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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject West Midlands/Archive 2
Lyndon, West MidlandsI see we currently have an article at Lyndon, West Midlands. This appears to cover the ward in Solihull that covers the area north of Olton up to the Birmingham border. The article itself states that "area is not generally called Lyndon", but, looking at maps, nor does there seem to be a specific name for this area. However, the local library is called Hobs Moat library,[1] the church states that it serves the parish of Hobs Moat [2] and the majority of the public amenities in the area around Hobs Moat Road/Ullieries Road appear to use the Hobs Moat name for the locality (e.g. [3]). Would a page move be in order? Or alternatively the creation of a new article at Hobs Moat? DWaterson 00:11, 21 September 2007 (UTC) Article assessmentsMany other wikiprojects are assessing articles within their scope and considering the scope that this wikiproject covers, it seems right to me that we should start doing so. It would take time and we would have to agree on what would be considered a B-class or Start class article etc etc. What are your thoughts on this? - Erebus555 16:43, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Inkberrow, WorcestershireCan someone please go around Inkberrow and take some photos of it (principally the pub, church, local country houses, etc.)? I am starting a WikiProject for The Archers and need some images for it.--Vox Humana 8' 14:41, 19 October 2007 (UTC) Hi there Would anyone from this project be prepared to look at this FAC? it's currently somewhat stalled, with only one editor having expressed a support/oppose opinion........ Cheers!! ChrisTheDude 11:35, 8 November 2007 (UTC) Stephen Whalley, 21, from Bloxwich was one of the victims of the Birmingham Pub BombingsIs it technically possible to see his name pop up in Category:People from Bloxwich even though he does not have a dedicated Wikipage? Also I am currently involved in mediation about the inclusion of a full list of the victims in the article proper here The article is tagged as being in the scope of both this project aswell as Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Republicanism. I have been failing in my attempts to educate some of the members of that project that these people are simply not all dead Brummies. Any input is welcome (even if you disagree with my opinion!). Aatomic1 18:05, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone confirm that there is an area called Jericho in Birmingham? Now known to Google. The article's original text related to Oxford. This seems to be a mis-informed article. Oosoom Talk 13:21, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
West Bromwich Albion F.C. GAWest Bromwich Albion F.C. is now a Good Article. I've added it to the Showcase article list for this project. Cheers. --Jameboy 18:47, 2 December 2007 (UTC) Proposed deletion: Tipton Green Junior SchoolTipton Green Junior School (via WP:PROD on 21 December 2007)
Birmingham categoriesWhy are some categories called "X in Birmingham" (eg Category:Nightclubs in Birmingham) and some are called "X in Birmingham, England" (eg Category:Museums in Birmingham, England)? As the articles are all called Birmingham/History of Birmingham/Government of Birmingham without adding England on the end, shouldn't the categories follow the same convention? There was a similar discussion here Category_talk:Birmingham,_England that came to the same conclusion, but nothing seems to have come of it. Should anything be done about it? If so, does anybody know how to go about it? JimmyGuano (talk) 21:08, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Ladywood page a stereotyped caricature evidently written by a non-resident!I live in a tower block in Ladywood ward and was horrified to read the ignorant negative stereotype presented on the Ladywood page. I will do a little editing in next day or so. Might add a photo too. -Resident —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.53.245 (talk) 10:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Coventry proposalSnowmanradio has proposed the creation of a Coventry WikiProject. To show your interest, add your username to the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Coventry. It might be worth thinking about a Birmingham WikiProject. Thoughts? - Erebus555 (talk) 16:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Photographs of courtsIf any West Midlands-based photographers could take snaps of courts in their neck of the woods (e.g. Birmingham Crown & County Court, Coventry Crown and County Court, Telford County Court, Wolverhampton Crown & County Court, local magistrates courts) and add them to
Wikiproject:CoventryI have enough interest to start this as a wikiproject with six people indicating an interest at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Coventry. I think some of these are also members of the wikiproject westmidlands, so I wondered about forming wikiproject:Coventry a sub-project of the west midlands project, although this was not my original intention. Snowman (talk) 19:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Question/ProposalJust a question about the function of this WikiProject. I'm interested largely in Shropshire articles, but I don't feel the county is important enough, or has enough articles to warrant its own WikiProject. I'm sure i'm in a similar situation to contributors to Herefordshire, Worcestershire etc counties (e.g. ones within the West Midlands region). Anyway, I was just wondering, would it not be a good idea to widen this project to cover the region, and then create task forces for the individual counties? I know I would certainly be interested in a Shropshire taskforce. Anyway, It's clear that this WikiProject is devoted primarily to the county, particularly Birmingham (and rightly so given the project's definition!), but I think it could be a good opportunity for the project to expand, and may be a better way to coordinate the efforts of contributions to West Midland counties, rather than setting up seperate WikiProjects for every county. Any thoughts? Thanks, Asdfasdf1231234 (talk) 20:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Red linksI ran a wiki tool to find red links in the pages in the