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Following some work on History of Cheshire, I note that an earlier review suggested it needed a timeline. I cannot find an example of a timeline for another county - the nearest I can see is Timeline of Cardiff history, having had a quick look at List of timelines. As a 'starter for 10', I had a crack at User:Pixie2000/Sandbox1, but I am not that happy with it. I think I now prefer the Cardiff version. Anyone got any thoughts? Also, should it be its own page? Pixie2000 (talk) 21:33, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Timeline of Cheshire history article has been created as a stub. Pixie2000 (talk) 21:35, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
I was working on this article in my userspace but realised I'd stalled, so I'm moving it into mainspace in case anyone else has the inspiration to finish it. Espresso Addict ( talk) 14:10, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Well more a gentle and prolonged nudge perhaps, but we're moving in that direction if anyone would like to contribute. -- Joopercoopers ( talk) 13:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
I think the portal might be close to being ready for portal peer review -- if anyone has any comments on the current format/wording, or would like to suggest further material for inclusion, or to comment on the suggestions currently up there, then do go ahead! (Just to clarify, the raft of Chester hooks under DYK are waiting for non-Chester hooks to make into balanced selections.) More quotations would also be useful -- we've generally gone for ones about Cheshire or its features, rather than quotations by famous Cestrians about unrelated topics. Also events for the sparse months (currently May, July, September & November). Espresso Addict ( talk) 14:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
No Man's Heath, Cheshire should be at the redirect location of Nomansheath, Cheshire - needs an admin to delete the redirect and then move the article to preserve the history. -- Joopercoopers ( talk) 10:33, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
I stand corrected. The road signs give it as No Mans Heath [1] [2] too. My apologies - years ago I'm sure it was Nomansheath (certainly that's how the locals pronounce it) but it seems a new consensus has emerged. Sorry for wasting all your time. -- Joopercoopers ( talk) 22:32, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
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I'm heading down to the cathedral this Saturday 2nd July at 2:45pm, for what I hope will be an extensive photography session. If anyone wants to come and join me for a cuppa in the refectory or to help out, I'll be the wikipedia nerd with the Nikon and tripod and will likely be there for a few hours or until I'm thrown out. -- Joopercoopers ( talk) 22:34, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
According to Pevsner there are two architects of that name, one from Nantwich (with the meagre biographical details I've just added) and one from Northwich. The Northwich one certainly needs splitting out, as he's responsible for Arley Hall and the Wistaston church (and presumably the Northwich salt museum); however, I know nothing whatsoever about him -- can anyone help? Espresso Addict ( talk) 22:22, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
As a step along the road to featured portal status, I've put the Cheshire Portal up for portal peer review. The discussion is here and we've already received some helpful comments, which I'm going to try to address this evening. Espresso Addict ( talk) 17:13, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Norton Priory is the TFA for this coming Sunday (the 22nd), so a few extra pairs of eyes keeping a watch for vandalism would be a great help. Nev1 ( talk) 16:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated the Cheshire portal for Featured Portal status. To join the discussion, visit Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Cheshire. Espresso Addict ( talk) 22:46, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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At the Featured Portal discussion, Mhockey has brought up the interesting question of the 1974 boundary changes, and suggested that a list of places that were formerly part of Cheshire would be useful. Apparently other counties that were significantly affected by the boundary changes maintain such a list; I'll try to find some examples. Espresso Addict ( talk) 14:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Some of the lists in Category:Lists of English county boundary changes are of relatively minor changes, but List of Berkshire boundary changes includes an extensive list of places transferred in 1974. That might be the format to follow for Cheshire, where the 1974 changes were also extensive. The list followed a long CFD debate here: there was for a long time a category of Places historically in Berkshire, and the outcome of the CFD debate was to Listify. I think WP is well used by local and family historians, and this sort of list is useful for tracking down a place referred to in the sources by its historic county.-- Mhockey ( talk) 15:38, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
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For anyone interested in settlement articles, Cheshire County Council seems to be putting online the Cheshire historic towns survey reports. They contain useful information on the history of towns and sometimes on their current state. The Cheshire West and Chester link is here. Nev1 ( talk) 20:06, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
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I am thinking of submitting this article for Good Article status. Any comments, help, or additions would be appreciated. Thanks. Bob1960evens ( talk) 18:47, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Should articles on hundreds be titled Foo (hundred) or Hundred of Foo? Input and comments please at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography#Hundreds. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Silver Jubilee Bridge#Requested move regarding moving the article to Runcorn Bridge or possibly Runcorn-Widnes Bridge. Please participate. Bazonka ( talk) 07:41, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
With Union Street Baptist Church, Crewe, I think there is now an article on every listed church in Cheshire. If any have been missed, please either write an article, or let me know here or on my talk page, and I will do it. -- Peter I. Vardy ( talk) 21:51, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I have been plugging away at
OK- that's me reporting in- over to the world to respond. -- ClemRutter ( talk) 17:23, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Is this thing still on? [Taps microphone] I've done a few updates to the portal, which languished rather since my Wiki-demise. If anyone's still reading this, then feedback on my suggested new content (from the huge list of new GAs & FAs -- well done, everyone!) would be useful. I'm not planning on returning to Wikipedia, but I will try to get the portal a little more up to the year, if not the minute. Espresso Addict ( talk) 04:54, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
I've tagged ~30 articles on Cheshire schools for the project, but in most cases not assessed them as I'm not sure what the standards in this area are. Not surprisingly, even the longer ones seem to be a magnet for PoV or unsourced edits. If someone were able to assist, that would be helpful. Espresso Addict ( talk) 17:03, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Done- all I could find. I got one C- a few starts and a lot of stubs. -- ClemRutter ( talk) 20:47, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
The band One Direction has a member from Cheshire (one of five, if you are as ignorant of them as I). One Direction is tagged for the project, and has by far the highest hits of any Cheshire-tagged article (per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire/Popular pages). The main band article is a GA, their discography is a FL, and several other articles relating to them are GAs. At the moment their content is completely absent from the portal. Should we include (some of) this content on the portal? In the box of Recommended content? In the Selected biography? In the Selected list?
