Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Merseyside

Goodison Park - reassessment request
Please can someone have another look at the Goodison Park article? TheBigJagielka (talk) 16:51, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

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Liverpool lead image (again!)
Just wondered if we could get some more views on the new lead image that has been added to the Liverpool article by User:Stevvvv4444. Personally, I think the image is not good enough to be the primary one of such an important article because it is so grainy and personally prefer the previous one. I have no opposition to the lead image being changed to a broader panorama, so long as it is of a high enough quality. Thoughts? --Daviessimo (talk) 11:53, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree with Daviessimo. The older image is arresting and draws the eye into the article; the new one is distant and at first glance could be any skyline. The lead image cannot represent the whole of the city, even the whole of the skyline; let it show clearly an iconic arresting view.  The place for a fuller skyline image would be lower in the article where a good-quality panorama would be appropriate. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 08:39, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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Listed buildings in Liverpool
OK, so I've been bold and split the listed buildings article up because at 130k it was one of the 1000 biggest articles on Wikipedia and that was without even being referenced etc. At the moment the split articles simply contain a generic intro plus the relevant part of the list, but I am hoping that over the next few weeks/months to develop them into properly referenced articles with more information and pictures. The main article (linked above) will remain as an anchor and again I am hoping to expand this with more information from the city council regarding their partnership programmes with English Heritage and also some information on the Echo's 'Stop the Rot' campaign, which has been attempting to highlight the plight of some of those building in a really bad state. Anyway I am currently playing about with the table formatting in my sandbox for the layout of the sub articles so any thoughts would be welcome. Cheers --Daviessimo (talk) 21:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * You have a major problem - and a lot of work! The trouble is, there are so many listed buildings in Liverpool.  So you will have to split any complete list, as you have found.  How to do it?  I'm not sure that your splitting by alphabetical address has any merit (ah! I see you've blanked your sandbox since I looked last night).  There are two logical ways; by grade or by geographical area/district.  A list of Grade I would be manageable; Grade II* large; Grade II certainly too large.  When I did the listed buildings for the Borough of Halton I split it geographically; even then I split Runcorn into two, urban and rural - the others were Widnes and Hale village.  IMO the only logical way to split would be geographically; or you could have one list for Grade I and geographical splits for the others.  It also rather depends on how much info you are going to give (and how far you want to take the lists).  You are certainly going to need coordinates, some photos, and maybe descriptions.  Have a look at WP:FL for some of the best lists of listed buildings.  And good luck.  Please contact me if you want to bounce off any ideas.  Cheers.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 09:34, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Well I don't mind using a geographic system or an alphabetical system because either way it's still likely to involve a lot of work. My idea had been to develop the articles along the pattern of Listed Buildings in Liverpool-A, whereby I have attempted to make the interface more user friendly by splitting the list up into chunks and adding pictures throughout. Personally I see the value of this group of articles (in whatever form they take) being that they link together all articles on notable buildings in Liverpool. At the moment there are a large number of orphaned articles on buildings in Liverpool. I'll carry on working on the A article as is for now, but if you feel a switch the geographical organisation would be better I am happy with that. Out of interest how would you envision that being done. Would we follow the defined districts of Liverpool (i.e. Listed buildings in Woolton) or be more flexible? My only concern would be that probably somewhere in the region of a third of all the listed buildings in Liverpool are in the city centre --Daviessimo (talk) 17:42, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The only other option I can think of, which kind of incorporates what I am doing now with the geographical system would be listed subdivided by postcode... --Daviessimo (talk) 17:56, 2 May 2010 (UTC)


 * As the discussion has ground to a halt I'll try and reboot it. Having worked on Listed Buildings in Liverpool-A for a couple of weeks it is now clear that in moving forward the listed buildings article needed to be split up for the simple reason that adding refs and pics vastly increases the article size. Anyway, as the current system of sorting the information alphabetically (as was taken from Liverpool City Council) doesn't work, I would like other peoples opinions on how the information should be sorted. If we worked on the basis that the Grade I and II* buildings went into their own articles, what is the best way to organise the remaining Grade II buildings? Geographically would be the most logical system, but do we use postcodes, districts or some others attributes?
 * The other thing that I wanted opinions on, are what information should be included in the table? Obviously the year of building, the year of listing and the coordinates should be there, but what about the architect (if one is known) or building style? I would be inclined to get rid of the notes section, as I don't feel it adds anything and if the information is important enough it could be included as a footnote. Any thought?? --Daviessimo (talk) 17:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your message. Sorry, but I've been away for 12 days in France and will be away again soon for a week with the family (all good things come in runs!).  I'm impressed by the work you've done, but as you suggest, we need to get things pretty well OK at this stage before finding we're stuck in a mire.  First of all, are we going to have a discrete Grade I list and a discrete Grade II* list?  Fine if they're not too big.  Then, as you say, Grade II will have to be split.  Personally, I'm very unhappy with an alphabetical list - difficult for the reader to negotiate - and would be much happier with a geographical list; maybe postcodes is the simplest option.


