Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Templates

Talk page


All articles that fall within the scope of the Greater Manchester WikiProject should have the above template placed on their talk page. Sometimes, you will see a UK geography WikiProject template already there. In these cases, you should also add our template. You can add the template by editing in   at the top of the talk page.

A good number of photos exist at commons. However, if you can't find a photo, adding   to an articles talk page will give the following request:

If you wish to add the location to (or geo-tag) an article, but don't know the exact location, adding to the page will add the page to Category:Greater Manchester articles missing geocoordinate data.

, will gengerate this box which can be used on your own talk page to promote the project to all users whom come across your page:

Welcome and compliments from a WikiProject Greater Manchester Member
If you believe any non-project user has made significant and non-vandal edits to Greater Manchester related articles you can add   to their talk page, which in essence requests their presence here on the GM Wikiproject, generating the following: If a user has just joined the Greater Manchester WikiProject you can formally welcome them by typing   on their talk page, which generates the following:

Articles
These templates are relevant to articles that deal with the various administrative structures (boroughs, civil parishes) and towns and villages (settlements) within Greater Manchester.

The above template is currently added to the end of each entry of a Greater Manchester borough or any of the towns mentioned within the template. It is added by editing in   at the end of the entry's page.

The above template is designed for adding to articles about districts within the metropolitan borough boundaries of the City of Manchester. You add it by editing in   at the end of a relevant entry's page.

Cleanup
Used on articles which are part of the project and require cleanup by adding   to the top of the article. A list of pages currently using this tag can be found here.

Geo-tagging
Geo-tagged articles contain the location of the subject of the article. As well as carrying a link to things such as map information, a number of geotags are also picked up by software such as Google Earth meaning that a link to the article is displayed at the correct place on maps. There are a series of templates for adding the location to an article. More details on the use of these can be found at Template:coord.

Other related templates
There are a number of images also on Wikimedia Commons in the Greater Manchester category. The template to the right can be added to link through to this category using   within an article.

Project stubs
 

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The above template should be routinely added to the end of each very short expandable article of a Greater Manchester village, town, civil parish, district or landform.

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Userboxes
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Awards
The Greater Manchester WikiProject Award of Merit may be awarded to any editor who makes outstanding contributions to Greater Manchester related articles and media on Wikipedia. May also be awarded to those contributors who further the WikiProject. Example follows:

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