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)

There were two castles, all that remains is the doorway of one. The town walls are represented by on remaining tower. The number of houses of the holy runs possibly into two figures, though only St Leonards remains as far as I am aware. Rich Farmbrough, 22:13, 30 January 2013 (UTC).

Relevent redlinks

• Stamford Meadows - Places of Interest section from Lincolnshire page
• Stamford Mid Lent Fair, Stamford Music Festival, and Stamford Transition Town - Festival and events pages on the Stamford page
• Stamford Arts Centre and The Corn Exchange - Arts and Entertainment Venues on the Stamford page Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 14:00, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Images from geograph

Could also do some image work by trawling commons for geograph images and checking that nearby village/train station/buildings (e.g. Churches and Halls) have images added and the commons cat link added Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 14:00, 11 December 2012 (UTC)