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[edit] Merseyway Shopping Centre

I replied at Talk:Merseyway Shopping Centre. Sbowers3 (talk) 00:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

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I do not have a close connection to the Merseyway Shopping Centre and related businesses or any connection whatsoever, i do not have any business interests to do with the centre or any of its stores and do not/and are not related to anyone who works for the shopping centre management any of its stores or related organisations, neither do I have any links with the local authority Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council or the tourism organisations, I just added and edited the article as i believed it to be notable enough for its own article as most other similar centres have such articles, and i seeked to address the notability issue by including references to local newspapers and other 3rd party websites. I believe 20 in text citations to be sufficient references for such an article. I was dissappointed to see that no other wikipedia editors have plunged forward to edit and expand this article but hopefully some will come forward soon. The only thing I have to do with the centre is that i sometimes shop there. If you would like to let me know any way to show evidence on such an issue.
James50567 (talk) 22:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greater Manchester wikiproject

Hello, James50567! Thank you for your recent contributions to one of Wikipedia's Greater Manchester-related articles. Given the interest we're assuming you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining WikiProject Greater Manchester? It's a user-group dedicated to improving the overall quality of all Greater Manchester-related content. There is a discussion page for sharing ideas as well as developing and getting tips on improving articles. The project has in-house specialists to support and facilitate your ideas. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page. We hope to be working with you in the future!

Nev1 (talk) 14:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello, James50567, and welcome to Wikiproject Greater Manchester! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. I'm sure your input will be much appreciated. I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a Greater Manchester Project Wikipedian!

As a project we aim to have all our articles compliant with the various editing policies and guidelines. If you are contributing an article, it is good practice to ensure that it’s properly referenced with reliable sources, otherwise any contentious content may be removed by another editor. A good starting point for articles about settlements in Greater Manchester is the WP:UKCITIES guideline.

If you have any questions, feel free to discuss anything on the project talk page, or to leave a message on my own talk page. Please remember to sign all your comments, and be bold with your ideas. Again, welcome, and happy editing!

Nev1 (talk) 21:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

It's great to welcome a new member of the Greater Manchester wikiproject. You've stated you live in Glossop, if you're interested in improving Derbyshire related articles you might like to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Derbyshire (I'm not sure how active they are but you may want to get in touch with some of its members). I'm preparing to work on an economy section for Tameside, I was wondering if you know of any major shopping centres in the borough? In the mean time, happy editing. Nev1 (talk) 21:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June Newsletter, Issue VIII

The Greater Manchester WikiProject Newsletter

The WikiProject Greater Manchester Newsletter
Issue VIII - June 2008

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Project News

No FA news this month... but lots of GA!

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.

In other news, the Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester list has been coming along nicely and may even soon reach FLC! Please help out where you can.

Well done to Mike Peel for getting Platt Fields Park onto the DYK!

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:

James50567 - a warm welcome from us all!

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..

Written by Polishname • Template by Jza84 | Single-Page View

Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:GM?? Please nominate yourself at WT:GM! New editors are always welcome!

Aims

The short-terms aims for the WikiProject are:

Obtain FA status for Greater Manchester.
Obtain GA status for Salford.
Obtain GA status for Kersal Moor.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
Obtain FL status for List of railway stations in Greater Manchester.
Obtain GA and/or FA status for Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.
Obtain FL status for List of people from Bolton.
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.

Last but not Least...
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion and the list of articles needing cleanup are in permanent need of attention.

Delivered on June 12, 2008 by Polishname. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.

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