 * As for content: name, date of building, grade (and refs) essential. But what is the point of the date of listing; IMO it adds no useful info, was probably arbitrary anyway, and uses up a column that could be put to better use.  Also IMO, if we are going to take the lists anywhere (ie. FL), notes are essential - what is the nature of the building, who was the architect (if known), what is the architectural style, what is its present use, etc.  Coordinates are also IMO essential; they are surprisingly easy to obtain via EarthTools.  In addition to refs to Images of England, it would also be useful to have references to the Buildings of England series of books (Pevsner and the modern updates).


 * Hope this is not making it more complex for you, but I've found it works for me in the FLs I've produced.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 17:50, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've been meaning to add my thoughts to this for ages; sorry for coming in late! I am posing myself the same questions in respect of Brighton and Hove's listed buildings.  I have chosen a split by grade at first, as there are only 24 and 69 Grade I and II*s respectively; but I am now trying to work out what to do with the ~1,120 Grade IIs.  Now, Liverpool is a bit different from B&H because it is larger and the postcode areas are more clearly defined and more relevant to particular areas.  As Peter says, Grade II lists by postcode area, from L1 onwards, may work because of that.  The disadvantage is that there is likely to be clustering of large numbers of buildings in certain postcode areas, and hardly any in others.  In B&H, the whole city is covered by just 4 postcode districts (!), so I can't use that approach.  Also, the clustering effect applies to a great extent: there are many listed buildings on the seafront, in the centres of Brighton and Hove and in the old villages (now suburbs).  I can't really do lists by district/suburb/area because they are not very clearly defined: where does Kemptown end and Hanover begin? – er... (WP:OR alert!).  If you go for a named district-based approach for the Liverpool lists, you will have to be careful not to attribute buildings to particular districts in a non-verifiable way, if that makes sense.  I tried "alphabetically by street name", partly because the city council's own list is in that order; see here for abortive progress.  It is clearly unsatisfactory, though, and Peter's points are relevant.  I am left, reluctantly, with "alphabetically by building name", which in the case of things like "1–5 Atlingworth Street" means, in practice, "by street name" unless one of the sub-lists I do is for numbered buildings (a possibility which has just occurred to me).  One thing I've found is that for fully referenced lists with coordinate templates, sorting templates etc., the maximum practical limit for a single list is about 200 entries, otherwise you hit the "template limit" (not to mention making the page incredibly long and unwieldy).  I am hoping to split the B&H lists into about 100 entries each.  Hope that helps a bit (sorry it's so long!), even if more questions than answers are raised.  Cheers,  Hassocks  5489 (tickets please!)  11:52, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the responses. I've been away myself, which is why I haven't replied sooner. I'm happy with using a postcode split as it is certainly more accurate than using wards, as the boundaries are clearly defined. I'll have a look through what we've got to get an idea of which postcodes may be problematic. Out of interest is there anyone who is good with the table formatting? On the 'A' article I deliberately made the table smaller so it would appear correctly on both widescreen and narrower monitors, but I'm sure there is a way that you can format the table to do that itself. Anyone know? --Daviessimo (talk) 18:36, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Any interest for a wikimeet?
Hi all. Would anyone be interested in a Meetup in Liverpool? The idea would be to generally chat about anything Wikipedia-related. I'd also like to discuss the potential of doing a 'Wiki Takes' event in Liverpool - see wmuk:Initiatives/Proposals/Wiki Takes Liverpool. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:17, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Clarence Dock wiki
Please could you look at the Clarence Dock wiki. In 2004 it was widely reported in the Liverpool Echo and Daily post as well as numerous Everton FC websites and fanzines, that there was a proposal for a shared stadium for EFC/LFC at Clarence Docks. This was proposed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and was backed by the NWDA who pushed hard for it at the time. World renowned stadium architects KPMG (currently advising Liverpool FC on their ground move) were commisioned to draw up masterplan pitcures, showing how the stadium would be sited.

