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[edit] History of fire brigades in the UK
Hi there, I noticed you've got a sandbox article on the above, and was wondering if you could help expand a section on history in the article Fire service in the United Kingdom. You could then Wikilink to your article when it's complete. Any thougths? Escaper7 13:08, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- Good work - I didn't serve for 30 years - quite a bit less but I'm a veteran of several major disasters, both as a JO and subsequently in broadcasting including the 1993 WTC bomb, the Paddington rail crash and Buncefield. Before that the Marchioness and Clapham train crah whilst in the job (to name a few!). Why don't you touch base with User:daysleeper47 in the US, he's i/c the fire project on Wiki. Meantime - why don't you publish your existing history article, cross link it to history sec in Fire service in the UK - then other eds can help build your stub up into a full article. Good luck. Regards. Escaper7 12:46, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- Hi I've put some comments re the above on the article's talk page. Let's move the discussion there now. It's full of some really interesting stuff. I hold the GIFE - you might want to contribute to Institution of Fire Engineers at some point given your extensive experience. Regards. Escaper7 07:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Given your extensive experience, you might want to have a look at the above and its talk pages. You might be more familiar with this one - my comments on the talk pages are self explanatory. Regards Escaper7 13:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History of fire service legislation
Hi there. Excellent work on this, it's extremely informative and thorough - brings back many memories of trying to implement some of the legislation. I would like to add some changes, but they are all minor, ad mostly relate to Wiki style - but I'd rather do this when the article is online, and don't want to list everything here. Some bigger points:
- The RR (fire safety order) is not an Act - it's a statutory instrument - or "order in council", or secondary legislation. Simply an SI is used to alter existing legislation
- Although your article is about fire safety legislation - I think you should include a section on the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (I've done a stub on this). Why? Someone with a limited knowledge might wonder why it's not included - ie because it's not focused purely on fire safety but Section 6 (and 28 I think) deal with "promoting fire safety" and "empowering inspectors". It is now, as you know, the primary legislation for FRS in England and Wales. *Problem: If you mention and lik to the FRSA - you need to include the Scottish and NI equivalents. Confusingly the Fire Scotland Act (2005) covers in Scotland what the FRSA and RRO cover in England in one act - your article is about "UK history"... so you'll have to work that in. :) NI is covered by: The Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 S.I. No. 1254 (N.I.9) Ditto. But the good news is that you can lift the info and refs from my article Fire service in the United Kingdom.
- Then... you should Wikilink all acts of parliament, check they work (or don't)[1] and list all statutory instruments - although these don't tend to have stubs on Wikipedia. I've thought about starting one on the RRO 2005 as it was such a massive change to the law.
- Finally you need a killer reference in your opening paragraph to give weight to your opening statement. Surprisng how often this gets missed. I recently added one to the British Transport Police article - just by citing the BTP's "about us" on the homepage of its web. A pretty obvious thing that often gets missed.
- So.. I think you should publish your article then we can help tweak. It's great work and I know history articles are very fiddly. Let me know when it's live. Regards Escaper7 07:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Great article, very detailed. I've added one or two bits including the Scots/NI legislation. Regards. Escaper7 08:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your message
Hi thanks for your message. I'm taking a bit of time out from Wikipedia, so only logging in once or twice a week. On history of fire stations - I do know that Clerekenwell is the oldest operational stn in London. I'll check out the year for you. I'm going to move your article "historic fire brigades..." as per the discussion on the talk page as no one has raised any objections - probably in a week or so. I'll come back to you on the other points all the best Escaper7 12:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Backpacking
- I just wanted to thank you very much for joining the project, I look forward to editing and collaborating with you and so many others on everything backpacking! - Leif902 23:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cheese n' Onion
There's no dispute about it Taytos were first - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/05/db02.xml Jooler 08:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] In search of an answer from one of your articles
Hi there, hope you're well. Another user made lots of edits to an article I started Fire service in the United Kingdom. S/he claimed that the Fire Service Act 1947 was still primary legislation in Scotland. I turned to this article for some help, and although I'm sure the FSA DID apply to Scotland it doesn't say so in your article - so perhaps we should edit. The editor also claimed that the FSA never pplied to Northern Ireland - and on that one I'm stumped? any thoughts? Regards. Escaper2007
- Thanks I'll leave it to you to update your own article with that, it'd be really useful to explain the differences across the UK. Please nb my new username regards: Escaper2007 11:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bleaklow
