The
Peterloo Massacre article was promoted to
FA on 12 April. One of our top priority articles, it had previously been only start class. The process began on 25th March and since then underwent over 700 edits before the end of April, with
Jza84,
Malleus Fatuarum, and
Richerman making significant contributions to the rapid development of the article.
Ddstretch and
Mr Stephen also contributed to discussions on the article talk page.
Perhaps the most unusual event of April 2008 for the project has surrounded the
Denshaw article. Denshaw is a village of about 500 people in
Saddleworth,
Oldham, which attracted media attention due to vandalism of the stub class article. Once this was brought to the project's attention, efforts were made to improve the article which led to a successful DYK? nomination and might even advance it to
GA status with a bit more effort. In April there were over
19,000 visitors who saw the project in action. Contributors included
Jza84,
Ddstretch,
Malleus Fatuarum,
Hassocks5489,
Nev1 and
Mike Peel.
Also this month 5 articles featured on the DYK? section of the front page:
Hulme Arch Bridge,
Peterloo Massacre,
Bolton and Leigh Railway,
Barnes Hospital,
Denshaw, and
Platt Fields Park. This certainly puts into perspective one of the project's previous mid-term aims "feature on the Did you know? section with at least three articles related to Greater Manchester". If you've expanded an article 5 fold or started one with at least 1.5kb of prose in the past 5 days and it has an interesting and referenced fact don't hesitate to read the conditions of DYK? and nominate it
here. It gets the project noticed!
WikiProject Greater Manchester is still leading local British WikiProjects. As far as featured content goes, we have a lead of 7 on
London and
Yorkshire who have 15 Featured Articles each. Although taking the lead in FAs, WP:GM is still lacking GAs and falls behind
London by 6 (we have 14, London 20). If you see an article that you think deserves to be a GA, don't hesitate to nominate it at
WP:GAC!
Member News
There are 45 members of WikiProject Greater Manchester. One new member has joined the project this month:
Kieran5676 on 30th April and is interested in south Manchester.
The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Thanks
A rather large "thank you" goes out to all the editors who edited article related to
Greater Manchester, or who edit the project itself.
Obtain GA status for one third (1/3) of Greater Manchester's Metropolitan Boroughs.
It took us four months to get our last aims completed, why not try and see if these can be done in less time than before! All input is welcome but if anyone has any books or photos etc specifically related to these topics, they would be extra-specially welcome.
Most of the articles covered by our new aims haven't experienced much activity in the past month, if you thing you can help improve an article
be bold and get editing. Articles such as List of people from Bolton and List of railway stations in Greater Manchester already appear very close to FL status and may just require an editor to guide them through the
FLC process.
Our highest priority article is of course Greater Manchester, there is a peer review from March with issues still to be addressed before it can be put forward as a featured article candidate. Salford is another top priority article because it's the county's second city; it's under gone a lot of editing but still has a way to go before it reaches GA. Also active this month has been the
City of Salford article – part of our aim to get 1/3 of Greater Manchester's Metropolitan Boroughs to GA &ndash.
Although these are the project's explicit short term aims, we endeavour to "improving all wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester", so every edit is valuable.
Reminders...
Images! The rate of good images has gone up since it was mentioned in the last issue, but more images are needed! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Assessment When this section was written, there was only 1 unassessed article! This task has probably already been finished, but it might now have. To check click
here.
Delivered on May 1, 2008 by
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Manchester
The following comment 'Do you have any refs that summarise its position vis-a-vis the City of Manchester? ' was put on my talk page. I added this to the Manchester page. Your edit was unconstructive. You should have either left the reference, or removed the entire bronze age finds statement.
Hstudent (
talk) 10:02, 12 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Manchester Airport
If you don't agree with something and it has a reference then you shouldn't undo it. If it does have a reference you should add a fact tag unless it is obvious it is untrue, such as if a statement like "18 planes heading for Manchester Airport every day crash" I have an Ordance Map of Manchester and surroundings copyrighted in 1979 which shows the exact land the airport occupied pre-Runway 2, but after the new Greater Manchester council areas were created. I've tried to look for an online version, but so far my efforts have been unsuccessful.
In reverting the edits did you even notice that I had added the Airport's point of view in the Criticism section?
Explain how adding a refernce is vandalism? I spent 40 minutes adding references which someone had carelessly removed yesterday and someone undid them because they weren't happy with one reference being a word document, even though it was from a local government site. Then put one of the reasons for the revert as 'Manchester Airport is not in the city of Manchester district' which wasn't something that I had put in the article.
Sheliaval (
talk) 08:41, 28 May 2008 (UTC)reply
I fail to see any information on the Manchester article to say that the airport is located within the City of Manchester. The fact that Heald Green (a town in it's own right) seperates the city from the airport seems to make your claim invalid in itself. Also the term 'airport' not just applies to the terminals, but both runways, the cargo centre and the aviation viewing park. The latter has a postal address of Manchester Airport Aviation Viewing Park, Altrincham Road, WILMSLOW, SK9 4LR As Wilmslow is a Cheshire town with a Stockport postcode it means that not only is the viewing park not in the city of Manchester, it is also not in Greater Manchester
Hstudent (
talk) 12:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Rochdale
Quality removed SPAM. Do you like it?
Stop removing my link to central mosque rochdale please as it is not spam. I will continue to place the link before link4life
A quick question
Why did you remove this "[[Historic counties of England|Historic county]]" from the
Liverpool article, why is this not a releveant historical fact?
