Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nottinghamshire

WikiProject England

Hello everyone, I hope establishing the project is going well. Over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England there's an ongoing discussion about the role of WP:ENGLAND and, amongst other things, how it can help individual projects covering counties such as this one. First of all, WP:ENGLAND has many experienced members, so do feel free to ask for help or advice on any subject on the talk page. One of the project's roles should be to facilitate communication between similar projects so that the benefit of experience can be shared. For example, it would probably help if a bot was run to tag some articles for WP:NOTTS, and I know some members of WP:ENGLAND are familiar with filing bot requests and what would be necessary.

Secondly, it's been suggested on the talk page that the experienced members can use their skills to help projects develop Good and Featured Articles. The gist of the suggestion is that while the members of a county project do most of the leg work, such as finding sources and writing articles, WP:ENGLAND can help by showing what has worked in the past, helping with tasks such as copyediting, and discussing how articles could be improved. County projects would choose an article or two to develop and the skills learnt from the process would hopefully benefit the project and could be reused. Skills learned from improving articles and submitting them to WP:GAN or WP:FAC can be transferred to virtually any article.

As WP:NOTTS is a relatively young project and has few GAs and FAs, I've suggested that this project could be used as an experiment to see if the scheme can work. I think this project would benefit from such a scheme and as it is young so hopefully most members are still active and since it was founded, no GAs or FAs have been produced. So if the members here are interested in taking part, it would be worth discussing here which articles you would like to improve. Something like Nottinghamshire would be ambitious, but a smaller article would be easier to handle. I don't see this as a process that would stop at one article though, and if successful harder articles could be chosen for future collaborations. Nev1 (talk) 10:58, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Alliance

I have just thought of an idea that could help to improve this WikiProject, it may seem at first to be slightly odd but just bear with me. I have looked at the counties in the East Midlands and Compared them to the amount of those counties with WikiProjects, they are Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. We all share a common purpose, that is to work on the articles of our county's which includes local history, geography and biographies.

Therefore to help us share methods of research and many other needs (basically 'constructive collaboration' as I call it) I am proposing that we form an alliance, NOT a Merger. I believe an alliance allows us to be independent just as before but in collaboration as well. This could really benefit our WikiProject and I feel we might be the first in Wikipedia's history. I am a meber of WikiProject Lincolnshire and have already proposed the idea with relatively positive feedback still coming in and have placed a notice in WikiProject England.

95jb14 (talk) 16:47, 10 June 2009 (UTC), a member of WikiProject Lincolnshire —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95jb14 (talk • contribs)

Old maps and views of the East Midlands

As you might have seen in the Signpost last 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. After the first week, over eight thousand new maps have been identified, with 40% of the target books looked at -- see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.

A part that may specifically interest this project is

c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Synoptic index/England - East Midlands

which currently shows pink templated links for 113 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 Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands. (If uploading, please use the ingestion template described here, which sets up some appropriate image templates and categories).

Thanks, Jheald (talk) 21:32, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Article of interest - Eddy de Neve

I kindly draw attention of this wikiproject to the article on the first Dutch international soccer goal scorer, Eddy de Neve as (see talk page of that article) there is a dispute over his identity with regard to his fate. On the page he is stated to have died in Japanese internment during WWII in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) but as talk page shows, there is a similarly named man who lived from 1910s at Basford, Nottingham, and died there in 1951. I have suggested that the issue might be resolved if Nottingham newspapers could be investigated about the latter to establish whether or not that is the same man as the former player.Cloptonson (talk) 12:42, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

UPDATE: The footballer has been conclusively ruled out as being same as the man who lived at Basford and established to have died in (Japanese occupied) Dutch East Indies in WWII.Cloptonson (talk) 10:30, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Project on Sherwood Forest

Over the next week, there is going to be a work project on Sherwood Forest by the Wikipedia Discord server as part of an attempt to get Sherwood Forest to B-class and we would appreciate your help. They are trying to get all vital articles to at least B-class. (Oinkers42) (talk) 00:22, 4 November 2021 (UTC)