Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bristol/Archive 1

message: I've done an article for Bishopsworth but wasn't sure how to rank it on your 1,2,3,4, scale as it has a photo of the church etc, but can't do the ward map etc. — Rod talk 08:34, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ranking 1,2,3,4 etc 

message: Can you help to imrpove the listing of Bristol museums at List of museums in England? Only 2 were listed when I looked - I've added British Empire and Commonwealth Museum & SS Great Britain but there must be others that should be included, although I couldn't see many on :Category:Visitor attractions in Bristol. Should we have an entry for the Maritime Heritage Centre next to the Great Western Dockyard/SS Great Britain? — Rod talk 20:13, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Museums etc 

message: Would it be appropriate to have a project "list of achievements" or similar on the project page. Bristol & Avon Gorge have made GA status, and the harbour could probably make it before long. The Council House and Exchange have both featured recently on the front page in the "Did you know" section. List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon is now a featured list. Shouldn't we celebrate that lot somewhere on the project page? — Rod talk 10:25, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project list of achievements 

message: You might add a list of project participants to the project page, too.  Badbilltucker 18:57, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  list of members 

message: I've just come accross the articles for Crofts End, Bristol & Clay Hill, Bristol & they seem to refer to the same place & focus on Crofts End Church (they all need a bit of tidying/wikifying). I've put a marge tag on them & wondered if anyone had any comments about the suitability of this?— Rod talk 08:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clay Hill & Crofts End 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.   B2T2 17:28, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: While I was creating some template for the Nursing wikiproject I put together some userboxes so that members could add them to their user pages. While I was at it I did one for the Bristol wikiproject. If you want to add it insert  & it will show as:  It will also automatically add you to :Category:WikiProject Bristol members. This may help to know who is working on Brizzle pages - as I believe one of the previous suggestions was a list of members on the project page. If anyone wants changes to it let me know. — Rod talk 14:10, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox for this project 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: I recently received an invitation to join WikiProject Munich after I edited the Munich article, which I thought was quite a clever idea. Things are a bit quiet around here at the moment, so I thought that it might be good to copy this idea to try and get some more users involved here.
Whenever anyone edits a page related to Munich, Template:WP Munich Invitation is posted to their user talk page informing them of the existence of the WikiProject. I've made a version of that template for our purposes, which is in my sandbox at the moment, but will be moved to Template:WP Bristol invite, that can be posted on the talk page of anyone that edits a Bristol-related page. What does everyone else think? Gasheadsteve 14:58, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like a good idea - but perhaps the invite template could be made a little smaller - may I point out your template as an idea on another wikiproject I participate in?— Rod talk 17:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think it could do with being a bit smaller, I'll have a fiddle around with it and see what I can do. Feel free to suggest it to any other WikiProjects, like I said, I stole the idea from the Munich WikiProject. Gasheadsteve 17:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Looks better - how does the code "" work? can the page that they have edited be identified automatically or does the person adding the template need to fill something in here?— Rod talk 19:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That is an optional parameter so that we can let people know why they are being invited. You can either use  for the generic version, or you can use, for example,  to include the line "Thank you for editing the article Horfield". Gasheadsteve 09:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal: Inviting editors to join this WikiProject

message: I like the idea of having the invite/welcome template above to encourage others to participate in this wikiproject & I was going to use it when Fig wright edited Politics of Bristol. I then realised I didn't really know who was aware of, or involed in, the Bristol Wikiproject & I didn't want to send it to those that are already involved! Most other projects have a list of "members" so I've started one on the WikiProject Bristol page. If people could add themselves & interests then we could avoid using the invite template to those who are already on board.
While doing this I noticed all the dates on the photo challenge have long past & it seems inactive - but I'm loath to delete it if others are still actively working on it or interested in getting it going again. What do others think?— Rod talk 20:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not averse to the idea of competitions as such, but I think if we want to 'fill in the holes' as quickly as possible we would be best not to encourage people to all photograph the same thing. And January ain't the best time for photography here. I would welcome some general debate on what makes a good subject for a photo to accompany an article on an undistinguished place (I have added all too many pictures of churches myself); and specific ideas for what to photograph as landmarks for various localities around Bristol. William Avery 19:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've archived the photo challenge at Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol/Photo challenge, seeing as it has been inactive for some time. It can be restored to the project page if it is decided to restart it in the future. Gasheadsteve 17:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Members list & photo challenge

message: A bunch of linkspam has been added to Bristol-related articles by Bristolhistorybuff (talk • contribs) and 82.45.2.76 (talk • contribs), they very kindly added over 2kb of advertising for their website to the Bristol article, which I have since reverted. I could do with some help going through all the other pages that they've added stuff to and either revert what they've done or tidy it up. Some interesting information has been added to Longwell Green, but it seriously needs tidying up. The only article which should have an external link to this website is, IMHO, History of Bristol. I'm at work at the moment, so I can't really sit here fixing it all myself. Gasheadsteve 09:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: After posting several warnings on the user talk page, I've reported them on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. There's plenty of work to be done removing all of these edits... Gasheadsteve 11:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Update:User has been banned and all spam has been reverted by the administrators. Everything is bright and fluffy again :) Gasheadsteve 12:29, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Spam on Bristol-related articles