Sillyfolkboy (
talk) 02:21, 19 May 2008 (UTC)reply
leicester gangs
how is any of what I wrote "crap"? All of it is true and is written in the same manner as the other sections. as far as I can see it is as valid as anything else on that page.
Perhaps in future you should think before deleting articles. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
86.137.220.95 (
talk) 15:40, 18 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Old Trafford,
Murrays' Mills and
1990 Strangeways Prison riot all passed
GAC last month! In previous newsletters, the issue of WP:GM's lack of GAs has been raised numerously, so a large 'well done' to all those who contributed, be it little or large!
Also,
Milnrow and
City of Salford have been nominated at
WP:GAC. Feel free to join in with their discussions
here and
here respectively. To 'obtain GA status for a third of Greater Manchester's Metropolitan Boroughs' is one of WP:GM's short-term aims, let's hope the
City of Salford won't be the last borough with this status.
WikiProject Greater Manchester is still the leading local British WikiProject! As far as featured content goes, we have a lead of 8 on
London! Although taking the lead in FAs, WP:GM is still flagging a little in GAs and falls behind
London by 3. This is the closest we have ever got to taking the lead in local British GAs, if you see an article that you think deserves to be a GA, don't hesitate to nominate it at
WP:GAC!
And don't forget that the
Manchester congestion charge article will need all input possible to keep it up to date with the government's new legislation (grumble grumble)...
Member News
There are 46 members of WikiProject Greater Manchester. Our newest member is:
Let's not forget that
Jza84 became an administrator this month! Congratulations on your new role.
The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Thanks
A rather large "thank you" goes to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed..
Obtain GA status for one third of Greater Manchester's Metropolitan Boroughs.
Most of the articles covered by our new aims haven't experienced much activity in the past month, except for
City of Salford being nominated at
WP:GAC. If you think you can help improve an article,
be bold and get editing! Articles such as
List of people from Bolton and
List of railway stations in Greater Manchester already appear very close to
FL status and may just require an editor to guide them through the
FLC process.
Greater Manchester is, of course, our highest priority article.
Mr Stephen posted some milestones to getting this article up to
FA status a while back. Please
check them out and see what you can do.
Although these are the project's explicit short term aims, we endeavour to "improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester", so every edit is valuable.
Reminders...
Images! The rate of good images has gone up since it was mentioned in the last issue, but we'll need more if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Assessment As of 12th April, we have had 100% of our articles assessed for quality! Even so, we still 151 of our 1551 article unassessed for importance. Please
take a look and see what you can do.
Delivered on June 12, 2008 by
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No worries
Hi there - no problems with you removing my comment. I just thought it may help generate a spirit of compromise if I pointed out that I am actually not voting for what I believe to be the most accurate description ('...country within the United Kingdom' would be my preferred wording) but rather for a compromise position. Cheers
Fishiehelper2 (
talk) 19:56, 15 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Report
Hi there, I thought I'd let you know that Fonez4mii has been reported for suspected sockpupperty over
Here.
Jack forbes (
talk) 15:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Narutolovehinata5 would like to nominate you to become an administrator. Please visit
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then
contact Narutolovehinata5 to accept or decline the nomination. A page will then be created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Joshii . If you accept the nomination, you must state and sign your acceptance. You may also choose to make a statement and/or answer the optional questions to supplement the information your nominator has given. Once you are satisfied with the page, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.
Joshii, I advice you to go to the RfA page and plain reject this RfA nomination as soon as posible. I see that this person is nominating you on good faith, but he is an unexperienced editor, and I think that he/she doesn't realize that if you let this RfA continue, then you will only succeed on getting
wiktionary:lambasted to heck and back due to the blocks you had only 3 months ago. --
Enric Naval (
talk) 02:09, 22 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Re the whole traditional counties issue, note that it was the
administrative counties of England that were abolished in 1974, rather than historic county boundaries. It's not strictly true to say 1974 was the cut off for those territories; when people say "real/traditional" boundaries, they usually (and unknowingly) are refering to the admin counties! Mentioning the
historic counties of England in the lead sections is a good thing - other than the obvious historic association, they're rather useful for amature
genealogists, and can avoid confusion for the less informed. :-) --Jza84 |
Talk 12:06, 24 June 2008 (UTC)reply
This was my point exactly last night and I now believe the statements that were removed be re-instated.
Darkieboy236 (
talk) 12:38, 24 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Where did you get the new figure of Liverpool One's retail area in
this list? When I inserted the figure for the centre initially I picked the most conservative estimate, and I cannot seem to find the figure you've given anywhere. Thanks,
Asdfasdf1231234 (
talk) 19:00, 24 June 2008 (UTC)reply
I am not sure how this works, but I am seeking additional opinions on the discussion on this page, I will abide by the general consensus. User JZA continues to undermine my edits and has done over a period. However I am only looking at opinions on the discussion page on Liverpool Urban Area if you are interested please leave your thoughts. Thank you.
Dmcm2008 (
talk) 10:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Don't suppose you could re-review this could you? I think it may be C or even B-class but am uncertain.
Parrot of Doom (
talk) 14:45, 8 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Skyscrapers Wiki
I would like to invite you to the skyscraper wiki. It currently does not have many contributers.
You said
a while ago that the issue preventing the List of railway stations in Greater Manchester article from reaching FL was that some dates were missing.
Mr Stephen has since
filled in most of the gaps and now only one station (
Manchester United FC Halt) is a problem. I think the article is ready to be taken to
WP:FLC, one station really shouldn't be an issue as far as I'm concerned. I think
Hassocks5489 would be interested in helping out if he can (
see here).
And while I'm here, it's good to see you're back.
