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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to UK Parliament constituencies. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Contents

[edit] Title

Full title: WikiProject on the UK Parliament constituencies

[edit] scope

Constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and related articles.

Sub-pages
/Progress List of constituencies and what needs to be done.
/Style Guidelines for formatting of articles.
/Historic constituencies List of historic constituencies.

[edit] Articles

This listing is used to note any articles, categories or external resources that are often referenced by project members.

[edit] Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject UK subdivisions

[edit] Participants

If you wish to help out, add your signature here.

  • Joolz
  • Laurel Bush Since 11:16, 29 Mar 2005. Working currently on articles about historic constituencies.
  • Maccoinnich
  • Mibblepedia
  • Timrollpickering
  • Vamp:Willow
  • Warofdreams
  • Greg Robson – Helping out with 2005 election coverage, and adding all other constituencies.
  • JeremyA—mostly worked on constituencies in South Yorkshire so far.
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox ; I've added a few results from the 2005 election, willing to help work through the rest.
  • Keith Edkins - have added maps to all constituencies (except those in Birmingham which already had them)
  • sjorford →•←
  • Gerry Lynch - count me in for donkey work
  • New Progressive - Been doing bits and pieces anyway.
  • User:doktorbuk - been adding boundary information to Lancashire seats, will help out whatever and whenever.
  • Hitchhiker89 - Currently working on Loughborough, my constituency
  • RFBailey, (have been working on this project without realising it already.....)
  • Neo, I've been kinda watching and dabbling from the sidelines for a while.
  • Moochocoogle - been making small contributions since the 2005 election.
  • SamTrev Done work on Twickenham, will also see what I can do with Richmond Park.
  • Paulleake working on NE and Yorkshire constituencies.
  • Hahaandy1 Willing to help with anything
  • Mackensen working to add MP succession boxes to politicians
  • Fys - I have the complete works of F. W. S. Craig and the History of Parliament Trust plus the Boundary Commission reports. I do respond to requests (though due to pressure of work may take a few days)
  • Jammydodger - Working mostly around Essex and Epping Forest inparticular, but also helping out with otehr areas.
  • Al - Noticed that there isn't much for the West Midlands; might as well help out there
  • JJE - Doing a bit of work on adding old election results. Keyly working on Orpington, where I'm gradually working through old election results.
  • Nick C - Working mainly on council elections, but willing to help on anything. (Since 6th May 2006)
  • Gary J - I have been doing work on various articles, particularly on historic Scottish and Irish constituencies.
  • Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib - Edited a few constituency articles; re-organised categories; probably be able to help some more if there are areas that need work.
  • Rbreen - adding material to historic constituencies when I have some time.
  • Lethaniol - am interested in helping out with the historic constituency articles - if anyone has a decent website to help get this info off please leave on my talk page.
  • Harry Hayfield talk contrib - Have election information taken from BBC Parliament replays for the 1955, 1964, 1966, 1970, Feb 1974, Oct 1974, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1997 and 2005 general elections.
  • User:BrownHairedGirl working mostly on historic constituencies, but also on completing MPs lists and ensuring consistency of naming, disambiguation etc.
  • User:Mikebloke Mostly punctuation, number, links and table fixes
  • Regweb Mainly Gillingham, my constituency

[edit] Structure

For the progress of the project see /Progress. This page contains details of what state each constituency article is in.

For how to format and layout pages see /Style.

[edit] Goals

  1. Develop this page as a good reference tool for current and future participants
  2. Ensure good disambiguation between:
    1. constituencies and other entities (local authorities, towns, etc)
    2. different types of constituency: (British House of Commons, Scottish Parliament, London Assembly, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly).
  3. Improve the constituency articles
  4. Maintain a similar style throughout the articles

[edit] How to help

Pick a constituency and start on improving it!

  • The style guide shows you how the article should look.
  • Check that the constituency contains:
    • The infobox (as shown in the style guide)
    • 2005 election results
    • Other election results (if applicable). Ideally the constituency should have all the elections which have taken place there! Use the resources section of the main project page to help with this.
    • Complete list of MPs
    • The boundaries section should include what area the constituency covers, as well as its main towns.
  • Ensure that the wikinews article (wikinews:Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election links to the constituency (and not a redirect)
  • Make sure any MP articles link to the constituency, and that the list of MPs links both to the MP and the constituency (MPs elected in the UK general election, 1979 for example)

[edit] Templates

Templates have been developed due to the recurrent use of certain styles of formatting in this project.

[edit] Resources

This section contains resources which may be useful when writing constituency articles:

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