West Midlands category. It is possible that relevant pages have already been made with a different name. Pages with more than three red link are listed: Snowman (talk) 12:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Infobox Maps IIAs mentioned above (one year ago - has it really been that long?), the West Midlands county infobox map as some issues. There are some problems with settlements not being located in the correct place on the map using the co-ordinates - they all seem to be shifted towards the centre (or east) of the map somewhat. I have absolutely no idea how to even attempt to fix it, so I'd appreciate it if someone who does could look at it? Obvious incorrect placings are on the Stourbridge article, whilst Wednesfield, Ashmore Park and Bradley, West Midlands all end up in the wrong borough. It only seems to affect articles in the western half of the map - if anything Castle Bromwich is coming out too far west. Fingerpuppet (talk) 22:15, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
This article is currently assessed as being of B-class quality, although, in my view it is better than this. Before I submit it for Good Article status, what other work may need to be done to the page? - Erebus555 (talk) 14:49, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
There is a proposal to split List of schools in the West Midlands into more manageable lists. There is a discussion on the article talk page. - Erebus555 (talk) 14:59, 5 April 2008 (UTC) Museums in the West MidlandsCould 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 West Midlands. 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 "{{WikiProject Museums}}" 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.— Rod talk 14:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC) Google map BirminghamAnyone noticed that Google have updated their aerial/satellite maps of Birmingham? Oosoom Talk 17:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment schemeAs 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.
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) 21:33, 4 July 2008 (UTC) Hello team, Just a note that your not too distant relation Greater Manchester is up for FAC at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Greater Manchester. Your input and help would be very welcome. :-) --Jza84 | Talk 02:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC) Articles flagged for cleanupCurrently, 1496 articles are assigned to this project, of which 212, or 14.2%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) 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 a 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) 16:38, 28 July 2008 (UTC) Monarch's WayHi, Can I ask for some help, from the experts in this WikiProject, with the Monarch's Way article. It is a 615 miles (990 km) long-distance footpath in England that approximates the escape route taken by King Charles II in 1651 after being defeated in the Battle of Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea and passes through the area covered by this WikiProject. The article is a stub at present but some of us are trying to expand it and give details of the route (along the lines of the South West Coast Path which is currently a GA). We are using Talk:Monarch's Way as a communal sandbox for this and if anyone was able to add description, settlements, places of interest etc along the route for their local area this would be really helpful.— Rod talk 12:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC) PhotographsThere are quite a lot of photographs on buildings in Birmingham that have an appropriate copyright that can be uploaded to commons from flickr here. Snowman (talk) 21:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC) Otherwise leave a list oif local things needed and I will take them for you Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for West MidlandsWikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 23:20, 15 September 2008 (UTC) I have spent the last couple of weeks rewriting the Jewellery Quarter article in my user sandbox and I put the new article up yesterday. However, there is the slight problem of assessing the article. I'm appealing for another user to assess the article as I'm a bit worried that my bias might creep into the decision. I don't think it would be fair if I did it. Thanks! - Erebus555 (talk) 20:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC) Features on the River TamePlease add features on the River Tame, and their coordinates, to the table on River Tame (West Midlands). Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC) Penns Hall datesThe dates on Penns Hall don't make sense; please see talk:Penns Hall. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:49, 28 September 2008 (UTC) Image needs replacement - West Midlands (region)Hello all... An image used in the article, specifically Image:KEASTON Main.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best. You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 01:15, 5 October 2008 (UTC) Category:Wikipedians_in_BirminghamSome of you may wish to add your self to Category:Wikipedians_in_Birmingham. One way to do so is to add {{User Brum}} to your user page. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC) Missing coordinatesMany West Midlands articles are missing coordinates; You can find them using the Wikipedia:CatScan tool, using this CatScan search (note that CatScan is slow, and may take up to a minute before it starts producing results). Alternatively, if CatScan is down or very slow, you can find them by looking through Category:United Kingdom articles missing geocoordinate data. These articles are currently marked with {{coord missing}} templates, which need replacing with filled in {{coord}} templates containing their latitude/longitude data. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please do so. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 07:19, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Martineau FamilyI started Martineau Family (Birmingham), but it could do with being expanded. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:59, 27 October 2008 (UTC) S-PlanThe article S-Plan details IRA activity in Great Britain during 1939/40. There are a number of references to places and events in Birmingham and the Black Country, which could do with checking and cleaning up, and possibly repeating n articles about the places concerned, if anyone's interested. