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| User | Location | Interests and specialist knowledge | Any relevant printed sources available |
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| Pit-yacker* (talk) | Manchester City Centre, South Manchester, University of Manchester | ||
| Jza84* (talk) | Shaw and Crompton | Greater Manchester, Oldham (and wider borough), civic history | *Tradition in Action: The Historical Evolution of the Greater Manchester County, *Looking back at Crompton, *Cotton Mills of Oldham, *Textiles; It Happened Round Greater Manchester |
| Dpaajones* (talk) | Manchester / Shropshire | City of Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester City Centre | |
| Mr Stephen* (talk) | Stockport & South Manchester. | ||
| Fingerpuppet* (talk) | Former resident of the area! | Various bits and bobs, really! | |
| Erebus555* (talk) | West Midlands | Architecture and buildings in the area | |
| Oldelpaso** (talk) | Manchester | Sport | Various Manchester City F.C. related books (list) |
| Ecco1983* (talk) | Radcliffe, Greater Manchester | Entertainment, the Bury borough | |
| Peteb16* (talk) | Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester | ||
| Fursday (talk) | Withington, Greater Manchester / Greater London | Manchester Academy, University of Manchester, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Withington, a few other bits and pieces | |
| Eric Corbett* (talk) | Stretford | The Trafford area | |
| Joshii* (talk) | Live in Greater Manchester. | Manchester, Tameside, Economy of county. | Manchester: A History by Alan Kidd (2006) |
| ricmitch* (talk) | Lived in Ramsbottom all my life. | Ramsbottom and surrounding area, Bury, Rochdale | |
| GRB1972* (talk) | Southport | Walkden, Bolton & Manchester. | |
| Richerman* (talk) | Prestwich most of my life, also lived in Shuttleworth for 8 years | Local area around Prestwich, contributed articles on Kersal Moor and Drinkwater Park. | Broughton and Cheetham Hill in Regency and Victorian Times by Monty Dobkin |
| WebHamster* (talk) | Interested primarily in Levenshulme. I'm a web designer, IT consultant, layout artist and amateur photographer. If it counts I'm also an ex-paramedic who used to work in the Manchester inner city area. Just started a total rewrite of the Belle Vue Zoo article. | ||
| Geotek* (talk) | Bolton area, Stockport & Manchester / GMC Fire Brigades | ||
| Nev1* (talk) | Trafford and Tameside | ||
| Parrot of Doom* (talk) | Flixton | I grew up in Radcliffe. My main interest is local history, see my page for pages I've contributed to. I love cycling along canals and things, taking photographs as I go. | I have a small collection of postcards of Flixton, Urmston, Davyhulme. One day I'll get around to uploading them all to Wikimedia Commons. |
| Carl* (talk) | Currently Leigh | Wigan, Abram, Leigh | |
| ukexpat* (talk) | Grew up in Brooklands, now living in the USA | South Manchester, Sale, Brooklands, William Hulme's Grammar School | |
| Mike Peel* (talk) | University of Manchester | University of Manchester as well as various articles on the buildings in Manchester | Portrait of a University 1851-1951 by Charlton; A Portrait of the University of Manchester 1951-73, and the same for 1973-90, by David and Pullan respectively; The University at War: 1939-1946; Manchester and its region: A survey prepared for the meeting held in Manchester , August 29 to September 5, 1962 by the BAAS |
| Unsy770* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan Athletic | |
| Hassocks5489* (talk) | West Sussex (!) | General copyediting and article improvement, incl. finding sources; transport (esp. railways and photos); spoken versions of articles | Various railway books covering GM stations; anything available in Brighton & Hove or West Sussex Libraries |
| Paypwip* (talk) | Horwich | Horwich, Bolton, Clifton, Rail and Road Transport | |
| Liquidswords* (talk) | South and Central Manchester | Manchester's architecture, primarily Victorian and industrial buildings. (Nothing post-war). | Various |
| Man2* (talk) | Wigan | ||
| Kieran5676* (talk) | Stockport | South Manchester | |
| James50567* (talk) | Glossop, Derbyshire | Stockport and Tameside, Shopping Centres and other Infrastructure related articles | |
| A1personage* (talk) | |||
| SquarePeg* (talk) | Eccles, Salford | Manchester United (and related articles), Salford Red Devils (and related articles), other local sports and other interesting (and uninteresting!) subjects. | Books? You mean you want me to read, too? |
| Lozleader* (talk) | Academic ivory tower | Civic history and heraldry, municipal transport and other utilities | Youngs' Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, which gives details of all parishes, local government areas, parliamentary constituencies and diocesan boundaries from Tudor times to 1974. Various books on civic heraldry, some with public domain images, Edwardian cigarette cards with borough arms, some books on public transport undertakings, access to full text of acts of parliament and various academic journals. |
| AnIco* (talk) | Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester | Architecture, mathematics, physics, geography, photography and local history | Not a printed source, but a great place where you can obtain information about contemporary architecture developments in Manchester is the Manchester section of the SkyscraperCity forums |
| Hindleyite* (talk) | Hindley | Wigan, in particular football, Hindley and local area | A number of Wigan Athletic publications |
| TheFamousPeter* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan Athletic, anything else Wigan and my occupation: Refereeing. | Wigan, with Uncle Joe's under culture and the acknowledgement of the Warriors move from the DW Stadium. |
