Wikipedia:WikiProject Sheffield

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to Sheffield. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title
WikiProject on Sheffield

Scope
Articles about subjects related to the City of Sheffield.

Parentage

 * WikiProject UK subdivisions
 * WikiProject UK geography
 * WikiProject Cities

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Sheffield Wednesday
 * WikiProject Sheffield United
 * WikiProject Yorkshire
 * WikiProject Derbyshire

Related Wikiportals

 * Portal:England
 * Portal:Yorkshire

Related Regional notice boards
UK Wikipedians' notice board

Related pages in Sister projects

 * Sheffield
 * Sheffield
 * Sheffield
 * Sheffield
 * Sheffield
 * Sheffield

Participants

 * 16:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 17:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 03:50, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 17:58, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 21:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 19:25, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 22:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 11:54, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 14:05, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 15:49, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 14:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 14:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 13:44, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 00:17, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 20:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 21:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 14:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * September 2009
 * 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 1 February 2021 (UTC)

User Box
The Project participants can add the project user box to their User page, with User WikiProject Sheffield

Goals

 * 1) Create and expand articles for every area of Sheffield.
 * 2) Achieve FA status for one or more of the secondary Sheffield articles.

Article Assessments
The article ratings are used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject Sheffield project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Sheffield articles by quality and Category:Sheffield articles by priority, which are themselves sub-categories of the master category for administration categories: Category:WikiProject Sheffield.

Discusions of the ratings in general is on the Assessments talk page, specific articles assessmet ratings can be discused on the articles own talk page or raised on the Project talk page.

Templates
WikiProject Sheffield:

Sheffield:

SheffieldCityCentre:

Sheffield stations:

Waterways in Sheffield:

Parks and Woodlands in Sheffield:

SheffieldStructures

Lists

 * Listed buildings in Sheffield
 * List of famous residents of Sheffield
 * List of companies in Sheffield
 * List of hi-tech companies in Sheffield

Articles

 * Featured Sheffield articles
 * A-Class Sheffield articles
 * Good Sheffield articles
 * B-Class Sheffield articles

Wikipedia articles on Sheffield
'Main articles', linked from the Sheffield article:
 * Sheffield
 * Buildings and structures in Sheffield
 * Culture of Sheffield
 * Districts of Sheffield
 * History of Sheffield
 * Sport in Sheffield
 * Transport in Sheffield
 * Geography of Sheffield
 * Education in Sheffield

Requests

 * Crookes Valley Park - an article about the park in the Crookes Valley area. SheffGruff (talk) 00:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sheaf Square needs to be got up to date with the work (most of it now finished), including a new map with the Nelson Mandela building no longer shown. --VinceBowdren (talk) 09:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * St. Vincent's Quarter - needs updating with results of ring road bypass. --VinceBowdren (talk) 08:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * St Vincent's Church (maybe better placed at St Vincent's Church, Sheffield however). There's already a good photograph at Image:St Vincent, Sheffield.JPG.   L.J.Skinner wot 16:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sheffield Round Walk - have just created this article, needs a lot of work! I can provide route maps if needed. Five Weirs Walk also might need work.Pigetrational (talk) 20:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yorkshire Natural History Museum, Sheffield - Not much on the web about this new venue though it probably deserves a wiki article.217.44.159.147 (talk) 11:39, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Watchlist
The project has a watchlist automaticly generated from articles that feature the WikiProject Sheffield banner on their talk page. You can view the watchlist here.

Current information

 * Sheffield City Council (N.B. some of this site is copied from Wikipedia)
 * BBC South Yorkshire
 * The Star—archived local news from April 2002 onwards
 * The Sheffield City Region Transport Strategy 2018-2040 draft consultation Lots of demographic and transport information here, but for the 'Region' not just Sheffield.

Historical information

 * Local Register and chronological account of occurences and facts connected with the town and neighborhood of Sheffield by Robert Leader
 * British History Online a searchable resource by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
 * The South Yorkshire Historic Environment Characterisation Project by the South Yorkshire Archaeology Service.
 * Sheffield placename etymologies
 * Partial transcription at Wikisource
 * The Internet Archive
 * Transcription at Wikisource
 * Google book search (full text currently only available to editors located in the US)
 * The Internet Archive
 * Google book search
 * Google book search
 * Partial transcription at Wikisource
 * Google book search
 * The Illustrated Guide to Sheffield and the Surrounding District (1879) at the internet Archive https://archive.org/details/illustratedguide00tayl
 * Google book search
 * The Internet Archive. PDF scan and OCR text version with errors.
 * Building Stones of England: West and South Yorkshire from Historic England.
 * Natural History of Sheffield by E. G. published in the Gentlemans Magazine, April 1764. Pdf and OCR (with errors) at Archive.org. I have seen speculation that E. G. was Edwin Godwin, Vicar of Attercliffe.
 * The Illustrated Guide to Sheffield and the Surrounding District (1879) at the internet Archive https://archive.org/details/illustratedguide00tayl
 * Google book search
 * The Internet Archive. PDF scan and OCR text version with errors.
 * Building Stones of England: West and South Yorkshire from Historic England.
 * Natural History of Sheffield by E. G. published in the Gentlemans Magazine, April 1764. Pdf and OCR (with errors) at Archive.org. I have seen speculation that E. G. was Edwin Godwin, Vicar of Attercliffe.
 * Natural History of Sheffield by E. G. published in the Gentlemans Magazine, April 1764. Pdf and OCR (with errors) at Archive.org. I have seen speculation that E. G. was Edwin Godwin, Vicar of Attercliffe.