Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography
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We at WikiProject UK geography believe that the counties of the United Kingdom and cities of the United Kingdom are important topics that in any encyclopaedia should be comprehensive, and in Wikipedia should be of featured article standard. The purpose of this WikiProject is to facilitate the sharing of ideas and guidelines, and for setting up collaborations with the goal of reaching featured status for important UK places and geographical articles. Don't be put off by the word "geography", it just means writing about your local county and towns!
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[edit] Goals (proposed)
- Over several years (months are surely too optimistic) bring all UK local authorities and cities up to featured quality.
- At least ten Counties of England featured.
- At least five counties or unitary authorities from the other home nations featured.
- London to featured quality ASAP.
- Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff to featured quality.
See /tasks for more UK geography tasks.
[edit] Sister projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject UK subdivisions - Guidelines for articles about counties, districts, unitary authorities, and boroughs.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject King George's Fields - a sub-project for cataloguing the 471 King George's Fields in the UK
- London, Bristol
[edit] Members
You don't need to be British to help with this WikiProject. We welcome editors good with layout and prose, and non-British editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article.
[edit] To do lists
To add the todo list to your userpage use:
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography/todo}}
The project has categorised articles according to the WP 1.0 criteria:
- Featured Articles: need little or no work.
- 'A' class: need a very small amount of work, followed by FA nomination.
- Good Articles: a little more work required.
- 'B' class: a lot of work done, but a lot of work left to do.
- Start class: short, lacks details, key facts, illustration, etc.
- Stub class: very short, lacking important details.
- There is a list of very short articles here.
Requests for:
[edit] Resources and guidelines
[edit] Examples
These articles are featured articles and can serve as an idea of what should go in a good article:
- General: Geography of Ireland, National Parks of England and Wales
- Counties: Dorset
- Settlements: Sheffield, Weymouth
- Landforms: Chew Valley Lake
- Small areas: Chew Valley
Additionally these are "good articles" that fulfill many but not all featured requirements:
- General: United Kingdom, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Geology of Dorset
- Counties: Hampshire, Norfolk
- Settlements: London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Bristol, Manchester, Belfast, Chew Stoke, Chew Magna, St Buryan, Shaw and Crompton
- Landforms: Avon Gorge, Mendip Hills, Kennet and Avon Canal, Ben Nevis
[edit] Guidelines
- /How to write about counties
- /How to write about settlements
- There are infoboxes for counties and districts at Wikipedia:WikiProject UK subdivisions. For settlements, use {{Infobox UK place}}.
[edit] Resources
[edit] Resources
- Statistics: Office for National Statistics, Census related resources, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Neighbourhood statistics (Parish data etc.)
- Population data (see below for England): Ayrshire, East (PDF), Falkirk, Moray, Lanarkshire, North
- Maps:
- Multimap
- OS Get a map
- Ordnance Survey for Northern Ireland
- OpenStreetMap is starting to get good coverage of some parts of the UK (eg Isle of Wight, North London, NW Surrey, Birmingham, Bedford).
- Ordnance Survey® Election Maps–boundaries of civil parishes, wards, boroughs etc., up to street map scale. The draconian terms and conditions don't seem to prevent GFDL licensing of research by Wikipedia editors, as long as the editors themselves don't use the information for financial gain, and no-one copies actual extracts, mapping data or layers from the maps.
- Books: There is a list of UK geography books and the Wikipedians who own them at Wikipedia:Library/Places#UK. You can request info from the owners of the relevant books.
- Websites: 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica [1]
- Photos : Geograph British Isles project
| England | |
|---|---|
| Bedfordshire | Bedfordshire facts & figures |
| · Luton | |
| Berkshire | West Berkshire 2001 Census data |
| Bristol | Ward finder |
| Buckinghamshire | |
| · Milton Keynes | |
| Cambridgeshire | |
| · Peterborough | |
| Cheshire | |
| · Halton | |
| · Warrington | |
| Cornwall | Parish population data |
| · Isles of Scilly | |
| Cumbria | Census 2001 |
| Derbyshire | |
| · Derby | |
| Devon | East Devon parish population data (PDF) |
| · Plymouth | |
| · Torbay | |
| Dorset | Parish population data (import should be complete) |
| · Bournemouth | |
| · Poole | |
| County Durham | |
| · Darlington | |
| · Hartlepool | |
| · Stockton-on-Tees | |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | |
| · Kingston-upon-Hull | |
| East Sussex | |
| · Brighton and Hove | |
| Essex | |
| · Southend-on-Sea | |
| · Thurrock | |
| Gloucestershire | |
| · South Gloucestershire | |
| Greater London | |
| Greater Manchester | |
| Hampshire | 2001 census |
| · Southampton | |
| · Portsmouth | |
| Herefordshire | 2001 census |
| Hertfordshire | Population and census data |
| Isle of Wight | |
| Kent | 2001 Census Area Profiles |
| · Medway | |
| Lancashire | |
| · Blackburn with Darwen | |
| · Blackpool | |
| Leicestershire | Census 2001 |
| · Leicester | |
| Lincolnshire | Parish population profiles |
| · North Lincolnshire | |
| · North East Lincolnshire | |
| Merseyside | |
| Norfolk | |
| North Yorkshire | |
| · York | |
| · Middlesbrough | |
| · Redcar and Cleveland | |
| · Stockton-on-Tees | |
| · Northamptonshire | |
| Northumberland | Tynedale population data (PDF) |
| Nottinghamshire | |
| · Nottingham | |
| Oxfordshire | |
| Rutland | |
| Shropshire | |
| · Telford and Wrekin | |
| Somerset | Parish population data |
| · Bath and North East Somerset | Census Data |
| · North Somerset | Census Information |
| South Yorkshire | |
| Staffordshire | |
| · Stoke-on-Trent | |
| Suffolk | |
| Surrey | |
| Tyne and Wear | |
| Warwickshire | |
| West Midlands | |
| West Sussex | |
| West Yorkshire | |
| Wiltshire | Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council giving brief historical information and references for settlements including old maps and Population by community 1801–2001 census data |
| · Swindon | Population by community 1801–2001 census data at Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council |
| Worcestershire | |
[edit] Collaboration of the Month
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The current UK geography collaboration of the month is Rutland.
