User:Nthep/WikiProject Staffordshire

Welcome to WikiProject Staffordshire. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the county of Staffordshire in England.

We cover the cities of Lichfield and Stoke-on-Trent and the boroughs and districts of Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, and Tamworth.

If you plan to be active in editing the articles above, or articles related to them, please add your name to the participants list below. We discuss the project on our talk page and you are most welcome to join in the discussion there.

Associated projects

Parent	Neighbouring areas	Overlapping	Similar	Daughter
WikiProject Cities WikiProject UK geography WikiProject England	WikiProject Cheshire WikiProject Derbyshire	WikiProject UK Railways WikiProject UK Roads WikiProject UK Waterways WikiProject UK Trams

Aims

Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following:

• Get a infobox for every article relating to our WikiProject.
• Get a lead image in every infobox of every article relating to our WikiProject.

Our aims in the mid-term, are to achieve the following:

• Develop all of our "Top-importance" articles towards GA/FA.
• Increase the number of members of the project to ensure we can cover a wide range of topics.
• Assess and review all relevant articles for quality, importance and progress.

Our long term aims for the project are:

• Improving all wikipedia articles that are concerned with Staffordshire, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings etc.

Guidelines

Please refer to these guidelines when writing about anything to do with Staffordshire. This will insure that all of our articles are at their best.

• How to write about settlements
• How to write about counties
• How to write about districts
• How to write about rivers
• How to write about people

Successes and examples

Featured articles

There are currently 0 featured articles relating to Staffordshire:

Good articles

Additionally there are 0 good articles that fulfil many but not all featured requirements:

Featured pictures

There are currently 6 featured pictures relating to Staffordshire:

Quality images

The following are all quality images on Wikimedia Commons:

Featured lists

There are currently 0 featured lists relating to Staffordshire:

Did you know?

The following articles had facts taken from them and appeared on the 'Did you know?' section on the main page:

Stubs

The list below is for articles that are stubs and need improving to make Wikipedia's coverage of Staffordshire better. Please look at the links for the list of stubs.

Articles that have already been assessed by this project as stub class:

• Category:Stub-Class Staffordshire articles

For all stubs, whether assessed by this project or not, see:

• Category:Staffordshire geography stubs
• Category:West Midland (region) railway station stubs (also contains West Midlands, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire stubs)

Geocoordination

More infomation: Geographic coordinate system

The links below shows Staffordshire articles that need to be coordinated.

• Category:Staffordshire articles missing geocoordinate data

Assessment and progress of articles

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Staffordshire supported articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Staffordshire/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 2–3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Staffordshire (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here (or else here).

Index · Statistics · Log
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Staffordshirearticles by quality statistics}}

The statistics above may be a few days out-of-date, but the summary statistics below are current:

We have currently assessed the quality of ? of all articles/pages tagged for this project. We have currently assessed the importance of ? of all articles/pages tagged for this project. (Some additional article talk pages may require tagging, however.)

WikiProject Staffordshire  articles by quality     

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0	0

WikiProject Staffordshire Articles by importance ()

Top	High	Mid	Low	???	Total
0	0	0	0	0	0

Quality scale

Further information: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment § Quality scale

Importance scale

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	Articles describing the major structural elements of Staffordshire, or subjects of UK or international importance. Examples: Counties, local government districts, major urban areas, former county or municipal boroughs	Staffordshire
High	Articles describing the major infrastructure of the counties, or subjects of significant importance to the counties Examples: crown courts, large stations (both current and historical), towns that are not former boroughs, parliamentary constituencies, Grade I listed buildings, scheduled ancient monuments.	Leek
Mid	Articles describing the minor infrastructure of the counties Examples: medium sized stations, large libraries, magistrates courts, electoral wards, Grade II* listed buildings, nationally known schools, civil parishes, villages, notable localities.	Keele Hall
Low	Articles describing subjects of local interest Examples: suburbs, small stations/metro stops, branch libraries, leisure centres, Grade II listed buildings, local parks.	Burslem School of Art

Templates

Project scope

All articles that fall within the scope of the Staffordshire WikiProject should have the above template placed on their talk page. You can add the template by editing in {{WikiProject Staffordshire|class=|importance=}} right on the top of the talk page. You should also attempt to make an assessment of the quality and importance of that article.

Project userbox

Project members should feel free to add the above userbox to their page by typing {{User WP Lancashire Cumbria}}.

Project stubs

There is a stub templates related to this WikiProject:

You may add these by editing these links on to the end of each short, unreferenced, and expandable article of a Staffordshire village, town, or civil parish.

• Staffordshire Stub: {{Staffordshire-geo-stub}}

Requesting photographs

Photographs for Staffordshire related articles can be requested using the {{reqphoto}} template.

• {{reqphoto|in=Staffordshire}} adds an article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Staffordshire

Wikimedia Commons

Sometimes there are a number of images also on Wikimedia Commons related to articles. Therefore this WikiProject recomends that you add a Wikimedia Commons link to the references section of an article. The templates to the right can be added to link through to the revelant category using {{commonscat|Staffordshire}}. Please remember to always change Staffordshire to the revelant articles' name.

Useful tools

	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
	Wikipedia Logs		User Warning Templates
	Article Cleanup Templates		Manual of Style

Problem?

If you have a question, you need help or you have an idea to make this WikiProject better then please address all of the WikiProject Staffordshire contributors by writing your question/idea on the WikiProject's talk page. We are here to help.