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| :Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following: | :'''''Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following:''''' | ||
| *Bring ] up to ] standard. | *Bring ] up to ] standard. | ||
| *Bring ] and ] up to good article standard. | |||
| *Bring at least one ] (without ]) up to good article standard. | |||
| *Bring ] and ] up to ] standard. | |||
| *Bring at least one "topic" related to ] up to good article standard (e.g. ]). | |||
| :'''''Our aims in the mid-term, are to achieve the following:''''' | |||
| *Develop all of our "]" articles towards GA/FA. | |||
| *Increase the number of members of the project to ensure we can cover a wide range of topics. | *Increase the number of members of the project to ensure we can cover a wide range of topics. | ||
| *Feature on the ] with at least three articles related to Greater Manchester. | *Feature on the ] with at least three articles related to Greater Manchester. | ||
| *] all relevant articles for quality, importance and progress. | |||
| :Our long term aims for the project are: | :'''''Our long term aims for the project are:''''' | ||
| *Improving all wikipedia articles that are concerned with ], including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, etc etc. | *Improving all wikipedia articles that are concerned with ], including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, etc etc. | ||
| *All relevant articles should be included in the ] or one of its subcategories. | *All relevant articles should be included in the ] or one of its subcategories. | ||
| *Become the leading ] for the United Kingdom. | |||
| ==] Participants== | ==] Participants== | ||
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Welcome to the Greater Manchester WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Misplaced Pages's coverage of articles related to Greater Manchester, England. We cover the cities of Manchester and Salford and the boroughs of Tameside, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Wigan and Trafford.
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| User | Location | Interests and specialist knowledge | Any relevant printed sources available |
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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! | |
| 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 | |
| Eric Corbett* (talk) | Stretford | The Trafford area | |
| Joshii* (talk) | Live in Greater Manchester. | Manchester, Tameside, Economy of county. | Manchester: A History by Alan Kidd (2006) |
| ricmitch* (talk) | Lived in Ramsbottom all my life. | Ramsbottom and surrounding area, Bury, Rochdale | |
| GRB1972* (talk) | Southport | Walkden, Bolton & Manchester. | |
| Richerman* (talk) | Prestwich most of my life, also lived in Shuttleworth for 8 years | Local area around Prestwich, contributed articles on Kersal Moor and Drinkwater Park. | Broughton and Cheetham Hill in Regency and Victorian Times by Monty Dobkin |
| WebHamster* (talk) | Interested primarily in Levenshulme. I'm a web designer, IT consultant, layout artist and amateur photographer. If it counts I'm also an ex-paramedic who used to work in the Manchester inner city area. Just started a total rewrite of the Belle Vue Zoo article. | ||
| Geotek* (talk) | Bolton area, Stockport & Manchester / GMC Fire Brigades | ||
| Nev1* (talk) | Trafford and Tameside | ||
| Parrot of Doom* (talk) | Flixton | I grew up in Radcliffe. My main interest is local history, see my page for pages I've contributed to. I love cycling along canals and things, taking photographs as I go. | I have a small collection of postcards of Flixton, Urmston, Davyhulme. One day I'll get around to uploading them all to Wikimedia Commons. |
| Carl* (talk) | Currently Leigh | Wigan, Abram, Leigh | |
| ukexpat* (talk) | Grew up in Brooklands, now living in the USA | South Manchester, Sale, Brooklands, William Hulme's Grammar School | |
| Mike Peel* (talk) | University of Manchester | University of Manchester as well as various articles on the buildings in Manchester | Portrait of a University 1851-1951 by Charlton; A Portrait of the University of Manchester 1951-73, and the same for 1973-90, by David and Pullan respectively; The University at War: 1939-1946; Manchester and its region: A survey prepared for the meeting held in Manchester , August 29 to September 5, 1962 by the BAAS |
| Unsy770* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan Athletic | |
| Hassocks5489* (talk) | West Sussex (!) | General copyediting and article improvement, incl. finding sources; transport (esp. railways and photos); spoken versions of articles | Various railway books covering GM stations; anything available in Brighton & Hove or West Sussex Libraries |
