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Welcome to the Greater Manchester WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Greater Manchester, England. We cover the cities of Manchester and Salford and the boroughs of Tameside, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Wigan and Trafford.
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| User | Location | Interests and specialist knowledge | Any relevant printed sources available |
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| Pit-yacker* (talk) | Manchester City Centre, South Manchester, University of Manchester | ||
| Jza84* (talk) | Shaw and Crompton | Greater Manchester, Oldham (and wider borough), civic history | *Tradition in Action: The Historical Evolution of the Greater Manchester County, *Looking back at Crompton, *Cotton Mills of Oldham, *Textiles; It Happened Round Greater Manchester |
| Dpaajones* (talk) | Manchester / Shropshire | City of Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester City Centre | |
| Mr Stephen* (talk) | Stockport & South Manchester. | ||
| Fingerpuppet* (talk) | Former resident of the area! | Various bits and bobs, really! | |
| Erebus555* (talk) | West Midlands | Architecture and buildings in the area | |
| Oldelpaso** (talk) | Manchester | Sport | Various Manchester City F.C. related books (list) |
| Ecco1983* (talk) | Radcliffe, Greater Manchester | Entertainment, the Bury borough | |
| Peteb16* (talk) | Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester | ||
| Fursday* (talk) | Withington, Greater Manchester / Greater London | Manchester Academy, University of Manchester, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Withington, a few other bits and pieces | |
| Malleus Fatuarum* (talk) | Stretford | The Trafford area | |
| MeanStreets* (talk) | Bolton/London | Bolton, Manchester, Music, Manchester City, Fred Dibnah, Bolton Schools, Nightlife | Mighty City! |
| Joshii* (talk) | Live in Greater Manchester. | Manchester, Tameside, Economy of county. | Manchester: A History by Alan Kidd (2006) |
| M A Mason* (talk) | Grew up in Saddleworth, live in Middleton | Saddleworth, and its villages. I keep an eye on Oldham, Rochdale, Middleton, and other such places too. Editing mainly related to history. | The Saddleworth Story, Victorian Saddleworth, Collected Articles on the History of Middleton |
| ricmitch* (talk) | Lived in Ramsbottom all my life. | Ramsbottom and surrounding area, Bury, Rochdale | |
| BadBoyTC* (talk) | I live a bit outside Hathershaw in Oldham. | Cars, PC's, Gadgets, Around Hathershaw | |
| Dep. Garcia* (talk | Police officer, GMP | ||
| GRB1972* (talk) | Southport | Walkden, Bolton & Manchester. | |
| Richerman* (talk) | Prestwich most of my life, also lived in Shuttleworth for 8 years | Local area around Prestwich, contributed articles on Kersal Moor and Drinkwater Park. | Broughton and Cheetham Hill in Regency and Victorian Times by Monty Dobkin |
| WebHamster* (talk) | Interested primarily in Levenshulme. I'm a web designer, IT consultant, layout artist and amateur photographer. If it counts I'm also an ex-paramedic who used to work in the Manchester inner city area. Just started a total rewrite of the Belle Vue Zoo article. | ||
| Geotek* (talk) | Bolton area, Stockport & Manchester / GMC Fire Brigades | ||
| Nev1* (talk) | Trafford and Tameside | ||
| Faz2105* (talk) | Oldham | Oldham, transport, sport | |
| Parrot of Doom* (talk) | Flixton | I grew up in Radcliffe. My main interest is local history, see my page for pages I've contributed to. I love cycling along canals and things, taking photographs as I go. | I have a small collection of postcards of Flixton, Urmston, Davyhulme. One day I'll get around to uploading them all to Wikimedia Commons. |
| Carl* (talk) | Currently Leigh | Wigan, Abram, Leigh | |
| Hiddenfromview** (talk) | Stalybridge | Manchester Airport, Tameside, Manchester Grammar School, Stalybridge, generally anything I happen to know something about | |
| Freakypunk rd* | Prestwich | North Manchester, Subculture, Public Transport, Greater Manchester Media. | |
| ukexpat* (talk) | Grew up in Brooklands, now living in the USA | South Manchester, Sale, Brooklands, William Hulme's Grammar School | |
| Basketball110* (talk) | Live in US, go to Manchester yearly | ||
