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Assessment

Hope I wasn't out-of-line but I went through and replaced the {{WikiProjectTyneandWear}} tag on articles with the {{WPTyneandWear}} tag, along with an importance rating and in some cases a quality rating. I also created all the associated categories and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Tyne and Wear/Assessment page. I think now we need to go through tagging and categorising as many pages as we can and then start working on lifting them up into decent articles.

John the mackem 01:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tyne and Wear info box

I am not proposing adding a new infobox to any of the articles that already have them - e.g. the cities, the bridges, etc. But there are a number of articles, particularly suburbs and villages where the existing infoboxes aren't fit for purpose. I propose a Tyne and Wear infobox. I feel it should be short and simple so as not to overwhelm the shorter "stub" articles.

How about:

  • Name:
  • Photograph: ? (if available)
  • Location: (using my dynamic-dot Tyne and Wear map when it's finished)
  • Suburb of:
  • Parliamentary constituency:
  • Post code area:
  • Population:

Anything missing? Anything not required? Should this just be for suburbs, etc. or should we make it generic enough for any Tyne and Wear location or landmark?

Once we thrash out the details I am happy to make it. John the mackem 18:39, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thats an excellent idea, what I think is that we could take out the location bit because the suburb name would be included in the Name section, however it's an open discussion and anyone can voice their opinion, at the end though it's up to you as i wouldn't really know where to start to create Infoboxes, I know how to create templates, articles userboxes etc its just infoboxes! Any other comments (also your effort and hardwork in such a small moment of time is greatly appreciated!TellyaddictEditor review! 20:08, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Template:Infobox Tyne and Wear place

Here we go - here's a first pass. Feedback and constructive criticism welcome! Still not convinced the dots are spot on, but they're pretty close. John the mackem 18:31, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not quite sure what you mean - this map is based on the UK Location map used on articles such as Sunderland. Can you point me to an example of one where the place is highlighted in colour? John the mackem 00:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ooppps, my mistake, it is only on major metropolitan county articles such as Tyne and Wear where it is shaded in a colour, my mistake.

Can the map used include the 5 metropolitan boundaries? The infobox already includes a "suburb of" line so showing the district can only help in visualising this. It would also help differentiate between for example Sunderland the town and the City of Sunderland. --garryq 11:22, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good idea Garry, i'll have a play around with it when I get a chance. Are there any other fields you think should be on the infobox or is this sufficient? John the mackem 12:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Borough boundaries are now on. With everyone's permission I will consider this infobox "approved", put a description and instructions on the project front page, then start rolling the box out onto articles. John the mackem 22:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion proposal

Hi, I was just wondering whether it would perhaps be useful to have a slightly wider scope for this project, and rename it as "Wikiproject North East England" - this would then encompass Northumberland and Country Durham as well, which it seems odd to exclude as they're very much a part of the heritage of the region, both geographically and historically. Bob talk 23:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • This is certainly something to consider here, however the logo and navigational side bars would all have to be changed but that probably would not take too long, I could do that because I still have the current logo saved and then just change it some it says WikiProject North East England; do you have any other suggestions? (Also you may wish to consider becoming a member - but this is optional).TellyaddictEditor review! 10:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Tyne and Wear→WikiProject North East England

As mentioned above by a user, they suggested a possible name change so it becomes WikiProject North East England, If you have any opinions (whether it be support or oppose) please list them in this section, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.TellyaddictEditor review! 14:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Changing all of the assesment categories, templates, etc. would be very time consuming. Can we not just keep the names, etc. as they are, but include other North-East articles in the scope, so it becomes a de facto north-east project, if not in name? John the mackem 15:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well I'd be willing to change all of these if that was OK with you and other members of the Project, if I do it would you be OK With that (Note:If you would not mind helping with the categories name change if and when the name is changed then it would be appreicated). When you change the templates so it says for example Article name is supported by Wikiproject North East England once saved it would automatically transclude onto all of the templates in place on articles therefore meaning we would not have to go and change every one individually, any thoughts?TellyaddictEditor review! 19:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't mind, but I just question the value. I'm not saying don't widen the scope of the project, but you are taking on several hours of work for the sake of a name change. I didn't mind doing the groundwork because these categories and the assessment code didn't exist - so I saw it as value added work to put the time in to create them. But I don't think I can justify my time to go through and change them all. But I have no objection in principle. John the mackem 20:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have nothing against it, and don't mind helping with the changeover if someone lets me know how I can help. Dominie 22:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Stuck down in the Sunderland salient its easy to see the advantages of including the north east rather than just one county. I support the change --garryq 11:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea I presume it would cover the area presently covered by Northumbria Police and the North East Ambulance Service ? Jim Sweeney (talk) 14:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tyne an Wear sta infobox

