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.

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

Featured articles
There are currently featured articles relating to Staffordshire:

Good articles
Additionally there are 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 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 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).

The statistics above may be a few days out-of-date, but the summary statistics below are current:

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 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.

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:

Requesting photographs
Photographs for Staffordshire related articles can be requested using the template.


 * 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. Please remember to always change Staffordshire to the revelant articles' name.

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.