| Hickipedia* (talk) | Rochdale, my whole extended family lives in Rochdale | Greater Mancheser transport, Rochdale, Rochdale Town Center. I have a vast knowledge of the Norden area and the transport in Greater Manchester - I also know about much of the music and culture being a musician in the area, if that counts | I actually have one of the original Lancashire Sings Again books, if that counts. Also "50 Facts About Rochdale" |
| User:GuardianAngel18* (talk) | Tameside I know alot about the history of the area including schools, shops and much about the built up and natural environment. | ||
| Polishname* (talk) | South Stockport, especially Cheadle. I can do some photography round the region also. | Some books on Cheadle. | |
| Jimet* (talk) | Limefield, a small suburb on the north of Bury, east of the River Irwell | Bury, and its districts as far as Wikipedia is concerned at this stage | Bury Heritage series Nos 1-7 (Civic Society pamphlets c 1980's), From Parish to Metro (1974), 1846 Before and After (1970), Bury FC The Official History (1999), Hell's Foundations - A Town, It's Myths and Gallipoli (1992), Bury Official Guides (various editions), Greater Manchester Votes (1974), OS map coverage Bury and around 6inches to mile (1970) |
| Abfab27* (talk) | The village of Marple Bridge, Stockport. Grew up in Tameside | City of Manchester, Manchester Metrolink, Tameside, Stockport and South Manchester. | |
| Phon123* (talk) | Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley, Dukinfield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Mottram in Longdendale | ||
| Sharadjalota456* (talk) | Baguley, Greater Manchester | Manchester, Manchester United | |
| Mike Peel* (talk) | University of Manchester | University of Manchester as well as various articles on the buildings in Manchester | Portrait of a University 1851-1951 by Charlton; A Portrait of the University of Manchester 1951-73, and the same for 1973-90, by David and Pullan respectively; The University at War: 1939-1946; Manchester and its region: A survey prepared for the meeting held in Manchester , August 29 to September 5, 1962 by the BAAS |
| Unsy770* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan Athletic | |
| Hassocks5489* (talk) | West Sussex (!) | General copyediting and article improvement, incl. finding sources; transport (esp. railways and photos); spoken versions of articles | Various railway books covering GM stations; anything available in Brighton & Hove or West Sussex Libraries |
| Attenboroughp* (talk) | Middleton and University of Manchester | Greater Manchester in General. I'm happy to take amateur photographs around the city of Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale. | |
| Paypwip* (talk) | Horwich | Horwich, Bolton, Clifton, Rail and Road Transport | |
| Liquidswords* (talk) | South and Central Manchester | Manchester's architecture, primarily Victorian and industrial buildings. (Nothing post-war). | Various |
| Azallen* (talk) | Stockport, Hazel Grove | Stockport County, General Manchester History and Manchester Airport | |
| Man2* (talk) | Wigan | ||
| Kieran5676* (talk) | Stockport | South Manchester | |
| James50567* (talk) | Glossop, Derbyshire | Stockport and Tameside, Shopping Centres and other Infrastructure related articles | |
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Assessment and progress of articles
Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Greater Manchester supported articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Greater Manchester (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.
| As of 12 April 2008, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
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Index · Statistics · Log
| Greater Manchester articles |
Importance | ||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 FA |
7 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 22 | ||
| A | 1 | 1 | |||||
 GA |
5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 17 | ||
| B | 20 | 24 | 29 | 25 | 13 | 111 | |
| Start | 18 | 93 | 153 | 231 | 62 | 557 | |
| Stub | 2 | 53 | 129 | 560 | 76 | 820 | |
| List | 3 | 7 | 8 | 18 | |||
| Assessed | 52 | 179 | 330 | 834 | 151 | 1546 | |
| Unassessed | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Total | 52 | 179 | 335 | 834 | 151 | 1551 | |
[edit] Successes and examples
The project was featured in the Wikipedia Signpost on 10 December 2007.
There are currently 22 featured articles or lists relating to Greater Manchester.