I have added this proposal, as a historical proposal for the Clarence Dock site of interest to many people. I have added links to the KPMG masterplan pictures and have added a link to a story relating to this by Bill Gleeson Editor of the Liverpool Daily Post.

An individual called John who is banned from multiple local websites and forums (from KEIOC to skyscrapercity Liverpool to the Echo website forums) has deleted this work and continues to threaten to delete it.

I have added links and even the architects drawings and would appreciate some help in ensureing that my work, which is a historical proposal for the site of great interest to many people, is not deleted in future by this known site vandal and nuisance.

Thank you 86.137.75.132 (talk) 18:26, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Firstly I'm not banned from any of those sites. Secondly the "work" of this indvdual I have deleted related to his additions to the Wapping Tunnel and Victoria Tunnel articles which he claims where due for reuse to provide access to the stadium, however the picture he shows a station on the Northern Line. My last edit to the Clarence Dock article was 3 August 2009. I advise you to be watch this user very carefully.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 18:37, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

This person has deleted my work in the clarence dock wiki signing out of his KitchenKnife username and/or possibly using a proxy. My work has been deleted despite me linking architects drawings and linking directly to a Liverpool Daily Post editor's story on the proposal. This individual is determined that my work will not be allowed on wikipedia. He will start a revert war, without shadow of a doubt. 86.137.75.132 (talk) 19:20, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Not me as someone with checkuser rights will be able to show. If you keep on accusing of editting under a false ID then that will get you banned.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 19:33, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

KitchenKnife uses a proxy and multiple usernames on a number of sites. He is a well known nuisance on Merseyside fourms and websites having been banned from many. As for my knowledge of Merseyside, I am from Walton and I live in Wallasey. My father was a docker for 25 years. I have always lived here....unlike some (How's Milton Keynes treating you John?). Without shadow of a doubt some moderation/administration is going to be required soon as this WILL slip into a revert war. I promise you John/KitchenKnife will delete my work until he is banned or reigned in somehow. Even then he will use a proxy and a different username to come back. Just watch how this descends into a revert war! 86.137.75.132 (talk) 19:33, 25 July 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.75.132 (talk)
 * Stange the that your IP address give a geolocate in Wigan. What you not aware of is checkuser can check when people are using proxies. You'd almost think that this person had an agenda.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 19:47, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Seaforth in Crosby wrangle
User Babydoll9799 repeatedly reverts the Crosby, Merseyside page removing Seaforth from the list, while the intro explaining the merger of Great Crosby and Waterloo with Seaforth remains. Apart from the rights or wrongs of this user's actions, the article is now inconsistent. Can someone arbitrate on the issue? Which boundaries is the article Crosby, Merseyside intended to reflect? RodCrosby (talk) 15:19, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a discussion on the Crosby page. It should be pointed out that this inclusion of Seaforth in list form is relatively new (on the Crosby page), as i do not use Wp much these days and recently spotted this change. The user Gr8opinionater appears to have made these changes, and added this 'list form' in June. I am certain the text that suggests Crosby was "formed" by merging old boroughs is confusing the user.

It should be noted that the other user has repeatedly reverted my changes too. Hopefully there can be some compromise. Although Seaforth in Crosby? I disagree totally. I also disagree about Hightown. Babydoll9799 (talk) 12:39, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * you have provided no citations for your reverts. Just your 'opinion.' Your latest edit implies Crosby consists of just one electoral ward! Can someone have a look at Babydoll9799's edits. What is this article intended to reflect? RodCrosby (talk) 12:32, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