If you see ways in which this article can be improved please edit it. You may get ideas from the talk page or the WikiProject UK geography. |
Once a month, if this proves a popular enough idea, the WikiProject will choose a page to work together on and attempt to get to featured quality. The page should either be a subdivision of the country, preferably a county, a settlement, preferably with city status, or a page about some aspect of the geography of the UK as a whole. Anybody can propose an article to work on and anybody can make comments, while the members of the project will vote on next month's article. The COTM should be changed on the first of the month.
To include the COTM template (above) on your userpage use:
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography/cotm}}
To alert others that an article has been nominated you can place the following template on the article talk page:
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/cotm/nom}}
The following articles are proposed as a collaboration of the month. You can vote for as many articles as you want and the article with the most votes at the start of the month (or when the current COTM becomes a featured article) will become the next COTM. If you vote a note will be left on your talk page if and when it becomes the COTM, unless you request otherwise.
To vote add: * ~~~
[edit] Portal:Isle of Man
I realize it's not an article and "only" a crown dependency of the UK. Nevertheless, this portal is at present incomplete and sub-par. It may be worth merging into the main UK portal, but perhaps some WikiProject memebers are interested in completing and/or updating it? >Radiant< 11:04, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wiltshire
Since we have a lot of southerners at the moment I'll nominate another one we're likely to know about. Until I got on to it last week this one was just a stub with an infobox and list of settlements. Joe D (t) 03:19, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Support- Another one I'm close to :p -- Joolz 19:28, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)- Having thought about it a bit more, I'll support a southern one this time, but next time I'm going to nominate a northern one. If what you say is true, that there are lots of southerners about then we should purposefully choose a northern one otherwise it's not going to get worked on at all. -- Joolz 19:45, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- It appears to be the Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board/UKCOTW COTF, and therefore I won't support it as a nominee for this collaboration. -- Joolz 00:10, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I've had a "bit of a go" at this one & don't think it would need too much more work to get there. — Rod talk 20:31, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bristol
Lots of info already, but needs a good tidy up. There are several Wikipedians who do/have lived in Bristol so we should be able to do well on this. Joe D (t) 03:19, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] West Sussex
This is a stub! This is the shortest ceremonial county article in England. Joe D (t) 30 June 2005 22:53 (UTC)
[edit] Glasgow
Listed as a "good article", could become a featured article with a little more work. Joe D (t) 23:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Peak District and Yorkshire Dales
A double nomination for two popular national parks. Peak District is a comprehensive and well-referenced article that could become featured with just a bit more effort. Yorkshire Dales is sadly more typical of the British NP articles, strong on lists but weak on factual information. Bringing the first up to FA standard should help identify points to concentrate on in the second. Blisco 18:37, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cheshire and all its constituent parts
I've just put forward a proposal for a specific Cheshire project. I said that the project would help to identify and coordinate improvements in existing articles about Cheshire and all its constituent parts. It would furthermore aim to identify new articles needed about Cheshire and its parts, and create and expand these in a focused way. I also added, in the comments section of the proposal this: None of the parts of Cheshire have related projects at the moment. Although there is a WikiProject UK subdivisions project, this has not precluded a separate project coming into existence for Cornwall, on which this proposed project for Cheshire would be modeled. It is hoped that this project would work towards making as many articles about Cheshire into Featured Articles as possible. If you are interested, please add your name to the proposal. I don't see that this proposal would conflict in any way with the admirable actions ongoing here, and in which I would also want to take part. DDS talk 11:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- The Cheshire WikiProject is now up and running. Please feel free to join in. DDStretch (talk) 17:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
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- We now have a Cheshire portal up and running, and the project is, I think, a sucess so far. I think we will be wanting to turn our attention to more peer review and assessment in the near future in order to get more articles up to Good Article Status, and then onto Featured Article Status. (also see comment on talk page). DDStretch (talk) 12:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
