User talk:Cabinscooter

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Dudley[edit]

Hi - saw your edits on the Dudley page and thought you might be interested in this! Matthew 21:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Studley[edit]

I answered your question on the Talk page about the origin of the name - I haven't added it to the article because I can't cite it (I used to live there and remember my History lessons well!), but perhaps if you found a website on the Doomsday book you could cite to that? Kelpin 17:54, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Worcestershire project[edit]

Hi! A WikiProject Worcestershire has now been created to better manage all articles that relate in any way to the county even if they overlap with other categories or projects. Please visit the project pages and if you see listed any articles you have written or contributed to, or if you would like to see more active development of them, don't hesitate to join the project.

news[edit]

The WORCESTERSHIRE Project Newsletter - March 2010

The WikiProject WORCESTERSHIRE Newsletter
No. 2 - March 2010
(Archived here.)

Morgan car factory main entrance, Malvern Link, Worcestershire

Welcome to the second WikiProject Worcestershire newsletter

You are probably receiving this because you have significantly contributed to one of our pages. If you are not yet a participant in the Worcestershire project, now is the time to consider joining - it might help you get some assistance on a page you feel particularly attached to.
Here goes for the second irregular news bulletin...

First GA in 2010

We finally got over our euphoria over the Malvern, Worcestershire promotion to Good Article status. The GA sets a benchmark for the quality to be targeted for other articles in the project, and clearly demonstrated how important teamwork is.

Recently founded

A lot of work has already been done since the Worcs project was started, including the recent tagging of the talk pages of all the articles about people connected with Worcestershire, keeping spam and vandalism at bay, and welcoming new editors on their talk pages.

Experts needed!

The Worcestershire project mainly concerns settlements. It's generally agreed that the immediate priority now is to improve the articles that shiould be the flagships of the project, namely Worcester, and Worcestershire which are some of the articles in the worst state.

Meet up

Kudpung has booked his flight from Asia and will be back in Malvern from 1 April for a month, and looks forward to meeting up with as many Wikipedians as possible, especially those who work on the Worcs project.

NEWS

Two major debates are raging on the 'pedia and we have been cautiously taking part.

WP:BLP (Biography of Living Persons)

In for a shake up is an accumulation of nearly 50,000 totally unsourced articles that may end up on the cutting room floor after a period of grace. As a project, we can help by taking a look at those BLP in the county and doing what we can before the axe falls.

citations

A war almost broke out over citation formats, but a mature approach from Worcs project members prevented any physical injury. There, are only three basic rules for citations: 1. All articles must have them. 2. Consitency of format throughout an articles. 3. Changes to the format require a consensus.
We are not obliged to use citation templates, and WP:LDR might not be such a good idea while chunks of text and/or their references are being copied and pasted around related articles in the county. In any case, let's always discuss what we have in mind HERE.

new project pages

The project main page has been pruned to be cleaner, and much of the support material has been transferred to dedicated pages. New usefull banners and templates have been created, and shortcuts to the new pages that also include a side bar navigator and a brand new easily edited To Do list.

new participant

After all the hints getting him to join, we now welcome User:wotnow !

sysop (admin)

Our only admin has resigned his tools. It would be great to have an active admin as a member of the project. If you think you would be able to cope with all the responsibility adminship involves, checkout WP:RfA and nominate yourself. Nobody needs to have a high edit count or to be an expert in all areas, but being active, having a reasonable overview of the workings of the Wikipedia, and a decent level of maturity, are expected minima. The process is not painless, and is worse than a British army promotion board! Alternatively you can always nominate another user.

Would you like to join the WP:WORCS?? Please enter yourself at WP:WORCS! - new editors are always welcome!

Happy Wikying, and thanks to everyone else who has contributed to our articles.

New project resources

Before making any major edits to articles or stubs, please be sure to read the new WP:WORCS/HowTo. Urgent tasks are now listed at: WP:WORCS/ToDo. It should be referred to often, and will be your main stop for most maintenance tasks. We recommend keeping the page on your watchlist. Most project pages now have brand new side bar for easy navigation. (Thanks, GyroMagician). Priority Articles== The top priority articles have been identified as probably being:

Worcester • Worcestershire • Bromsgrove • Redditch • Kidderminster • Pershore • Malvern St James • Droitwich • tenbury Wells and the suite of former QinetiQ establlishments: * TRE • RSRE • DERA

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:

All Worcs related articles by ABC
Worcs related articles by type.
All Worcs related articles about people by ABC
List of all Schools in Worcestershire
List by Class & Importance: Page 1 All categories except people (not yet tagged with WP banner)
List by Class & Importance: Page 2 All categories except people (not yet tagged with WP banner).

New Aims

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 are 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.

Guidelines

Get your article referenced now!

Imprint
Written by User:Kudpung • All comments to WT:WORCS
Based on an original concept by WP:YORKS

Redditch[edit]

Hi, an image you uploaded to illustrate the Reddich article has been removed from the page by an editor without comment or rationale.--Kudpung (talk) 02:26, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:43, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]