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If you are not yet a member of the The Worcestershire project, you are probably receiving this because you have significantly contributed to one of our pages. Now is the time to consider joining - it might help you get some assistance on a page you feel particularly attached to it.
Someone once asked on the project page if they could get a newsletter. The Worcestershire project only has a few members and they most probably have the project pages and major articles on their watchlists, but here goes anyway...
- Great news for 2010!
This year has got off to great start with the promotion of  Malvern, Worcestershire to Good Article status. The GA review process was particularly strict and demanding, and a good thing too, because it sets a benchmark for the quality to be targeted for other articles in the project, even if we do not intend to reach GA with them. Furthermore, and probably most important, this particular review clearly demonstrated what can be achieved with teamwork, and it puts the page on a par with biggies such as Manchester, one of the Wikipedia's flagship English settlement articles. Anyone can go ahead and create an article, and some articles have a major contributor, but it would have been impossible for Malvern to have been promoted without the extraordinary collaborative effort of a dedicated few, spread across three continents in very different time zones, and sometimes tripping over each other at all times of the day and night to get the article up to snuff.
- Recently founded
Since the Worcs project was founded barely seven months ago on 8 June last year, in addition to the creation and maintenance of the project pages themselves. a lot of work has already been done by the Worcs project members, including the creation of stubs for most of the missing settlements in the county, creation and improvement work on Malvern Water, creation and expansion of articles on important schools and one or two biographies in the county, and general repetitive tasks such as keeping spam and vandalism at bay.
- Experts!
All the members of the project have their own specialised fields of interest of course, such as French wine, schools, Lancashire, the Malverns, cricket, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, busses, castles, waterways, or Spike Milligan. However, they all have a common denominator somewhere that brings them together in Worcestershire.
The Worcestershire project mainly concerns settlements. Perhaps after the success of Malvern, the immediate priority now is to improve the articles that really ought to be the flagships of the project, namely Worcester, and Worcestershire. These two are, sadly, some of the articles in the worst state. They have been created long ago and expanded over time by a great many shingle-edit authors and IPs.
- So wotnow? (pun)
A possible suggestion would be to take one of those rather shoddy pages, probably Worcester, the county seat, or the project's eponymous article Worcestershire and do a Malvern job on it. Such a concerted piece of teamwork might even earn the project another major GA - and we now know it can be done!
An attempt at a meet up failed last year - mainly either because some of the most active members of the project live in other countries, or the timing wasn't quite right. We can have another attempt in April, when Kudpung will be back in Malvern for his dad's 90th birthday, and hopefully this will coincide with a home trip to the UK for GyroMagician.
The place to make your suggestions and dicscuss it all is HERE - be sure to have the page on your watchlist!
Would you like to join the WP:WORCS?? Please enter yourself at WP:WORCS! - new editors are always welcome!
Happy Wikying, all the best for 2010, and special thanks again all round for the efforts of the Malvern taskforce, and to everyone else who has contributed to our articles.
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Currently there are two featured articles in Worcestershire.
The top priority articles have been identified as probably being:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, so we can concentrate our efforts on these first. Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Worcestershire.
Other priorities:
- The recommended priority by kind is for creation/improvement of complete articles is:
- Places in the county
- Schools in the county (Particularly susceptible to vandalism - please keep them on your watch lists if possible).
- Transport in the county
- Notable buildings/objects/geo features/AONB/Heritage sites, etc. in the county
- History in the county
- Industry & Commerce in the county.
- People in the county - NOTE: These all need the Worcs project banner adding to their talk pages, and assessing.
- County related articles about things not actually in the county, and/or other related projects.
These lists will help:
Specific aims for the project are:-
- Monitor
The watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
- Infoboxes
Some of our articles need their infoboxes completing infobox.
- References
Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference. If you a re uploadiing an image, be sure it has a correct FUR, and that you have preferably already created a link on the page where you want it to be.
- Moves, merges, and multiple edits
Please be careful when performing articles moves and check if anyone seems to be in the middle of doing the same thing. If he; she, or they are, stop and have a chat about it. Otherwise you may be unintentionally duplicating or reverting each other's work. This is particularly important if an article is currently under a GA review. image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
Imprint
Written by User:Kudpung, WP:WORCS
Based on an original layout & content by WP:YORKS
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