| RuthAS* (talk) | South Lancashire | Transport history of Greater Manchester | Several books on the area's transport history |
| Anthony of the Desert* (talk) | Greater Manchester | North Manchester | |
| ClemRutter* (talk) | way down south in Rochester, Kent | Cotton mill and List of mills in Tameside for example, Longdendale, and other districts just outside GMC that provide support for the city: water, labour, recreation. | OS maps- and old second hand books |
| Sitush* (talk) | Whitefield | Whitefield, L&Y Railway | Various local histories, postcards etc |
| Chaosdruid* (talk) | Born Dukinfield now living in Norwich | Dukinfield, Ashton Under Lyne, Tameside and Glossop | |
| Skinsmoke* (talk) | Bredbury | Stockport and local government | Official handbooks to most pre 1974 local authorities in Greater Manchester, plus hundreds from other parts of the United Kingdom |
| Majorly* (talk) | Interested in history, old buildings, locations in South Greater Manchester. Can probably help in other areas too. | None personally but I have easy access to a library | |
| Sharadjalota456* (talk) | Baguley, Greater Manchester | Manchester United, Baguley and surrounding areas | |
| Juliancolton* (talk) | New York, United States, though interested in the Manchester area | Roads, perhaps | |
| Sansonic* (talk) | Heaton Chapel, Stockport | Concentrations of wealth and other Socio-economic issues | |
| J3Mrs* (talk) | Tyldesley and neighbouring towns | Various local history books | |
| LearnedRobb* (talk) | Gorton | Manchester and Greater Manchester | Minoroty sports in the Greater Manchester area, especially ice hockey |
| mapmark* (talk) | Former resident now in Paris, France | Started Manchester Corporation Tramways, Cottonopolis, Picc-Vic tunnel, List of national radio programmes made in Manchester, 2ZY, loud'n'proud, Kiss 102, Travel to Work Area, Manchester Mayfield Station. Contributed to: Manchester Metrolink, History of Manchester, Transport in Manchester, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive, Greater Manchester County Council, Metropolitan borough, M postcode area, Media in Manchester, List of television shows set in Manchester, BBC Radio 1, Telephone exchange names and Second city of the United Kingdom | Many transport reference books |
| wisdom and effort* (talk) | Fallowfield | Science & Engineering achievements in Manchester, Manchester transport | |
| Tong22* (talk) | North Manchester and Bury MB | maybe Governance, Transport (chiefly Light Rail) and GM tidbits. | |
| Msn164* (talk) | Tameside | Planes, Radio, TV, Internet, web design, and general knowledge. | |
| WatcherZero* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan, Local Transport, City Governance | |
| Jp4712* (talk) | Lichfield but formerly of Whitefield | Road passenger transport, railways | Journal Editor of the Greater Manchester Transport Society that operates Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport. Access to the Museum's archives with many primary and secondary research resources. |
| Chorlton Bloke*(talk) | South Manchester | Canals Local History | An ever changing selection of books relating to the area. Maps old and modern. |
| Gonads3*(talk) | Stockport | Sport | |
| Stevo1000 (talk) | South Manchester | Sport (Manchester City), architecture and buildings, media | |
| Doh5678 (talk) | Walkden | Various | |
| User:Aa2-2004 (talk) | South Manchester | Aim to translate articles into Arabic Wikipedia | |
| User:GoldRock23* (talk) | Sale, Manchester | A variety of information | |
| Dootson* (talk) | Swinton, Manchester | Moorside High School, Swinton, The Swinton High School, St Peter's C of E Primary School and Swinton | |
| doctorkohaku* (talk) | Manchester | ||
| The Vintage Feminist* (talk) | Trafford | General local knowledge, politics and some theatre history. | Use of local libraries and a fairly good idea where to find other information. |
| Patch1969* (talk) | Tameside, Greater Manchester | Just interested in getting Manchester on the map(in Wiki) | |
| CorrectiveMeasures* (talk) | Longsight | Familiar with Manchester, it's college and high schools and it's districts. | |
| David Edgar (talk) | Rusholme / Longsight | South Manchester, cycling, transport, art and music | |
| NuttyNarwhal* (talk) | Little Hulton | Salford, Little Hulton, Walkden, Bolton, Manchester City Centre, cultural landmarks and politics. | |
| JonnyDKeen* (talk) | Non-League football (I have seen a match every non league ground in Greater Manchester in tiers 5-10) Altrincham and Northenden. Also interested in all elements of local culture, history, cuisine, public transport and other sports. Will add pictures and info wherever I can. | ||
| Lava Lamps* (talk) | Leigh | ||
| Dommmmadden16* (talk) | Born Burnage now living in Withington | ||
| GioLoCelso18* (talk) | Born Harrow now living in Hale Barns | ||
| Pax Brittanica* (talk) | |||
| JfernsUK* (talk) | Ashton-Under-Lyne | Interested in the old trams of the 1900's in Ashton-Under-Lyne | |
| GimliDotNet* (talk) | Wigan and Leigh | ||
| FJones2123* (talk) | Fallowfield/Rusholme, Manchester | The University of Manchester, Metrolink and Fallowfield | Access to university Library |
| ChrisTheLemon* (talk) | Levenshulme | Stockport and South Manchester | |
| Prof tpms* (talk) | Manchester | Manchester University | |
Knowledgework69* (talk)
Devolution in Greater Manchester and Greater Manchester Politics
Nonameprivate* (talk)
Manchester Businesses
Inactive participants
editThe following list includes users who have added their name to the list of project participants but have not made an edit to wikipedia since 1 June 2008 and are considered unlikely to return. If your name is on the list and you wish to return to the active participants list, please feel free to move your name. Users on this list will no longer receive the WPGM newsletter.