Thanks for adding that navigation reference - I had in mind I'd seen it (or an equivalent quote) in a guidebook article by Showell Styles, published by Derbyshire Countryside, but haven't seen it about the house since... Bob aka Linuxlad 18:04, 3 June 2007 (UTC) Did the PW years ago (74 IIRC) and had half a yen to revisit on the trot 30 years on, but mi knees are shot! Used to live in Derby and got up there fairly often - I dimly remember the first time I crossed W to E in the mist, getting anxious on my dead-reckoning - but the mist suddenly lifted and I found I was surrounded by several other groups anxiously looking at their compasses... Bob aka 80.177.213.144 21:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC) aka Linuxlad 21:32, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Highland Light
I got your message about the copyrighted text. I wouldn't say delete it, but do your best to adapt it without using the copyright text verbatim. As long as it is cited as a reference (preferably in-line) it should work out. I'll try to look it over for you some time later this week or this weekend and give you more specific advice and/or do some editing myself. --Midnightdreary 20:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
- I think you're right: it's just far too much stolen text and I don't think we can salvage it. My personal recommendation would be to delete Highland Light and just go with Cape Cod Highland Lighthouse (is that the standard name?). What do you think? --Midnightdreary 23:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] December Newsletter, Issue III
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The project now has 31 members. 3 new participants enrolled last month, they can be viewed here. Andrew has also created another template for your talk page (even though this links to your userpage) which displays for all to see that you are a member of the project. You can add it to your page by including {{WPGM Talk}} to the page. It may be difficult to see the true effects of these welcoming messages, but I'm estimating that since the introduction of these that 12 new users have joined, all 100% have accepted their invitations, and therefore they are 100% successful in their aim.
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Once again, the project has been subject to much praise from three newly promoted featured articles, and one more good article. Oldham (nom), Manchester (nom), M62 motorway (nom) and Chat Moss (review) have all passed with flying colours. Featured articles now make up 0.03% more of the overall articles that there are relating to the project, than last month. Of all 791 pages which are tagged with this template, 100% have been assessed with the new scale which was introduced last month. It may also be worth noting two others pages that are undergoing transformations are: List of companies based in Greater Manchester and Belle Vue Zoo.
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There was a lengthy debate over Manchester Airport this month, which lead to three article for deletions, second nominations viewable here and deletion review viewable here. Basically, what happened was there was quite a great misunderstanding of what the purpose of the lists actually were. They were to compile a list of the destinations served by each terminal and linked along into a sub-page, where it would seem the overview page (i.e. Manchester Airport) would look less cluttered, as was the suggestion at the peer review. Some participants at the first AFD, stated that reviews shouldn't be carried out upon unless there is consensus, and as they are not authorative should only be used as a guide. It was soon sorted though and all three daughter-lists were deleted. There has also been a change to the projects aims, which took a dramatic overhaul this week following the FA pass of Manchester. The change was performed by Jza84. It is now recognised that we should bring not only top importance articles to FA standard but also ones that have been long-since reviewed, like Altrincham and Stretford. And if you're wondering why Salford is there it's due to the fact that there is a consensus among the project members that as Salford is in such close vicinity to the City of Manchester, that it's our "duty" to help promote it. The change came about about after this discussion.
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New this month, we have to get Greater Manchester upto  Featured Article Standard. However, with Manchester now rated as FA-Class and the proposed "skipping" of the GA process, it may not be too long before we see this under the success section on the project mainpage. It would be ideal if all 791 articles were at least GA standard, but that will never happen in the next month! But please if you can, assess your ability to understand an article and if you're acquauinted with the task in hand and potentially long wait for a writing and for a review, go ahead! Be bold. The progress monitor can be seen here.
Once again, Portal:North West England has been subject to much exposure on behalf of it's editors. The current status of the portal is looking good and it has so far gained unanimous support at it's FPOC. Hopefully, it'll be promoted and we'll have yet another success on our hands. Also, most major articles that are relevant have been tagged with a shortcut to the Portal mainpage, by Jza.
And finally, have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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[edit] January Newsletter, Issue IV
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Happy New Year to all our Greater Manchester Wikipedians! The project now has 34 members. 5 new participants enrolled last month, they can be viewed here. On behalf of the team I hope they have prosperous and enjoyable usership and wish them well with their forthcoming work!
User:Archtransit and User:Rudget, both part of our team, are current candidates for adminship (see here for Archtransit and here for Rudget). We wish them luck with this persuit and hope they will become our latest project participants with admin status!
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Since our last newsletter delivered by User:Rudget on 03 December 2007, our teamship has continued to bear fruit in the form of obtaining featured article status for Chat Moss (nom). User:Malleus Fatuarum has been heavily involved with this article and we thank him for his efforts! It's a great addition to our FA family! In addition to Chat Moss, Altrincham (nom) is a current featured article candidate, whilst Trafford is a recent good article candidate.
