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Derbyshire WikiProject
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Welcome to the Derbyshire WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Derbyshire, England. We cover the city of Derby; the districts of Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire and South Derbyshire; the Suburbs of Derby (Allenton, Allestree, Alvaston, Boulton, Chaddesden, Chellaston, Darley Abbey, Derwent, Derwent Heights, Heatherton Village, Litchurch, Little Chester, Littleover, Mackworth, Markeaton, Mickleover, Normanton, Oakwood, Osmaston, Pear Tree, Rose Hill, Shelton Lock, Sinfin, Spondon, Sunny Hill and Wilmorton), as well as "Special Articles" such as University of Derby, Derbyshire County Cricket Club and Derby County F.C.

[edit] Aims

Our aims in the short term are to achieve the following:

• Bring Peak District and Derbyshire up to featured article standard,
• Bring Derby up to good article standard,
• Increase the number of members of the project to ensure we can cover a wide range of topics,
• Continue to get several Did You Know?'s on the Wikipedia:Main Page. (Four authors so far!)

Our long term aims for the project are:

• Improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Derbyshire, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings etc,
• All relevant articles should be included in the Category:Derbyshire or one of its subcategories,
• All Derbyshire related articles should be tagged, and then assessed. A task force for this will follow soon...

[edit] Participants

You don't need to be from Derbyshire to help with this WikiProject. We welcome editors good with layout and prose, and non-Derbyshire editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article. We ask that users be registered, and are familiar with Wikipedia's various policies.

Add yourself to our list of participants here.

Derbyshire Participants
User	Location	Interests and specialist knowledge	Any relevant printed sources available
Bluegoblin7* (talk)	Ashbourne	Trams, Trains, Rock Climbing, Transport, Watersports, and General Derbyshire Stuff	Just my own knowledge!
Erebus555* (talk)
Victuallers* (talk)
Dommccas* (talk)
AxG* (talk)
Linuxlad* (talk)
Xn4* (talk)	In partibus infidelium	Schools, biographies, some villages	DNB, OED, EB, JSTOR, WW, IGEW, etc.
Schumi555* (talk)	Hasland, Chesterfield	Cricket, Schools and local Geography / History	A few articles and books on Hasland and Chesterfield history
WhaleyTim* (talk)	Whaley Bridge	Industrial & Transport History, Goyt Valley & Surrounding Areas	Collection of various local history books, old maps & guide books etc
MightyWarrior* (talk)
Chevin* (talk)	Near the hill which is my nom de plume	History of Derwent Valley. Railway history	Private and public library
Dave Dunford* (talk)	Birch Vale	Walking, history, architecture, natural history.
Rachel Pearce* (talk)	Darley Dale		A few local books
Ning-ning* (talk)
Jellyman* (talk)	Derby	Anything Derby-related, also history, geography, sport, railways, buildings

[edit] Assessment and progress of articles

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Derbyshire supported articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Derbyshire/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Derbyshire (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.

Index · Statistics · Log

Click here to see a monthly break down of the Project's progress.

[edit] Successes and examples

Under Construction

[edit] Guidelines

Under Construction

[edit] Did you know?

Now, this section really can't be described here - the main DYK? section is on the Portal, but soon all the DYK?s that we have had featured on the main page will appear here. We have had three authors so far and there is a fourth in progress Victuallers 12:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Derbyshire/Userbox}} produces:

This user is a member of WikiProject Derbyshire.

{{Project Derbyshire}} produces:

	Derbyshire Portal The article on WikipediaWikiProject Derbyshire is supported by the Derbyshire WikiProject, which is an attempt to improve the quality and coverage of Derbyshire-related articles on Wikipedia.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

For full use of this template see {{Template:Project Derbyshire}}

{{Subst:Derbyshire welcome|Article name}} produces:

Hello WikiProject Derbyshire. You have been invited to join WikiProject Derbyshire, a WikiProject dedicated to improving the Derbyshire-related articles on Wikipedia. You received this invitation due to your interest in, or edits relating to Article name. If you would like to join or just help out a bit, please visit the project page, and add your name to the list of project members. You may also wish to add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Derbyshire/Userbox}} to your userpage.

[edit] Categories

Below is a list of our main categories:

[edit] Useful tools

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Derbyshire

	Administrator Intervention Against Vandalism		Wikipedia Help Desk
	Requests for Adminship		Articles for Deletion
	Templates for Deletion		Miscellany for Deletion
	Images for Deletion		Redirects for Deletion
	Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents		List of Policies
	List of Guidelines		The Three Revert Rule
	Wikipedia Logs		User Warning Templates
	Article Cleanup Templates		Manual of Style

[edit] Things to do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Derbyshire:

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Tagging it up Tag all articles within the scope of the project with {{Project Derbyshire}} The banner can also tag articles that need stats, maps, photos or infobox. See template page above for dscription Add importance and quality as outlined by the assessment department. Make sure this category and this one are allways empty. If you're bored of tagging Populate Category:Villages in Derbyshire and Category:People from Derbyshire. Expand Derbyshire stubs Add images to village and town articles and any of these articles. Make sure all Derbyshire places have a full Infobox and that all these Derbyshire articles have the correct infobox Add statistical information such as census data to all these articles

[edit] New article announcements

[edit] Project images