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DYK for Tapsel gate
On February 24, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tapsel gate, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Happy birthday! It was the project's second birthday on 24 February, so thank you to everyone who's helped improve and Greater Manchester related article, not just our members, your work is very much appreciated. The last month has been very successful, with lots activity:
Nico Ditch stretches from Ashton-under-Lyne to Stretford and according to legend was dug in a single night to defend against the Danes.
The Cine City, Withington, was the third cinema to open in Britain and when it closed in 2001 it was the third longest running cinema in England. It was opened in 1912, and demolished in 2008.
Current nominations: As of the completion of this newsletter, there are no GA nominations, but Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine and Buckton Castle are at FAC. The articles detail the world's first stored-program computer, and the best preserved castle in Greater Manchester. There's a good chance that one or more of these interesting articles could be promoted, so please keep an eye on them in case there's any way you can help!
Charles White (physician) and Worsley featured in the DYK section of the front page last month (actually, Worsley featured in January but was missed out of the last newsletter!). For details of the DYKs by the project that have appeared on the main page, see Did you know?
The project's cleanup listing has been updated with stats from 24 February 2009. As of 8 October 2008, 447 (26.5%) of 1689 our articles needed a clean-up, this has risen slightly to 455 out of 1809 (25.2%). This is encouraging as the proportion has gone down, and indicates the standard of the project's articles are steadily improving. While the high-profile successes of GAs and FAs are important, the project's aim is to improve all GM-related articles.
WT:GM: The project's talk page is a forum for discussion and to keep up to date with the latest project developments and initiatives put it on your watchlist! Recently there have been discussions on articles to be deleted, the congestion charge, how to get members involved and working together, and plenty of other stuff.
Sister projects
In an attempt to encourage communication between related wikiprojects, or to at least raise awareness, this section is dedicated to the important goings on of WP:Merseyside and WP:Cheshire, our sister projects and the only other user groups dedicated to improving articles in North West England.
WP:CHES – After a period of low activity, the project has picked up recently, with initiatives (such as beginning a newsletter and sending a questionnaire to its member) to encourage greater participation from its members. This has paid dividends with two GAs being promoted in February and greater activity in general.
WP:MERSEY – After being set-up in September 2008, the project is experiencing a period of lowish activity. While the project has a handful of FAs and GAs, most of its articles are unassessed; assessing requires no familiarity with a subject, so any help WP:GM members can lend would be greatly appreciated.
Other news
There is a meet-up scheduled for 14 March in Manchester for anyone interested. It is not organised by WP:GM and is open to all wikipedians. More details can be found here.
Get a lead/static image in every infobox of every town in the county.
After a flurry of activity in January, progress on the Salford article has slowed, but it is steadily progressing towards a good standard. If you think you can help improve an article, be bold and get editing! 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.
The project compared
The Greater Manchester WikiProject is one of the leading UK-based groups. Some other projects are no as lucky as we are in the numbers of active enthusiastic users. Below are some statistics of the other leading UK projects and some geographically close to Greater Manchester.
There are now 46 active members of WikiProject Greater Manchester (with a further 17 members inactive since 1 September 2008) as 1 new member joined the project in February:
Majorly is an experienced editor who has recently decided to join WP:GM, and has been working hard on Cheadle Hulme. 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}}.
Reminders...
Images! There are some good images around, but more are still needed 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.
Delivered on 1 March 2009 by Nev1. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.
DYK for Crawley Hospital
On March 1, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Crawley Hospital, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Could you do me a favour and have a quick look at the above, an article I created today. I know it's not in your normal line of interests but I was very surprised to see it prodded and I would like another opinion. Thanks. Paste Let’s have a chat. 17:41, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for updating this - I was amazed at how quickly my original article was expanded and improved. I have been working on the LB&SCR, its predecessors, locomotives, stations etc. I have a few reference books and also access to many electronic sources, but now live a long way from Sussex! Best wishes
Das48 (talk) 19:42, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
In the absence of sources, I'd say "no except for stating the current state/describing of the church" as its pictures could be considered a reasonably reliable source. Since it doesn't give further sources for statements like "dedicated by X" or "built in XXXX", I'd say it is not a reliable source for such statements. Circeus (talk) 21:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Came across this and I figured with your keen interest in B&H churches (or probably just heritage in general), you might be interest in it. Circeus (talk) 21:16, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Could I request that you please review Image:Bank_Myna.ogg and let me know what requires improvement. The WikiProject Military History (and WikiProject Bird) people have blinked twice at the mention of spoken articles. If I can get my act together, perhaps more spoken articles will be made. AshLin (talk) 12:42, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I eagerly await your feedback. AshLin (talk) 01:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic Sites is opened up. I took the liberty of assuming your support for the wikiproject meant you wanted to join as a member, and I copied your signature to the Members list on the main page. Please visit and add to, or remove, your listing there. It would be great to hear about what you're interested in the Wikiproject becoming, in your member comment and/or at the Talk page, shortcut wt:HSITES. Thanks for your support! doncram (talk) 17:26, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I just came here from Fotaun's talk page. I discovered that you wrote the hook for extinct comet and wanted to thank you for it. That's exactly the type of hook I look for on the main page, and I hope to see more from you. Thanks! :) Viriditas (talk) 01:49, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Ah, no wonder. I see from your user page you are a DYK expert. Viriditas (talk) 01:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Hassocks- Its me, fotaun; just wanted to thank you for writing that DYK. (Hello to Virditas also!) Fotaun (talk) 04:16, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank-you for the rewiew.
Thank you for reviewing Bank Myna. I'm sorry for the late reply - I mssed seeing it as that day I saw a new message at the bottom and did not notice yours. I have noted whatever you told me and hope to improve on that soon. I'm now in the process of undertaking one topic each from WP:INDIA (Ladakh), WP:TOL(Bird) and WP:MILHIST (yet to be chosen). I am in the process of preparing the scripts. I'll be requesting you for further reviews of these once I am done recording. AshLin (talk) 02:40, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations on the excellent Chattri article. My wife and I were intending to walk there when we were at Wolstonbury Hill only two weeks ago, but ran out of time. Before we were married my wife worked at the Mayor of Brighton's office where one of her duties was helping to organise an annual visit to the Chattri by the Indian High Commissioner. At that time the mayor's office still retained guest lists from the opening ceremony in the 1920s.--Charles (talk) 09:39, 31 March 2009 (UTC)