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| User | Location | Interests and specialist knowledge | Date joined project | Date of last edit |
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| MeanStreets* (talk) | Bolton/London | Bolton, Manchester, Music, Manchester City, Fred Dibnah, Bolton Schools, Nightlife | 3 April 2007 | 30 May 2007 |
| M A Mason* (talk) | Grew up in Saddleworth, live in Middleton | Saddleworth, and its villages. I keep an eye on Oldham, Rochdale, Middleton, and other such places too. Editing mainly related to history. | 6 April 2007 | 12 July 2008 |
| BadBoyTC* (talk) | I live a bit outside Hathershaw in Oldham. | Cars, PC's, Gadgets, Around Hathershaw | 18 April 2007 | 12 August 2008 |
| Dep. Garcia* (talk | Police officer, GMP | 15 May 2007 | 21 May 2008 | |
| Faz2105* (talk) | Oldham | Oldham, transport, sport | 25 October 2007 | 6 January 2008 |
| Hiddenfromview** (talk) | Stalybridge | Manchester Airport, Tameside, Manchester Grammar School, Stalybridge, generally anything I happen to know something about | 25 November 2007 | 21 August 2008 User account appears to be comprimised |
| Freakypunk rd* (talk) | Prestwich | North Manchester, Subculture, Public Transport, Greater Manchester Media. | 30 November 2007 | 27 July 2008 |
| Basketball110* (talk) | Live in US, go to Manchester yearly | 23 December 2007 | 19 April 2009 (notice of retirement on user page) | |
| Hickipedia* (talk) | Rochdale, my whole extended family lives in Rochdale | Greater Mancheser transport, Rochdale, Rochdale Town Center. I have a vast knowledge of the Norden area and the transport in Greater Manchester - I also know about much of the music and culture being a musician in the area, if that counts | 24 December 2007 | 14 September 2008 |
| GuardianAngel18* (talk) | Tameside I know alot about the history of the area including schools, shops and much about the built up and natural environment. | 4 January 2008 | 5 January 2008 | |
| Polishname* (talk) | South Stockport, especially Cheadle. I can do some photography round the region also. | 8 January 2008 | 26 October 2008 | |
| Jimet* (talk) | Limefield, a small suburb on the north of Bury, east of the River Irwell | Bury, and its districts as far as Wikipedia is concerned at this stage | 13 January 2008 | 7 December 2008 |
| Abfab27* (talk) | The village of Marple Bridge, Stockport. Grew up in Tameside | City of Manchester, Manchester Metrolink, Tameside, Stockport and South Manchester. | 15 January 2008 | 31 July 2008 |
| Phon123* (talk) | Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley, Dukinfield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Mottram in Longdendale | 29 January 2008 | 18 May 2008 | |
| Attenboroughp* (talk) | Middleton and University of Manchester | Greater Manchester in General. I'm happy to take amateur photographs around the city of Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale. | 11 March 2008 | 15 June 2008 |
| Azallen* (talk) | Stockport, Hazel Grove | Stockport County, general Manchester history and Manchester Airport | 7 April 2008 | 5 November 2008 |
| Andysimo123* (talk) | Manchester | Manchester City Centre Transport Innovation Fund (TIF) Manchester United Basically I am an expert on anything currently planned within the City. Buildings, Transport, future developments. My home is skyscrapercity.com | 11 July 2008 | 12 November 2008 |
| Aygo* (talk) | The City of Manchester | Anything in Manchester City Centre, the Metrolink, the Airport, tall buildings etc. | 17 July 2008 | 17 August 2008 |
| Amicon* (talk) | Didsbury and Stockport | 18 November 2008 | 12 December 2008 | |
| Felix Folio Secundus (talk) | Central and parts of South Manchester and University | |||