Nev1 (
talk) 17:08, 30 August 2008 (UTC)reply
Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
Hi,
As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the
Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see
here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.
We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to
the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.
You may also wish to attend
the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch
Wikipedia:Meetup, for updates on future meets.
We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!
It's been three months since the last newsletter, but there's been a lot going on...
Promoted articles:
Greater Manchester is one of our project's top priority articles, the Greater Manchester article comprehensively covers everything to do with the county, from culture and history, to transport and demography.
Manchester United F.C. records and statistics is about the records of one of Greater Manchester's best know clubs, which feats like "the club currently holds the record for the most FA Cup triumphs with 11".
City of Salford is about the local government area and Greater Manchester's second city. Getting
Salford to GA is one our the aim's of our project, so hopefully this may help.
Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal is about the history and modern restoration of the disused canal running through the county. (It's now at FAC, so please improve the article if you can!)
Manchester Mummy is about Hannah Beswick, whose macabre fear of being buried alive lead to her demanding that her body was kept above ground and checked periodically for signs of life.
Milnrow is a small town in
Rochdale with a long history. The wool trade was important to the town and was the basis of much of its industry. (It's also the first GA for Rochdale!)
Ordsall Hall is an important Tudor hall in Salford with a reputation for being haunted!
Bert Trautmann is the German goalkeeper who broke his neck playing for Manchester City... and carried on playing!
The
Peterloo Massacre appeared on the front page on 16 August! Well done to everyone who contributed to the article about a key moment of Greater Manchester's history and managed to get it showcased.
A new
portal has been set up! The
Greater Manchester portal showcases some of the best articles to do with the county. Thanks to
Polishname for single-handedly getting it up and running.
There is a proposal to move members who haven't edited for a while to an inactive members list, so if you've not been edited recently but still want to be a member let us know!
WikiProject Greater Manchester is still the leading local British WikiProject! As far as featured content goes, we have a lead of 5 on
Yorkshire and 11 on
London! WP:GM now is the leading project in terms of GAs too with 5 more than London and 7 more than Yorkshire! If you see an article that you think deserves to be a GA, don't hesitate to nominate it at
WP:GAC!
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Although the project has had a lot of GAs and FAs recently, most of the articles covered by our short term aims haven't experienced much activity recently.
Baby has undergone some change, but has a long way to go, and
List of railway stations in Greater Manchester is very close to FL quality. If you think you can help improve an article,
be bold and get editing! Articles such as
List of railway stations in Greater Manchester already appear very close to
FL status and may just require an editor to guide them through the
FLC process.
Although these are the project's explicit short term aims, we endeavour to "improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester", so every edit is valuable.
Member News
There are 53 members of WikiProject Greater Manchester. Since 12 June, the project has gained 7 new members:
Welcome to everyone, and let's remember to make these new members feel included in the project! If you need help, you can go to the
project talk page, or perhaps look at the
list of members to see if anyone can help.
The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Thanks
A big "thank you" goes to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Assessment As of 1st September, we have had 99.5% of our articles assessed for quality! Even so, we still 157 of our 1662 article unassessed for importance. Please
take a look and see what you can do.
Last but not Least... If you've got a story to go in next month's news letter, leave a note
here.
Delivered on 2 September 2008 by
Nev1. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.
Motto of the day
Hello, I notice you're using one of the {{
motd}} templates, run by
Wikipedia:Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.
When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by
our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.
If you have any questions, please let me know, or post on the
project's talk page. I'm looking forward to reading your comments on the suggested mottos, and any additional suggestions you'd like to make. Until then, happy editing!
Hersfold(
t/
a/
c) 02:09, 4 September 2008 (UTC)reply
As noted above by Nev1, I've done some more work on the list you started, including finding out the opening date of MUFC Halt, and I shall nominate it at
WP:FLC accordingly. I'll try to overcome any problems or concerns myself, but I'll bring anything significant to the project talk page. Thanks for creating the list and all the groundwork you have done!
Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 18:49, 9 September 2008 (UTC)reply
WikiProject Greater Manchester October Newsletter, Issue X
Usually this is where this month's promoted articles are listed, however there is something more important this month. In September, the project was notified which of its articles were selected for
a DVD version of wikipedia. The 49 are listed
here, although the quality ratings are a bit out of date. Twenty-two of the articles were GA-class or higher, and only five were below B-class. These are articles that have been selected by wikipedia, not simply as the best but the most important, so they require our attention, most importantly those that fall below GA standards. We still have until the 20th October to make changes to the articles, so please if you think you can improve any of them in any way please do so!
In other news, it's been a busy month with plenty going on...
Promoted articles:
The Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal is a disused canal undergoing restoration. The canal, which travels between Bolton and Manchester with a branch heading north east to Bury, was abandoned in 1961.
Having previously been described as "bare, wet, and almost worthless", Ashton-under-Lyne rose to prominence in the
Industrial Revolution as one of the most famous
mill towns in the north west.
Henry Taylor is Oldham's forgotten Olympic hero. He won 3 swimming golds at the 1908 Olympics, a record for most golds in a single games by a Briton until
Chris Hoy equalled it this year.
WikiProject Greater Manchester is still the leading local British WikiProject! As far as featured content goes, we have a lead of 8 on
Yorkshire and 15 on
London! WP:GM now is the leading project in terms of GAs too with 5 more than London and 7 more than Yorkshire! If you see an article that you think deserves to be a GA, don't hesitate to nominate it at
WP:GAC!