I have made an alteration to this so now it is possible to add platforms. However, i feel i have made it compulsory so this means many boxes will need to be quickly updated. Simply south 01:03, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have made a small amend to the infobox to make platforms non-compulsory DrFrench 11:15, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I may need to think first more at times ;) 11:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

John the mackem

Hi Gents, For your information, I have changed my username from John the mackem to Elysium 73 (anonymity problems... don't ask!). Apologies for the confusion. Elysium 73 22:51, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tyne and Wear places navigator

What do people think of this for the bottom of T&W place articles?

Too big? Too small? colours not right? Let me know your thoughts.

Elysium 73 22:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

:: Sorry for the late reply, did you make this - its really good, I'll help add them on to articles shortly! Thanks, also I no longer edit as Tellyaddict but now as Aquasplash, sorry for any inconvenience caused! Aquasplash 20:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice, although it might be quite nice if it was collapsable, i.e. Template:England topics or Template:Anglican Cathedrals in the United Kingdom. You could perhaps make it so that the larger areas, such as Gateshead, are visible and then the smaller places in its district are shown when a button is clicked. Bob talk
That is a good idea. I will have a look at doing it that way. Elysium 73 21:21, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK - so it's now collapsable. Feedback? Elysium 73 01:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's really good, well done. Bob talk 11:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK cheers. Feel free to roll it out guys, and improve it as necessary. I will stick some instructions on the project front page. Elysium 73 15:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I know your probably thinking I'm trying to confuse you, I am back to using the Username Tellyaddict per Nishkid64 making me realise that it was a bit silly, although he/she did not say this I knew myself it way, anyway I'm back as Tellyaddict. As-well as this I think that newly improved navigation box for the bottom of T&W locations is great, it looks even better than before now some of the areas are hidden, it looks really neat and tidy! Regards - Tellyaddict (Talk) 18:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Borough should be capitalised... and why not Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside/North Tyneside as well, as that's what they are? In fact, the official titles are Gateshead MB, STMB and NTMB respectively — superbfc [ talk | cont ]03:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was just going off the titles of the Wiki articles. Be bold and update as necessary. Elysium 73 03:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, and Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead is capitalised in the article titie. Why rely on Wikipedia for everything??? Why not make your own decision to refer to things properly? It just looks a bit strange having some places as SOMETHING of SOMEWHERE and others just as the place name. — superbfc [ talk | cont ]21:50, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, calm down. If it's wrong, change it. Don't mouth off at the person who spent hours making it and got a capital letter wrong. Jeez. Elysium 73 23:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies - nice work, I was just asking a couple of questions. Sorry if I came across as being negative. — superbfc [ talk | cont ]15:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No biggie. Elysium 73 16:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unassessed articles

Could any members please assess any articles which need assessing, a list can be found by clicking on the assessment on the side bar of the project page and then clicking unassessed on the table, however their must be more than approximately 70 places which fall within the scope of WikiProject Tyne and Wear, any help in finding articles not yet tagged on the article talk page would be greatly appreciated. Regards - Tellyaddict (Talk) 18:40, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've just found a category in which altogether which has a large number of places relating to Tyne and Wear which are unassessed, it also has loads of subcategories as-well so their must be thousands of unassessed articles. I'm going to give a hand with this. The categories are located at:

If you see anymore could you please add them, thanks and any help in assessing would be appreciated.Best Regards - Tellyaddict (Talk) 12:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Name change

