Talk:Stamford Project Wikipedia training

Ideas about articles to target

I was having a poke around Wikipedia's pages on Stamford last night to get an idea of the raw materials. The town's article is long, with plenty of room for improvement, but because of its size it may be off-putting for people editing for the first time. While I think the town's article should get attention it might be an idea to ease people into editing on other articles. Settlement articles can be quite difficult to draw together because you need a variety of different sources, and explaining that while also explaining the principles of good sourcing may be too much too fast. One thing I noticed on the event page was that there might be some focus on historical articles. You wouldn't know it from the town's article, but there's a very nice medieval priory in the town. The article is currently just one sentence long, so while the idea of writing about a priory may be intimidating the fact that they're almost starting from scratch should make things a bit less daunting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Leonards_Priory,_Stamford

The town's castle doesn't yet have an article, so that might be another option and those are two major buildings and should be interesting. The settlement also has town walls, and for those three structures Wikipedia has some good articles that can act as templates. Commons has a lot of photos of Stamford, but they're poorly organised. To be useful as a resource, they'd probably need to be categorised, but I think that side of editing may put off potential new editors as it's pretty dull. If people think it's useful, I could go through and have a go at tidying them up. While I think it might be a good idea to get people to go out and take a couple of photos at some point in the day, the upload forms may add another layer of difficulty so having a pool of images already uploaded is quite useful. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 17:27, 28 November 2012 (UTC)