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Welcome to the Cheshire WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the UK county, Cheshire. We aim to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Cheshire, by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles on people, places, and things resident or native to, or located in Cheshire. We are also the project which maintains the Cheshire Portal.

Goals

To improve all wikipedia articles that are concerned with Cheshire, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, establishments and customs so that as many as possible become Featured Articles.
To maintain, improve, and expand the Cheshire Portal.
Identify 'holes' or omissions in the coverage of Cheshire, and write new articles to remove them.
All relevant articles should be included in the Category:Cheshire or one of its subcategories.

Scope

Articles about all subjects related to Cheshire, including articles on people, places, and things resident or native to, or located in Cheshire.
The Cheshire Portal - its maintainance, expansion, and updating.

[edit] Guidelines

We shall try to follow the Wikipedia:Manual of Style for our articles.

[edit] Open tasks

The process of specifying open tasks is currently taking place on the project's talk page. Please feel free to join in.

Urgent Task

We need to begin to assess all articles that fall within our remit. The new assessments sub-page is now accessible here and can provide guidance on how to do this.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Articles about the following:
- Every parish and/or settlement in Cheshire, together with appropriate templates added (see talk page for some resources, and here for the tables that need completing.)
- Canals in Cheshire (already started)
- The Salt Industry in Cheshire (already started)
- Public Footpaths of Cheshire (already started)
- Roads of Cheshire
- Rivers of Cheshire (possibly closely linked with the canals article)
- Railways of Cheshire
- Archeological Sites of Cheshire
- The Silk Industry of Cheshire
- Public Parks and Gardens of Cheshire
- Religion in Cheshire
- "Firsts" of Cheshire (inventions, structures, etc)
The above tasks might consist in writing new articles, even if they are very brief at the moment, and also in searching out already existing articles on wikipedia that would fall into one of these categories. They should be initially placed into appropriate lists so others can see them and help complete them.
Expand:
Work on the following:
The project's talk page to expand the project page and specify various tasks that need doing;
The Cheshire Portal to expand and maintain it to a high standard.
Other: Urgently begin to assess all articles that fall within the remit of the project.

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

DDStretch (talk) 21:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC) - all over, but probably Crewe and Nantwich and Congleton boroughs in greater detail
--SunStar Net^talk 02:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Pixie2000 10:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
JFBurton 17:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC) - East Cheshire (Kettleshulme, Rainow)
Richard B 13:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC) - particularly N.E. Cheshire.
Regan123 - probably South Cheshire
Phildav76 16:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC) - I designed the generic county template that is below.
JimHxn - Maybe just Vale Royal but i'll see what i can do JimHxn 18:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Salinae Middlewich, Salt etc
Peter I. Vardy 12:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC) NW Cheshire (Runcorn, Widnes, Frodsham etc); local history; history of the chemical industry
Bobo12345 11:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Nev1 15:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
SportingNonsense 09:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Cosmopolitancats 13:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - various, including history and local government reorganisation issues
RickCraig 15:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC) - North Cheshire; Warrington, Lymm and Villages

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[edit] Improving Articles

This entire section gives information about Cheshire-related articles as they progress from simple stubs into becoming Featured Articles with Featured Status. In general, articles should move down into later sub-sections, ending up in the "Featured articles" sub-section at the end. The methods that are used to assess articles are described in the next-but-one main section.

[edit] Articles up to becoming candidates for but not yet attaining Good Article (GA) status

This section deals with the creation of a basic article from simple stub via a short article into one which can be considered, with a little work, to become a candidate for Good Article (GA) status. Articles can be added at any stage in this sub-section. Once an article moves into a later sub-section (1.2 and beyond), it should never return to this one.

