Wikipedia:WikiProject Birmingham
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Welcome to the WikiProject page for Birmingham, Britain's second city.
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The Birmingham WikiProject is a project, created on 3rd May 2012, that helps to bring together editors who are interested in Birmingham and Birmingham-related topics. Its goal is to standardise and improve any articles associated with Birmingham, as well as to create missing articles. If you feel you can make a positive contribution to the project, become a member by joining the list of members.
Scope and motivation
This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to Birmingham. On top of this, it aims to get the main Birmingham article to featured status.
Articles
All articles within Category:Birmingham, West Midlands and its subcategories are within the scope of this project.
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Requested articles
- Politics of Birmingham
- Birmingham Jazz Festival
- Birmingham Rugby
- The Firs Estate
New articles
New pages are occasionally added here.
- Philip Smith (criminal), 12 May 2012
To do list
- Add the {{WikiProject Birmingham}} template to all Birmingham related articles.
- Expand the Birmingham watch list to include all related pages and talk pages.
- Create any missing project pages, categories, etc.
- Obtain FA status for the main Birmingham article.
- Create Portal:Birmingham.
Improvement drive
If you are working on an article or think that an article needs improvement, and would appreciate collaboration, add your article to the top of the list to bring it to the attention of other editors:
Assessment
| Birmingham articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA |
3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||
| FL |
2 | 2 | |||||
 GA |
2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | ||
| B | 8 | 20 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 57 | |
| C | 4 | 24 | 17 | 48 | 17 | 110 | |
| Start | 17 | 49 | 110 | 223 | 27 | 426 | |
| Stub | 3 | 5 | 39 | 144 | 35 | 226 | |
| List | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | ||
| NA | 3 | 3 | 123 | 129 | |||
| Assessed | 32 | 107 | 187 | 442 | 123 | 87 | 978 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 32 | 107 | 187 | 443 | 123 | 87 | 979 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 4,115 | Ω = 4.93 | |||||
Featured articles
Aston Villa F.C.- History of Aston Villa F.C. (1961–present)
- Neville Chamberlain
- Rise of Neville Chamberlain
- Priestley Riots
- Villa Park
Featured Lists
Good articles
Articles at risk
Proposed for merger
Proposed for deletion
Recently deleted
Changes
A watch list of recent changes is shortly to be available to note improvements to, changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.
Templates
User templates
Place this template on your user page:
- {{Template:User WP Birmingham}}
It will appear like this:
 | This user is a member of WikiProject Birmingham. |
Article talk page templates
Add this to all talk pages of articles and categories that fall within the scope of the WikiProject:
{{WikiProject Birmingham|class=|importance=}}
It will appear like this until the page has been assessed for class and importance:
| Birmingham | ||||||
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Participants
Add names to the list:
- Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:28, 3 May 2012 (UTC) (founder)
- Pahazzard (talk) 12:21, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
- dpchalmers (talk) 19:00, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
- CarlDurose (talk) 11:12, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
- JimKillock Jim Killock (talk) 12:27, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
And me.