message: Hey Guys, Got an invite from Gasheadsteve to join the WikiProject, but I figure I may as well post my response here. I'd be happy to give a hand, but at the moment my own personal computer isn't working so I have to use my brother's PC which I only get fairly limited time on. However, I do plan to buy myself a new PC soon (hopefully) and I'll keep you guys posted on that.
I'm also still a bit of a newbie when it comes to most things on Wikipedia, I tend to just add little bits of info here and there.
I look forward to working with you guys once I get my PC sorted
:—Gasheaduk 20:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome to the project. Things are a bit quiet here at the moment, which is why we've been inviting new members. Feel free to add yourself to the member list on the project page, and to invite anyone else that you think might be interested. Gasheadsteve 09:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: WikiProject Bristol Invite 

message: I thing there needs to be some list of all the roads, statons, ect in bristol because otherwise its gona be hard to know what we have and dont have. mark999
:I think a list of all the roads in Bristol would be overkill :) As for the others, that sounds pretty useful. I'm planning on having a tidyup of the project page at some point (unless some nice person reading this wants to do it), and I'll add that to the to do list. I've created a navigation template called Template:Areas of Bristol which I've added to the bottom of the appropriate articles. We could also do with a template to go on the talk page of all articles that come under the WP:Bristol umbrella, similar to Template:WikiProject Biography or Template:Football, to advertise the existence of the project and to help with keeping track of the status of all 'our' articles. Basically, there's a lot to be done in every area of the Bristol WikiProject. Gasheadsteve 12:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Transport

message: I've made a rough version of a template to be added to the talk page of Bristol articles, based on the ones used by other wikiprojects. It's not very pretty at the moment, but the functionality is there.
It has five optional arguments:
*class, which is the standard of the article as it stands. The valid responses are those listed at Template:Grading scheme, i.e. FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub or NA.
*photo - whether or not the article contains or needs a photo
*map - whether or not the article needs a map
*ibox - does the article need an infobox?
*stats - states whether the article needs statistical information, e.g. population, visitor numbers etc.
The last four arguments all have the same possible values:
*yes - this information is already contained in the article
*needs - this information is needed by the article
*na - this information is not required by the article
If you don't enter any value then that piece of information is not displayed on the screen.
At the moment the template is at User:Gasheadsteve/Sandbox2, and it is transcluded on User:Gasheadsteve/Sandbox3, so if you go to Sandbox3, you can try different values and see what happens.
An example of valid symtax is:
:{{User:Gasheadsteve/Sandbox2
:: | class=stub
:: | photo= 
:: | map=needs
:: | ibox=na
:: | stats=needs
:}}
It also puts articles into categories based on the values entered, for example photo = needs would put the article into Category:Bristol articles needing photos. This means that we can lose the very large table on the project page with the status of each article listed on it, this will be replaced by categories. If there's any other information that anyone thinks needs to be added, let me know. Any thoughts or comments will be welcome. Gasheadsteve 11:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this could be useful (& yet again I might nick & adapt for other projects) but the layout on User:Gasheadsteve/Sandbox3 seems to give the map value left aligned & infobox & stats alligned differently which looks "funny".— Rod talk 15:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I've fixed that now. This is mainly to check for functionality rather than beauty, I'll try and make it a bit better looking with a border and some colour later on. Gasheadsteve 15:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk page template

message: What stats would be required, other than those covered in the infobox? Simply south 15:20, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Some articles don't have infoboxes (& there may be some that don't need one or there isn't a suitable infobox available). For areas of the city this would be population data, but for museums, footbal grounds, concert halls etc this may well be capacity or attendance figures. For buildings & structures could be height, diameter, year of construction etc. For ships it's length, beam, displacement etc for schools it might be number of students on the roll etc - so it really depends on the sort of article.— Rod talk 15:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think some info boxes would be really good for i) areas of the city eg. Montpelier, Stapleton road etc and also a box for the Severn Beach Railway line - but as i said in the pgph above, i've no clue how to do one of those! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gazzelle (talk • contribs) 19:53, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: However, some articles have been tagged as not having stats, even if there are some in the infobox (railway stations for now). Simply south 18:44, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats 

message: I've put a merge tag on Greater Bristol & Avon (county) - has anybody got any thoughts about whether both of these articles are needed?— Rod talk 20:20, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that some of it should be merged into Avon (county), but perhaps some of it could be moved to Bristol urban area or into a new section of Bristol? It would be useful to have a definition of the Bristol urban area somewhere on Wikipedia. Gasheadsteve 20:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greater Bristol & Avon (county) 

message: I have spent the last 3 hours asessing over 70 Bristol articles they are not all asessed —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mark999 (talk • contribs) 21:05, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unassesed Articles

message: I also added a few more assessment boxes to Bristol articles. I've done a bit of editing on Bristol Blitz and Bristol Riots as one was replaced with (relevant) copyright material & the other had an "expand" tag on it since January. I've also just come across Churches in Bristol and List of Buildings in Bristol, which I didn't know existed until today. Does anyone know if these are accurate & should we have articles for all the buildings listed? Any help with any of these appreciated.— Rod talk 16:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History & buildings 