| Paypwip* (talk) | Horwich | Horwich, Bolton, Clifton, Rail and Road Transport | |
| Liquidswords* (talk) | South and Central Manchester | Manchester's architecture, primarily Victorian and industrial buildings. (Nothing post-war). | Various |
| Man2* (talk) | Wigan | ||
| Kieran5676* (talk) | Stockport | South Manchester | |
| James50567* (talk) | Glossop, Derbyshire | Stockport and Tameside, Shopping Centres and other Infrastructure related articles | |
| A1personage* (talk) | |||
| SquarePeg* (talk) | Eccles, Salford | Manchester United (and related articles), Salford Red Devils (and related articles), other local sports and other interesting (and uninteresting!) subjects. | Books? You mean you want me to read, too? |
| Lozleader* (talk) | Academic ivory tower | Civic history and heraldry, municipal transport and other utilities | Youngs' Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, which gives details of all parishes, local government areas, parliamentary constituencies and diocesan boundaries from Tudor times to 1974. Various books on civic heraldry, some with public domain images, Edwardian cigarette cards with borough arms, some books on public transport undertakings, access to full text of acts of parliament and various academic journals. |
| AnIco* (talk) | Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester | Architecture, mathematics, physics, geography, photography and local history | Not a printed source, but a great place where you can obtain information about contemporary architecture developments in Manchester is the Manchester section of the SkyscraperCity forums |
| Hindleyite* (talk) | Hindley | Wigan, in particular football, Hindley and local area | A number of Wigan Athletic publications |
| TheFamousPeter* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan Athletic, anything else Wigan and my occupation: Refereeing. | Wigan, with Uncle Joe's under culture and the acknowledgement of the Warriors move from the DW Stadium. |
| RuthAS* (talk) | South Lancashire | Transport history of Greater Manchester | Several books on the area's transport history |
| Anthony of the Desert* (talk) | Greater Manchester | North Manchester | |
| ClemRutter* (talk) | way down south in Rochester, Kent | Cotton mill and List of mills in Tameside for example, Longdendale, and other districts just outside GMC that provide support for the city: water, labour, recreation. | OS maps- and old second hand books |
| Sitush* (talk) | Whitefield | Whitefield, L&Y Railway | Various local histories, postcards etc |
| Chaosdruid* (talk) | Born Dukinfield now living in Norwich | Dukinfield, Ashton Under Lyne, Tameside and Glossop | |
| Skinsmoke* (talk) | Bredbury | Stockport and local government | Official handbooks to most pre 1974 local authorities in Greater Manchester, plus hundreds from other parts of the United Kingdom |
| Majorly* (talk) | Interested in history, old buildings, locations in South Greater Manchester. Can probably help in other areas too. | None personally but I have easy access to a library | |
| Sharadjalota456* (talk) | Baguley, Greater Manchester | Manchester United, Baguley and surrounding areas | |
| Juliancolton* (talk) | New York, United States, though interested in the Manchester area | Roads, perhaps | |
| Sansonic* (talk) | Heaton Chapel, Stockport | Concentrations of wealth and other Socio-economic issues | |
| J3Mrs* (talk) | Tyldesley and neighbouring towns | Various local history books | |
| LearnedRobb* (talk) | Gorton | Manchester and Greater Manchester | Minoroty sports in the Greater Manchester area, especially ice hockey |
| mapmark* (talk) | Former resident now in Paris, France | Started Manchester Corporation Tramways, Cottonopolis, Picc-Vic tunnel, List of national radio programmes made in Manchester, 2ZY, loud'n'proud, Kiss 102, Travel to Work Area, Manchester Mayfield Station. Contributed to: Manchester Metrolink, History of Manchester, Transport in Manchester, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive, Greater Manchester County Council, Metropolitan borough, M postcode area, Media in Manchester, List of television shows set in Manchester, BBC Radio 1, Telephone exchange names and Second city of the United Kingdom | Many transport reference books |
| wisdom and effort* (talk) | Fallowfield | Science & Engineering achievements in Manchester, Manchester transport | |
| Tong22* (talk) | North Manchester and Bury MB | maybe Governance, Transport (chiefly Light Rail) and GM tidbits. | |