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
There wasn't space in the last newsletter, but as of 24 July 2008 the project has a
list of articles that have tags on them. As of 14 July 2008, 351 (21.8%) of our articles need a clean-up, although this should have gone down as some have already received attention (the bot does not seem to update the listing often).
In other news, the
Merseyside Wikiproject has been set up. If you have an interest in the area or want to help out in any way, head over to the project page and pitch in.
In the past month we've achieved two of our short-term aims! The
List of railway stations in Greater Manchester was expertly guided through the
featured list process with hardly a problem, and now that
Tameside is a GA a third of the county's boroughs are GA status or better. There's still plenty to do, some our our top-priority articles need referencing or tidying up, so don't hesitate to dive in! If you think you can help improve an article,
be bold and get editing! And please keep an eye on the 49 articles selected for the wikipedia DVD.
Although these are the project's explicit short term aims, we endeavour to "improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester", so every edit is valuable.
Member News
No new members joined the project in September and there are 49 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester. A new list of
inactive members has been started. Anyone who hasn't made an edit to wikipedia since 1 March 2008 automatically goes onto the list.
If you need help, you can go to the
project talk page, or perhaps look at the
list of members to see if anyone can help. The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Thanks
A big "thank you" goes to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Assessment As of 4th October, we have had 100% of our articles assessed for quality! Even so, 151 of our 1684 articles remain unassessed for importance. Please
take a look and see what you can do.
Last but not Least... If you've got a story to go in next month's news letter, leave a note
here.
Delivered on 4 October 2008 by
Nev1. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.
Still around?
I'm thinking of doing a bit of an improvement drive to the GM TIF stuff. Are you still around? If so, I've started a template in
User:Jza84/Sandbox2 to start to tie things together and thought you might want to help :) --Jza84 |
Talk 15:23, 23 October 2008 (UTC)reply
WikiProject Greater Manchester November Newsletter, Issue XI
It's been a quieter month than September, but plenty has been going on...
Promoted articles:
Born in
Stalybridge and raised in
Ashton-under-Lyne, Hugh Mason was a mill owner and politician. He was popular among his workers for shortening the working week at his factories without cutting their pay.
No articles were DYKs this month. For details of the DYKs by the project that have appeared on the main page, see
Did you know?
WikiProject Greater Manchester is still the leading local British WikiProject! As far as featured content goes, we have a lead of 8 on
Yorkshire and 14 on
London! WP:GM now is the leading project in terms of GAs too with 7 more than both Yorkshire and London! If you see an article that you think deserves to be a GA, don't hesitate to nominate it at
WP:GAC!
Trafford was featured on the main page on the 12th October and was viewed 13,800 on the day (27,100 times over 4 days).
The project's
cleanup listing has been updated with stats from 8 October. As of 14 July, 351 (21.8%) of our articles need a clean-up, this has risen to 447 out of 1689 (26.5%). Although this is disappointing, it reflects a more widespread use of tags on articles to indicate what needs attention rather than a decline in the standard of this project's articles.
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Member News
There are now 53 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester as 4 new members joined the project in October:
Welcome to everyone, and let's remember to make these new members feel included in the project! If you need help, you can go to the
project talk page, or perhaps look at the
list of members to see if anyone can help. The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
On top of these aims, some our our top-priority articles need referencing or tidying up, so don't hesitate to dive in! If you think you can help improve an article,
be bold and get editing! Although these are the project's explicit short term aims, we endeavour to "improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester", so every edit is valuable.
Thanks
A big "thank you" goes to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Assessment As of 1st November, we have had 100% of our articles assessed for quality! Even so, 75 of our 1708 articles remain unassessed for importance. Please
take a look and see what you can do.
Last but not Least... If you've got a story to go in next month's news letter, leave a note
here.
Delivered on 2 November 2008 by
Nev1. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.
Merseyside articles
Hi there,
Glad to see the UK skyscrapers template is now consistent! The reason i'm messaging you is with regards to recent edits you've made to Merseyside articles, notably
Chinatown, Liverpool and
Liverpool itself. Whilst I totally agree with the sentiment that uncited information has no place on wiki, I was wondering if in future any 'removals' you may see as necessary could be run past me first so I can check for a references. My motto is if you can't find a reference in 5 mins your not going to find one at all, so it doesn't hurt to look! Anyway the reason I'm mentioning this is because Liverpool articles and those of the Merseyside area as a whole are generally pretty rubbish and removing information is only going to make them worse. Thanks --
Daviessimo (
talk) 21:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)reply
WikiProject Greater Manchester December Newsletter, Issue XII
November has been a successful month, with lots of progress made on articles, and more work in the pipe-line:
Promoted articles:
Scout Moor Wind Farm is England's largest onshore wind farm. Although it was opposed by environmentalists, the wind farm was opened on 26 September 2008 and provides enough power for 40,000 homes.
The River Irwell runs 39 miles from its source in Lancashire until it joins with the River Mersey. The river was important in the Industrial Revolution, and was left poluted with industrial waste and lifeless.
The
Bridgewater Canal is currently a GA nominee and the
Scout Moor Wind Farm is under scrutiny at
WP:FAC. Please keep an eye on these articles and if any issues are raised in their reviews help to address them. Hopefully, next month we can report on two more promoted articles!
Scout Moor Wind Farm featured in the DYK section of the front page last month. For details of the DYKs by the project that have appeared on the main page, see
Did you know?
WikiProject Greater Manchester is still the leading local British WikiProject! As far as featured content goes, we have a lead of 8 on
Yorkshire and 14 on
London! WP:GM now is the leading project in terms of GAs too with 10 more Yorkshire and 11 more than London! If you see an article that you think deserves to be a GA, don't hesitate to nominate it at
WP:GAC!