I've poked around other county portals and can't find much of an example where the group only had a single member from the area covered.
All thoughts welcome; you can't know less about boy bands than I do... Espresso Addict ( talk) 21:13, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
I seem to have got my admin status back and hope to be contributing again, though it will be from the depths of China. I may have to hold back a little until all my local history bhooks for Cheshire have also been re-located to China, but that's the way it goes. DDStretch (talk) 13:42, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
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I'd like to renominate the portal for featured status. I believe it largely failed last time because I had to go on an extended break, as there were few non-minor points raised. I've done a fair amount of work on it since I've been back to incorporate new material and answer the concerns raised last time, and I think it might be as ready as it's ever going to get. Any help you can give in final touches much appreciated! Espresso Addict ( talk) 04:43, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Ok. I'm easing myself back into editing, and I think I know what I can do to begin with. I've noticed quite a lot of additions and changes that don't seem to fit in with the ideals of an encyclopedia. This may be the most extensive one. I'll start to go through articles and try to rid them of obvious stupid entries, unnoticed vandalism, etc. However, is there a view about what we should do about rather extraordinary claims that are unreferenced, even if they are long-standing. I recall that just before my extended leave, some quite vociferous exchanges took place, sometimes between single-purpose editors, about their unreferenced additions and alterations. Has anything in policy altered about that in the last 3 years? If you think I should be doing something else, then also, I'd welcome suggestions. Thanks DDStretch (talk) 09:37, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
An editor has so far changed the standard opening sentence of the above article two times in a way that removes information. This editor has been engaged in edit-warring on other articles in the past. Given this, I feel it is important to avoid trying to revert again if any changes are made unless the mattter is discussed as this will prevent problems for everyone. I have opened a discussion about the opening sentence on Talk:Little Bollington if anyone wishes to comment. DDStretch (talk) 13:39, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Just noticed this in the project alerts (must have missed the bot update) and bringing it to general attention so that members can join the discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bus routes in Cheshire. Espresso Addict ( talk) 09:14, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Ah, I've worked out why I didn't see the notification -- one needs to be watching the project's Article alerts separately! Just a heads up in case others are in the same position. Espresso Addict ( talk) 11:00, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
On a related note, I was looking at the transport section of Cheshire, and noticed there's now a map of "notable places" which appears to be constructed by population. As large areas of the county are rural, this leaves large blank spaces across Cheshire West & Chester and Cheshire East. Would anyone object if I were to add some places under 20k inhabitants, which are notable for some reason other than (2001) population? A few obvious omissions from Cheshire East are Sandbach (18k), Middlewich (13k) and Nantwich (12.5k). Sandbach is an administrative centre for CE, and Nantwich is certainly historically important. In CW&W, Neston (15k) and perhaps Frodsham (9k)? Lower still in population, but of historical importance.
If people prefer to apply the 20k cut off rigidly then the legend needs to be changed to reflect that it is showing centres of population above 20k. Also, I think some places have been included by mistake; Knutsford in particular is below 20k as far as I know. Espresso Addict ( talk) 09:56, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
The 1st Chester Wikimeet will be taking place on 21 July. It would be good to see a few new faces there, rather than just the regulars who turn up to the Manchester and Liverpool meets (although of course they're welcome too!). See you there? Cheers, Bazonka ( talk) 06:51, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi folks, can any of you tell me what the building at 55 Bridge Street in Chester is? I have some photos of it that I'd like to upload to Commons and I want to make sure they're categorised properly (and it's interesting!). Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:08, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
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I've popped back after a wikibreak to do a long-overdue portal update, adding Chester Canal to articles, James Chadwick to bios, another DYK set ( Addleshaw Tower, James Chadwick, Joseph Partridge (historian), James Hall (historian)), refreshing the news & recently created articles, updating the recommended articles, and updating various outdated bios. Let me know if I've forgotten/missed anything, especially new DYKs/GAs/FAs.
To keep the featured status, we technically need to keep refreshing the content every 3 months (though it's rarely enforced); I've suggested Ben Amos again as a possible biography, but if anyone has any better ideas...
Getting the portal featured appears to have broadly doubled/trebled the monthly hits, from 450–525 to 1000–1500, but they're still on the low side. Doing a bit of research it looks as if the main way of promoting portal hits is to link the portal from elsewhere. I'd therefore suggest two things:
Would anyone object to either of these measures? Discussion & suggestions very welcome! Espresso Addict ( talk) 09:31, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious to know why the Joan Carlile article is of interest to the project. Headhitter ( talk) 09:28, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
On the project page I can see no mention of Quarry Bank Mill, a high importance topic that is tagged on the page. I have done a little work here. Would someone like to step over and check its quality rating.
I believe that there are 31 images on geograph that haven't been transfered across- does anyone know how to accelerate the process? QBM in the past has had a varied record for allowing photography. One school will visit and be allowed to photograph at will- then the policy will be reversed and phones and cameras forbidden.
There is some urgency in that a TV company is planning to do a sequel to its previous docu-fiction so we can expect visitors. -- Clem Rutter ( talk) 20:35, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
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Members might be interested in a consultation on relocating the Cheshire archives. It is open until 30 June 2014. I have just responded suggesting digitisation of records where possible for free online access, and cited Wikipedia as the group to which I belong. Espresso Addict ( talk) 02:26, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
The annual Cheshire County Show was held this week. The standard of its Wikipedia article fell some way short of Great Yorkshire Show or Kent County Show (or many others in Category:Agricultural shows in the United Kingdom), as it mainly consisted of a few paragraphs about local travel disruption. I've started adding some content covering the show's history and some of its attractions, and inbound links from other articles. Perhaps the Cheshire WikiProject can help? -- AJP ( talk) 18:47, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
I've done another update to the portal. This includes a new selected article ( Cholmondeley Castle), biography ( William Windsor (goat)), two new images ( Cheshire cheese & Aldford Iron Bridge) and two new DYK sets, mainly courtesy of Peter's unfailing efforts. I'm trying to keep up with the news & new articles so that there's something new every week or so to encourage returning readers.
