Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester

Welcome to the Greater Manchester WikiProject

This is the home of the Greater Manchester WikiProject, a group of people dedicated to expanding and improving articles relating to Greater Manchester, England. This page is an intial draft and will probably change beyond recognition.

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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia'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
Pit-yacker (talk)		Manchester City Centre, South Manchester, University of Manchester
Jhamez84 (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, *
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
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!
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

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.

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: Shaw and Crompton
• Landforms:
• Small areas:
• History:
• Other:

To do

See also, the "Needs attention" section below for long term improvement projects.

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?
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. [Comment: If you need any photos please feel free to take from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pit-yacker/sets/72057594112612562/ Pit-yacker]
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.

Noticeboard

• Category:Freemen of the City of Manchester has been nominated for deletion. Pit-yacker 02:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• For those who are interested, Google Earth has had its latest update recently. A good number of articles in Greater Manchester that are "geo-tagged" using Template:coor title d (and its sisters) now appear on the map. Pit-yacker 16:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Resources

Templates

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Templates

Talk page

All articles that fall within the scope of the Greater Manchester WikiProject should have the above template placed on their talk page. Sometimes, you will see a UK geography WikiProject template already there. In these cases, you should also add our template. You can add the template by editing in {{WikiProject Greater Manchester}} at the top of the talk page.

Articles

These templates are relevant to articles that deal with the verious administrative structures (boroughs, civil parishes) and towns and villages (settlements) within Greater Manchester.

 

The above template is currently added to the end of each entry of a Greater Manchester borough. It is added by editing in {{Greater Manchester}} at the end of the entry's page.

 

The above template is designed for adding to articles about districts within the metropolitan borough boundaries of the City of Manchester. You add it by editing in {{Manchester}} at the end of a relevant entry's page.

Project stubs

{{Manchester-geo-stub}}

which gives this:

Template:Manchester-geo-stub

The above template should be routinely added to the end of each very short expandable article of a Greater Manchester village, town, civil parish, district or landform.

Wikimedia Commons (Images)

There are a number of images also on Wikimedia Commons in the Greater Manchester category. The template to the right can be added to link through to this category using {{commonscat|Greater Manchester}} within an article.

Categories

• Category:Greater Manchester
  • Category:Bury
  • Category:Bolton
  • Category:Manchester
  • Category:Oldham
  • Category:Rochdale
  • Category:Salford
  • Category:Stockport
  • Category:Tameside
  • Category:Trafford
  • Category:Wigan

• 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

	Administrator Intervention Against Vandalism		Wikipedia Help Desk
	Requests for Adminship		Articles for Deletion
	Templates for Deletion		Miscellany for Deletion
	Images for Deletion		Redirects for Deletion
	Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents		List of Policies
	List of Guidelines		The Three Revert Rule
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