The other electoral wards are not in Crosby they are in Blundellsands and Waterloo and Seaforth. You do seem to want to bring this to a difficult conclusion. Why are you not prepared to discuss? I point to my earlier response to you this morningBabydoll9799 (talk) 12:50, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * By the way re Hightown and Seaforth, it is not just "my opinion". It was someone else's "opinion" (Gr8opinionator) to completely rewrite the Crosby page in June and it had many flaws. You have not looked at these flaws and questioned them, which i have. How many times does it need to be said that all the changes were based on "boroughs" which did not relate to Crosby itself. For arguments sake the modern Sefton and Knowsley boroughs contain an ensemble of towns and villages but they are not as one. This is what happened to the older boroughs that Gr8opinionator has assumed to be "Crosby" Babydoll9799 (talk) 15:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Mere repetition does not add weight to your aguments. Nor does characterizing other edits as "flaws", or falsely claiming I don't wish to discuss. That is why we are here... Both Waterloo (formerly Crosby Seabank) and Blundellsands were "carved out" of Crosby in the 19th Century and were originally almost entirely unpopulated. No-one in either locality would claim they don't live in Crosby as well as in Blundellsands or Waterloo[Crosby Library, Police Station and Civic Centre are in Waterloo. Crosby Coastguard Station is in Blundellsands, Crosby Radar Station is in Seaforth] I have lived in Crosby all my life and am a local historian, so I might know a thing or two about my own town. Aside from that, I have also posted a newspaper link from another local historian entitled "Seaforth is part of Crosby too." You have not provided any evidence to the contrary, yet continue to force your opinion on the article. Just so we know where you are coming from, can you answer two straight questions? i) What do you mean by "Crosby itself"? ii) What in your opinion is the Crosby, Merseyside page intended to reflect? RodCrosby (talk) 17:49, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * As both Seaforth and Crosby are both recognised districts within Sefton, I don't see how it is possible to say that one is inside the other. I would suggest there are similarities here with say Roby and Huyton in Knowsley, but by my understanding of WP:UKCITIES the article should deal with the the 'Crosby' as defined by the local authority. Ultimately the question is, does Sefton Borough council consider Seaforth part of Crosby? --Daviessimo (talk) 18:24, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * In response to the ealier text aimed at me, i dont know much about the historical Crosby, so i hold my hands up at that. But i am disappointed the user is not acknowledging my POV.

I would also add none of this was an issue before June 2010 when Gr8opinionater made numerous and some incorrect changes. Upon correction of this by me has RodCrosby started to tackle me. Seaforth was never in Crosby and i have tried to justify this. I might also question where is the proof to say that everyone in Blundellsands and Waterloo would also think they were in Crosby? Babydoll9799 (talk) 18:42, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

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Portal:Cheshire
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List of films and television shows set in Liverpool
The article List of films and television shows set in Liverpool deals with both films/tv set in Liverpool and also those which have been wholly or partly shot in Liverpool. This effectively means that the title of the article is incorrect and should really be changed. Any thoughts on what the title should be? List of films and television shows set or shot in Liverpool would be the obvious choice but it's quite long. --Daviessimo (talk) 09:03, 1 October 2010 (UTC)


 * The length of the title for lists does not matter, as long as it is accurate. (Try List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England for example!) --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 10:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In that case, I'll go ahead and move the article. Thanks --Daviessimo (talk) 10:21, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Kirkby Branch Line


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 * I have removed the PROD tag and am working on expanding and referencing this now.  Hassocks  5489 (tickets please!)  15:20, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Future of Merseyrail
has suggested a partial split of Merseyrail. See Talk:Merseyrail. Simply south...... 18:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Beatles navbox discussion
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Note
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Liverpool–Manchester rivalry
There's currently a discussion about whether a serction in the above article should be split into its own article. The section is called "Liverpool-Manchester as one region". Nev1 (talk) 13:05, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Problems
Think we may be going to have some trouble with User talk:Scouserrr re Litherland. He seems to think that saying somewhere is a suburb of somewhere else means that it is part of the later. Claims to work for LCC but as they cannot use the shift key, I doubt it's in any relevant role, possibly child.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 14:24, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

An article within the scope of WikiProject Merseyside, Stop the Rot, has been nominated for deletion on notability grounds. Project participants may want to contribute to the AfD discussion. Sionk (talk) 16:56, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Liverpool Wikimeet - 28 January
Please note that the second Liverpool Wikimeet will be taking place at 1pm on 28 January in the Richard John Blackler (Wetherspoon's) pub, near Lime Street Station. See for more details. Hope to see you there! Bazonka (talk) 12:45, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

New member
Hello all, just thought I'd introduce myself. I've been making edits to Liverpool related articles (amongst others) for a while now, and as I've recently created Bradbury Fields and Royal School for the Blind (Liverpool) pages it made sense to get involved with the Wikiproject ;-)

The Royal School page was quickly put together so I know there's a lot to do there, but if anyone has any particular guidance on next steps with the Bradbury Fields page it'd be much appreciated.