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Member News
There are now 50 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester as 2 new members joined the project in November:
Welcome to everyone, and let's remember to make these new members feel included in the project! If you need help, you can go to the
project talk page, or perhaps look at the
list of members to see if anyone can help. The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
Already we're making great progress, and
Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine and the
River Irwell are already GAs, while
Scout Moor Wind Farm is on the way to becoming an FA! The
Congestion charging in Greater Manchester and
Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund (TiF) are hot topics at the moment with the referendum currently open. As an aside, some of our top-priority articles need referencing or tidying up, so don't hesitate to dive in. If you think you can help improve an article,
be bold and get editing! Although these are the project's explicit short term aims, we endeavour to "improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester", so every edit is valuable.
Thanks
A big "thank you" goes to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Articles needing attention Please remember that the
list of stubs needing expansion and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Cleanup listing|list of articles needing cleanup]] are in permanent need of attention.
I know it's early but since there won't be a newsletter for a month... merry Christmas everyone, enjoy the holiday and mince pies.
Delivered on 5 December 2008 by
Nev1. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.
You should not have reverted this edit as "vandalism"
At the time I checked there was no subpage for this
WP:FPORTC, merely a redlink. I noted as much in my edit summary. For you to then revert me using the edit summary: Reverted 1 edit by Cirt identified as vandalism to last revision by Joshii. is highly inappropriate. A more appropriate edit summary could have been: Sorry, the subpage was not created yet but it is there now.Cirt (
talk) 21:01, 6 December 2008 (UTC)reply
It is highly inappropriate to not wait more than a couple of minutes for me to create the subpage. ┌Joshii┐└chat┘ 21:03, 6 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Do not mark an edit as "vandalism" in your edit summaries again that is not blatant and obvious vandalism. Thanks. Cirt (
talk) 21:04, 6 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Do not remove other editors additons without first asking if they are planning to create the subpage, why would I add it to the list and not make a subpage?! It should be obvious that I was creating it. Thanks. ┌Joshii┐└chat┘ 21:06, 6 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Apology
Hey, regarding the above subsection, I have given this some thought and I wanted to apologize to you. I absolutely should have contacted you first to ask you if you were going to create a portal discussion page, or just waited, instead of removing that transcluded discussion page from
Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates. That was out of line of me and I am sorry. I think
Portal:Greater Manchester actually looks pretty good and I will take some time to review it and make some suggestions on how it could be improved further. Yours, Cirt (
talk) 21:33, 22 December 2008 (UTC)reply
WikiProject Greater Manchester January Newsletter, Issue XIII
December has been a very successful month, with lots of article promoted, and hopefully more to come in January:
Promoted articles:
Scout Moor Wind Farm
Scout Moor Wind Farm is England's largest onshore wind farm. Although it was opposed by environmentalists, the wind farm was opened on 26 September 2008 and provides enough power for 40,000 homes.
The B of the Bang is the sculpture that was erected to commemorate the
2002 Commonwealth Games and for a while was the largest sculpture in the UK. And because of safety concerns, it may be dismantled.
Current nominations: January looks set to be very busy, with
Chadderton,
Cine City, Withington, and
Nico Ditch at WP:GAN, the
Greater Manchester portal up for Featured Portal status, and
Sale a Featured Article Candidate. Please keep an eye on these articles and if any issues are raised in their reviews help to address them.
Abram featured in the DYK section of the front page last month. For details of the DYKs by the project that have appeared on the main page, see
Did you know?
The project has a new tool, a
watchlist of all our project's articles. This should help us keep an eye on them and spot new editors who might want to join our project. Also, Jza84 has developed a
map of WP:GM's GAs and FAs. It shows a gap in coverage in the north west of the county, something we should try to change.
WikiProject Greater Manchester is still the leading local British WikiProject! As far as Featured and Good content goes, our lead is extending, with 10 and 16 more FAs than
Yorkshire and
London respectively, and 13 and 14 more GAs than Yorkshire and London! If you see an article that you think deserves to be a GA, don't hesitate to nominate it at
WP:GAC!
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
Two of our aims were crossed off as
Scout Moor Wind Farm became an FA, and
Radcliffe, Greater Manchester a GA. If you think you can help improve an article,
be bold and get editing! Although these are the project's explicit short term aims, we endeavour to "improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester", so every edit is valuable.
Member News
There are now 46 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester (with a further 14 members inactive since 1 July 2008) as 1 new member joined the project in December:
Welcome from everyone, and let's remember to make new members feel included in the project! If you need help, you can go to the
project talk page, or perhaps look at the
list of members to see if anyone can help. The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Thanks
A big "thank you" goes to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
With the new(ish) year, I think it's right to look back over the year just gone. Last year was massive for our project, with lots of successes building on a successful 2007. In terms of featured content, we became the leading wikiproject in 2007, but 2008 saw us cement our status as one of the UK's leading wikiprojects: having started the year with most FAs (two more than London and Yorkshire), but falling behind in terms of GAs, we now have more FAs and GAs than any project under WP:UKGEO. While our aim is to improve all articles related to Greater Manchester, not collect trophies, we now lead the field by a long way and everyone deserves to feel proud for their part.
We've had articles featured on the main page, both in DYK? and as today's Featured Article, but success is more than a matter of numbers; the project has grown into a community where editors join together to provide information and improve Wikipedia. A great example of this is the work our project did on
Denshaw. Back in April, it was targeted by vandals and as a result was featured in national news. We stepped in and improved and protected the article, showing what WP:GM is capable of. This is undoubtedly the noisiest project in the UK and it's strength comes from the wide range of interests of its many members. We've even been so successful that we were accused of forming a claque.