message: The main article for Bristol has undergone several edits recently & I think is approaching a comprehensive state with good quality writing, pictures etc. Do you think it would be worth putting it up for Wikipedia:Peer review to get other suggestions for improvements which could be made to it? This is one of the normal stages before nominating an article for Featured Article status.  I don't think I can do this as I already have Mendip Hills going through a peer review prior to an FA nomination. If someone is willing to put Bristol up for review, it does mean that we need to monitor the comments and suggestions & be prepared to make the necessary edits. What does everyone think?— Rod talk 20:40, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It sounds like a good idea to try it. Unfortunately I'm a bit busy with other commitments at the moment to monitor the feedback, so I can't do it myself, but if anyone else out there wants to sort this out then go for it. Gasheadsteve 18:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ? Bristol main page for peer review 

message: A new infobox has been developed for use on UK places articles. If you have any concerns or appraisals, please make them at Template talk:Infobox UK place. Regards, Jhamez84 02:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New infobox 

message: Can there be sport info on the Bristol page?
:There is sport info on the Bristol page.  Joe D (t) 14:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ideas and comments

message: Hello fellow editors. A straw poll has opened today (27th March 2007) regarding the use of flags on the United Kingdom place infoboxes. There are several potential options to use, and would like as many contrubutors to vote on which we should decide upon. The straw poll is found here. If joining the debate, please keep a cool head and remain civil. We look forward to seeing you there. Jhamez84 11:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox flag straw poll 

message: I've put Grade I listed buildings in Bristol up as a candidate for Featured list. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Grade I listed buildings in Bristol. It is sure to attract comments about formatting & other issues so if anyone fancies making any comments or expressing support (or opposition) or helping to address any comments or objections made that would be great.— Rod talk 22:08, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Congratulations on getting the list promoted, that was great work. Gasheadsteve 06:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grade I listed buildings in Bristol - featured list candidate 

message: I've just listed Bristol Rovers F.C. as a possible good article. Feel free to add your comments to the discussion. Gasheadsteve 21:32, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article candidate

message: I've put the main Bristol article up for peer review. Discussion is at Wikipedia:Peer review/Bristol/archive2 if anyone wants to contribute.— Rod talk 16:18, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol article peer review 

message: While checking some references on the Bristol article I came across this list which shows there are 23 Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Bristol - we have article about some of them (& this info should be added to them), but there are others where do not seem to have anything on wikipedia about them - anyone able to look into this?— Rod talk 17:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Bristol 

message: Should we be using the 'map_type = Bristol' parameter on UK place infoboxes? I've added it to Henbury to show the effect. William Avery 12:02, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That was the intention, and I've been using it on a few of the suburb articles.  The only cases where I haven't been using it is on articles about council wards, for which I have a map showing ward boundaries.  Joe D (t) 12:52, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I find the ward and area maps really useful - thank you. Should we also be using them for streets & squares etc listed on :Category:Squares in Bristol, :Category:Streets in Bristol etc and individual buildings on :Category:Buildings and structures in Bristol and schools :Category:Education in Bristol & parks & visitor attractions etc :Category:Visitor attractions in Bristol? If so that is a pretty big set of work! just to let you know User:Guiltyspark has kindly offered to do coord templates for all the listed buildings!— Rod talk 13:53, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added latitude, longitude and map_type fields to , so maps can easily be added to any article that uses those.  I also added maps to a few schools because they were in the maps needed category.  In my opinion,  could do with some style cleanup, to make it more like other infoboxes, so I might petition for similar map fields in that too, while I'm there. Joe D (t) 14:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - I've just tried this out on Glenside, Bristol & it works but is right on the edge of the map - how do we deal with Kingswood etc which I know are technically in S Glos but we have always included them in Bristol (?Greater Bristol) lists - is there an alternative to map_type = Bristol ?— Rod talk 16:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Soon there should be maps for all the ceremonial counties, but I don't think Somerset or Gloucestershire have been done yet, so for now there aren't any.  I could easily make one covering the old Avon area, but I'm not sure if that would go down too well?  It might be useful for Filton, Kingswood, etc, that are part of the city but not the county. Joe D (t) 18:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

text: I just copy them from Multimap.  Joe D (t) 18:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Possibly  - but we only have one example of that & possibly , ,  and possibly  but that might be problematic unless they are stationary like SS Great Britain.— Rod talk 11:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox UK place: 'map_type = Bristol'  

message: We have an article about Broomhill, Bristol, that appears in fact to be about Broom Hill.  Broomhill is on the Frome north of Eastville Park, west of Fishponds, while Broom Hill is on the Avon and GWR next to Brislington.  There's very little info on the articles anyway, so I was thinking of maybe just merging them into the Frome Vale and Brislington articles respectively.  Does anybody object? Joe D (t) 19:03, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No objections from me. I don't think either Broom Hill or Broomhill really need their own articles, merging them seems sensible. Gasheadsteve 19:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broomhill 

message: I've put Buildings and architecture of Bristol on WikiProject Architecture peer review. Discussion is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Peer review/Buildings and architecture of Bristol if anyone wants to contribute.— Rod talk 14:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buildings and architecture of Bristol 

message: Clifton Suspension Bridge has failed to get GA but there are some really useful comments (from an editor who lives in Bristol) about how it could be improved to meet the guidelines on it's talk page, if anyone fancies working with me on meeting them.— Rod talk 18:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clifton Suspension Bridge - failed GA 

