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Revision as of 17:31, 13 July 2007
WikiProject Greater Manchester
General information (edit · history)
- Front Page • (Talk)
- Aims
- Article alerts
- Participants
- Did you know?
- Successes and examples
- Popular Pages
Here are some open tasks:
- Articles about Greater Manchester that currently have issues needing resolution:
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- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cheshire
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Merseyside
This is the home of the Greater Manchester WikiProject, a group of people dedicated to expanding and improving articles relating to Greater Manchester, England.
Aims
By 2008, we hope to achieve the following:
- Bring both Manchester and Greater Manchester upto WP:GA standard.
- At least one settlement within Greater Manchester to have been a Featured article.
- Have at least twenty quality, active editors on-board the project.
- Feature on the Did you know? section with at least three articles related to Greater Manchester.
Other aims include the general maintainance, expansion and improvement of all Misplaced Pages articles concerned with Greater Manchester, including:
- Improving all wikipedia articles that are concerned with Greater Manchester, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, etc etc.
- All relevant articles should be included in the Category:Greater Manchester or one of its subcategories.
Participants
You don't need to be from Greater Manchester to help with this WikiProject. We welcome editors good with layout and prose, and non-Greater Mancunian editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article. We ask that users be registered, and are familliar with Misplaced Pages's various policies.
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest or knowledge.
After joining you can also add the project's userbox to your user page by simply adding {{User WP Greater Manchester}} to your page. This will generate the following:
| This user participates in WikiProject Greater Manchester. |
| Username | Where user lives (optional) | Interests, specialisms and areas of knowledge | Any relevant print sources avaliable |
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| Pit-yacker (talk) | Manchester City Centre, South Manchester, University of Manchester | ||
| Jza84 (talk) | Shaw and Crompton | Greater Manchester, Oldham (and wider borough), civic history | *Tradition in Action: The Historical Evolution of the Greater Manchester County, *Looking back at Crompton, *Cotton Mills of Oldham, *Textiles; It Happened Round Greater Manchester |
| Dpaajones (talk) | Manchester / Shropshire | City of Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester City Centre | |
| Mr Stephen (talk) | Stockport & south Manchester. | ||
| Fingerpuppet (talk) | Former resident of the area! | Various bits and bobs, really! | |
| Man2 (talk) | Wigan | Wigan Area, Sport, Salford | |
| Erebus555 (talk) | West Midlands | Architecture and buildings in the area | |
| Oldelpaso (talk) | Manchester | Sport | Various Manchester City F.C. related books (list) |
| Ecco1983 (talk) | Radcliffe, Greater Manchester | Entertainment, the Bury borough | |
| Peteb16 (talk) | Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester | ||
| Rob_right (talk) | Manchester | City of Manchester, Manchester City Centre University of Manchester | Live in Manchester and love the city, so would like to see the city represented more honestly as some of our more over enthusiastic residents are claiming all sorts, which is making us a bit of a laughing stock around the UK! |
| Fursday (talk) | Withington, Greater Manchester / Greater London | Manchester Academy, University of Manchester, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Withington, a few other bits and pieces | |
| Malleus Fatuarum (talk) | Stretford | The Trafford area | |
| MeanStreets (talk) | Bolton/London | Bolton, Manchester, Music, Manchester City, Fred Dibnah, Bolton Schools, Nightlife | Mighty City! |
| XAndreWx (talk) | Live in Rochdale used to live in Stalybridge. | Manchester, Stalybridge, Ashton-under-Lyne. | |
| M A Mason (talk) | Grew up in Saddleworth, live in Middleton | Saddleworth, and its villages. I keep an eye on Oldham, Rochdale, Middleton, and other such places too. Editing mainly related to history. | The Saddleworth Story, Victorian Saddleworth, Collected Articles on the History of Middleton |
| ricmitch (talk) | Lived in Ramsbottom all my life. | Ramsbottom and surrounding area, Bury, Rochdale | |
| BadBoyTC (talk) | I live a bit outside Hathershaw in Oldham. | Cars, PC's, Gadgets, Around Hathershaw | |
| R_Orange (talk) | Lived all over South Manchester | South Manchester, Manchester City Centre, Manchester, The City, Schools in South Manchester. | Contributed significantly to an improved Portal:North_West_England which needs more attention! |
| Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) | I am a police officer of Greater Manchester Police, Used to be a Firearms officer but moved back to beat/panda car officer. Loving every minute of it :-) |
Did you know?
We at Greater Manchester WikiProject think that Greater Manchester is an important area of the world, and worthy of encyclopedic recognition!
Users are encouraged to nominate eligible articles for the Did you know? section of the Main page.
There are many, many interesting facts about the Greater Manchester area as outlined below (note, each is verifiable with citation found within the article itself). You may wish to add your own trivia you find to this list:
Did you know?....
- Shaw and Crompton once had more millionaires per capita than any other town in the world.
- Ordsall was the birthplace of the Bike chain.
- Rochdale was the birthplace of the Co-operative Movement - the Rochdale Principles, is a set of ideals for the operation of cooperatives.
- The first successful birth via test-tube baby technology, was in the Royal Oldham Hospital.
- Manchester was the birthplace of the world's first 'stored programme' computer. (first programmable computer).