Cities and boroughs
Settlements
Landforms
History
Buildings, structures and landmarks
Castles in Greater Manchester- City of Manchester Stadium
- Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester
- List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater Manchester
- List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester
- List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford
- M62 motorway
Sports
- Duncan Edwards
- List of Manchester City F.C. managers
- List of Manchester United F.C. managers
- List of Manchester United F.C. players
- Manchester City F.C.
- Manchester City F.C. seasons
- Manchester United F.C. seasons
Additionally these are good articles that fulfil many but not all featured requirements:
General
Settlements
Small areas
History
Buildings, structures and landmarks
Sports
Other
[edit] Guidelines
- Further information: How to write about settlements
[edit] Did you know?
We at Greater Manchester WikiProject think that Greater Manchester is an important area of the world, and worthy of encyclopedic recognition!
Users are encouraged to nominate eligible articles for the Did you know? section of the Main page.
There are many, many interesting facts about the Greater Manchester area as outlined below (note, each is verifiable with citation found within the article itself). You may wish to add your own trivia you find to this list:
Did you know?....
- Shaw and Crompton once had more millionaires per capita than any other town in the world.
- Ordsall was the birthplace of the bicycle chain.
- Rochdale was the birthplace of the Co-operative Movement - the Rochdale Principles, is a set of ideals for the operation of cooperatives.
- The first successful birth via test-tube baby technology, was in the Royal Oldham Hospital.
- Manchester was the birthplace of the world's first 'stored programme' computer. (first programmable computer).
- Royton was the first town in the world to have a cotton mill . It was also the very last place in the UK to have one built for purpose.
- Middleton has the UK's earliest known war memorial. St Leonard's Church has a window listing the names of the Middleton archers who fought at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513.
- Droylsden's W.M. Christy and Sons Ltd of Fairfield Mills produced the first machine woven towel in the world – the terry towel – in 1851.
- John Rylands was Manchester's first multi-millionaire.
- St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade II listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century? Featured on the Did you know? section on December 21, 2007.
- Many of Manchester's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution? Featured on the Did you know? section on December 27, 2007.
- There are two separate churches dedicated to St Werburgh in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester? Featured on the Did you know? section on December 27, 2007.
- Wythenshawe Aerodrome was Manchester's first purpose-built municipal airfield, but was closed after one year due to the completion of Barton Aerodrome? Featured on the Did you know? section on January 2, 2008.
- The astronomer William Crabtree of Broughton, Greater Manchester, was one of only two people known to have observed the first recorded transit of Venus in in 1639. The other observer was his friend and correspondent Jeremiah Horrocks who was the only astronomer to have correctly predicted the event.
- John Dalton was the first person to describe colour vision deficiency in a paper to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, whilst working at the Manchester Academy, in 1794. Daltonism later became a common term for colour blindness.
- In 1841 Joseph Whitworth devised a standard for screw threads at his company in Openshaw that became the first nationally standardized system, British Standard Whitworth (BSW).
- Bury Castle in Bury was razed to the ground in 1485, 16 years after it was built, because its owner supported the losing side in the Wars of the Roses? Featured on the Did you know? section on 10 January 2008.
- Manchester born, Mother Anne Lee (February 29, 1736 - September 8, 1784) was the leader of the band of Shakers; who emigrated from Manchester to Watervliet, New York due to persecution in 1774 and founded the Shaker movement in America.
- Greater Manchester has nine castles, of which five are Scheduled Ancient Monuments. Featured on the Did you know? section on 24 February 2008.
- A study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle? Featured on the Did you know? section on 27 February 2008.
- Two of Manchester's oldest buildings in Shambles Square were physically moved twice – once in 1974 and again in 1999? Featured on the Did you know? section on 16 March 2008.
- ...that the Upper Brook Street Chapel in Manchester, designed by Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster, is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel? Featured on the Did you know? section on 21 March 2008.
- In 1806, Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world? Featured on the Did you know? section on 29 March 2008.
- ...that Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester (pictured) follows the design of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and rejoins two halves of a road that was sundered in 1969? Featured on the Did you know? section on 5 April 2008.