message: Should villages which are on the outskirts of Bristol, but technically in South Gloucestershire, be marked as being part of the Bristol Wikiproject? Scibah 16:44, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My feeling is that anywhere with a Bristol postal address should be included, which means places like Yate, Yatton, Thornbury and Portishead should be included, but places like Clevedon or Wotton-under-Edge should not be. What does everyone else think? Gasheadsteve 17:39, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think common usage might be better than post codes. I would suggest that Kingswood is obviously in but lots of places in the BS postcode area eg the Chew Valley are out. Perhaps those in Greater Bristol are in but others in the county of Avon out. I don't think there is a simple answer.— Rod talk 17:46, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps it would be better to decide each one on an individual basis. Someone could post a message here saying "should town x be included?" and we could discuss the pros and cons of including it either here, or on the article's talk page. Gasheadsteve 18:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outskirt villages 

message: Hi, Bristol Harbour has had a GA review which is on hold (for 2-7) days pending some revisions - the feedback is on Talk:Bristol Harbour - would anyone be able to help get this to GA status?— Rod talk 17:48, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the comments, i think i can help out a bit (I hope!). Scibah 12:18, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol Harbour - GA on hold 

message: As the reviewer, I am notifying you as the parent project that this article has passed the GA Review. Regards --Fritzpoll 21:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bristol Harbour]] GA Review 

message: I noticed that Cube Microplex was moved to Cube Microplex, Bristol. This also appears to have happened to a large number of other bristol-related articles. Is this a part of some wikipedia naming policy unknown to me? These types of changes would seem to violate the normal disambiguation style, and in the case of things like the cube, changing the name is completely unnecessary as there is only one thing called the "cube microplex." KellenT 10:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree with you, article names should only be disambiguated if there are multiple articles which would have the same name. When there is only a single article the most common name should be used. Have you noticed if a single person has moved them all, because it might be worth leaving a note on their talk page asking for their reasoning. Gasheadsteve 10:25, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It doesn't appear that it was all done by a single user, though the moving user () did move some other pages in a similar fashion. KellenT 10:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I made the move when working on :Category:Cinemas in England, when I was doing a merge following an CFD to delete a category on independent cinemas in the UK.  Since most of the cinema names are so generic and so unindicative, it seemed to me useful for browsers of such a category if the cinema names heading the articles also included the place name.  If people feel the Cube Microplex is sufficiently identifiable nationally that Bristol is not required, then I wouldn't object. Jheald 11:01, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Do you have any other examples of pages that have been moved? The test is whether a user would expect a page on the given topic to come up if they entered the ambiguous (undisambiguated?) title. Cube Microplex seems to pass that uniqueness test. I can see why articles were created as e.g.Robinson's Warehouse, Bristol, anticipating that creation of articles on other Robinson's Warehouses, such as the ones in Gloucester and Newcastle.  William Avery 10:48, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I haven't been watching these pages, so I can't attest to them being moved, but there are a number of pages named similarly. For example: Granary, Bristol, Hatchet Inn, Bristol, Foster's Almshouses, Bristol, City Road Baptist Church, Bristol, Commercial Rooms, Bristol, County Cricket Ground, Bristol. My impression is that the naming here violates normal wikipedia policy, but more importantly that it violates common sense as anybody who's going to be looking for the Granary, for example, is going to go to Granary and expect to find a disambiguation link to Granary (Bristol) (or similarly named thing). It appeared to me that the "thingname, place" form was reserved for cities, counties and districts; extending it to each of the structures in those areas seems both confusing and like overkill. Then again, I don't edit many structure/place-related articles so I might be missing something obvious. KellenT 16:47, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  "Granary, Bristol" is a "similarly named thing": there's no policy to say that brackets must be used. Feel free to create Granary(disambiguation) and make the necessary changes at Granary, and also redirects from Hatchet Inn to Hatchet Inn, Bristol etc, if you feel they are needed. Please don't do anything that will require extensive future edits to Bristol articles when someone decides to create an article on some other "Hatchet Inn", or "County Ground". William Avery 19:24, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm not planning on doing any major cleanup of Bristol-related articles, I just noticed the Cube microplex move which seemed nonsensical. Updating disambig links is a pretty minor thing for a bot or even a person to do, however, so you shouldn't worry to heavily about that. I'm going to move Cube Microplex back to where it was since it's really unlikely we'll have any naming collisions. KellenT 21:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  bristol-related page names 

message: I think it would be a nice idea to create some sort of WikiProject Bristol award, similar to these ones used by other projects. It's always nice to get a pat on the back and some recognition for the work you've done. Here's the problem though... I've got zero artistic ability, so if anyone thinks this is a good idea and wants to have a go at designing the WP:Bristol award, that would be cool. Gasheadsteve 19:16, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Project award