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Disputed article split regarding Psygnosis/SCE Studio Liverpool
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Disputed WP:TARGET regarding Psygnosis/SCE Studio Liverpool
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Beatles capitalisation RfC
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Historic Lancashire and categorisation
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Bank of Liverpool
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Cheshire portal
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Hugh Boyd M‘Neile (1795-1879)
At the moment, I am editing and, I hope, enhancing the article on Hugh Boyd M‘Neile, with a special emphasis on his interactions in 1842 with James Braid (surgeon).

At the moment, all that I can offer the readers is this rather unsatisfactory representation of the statue of M‘Neile in St George's Hall.

As Liverpool is a very long distance from Sydney, I was wondering if there was any possibility of one of the Merseyside Wikipedians to take at least one good view of this magnificent statue, and mount it, through Wikimedia Commons, and replace this representation on the page? Thank you, in anticipation.Dr Lindsay B Yeates (talk) 02:34, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Discussion about William "Billy" Smith rugby player, born in and played for St. Helens(?)
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Please help get Merseyside ready for the start of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition on 1st September
This September the UK is taking part for the first time in the international photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments. Participants will be invited to submit pictures of listed buildings of significant importance (grades I or grade II*), as recorded by English Heritage. The main external website for competitors can be found here, and you can leave a message there if you have queries about competing. Do please join in, and let people in your local area know of this excellent way in which both existing and new Wiki users can help improve the encyclopaedia by contributing photographs of local listed structures. What about organizing a local Wikimeet to attract new people?

In preparation for the start of the competition on 1st September there is still quite a lot of work to do, and we would like to ask for the help of members of this wikiproject. Your local and expert knowledge will be invaluable in ensuring that the lists of eligible buildings are up to date and correctly formatted. If you look at Listed buildings in the United Kingdom you will see how many structures are included. If you then follow the link to Listed buildings in England, you can get to the detailed lists for your area. Alternatively have a look at the WLM planning table. Can you help to ensure that the lists for your area are up to date and well presented?

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Warbreck
Hi - this my first ever contact with Wikipedia. I live in Warbreck Avenue, Liverpool 9. While researching my local history, a Google search brought me to the Wikipedia "Warbreck" page. This says that "Warbreck is purely the name of the council ward and has never been used as a district name." But Warbreck Park appears on maps of my local area such as Street Map UK which, I believe, is based on the O/S map. Here is a link showing this (make sure that you zoom to the 1:25000 image showing district names):- http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=336217&y=396999&z=0&sv=L9+8Dj&st=2&pc=L9+8Dj&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf

So Warbreck Park is an area of Liverpool like the nearby Orrell Park and Alexandra Park which are also shown on the same map. Hoping this is relevant and helpful - keep up the good work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clive Forder (talk • contribs) 12:00, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Liverpool meetup on the 21st June
Hi all. The 12th Liverpool wikimeet is taking place on the 21st June - see meta:Meetup/Liverpool/12 for more info. If you're in the area, please come along and have a chat! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:19, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Is there any chance that one of the Merseyside Wikipedians could take at least one good photograph view of the magnificent statue of Hugh Boyd M‘Neile in St George's Hall and mount it, through Wikimedia Commons, and replace this representation on the page? Thank you, in anticipation.Dr Lindsay B Yeates (talk) 15:42, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
 * We'll see what we can do. Bazonka (talk) 16:35, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately there was a wedding being held in the hall yesterday, so we weren't able to get in to take the picture. Next time, hopefully - 23 August. Bazonka (talk) 13:07, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your effort om my behalf.Dr Lindsay B Yeates (talk) 14:04, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Image requests?
Hi all, I've recently invested in a DSLR and am planning to use it to get some better images of Liverpool to upload to Commons. Does anyone have any requests? Sam Walton (talk) 22:25, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Old maps and views of the North-West
As you might have seen in the Signpost this week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps, with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. As of Sunday night, over five thousand new maps have been identified, with 26.5% of the target books looked at -- but see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.

A part that may specifically interest this project is
 * c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Synoptic index/England - North West

which currently shows pink templated links for 172 Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Though there are lots of other parts of England, and indeed of the world, still to be looked through as well).

Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or uploading for articles on Merseyside and the North West.

