This is an archive of past discussions about User:ColinFine. 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 talk page.
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy seventh 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 18,260 last month to 18,293 on 2 January 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 93. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 90 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,836 articles.
Currently we have seventy three 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.
Happy New Year
A very Happy New Year to all project members.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The January 2023 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.
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!
Delivered January 2023 by MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy eighth 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 18,293 last month to 18,564 on 31 January 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,844 articles.
Currently we have seventy four 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 February 2023 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.
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!
Delivered February 2023 by MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
Welcome to the one hundred and seventy ninth 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 18,564 last month to 18,601 on 27 February 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,848 articles.
Currently we have seventy four 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.
North Yorkshire
A note that there will be a major change coming up for North Yorkshire with the reorganisation of the local government of the area. This will see the abolition of the districts and North Yorkshire becoming a unitary authority taking on all of the responsibilities of the district councils. This will require a change to most articles relating to the area. If you have any thoughts on what needs doing then make them known at the project talk page.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2023 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.
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!
Delivered March 2023 by MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
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 18,601 last month to 18,643 on 29 March 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 211 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 91 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,855 articles.
Currently we have seventy four 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 2023 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.
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!
Delivered April 2023 by MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
19:52, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Re Mark Reed Sculptor
Dear Colin,
Thank you so much for your advice with regards to uploading images onto a page ( Mark Reed -sculptor) that I had asked advice for. I am terribly sorry for the delay in getting back to you to thank you but unfortunately I succumbed to flu over the Easter weekend and feel so terrible that I didn't get back to you immediately. I am in awe of people like you who give so feely of their time .
I was stupidly unaware that my additions to the Mark Reed sculptor page were contravening COI rules on Wikipedia as the wife of the sculptor for 5 years now, I genuinely didn't want to advertise on the site and can completely see that my viewpoint could be skewed by my relationship with him in the last few years. He has many press, magazines and third party articles about him, particularly in relationship to his more recent work, where he made a wave sculpture in Norwich cathedral ( 2021) in conjunction with the Natural History Museum visit of Dippy on Tour about climate change visited by over 234,605 visitors and raised over £2,800 for Cathedral Charities.
Also a tree sculpture for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust Kings Lynn Garden of Life at the Macmillan Centre ther last year which he completed for a not even cost price of materials as this piece was of personal importance to him as his first child was born at the hospital and he lost his father to cancer there. Each leaf can be engraved thus is raising funds for the League of Friends and Macmillan. These were the two pieces that I wanted to add and scrap large parts of the previous article but having now edited for a considerable amount of time it is so difficult to learn from scratch again, especially as in this period ,so much seems to have changed.
I would be honoured and massively grateful if you would accept my apology for being rather naïve. I honestly did not mean to use Wikipedia as an advertising vehicle and didn't know ( stupidly) that I was doing anything wrong.
He has a wealth of news and magazine sources on these pieces in particular and I would be enormously grateful if you would consider editing the page , I realise that there is a huge amount that needs to be changed and would really love your advice as I don't want to contravene any Wikipedia guidelines. . Am I correct in saying that I put an edit request on the talk page and then if considered that this goes on an edit review?
I would relish your help and thank you once again for all your help and advice,
Many thanks
Hannah Hannahlucy100 (talk) 18:34, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Hannahlucy. Please don't diminish yourself: Wikipedia is a huge beast, quite unlike anything else on the internet, and there is no shame in not understanding all its multifarious policies, nor does it make you stupid. Thank you for taking my instruction so gracefully.
The best thing to do is to put a series of edit requests on the talk page (I suggest using the Edit Request Wizard, but read WP:edit request#Planning a request first). I recommend splitting up what you want to change into a number of separate requests, for several reasons. Because they are separate, they will be less daunting to an editor than one big one, and so more likely to be picked up; and if some of them are problematic, less troublesome ones can still go through. ColinFine (talk) 18:45, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
That is so kind of you and thank you so much for your help. I have had flu and still have brain fog and have only just worked out how to read your reply!!!!
I will do exactly what you say and split up the article and changes and I am very very grateful for your help!
Thanks so much for your advice, I am pulling my hair out on where I am going wrong in what is already written, please could you , if you have a moment advise where I should axe sections that sound like advertising, I realise the whole piece is far too long and I really want to include the new work. I'd be enormously grateful for your help!
Thanks so much for your advice, I have asked for this request:
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
What I think should be changed: In Paragraph 2 of Biography removal of the line "In 2002 Mark made Penshurst Dining Table for Fortnum & Mason, London" and the accompanying citation Elliot, Sue (November 2003). "Rich Pickings". Style Magazine: 20. Also removal of the image Sidney's oak tree table – bronze and glass
Why it should be changed:It should be removed as the sentence is not relevant and could be seen as advertising . Removal of the image Sidney's oak tree table – bronze and glass as there are already too many images on the page.
References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):
on the Edit request Wizard as you have advised, and will wait and see, there is so much more that I need to edit I have realised but will be patient and follow your brilliant advice and do it in short sections!
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty 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 18,643 last month to 18,663 on 29 April 2023). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 210 is ahead of WP:GM who have 92. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 92 while WP:GM has 66 out of a total number of 4,858 articles.
Currently we have seventy 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.
Elections
Just a note to remind members that May is the time for local elections in England. Some new articles will be required for details of the elections in the different areas holding elections. Location articles may need updating to cover changes to the political makeup of the councils.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The May 2023 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.
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!
Delivered May 2023 by MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
