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Welcome to the West Midlands WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving the quality of Wikipedia's coverage of:

Articles within the West Midlands County
Articles within the West Midlands conurbation
Articles within the Coventry/Bedworth Urban Area
Articles within the three overspill New Towns of Telford, Redditch and Tamworth
Articles within an approximate 5 mile radius of any of the above

There are currently no WikiProjects for the Midlands or any individual cities which lie within the West Midlands and as the area is a major part in the geography and economy of the United Kingdom, a WikiProject would be the best way to manage all articles that fall under this category.

The West Midlands region is large and therefore, as to keep organisation within the WikiProject, the project will primarily focus upon the areas listed above as there are enough articles within the above categories to keep the WikiProject busy.

The aim is to give all articles in the project a standard structure for their topic. For example, all villages and towns should receive an Infobox on the right of the page.

Goals

To expand and improve articles relating to the West Midlands county and conurbation.
To improve the coverage of information on the West Midlands.
To improve as many articles in the West Midlands category to the highest standard - Featured Article Status.

Scope

The WikiProject is to assist with all the articles under Category:West Midlands.

[edit] Sub projects

WikiProject Coventry is a sub-project to the WikiProject West Midlands, its parent project. The Coventry project has shared aims of its parent project to improve and organise West Midlands pages, but with a focus on pages related to Coventry.

[edit] Related projects

WikiProject UK geography
WikiProject UK Railways
WikiProject UK Waterways
WikiProject England
WikiProject UK subdivisions
WikiProject Geographical coordinates (not UK specific)

[edit] Participants

Erebus555 (talk · contribs) (Founder. Will edit mainly Birmingham related articles however will maintain articles in the wider scope.)
Fingerpuppet (talk · contribs)
Pontificake (talk · contribs)
G-Man (talk · contribs)
DWaterson (talk · contribs)
Matt.smart (talk · contribs)
Pyrotec (talk · contribs) Mainly Canals, Railways and Chemical Industry
Andy Mabbett Mainly stuff related to Birmingham, railways, canals and nature. Also interested in and adding microformats and coordinates.
Martarius (talk · contribs)
TicketMan (talk · contribs) Mainly interested in transport
JimmyGuano (talk · contribs) Mainly arts and cultural history
Barbara Shack (talk)
Dudleybus (talk · contribs) Mainly Public Transport is association with THE UK TRANSPORT WIKIA.
Cycle~ (talk · contribs)
Tresiden (talk · contribs) Mainly Telford and Wolverhampton area
Asdfasdf1231234 (talk · contribs)
Jenuk1985 (talk · contribs) Mainly Birmingham and transport related articles.

[edit] To do

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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject West Midlands:

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: See Wikipedia:WikiProject West Midlands/Article requests
Verify: Chelmsley Wood, Transport in Birmingham
Cleanup: Walsall, History of West Midlands County, Four Oaks, Birmingham, Perry Barr, Boldmere, Birmingham Superprix, Brummagem
Expand: West Midlands (county), List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands, Timeline of Birmingham history, Listed buildings in Birmingham
Stubs: Expand West Midlands stubs
Update: V Building
Other:
Add talk page banner template to the top of all article talk pages that fall within the project scope.
Add images to all articles within scope that require them.
Add geographical coordinates to the 319 articles on places; buildings, geographical features, settlements etc. listed in Category:West Midlands articles missing geocoordinate data. Find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

[edit] West Midlands monthly improvement drive

This West Midlands WikiProject organises a monthly improvement drive which aims to focus the participants of the project to edit one particular article per month. This helps increase the quality of the article, the sense of community within the participants as well as keep the project active.

Nominations are taken each month and other participants are urged to vote on the article they believe should be chosen for the improvement drive. To nominate go to the Monthly improvement drive page and follow the instructions. All users are welcome!

The monthly improvement drive is currently inactive.

[edit] Show case

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Topics

Aston Villa F.C.

[edit] Articles

This is a list of all articles that have achieved Featured article status since the creation of the project due to the work of the users.

Aston Villa F.C.

Brownhills

History of Aston Villa F.C. (1961–present)

Duncan Edwards

Priestley Riots

[edit] Lists

List of Aston Villa F.C. managers

List of Aston Villa F.C. players

Aston Villa F.C. seasons

Aston Villa F.C. statistics and records

List of Birmingham City F.C. managers

List of Birmingham City F.C. players

Birmingham City F.C. seasons

List of Birmingham City F.C. statistics and records

West Bromwich Albion F.C. seasons

List of West Midlands railway stations

[edit] Good articles

This is a list of all articles that have achieved Good article status since the creation of the project due to the work of the users.

Birmingham

Birmingham City F.C.

Editors

History of Aston Villa F.C. (1874–1961)

Midland Football Alliance

Villa Park

West Bromwich Albion F.C.

[edit] Did you know

This is a list of all articles that have appeared on 'Did you know...' on the Wikipedia Main Page since the creation of the project due to the work of the users.

Hillfields (24 February 2007)

Gilbertstone (25 April 2007)

Plants Brook (19 May 2007)

Bob Roberts (footballer) (4 June 2008)

[edit] Main categories

Category:West Midlands (54)

[edit] Meta categories

[edit] ISO codes

Applicable ISO 3166-2 (region) codes:

GB-BIR = Birmingham
GB-COV = Coventry
GB-DUD = Dudley
GB-SAW = Sandwell
GB-SOL = Solihull
GB-WLL = Walsall
GB-WLV = Wolverhampton

Among other things, these codes are used in the region: parameter, when adding coordinates to articles, using {{Coord}}.

[edit] Templates

[edit] User templates

Place this template on your user page:

{{User WP West Midlands}}

It will appear like this:

This user is a member of
WikiProject West Midlands.

[edit] Article talk page templates

Add this to all talk pages of articles and categories that fall within the scope of the WikiProject:

{{WikiProject West Midlands}} or {{WPWM}}

It will appear like this until the page has been assessed for class and importance:

WikiProject West Midlands

	v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject West Midlands, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of West Midlands on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

[edit] Stubs

{{WestMidlands-geo-stub}}
- {{WestMidlands-struct-stub}}
  - {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub}}

[edit] Local

West Midlands County

Template tag {{West Midlands County}} creates:

West Midlands railway stations

Template tag {{West Midlands railway station|open}} creates:

open can be replaced by main, disused, heritage or metro to determine which section expands by default.

City of Birmingham

Template tag {{City of Birmingham}} creates:

Wards of Birmingham

Template tag {{Wards of Birmingham}} creates:

Districts of Birmingham

Template tag {{Districts of Birmingham}} creates:

Buildings in Birmingham

Template tag {{BirminghamBuildings}} creates:

Wards of Wolverhampton

Template tag {{Wards of Wolverhampton}} creates:

[edit] General

Buildings

[edit] Resources

[edit] Images

Map of the West Midlands

Numbered map of the metropolitan boroughs in county

[edit] Links

[edit] Book sources