message: I had a different development suggestion... do people think we have enough good quality content to create a "portal" for Bristol. If you take a look at Portal:England and the "subportals" for cities,counties etc on the right of the page you will get the idea. South West England doesn't have one yet but we could follow the London or Cornwall examples. Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions gives the code to create it - looks a bit complex but manageable - but do we have enough good quality content - articles, pictures etc to  populate it & do we have people willing to keep it updated? Would our energies be better spent getting Bristol up to FA status?— Rod talk 19:57, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea, I'm not sure if we've got enough quality articles to make it work at the moment though. What does everyone else think? Gasheadsteve 14:39, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK first stab is up at Portal:Bristol very much under construction at present - as always if anyone wants to edit or add bits please do. Any preferred colour scheme?— Rod talk 16:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Great work, it looks really good. I'll help keep it updated. Gasheadsteve 20:50, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Great work & I would agree monthly changes seem appropriate - however if we were clever with code (& I am not) we could automate the process to get "random" displays - as discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject portal dynamics & Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals. Portal:Kent seem to have got this working - but I'm not sure how?— Rod talk 19:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ? Bristol portal 

message: A discussion has been opened at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London#Category:People from Ealing by district about upmerging local area categories for People from... into current local government boundaries only.  This could have implications across the whole of England if carried through.  Your are invited to join the discussion.  The proposer is planning a massive merge by 22nd June if no objections are received. Regan123 11:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  People from Categories 

message: I've noticed that a Bristol-related article is up for deletion. BURST, the Bristol University student radio station has been nominated due to notability concerns. If you want to make any comments, the AfD is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BURST. Gasheadsteve 17:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article for deletion

message: Over the last week or so I've added over 100 infoboxes to articles to those tagged at :Category:Bristol articles needing an infobox - some of which need postcodes, populations etc still adding -  and I will continue with this (slowly) but I've come accross quite a few articles (listed below) which just say "X is located in Bristol" & have the areas of Bristol template added. They have been like this since Feb. I do not feel there is enough information to make these worthwhile (& there is not even a grid ref or anything to let me add the infobox), therefore I would suggest if they are not expanded in the next couple of weeks we should put them up for deletion - what does everyone else think?
The articles concerned are:
*Ashton Vale
*Baptist Mills, Bristol
*Botany Bay, Bristol
*Burchells Green, Bristol
*Hengrove Park
*Newtown, Bristol
*Ridgeway, Bristol
*Rookery Farm
*Rose Green, Bristol
*Two Mile Hill, Bristol
*Victoria Park, Bristol
*Whiteway, Bristol
& there are quite a few others left on :Category:Bristol articles needing an infobox which also need attention.
What do you think? — Rod talk 16:58, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice work on all the infoboxes! As for these articles, I'd be inclined to speedy them under CSD:A1 (Very short articles providing little or no context). If anyone has got more info to add at a later date they can always re-create the article. If no-one posts any objections here in the next couple of days, I'll go ahead and mark them for deletion. Gasheadsteve 19:41, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tagged most of the above articles for speedy deletion. Botany Bay, Bristol probably contains enough info for it not to be speedy-able, so I've prodded that one. Gasheadsteve 19:26, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that in their current state they are probably not worth having. However as they are part of Template:Areas of Bristol their deletion would leave many red links. Although that isn't really a problem it means they might be recreated quickly again with very little content. I suppose my question is, is it worthwhle to leave them in the template? Cheers Suicidalhamster 19:50, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they should be removed from the template as well.— Rod talk 19:58, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol artciles ?? for expansion or deletion 

message: I've just added 5 buildings to the requested articles section of the "to do" list - these appear as redlinks on Buildings and architecture of Bristol, which I'm currently editing in the light of it's acquiring GA status & a peer review from the WikiProject Architecture. Any help to improve it (possibly up to FA) would be appreciated.— Rod talk 19:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article requests for tall buildings 

message: I've made a slight change to Template:WP Bristol invite. You no longer need to sign when you leave the invite on someone's talk page, your signature should, hopefully, be automatically included inside the template. Gasheadsteve 07:18, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note, this only works if the template is 'subst'ed, rather than transcluded. i.e. use . Gasheadsteve 08:17, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Change to invite template

message: Just for info: There's a deletion discussion going on at Commons:Deletion requests/Template:Vector-Images.com for the vector-images.com template and all images uploaded from vector-images.com, of which :Image:Bristol city coa.gif is one.
As a backup, I've uploaded a photo of the coa from Flickr here, which we can crop down and replace the existing one with if it is deleted. It may be that no action is needed, this is just a heads up. Gasheadsteve 11:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible coat of arms deletion

message: Another Bristol-related article is up for deletion, this time Football teams in Bristol. Any comments can be made at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Football teams in Bristol. Gasheadsteve 10:03, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Another Bristol-related AfD

message: I was thinking it might be a good idea to change the selected articles at the beginning of each month, rather than halfway through. That way we can call articles the "selected article for August", or whatever month. Anyone got any thoughts on which articles/photos they'd like to see included for August?
I've also created a talk page banner for our selected articles at Template:Bristol selected article, which I've copied and changed slightly from the one used at Portal:Formula One. Gasheadsteve 20:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Portal:Bristol August update

message: I have improved transport for bristol, and loads of related artivcles now im curently expanding them.
Im also sorting out the areas of Bristol.
Mark999 19:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Updates

message: I've added an 1873 engraving, and details from it, to Bristol, History of Bristol, Colston Hall (Where it shows things destroyed by the fire, no less]], Bristol Cathedral (may want to move  them around: One shows it before construction was complete, but I put it in the gallery, next to other discussions of same), and Blackfriars, Gloucester.  Hope you like them!  Stitching and cropping was provided by WP:GL/IMPROVE Adam Cuerden talk 19:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engravings 

