Wikipedia:WikiProject Worcestershire/Newsletter

Issue 1: January 2010
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The WikiProject WORCESTERSHIRE Newsletter No. 1 - January 2010

(Archived here.)
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Welcome to the first WikiProject Worcestershire newsletter
If you are not  yet a member of the The Worcestershire project, you  are probably receiving  this because you  have significantly  contributed to  one of our pages. Now is the time to consider joining - it  might help you get some assistance on a page you feel particularly attached to it. Someone once asked on the project page if they  could get  a newsletter. The Worcestershire project only has a few members and they  most  probably  have the project  pages and major articles on  their watchlists, but  here goes anyway...

This year has got off to  great start  with  the promotion  of Malvern, Worcestershire to Good Article status. The GA review process was particularly strict and demanding, and a good thing too, because it sets a benchmark for the quality to be targeted for other articles in  the project, even if we do  not  intend to  reach  GA with  them. Furthermore, and probably most important, this particular review clearly demonstrated what can be achieved with teamwork, and it puts the page on a par with  biggies such as Manchester,  one of the Wikipedia's flagship English settlement articles. Anyone can go ahead and create an article, and some articles have a major contributor, but it would have been impossible for Malvern to have been promoted without the extraordinary collaborative effort of a dedicated few, spread across three continents in very different time zones, and sometimes tripping over each other at all times of the day and night  to  get  the article up  to  snuff.
 * Great news for 2010!

Since the Worcs project was founded   barely  seven months ago on  8 June last  year, in  addition  to  the creation and maintenance of  the project  pages themselves. a lot of work has already been done by  the Worcs project  members, including the creation  of stubs for most of the missing  settlements  in  the county, creation and improvement  work on  Malvern Water, creation  and expansion  of articles on important  schools and one or two biographies in  the county, and general repetitive tasks such as keeping spam and vandalism  at  bay.
 * Recently founded

All the members of the project have their own specialised fields of interest of course, such  as French wine, schools, Lancashire, the Malverns, cricket, Magnetic Resonance Imaging,  busses, castles,  waterways, or Spike Milligan. However, they all have a common denominator somewhere that  brings them together in  Worcestershire. The Worcestershire project mainly concerns settlements. Perhaps after the success of Malvern, the immediate priority now is to  improve the articles that  really  ought  to  be the flagships of the project, namely  Worcester, and Worcestershire. These two are, sadly, some of the articles in the worst state. They have been created long ago and expanded over time by  a great many  shingle-edit authors and IPs.
 * Experts!

A possible suggestion would be to take one of those rather shoddy  pages, probably  Worcester, the county  seat, or the project's eponymous article Worcestershire and do  a Malvern job  on it. Such a concerted piece of teamwork  might  even earn the project  another major GA - and we now know it  can be done!
 * So wotnow? (pun)

Meet up
An attempt at a meet up failed last year - mainly  either because some of the most active members of the project  live in  other countries, or the timing  wasn't  quite right. We can have another attempt in  April, when Kudpung  will  be back in  Malvern for his dad's 90th birthday, and hopefully  this will coincide with  a home trip  to the UK for GyroMagician.

Talk
The place to make your suggestions and dicscuss it all is  HERE - be sure to have the page on  your watchlist!

'''Would you like to join the WP:WORCS?? Please enter yourself at WP:WORCS! - new editors are always welcome!'''

Happy Wikying, all the best  for 2010, and special thanks again all round for the efforts of  the Malvern taskforce, and to everyone else who  has contributed to our articles. Currently there are two featured articles in Worcestershire.
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Priority Articles
The top priority articles have been identified as probably being:

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Worcestershire.
 * Worcester • Worcestershire • Bromsgrove • Redditch • Kidderminster • Pershore • Malvern College • Malvern St James • Droitwich • tenbury Wells and the suite of former QinetiQ establlishments: * TRE • RSRE • DERA

Other priorities: These lists will help:
 * The recommended priority by kind is for creation/improvement of complete articles is:
 * 1) Places in the county
 * 2) Schools in the county (Particularly susceptible to  vandalism - please keep  them  on  your watch lists if possible).
 * 3) Transport in the county
 * 4) Notable buildings/objects/geo features/AONB/Heritage sites, etc. in the county
 * 5) History in the county
 * 6) Industry & Commerce in the county.
 * 7) People in the county - NOTE: These all need the Worcs project  banner adding  to their talk pages, and assessing.
 * 8) County related articles about things not actually in the county, and/or other related projects.
 * All Worcs related articles by ABC
 * Worcs related articles by type.
 * All Worcs related articles about people by ABC
 * List of all Schools in  Worcestershire
 * List by Class & Importance: Page 1 All categories except people (not yet  tagged with  WP banner)
 * List by Class & Importance: Page 2 All categories except people (not yet  tagged with  WP banner).

New Aims
Specific aims for the project are:-

The watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible. Some of our articles need their infoboxes completing infobox.
 * Monitor
 * Infoboxes

Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference. If you  a re uploadiing  an image, be sure  it has a correct FUR, and that  you  have preferably  already  created a link  on  the page where you  want  it to  be.
 * References

Please be careful when performing articles moves and check if anyone seems to be in the middle of doing the same thing. If he; she, or they are, stop and have a chat about it. Otherwise you may  be unintentionally duplicating or reverting each  other's work. This is particularly important  if an article is currently under a  GA review. image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
 * Moves, merges, and multiple edits

Guidelines

 * How to write about settlements
 * How to write about counties
 * How to write about rivers
 * How to write about people

Imprint Written by User:Kudpung, WP:WORCS Based on an original layout & content by WP:YORKS '''


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