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Photographs of courts

If any Somerset-based photographers could take snaps of courts in their neck of the woods (e.g. Taunton Crown & County Court, Bath County Court, local 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 22:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Wells Cathedral

Could someone re assess Wells Cathedral - I think its a bit more than start class now.— Rod talk 18:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Done, reassessed it to B class. However, will probably do some minor editing on it later.Pyrotec (talk) 18:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

North Somerset Cricket League AfD

The article North Somerset Cricket League has been nominated for deletion. If anyone wants to join in the debate it is at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bristol & District Cricket Association League.— Rod talk 10:59, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Quantock Hills

Could someone re asses Quantock Hills, I think its more than a start now. Obviously any further help to improve it appreciated.— Rod talk 21:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

6 months on - achievements & work to do

It is almost exactly 6 months since this wikiproject started and I thought it would be a good point to review progress, debate future direction & let you know I will be reducing the time I spend on wikipedia.

WikiProject Somerset was proposed on 14 September 2007 by User:Derek Andrews with this edit [1]. Within a few days the basic project page and templates had been set up and 1778 articles had been identified as possibly relevant to the project. Of these 4 were FA standard and 5 GA.

6 months later we have a much clearer focus on the 1756 currently tagged for this project (quite a few having been removed as not relevant & others added) including importance ratings which are automagically included in the "current status" table on the project page. 179 new articles have been created (90 in 2007 & 89 in 2008 so far). Somerset, Bath, Exmoor and Chew Stoke have been promoted to FA and Grand Western Canal, History of Somerset, Roman Baths (Bath) and South West Coast Path have been promoted to GA (with several of the FAs passing through this stage as well). 13 Somerset related articles have appeared on the front page in the DYK section. Of the 5 articles given a top importance rating 1 is FA, 1 GA, 1 B & 2 rated start.

There is still a great deal of work to do ....1047 articles (60% of the total) are stubs, & 608 are start class. Articles rated top importance eg Geology of Somerset, Economy of Somerset & Culture of Somerset need improvement and expansion, as do all of the major settlements at Category:Towns in Somerset, rivers at Category:Rivers of Somerset & the districts ie Mendip, Sedgemoor, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane and West Somerset. There are still several requests for articles, and pointers to those needing verifying references and cleanup, on the "to do" list, and loads of other articles still need work - perhaps members of this wikiproject would like to suggest the areas they think are most important to work on?

I have really enjoyed working with all of you on these over the last six months, however I now need to let you know that I will be reducing the time I spend on wikipedia. I've reached a crucial stage in my doctoral studies and, at work, we about to sign a major contract for a 2 year development which I will be project managing - therefore I'm going to be a bit busy! I will still monitor my watchlist & help out where I can, but will not be as active as I have been in the first 6 months. I would welcome any comments on the progress so far & areas for further work.— Rod talk 21:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the review Rod, and all your work on the project. I have been rather absent lately; first a trapped nerve limited the time I could spend sat at a computer, then I got involved in other projects including a wiki for woodworkers. But I hope to be able to make more of a contribution soon. I am coming home to Wells to visit family in a week or so's time, and hope to get out and about to take some photographs. So if anyone has requests, other than (or more specific than) the list at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Somerset, please leave a note on my talk page. I'd like to get some walking in and some cider drunk, but have no specific ideas where I will be, but most easily Cheddar through Shepton M.

I would like to see Wells rated better than it's current B. Does anyone have thoughts on any local research that I could in Wells that would make a meaningful contribution? Derek Andrews (talk) 17:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Derek, Hope you are feeling better & looking forward to your trip home. Just from the locations given you could look at the articles listed at Quarries of the Mendip Hills. I was reminded about this collection of articles recently when I came across info on Doulting Stone Quarry. As far as Wells goes, we could work it into the structure in the guideline Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements which might require expansion of history & governance sections, & new sections on Geography, Demography, Economy, Transport etc. There are also several unreferenced sections - perhaps we could all do some bits on this article & make it a "collaboration of the month" or similar to meet the Wikipedia:Good article criteria? By the way I've added loads of references (and a few poor pictures) to Wells Cathedral - there is a discussion on it's talk page about what would be needed to bring it to GA with User:Amandajm (who is an expert on gothic cathedrals) offering a radical overhaul. Welcome back to the project.— Rod talk 19:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Re-use outside WP licence?

I just came across a couple of domains, www.rowberrow.co.uk and www.comptonbishop.co.uk which both redirect to www.any-village.co.uk. These pages have a mirror of the relevant WP pages. My guess is that there are thousands of such pages. Oddly enough www.croscombe.co.uk does not (yet) have a copy.

They do acknowledge the source, but don't reiterate the licence. Does anyone here know if this is a violation, and what to do about it. I have spent ages looking through WP docs and still can't find any definitive answers, or anywhere to report it. Any thoughts? Derek Andrews (talk) 18:01, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

The relevant rules & regulations about the reuse of wikipedia articles is at Wikipedia:Copyrights under "Reusers' rights and obligations"— Rod talk 18:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw that but wasn't sure about the interpretation and implementation of it. Derek Andrews (talk) 16:15, 23 March 2008 (UTC)