message: I've put Buildings and architecture of Bristol up as a Featured Article candidate - any comments/votes etc welcome at: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buildings and architecture of Bristol. — Rod talk 11:11, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAC Buildings and architecture of Bristol 

message: I've just been reading in Venue about the  Bristol Doors Open Day 2007 which happens on Sat 8th Sept (with some sites also open on Sun 9th) details are at: http://www.identitydesign.co.uk/bdod2007/index.htm. Is anybody able to get along to get more info on any of these (most already have articles, but many are stubs) and possibly take some photos? - I'd be particularly grateful if anyone could get snaps of Clifton Pool and The Victoria Public House (aka Clifton Lido) and the Underfall yard for the Bristol Harbour article - but I'm sure there are loads of others where the wikipedia article could be improved.— Rod talk 20:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was planning on going out and taking a few piccies, but I've been a little bit unwell lately, so I'm not sure if I'm going to feel like it now. I'll see how I feel on the day. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 12:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol Doors Open Day 2007 

message: Could someone reassess the Bristol Cathedral artcile - it's currently rated as "start" & I think it is more of "B" class & I'm considering putting it up for GA soon. I shouldn't do it as I've been too involved in editing the article.— Rod talk 14:33, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely worthy of a B-Class rating. I think that the Media section probably falls under WP:TRIV and should be removed before being put up for WP:GA, and it looks like it could do with a few more references, although I haven't checked all of them so I could be wrong about that. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 14:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ? reasses Bristol Cathedral article 

message: Now that the current stats on the project page are automated, I think it would be a good idea to add an importance rating to our articles (via Template:Bristol) so that we can see which articles are the most urgently in need of improvement. Firstly, does anyone else think this is a good idea, and secondly, how would we decide which importance level to assign. My thoughts are:
*Top: Bristol, History of Bristol, Economy of Bristol, etc.
*High: Major landmarks/buildings, the universities and world-famous residents, such as Clifton Suspension Bridge or Cary Grant
*Mid: Nationally known residents, well known areas of the city, nationally known secondary schools, parliamentary constituencies. E.g. James May, Clifton, Clifton College
*Low: Minor areas of the city, most schools, people not in the above categories
I'm sure that there's plenty of stuff I've left out, but that's just my initial thoughts on the subject. Any other ideas are welcome. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 10:18, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree that this would be a good idea & most other projects have it - however it would be a lot of work re-evaluating the 600 odd articles. Importance level will always be a subjective & imprecise things & I think you've made a good start. if it is incorporated into the project page, then others can add or remove examples as appropriate.— Rod talk 14:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've set up the categories, and edited the template so that it accepts an importance rating. At the moment it adds the article to the relevant importance category, but it doesn't display the importance in the template. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 19:54, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - but the importance category doesn't show up in the status box on te project page - any idea why? We also need to do some instruction (similar to your list above) on the project page to help people do the importance categorisation.— Rod talk 21:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The stats on the project page are updated by a bot, so hopefully the importance ratings should appear on there next time it runs. I'll start working on a draft set of instructions later on. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 06:13, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They've now been updated. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 08:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article importance

message: The article Fry family (chocolate) has been proposed for deletion. The Talk page notes that the article is supported by the Bristol wikiproject.  It would be good if the article included more on the contribution of the Frys to the economic and cultural development of Bristol. Vernon White . . . Talk  19:21, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nomination has now been withdrawn. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 19:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fry family (chocolate)

message: Some work needs to be done on Bristol for it to keep its GA status. Notes on what needs to be done have been left by a user at Talk:Bristol#GA on hold. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 07:06, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Bristol]] potentially losing GA status

message: At the moment we still seem to have quite a few articles about areas of the city that are so short that there's not really much point in them existing. Taking my inspiration from User:Mark999's excellent work on Kingsweston, I propose merging all area stubs into the article about the council ward that they are in and creating a redirect from the original article location to the relevant section of the ward article. This would avoid having articles like Filwood Park, and help to pad out articles like Hillfields, Bristol. Any thoughts? — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 08:59, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like a reasonable approach to me. The articles can alwasy be recreated later if there is significant content to go into them.— Rod talk 09:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Right then, I've had an attempt at doing this to Ashley, Bristol. I've merged in the stub articles on Montpelier and part of St Andrews, written a brief paragraph on Baptist Mills and linked to the longer articles about areas of this ward. Does this look ok to you? — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 09:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bristol area articles

message: Can you check this is OK? --Quentin Smith 15:24, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[St Werburghs Church, Bristol]] 

message: Buildings and architecture of Bristol is still a candidate for Featured Article status having been nominated on 27th August! It received very little comment until recently & now has 3 support comments (& no oppose). It will soon fall off the bottom of the list and will not be passed as FA without a few more support comments. If you felt like making a comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buildings and architecture of Bristol that would help the process.— Rod talk 20:22, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buildings and architecture of Bristol still on FAC 

message: :: --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article for Deletion: Henleaze Infant and Junior School 