- ...that The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester, England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre? Featured on the Did you know? section on 10 April 2008.
- ...that Sans Pareil (pictured), one of five locomotives to compete in the 1829 Rainhill Trials, was later used on the Bolton and Leigh Railway? Featured on the Did you know? section on 19 April 2008.
- ...that broken remains of three medieval high crosses were found in 1874 during the construction of Barnes Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, but the location of only one is known today? Featured on the Did you know? section on 21 April 2008.
- ...that the village of Denshaw in Greater Manchester (pictured) achieved international notoriety when spoof information added to its Wikipedia entry was reported in national and international media? Featured on the Did you know? section on 22 April 2008.
- ...that Platt Fields Park in Manchester, England, was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910? Featured on the Did you know? section on 25 April 2008.
[edit] Templates
For templates used for the administration and organisation of the Project and its remit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Templates.
[edit] Online resources
The following table shows useful, reliable sources that have been shared by our members to mutually improve the coverage of Greater Manchester. Websites listed here include primary, secondary and tertiary source material on everything from ancient history to contemporary economic statistics. Members may wish to refer to this section to gather material for developing pages.
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| A select gazetteer of local government areas, Greater Manchester County | A detailed gazetteer of townships, Urban districts and boroughs that today form Greater Manchester. | *Governance *Geography | Suitable for settlement type articles, and as a source about local government history and local government boundary changes. |
| A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 | Detailed local histories of most of Greater Manchester, as well as parts of Liverpool. | *History | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality source full of detailed facts and commentries. |
| Historical and Genealogical Information for the Region Anciently Known as the Salford Hundred | This site exhibits information about the Salford Hundred, its townships, their history and related genealogical information. All of which is supported by a chronological list of events for the region. | *History *Geography | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. Has some maps, etymologies and historical commentry. |
| GMroads.co.uk | History of Greater Manchester's roads, from City of Manchester Plan 1945 - to the Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan 2. | *Transport | Suitable for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| GMBuses.co.uk | Official site of GM Buses, including history and gallery. | *Transport | Suitable for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| A Vision of Britain Through Time | A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. | *History *Governance *Geography *Demography | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality secondary source full of detailed facts and commentries. Particularly useful for historic districts and their population. |
| Neighbourhood Statistics | This site allows you to find detailed contemporary statistics within specific geographic areas, for example within a civil parish, or postcode area. | *Demography *Economy | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality primary source with in-depth analysis of data. |
| A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) | Contains detailed historic topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in England. Originally published in 1848 in four volumes, here given together digitally. | *History *Geography *Geology | Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality, historic primary source. |
| visitmanchester.com | The official tourism website for Greater Manchester. | *Economy *Tourism *Culture | Suitable as a source about landmarks, places of interest and elements of the economic activity of Greater Manchester. |
| The SELNEC Preservation Society | Website principally involved with the cataloging and preservation of public passenger buses from the Greater Manchester area from 1968. | *Transport | Suitable only as a tertiary source for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. |
| Geograph.org.uk | The Geograph British Isles project is an open source collection of geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the British Isles. Contains images of Greater Manchester avalible for use on articles under the Creative Commons licence. | *Photographs | Suitable for all articles related to the project. |
| The Manchester Geographical Society | Resources concerning local geography such as fieldwork guides, physical geography, transport geography, historical geography, canals etc. Also sells early copies of "The North West Geographer" journal and has later copies available for free download | *Geography | Suitable as source for a wide range of geographical material such as physical geography, transport history, use of urban space, impact of urbanisation etc. |
| A Key to English Place Names | A searchable index of place-names, their origin and possible meaning. | *Toponymy | Suitable as a source that offers suggestions what place names may mean for a given number of places. |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Authoritative biographies of important historical figures | *Notable residents | Used to be a subscription only site, but almost all of the GM boroughs now seem to have joined, so all you have to do is to enter your local library card number. |
| Greater Manchester Lieutenancy Office) | Website of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester. | *History *Governance *Culture. | Predominantly about the ceremonial post and its duties, but also some history and coverage about Greater Manchester as a whole. |
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