits together, hers and yours, but can't have clicked the right button.) PamD 09:32, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2013

The Yorkshire WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter Issue 62 - June 2013 April issue Got any suggestions? — Add them here Project News Welcome to the sixty 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 10,461 last month to 10,472 on May 18th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 99 is ahead of WP:GM who have 76. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 58 out of a total number of 3,247 articles. Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles: Henry Moore • Caedmon • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (bishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • 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 There are also fourteen 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 A.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 Thank you and well done to all those who contributed. Article Activity 2012–13 York City F.C. season nominated for GA on May 15th Member News There are 110 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership is unchanged since the May newsletter: The number of active members is still currently low. 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 stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs. To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.  Great! Yorkshire articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total FA 2 1 15 60 78 FL 1 16 17 GA 2 7 36 179 224 B 9 67 137 372 585 C 5 144 304 1,519 1,972 Start 1 243 1,259 8,706 1 10,210 Stub 21 352 5,658 3 6,034 List 4 12 984 1,000 Category 3,920 1 3,921 Disambig 21 21 File 22 22 Portal 95 95 Project 228 228 Redirect 2 197 1,362 1,561 Template 623 623 NA 1 1 Other 8 8 Assessed 19 487 2,118 17,691 6,283 1 1 26,600 Total 19 487 2,118 17,691 6,283 1 1 26,600 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 97,327 Ω = 5.10 Assessment Assess and review As of 30 April 2013, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner. (Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)  Thanks Aims After discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008. Specific aims for the project are:- To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below) 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 (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. Priority Articles The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows - Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • 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. WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project The June 2013 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page. 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Stubs

It's funny, I was thinking about dropping you a talk page message as well. I had noticed from Category talk:Stubs that you've been particularly active in stub-sorting recently. It was up around ~720 when I started whittling at it in my spare time a couple of days ago.

In recent years, seems like only a trickle of pages ever showed up at Category:Stubs, but nowadays it can be dozens or hundreds a day. Do you know if something's changed? Woodshed (talk) 14:15, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

It seems that User:Lugnuts is working his way round the encyclopedia labelling stubs which have hitherto not been tagged as such (not sure of his pattern of work, but alphabetical lumps of stubs appear from time to time - and it should presumably be a finite, though perhaps enormous, project, needing in future only a regular trawl through newly-created articles), but beyond that it's just the routine tagging of stubs by their authors or by New Page Patrollers, as far as I know. And of course the size of the category depends on how many stub-sorters are active any day/week/month - the balance between input and output. PamD 16:20, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for fixing up the Skeeby article even more! References look much sweeter! Cacolantern 19:08, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

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Murse

Please have a look at Talk:Murse. Michael! (talk) 11:00, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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Welcome template

Hey, nice template that you used to welcome a new contributor, lots of good stuff in there. What's the code for it? I couldn't tell from the page and I'd like to use it! The Ukulele Guy - Aggie80 (talk) 13:39, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

• I get it from the drop-down menu in Twinkle, but it's {{W-screen}}. PamD 13:42, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

And it's supposed to be subst'd, so you put {{subst:W-screen}}. (If you click on "edit" on that talk page, the template tells what it is, at the top.) I like it, though some people think the bouncing ball is silly. (As you can see, I copied that bouncing ball over to my user page.) PamD 13:47, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! As you can probably tell, I'm pretty new at this. I've got Twinkle turned on now! Man, if someone had sent that to me when I first showed up here! But the whole organization has definitely matured a great deal since my first visits years ago!The Ukulele Guy - Aggie80 (talk) 14:10, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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Pseudophysics

Thanks for 'clarifying' the stub...this had been brought up on irc, so I did some 'quick' fixes, but I wasn't really sure if it deserved to be under 'physics' so I left it generic for a more specialized editor to fix....again, thanks. Revent (talk) 23:35, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

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