During 2008, our numbers have increased and, while
some have left, we've welcomed many strong editors who will help bring the project more success. With so much emphasis on Good and Featured articles, it's sometimes easy to forget that a lot of effort goes into articles that don't get recognition. The table below shows that the number of B-class articles has increased since the start of 2008, and that the proportion of stub-class articles under our project has gone down.
My own experience of Wikipedia has been positive and enjoyable, especially due to WP:GM. I've worked on interesting subjects with nice people, and hopefully the experience is similar for others. We've covered subjects as varied and interesting as castles, mummies, computers, Olympic swimmers, and wind farms, stuff I probably wouldn’t know about if it wasn’t for Wikipedia. I enjoy being a part of this project, and as we approach the WP:GM's second birthday (24 February) I'm sure it will continue to go from strength to strength in 2009.
Would you like to write the next newsletter for
WP:GM?? Please nominate yourself at
WT:GM! New editors are always welcome!
Project News
January has been a very successful month, with lots of article promoted, and hopefully more to come in January:
Promoted articles:
View of Broadway in Chadderton
Chadderton is a town in the
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. It has a long and interesting history beyond that of its
mill town façade; a Celtic hill fort, a medieval lordship and still an important industrial and metropolitan town.
Nico Ditch stretches from Ashton-under-Lyne to Stretford and according to legend was dug in a single night to defend against the Danes.
Article news:
Cine City, Withington is at WP:GAN, please keep an eye on these articles and if any issues are raised in their reviews help to address them. Unfortunately, despite
User:Joshii's effort the Greater Manchester portal did not become featured.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
Member News
There are now 48 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester (with a further 14 members inactive since 1 July 2008) as 2 new members joined the project in January:
Welcome from everyone, and let's remember to make new members feel included in the project! If you need help, you can go to the
project talk page, or perhaps look at the
list of members to see if anyone can help. The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Thanks
A big "thank you" goes to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Delivered on 1 February 2009 by
Nev1. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.
Smile!
Hello Joshii,
Filper01 has smiled at you! Smiles promote
WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the
WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{
subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Manchester - Liverpool Metropole area
Hi,
Regarding your recent revert in the
List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population article and whether you agree or not with Manchester and Liverpool to be amalgamated, you are kindly invited to contribute to the discussion. Furthermore, I would appreciate if you reinstated the warning on the page as the matter apparently still need to be settled.
Kind regards,
Ghaag (
talk) 05:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)reply
@Ghaag: The information in the table is identical to that found in the
source, so how is the Manchester-Liverpool area any more dubious than the figure for Copenhagen-Malmö? If you have a problem with the source as a whole you should explain that rather than target a single entry in the table.
Nev1 (
talk) 13:36, 23 February 2009 (UTC)reply
Exactly why I reverted, thanks Nev1. ┌Joshii┐└chat┘ 16:56, 23 February 2009 (UTC)reply
My point here is simply about inviting people to join the discussion on the article page. I initially inserted warnings on the page to indicate that the accuracy of the specific fact is contested. I completely accept your points regarding the source and the many discrepancies but I think they should be made on the article's talk page. Hence my request for the warnings to be reinstated since they have not been addressed.
Happy birthday! It was the project's second birthday on 24 February, so thank you to everyone who's helped improve and Greater Manchester related article, not just our members, your work is very much appreciated. The last month has been very successful, with lots activity:
Nico Ditch stretches from Ashton-under-Lyne to Stretford and according to legend was dug in a single night to defend against the Danes.
Cine City in 2004
The Cine City, Withington, was the third cinema to open in Britain and when it closed in 2001 it was the third longest running cinema in England. It was opened in 1912, and demolished in 2008.
Current nominations: As of the completion of this newsletter, there are no GA nominations, but
Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine and
Buckton Castle are at FAC. The articles detail the world's first stored-program computer, and the best preserved castle in Greater Manchester. There's a good chance that one or more of these interesting articles could be promoted, so please keep an eye on them in case there's any way you can help!
Charles White (physician) and
Worsley featured in the DYK section of the front page last month (actually, Worsley featured in January but was missed out of the last newsletter!). For details of the DYKs by the project that have appeared on the main page, see
Did you know?
The project's
cleanup listing has been updated with stats from 24 February 2009. As of 8 October 2008, 447 (26.5%) of 1689 our articles needed a clean-up, this has risen slightly to 455 out of 1809 (25.2%). This is encouraging as the proportion has gone down, and indicates the standard of the project's articles are steadily improving. While the high-profile successes of GAs and FAs are important, the project's aim is to improve all GM-related articles.
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Sister projects
In an attempt to encourage communication between related wikiprojects, or to at least raise awareness, this section is dedicated to the important goings on of
WP:Merseyside and
WP:Cheshire, our sister projects and the only other user groups dedicated to improving articles in
North West England.
WP:CHES – After a period of low activity, the project has picked up recently, with initiatives (such as beginning a newsletter and sending a questionnaire to its member) to encourage greater participation from its members. This has paid dividends with two GAs being promoted in February and greater activity in general.
WP:MERSEY – After being set-up in September 2008, the project is experiencing a period of lowish activity. While the project has a handful of FAs and GAs, most of its articles are unassessed; assessing requires no familiarity with a subject, so any help WP:GM members can lend would be greatly appreciated.