message: (I have no idea why i'm editing at nearly 3am) I have just moved Ashton Gate to Ashton Gate stadium. The redirect i created into Ashton Gate suburb proper but needs expansion. Simply south (talk) 02:56, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ashton Gate 

message: I've added a new section to the project page for new articles. When anyone here creates a new Bristol-related article it can be added to the list so that other project members can give them the once-over and add them to thier watchlist if they want. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 21:38, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New articles

message: If any Bristol-based photographers could take snaps of courts in their neck of the woods (e.g. Bristol Crown Court and Bristol County Court) and add them to commons:Category:Courthouses in the United Kingdom, the photographs would be very much appreciated for Bristol Crown Court, List of courts in England and Wales and List of county courts in England and Wales. Thanks, BencherliteTalk 22:04, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photographs of Bristol Crown/County Courts 

message: If any member of this WikiProject is able to take a photograph of Richard Hakluyt's memorial tablet in Bristol Cathedral for the article about him, that would be much appreciated. If required, please continue this discussion on the article's talk page. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee –talk–</span> 18:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hakluyt's memorial tablet in Bristol Cathedral 

message: Bristol Temple Meads railway station is currently rated B-class, but recent edits have probably moved this close to GA.  Before I turn it over for a formal assesment, perhaps members of this project would like to take a look and see what else needs doing. Geof Sheppard (talk) 16:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bristol Temple Meads

message: As a Bristolian (mum still lives on Stoke Hill) I would be keen to see some more Bristol articles in the wikipedia for schools. At present the ones we do have are linked from Bristol. There is a big update going on at present. Any suggestions? The 2006 and 2007 editions have over a million users... --BozMo talk 13:20, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol in Schools Wiki 

message: I am trying to obtain a photograph of Richard Lynn, and he is happy for a Wikipedian to take one of him at his residence, but I need to find someone in Bristol to take the shot. If you are at all interested please let me know on my talk page and I will provide further details. Thanks. Richard001 (talk) 01:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would you be able to take a photograph of someone in Bristol? 

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thread_title: Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

message: I'm relatively new to wikipedia editing, but thought I'd try and create a page on Broad Street, however it looks like I might end up with a stub length article about what locals call the "Grand Hotel" (official the Thistle Grand). I was wondering if there was a box I could put on the page to mark it as a Bristol related stub?
NullofWest (talk) 17:01, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you add  to the talk page of the article  it will add this wikiproject banner. The instructions for the other parameters have been archived at: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bristol/Archive 1#Talk page template but basically add |class=stub within the project banner. If you just post the article title here I'm sure someone will take a look & help both with the assessment & the article itself.— Rod talk 17:30, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Rod, I've been having trouble finding enough references, so the article I've created is at User:NullofWest/Broad Street,Bristol for now. Not sure if I should add the project box yet. NullofWest (talk) 17:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would create the article in the mainspace, copy & pasting what you've done & then add banner to talk page.— Rod talk 18:30, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done now, I've been unable to find secondary sources on the "Grand" so that hasn't made it into the article yet. At the moment I've rated it Mid-Importance on the project scale as the source says it was one of the original streets, but think this may mean it needs to be High-Importance. The article is at Broad Street, Bristol  NullofWest (talk) 08:07, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Project Stub?

message: Currently, 658 articles are assigned to this project, of which 86, or 13.1%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of .) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:
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thread_title:  Articles flagged for cleanup 

message: Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
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replies: text: My personal initial view of the matter is that we should use the diffs in the following list. It would be best to discuss here before we copy to the bots list. I have also included diffs for articles that I think should also be included - in most cases it is the current diff, but in the case of the Bristol article it is the last diff with the dialect included. NullofWest (talk) 19:24, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

text: There is a October 20th Deadline, I propose to submit my list to the Selection Team on October 18th at 09:00 UTC unless there are any objections - but it would be better if we could get consensus by then. NullofWest Fill the Void 16:11, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Bristol 

message: Please place your preferred revision for each of these articles, if not here already, and sign it. NullofWest (talk) 19:24, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions to include on v0.7 DVD

message: Please state whether you agree with my selections or not, and if you agree sign the diff to be included. If you feel I've missed a key article please add it to the list - I have this page watchlisted so I'll add my own opinions on any new links as well. NullofWest (talk) 19:24, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other articles within the project scope to be included? 

message: Why is William Penn a page in this wikiproject? His page makes no mention of Bristol. -mattbuck (Talk) 19:58, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it should be William Penn (Royal Navy officer) a Bristol sailor who became an admiral & was the father of William Penn.— Rod talk 20:06, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  William Penn 

message: I've been transwikiing images from WP:BRISTOL articles, and I came across :Image:WGGRACEMURALDOWNEND.jpg - does anyone know exactly where this is so I can get it geocoded? (possibly more photos for geocoding to follow) -mattbuck (Talk) 15:54, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: On the side of the shopping centre, overlooking the roundabout here. William Avery (talk) 16:41, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: New photo - this rainbow one. Any ideas? The church may help, but it doesn't appear to match any in Commons:Category:Churches in Bristol. -mattbuck (Talk) 18:56, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Repeating what I said on Flickr, it's not a church any more. It's on Cranbrook Road in Redland and was Trinity United Reformed Church until it was converted to housing about three years ago. The photo itself was probably taken from the back of a house on Claremont Road. --rbrwr± 20:48, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please help geocode this 

message: Does anyone have a photo to illustrate the article on Leigh Court? I've been expanding the article & think a picture to illustrate the architecture would help. I've looked on Geograph & can't find one.— Rod talk 15:34, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't say I even knew the place existed, and I've driven past it enough times. -mattbuck (Talk) 15:48, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  pic of Leigh Court 

message: Bristol Arena is a stub article about a development which was proposed then cancelled. As it is non-notable (IMHO), a stub, and an orphaned article I think it should be deleted. Opinions? --TimTay (talk) 10:40, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No replies so I'm going to go ahead and request deletion. --TimTay (talk) 09:07, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol Arena - redundant/delete? 