- Royton was the first town in the world to have a cotton mill . It was also the very last place in the UK to have one built for purpose.
- Middleton has the UK's earliest known war memorial. St Leonard's Church has a window listing the names of the Middleton archers who fought at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513.
- The first machine woven towel in the world — the terry towel — was produced by W.M. Christy and Sons Ltd, of Fairfield Mills, in Droylsden, in 1851.
Successes and examples
There is currently one featured article relating to Greater Manchester.
- General: City of Manchester Stadium
- Boroughs:
- Settlements:
- Landforms:
- Small areas:
- History:
- Other:
Additionally these are "good articles" that fulfill many but not all featured requirements:
- General:
- Boroughs:
- Settlements: Hale Barns, Sale, Shaw and Crompton
- Landforms:
- Small areas:
- History:
- Other:
Needing attention
There are many, many articles relating to Greater Manchester which require urgent attention and work. Members of the project are encouraged to post articles in need of work in the table below. Any relevant article can be nominated, but articles with greater significance should be of the highest priority, and so please explain why you nominated this article and what needs doing.
Articles that you think are almost at WP:GA or WP:FA standard, are also very good articles to nominate!
| Article name | Date of nom. | Who nominated it | Why are you nominating it? | What needs attention? |
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| History of Manchester | 25/2/07 | User:Jhamez84 | The History of Manchester has played a massive impact upon our region, its people and the wider world. It is key to the entire success of our county. | Sources do not use inline citation, the overall appearance is dated, and in breach of WP:LEAD and WP:MOS. Better use of headings, images and wider range of sources would rapidly improve the article. |
| Manchester Ship Canal | 25/2/07 | User:Jhamez84 | The Manchester Ship Canal helped facilitate the Industrial growth of much of the Greater Manchester area, and is a profound feat of design and engineering. | Citation, Images, Sources & improved headings. General expansion of text. |
| University of Manchester | 26/2/07 | User:Jhamez84 | Quite a mature and well referenced article. Many of our WikiProject members take an interest in this article also. | Too many sections are unreferenced, and other sections are mere lists of alumni. Only two photographs within the article. |
| Newhey | 2007-02-28 | User:Peteb16 | It's still only a stub. | Needs photographs and more elaborate information on history, etymology, land marks, religion and education. |
| River Beal | 2007-02-28 | User:Peteb16 | It's still only a stub. | Full research is needed on where this River starts and ends and what it has historically been used for. All that is known is that it weaves its way through many significant locations in the northern parts of Shaw and Crompton. It also widens to a lake in Newhey. |
| Scouting in Greater Manchester North | 2007-02-25 | User:Kintetsubuffalo | Has been put up for deletion, please help save it. | |
| Reddish | 15/3/07 | User:Jhamez84 | A mature and outstandingly well referenced article. Very close to WP:GA standard. | Needs attention to the prose and flow of text. A communal copyedit would do the trick, I suspect. |
| List of places in Greater Manchester | 2/4/07 | User:Jhamez84 | An article that will appear on every Greater Manchester settlement's infobox. | Just needs expansion and verification by other members. |
| Sale, Greater Manchester | 28/04/07 | User:Malleus Fatuarum | An article that apparently had WP:GA status until that status was withdrawn earlier today. | I think it's an interesting example of trying to bound what should be in and what should be out of an article about an area within Greater Manchester. And with a little bit of work it could back to WP:GA status.
Update: I'm very pleased to be able to say that this article is now back to WP:GA status, thanks to some hard work. It's now what I wanted it to be, a template for similar areas within Trafford and beyond. Thanks to everyone who contributed. ---- Eric 01:32, 24 May 2007 (UTC) |
For Deletion
- Category:Freemen of the City of Manchester has been nominated for deletion. Pit-yacker 02:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Seems to have been deleted now? ---- Eric 18:14, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
- Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre (otherwise known as The Firs) has been nominated for deletion. Pit-yacker 16:18, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
- The nomination has now been withdrawn. ---- Eric 19:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- Owens Park has been nominated for deletion Pit-yacker 20:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- The result was keep. Mr Stephen 21:36, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
- I have nominated The Green Quarter for deletion here. AFAICT, this is just one of tens of similar developments in the centre of Manchester alone. Pit-yacker 20:08, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
- I have added an AFD for Whitworth West for similar reasons here Pit-yacker 21:08, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
- I think Crime and policing in Manchester should be deleted as it does not seem very relivant. There is already reference to policing in Manchester here Politics in Manchester#Law enforcement and this could be expanded further. What do people think before it is nominated? XAndreWx 02:06, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
- A merge would perhaps be more appropriate IMHO. Oldelpaso 06:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Articles for merging
I tagged The Watersheddings and Watersheddings for merger sometime ago. Are, as suspect the same thing? Pit-yacker 14:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Categories
- Category:Buildings and structures in Greater Manchester
- Category:Towns in Greater Manchester
- Category:Villages in Greater Manchester
- Category:Districts of Greater Manchester
- Category:People from Greater Manchester
Useful links
Is there a standard format?
Is there a standard format for articles in this project? Information that ought to be included, sections, ordering of sections and so on? ---- Eric 23:30, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- In case anyone else has the same question, the answer is WP:UKCITIES. --Malleus Fatuarum 13:50, 9 July 2007 (UTC)