Thanks, Jheald (talk) 01:03, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

The usage of Stanley Park is under discussion, see Talk:Stanley Park (disambiguation) ツStacey (talk) 20:12, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

John Pugh listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for John Pugh to be moved to John Pugh (Liberal Democrat politician). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:47, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Editathon, 8 August 2015
You are invited to an editathon in Widnes on Saturday 8 August. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:19, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Roby Comprehensive School
Working on Dame Tina Lavender I find she went to Roby Comprehensive School: no mention of this anywhere though it looks as if the 6th form unit of Knowsley Community College occupies its former site. Could anyone with access to sources give a bit of history so that the Roby school can become a blue link redirecting to its successor (or even predecessor) school, or even have an article of its own? Thanks.

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

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Background
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Portal:Merseyside
Can any users help improve Portal:Merseyside?--Darrelljon (talk) 10:10, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

People from Liverpool
I noticed that the category and the "birthplace" for a quantity of people from Liverpool were marked as the district they were from (not always correct, either). I proceeded to correct this so if someone was from Toxteth, and it said "People from Toxteth"; as this is not the city I proceeded to change this to Liverpool / Toxteth, Liverpool. It was objected to by another user and subsequently painted myself in a bad light, on the noticeboard. I now feel that the point I was making was brushed aside, and that the person cannot come from IE Toxteth as the city birthplace is Liverpool. In addition as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_by_district_in_England Liverpool would be the predominant locality not an inner city district. Finally, It was questioned a persons occupation v place they are from and I assumed in good faith you they are categorised. So from "People from Liverpool" can be recategorised to "Footballers from Liverpool". This is how most (people pages) are categorised. Such as actors, comedians, politicians, and so on. I would happily have both from Liverpool and occupation if desired. However the place of birth and People from category is surely Liverpool (and not in this example Toxteth)?. This does not clash with places like Aintree or Bootle as they are outside the city boundary. Any opinions welcome. Babydoll9799 (talk) 22:21, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * For a simple example, Nancy Flanagan. From Liverpool. But because (like numerous pages) a user (Rathfelder 9th March 2020) has created the district where the person is from category, rather than the city, so this person page is "People from Vauxhall, Liverpool". I changed this to "People from Liverpool". Which is correct. But because someone objected (GiantSnowman) and played a number of Wiki cards against me, my edits were reversed. However as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_by_district_in_England or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_by_city_or_town_in_England I was correct in what I was editing. I wasn't just randomly vandalising pages. I made clear my arguments as above but not one person reacted to this. Instead chose to say I was being "disruptive". I do challenge this and ask people from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Merseyside community if they are in agreement. Apparantly this is called "canvassing". When you ask for help. Babydoll9799 (talk) 12:26, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Also as in Category:People from Fazakerley page Tye Morgan is not from Liverpool nor Fazakerley. She is from London. Yet this edit was reversed Babydoll9799 (talk) 12:33, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Now I am being warned (see my talk page) for so called "canvassing". How can you correct information when people are preventing you from doing so and also wiping out your edits and wiping out my point of view?Babydoll9799 (talk) 12:41, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Parishes project
I have started a project for missing civil parishes at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. There are 2 missing parishes in Merseyside, all exist but only as a redirect but should have separate articles, they are:

A total of 2, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (2).  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 18:35, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Billinge Chapel End
 * Seneley Green

Let's revive this WP.
I think its clear this WP is inactive, so lets work on making it more active. If any editors would like to join in on reviving this, watchlist this page and sign your name on this thread and add an idea or two for how we can improve activity or improve this wiki-project in general. My suggestion would be: Modernise the main project page (which I most likely will start straight away) making it easier for people to know where and how they can help or ask for help. --- 𝓙𝓪𝓭𝓮 (Talk) •  𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎/𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂  22:12, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Proposed Merseyrail split
There is a discussion at Talk:Merseyrail on proposing whether it should be split into Merseyrail (brand) akin to ScotRail (brand), due to constant debates on the City Line (Merseyrail)'s status. Any interested editors are welcome. Thanks  Dank Jae  21:05, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Holly Lodge Girls' College
Following this school article being listed at AfD, I have reworked the history section. Would be grateful if any local history experts have time to have a look to make sure I haven't got anything wrong - it has a bit of a complex history, more than one site, several names etc, some involvement in local politics. Thanks. Tacyarg (talk) 23:17, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Liverpolitan identity for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Liverpolitan identity is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Liverpolitan identity until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 16:12, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:City of Liverpool College
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:City of Liverpool College that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 01:54, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Manpool § Requested move 2 May 2024
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Manpool § Requested move 2 May 2024. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 16:50, 12 May 2024 (UTC)