Other news
There is a meet-up scheduled for 14 March in Manchester for anyone interested. It is not organised by WP:GM and is open to all wikipedians. More details can be found
here.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
After a flurry of activity in January, progress on the Salford article has slowed, but it is steadily progressing towards a good standard. If you think you can help improve an article,
be bold and get editing! Although these are the project's explicit short term aims, we endeavour to "improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester", so every edit is valuable.
The project compared
The Greater Manchester WikiProject is one of the leading UK-based groups. Some other projects are no as lucky as we are in the numbers of active enthusiastic users. Below are some statistics of the other leading UK projects and some geographically close to Greater Manchester.
There are now 46 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester (with a further 17 members inactive since 1 September 2008) as 1 new member joined the project in February:
Majorly is an experienced editor who has recently decided to join WP:GM, and has been working hard on
Cheadle Hulme. The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Machester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Delivered on 1 March 2009 by
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Ringway
Hi Joshii. I was going to argue with your reversion of my
Manchester Airport edit on the grounds that I thought Wikipedia UK policy was to describe locations as place, ceremonial county, but having seen the debate on your talk page from last year about whether or not the airport is in the
City of Manchester I think I'll keep quiet!
Skinsmoke (
talk) 22:33, 21 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Tourism in Manchester
While the information
you're restoring is sourced, the source has changed since it was first added and no longer mentioned Manchester being the third most visited city in the UK. The Internet Archive can't help here, so it would be best either to remove the fact or find a new source (although it may be buried somewhere on the marketingmanchester.com website).
Nev1 (
talk) 20:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)reply
I have fixed it. {{
deadlink}} – not removal – is correct form, of course.
Mr Stephen (
talk) 23:26, 22 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Ta, deletion shouldn't always be the first answer. ┌Joshii┐└chat┘ 18:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)reply
Gunchester
You're the only person disputing the addition of this nickname to the
Manchester article. Please explain why, and also why just one person's disagreement shows the lack of concensus; others disagree over other parts of the article, so to follow the same logic would see large parts of it disappear. I also note that you appear to have now breached the
3-revert rule over this.
Matthew (
talk) 23:12, 22 March 2009 (UTC)reply
The term adds nothing of value to the article. It is simply media histeria, a way for the tabloid press to dumb down a common problem in British cities. A note in the Demographics section relating the the crime statistics would be acceptable but it should not feature in the infobox. Wikipedia does not need to be dumbed down the same way the red tops are. ┌Joshii┐└chat┘ 18:44, 23 March 2009 (UTC)reply
WikiProject Greater Manchester June Newsletter, Issue XVI
Sorry there's not been a newsletter for three months, it's not that there hasn't been anything to say but that there almost hasn't been time to say it...
On 20 March 2009 Manchester was "today's Featured Article" and received over
44,000 visitors. This was the culmination of about 2 years of effort from a lot of editors who found the article in
this state before the founding of the project. Along with
Greater Manchester, it's our flagship article and for it to reach the mainpage is a great achievement. It was an incredible collaborative effort and shows what the project is capable of, and since then we have gone from strength to strength. The
Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine was Today's Featured Article on 30 May, with
33,000 visitors.
Promoted articles:
Carrington Moss is an 1,100 acres (450 ha)
peat bog in Trafford; in the 19th century, it was reclaimed to be used agriculturally and for the disposal Manchester's waste, and is still used for farming.
Manchester Mummy is about Hannah Beswick, whose macabre fear of being buried alive lead to her demanding that her body was kept above ground and checked periodically for signs of life.
The town of Sale in Trafford was probably founded in the
Anglo-Saxon period and is best known as the home of physicist
J. P. Joule the founding place and former home of and
Sale Sharks rugby club.
Cheadle Hulme is a suburb of
Stockport that formed from several small hamlets, rather than growing around a church which was usual for medieval villages. (also
Stockport's first GA!)
Mellor hill fort is the only Iron Age
hill fort in Greater Manchester and was only discovered in the 1990s.
Partington, in Trafford, is a town and civil parish that was until the
Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, a mainly agrarian community. With the opening of the canal, Partington became a major coal port and following the Second World War was expanded as an
overspill estate for deprived parts of Manchester.
With all the project's success, we must be careful not to become complacent. In March,
David Beckham was delisted as a Good Article because it lacked enough references and was poorly written in parts. Improving an article and getting it reviewed for GA is a lot of effort and it's a real shame to see the article delisted, but a reminder that our role as an article writer is two-fold: once we improve them, we have an obligation to maintain them. Beckham is the kind of person who is regularly in the news, so the article will get a lot of attention and need regular updating, and it was written by members of
WP:FOOTBALL, but let's take it as a reminder of what's needed from us.
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
Over the past three months, we've succeeded in our aims of bringing
Eccles and
Worsley to GA status, thanks largely to the seemingly inexhaustible
Parrot of Doom. Recently another aim was added: bringing Stockport to GA standard. It's currently C-class and has some well developed sections. It will be a difficult task, but worthwhile considering it's Greater Manchester's third largest settlement. Also, the importance of bringing Salford to GA has been emphasised; it's currently B-class and should be the easiest of our aims to accomplish, although it's been there for a long time. Let's see if we can put this one to rest soon.
The project compared
Over the past three months, WP:LOND and WP:YORK have had a massive upsurge in the number of articles under their auspices. And interestingly, WP:YORKS has had an upsurge in GAs (10), and WP:LOND has had an increase in both GAs and FAs (8 and 10 respectively), closing down the gap with WP:GM. Although WP:DERB appears to have lost a GA, one of their articles was incorrectly tagged; however
Derwent Valley Mills is being prepared to become a Good Article candidate, and hopefully will be the project's first. With the recent retirement of
Ddstretch and
Espresso Addict, WP:CHES has lost two of its most active contributors, but is still managing to produce good articles such as
list of castles in Cheshire (
FL) and
John Douglas (now a Good Article candidate). The majority of WP:MRSY's articles are now assessed and will hopefully go from strength to strength.