Simillarly, the Portal:North West England is now officially a featured portal. User:Rudget has been overwhelmingly involved with this portal and he too is hereby thanked on behalf of the project for his continued contributions to this page and many others.
Following a title change this month (from city-wide to county-wide per this discussion) Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester has been one of the project's successes, albeit unofficially, with good collaboration and rapid rates of development. It is hoped by several users that this become a featured list in the short term. If you think you can help with images, information or just filling in the dead links, please feel free to join in! Simillar articles to undergo large transformation are List of churches in Greater Manchester, Kersal Moor and List of railway stations in Manchester, all of which are now in good shape.
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There have been a number of debates this month, some of which with a high level of potential impact for the project and its members.
Article assessment for the project became a point of contention when around 1400 articles were tagged by a bot. Most of these artcles were on "minor" association football players. The consensus was that in our state of around 30 participants and as a predominatly geography based project, most of these articles should be untagged, at very least for the time being. Of our 1403 articles now tagged however, only (?) 85% are assessed - a drop of 15%!
Other debates have included the notability and verifiability of Commonwealth Black Pudding Throwing Championships and its mention on the Ramsbottom article. Whilst on Shaw and Crompton, one of our featured articles, questions have been raised as to what constitutes a "town". If you have any veiws on these matters, please feel free to share them at the project talk page.
Perhaps one of the most notable debates this month was the possibility of... scrapping the project newsletter! User:Rudget has written the last three editions (that's all of them!) and has decided that he'd like to pass on the responsibility. It has been proposed that a noticeboard system be introduced to highlight new issues in a near(!)-realtime fashion. I User:Jza84 am writing what could now be the last GM newsletter for a while. If you're a member of the team, but aren't closely involved with the project, then we'd love to hear from you at WT:GM with your views on which system of communication is the right way forwards (if any/both!).
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As was stated in last months newsletter, the Greater Manchester remains a key article for the project, and one which has been identified as urgent in our quest for Featured Article status. Sadly, for all our other successes, Greater Manchester has changed little since this time last year] (!) and is still an article requiring expansion and development. The new WP:UKCOUNTIES guide may provide new ways in which to channel our efforts. Although we endevour to have good article status even for our suburbs and hamlets, other articles specifically identified as needing development towards FA include Salford, Stretford and Altrincham.
Many of our most crucial articles about our largest towns are still in poor condition: Rochdale, Bury, Prestwich, Bolton, and Wigan are of "start class" standard - much lower than we should have. If you feel you can help, please be bold and try to improve these.
One final challenge for this month is for all those with new digial cameras for Christmas, or even digial images stored away on a disc!... many of our place articles are still without a single photograph, and www.geograph.org.uk is running low on quality images. Even those with photographs often have a low quality photograph of the local church. MORE ARE NEEDED! Especially townscapes! If you think you can help, a barnstar is up for grabs for best picture added in the next month or so!
We're always looking for potential new project members and ways for greater communication, collaboration and participation. WP:GM has a strong core of users, but would like to have more input from a wider user-base. If you can think of ways to improve our ways of working, please feel free to mention them at WT:GM. Simillarly, if you notice a new or unapproached user who is producing sound work related to Greater Manchester and its consituent parts, please don't forget to ask them if they'd like to join us, either in your own hand, or by adding {{Welcome WPGM}} to their talk page.
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[edit] Moses Gate
No problem. I knew the old wives tale was wrong. As well as the book citation, there's the other which shows it was spelt "Moss Gate" on Greenwood's Map of 1818, although then it looks like "Mofs Gate". An old "s" back then looked like a "f". The "gate" bit is found in Deansgate, Bradshaw and Churchgate in Bolton. Anyway, nice to know that others are interested in the Bolton area. Regards Cwb61 (talk) 13:57, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Collieries
Collieries you may want to add:
Water Lane Colliery, Radcliffe. Black Cat Colliery, Radcliffe. Brinskon (or Brinkston or similar, map isn't clear) Colliery, Bury (next to Elton reservoir)
They are visible here http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/957064 Parrot of Doom (talk) 12:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Green Flag/Green Pennant Awards
I see you worked on the Green Flag article. I have added some more info, though I am not too sure exactly how it should be referenced. I asked the Civic Trust to supply me with the criteria and I have put it in, but can I reference an e-mail from their employee? Also, I would like to link directly from the words Green Pennant Award to the Green Flag page, but I do not know how to do this. Can you please help?