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:50, 22 November 2008 (UTC) Raymond Forbes-KingsI've tagged new article Raymond Forbes-Kings as a copyvio of [5]; but he looks like an interesting subject, being a Birmingham sculptor who worked with William Bloye. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC) Second City derbyDoes somebody want to follow up on this discussion thread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Birmingham_derby#.27Better_known.27_and_.27Also_known.27 ? I'd have a go myself but I'm not au fait with such things and I'm sure there's someone here who would do it better than I. Matthew (talk) 15:55, 30 December 2008 (UTC) Listed building category listingsA recent slew of edits like this one have left Category:Grade I listed buildings in the West Midlands looking a real mess, with everything in Birmingham listed under "B", regardless of the title. Was this discussed before it was done? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
West Midlands Library: free images, maps etc.West Midlands Library: free images, maps and other local resources: http://www.westmidlandslibrary.co.uk/ Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:11, 6 January 2009 (UTC) Announcement: The 2009 Structural Changes in Local Government in England: A Taskforce
Many thanks. DDStretch (talk) 22:00, 15 January 2009 (UTC) (on behalf of the taskforce)
I thought it would be relevant given the presence of Telford and the 5 mile radius. DDStretch (talk) 23:37, 15 January 2009 (UTC) Handsworth muralsThere is some information to be gleaned from http://www.flickr.com/groups/birmingham/discuss/72157612754331346/, and perhaps pictures we can use. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:07, 21 January 2009 (UTC) I've been working on the article for quite some time now, and it's now not too bad, as far as I can see at least! Unfortunately, I'm now starting to run out of ideas about how to improve the article, and would appreciate some help. Ta muchly! Fingerpuppet (talk) 18:11, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
New book from The Victorian Society: Birmingham's Victorian ArchitectsSeen on their Facebook group:
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AndrewRT(Talk) 21:16, 13 April 2009 (UTC) Category:People from Birmingham, EnglandWhy do we have Category:People from Birmingham, England when the article is simply "Birmingham" (due to primary usage)? In other words, why is category space disambiguated differently to article space? --Jameboy (talk) 18:23, 25 May 2009 (UTC) England at GAC!Alerting all WikiProject West Midlands members that England is undergoing a review for WP:GA status. Things you can help with are listed here. Please help if you can... England expects that every man will do his duty.... :) --Jza84 | Talk 16:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Sutton Coldfield transmitting stationThe coordinates the infobox (and {{Coord}}) on Sutton Coldfield transmitting station are correct when checked against Google Maps, and are in Birmingham, but the red dot on the map is outside the city boundaries. Is the map image at fault, or something else? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:33, 14 September 2009 (UTC) Possiobly free images of BirminghamSlides by Phyllis Nicklin of Birmingham in the 1960s are "available to download and redistribute for non-commercial purposes". Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:42, 18 October 2009 (UTC) I know an ex-reporter for the Observer, so I created this stub. Could you give me some help here? --Orange Mike | Talk 19:00, 22 December 2009 (UTC) WP 1.0 bot announcementThis message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl (CBM · talk) 04:09, 22 January 2010 (UTC) Chelmsley Wood edit warI'd like to request some help and advice with the page Chelmsley Wood which has been the subject of edit wars probably since the article was created. It surrounds the issue of whether we describe Chelmsley Wood as being in Solihull or Birmingham. Some users are intent on describing it as in Solihull, and will delete any reference to Birmingham in the lead of the article. Other users seem to have the opposite opinion. As locals will know, officially it's in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and residents pay their council tax as such. However the area comes under the post town of Birmingham, not Solihull, and the Office of National statistics counts it as part of the settlement of Birmingham, not Solihull (see talk page for source). Further, some local residents say they live in Solihull, others say Birmingham. It's all a bit complicated and a very polarising issue for people in the area. I am of the opinion that wikipedia must acknowledge that it is in both areas in different ways. I think the best compromise is that the lead of the article describes it as in the West Midlands first, then it should go on to explain it as part of the Borough of Solihull, and officially also part of the settlement/post town of Birmingham. I recently changed the lead to be worded like this, and I also added the 'UK place' infobox so that the map can show where it is. This hasn't satisfied some anonymous IP users though who have still continued to make changes. The admin have now semi-protected the page for 3 days to put the edit war on hold. I was just wondering if any project contributors have any opinions or ideas on how to come up with a more permanent solution. Thanks Abc30 (talk) 18:55, 11 February 2010 (UTC) New category for parks
Hardman & Co.Hardman & Co. could do with some additional work - there's no mention of their premises or continued existence. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:38, 19 February 2010 (UTC) Wheel of BirminghamI would be grateful for someone to take a look and see if the "Update Template" could be removed. I have added some information about the Third Wheel, due for dismantling on 21 February 2010 according to reports on BBC WM. If I get teh chance, I may also get a photo of the dismantling work. -- Robert of Ramsor (talk) 00:43, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
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