Due to comments left by members about the previous name change of the project, it has temporariliy been on hold to reach a community concensus, because the name change seems to be supported by many, I will in the near future be leaving templates on the category talk pages asking them to be rename to WikiProject North East England, I will be changing the logo and the sub page names so hopefully everything will be changed over within the near future. Best Regards - Tellyaddict (Talk) 18:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have completed most of the change over over from WikiProject Tyne and Wear to WikiProject North East England, the templates, infoboxes, etc have all been renamed with a new image, all thats left is the categories but I have added the appropriate template to the talk page of the categories and specifically asked an administrator to rename them ASAP so it would b exactly the same but it will just say North East England instead of Tyne and Wear, I'll post here when the change over is fully complete. Best Regards - Tellyaddict (Talk) 16:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Great, thanks. Incidentally, have we thought about getting the North East England Portal up and running again? It's not really been altered much following its creation in 2006, but could be a good place to link our better project-related articles. Bob talk 22:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I created the portal (thanks for inviting me), it's no problem at all if you want to resuscitate it, I can't update it regularly at the moment; plus, this Wikiproject can probably decide better than me what should be on it - I always tried to choose things to represent the whole north-east rather than just the cities of the region (although these are important of course).
You could maybe also consider changing the shortcut (WP:NEE) to link to the Wikiproject instead of the portal, or use WPR:NEE as well. Cheers! - Responsible? 16:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shortcut

Do you think the shortcut to this project should change? Or is it okay as WP:T&W? Of course others can be added. Simply south 22:22, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be adding them in the near future, all that is left of the change over is for the categories to be renamed, an administrator has said they will do this shortly, I'll add the shortcut soon, I know I've said before but if you want to put your list onj the list of participants then please do! Thanks! Best Regards - Tellyaddict (Talk) 12:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New infoboxes

A new infobox has been developed for use on UK places articles. If you have any concerns or appraisals, please make them at Template talk:Infobox UK place. Regards, Jhamez84 02:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Metro station plates

Station names in infoboxes should really be rendered as text rather than an image, for accessibility reasons. Would there be any great objection to putting them back to text? Chris cheese whine 15:29, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Strong objections. Accessibility is not an issue, the article name is in plain text and each image file has a caption tage that can be rendered by accessibility softwtare.

DrFrench 21:06, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, my bad, I should have clarified this. Any valid objections? As in, grave-enough-to-upset-the-image-use-policy valid. Chris cheese whine 21:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New map

Hello NE England team! I've spent some time developing maps for use in the new UK place infobox. Greater Manchester and Greater London have been using them (see examples such as Acton, London and Salford) with great success.

I've created one for Tyne and Wear using the same format (I intend to get some consistency across the UK for conurbations so we can rival other country's articles).

It can be viewed here. If you could check it is OK (particularly in terms of accuracy) and get back to me on my talk page with your endorsments or insults, I'd be very grateful. If all is well I hope to upload this version then move on to the West Midlands. Jhamez84 14:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox flag straw poll

Hello fellow editors. A straw poll has opened today (27th March 2007) regarding the use of flags on the United Kingdom place infoboxes. There are several potential options to use, and would like as many contrubutors to vote on which we should decide upon. The straw poll is found here. If joining the debate, please keep a cool head and remain civil. We look forward to seeing you there. Jhamez84 11:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Durham has been moved!

Not an April fool unfortunatley. User:Feedyourkoalanow has put a redirect to Durham, North Carolina into the Durham space and displaced Durham (UK) to Durham, UK. Aside from the mess that has been left - including 1. Durham, England treble redirects to Durham, North Carolina via Durham, Durham, England and Durham, 2. a link on Durham to the disambiguation page as been lost and 3. around 1000 articles expect "Durham" to be Durham in England, as far as I can tell this is contrary to the previous consensus that Durham (UK) should be at Durham. I have attempted to patch up the mess but, the software wont allow me to revert fully. Pit-yacker 02:16, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see the problem, is their anything I can do to help this matter, any other help wold be appreciated.Tellyaddict 15:11, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
All fixed now. Shimgray | talk | 15:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

People, the {{Infobox North East England place}} has been deleted! Tellyaddict 12:59, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I possibly shouldn't have done this

WP:RM on Newcastle Central station again. I prefer to go through official channels though.

Besides, it is not a gramatical error as it is used by the Tyne and Wear Metro. Simply south 13:38, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think its OK, happy editing.Tellyaddict 20:44, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A new project has been formed for ancient and medieval Norse history and culture, both in Scandinavia and in the various areas around Europe and the North Atlantic where Norsemen settled. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 15:02, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

I thought I'd bring it to everyones attention incase you missed it before but {{Infobox North East England place}} has been deleted per WP:TFD, does anyone know any other infoboxes which could be used instead? Tellyaddict 12:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

{{Infobox UK Place}} now covers this. See the discussion especially the archives regarding suburbs. Regan123 11:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

People from Categories

A discussion has been opened at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London#Category:People from Ealing by district about upmerging local area categories for People from... into current local government boundaries only. This could have implications across the whole of England if carried through. Your are invited to join the discussion. The proposer is planning a massive merge by 22nd June if no objections are received. --Regan123 11:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Darlington has been moved!