There are now 48 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester (with a further 17 members inactive since 1 September 2008) as 2 new members have joined the project since the start of March:
The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Manchester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
Part of the seven arches railway viaduct in Cheadle Hulme
Cheadle Hulme is a suburb of
Stockport that formed from several small hamlets, rather than growing around a church which was usual for medieval villages, although there is evidence of activity dating back to the
Bronze Age.
Did you know that after the collapse of the Broughton Suspension Bridge in 1831, the
British military introduced the order to "break step" when soldiers were crossing a bridge? Featured on the
Did you know? section on 6 June 2009.
Other news:
Recently
Salford was turned into a disambiguation page with the article on the settlement moved to
Salford, Greater Manchester. This will hopefully make it clearer to the reader that
Salford, Greater Manchester, and the
City of Salford are not the same thing. Just remember to specify which Salford next time you're adding a wikilink to an article!
Although it wasn't technically this month,
list of people from Wigan was created on 2 July, and any help populating the list with sourced names would be great. It's one of nine such list for the boroughs in Greater Manchester (Bury doesn't have a list yet) and they all need populating.
Remember to be careful about editors claiming places are still in Lancashire, today I had to revert someone insisting that
Leigh isn't in Greater Manchester and recently the
Friends of Real Lancashirevoiced their dislike of the
Lancashire article so this issue isn't going to go away.
Just remember that the
project watchlist can help us catch vandalism and is worth checking from time to time.
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
Recently another aim was added: bringing Stockport to GA standard. It's currently C-class and has some well developed sections. It will be a difficult task, but worthwhile considering it's Greater Manchester's third largest settlement. Also, the importance of bringing Salford to GA has been emphasised; it's currently B-class and should be the easiest of our aims to accomplish, although it's been there for a long time. Let's see if we can put this one to rest soon.
Member News
No new members joined the project in June and there are 45 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester (with a further 20 members inactive since 1 January 2009). The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Manchester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
The project compared
In June,
WP:LON has a massive upsurge in the number of FAs, with some great work by
Iridescent in promoting a swathe of bridge articles to FA.
WP:YORKS has over taken WP:GM in terms of GAs, and for the first time since June 2008 (when WP:LON had the lead), WP:GM is not the project with most GAs. In June, the
Derwent Valley Mills became a GA and is
WP:DERBY's first GA although there are more likely candidates in the pipeline.
WP:CHES continues to perform strongly considering it has few active editors, and in June
John Douglas (architect) was promoted to FA and there is currently a FLC. In June, there was discussion at
WT:MERSEY about how to generate more audited content (ie: GAs and FAs) and since then one article has been promoted to GA, there is one GAC and other articles being prepared for GAC.
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
I've re-tagged this article as needing reliable sources to indicate notability, as currently the article is completely lacking in such things. It needs secondary sources which explain why this company requires an article on Wikipedia. I've also tagged it as a travel guide, as it consists almost entirely of route and itinery information. Articles on companies should be about the companies themselves.
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk 14:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)reply
WikiProject Greater Manchester August Newsletter, Issue XVIII
Salford is Greater Manchester's second city (although it is the
wider district which has city status), but for most of its history it was larger and more important than Manchester. The Salford Quays area will become the home of CBBC and BBC Sport in 2011.
The Peak District was the first national park in Britain and spans Cheshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, and West Yorkshire. It was used by the Dam Busters and used as a location for the
film based on the story.
Other news:
There's been a lot of article activity in the last month, especially in Wigan-related pages. Wigan is the only borough in Greater Manchester without a GA or FA to its name, and it would be great if this could change. A lot of work has been put into
Tyldesley, any and help to get it to GA would be great. There's also been a high-profile new article created:
media in Manchester. Pitch in on the talk page if you're interested!
Just remember that the
project watchlist can help us catch vandalism and is worth checking from time to time.
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the
congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
Last month, we achieved our long-standing aim of bringing Salford up to GA status. It's been a fine effort and perhaps we can concentrate on our other objectives, especially getting Stockport, the largest settlement article not to be at least B-class, to GA.
Member News
There are now 47 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester (with a further 20 members inactive since 1 January 2009) as two new members have joined the project since the start of March:
J3Mrs has done some fine work on Wigan-related articles, especially
Tyldesley so hopefully we can help him with his efforts. The project is always looking for new members, and if you spot an editor who makes good changes to Greater Manchester related articles why not invite them to join up by adding this template to their talk page: {{SUBST:Welcome WPGM}}.
The project compared
In July,
WP:LON almost doubled in scope and now has over 12,000 articles – far more than any other UK county WikiProject. Last month, the
Peak District was promoted to GA; the area is mainly in Derbyshire but covers several other counties and is a massive achievement for all involved.
WP:CHES continues to perform strongly considering it has few active editors, with one FL promoted in July and another in the pipeline. WP:GM is still the leading UK county project in terms of FAs and by proportion of audited content (ie: GAs and FAs). A lot of effort has gone into producing this project's articles, so let's make sure we keep tags on them and that they don't degrade.
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed if we're going to get a "lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county"! The
requested photographs category lists some of the articles needing images.
There is currently a discussion regarding splitting of the Leeds article. As you were involved in the previous merge discussion you might be interested in this.
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