Linking the portal using the little graphical link from a range of articles has increased the portal traffic, up from around 1,100–1,500 to around 2,400–2,750 hits per month. If no-one objects, I'd like to roll out links to a wider range of articles (but not biographies) as my RSI permits. The main problem is where to place the link when there's no See also or External links section (and where there's no obvious See also content to add). Policy seems to suggest creating a blank See also section, but I don't personally like the result. Comments/suggestions welcome! Espresso Addict ( talk) 15:55, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Hannah and I am part of a Cornell University class project where we are hoping to edit and improve the Cheshire Cat page. I see that the WikiProject Cheshire community is interested in this topic area, and I therefore wanted to reach out to you on behalf of my team to ask for help/advice. We are looking to add on to each of the page's existing sections to expand the cultural impact and cross-disciplinary influence of the feline icon, to give the page a general design overhaul (including charts, quotes, images, etc.), and to add a comparison of the different cinema representations of the character. Do you have any suggestions for articles or other sources we could use for our project? Or any suggestions at all for engaging in the editing process on Wikipedia?
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Thank you and look forward to hearing from you, Hkm24 ( talk) 01:15, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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As you might have seen in the Signpost this week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps, with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. As of Sunday night, over five thousand new maps have been identified, with 26.5% of the target books looked at -- but see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.
A part that may specifically interest this project is
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Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or uploading for articles on Cheshire and the North West.
Thanks, Jheald ( talk) 01:04, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
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I've done a long-belated update of the portal, with two new Selected Articles, Capesthorne Hall & All Saints' Church, Runcorn, and a new Selected Picture, Handforth Hall, as well as updates to the News & Recent Articles. I only found two new DYKs ( All Saints' Church, Runcorn & William Owen (architect)) so I haven't updated that yet; if anyone knows of any more do let me know.
Since adding the portal links to various high-traffic pages, the monthly hits on the portal have gone up a bit: averaging around 1100 to 1350 hits/month before, and around 2250 to 2750 since. There are slightly more hits in months where I update, though that might just be me refreshing it repetitively to check that the new items show.
I have just relocated to Scotland, so I'm going to be less in touch with Cheshire news in future. I'll try to keep on top of updates but I'm going to be very busy for the next few months. Espresso Addict ( talk) 22:05, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
There have been a number of changes to the Civil Parishes of Cheshire West and Chester, as of 1st April 2015.
All the details are provided at Cheshire West and Chester website.
How do we propose to get the pages updated? Some Civil Parishes now do not exist (e.g. Burton, Gowy - which I have reworded - and Iddinshall), so what do we propose to do with them?
Pixie2000 (talk) 08:07, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to an editathon in Widnes on Saturday 8 August. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:16, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I've nominated the article Cheshire West and Chester Council election, 2015 for peer review here. I would very much appreciate if a couple of people from this group could have a look at the article. It's not the most exciting election, but the unusual result (only council which went from Conservative to Labour control at the last UK local elections) and active local press means that there's a lot of information available. Thanks in advance for any advice you can give. Smurrayinchester 12:53, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Is a Cotterill Clough page still required? Or is this the same as Cotterill Clough Nature Reserve, for which there is already an article? PennyDarling ( talk) 08:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
I have started a Cheshire Inventions, Innovations and Firsts as per Open tasks - if anyone has suggestion then please feel free to add or edit PennyDarling ( talk) 14:52, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I've just created a portal for the Peak District which may be of interest here. Do feel free to enhance it with new or improved articles or by adding to the links. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 08:31, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
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Please could somebody provide pictures of the gravestone of Wally Oakes, which is at St Matthew's Church, Haslington? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:49, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
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If anyone is interested, there is a discussion taking place here [5]. All comments are welcome. DDStretch (talk) 09:09, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
I'm planning on revamping the portal, in the (perhaps faint) hope that it might stop it from being deleted over the coming months. If anyone's interested in details or helping out then please ping me. Espresso Addict ( talk) 13:25, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
I created several parks in the past and will be turning the category:List of parks and open spaces in Cheshire into a main space article. It appears one doesn't currently exist and I believe it would be useful and encyclopedic. Szzuk ( talk) 06:55, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Proposal to delete all portals. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma ( talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
I've been updating my CP articles with the changed MPs but found that Coole Pilate may have moved from Crewe and Nantwich into Eddisbury with the 2010 boundary changes. I used to use the councils' online mapping to find out which constituency CPs were in, but that seems to be down permanently now, and presumably has been a casualty of budget cuts? Does anyone know of an alternative reliable source? Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 12:29, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
As I've been bumbling around the project's articles on behalf of the portal, I noticed that there were a lot of biographies and a few geographic articles not tagged for the project, so I've been tagging them as I went along -- tToday I see that the number of tagged articles has now passed 4000!
I've been trying to improve Macclesfield so that I can write a summary for the portal, but have hit the snag that I can't source the 2011 population figure given. I've tried adding up the 6 wards and the two different (why different?) figures for the built-up area, but none of these is close to the figure given. More detail on the talk page. Any advice welcome; I think this might be a general problem for towns. Espresso Addict ( talk) 18:52, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello again. I've made some small updates to the portal. The current advice is that all sections should have a minimum of 20 items, so I am trying to fill out both lists and towns/settlements. So far I've added:
Keen on other suggestions for both of these categories! Articles must be at least C class (I've used nearly all the appropriate B class), with reasonable referencing and no orange-level tags. Lists must preferably be complete and sourced.