Our friends in the US have yet again decided that an English town doesnt have rightful claim to the article space it has. This time it is Darlington which has now been moved by User:Ace Frahm to Darlington (England). Whilst I believe WP convention means Darlington has strongest claim to the space Darlington, the user at least this time put a mention on the talk page about a month ago (somehow despite it being on my watch list I missed it). If this move is kept, I suggest it isnt - even it doesnt move back to Darlington it should move to Darlington, County Durham per UK settlement convention, this move has caused a lot of collateral damage with articles now linking to the wrong page. Pit-yacker 13:13, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've put the redirect back until the original mover fixes the mess. Frankly I think we should put this onto WP:RM Regan123 23:38, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This has now been moved back by another user. Move along, nothing to see here :-) Regan123 17:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've just discovered that Tellyaddict, founder of this project, has been unearthed as a Sockpuppet and banned (see here). That strikes me as a bit surprising and a little odd. Can anyone with a bit more knowledge and a firmer finger on the pulse perhaps elaborate for me?  — MapsMan talk | cont ] — 18:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Blyth, Northumberland FAC

If anyone's interested, I've nominated Blyth, Northumberland for FA (candidate page). If anyone would like to comment or offer their support it would be very much appreciated, thanks. Dbam Talk/Contributions 18:00, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Save Uptons?

E. Upton and Sons is currently up for deletion - I imagine you are the best people to argue the case for it and supply references to prove that it deserves keeping. FlagSteward 23:48, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Guidelines

Hello WikiProject North East England participants,

Just a line that I've added som trans-WikiProject guidelines for settlement articles to this project's mainspace. WP:UKCITIES are guidelines from the "mother" WP:UKGEO project based on those at WP:CITIES (A "global" WikiProject for settlements that is US driven). They have been employed by a number of articles to standardise content, obtain a consistent style and approach and drive them towards good and featured article status with considerable success, and are so far also endorssed by Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester, Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire, Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sheffield, Wikipedia:WikiProject Kent, Wikipeadia:WikiProject Somerset amongst many others.

It is in this capacity I've considered it a fair rationale to add these. I hope it's not contentious in any way! Best of luck with the project! -- Jza84 · (talk) 11:06, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tyne and Wear Transport

I think thre is enough information around and to be added that there should be an article on transportation in Tyne and Wear. If nobody minds or if anybody would like to contribute. I will probably create it within the next few days. Simply south (talk) 01:11, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot talk page tagging for Assessment purposes? / complete transition from WPTyneandWear

Would I be right in thinking that Wikipedia:WikiProject North East England/Assessment is currently "broken", in that it'll not be picking up articles tagged by {{WPNorthEastEngland}}? Talk pages with {{WPNorthEastEngland}} are categorised as "x-Class WikiProject Tyne and Wear articles". Many pages are tagged by {{WPTyneandWear}}. Presumably all aspects of the project should transition to North East England nomenclature.

If so, would there be agreement that we might find ourselves a bot to do a couple of things:

  1. Replace all instances of {{WPTyneandWear}} with {{WPNorthEastEngland}}?
  2. (Recategorise {{WPNorthEastEngland}} as "x-Class WikiProject North East England articles" & amend the assessment page)
  3. Tag all talk pages in selected categories with {{WPNorthEastEngland}} to seed article assessment?

The last of these two - tagging by bot - caused a bit of a rumpus in WikiProject:GreaterManchester, when it recursed through caterogories & picked up a bunch of footballers ... nevertheless I will not live long enough to tag everything in Category:Villages in Northumberland &c ... would there be objections to considering bots? ==Tagishsimon (talk) 00:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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 "{{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 14:11, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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 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 the following template on your project page:

{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription|banner=WPTyneandWear}}

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)[reply]

 Done Craigy (talk) 14:17, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 (talkcontribs)

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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 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 20:37, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:CatScan, for example:

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)[reply]

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)[reply]