| Msn164* (talk) | Tameside | Planes, Radio, TV, Internet, web design, and general knowledge. | |
| WatcherZero* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan, Local Transport, City Governance | |
| Jp4712* (talk) | Lichfield but formerly of Whitefield | Road passenger transport, railways | Journal Editor of the Greater Manchester Transport Society that operates Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport. Access to the Museum's archives with many primary and secondary research resources. |
| Chorlton Bloke*(talk) | South Manchester | Canals Local History | An ever changing selection of books relating to the area. Maps old and modern. |
| Gonads3*(talk) | Stockport | Sport | |
| Stevo1000 (talk) | South Manchester | Sport (Manchester City), architecture and buildings, media | |
| Doh5678 (talk) | Walkden | Various | |
| User:Aa2-2004 (talk) | South Manchester | Aim to translate articles into Arabic Misplaced Pages | |
| User:GoldRock23* (talk) | Sale, Manchester | A variety of information | |
| Dootson* (talk) | Swinton, Manchester | Moorside High School, Swinton, The Swinton High School, St Peter's C of E Primary School and Swinton | |
| doctorkohaku* (talk) | Manchester | ||
| The Vintage Feminist* (talk) | Trafford | General local knowledge, politics and some theatre history. | Use of local libraries and a fairly good idea where to find other information. |
| Patch1969* (talk) | Tameside, Greater Manchester | Just interested in getting Manchester on the map(in Wiki) | |
| CorrectiveMeasures* (talk) | Longsight | Familiar with Manchester, it's college and high schools and it's districts. | |
| David Edgar (talk) | Rusholme / Longsight | South Manchester, cycling, transport, art and music | |
| NuttyNarwhal* (talk) | Little Hulton | Salford, Little Hulton, Walkden, Bolton, Manchester City Centre, cultural landmarks and politics. | |
| JonnyDKeen* (talk) | Non-League football (I have seen a match every non league ground in Greater Manchester in tiers 5-10) Altrincham and Northenden. Also interested in all elements of local culture, history, cuisine, public transport and other sports. Will add pictures and info wherever I can. | ||
| Lava Lamps* (talk) | Leigh | ||
| Dommmmadden16* (talk) | Born Burnage now living in Withington | ||
| GioLoCelso18* (talk) | Born Harrow now living in Hale Barns | ||
| Pax Brittanica* (talk) | |||
| JfernsUK* (talk) | Ashton-Under-Lyne | Interested in the old trams of the 1900's in Ashton-Under-Lyne | |
| GimliDotNet* (talk) | Wigan and Leigh | ||
| FJones2123* (talk) | Fallowfield/Rusholme, Manchester | The University of Manchester, Metrolink and Fallowfield | Access to university Library |
| ChrisTheLemon* (talk) | Levenshulme | Stockport and South Manchester | |
| Prof tpms* (talk) | Manchester | Manchester University | |
Assessment and progress of articles
Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Greater Manchester supported articles. See also Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Greater Manchester (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.
| As of 08 November 2007, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
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Index · Statistics · Log
| Greater Manchester articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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8 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 47 | ||
| FL
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1 | 3 | 14 | 18 | |||
 GA
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6 | 14 | 29 | 41 | 1 | 91 | |
| B | 16 | 34 | 57 | 110 | 6 | 223 | |
| C | 24 | 47 | 154 | 381 | 56 | 662 | |
| Start | 94 | 341 | 1,752 | 202 | 2,389 | ||
| Stub | 15 | 89 | 1,255 | 133 | 1,492 | ||
| List | 2 | 5 | 40 | 169 | 17 | 233 | |
| Category | 1,131 | 1,131 | |||||
| Disambig | 10 | 10 | |||||
| File | 30 | 30 | |||||
| Portal | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Project | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Template | 58 | 58 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | 6 | 26 | 182 | 216 | |
| Other | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Assessed | 57 | 221 | 729 | 3,767 | 1,422 | 415 | 6,611 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 1 | 84 | 87 | |||
| Total | 57 | 221 | 729 | 3,769 | 1,423 | 499 | 6,698 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 24,391 | Ω = 4.97 | |||||
Successes and examples
There are currently eight featured articles or lists relating to Greater Manchester.
General
Boroughs
Settlements
Other
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater Manchester- Manchester City F.C.