For towns/settlements my next thoughts are:
For lists, there are all Peter I. Vardy's listed building lists, of course. I'm keen not to overlap too much between these two boxes, nor to flood the section with too many lists of listed buildings, so my current top thoughts are:
All thoughts welcome! @ Peter I. Vardy:, are there any you particularly recommend? (Or any that I should steer clear of?) Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 12:06, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Cestrians! (Is that right?) I'm trying to find any information at all on the goat tower at Cholmondeley Castle for Goat tower. I know it's there because it's mentioned in their tourist brochures and there's a photo at Commons, but other than that, nada. Which is weird because generally goat towers get remarked on, and this one was definitely there in 2000 when the then Marquess photographed every building on the estate. I'm particularly trying to find out when it was built, which seems like someone in the local press would have noted. I mean, it's a goat tower. At any rate, if anyone has any clues, I'm buying! Thanks for any help! --valereee ( talk) 12:25, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone -- I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to amend the importance levels for some of Cheshire's settlements/CPs. The current structure is fairly flat, with hardly anything at Top importance, and nearly all CPs at Low importance. I suspect the levels were set up when there were far fewer articles.
There are currently only two Top importance articles (Cheshire, History of Cheshire), while other projects I'm a member of have many more items at this level. I'd like to add at least Chester and Warrington.
At High importance, I'd like to add Macclesfield and Wilmslow, which are large towns that get consistently high hits, and possibly also Northwich, Ellesmere Port and Congleton, which get slightly lower hits. [6]
At Mid importance, I'd like to add some of the larger villages with ~2k or so population. I haven't checked, but ones I've come across recently include Alderley Edge, Prestbury (both high hits), Mobberley, and perhaps even local centres such as Audlem and Malpas.
It might seem like pointless deckchair rearrangement, but it would make finding suitable articles for the portal easier, and perhaps would channel editing towards articles that are needy. Thoughts, anyone? Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 07:54, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
We have a bunch of unassessed articles at present -- a lot seem to be football seasons, which I'm neither qualified to assess nor interested in doing so. Could they be perhaps be removed from the project? Just having the main football club article seems adequate to me. Or should we just copy the WP Football assessments blindly? Or could someone else volunteer to take a look? I'm worried it's making the project look inactive, when I see quite a bit of activity around the place lately. Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 11:27, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi again -- Does anyone happen to have a copy of the 2015–16 (no. 55) issue of Cheshire History [7], particularly the article by Young about the Cheshire Cat? There's some queries about its content on the talk page of that article. Unfortunately it's not online yet. It's very quiet here -- hope everyone is well! Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 05:54, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
I want to begin by considering just one district. Looking at Cheshire East, for example, I consider that the article section concerning Administration is biased largely in favour of council wards. I think it could be made much more clear by separating the different types of areas: electoral wards for council elections, and civil parishes. They could legitimately be separated out as they refer to different kinds of representation, which, due to unclear thinking by legislators, do not fit together well. I would like to see a table of civil parishes including a history of their creation and predecessors, and wards they are in, with a corresponding table of council wards. There is a table there at the moment, but I find it rather unclear myself. I think the section headed Members of Parliament should focus upon constituency areas, and have as a subsection the current members of parliament. I think getting these issues sorted out might be another good thing to do, and it might have the same priority as dealing with the missing civil parishes. The articles on the other districts of Cheshire have very different structures. I think they should be harmonised. DDStretch (talk) 10:27, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
I have started a project for missing civil parishes at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Cheshire are:
And these exists as a redirect only but should have separate articles:
A total of 18, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (1)#Cheshire. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 20:17, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for starting this up again. I had tried to do this myself when the Cheshire Project started and for a year or so afterwards I tried to include articles about various civil parishes in Cheshire, intending there to be an article about every one of them. The Real World then intervened, and after various other changes in my situation, I am largely now unable to do as much as I am disabled now and have been in and out of hospital recently. That's why this message is late. I did contact the old City of Chester borough people to ask about the various extremely small parishes in that borough, and was told that parish council meetings or parish meetings had never happened for most of them, to their knowledge (and this was in contrast with the other old county boroughs at that time.) I have a book which lists the histories of all the parishes in Cheshire, including boundary changes. I think this could be useful to use to describe the history of the newer, merged parishes that were established when the latest changes to the county occurred. I'll dig out the book and remind myself of things to get me a bit more up to date. I think given that wikipedia is an encyclopedia, that including information about all parishes would be a useful addition, and I recall that I did envision a set of lists or tables that described the various sub-units of Cheshire and how they changed over the years. Thank you for wanting to take on the tasks you have described. DDStretch (talk) 19:11, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
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The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
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The above former museum is up for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chester Toy and Doll Museum. It's been closed now for several years. Does anyone know of any book sources? The web is unhelpfully coming up with an American museum. Espresso Addict ( talk) 13:45, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Might be of interest: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weaver Junction. Espresso Addict ( talk) 20:28, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Project members might be interested in the wide-ranging discussions ongoing at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Requests for comment/Article creation at scale; discussions cover WP:GEOLAND, which includes settlements, geographic entities & heritage-listed structures. Espresso Addict ( talk) 02:23, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
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Following some work on History of Cheshire, I note that an earlier review suggested it needed a timeline. I cannot find an example of a timeline for another county - the nearest I can see is Timeline of Cardiff history, having had a quick look at List of timelines. As a 'starter for 10', I had a crack at User:Pixie2000/Sandbox1, but I am not that happy with it. I think I now prefer the Cardiff version. Anyone got any thoughts? Also, should it be its own page? Pixie2000 (talk) 21:33, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Timeline of Cheshire history article has been created as a stub. Pixie2000 (talk) 21:35, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