message: Just proposing a merge of Template:Districts of Bristol with Template:Areas of Bristol as duplication. See Template talk:Districts of Bristol. Simply south not SS, sorry 16:31, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Areas and Districts of Bristol 

message: There are large number of articles in the category :Category:Bristol articles needing stats which, in my opinion, should not be there.  For example what sort of stats can be provided for John Cabot, or the equestrian statue of William III?  Even with museum or galleries such as Watershed or Arnolfini, there are no avilable visitor numbers, etc. Jezhotwells (talk) 03:23, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that perhaps we could get rid of this category altogether, does anyone use it? I think that the only things that should be there are things like council wards, which have stats published for them which are publicly available. — Gasheadsteve Talk to me 12:39, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol articles needing stats 

message: An American wikipedian proposed that South Bristol Community Hospital should be deleted as non-notable and lacking primary sources. I disagree strongly so have removed the deletion tag, in accordance with the way it is supposed to be used, and stated on the talk page exactly why I believe it should be kept. Of course, I'm just one editor and so far have been the only contributor to the article so I'd like it if others could take a look then do a couple of things: either support or oppose my argument and if applicable make contributions to the article. Thanks. --TimTay (talk) 17:13, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Bristol Community Hospital 

message: Hi,
Can anyone point me at how to create a map box similar to Template:Bristol_mapbox but with on eof the greater bristol maps used instead? Jezhotwells (talk) 21:26, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are brief instructions for creating a new location map at Template:Location_map#Creating_new_maps.  William Avery (talk) 21:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol Map box 

message: Buildings and architecture of Bristol is scheduled to be on the front page as the featured article on 11th Feb - see Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 11, 2009. It's likely to get lots of vandalism and some good edits.— Rod talk 08:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buildings and architecture of Bristol 

message: This article has been nominated for WP:AfD.  Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bristol Indymedia Jezhotwells (talk) 19:30, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Result was non consensus. A second nomination was closed with no consensus on 24 June. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol Indymedia 

message: Hi All
I wanted to add a page about the Trinity Centre and have started working on one at User:Emmalouh/trinitycentre. I know that there is one for the Holy Trinity Church but as the building itself is now known as the Trinity Centre I thought it made sense to have two pages - what are your thoughts?
Any help, ideas, support or advice are most appreciated.
emmalouh (talk) 15:50, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest that if the formal title has changed a "page move" (see Help:Moving a page ) would probably be more appropriate than having 2 articles which each cover half the topic. NB watch out there are at least 3 Churches in Bristol named Holy Trinity see Churches in Bristol.— Rod talk 16:03, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree with Rod's comment for the same reasons.Jezhotwells (talk) 19:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Well done - I've gone through & done lots of minor WP:MOS tweaks & moved it from stub to start class. As you say there are some statements which still need citations to support them  - particularly statements like "Rumour has it...". (I remember being there on the night it reopened in 1992).— Rod talk 15:57, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Great - There is a lot of information within Bristol Records Office regarding the earlier works and repairs/alternations to the towers. Not quite sure what best way to reference these is...emmalouh (talk) 16:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trinity Bristol 

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thread_title:  Coordinators' working group 

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thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Article alerts|Article alerts]]

message: I'd like to congratulate User:Jezhotwells and all the other editors who have worked hard to successfully get Bristol to Good Article status.— Rod talk 18:05, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristol now GA 

message: AndrewRT(Talk) 21:06, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local chapter for the Wikimedia Foundation 

message: I am currently working through the articles which have not had their importance assessed. I am using the guidelines at WP:WikiProject Bristol/Assessment but feel free to change if you think I have got it wrong. Jezhotwells (talk) 03:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Importance assessment completed, I found some articles that needed class re-assessment which I performed.  I created spreadsheets and generated a new table for the current status section on the main project page as it appears no bot is doing this. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:56, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done for all your work - but I'm surprised you say the table on the project page is not being updated & added a date. This sort of table is used on hundreds of projects & is normally updated automatically - although there is always a few days delay before it picks up changes.— Rod talk 07:48, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Further enquiry reveals tatthe bot hasn't run for 3 weeks, but should be running again soon. Jezhotwells (talk) 08:03, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You can run it manually by going to WP1.o bot & typing in Bristol replacing Foobar.— Rod talk 08:25, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So it says, been running for 8 hours now and no result as yet! Jezhotwells (talk) 15:30, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I lie, it has updated the Bristol project, also appears to to be running on all categories!! Jezhotwells (talk) 15:33, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance assessment