Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Newsletter/June 2008

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style="vertical-align:top;border: 2px #007FFF solid; padding: 1em; width: 45%; background-color:#F0E68C;" \| ; 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! ---- \| style="vertical-align:top;border: 2px #007FFF solid; padding: 1em; width: 45%; background-color:#F0E68C;" \| ; 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.

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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..

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

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

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; 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.

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