I was working on this article in my userspace but realised I'd stalled, so I'm moving it into mainspace in case anyone else has the inspiration to finish it. Espresso Addict ( talk) 14:10, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Well more a gentle and prolonged nudge perhaps, but we're moving in that direction if anyone would like to contribute. -- Joopercoopers ( talk) 13:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
I think the portal might be close to being ready for portal peer review -- if anyone has any comments on the current format/wording, or would like to suggest further material for inclusion, or to comment on the suggestions currently up there, then do go ahead! (Just to clarify, the raft of Chester hooks under DYK are waiting for non-Chester hooks to make into balanced selections.) More quotations would also be useful -- we've generally gone for ones about Cheshire or its features, rather than quotations by famous Cestrians about unrelated topics. Also events for the sparse months (currently May, July, September & November). Espresso Addict ( talk) 14:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
No Man's Heath, Cheshire should be at the redirect location of Nomansheath, Cheshire - needs an admin to delete the redirect and then move the article to preserve the history. -- Joopercoopers ( talk) 10:33, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
I stand corrected. The road signs give it as No Mans Heath [1] [2] too. My apologies - years ago I'm sure it was Nomansheath (certainly that's how the locals pronounce it) but it seems a new consensus has emerged. Sorry for wasting all your time. -- Joopercoopers ( talk) 22:32, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
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I'm heading down to the cathedral this Saturday 2nd July at 2:45pm, for what I hope will be an extensive photography session. If anyone wants to come and join me for a cuppa in the refectory or to help out, I'll be the wikipedia nerd with the Nikon and tripod and will likely be there for a few hours or until I'm thrown out. -- Joopercoopers ( talk) 22:34, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
According to Pevsner there are two architects of that name, one from Nantwich (with the meagre biographical details I've just added) and one from Northwich. The Northwich one certainly needs splitting out, as he's responsible for Arley Hall and the Wistaston church (and presumably the Northwich salt museum); however, I know nothing whatsoever about him -- can anyone help? Espresso Addict ( talk) 22:22, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
As a step along the road to featured portal status, I've put the Cheshire Portal up for portal peer review. The discussion is here and we've already received some helpful comments, which I'm going to try to address this evening. Espresso Addict ( talk) 17:13, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Norton Priory is the TFA for this coming Sunday (the 22nd), so a few extra pairs of eyes keeping a watch for vandalism would be a great help. Nev1 ( talk) 16:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated the Cheshire portal for Featured Portal status. To join the discussion, visit Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Cheshire. Espresso Addict ( talk) 22:46, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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At the Featured Portal discussion, Mhockey has brought up the interesting question of the 1974 boundary changes, and suggested that a list of places that were formerly part of Cheshire would be useful. Apparently other counties that were significantly affected by the boundary changes maintain such a list; I'll try to find some examples. Espresso Addict ( talk) 14:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Some of the lists in Category:Lists of English county boundary changes are of relatively minor changes, but List of Berkshire boundary changes includes an extensive list of places transferred in 1974. That might be the format to follow for Cheshire, where the 1974 changes were also extensive. The list followed a long CFD debate here: there was for a long time a category of Places historically in Berkshire, and the outcome of the CFD debate was to Listify. I think WP is well used by local and family historians, and this sort of list is useful for tracking down a place referred to in the sources by its historic county.-- Mhockey ( talk) 15:38, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
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For anyone interested in settlement articles, Cheshire County Council seems to be putting online the Cheshire historic towns survey reports. They contain useful information on the history of towns and sometimes on their current state. The Cheshire West and Chester link is here. Nev1 ( talk) 20:06, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Cheshire to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire/Popular pages.
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I am thinking of submitting this article for Good Article status. Any comments, help, or additions would be appreciated. Thanks. Bob1960evens ( talk) 18:47, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Should articles on hundreds be titled Foo (hundred) or Hundred of Foo? Input and comments please at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography#Hundreds. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Silver Jubilee Bridge#Requested move regarding moving the article to Runcorn Bridge or possibly Runcorn-Widnes Bridge. Please participate. Bazonka ( talk) 07:41, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
With Union Street Baptist Church, Crewe, I think there is now an article on every listed church in Cheshire. If any have been missed, please either write an article, or let me know here or on my talk page, and I will do it. -- Peter I. Vardy ( talk) 21:51, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I have been plugging away at
OK- that's me reporting in- over to the world to respond. -- ClemRutter ( talk) 17:23, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Is this thing still on? [Taps microphone] I've done a few updates to the portal, which languished rather since my Wiki-demise. If anyone's still reading this, then feedback on my suggested new content (from the huge list of new GAs & FAs -- well done, everyone!) would be useful. I'm not planning on returning to Wikipedia, but I will try to get the portal a little more up to the year, if not the minute. Espresso Addict ( talk) 04:54, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
I've tagged ~30 articles on Cheshire schools for the project, but in most cases not assessed them as I'm not sure what the standards in this area are. Not surprisingly, even the longer ones seem to be a magnet for PoV or unsourced edits. If someone were able to assist, that would be helpful. Espresso Addict ( talk) 17:03, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Done- all I could find. I got one C- a few starts and a lot of stubs. -- ClemRutter ( talk) 20:47, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
The band One Direction has a member from Cheshire (one of five, if you are as ignorant of them as I). One Direction is tagged for the project, and has by far the highest hits of any Cheshire-tagged article (per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire/Popular pages). The main band article is a GA, their discography is a FL, and several other articles relating to them are GAs. At the moment their content is completely absent from the portal. Should we include (some of) this content on the portal? In the box of Recommended content? In the Selected biography? In the Selected list?
I've poked around other county portals and can't find much of an example where the group only had a single member from the area covered.