[edit] New Stubs

There have been a number of stubs created for civil parishes / settlements in Vale Royal as stubs, namely: Crowton, Dutton, Cheshire, Lach Dennis, Little Leigh, Lower Peover, Manley, Cheshire, Oakmere, Rudheath, Rushton, Cheshire, Sproston, Stanthorne, Sutton, Vale Royal, Whitegate and Marton and Wimboldsley
Mid Cheshire college
Tytherington High School
Baker Way
George Latham (architect)
Saughall
British Salt (salt manufacturer)
Bridgemere
Aston by Wrenbury
Leftwich
Christleton High School

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Cheshire-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

George Ormerod, Cheshire historian
Sir John Chesshyre, lawyer
Thomas Alcock, Vicar of Runcorn
Listed buildings in Runcorn, Cheshire
List of schools in Cheshire
Chester Shot Tower
List of structures built by Thomas Brassey
Castle Park House, Frodsham
Canals in Cheshire
Recreational walks in Cheshire
Salt in Cheshire
Salt Museum, Northwich
Marthall
Henbury

[edit] Already existing Articles that have been substantially reworked or expanded

Please feel free to list Cheshire-related articles here that you have substantially reworked or expanded. This could also include cases where you have added substantial citations and references to an article. (Newer articles at the top, please). Any such articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

Runcorn - considerable re-write
Harriet Shaw Weaver - extension of a stub (political activist born in Frodsham)
Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet - extension of a stub (co-founder of Brunner Mond & Company and Member of Parliament for Northwich)
Hall Caine - major extension of a previous article (author born in Runcorn)
Thomas Brassey - major extension of a stub
Robert Spear Hudson - substantially expanded article (he lived near Chester and played a large part in the civic and religious life of the city).
Round Tower Lodge - stub enlarged into an article.
Chester Zoo - article cleaned up and images added
Cheshire Constabulary
Cheshire

[edit] Achieving Good article (GA) status

Articles in this sub-section are either close to being nominated for Good Article (GA) status (), have been nominated, or have achieved Good Article status. Wikipedia:Good articles gives more information about this status for articles. (Good Article status can be viewed as a sub-goal to achieving Featured Article Status). The criteria an article has to meet or exceed for it to be given Good Article status can be read about here. The process by which an article is nominated for Good Article status can be found here.

[edit] Articles almost ready to nominate for Good Article (GA) status

These articles should be judged to require only a relatively small amount of work before they can be nominated for Good Article status.

[edit] Articles that have been nominated for Good Article (GA) status and which await a decision

Once a decision has been reached, if successful, list the article in the next sub-sub-section; if not successful, then move it back into the first sub-sub-section of this sub-section.

[edit] Articles that have succeeded in gaining Good Article (GA) status

Articles can be listed here for a short while, and, if they are then to be worked on to get them up to Featured Article Standard, they should be moved into the next subsection or stage.

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

None at this time.

[edit] Featured articles

Articles on Cheshire-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. This judged to be the highest level of quality that an article can achieve. Once an article has arrived here, care must be taken to make sure subsequent edits maintain this level of quality.

None at this time

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

People are encouraged to nominate articles that fall within the scope of this project for appearence on the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

Eligible articles may only be up to 5 days old, of at least 1500 characters, or significantly expanded beyond 1500 characters in the last 5 days. They should also satisfy the requirements found here. You should follow the instructions, and then add the nomination in the correct format, and in the correct place.

[edit] Proposed

The following articles have been proposed for the DYK? section of the main page. Please check on the progress of these nominated artifcles, and either move them to the Successful subsection, or remove them from here if they were unsuccessful.

All Saints' Church, Daresbury

[edit] Successful

The following articles have been successfully featured in the DYK? section of the main page:

Mark II on 22 November 2006 (article by Mike Peel)
Round Tower Lodge on 24 January 2007, with major input from Peter I. Vardy
Robert Spear Hudson (businessman) on 24 January 2007, with major input from Peter I. Vardy
Thomas Brassey on 27 January 2007, with major input from Peter I. Vardy
Chester Shot Tower on 11 February 2007 (article by Espresso Addict)
Hall Caine on 1 March 2007, with major input from Peter I. Vardy
George Ormerod on 14 March 2007 (article created by Peter I. Vardy ; nominated by KNM)

[edit] Requests for Help

[edit] Categories

[edit] Article Categories

These are categories that are used to classify the articles for the benefit of end-users of Wikipedia.

[edit] Administrative Categories

These are categories that are helpful to the running and administration of the Cheshire WikiProject. They will (and should) appear on the talk pages of articles.

[edit] Other Resources

[edit] Related UK projects

Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography (almost inactive) Project for getting counties and settlements up to featured status
Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Subdivisions
- Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Subdivisions (Wales) (currently inactive)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Subdivisions (Scotland) (currently inactive)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Subdivisions (Northern Ireland)

Related portals

Portal:Cheshire (maintained by this project)

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