Wikipedia talk:WikiProject North East England/Archive 2

Photographs of courts
If any North East England-based photographers could take snaps of courts in their neck of the woods (i.e. Crown Courts, County Courts or Magistrates' Courts) and add them to commons:Category:Courthouses in the United Kingdom, the photographs would be very much appreciated for List of courts in England and Wales and List of county courts in England and Wales. I'm also working on a list of closed courts, so photographs of former court buildings would be useful too. Thanks, BencherliteTalk 22:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Project article on main page on February 18th
Hello Project NE-England! Just a quick note to let you know that an article in your project's remit, Bobby Robson, has been selected for inclusion on the Main Page on 18 February, 2008... it'll be subjected, no doubt, to a load of vandalism so any help would be gratefully accepted!! Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Museums in North East England
Could I ask for some help accessing local knowledge, from members of this wikiproject, on the behalf of the new WikiProject Museums? We are currently trying to identify articles within the Museum projects scope (& develop guidelines to help improve them etc). There is a List of museums in England. Could you take a look at the list for your local area and see if any are missing or create articles for any red links. Could you also add the new project banner " " to the Talk pages of the articles, so that we can identify those in need of work etc. Any help appreciated &, if anyone is interested you are welcome to join the project or discuss Museum related articles on the Project Talk Page.&mdash; Rod talk 14:11, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Cockerton
Hello folks, Cockerton's Wikipedia article has been in the media lately regarding some spoof material which was added. I thought therefore, you guys might wany to pop over and give it a bit of communial TLC. --Jza84 | Talk  00:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hylton Castle
Hi all. Just to let everyone know I'm trying to get Hylton Castle up to either GA or (hopefully) FA status. I've added a great deal of content compared to what was in the article a few months ago and a few editors have provided images and tweaked the article. Any contributions from anyone else would be appreciated. I guess I should've posted this here earlier, but I never thought to until now... Craigy (talk) 01:23, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Sunderland Echo
Just to let you know that an article on the Sunderland Echo, a provincial newspaper which falls within the WikiProject North East England division, is now on the GA nomination waiting list, if anyone fancies taking a look. I am aiming for FA after this - fingers crossed. -- seahamlass  10:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 493 articles are assigned to this project, of which 111, or 22.5%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:



If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 18:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Craigy (talk) 14:17, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Earle = Yearle?
I'm no expert on north-east geography, so I was wondering if anyone could determine whether Yearle and Earle, Northumberland are one and the same? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roisterer (talk • contribs)
 * Yes, they're the same place. I believe Yearle was the spelling used in days of old. Craigy (talk) 09:30, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Bishop Auckland
(also posted at WT:UKGEO) Hi All. Have been working on the Bishop Auckland article in dribs and drabs for around 3 years now (my first edits pre-date me registering). As I am the only registered editor who has made significant edits in the recent past, I would be grateful if another pair of eyes could take some time to have a look at the article and provide some feedback on the improvements, future direction and standard of the article. Pit-yacker (talk) 20:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Sunderland High School
On August 1st (a month ago), an anon-IP applied a 'POV' tag to Sunderland High School. (At this point I should "declare an interest" because I had spent considerable time in earlier months trying to make the article neutral!) The anon-IP and I had a little discussion on the article's talk page: I requested that he demonstrate some instances of non-neutrality (and ideally show how to redress such instances) during the ensuing month, but he/she has not yet done this. So could a couple of you from this project pop across to that article, see whether the 'POV' tag is still justified and comment accordingly? (And, of course, make suitable adjustments or suggestions if you have the time and/or knowledge.) Thanks. Feline Hymnic (talk) 19:23, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for WikiProject Tyne and Wear
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 20:37, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Improving Durham
Hi All,

I've added a few new sections to the Durham entry from Name through Civil War and Commonwealth and was just wondering if I am on the right track to improving it and getting a better rating? This is my first time on here writing anything so any comments are much appreciated. I would like to write more, but I wanted to check I was on the right lines before doing anything!

Thanks a lot!

Alex --Aj.amatosi (talk) 00:52, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Missing geographical coordinates
Many North East articles are missing geographical coordinates. Finding the latitude and longitude of locations, and entering coordinates into articles is straightforwards, and explained at Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Having coordinates on articles mean that they turn up in GoogleMaps, MultiMap and other such places which link to wikipedia based on geo-coordinates; and coordinates also provide links from the article to maps of the location.

It is now possible to get lists of North East articles that have no geographical coordinates via CatScan, for example:


 * County Durham articles missing geo-coordinates.


 * North Yorkshire articles missing geo-coordinates.


 * Northumberland articles missing geo-coordinates.


 * Tyne and Wear articles missing geo-coordinates.

Alternatively, if CatScan is down or very slow, you can find them by looking through Category:United Kingdom articles missing geocoordinate data.

The articles in the lists above are currently marked with coord missing templates, which need replacing with filled in coord templates containing their latitude/longitude data (or else have lat&long entered into the infobox).

There are about 1200 articles missing coords - I hope you'll consider adding coordinates so as to make North East articles more visible on the web. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 07:42, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Help. I have just added an infobox to Ovingham, Northumberland and the red dot is off to the bottom right hand corner. I have checked the coordinates with my paper map. (|latitude = 54.842224 |longitude =-1.221335 |os_grid_reference = NZ 08266362). Can anyone see what I have done wrong? Twiceuponatime (talk) 09:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC) ditto for Falstone, Northumberland, but Chillingham, Northumberland is ok. Twiceuponatime (talk) 15:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC) Moved to: Template talk:Infobox UK place Twiceuponatime (talk) 09:46, 3 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Update. Articles have now been slotted into subcategories, as follows:


 *  articles in Category:Northumberland articles missing geocoordinate data
 *  articles in Category:Tyne and Wear articles missing geocoordinate data
 *  articles in Category:County Durham articles missing geocoordinate data
 *  articles in Category:North Yorkshire articles missing geocoordinate data


 * Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that the North East is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:20, 2 December 2008 (UTC)