All thoughts welcome; you can't know less about boy bands than I do... Espresso Addict ( talk) 21:13, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
I seem to have got my admin status back and hope to be contributing again, though it will be from the depths of China. I may have to hold back a little until all my local history bhooks for Cheshire have also been re-located to China, but that's the way it goes. DDStretch (talk) 13:42, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
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I'd like to renominate the portal for featured status. I believe it largely failed last time because I had to go on an extended break, as there were few non-minor points raised. I've done a fair amount of work on it since I've been back to incorporate new material and answer the concerns raised last time, and I think it might be as ready as it's ever going to get. Any help you can give in final touches much appreciated! Espresso Addict ( talk) 04:43, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Ok. I'm easing myself back into editing, and I think I know what I can do to begin with. I've noticed quite a lot of additions and changes that don't seem to fit in with the ideals of an encyclopedia. This may be the most extensive one. I'll start to go through articles and try to rid them of obvious stupid entries, unnoticed vandalism, etc. However, is there a view about what we should do about rather extraordinary claims that are unreferenced, even if they are long-standing. I recall that just before my extended leave, some quite vociferous exchanges took place, sometimes between single-purpose editors, about their unreferenced additions and alterations. Has anything in policy altered about that in the last 3 years? If you think I should be doing something else, then also, I'd welcome suggestions. Thanks DDStretch (talk) 09:37, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
An editor has so far changed the standard opening sentence of the above article two times in a way that removes information. This editor has been engaged in edit-warring on other articles in the past. Given this, I feel it is important to avoid trying to revert again if any changes are made unless the mattter is discussed as this will prevent problems for everyone. I have opened a discussion about the opening sentence on Talk:Little Bollington if anyone wishes to comment. DDStretch (talk) 13:39, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Just noticed this in the project alerts (must have missed the bot update) and bringing it to general attention so that members can join the discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bus routes in Cheshire. Espresso Addict ( talk) 09:14, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Ah, I've worked out why I didn't see the notification -- one needs to be watching the project's Article alerts separately! Just a heads up in case others are in the same position. Espresso Addict ( talk) 11:00, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
On a related note, I was looking at the transport section of Cheshire, and noticed there's now a map of "notable places" which appears to be constructed by population. As large areas of the county are rural, this leaves large blank spaces across Cheshire West & Chester and Cheshire East. Would anyone object if I were to add some places under 20k inhabitants, which are notable for some reason other than (2001) population? A few obvious omissions from Cheshire East are Sandbach (18k), Middlewich (13k) and Nantwich (12.5k). Sandbach is an administrative centre for CE, and Nantwich is certainly historically important. In CW&W, Neston (15k) and perhaps Frodsham (9k)? Lower still in population, but of historical importance.
If people prefer to apply the 20k cut off rigidly then the legend needs to be changed to reflect that it is showing centres of population above 20k. Also, I think some places have been included by mistake; Knutsford in particular is below 20k as far as I know. Espresso Addict ( talk) 09:56, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
The 1st Chester Wikimeet will be taking place on 21 July. It would be good to see a few new faces there, rather than just the regulars who turn up to the Manchester and Liverpool meets (although of course they're welcome too!). See you there? Cheers, Bazonka ( talk) 06:51, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi folks, can any of you tell me what the building at 55 Bridge Street in Chester is? I have some photos of it that I'd like to upload to Commons and I want to make sure they're categorised properly (and it's interesting!). Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:08, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
For the whole of this month (September) the UK is taking part for the first time in the international photography competition Loves Monuments. Participants will be invited to submit pictures of listed structures of significant importance (eg grades I or grade II* or equivalent), as recorded by English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. The main external website for competitors can be found here, and you can leave a message there if you have queries about competing. Do please join in, and let people in your local area know of this excellent way in which both existing and new Wiki users can help improve the encyclopaedia by contributing photographs of local listed structures.
We would like to ask for the help of members of this wikiproject to check that your local lists are in good shape. Your local and expert knowledge will be invaluable in ensuring that the lists of eligible structures are up to date and well-presented. If you look at Listed buildings in the United Kingdom you will see how many structures are included. If you then follow the links, you can get to the detailed lists for your area. Alternatively have a look at the WLM planning table.
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I've popped back after a wikibreak to do a long-overdue portal update, adding Chester Canal to articles, James Chadwick to bios, another DYK set ( Addleshaw Tower, James Chadwick, Joseph Partridge (historian), James Hall (historian)), refreshing the news & recently created articles, updating the recommended articles, and updating various outdated bios. Let me know if I've forgotten/missed anything, especially new DYKs/GAs/FAs.
To keep the featured status, we technically need to keep refreshing the content every 3 months (though it's rarely enforced); I've suggested Ben Amos again as a possible biography, but if anyone has any better ideas...
Getting the portal featured appears to have broadly doubled/trebled the monthly hits, from 450–525 to 1000–1500, but they're still on the low side. Doing a bit of research it looks as if the main way of promoting portal hits is to link the portal from elsewhere. I'd therefore suggest two things:
Would anyone object to either of these measures? Discussion & suggestions very welcome! Espresso Addict ( talk) 09:31, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious to know why the Joan Carlile article is of interest to the project. Headhitter ( talk) 09:28, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
On the project page I can see no mention of Quarry Bank Mill, a high importance topic that is tagged on the page. I have done a little work here. Would someone like to step over and check its quality rating.
I believe that there are 31 images on geograph that haven't been transfered across- does anyone know how to accelerate the process? QBM in the past has had a varied record for allowing photography. One school will visit and be allowed to photograph at will- then the policy will be reversed and phones and cameras forbidden.
There is some urgency in that a TV company is planning to do a sequel to its previous docu-fiction so we can expect visitors. -- Clem Rutter ( talk) 20:35, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).
Web tools, to replace the ones at tools:~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at toollabs:popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.