- Manchester United F.C. seasons
- M62 motorway
Additionally these are good articles that fulfill many but not all featured requirements:
Settlements
- Template:GAiconAltrincham
- Template:GAiconDidsbury
- Template:GAiconHale Barns
- Template:GAiconSale
- Template:GAiconStretford
- Template:GAiconUrmston
- Template:GAiconWarburton
Landforms
Small areas
Other
Guidelines
Further information: ]
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 bicycle 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.
- Droylsden's W.M. Christy and Sons Ltd of Fairfield Mills produced the first machine woven towel in the world – the terry towel – in 1851.
Templates
For templates used for the administration and organisation of the Project and its remit, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Templates.
Online resources
The following table shows useful, reliable sources that have been shared by our members to mutually improve the coverage of Greater Manchester. Websites listed here include primary, secondary and tertiary source material on everything from ancient history to contemporary economic statistics. Members may wish to refer to this section to gather material for developing pages.
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| A select gazetteer of local government areas, Greater Manchester County | A detailed gazetteer of townships, Urban districts and boroughs that today form Greater Manchester. | *Governance *Geography | Suitable for settlement type articles, and as a source about local government history and local government boundary changes. |
| A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 | Detailed local histories of most of Greater Manchester, as well as parts of Liverpool. | *History | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality source full of detailed facts and commentaries. |
| Historical and Genealogical Information for the Region Anciently Known as the Salford Hundred | This site exhibits information about the Salford Hundred, its townships, their history and related genealogical information. All of which is supported by a chronological list of events for the region. | *History *Geography | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. Has some maps, etymologies and historical commentary. |
| GMroads.co.uk | History of Greater Manchester's roads, from City of Manchester Plan 1945 - to the Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan 2. | *Transport | Suitable for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| GMBuses.co.uk | Official site of GM Buses, including history and gallery. | *Transport | Suitable for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| A Vision of Britain Through Time | A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. | *History *Governance *Geography *Demography | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality secondary source full of detailed facts and commentaries. Particularly useful for historic districts and their population. |
| Neighbourhood Statistics | This site allows you to find detailed contemporary statistics within specific geographic areas, for example within a civil parish, or postcode area. | *Demography *Economy | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality primary source with in-depth analysis of data. |
| A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) | Contains detailed historic topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in England. Originally published in 1848 in four volumes, here given together digitally. | *History *Geography *Geology | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality, historic primary source. |
| visitmanchester.com | The official tourism website for Greater Manchester. | *Economy *Tourism *Culture | Suitable as a source about landmarks, places of interest and elements of the economic activity of Greater Manchester. |
| The SELNEC Preservation Society | Website principally involved with the cataloging and preservation of public passenger buses from the Greater Manchester area from 1968. | *Transport | Suitable only as a tertiary source for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| Geograph.org.uk | The Geograph British Isles project is an open source collection of geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the British Isles. Contains images of Greater Manchester available for use on articles under the Creative Commons licence. | *Photographs | Suitable for all articles related to the project. |
| The Manchester Geographical Society | Resources concerning local geography such as fieldwork guides, physical geography, transport geography, historical geography, canals etc. Also sells early copies of "The North West Geographer" journal and has later copies available for free download | *Geography | Suitable as source for a wide range of geographical material such as physical geography, transport history, use of urban space, impact of urbanisation etc. |
| A Key to English Place Names | A searchable index of place-names, their origin and possible meaning. | *Toponymy | Suitable as a source that offers suggestions what place names may mean for a given number of places. |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Authoritative biographies of important historical figures | *Notable residents | Used to be a subscription only site, but almost all of the GM boroughs now seem to have joined, so all you have to do is to enter your local library card number. |
| Greater Manchester Lieutenancy Office) | Website of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester. | *History *Governance *Culture. | Predominantly about the ceremonial post and its duties, but also some history and coverage about Greater Manchester as a whole. |
| Manchester City Council 24 hour library | Contains a good range of very useful sources including the Oxford English Dictionary, 200 years of archives of The Times, Encyclopædia Britannica material, British Standards Online, Naxos Music Library, Newsbank, Oxford Art Online, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Language Dictionaries, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference, and others. | *Culture | A prime source of information. Free registration is required, the link gives details. For those with Firefox, the 'Sxipper' add-on will store your login details. |
| e-mapping Victorian Cheshire | *EXAMPLE CATEGORY | ||
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