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I implore you to read WP:RS and WP:V... Mattythewhite ( talk) 21:02, 3 August 2016 (UTC) reply

Mattythewhite...While I understand the nature of your action on the relevant page, as a long standing administrator I would also call upon your time devoted to show a bit more due diligence and allow members to contribute effectively and produce sourced verification. In wiki language please refer to H:REV. The addition was made by another user, among a few vandalism attempts. Trying to tidy that through a revert and add the citation only to be hit by another revert to the correct material is counterproductive. As a community let's contribute together and better control the poor edits and vandalism by helping the whole community. • Balch^{Mike   ⋠talk⋡} 21:27, 3 August 2016 (UTC) reply

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If you're going to change the capitalisation then you also need to move the article. Eric Corbett 16:08, 14 November 2016 (UTC) reply

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Worcestershire - one of England's oldest and still existing (with some minor boundary changes) ceremonial and political shires, famous for its nearly 1000 year old cathedral, the River Severn, the AONB of the Malvern Hills, some of the oldest schools in the country, England's fastest growing university, apples, pears, cider and cricket, and of course its world famous sauce. The Wikiproject is now in need of some attention. Created 12 years ago, this project amassed a huge resource for editors working on all kinds of articles and categories related in some way or another to the county. Kudpung is more or less retired from Wikipedia getting on for 2 years ago and it would be good if a group of editors could get it up to date and continue to maintain it.
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The WORCESTERSHIRE Project Newsletter - May 2023

The WikiProject WORCESTERSHIRE Newsletter Issue 3 - May 2023 (Archived here.) Welcome to the third WikiProject Worcestershire newsletter and the first one in (checks notes) THIRTEEN years! When I first joined this WikiProject back in December last year, I was slightly tempted to mark it as inactive, as activity had extremely slowed and there had been no new participants in 3 years. But I have decided to revive this project, as Worcestershire means a lot to me and I know it does for so many others. But as many participants of this project have disappeared completely off Wikipedia, this project is now in dire need of attention and it would be helpful if a group of editors could join me and continue to maintain it. Here goes for the third EXTREMELY irregular news bulletin... What's happened since last time Evolution of Worcestershire county boundaries since 1844 was promoted to Good article on 3 September 2014. Largely the work of Bellow558, a Worcestershire Project member, the article was reviewed by Mike Christie. Hanley Castle High School was was promoted to Good article on 30 August 2012. There are 78 good articles for educational institution of all kinds of which there are 4 GA for secondary schools in the UK. Hanley High School is the first state school in the UK to become GA. Evesham was nominated on 2 December 2010 as a Good Article Candidate. The nomination unfortunately failed due to unforeseen unavailability of the editors working on the article. It only requires minor attention to be renominated. Worcester Castle was awarded Good Article status on 27 October 2011. Largely the work of User:Hchc2009 , the article was reviewed and promoted by User:Malleus Fatuorum. The photo by David Iliff of the medieval cloisters in Worcester Cathedral (pictured above) appeared as picture of the day on 5 October 2016. Urse d'Abetot was awarded Featured Article status on 13 October 2009. Promoted by Karanacs, the article was 96.4% the work of Ealdgyth. It was finally featured on the main page on 14 April 2018. The Battle of Powick Bridge was awarded Featured Article status in 2020 and appeared on the Main Page on 12 February 2023. Worcestershire articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 1 4 6 FL 1 1 GA 4 3 6 13 B 2 5 14 12 33 C 1 5 20 73 2 101 Start 15 51 387 34 487 Stub 1 6 586 19 612 List 3 6 30 39 NA 1 1 23 335 360 Assessed 3 35 102 1,122 335 55 1,652 Unassessed 3 7 10 Total 3 35 102 1,125 335 62 1,662 WikiWork factors ( ?) ω = 6,636 Ω = 5.30 Experts needed! If you notice any editors contributing significantly to Worcestershire-related articles, then please ask them to join this WikiProject, as we need all the help we can get. 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. Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Worcestershire. The current priorities: Population Now that the 2021 census details have been released, most settlement articles need updating. This website: https://www.citypopulation.de/ can be helpful, although you should note this does not collect data from hamlets or small villages. 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. 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. 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). Guidelines How to write about settlements How to write about counties How to write about rivers How to write about people Missing civil parishes There is a project creating missing civil parish articles in England at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Worcestershire currently are: Drakes Broughton and Wadborough Norton and Lenchwick South Lenches Stock and Bradley Stoke, Worcestershire Westwood, Worcestershire Evesham project I am currently planning on reforming the Evesham article to get it up to scratch for another GA nomination. If other editors are interested in helping me then please do, especially if you live in Evesham yourself, as the main photo is from 2008 and is out-of-date as there is a new statue in front of the building. On the newsletter I intend to write a brand-new newsletter once every two months, though I would like other editors to help me in completing it in case of my unavailability. Imprint Written by Ollieisanerd (some sections are same as last time written by Kudpung) • All comments to WT:WORCS Based on an original concept by WP:YORKS If you wish to opt-out of future Newsletters, please remove yourself from the Newsletter mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 00:29, 1 May 2023 (UTC) reply