If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot ( talk) (for Mr. Z-man) 04:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Members might be interested in a consultation on relocating the Cheshire archives. It is open until 30 June 2014. I have just responded suggesting digitisation of records where possible for free online access, and cited Wikipedia as the group to which I belong. Espresso Addict ( talk) 02:26, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
The annual Cheshire County Show was held this week. The standard of its Wikipedia article fell some way short of Great Yorkshire Show or Kent County Show (or many others in Category:Agricultural shows in the United Kingdom), as it mainly consisted of a few paragraphs about local travel disruption. I've started adding some content covering the show's history and some of its attractions, and inbound links from other articles. Perhaps the Cheshire WikiProject can help? -- AJP ( talk) 18:47, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
I've done another update to the portal. This includes a new selected article ( Cholmondeley Castle), biography ( William Windsor (goat)), two new images ( Cheshire cheese & Aldford Iron Bridge) and two new DYK sets, mainly courtesy of Peter's unfailing efforts. I'm trying to keep up with the news & new articles so that there's something new every week or so to encourage returning readers.
Linking the portal using the little graphical link from a range of articles has increased the portal traffic, up from around 1,100–1,500 to around 2,400–2,750 hits per month. If no-one objects, I'd like to roll out links to a wider range of articles (but not biographies) as my RSI permits. The main problem is where to place the link when there's no See also or External links section (and where there's no obvious See also content to add). Policy seems to suggest creating a blank See also section, but I don't personally like the result. Comments/suggestions welcome! Espresso Addict ( talk) 15:55, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, my name is Hannah and I am part of a Cornell University class project where we are hoping to edit and improve the Cheshire Cat page. I see that the WikiProject Cheshire community is interested in this topic area, and I therefore wanted to reach out to you on behalf of my team to ask for help/advice. We are looking to add on to each of the page's existing sections to expand the cultural impact and cross-disciplinary influence of the feline icon, to give the page a general design overhaul (including charts, quotes, images, etc.), and to add a comparison of the different cinema representations of the character. Do you have any suggestions for articles or other sources we could use for our project? Or any suggestions at all for engaging in the editing process on Wikipedia?
If you would like to learn more about our class assignment, this is the link: [ [4]]
The other members in me team are: Isabella Krell , Abby Sonnenfeldt , and Carolyn Sussman
Thank you and look forward to hearing from you, Hkm24 ( talk) 01:15, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
As you might have seen in the Signpost this week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps, with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. As of Sunday night, over five thousand new maps have been identified, with 26.5% of the target books looked at -- but see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.
A part that may specifically interest this project is
which currently shows pink templated links for 172 Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Though there are lots of other parts of England, and indeed of the world, still to be looked through as well).
Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or uploading for articles on Cheshire and the North West.
Thanks, Jheald ( talk) 01:04, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
I've done a long-belated update of the portal, with two new Selected Articles, Capesthorne Hall & All Saints' Church, Runcorn, and a new Selected Picture, Handforth Hall, as well as updates to the News & Recent Articles. I only found two new DYKs ( All Saints' Church, Runcorn & William Owen (architect)) so I haven't updated that yet; if anyone knows of any more do let me know.
Since adding the portal links to various high-traffic pages, the monthly hits on the portal have gone up a bit: averaging around 1100 to 1350 hits/month before, and around 2250 to 2750 since. There are slightly more hits in months where I update, though that might just be me refreshing it repetitively to check that the new items show.
I have just relocated to Scotland, so I'm going to be less in touch with Cheshire news in future. I'll try to keep on top of updates but I'm going to be very busy for the next few months. Espresso Addict ( talk) 22:05, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
There have been a number of changes to the Civil Parishes of Cheshire West and Chester, as of 1st April 2015.
All the details are provided at Cheshire West and Chester website.
How do we propose to get the pages updated? Some Civil Parishes now do not exist (e.g. Burton, Gowy - which I have reworded - and Iddinshall), so what do we propose to do with them?
Pixie2000 (talk) 08:07, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to an editathon in Widnes on Saturday 8 August. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:16, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I've nominated the article Cheshire West and Chester Council election, 2015 for peer review here. I would very much appreciate if a couple of people from this group could have a look at the article. It's not the most exciting election, but the unusual result (only council which went from Conservative to Labour control at the last UK local elections) and active local press means that there's a lot of information available. Thanks in advance for any advice you can give. Smurrayinchester 12:53, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Is a Cotterill Clough page still required? Or is this the same as Cotterill Clough Nature Reserve, for which there is already an article? PennyDarling ( talk) 08:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
I have started a Cheshire Inventions, Innovations and Firsts as per Open tasks - if anyone has suggestion then please feel free to add or edit PennyDarling ( talk) 14:52, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I've just created a portal for the Peak District which may be of interest here. Do feel free to enhance it with new or improved articles or by adding to the links. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 08:31, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Greetings WikiProject Cheshire/Archive 8 Members!
This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:
If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.
Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.
Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.
Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 17:57, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire/Archive 8/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Cheshire.
We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Cheshire, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.
Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Please could somebody provide pictures of the gravestone of Wally Oakes, which is at St Matthew's Church, Haslington? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:49, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{ Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
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Thank you. — The Transhumanist 07:28, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, there is a discussion taking place here [5]. All comments are welcome. DDStretch (talk) 09:09, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
I'm planning on revamping the portal, in the (perhaps faint) hope that it might stop it from being deleted over the coming months. If anyone's interested in details or helping out then please ping me. Espresso Addict ( talk) 13:25, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
I created several parks in the past and will be turning the category:List of parks and open spaces in Cheshire into a main space article. It appears one doesn't currently exist and I believe it would be useful and encyclopedic. Szzuk ( talk) 06:55, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Proposal to delete all portals. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma ( talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
I've been updating my CP articles with the changed MPs but found that Coole Pilate may have moved from Crewe and Nantwich into Eddisbury with the 2010 boundary changes. I used to use the councils' online mapping to find out which constituency CPs were in, but that seems to be down permanently now, and presumably has been a casualty of budget cuts? Does anyone know of an alternative reliable source? Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 12:29, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
As I've been bumbling around the project's articles on behalf of the portal, I noticed that there were a lot of biographies and a few geographic articles not tagged for the project, so I've been tagging them as I went along -- tToday I see that the number of tagged articles has now passed 4000!