IceDragon64 (talk) 22:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. My contact directed me to the place on the site where the Cristeria are, so no need for furhter refs. She said they would make it more prominant. I will check out your redirect. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by IceDragon64 (talk • contribs) 23:59, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] March Newsletter, Issue V
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- Since the January newsletter there has been an increase of 5 featured articles/lists, taking our total number of featured entries upto
16 17 (Trafford passed today!).
- Although WP:GM leads the way in terms of featured content by a local British project, the Kent and Yorkshire WikiProjects are close to this total, with 11 and 14 featured entries respectively.
- There has otherwise been a reduction in WP:GM nominations for GA status, something which the project has begun to discuss on the talk page.
- Having completed all but one of our short term aims set last December, the project would like to look at developing new short term aims. Suggestions have been made here, but there is scope for flexibility. Do you have a entry you would like to see developed?
- Member News
There are now 39 members of WikiProject Greater Manchester! Welcome to the 8 new members that joined since our last newsletter:
Two members have left the project however, each for rather different reasons:
- Archtransit (talk · contribs) was an administrator, and project member, who was found to have been abusing his editting and sysop privliges. Following investigation, Archtransit was banned indefinately. A report in The Signpost is found here.
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This WikiProject, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
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WP:GM is a great project, and is leading the way for local WikiProjects of the UK. However, though the project talk page is a hub of activity, it is regularly used by only a core of 5-6 editors, which isn't making the most of its potential. Indeed, a study, by the University of Minnesota found that "One-tenth of 1 percent of editors account for nearly half of Wikipedia's content value". We at WP:GM do not want to follow suit!
There are several editors who have, sadly, not editted since the turn of 2008, and others, which concentrate in areas other than Greater Manchester material (which is quite fine!).
The WikiProject Greater Manchester would like to know if YOU are still around, and if so, if you've like to be more involved, and, if not, why not and what can we do to get you involved and be a bigger part of the team?
Feel free to come by the project talk page and leave us a message on what you're working on and/or what you'd like to see improved. The project is only as strong as its members and we'd like to know if you're still active or if we can help you with your editting.
- Images
- A picture's worth a thousand words
In our last issue, a plea was made for more images to be submitted to Wikipedia/WikiCommons to improve the quality and context of our articles. Many of our Top priority articles are still lacking in quality images, if any!
www.geograph.org.uk is an online resource of photographs of places in the UK, which we can use. Www.flickr.com also has some images we are permitted to use. Do you have a digital camera however? Can you take photographs of townscapes and landmarks in your local area that can be used here? Middleton, Hulme and Rochdale all have examples of images in their lead that help give a sense of place and improve the context to our readers.
Simillarly, many of our most crucial articles about our largest towns are still in poor condition: Stockport, Bury, Prestwich, Bolton, and Wigan are of "start class" standard with short lead sections and unreferenced sections - a much lower standard than we should allow! If you feel you can help, please be bold and try to improve these. There is a list of resources that can help.
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- Peterloo Massacre was nominated for FAC on 6 April. So far it has received support for FAS but feel free join the discussion here.
- WP:GM still is still the leading local British WikiProject. As far as featured content goes, we have a lead of 6 on London and Yorkshire who have 15 FAs each. Although taking the lead in FAs, WP:GM is still lacking GAs and falls behind London by 6. This topic was at the front of the new aims discussion (here) and is an important issue for WP:GM.
- As mentioned above, new aims have been decided. See the right hand column for more details.
- Member News
There are now 44 members of WikiProject Greater Manchester! A warm welcome to the 5 new members that have joined us since March:
No users left the WikiProject this month. Hooray!
- Thanks
A big "thank you" to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
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The completion of all but one of the short term aims set last December resulted in a discussion on WT:GM to set new aims for the WikiProject. They are:
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.
But before rushing ahead with these new aims, let's not forget the one that got away last time: to obtain B -> GA status for Rochdale, Wigan, Bury, Bolton and Stockport. Most of these articles are in poor condition and in need of repair. Good quality images are urgently needed also. Let's make sure that this aim doesn't stay off our radar much longer.
- Don't Forget...
- Images!
The shortage of good images was mentioned in the last issue and still hasn't been resolved! A good place to start would be the requested photographs category but please remember that there are many articles not within this category that have the same need in common.
- Assessment
"Assess and review all relevant articles for quality, importance and progress" is one of our mid-term aims. At the present moment, there are only 43 unassessed articles. This task could be completed well before the next newsletter is out.
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- 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.
It's no joke.
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Last month the project set new and ambitious aims for itself:
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.
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[edit] River Irwell
Thanks for the contact and best of luck with the new job. Richerman (talk) 09:42, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] June Newsletter, Issue VIII
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- No FA news this month... but lots of GA!
- 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..
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- Aims
The short-terms aims for the WikiProject are:
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.
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