Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Essex

Wikipedia:WikiProject Essex

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was created at Wikipedia:WikiProject Essex

Description

A WikiProject for articles about Essex and Essex towns and villages. Thomas888b (talk) 14:08, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

After advice from another wikipedian, I'm going ahead and starting this page. Thomas888b(Say Hi) 12:30, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck! But you're going to need many more active participants. Still I hope the project succeeds. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:53, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians in Essex may help.. œ ^™ 13:11, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Guys, also, thanks for the link to wikipedians in Essex. Is it possible to automatically put an invite onto all of their talk pages? Thomas888b(Say Hi) 13:55, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can use User:MessageDeliveryBot but I don't think it's really necessary seeing as there really isn't that many users in that category.. you could easily message them manually. -- œ ^™ 14:03, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is also category:Wikipedians from Essex Thomas888b(Say Hi) 14:27, 5 February 2011 (UTC) Thanks for all the help. Thomas888b(Say Hi) 14:27, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

Thomas888b (talk) 14:08, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
--ClemRutter (talk) 15:14, 29 January 2011 (UTC) Kent has one so so should Essex- a lot of the structure could be cloned across. I would be a watcher not a member.[reply]
--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 12:20, 30 January 2011 (UTC) All counties should have projects, provided enough active participants can be recruited. But sorry, not me; too much to do elsewhere. Good luck.[reply]
Yes, support QU ^TalkQu 22:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
four is plenty and more than most wikiprojects. Good luck. I can help set up a collaboration if you like. Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:07, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What's a collaboration? Thomas888b(Say Hi) 14:32, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take it to the talk page...Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:35, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Weak oppose without more participation - my feeling is similar to Peter Vardy, although there "should" be such a Project, at present it looks like there wouldn't be enough participants to justify the overhead in setting up the Project. Without an active core of people you just end up with another semi-dormant Project like the Kent one. I know Essex is a populous county, and counties are a very easy division to use, but it seems that they're typically not quite big enough to sustain a Project. Rather than repeat myself, I would refer people to this previous discussion : Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Tayside and Fife. You might want to think about exactly what goals you're trying to achieve and see if they can be achieved in other ways, rather than just setting up a Project for the sake of it. Or a WikiProject East Anglia might be a better way to get "critical mass"? And no, I wouldn't participate myself - I've too much on my Wiki todo list as it is! Le Deluge (talk) 10:23, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose per Le Deluge, who has explained it well. --Klein zach 02:53, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral

There is certainly a need for a taskforce for each county, or group of them, but not a project for each although I am happy to copy-edit any articles needing looking at and help with cleanup tasks. Chaosdruid (talk) 20:08, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In some ways whether it is a taskforce or a wikiproject is a matter of syntax. At least with a wikiproject it is easier to set up one of those Assessment/Importance/Class grid thingies. Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:37, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually there is a huge difference between a taskforce and a wikiproject in terms of actual work and maintenance. You could argue that a project can be set up for low maintenance, but then it would be a bad project. --Klein zach 02:56, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.