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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, buildings and structures, companies 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...
  • This task has now passed the 1000 articles related to Derbyshire Tagged with the project banner and 95% or more have been assessed as of Oct 2008.

[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.

Please feel free to add yourself at the end of this list, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Click Here to edit list.

"WikiProject Derbyshire Members"

User name	Location - Date joined	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 - 19 September 2007	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
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
BulldozerD11 * (talk	Derbyshire Border - July 08	Buildings, Companies, Construction, Machinery and Industrial related stuff	Architecture, Construction, Local History, Maps, Tractor, plant, trains etc
Lomcevak* (talk)
Highfields * (talk	Matlock - Nov 08	My Local Area (Schools, Matlock in general etc.), The Peak District, Images (Peak District, Matlock, Derbyshire...)
Wikiert (talk)	Brockwell,Chesterfield	Small districts of Chesterfield
DAFMM*	March 2009.	Local area, transport and biographies etc...	My own knowledge and my research.
Gwilym84*	March 2009.	Kilburn/Horsley/Horsley Woodhouse/Coxbench/Holbrook	Derby/Derbyshire Canals & Local Photographs
Editors Required
Add your Name here	Join Up	Now	Knowledge helps, but enthusiasm counts

[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

Derbyshire articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	GA	2				2
	B	2	9	15	10	36
	C	5	5	36	26	72
	Start	3	41	165	277	486
	Stub		18	117	573	708
	List		3	8	14	25
	Assessed	12	76	341	900	1329
	Total	12	76	341	900	1329

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

[edit] Article alerts

Good article nominations

• 4 Jul 2009 – Peak District (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.

Other news

• 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
• 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
• 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot.

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[edit] Featured content

For All Featured content on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Featured content

Some of the content supported by WikiProject Derbyshire has reached good article (GA) status, meaning they are amongst the best content on Wikipedia, and one step closer to becoming featured articles. They are listed below.

[edit] Articles

Article	Status	GAC	Date promoted
Derwent Valley Mills	Good Article	GAC	15 June 2009
Peak District	Good Article	GAC	2 July 2009

[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:

DerbyshireWikipedia:WikiProject DerbyshireTemplate:Project DerbyshireDerbyshire articles	WikiProject Derbyshire	(Rated High-importance)
	Derbyshire portal v • d • e 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 project's quality scale.  High  This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Or Copy and paste the following and fill in the relevant items;

{{Project Derbyshire
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For full use of this template see {{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:
(The Categories are being systematically checked for project banner tagging of articles. The date is noted along side when done)

[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