I've been trying to improve Macclesfield so that I can write a summary for the portal, but have hit the snag that I can't source the 2011 population figure given. I've tried adding up the 6 wards and the two different (why different?) figures for the built-up area, but none of these is close to the figure given. More detail on the talk page. Any advice welcome; I think this might be a general problem for towns. Espresso Addict ( talk) 18:52, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello again. I've made some small updates to the portal. The current advice is that all sections should have a minimum of 20 items, so I am trying to fill out both lists and towns/settlements. So far I've added:
Keen on other suggestions for both of these categories! Articles must be at least C class (I've used nearly all the appropriate B class), with reasonable referencing and no orange-level tags. Lists must preferably be complete and sourced.
For towns/settlements my next thoughts are:
For lists, there are all Peter I. Vardy's listed building lists, of course. I'm keen not to overlap too much between these two boxes, nor to flood the section with too many lists of listed buildings, so my current top thoughts are:
All thoughts welcome! @ Peter I. Vardy:, are there any you particularly recommend? (Or any that I should steer clear of?) Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 12:06, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Cestrians! (Is that right?) I'm trying to find any information at all on the goat tower at Cholmondeley Castle for Goat tower. I know it's there because it's mentioned in their tourist brochures and there's a photo at Commons, but other than that, nada. Which is weird because generally goat towers get remarked on, and this one was definitely there in 2000 when the then Marquess photographed every building on the estate. I'm particularly trying to find out when it was built, which seems like someone in the local press would have noted. I mean, it's a goat tower. At any rate, if anyone has any clues, I'm buying! Thanks for any help! --valereee ( talk) 12:25, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone -- I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to amend the importance levels for some of Cheshire's settlements/CPs. The current structure is fairly flat, with hardly anything at Top importance, and nearly all CPs at Low importance. I suspect the levels were set up when there were far fewer articles.
There are currently only two Top importance articles (Cheshire, History of Cheshire), while other projects I'm a member of have many more items at this level. I'd like to add at least Chester and Warrington.
At High importance, I'd like to add Macclesfield and Wilmslow, which are large towns that get consistently high hits, and possibly also Northwich, Ellesmere Port and Congleton, which get slightly lower hits. [6]
At Mid importance, I'd like to add some of the larger villages with ~2k or so population. I haven't checked, but ones I've come across recently include Alderley Edge, Prestbury (both high hits), Mobberley, and perhaps even local centres such as Audlem and Malpas.
It might seem like pointless deckchair rearrangement, but it would make finding suitable articles for the portal easier, and perhaps would channel editing towards articles that are needy. Thoughts, anyone? Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 07:54, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
We have a bunch of unassessed articles at present -- a lot seem to be football seasons, which I'm neither qualified to assess nor interested in doing so. Could they be perhaps be removed from the project? Just having the main football club article seems adequate to me. Or should we just copy the WP Football assessments blindly? Or could someone else volunteer to take a look? I'm worried it's making the project look inactive, when I see quite a bit of activity around the place lately. Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 11:27, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi again -- Does anyone happen to have a copy of the 2015–16 (no. 55) issue of Cheshire History [7], particularly the article by Young about the Cheshire Cat? There's some queries about its content on the talk page of that article. Unfortunately it's not online yet. It's very quiet here -- hope everyone is well! Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 05:54, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
I want to begin by considering just one district. Looking at Cheshire East, for example, I consider that the article section concerning Administration is biased largely in favour of council wards. I think it could be made much more clear by separating the different types of areas: electoral wards for council elections, and civil parishes. They could legitimately be separated out as they refer to different kinds of representation, which, due to unclear thinking by legislators, do not fit together well. I would like to see a table of civil parishes including a history of their creation and predecessors, and wards they are in, with a corresponding table of council wards. There is a table there at the moment, but I find it rather unclear myself. I think the section headed Members of Parliament should focus upon constituency areas, and have as a subsection the current members of parliament. I think getting these issues sorted out might be another good thing to do, and it might have the same priority as dealing with the missing civil parishes. The articles on the other districts of Cheshire have very different structures. I think they should be harmonised. DDStretch (talk) 10:27, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
I have started a project for missing civil parishes at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Cheshire are:
And these exists as a redirect only but should have separate articles:
A total of 18, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (1)#Cheshire. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 20:17, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for starting this up again. I had tried to do this myself when the Cheshire Project started and for a year or so afterwards I tried to include articles about various civil parishes in Cheshire, intending there to be an article about every one of them. The Real World then intervened, and after various other changes in my situation, I am largely now unable to do as much as I am disabled now and have been in and out of hospital recently. That's why this message is late. I did contact the old City of Chester borough people to ask about the various extremely small parishes in that borough, and was told that parish council meetings or parish meetings had never happened for most of them, to their knowledge (and this was in contrast with the other old county boroughs at that time.) I have a book which lists the histories of all the parishes in Cheshire, including boundary changes. I think this could be useful to use to describe the history of the newer, merged parishes that were established when the latest changes to the county occurred. I'll dig out the book and remind myself of things to get me a bit more up to date. I think given that wikipedia is an encyclopedia, that including information about all parishes would be a useful addition, and I recall that I did envision a set of lists or tables that described the various sub-units of Cheshire and how they changed over the years. Thank you for wanting to take on the tasks you have described. DDStretch (talk) 19:11, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{ cite web}}, {{ cite journal}} and {{ doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
The above former museum is up for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chester Toy and Doll Museum. It's been closed now for several years. Does anyone know of any book sources? The web is unhelpfully coming up with an American museum. Espresso Addict ( talk) 13:45, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Might be of interest: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weaver Junction. Espresso Addict ( talk) 20:28, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Project members might be interested in the wide-ranging discussions ongoing at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Requests for comment/Article creation at scale; discussions cover WP:GEOLAND, which includes settlements, geographic entities & heritage-listed structures. Espresso Addict ( talk) 02:23, 8 October 2022 (UTC)