Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire/Bradford

Comments
I am just setting up the assessment list now. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 14:21, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The assessment system is now here. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 14:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Portal
As some may have noticed, I have created a portal for the Yorkshire project. I have the basic shell up, so if anyone wants to lend a hand, feel free. Cheers! Fl1942 14:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

New People
Ok, a number of people have now joined this, does anyone know how we want to go about this? I was thinking we could maybe work on Bradford and let it go from there? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:49, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Is this a child of WikiProject Yorkshire? Simply south 13:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Does it matter? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 14:39, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Starting Work
Okay, I'm going to start sprucing up the articles on Bradford Uni. Any help would be appreciated. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:56, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Photographs
Got a digital camera? We need photos of almost everything! Many of the photos we have are copyvios - and commons always needs any excess anyway. It might be worth making a hit list of things we need. Secretlondon (talk) 16:30, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Alas, I lost mine in Revolution on Halloween, so I cannot oblige. If anyone does have a camera and happens to be able to take photos of uni campus buildings, can you drop me a line? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 13:16, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I will try at some point when a) I get chance, b) am back in Bradford and c) most importanly actually remember my camera. I chanced upon the Manchester FAC and if you take a look at the Manchester article there's some cracking photos on there.
 * Anyone have a list of particularly important pictures? E.g. Media Museum, City Hall, Salts Mill, panoramic views of Bradford (which should be easy), Wool Exchange, Valley Parade, Odsal. Peanut4 (talk) 23:38, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * We should make a list of photos needed. User:Kaly99 has just uploaded Image:Bradford Interchange.jpg, Image:St George's Hall, Bradford.jpg and Image:Bradford_Alhambra.jpg. Yay! Anyone in Bradford for Xmas with a camera? Secretlondon (talk) 23:27, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I have to say xmas in Bradford ain't the prettiest. As much as we need pictures, a bit of sunny delight will do Bradford prouder than the dank days we got at the moment. Particularly the Image:Bradford Interchange.jpg is looking decidely wintry and unwelcoming Peanut4 (talk) 00:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Talk page templates
Your project appears to have two different talk page templates, Template:BradProject and Template:WikiProject Bradford. Which one should be used? I would recommend using only one. --Jameboy (talk) 01:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)#
 * The second one appears to have been created by someone who did not realise the first existed. We should probably keep the one that is transcluded onto most pages. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 00:50, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2nd one has some nice bits that could be merged in then redirect to the 1st one as WikiProject Bradford is a more standard name. --Nate1481(t/c) 10:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello, and settlement guidelines
Hello WikiProject Bradford participants!

It's a pleasure to greet a new WikiProject I wasn't aware of! Just a note really that I've just applied some changes to Bradford per the WP:UKCITIES guidelines. It would be a great benefit if this project could adopt this guideline (extensively developed in partnership with WP:UKGEO and WP:CITIES) which serves to ensure a basic standard layout and content is used for articles about British settlements. Most of (well, all as far as I know) the local British Wikiprojects have already adopted this.

I hope this is well recieved! And best of luck with the project, -- Jza84 · (talk) 00:11, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

West Yorkshire cities issues
Hello again,

I've raised an issue at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Yorkshire which concerns Bradford. I would be good if users could have a browse of it and make input where they feel necessary. Thanks, -- Jza84 · (talk) 16:10, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Valley Parade
I've put Valley Parade up for peer review with hopefully putting it up for FAC. I've had a couple of good comments, but if anyone else has anything to pitch in with, it's at Peer review/Valley Parade/archive1 and all comments would be gratefully received. Peanut4 (talk) 21:32, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I've archived the PR, and now put it forward to FAC, if anyone else wants to comment. Peanut4 (talk) 23:03, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

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Bradford articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Anyone around?
Anyone still around on this project? Say hi if you are. Would like to get this reactivated again. Peaky76 (talk) 21:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Please help get the Bradford area 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?

Some of the lists have been semi-automatically generated from data provided by English Heritage. These use pre formatted templates (eg EH header) which will make it much easier for competition participants to upload their photographs to Commons as an automated process. Please don't change the template structure, as we need to ensure that the templates are properly compatible with the WLM standards that are in use worldwide. The format will allow a bot automatically to collect the information and to put it into the international Monuments Database.

The data still needs the attention of local editors:
 * The "title" may need wikilinking to a suitable article name (whether we currently have that article or not). If there are several buildings in one street all of the wikilinks point at an article about the street; however each entry has a separate line in the list.
 * The "location" column looks and sorts better if just the parish or town is included (& wikilinked).
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 * The image column should have a picture added if we already have a suitable image on Commons. (N.B. if you are going to be taking photos yourself for inclusion in the competition don't upload them until September)
 * References may be added according to normal WP practice.

For further information, please see [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_United_Kingdom Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom. ]

If you have any queries, please post them not below but on the Organizers' help page on Commons.

Anything you can do to help improve these lists will be much appreciated. '''The final deadline for cleaning up is 31st August.

--MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:42, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Merge inactive WikiProject as a taskforce of WP:YORKSHIRE

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was moved as requested. The objection doesn't state any reason in policy that would overcome the support. bd2412 T 18:12, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Bradford → WikiProject Yorkshire/Bradford – this project is tagged as inactive since 2009, so it should be merged as a task force into a larger, active, wikiproject, such as WP:YORKSHIRE. Other options include NB/WPP UK and WPUKGEO as the parent project. Per discussion at WPLEEDS, it seems WPYORKSHIRE is the better choice, if not that, then WPUK, as Bradford articles are not all strictly geography articles. This also seems to be rather necessary, considering the request for activity notification for September 2013. 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Survey

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 * Support; seems like a practical solution to me. bobrayner (talk) 12:44, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, per my comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Leeds. -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:04, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Any additional comments:

Examples of merged wikiproject banners abound, such as for WPAUSTRALIA, WPUSA, WPCANADA which feature taskforces, workgroups and subprojects on the same banner, with city projects listed as subelements of the larger regional project. -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Comment rather pointless to actually merge into Wikiproject Yorkshire as it already covers all of the articles covered by this project. Actually as I maintain Wikiproject Yorkshire to have sub-project would make it far less manageable. Leave it as it is without sub-projects. Keith D (talk)
 * That would be the reason to merge it into WP:YORKSHIRE, because it already covers all of the articles. Otherwise, we'd merge it to WP:UK (or WP:ENGLAND) as a task force. -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 05:49, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
 * As I said I maintain WP:YORKS and would not wish to have task forces to make maintenance more difficult. Keith D (talk) 10:48, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
 * How does this make maintenance more difficult? Nothing changes to the WPYORKSHIRE maintenance. -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 06:43, 6 September 2013 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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